Title: Nonexistent target audience
Product review: I really doubt many people who are interested in a beginners book on box-making already own a table saw, bandsaw, miter saw, drill press router and power planer. But David Freeman expects the beginner box-maker to own all of those machines. That's a start up cost of what? Two thousand dollars to make your first box? He gives no information whatsoever on hand tool techniques. This pretty much exemplifies what's wrong with most contemporary woodworking books.Believe it or not, beatific boxes can be made entirely with inexpensive hand tools, and were made that way for a long time. Native American craftspeople of the Pacific Northwest made cedar bent-wood boxes without any metal tools.Conclusion: this book is useless. Beginners will not have access to the equipment; people with the equipment will already be familiar with the woodworking fundamentals covered here.
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