Jim Tolpin's Guide to Becoming a Professional Cabinetmaker

By Jim Tolpin

Your Blueprint for Making Good Cabinetry and Good Money If you've ever dreamed of making an honest living with your hands, then let Jim Tolpin show you how to become a professional cabinetmaker... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558707530
• ISBN13: 9781558707535
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Popular Woodworking Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

An updated version

Excellent book by Mr. Tobin. Wish I had read the practical information he gives when I first became inspired. It would have made my woodworking journey less painful. He said one thing in his earlier version of this text which has been updated and is more now current. I am paraphrasing.."If there is no place to put it don't build it." good advice for guys who save everything then have no shop space to work? Helps to organize and simplify?

Properly titled

The book is about managing a cabinet making and installation job. It contains solid shop and job site tips from a salient and obviously experienced author. It does contain some construction guides but they are very basic and not the focus of the book. Jim did author another book regarding cabinet construction which I do have and highly recommend. In closing, I used the advise of the text to fit a sample cabinet set up for a corner of my hobby shop. Tops and bottoms for about 8 feet of total counter length. Used story sticks and Jim's layout advise. The stick is a great method for translating positions from the wall to the ply sheets. The ceilings and floors of the shop are uneven there and it allowed me to test Jim's cabinet fitting advise during the install. Some of the generic forms in the book were also very helpful. everything is square plumb and tight and nice to the eye. Those were my first cabinets made ( attempting a glue-up counter now also ). The wife likes them, so maybe I accomplished something. Need more pine and poplar to practice. I have no expectations that I will be competing with any of the home improvement stores or established cabinet shops. My brother and I on occasion will renovate and resell homes therefore remodeling a kitchen for cost is a priceless skill and will help our margins. Thanks Jim.

can you do what you like?

many people who love to work wood decide to do it for a living, and this book covers the basics. as far as this type of cabinetmaking book goes, it is pretty good. for most of us, the cabinets are not the issue. the problem is that suddenly we have to know taxes, paperwork, marketing, some law, personnel management, etc. where all these books fall short is in the stuff we don't want to do: set up a business plan in depth. why are you different from the guy down the street who is making boxes too? why are you better, where is your weakness? any book can tell you how to make a face frame cabinet or euro cabinet, but what about the other aspects you will have to know? again, it is a book of value, and better than the others of this genre i have read, but check it out and go from there.