Cut and Dried: a Woodworker's Guide to Timber Technology by Richard Jones is a massive text that covers the big picture (is forestry good?) and the tiniest details (what is that fungus attacking my stock?). Richard Jones has spent his entire life as a professional woodworker and has dedicated himself to researching the technical details of wood in great depth, this material being the woodworker’s most important resource. The result is Cut & Dried: A Woodworker’s Guide to Timber Technology. In this book, Richard explores every aspect of the tree and its wood, from how it grows to how it is then cut, dried, and delivered to your workshop.

Richard offers precise descriptions throughout that demanding woodworkers need to know in order to do demanding work. Serious woodworkers have long been starved of accurate information on wood technology that’s explained in language for artisans – instead of for scientists. The author explores many of the things that can go right or wrong in the delicate process of felling trees, converting them into boards, and drying those boards ready to make fine furniture and other wooden structures. He helps you identify problems you might be having with your lumber and – when possible – the ways to fix the problem or avoid it in the future.

Cut & Dried measures 9” x 12” and the text is printed on heavy #80 matte coated paper for accurate color. The book has heavy hardcover boards that are wrapped in a grey cotton cloth and stamped with a die from a hand-printed woodcut. As all books by Lost Art Press, the book is printed in the United States.