Reddit reviews Hybrid Woodworking: Blending Power & Hand Tools for Quick, Quality Furniture (Popular Woodworking)

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• Mid-Century Modern Furniture: Shop Drawings & Techniques for Making 29 Projects
  
  
• The New Traditional Woodworker: From Tool Set to Skill Set to Mind Set
  
  
• I Can Do That! Woodworking Projects - Updated and Expanded
  
  
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• The Workbench Design Book: The Art & Philosophy of Building Better Benches

Most decent lumber yards should have a large selection of hardwoods and plywoods. Looking up Dallas Lumberyards I found Craddock Lumber that looks promising as well as Central Hardwoods.

Remember that lumber yards price by the board foot. You can find board foot calculators online, but in pricing lists you'll see something like 5/4 (pronounced five-quarter) lumber. That means that wood is 1.25" thick. Most lumber will need to be milled from the lumberyard (called roughsawn) so that 5/4 wood will probably wind up being around 4/4 (or 1" thick) after jointing and planing. If you don't have those tools some lumber yards will plane there for you.

I'd suggest checking out Hybrid Woodworking for an excellent crash course in merging hand tools with power tools to achieve excellent final results.

Others have recommended Steve Ramsey and he's a great resource. Matt Cremona is a pretty cool follow as well as Matt Estlea. April Wilkerson does some decent beginner projects that serve a utility around the home. And I highly recommend the Wood Whisperer (particularly his earlier projects) since he's very thorough and a great teacher.

Good luck!