TITLE: Explicit examples of resolution of (projective) 3-folds over k?
QUESTION [6 upvotes]: I'm looking for examples of explicit resolutions of (projective) 3-folds over a field k (char 0), with isolated singularities, or at least with smooth singular locus. I've looked in various books and online, but the examples they present have only been for curves and surfaces, for which resolution of singularities is much less complicated. It would also be nice if the exceptional divisor were sufficiently nice, say, with smooth components that intersect transversally (or if the exceptional divisor were itself smooth). 
Are there any well-known/easy examples in dimension 3? Because resolution quickly becomes complicated as dimension increases, I'd imagine that examples become harder to come by, although I'm sure many exist!
In general, I seem to not be very good at finding references/papers relevant to specific things I'm looking for. Search engines typically turn up a lot of irrelevant papers, and thumbing through a bunch of books seems time-inefficient. Search engines have turned up a few papers, but I suspect that I can do better than what I've found thus far.
I realize that adding this second part about looking for references may detract from the specific issue I have right now, but I'd rather get better at finding things than ask here when I can't find something.

REPLY [3 votes]: Another, curve related, example would be the secant variety to a smooth curve.  If the embedding is 'sufficiently ample', which would mean that it separates 5 points (it's early and no coffee yet, so '5' should be double checked with a reference) then the secant variety is smooth away from the curve and singular along the curve, so the singular locus is smooth. There is a well know resolution which is discussed in papers of Bertram.
A curve related example with isolated singularities would be the theta divisor of a general genus 4 curve or non-general curves of lower genus. Geometry of Algebraic Curves is a reference for that.  Roy Smith is another excellent reference for information of this sort !