Antique Woodworking Tools: A Guide to the Purchase, Restoration and Use of Old Tools for Today's Shop

by Michael Dunbar

Description: 192 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN: 0803858213 : Subjects: Woodworking tools --History. Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p. 189. LC classification: TT186 .D86 1977 Dewey class no.: 684/.082 This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803858213
• ISBN13: 9780803858213
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Hastings House Book Publishers
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent for the purchasing, tuning and using of old tools.

This small book shows with words and pictures exactly what to look for when contemplating the purchase of an old tool. It explains what the tool was used for, how to spot broken parts and how to make it work the way it is supposed to. In some cases it shows the evolution from primitive to modern hand tool. Excellent sections on the many different types of planes from smoothing planes to complicated molding planes. A keeper for future reference.