Mastering Hand Tool Techniques: A Comprehensive Guide on How to Sharpen, Tune and Use Classic Hand Tools to Add Power to Your Woodworking

by Alan Bridgewater and Gill Bridgewater

Book Overview

Mastering Hand Tool Techniques introduces you to the full range of hand tools from rules and tapes to saws and planes, and offers readers step-by-step illustrated instructions on how to use them... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1616085134
• ISBN13: 9781616085131
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.4" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

simple for reference or beginners

I borrowed this book through interlibrary loan because I'm working in a woodshop for historic interpretation, and I needed to know what I was doing. This book reminds me of the DK Eyewitness books in that it simply explains a tool and shows you with various line drawings and also photographs. Not a lot of explanation for each tool, but a good quick reference. The tools in the book are not necessarily period pieces, but they are derived from period tools. I think this is a good beginner reference book, of course because of the price (less than 10 bucks), and especially because it shows things well in the photographs.