Fine Woodworking on Planes and Chisels

by Fine Woodworking Magazine

Book Overview

Well-sharpened planes and chisels may be the most important tools in the woodworking shop. They can be used to make a rough board flat and smooth, to cut slickly fitting joints, or to shape a delicate edge. In this collection of 29 articles from Fine Woodworking magazine, expert craftsmen explain how they choose, sharpen, and use every kind of plane and chisel. There's advice on tool maintenance, plus plans for making your own wooden-bodied planes,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0918804280
• ISBN13: 9780918804280
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Taunton Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.2" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Plnes and chisels(fine woodworking on )

The information on chisels is brief but complete as to angles metal and how to sharpen,it get better when you get to Planes design of and angles of blade I have bought this book to make my own Planes and it gives all the information to do just that.This is a good first book for the new person in wood working and all the woodworking books are great for that. I have just added another book to my collection and I am happy with the information inside..

Planes and sharpening

This book presents a lot of interesting information on planes and on various methods of sharpening cutting edges. Despite the title there is not much on chisels here. There is a lot on out-of-the-way types of planes and also a lot on different views on sharpening, including a report of a direct comparison between sharpening devices, like vertical and horizontal rotary devices, wet and dry (vertical) rotary devices, etc. Also stones, natural and artificial, Japanese and American. The last two pages present an, at the time of publishing, unorthodox way of sharpening which looks very interesting, particularly for turners. As the other review says this book no longer presents the very latest in technology, but it is not true that it has fallen very far behind the times, as yet.