Essential Hand Tools

by Norm Abram and The Editors of This Old House Magazine

Whether you're a home repair novice or a veteran renovator searching for new tricks of the trade, you'll find invaluable advice and expert knowledge about hand tools from Norm Abram and Tom Silva of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966675304
• ISBN13: 9780966675306
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: This Old House Books
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

A Good Read

This book is a good read and a practical reference.Although I am not a professional craftsperson, or even "seasoned" by most standards, I am a tool nut and have been using them for nearly fifty years in a variety of situations and know my way around a toolbox. However, the book showed me some common tools in a new perspective and has even given me an excuse to pick up a few more unusual tools for my collection. An example would be the cat's-paw. I was not familiar with this device before, but have now learned how superior one is to the claw of a hammer or a flat pry bar for pulling nails.The book is more a discussion of the philosophy and theory of tools than it is an instruction manual. Nevertheless, I highly recommend it to anyone trying to get a handle on how to start putting a kit together and those who are curious about what two famous carpenters have to say about a tool you may have been using seemingly all your life.