Museum of Early American Tools more books like this

by Eric Sloane

Illustrates a huge variety of axes, hammers, chisels, etc.--each one perfectly suited to a specific task and carefully made to individual specifications.

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One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw more books like this

by Witold Rybczynski

Beginning with a short essay for the New York Times Magazine, this intriguing book has expanded to include not only the history and uses of screws and screwdrivers but many other related (however tangentially) topics, including Archimedes, da Vinci, guns, and child labor.

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Classic Hand Tools more books like this

by Garrett Hack, John S Sheldon (Photographer)

Before the machine age, all woodworking was done with handtools. Even now with machinery available for many woodworking operations, some tasks are more easily and efficiently accomplished with handtools. This book celebrates the great heritage of traditional tools while providing practical information on how to integrate their use in one's ...

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Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them more books like this

by Rolfe Cobleigh

Practical projects as useful today as when first published 75 years ago.

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The tools that built America more books like this

by Alex W. Bealer

Fascinating story of early American woodworking, told by a master craftsman, enthusiastically describes and clearly illustrates a wide array of axes, saws, planes, hammers, and other implements used by frontiersmen. Delicate tools such as calipers, bevels, and lathes employed by cabinet- and furniture-makers are portrayed as well. Over 200 ...

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The Antique Tool Collector's Guide to Value more books like this

by Ronald S. Barlow

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The Handplane Book more books like this

by Garrett Hack, John S Sheldon (Photographer)

In the FINE WOODWORKING BOOKS series covering the history, theory and use of the handplane for woodworkers. Also looks at other speciality planes used in ancillary woodworking professions. Concluding chapters summarize what to look for when buying a plane and buying planes as investments.

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Field Guide to Tools: How to Identify and Use Virtually Every Tool at the Hardware Store more books like this

by John Kelsey

An illusrated guide to the world of hardware stores and home improvement centres. Learn how to identify and use more than 100 different tools, step-by-step directions for using each tool. Colour photographs of every tool for easy identification.

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Tools Rare and Ingenious: Celebrating the World's Most Amazing Tools more books like this

by Sandor Nagyszalanczy

Presenting a "sort of tool museum in print," the California author of The Art of Fine Tools (1998) and a former editor of Fine Woodworking magazine traces collectible tools from Stone Age axes and vintage iron handplanes to computer-aided miniatures. What collectors and craftsmen (and women) will especially relish are Nagyszlanczy's many color phot

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Encyclopedia of Antique Tools & Machinery more books like this

by Charles H Wendel

Featuring more than 60 categories, including adzes, anvils, mallets, cement tools, carpenter tools, drills, hatchets, chisels, beekeeping, plumbing tools, gardening tools, surveying and wood cutting, this comprehensive guide covers the tools and machinery of yesteryear. The author has spent the past 40 years gathering information, literature, old ...

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Making of Tools more books like this

by A Weygers

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Planes and Chisels more books like this

by Fine Woodworking (Editor)

Twenty-nine articles about the most important tools in the workshop are presented in this text, including edge tools that cut, shape and finish the wood. Expert craftsmen explain how they choose, sharpen and use almost every kind of plane and chisel.

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Dictionary of American Hand Tools: A Pictorial Synopsis more books like this

by Alvin Sellens

A fascinating chronicle of nearly every tool ever used in North America, including ancient tools used by Native Americans; trade tools used to create coaches, pianos, ships, and saddles; tools for harvesting farm goods, turpentine, and ice; and tools for fine trades such as bookbinding and watch repair. More than 4500 tools are organized according ...

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Choosing & Using Hand Tools more books like this

by Andy Rae

This is the essential who, what, when, where, and why of hand tools! Not only is the equipment itself beautiful, it's the classic and most pleasurable way to work with wood. Hundreds of photographs, accompanied by explanatory illustrations, escort you through the traditional woodshop, introducing everything from clamps and drills to chisels and ...

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Official Price Guide to Collector Knives more books like this

by C Houston Price, Mark D Zalesky

"The Official Price Guide to Collector Knives "is designed for all collectors, from novice to expert, and presents information about the hobby, its history, and value identifications. The 15th edition includes fully-updated prices, 50 pages of new listings, 100 new black-and-white photographs, and for the first time, an eight-page full-color ...

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Home & Workshop Guide to Sharpening more books like this

by Harry Walton

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Collectors Guide to E C Simmons Keen Kutter Cutlery & Tools more books like this

by Jerry Heuring, Elaine Heuring

Keen Kutter has been the most respected trade name of tools since its beginning in the 1870s. Collectors and antique dealers have searched for the thousands of items produced bearing the ever-recognizable logo of Keen Kutter. The E.C. Simmons Company produced a myriad of classic tools as well as interesting advertising pieces to tout their high ...

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The Stanley plane : a history and descriptive inventory more books like this

by Alvin Sellens

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Tools and Their Uses more books like this

by U S Bureau of Naval Personnel

Teaches correct operation of all the basic hand and power tools, fasteners, and measuring devices you are likely to need. 329 illustrations.

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Making and Modifying Woodworking Tools more books like this

by Jim Kingshott

In this book, the designs of the best classic woodworking tools are examined, and ways to improve their performance by modification are explored in detail. Every stage of modification from turning to heat treatment is shown, as are safety and work techniques.

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Making and Mastering Wood Planes more books like this

by David Finck

The classic guide by master woodworker David Finck is back and better than ever, with all-new colour photography. It's the best book ever on this popular tool-and it features a foreword by the celebrated woodworker James Krenov. Small and extremely comfortable to use, wooden hand planes bring machined surfaces to an alluring, silky smoothness-but ...

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The Wooden Plane: Its History, Form and Function more books like this

by John M Whelan

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Tools: A Tool-By-Tool Guide to Choosing and Using 150 Home Essentials more books like this

by Steve Dodds

An uncomplicated beginner's reference to getting equipped. Organized into nine kits for home and car -- an easy to follow guide to building a tool kit and learning how to identify the right tool for the right job.

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Ancient Carpenters' Tools: Illustrated and Explained, Together with the Implements of the Lumberman, Joiner and Cabinet-Maker in Use in the Eighteenth Century more books like this

by Henry Chapman Mercer

Over 250 illustrations depict tools identical to ancient devices once used by Greeks, Egyptians, and Chinese, including axes, saws, clamps, chisels, mallets, and much more. Invaluable sourcebook.

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Plane Basics more books like this

by Sam Allen

A basic introduction to planing techniques. Simple explanations and clear illustrations allow beginners to master every type of plane and achieve professional woodworking results.

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