Constrution - Vintage Tools
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The Workbench: A Complete Guide to Creating Your Perfect Bench
by Lon Schleining  Publisher Comments In this fresh and contemporary look at the world of workbenches, Lon Schleining takes us on a guided tour of a wide variety of classic, modern, and specialty benches and offers hundreds of options for choosing or building that "perfect bench and its...
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Sharpening Made Easy
by Steve Bottorff Publisher Comments This book reveals the sharpening techniques needed for everything from razor blades to axes. Whether you require a sharp slicer for the kitchen or a sturdy chopper for the field, this book will show you how to get the edge you need. It lives up to its...
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The Table Saw Book
by Kelly Mehler Publisher Comments Completely revised and updated edition....
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The Woodwright's Apprentice: Twenty Favorite Projects from the Woodright's Shop
by Roy Underhill Publisher Comments For more than twenty years, Roy Underhill has taught the techniques of traditional woodcraft with muscle-powered tools. With his four previous books and his popular PBS series, The Woodwright's Shop, now in its sixteenth season, Roy has inspired millions...
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The Woodwright's Shop: A Practical Guide to Traditional Woodcraft
by Roy Underhill Publisher Comments For more than twenty-five years, Roy Underhill has taught the techniques of traditional hand-tool woodworking. In five books and on his popular, long-running PBS series, The Woodwright's Shop, America's leading authority on old-time woodcraft has...
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The Coach-Makers' Illustrated Hand-Book: Containing Complete Instructions on Carriage Building
by I Ware Publisher Comments This is the classic work on coach building in all its branches, reprinted from the 1875 second edition. Included are sections on: drafting, designing, and the construction of the frame and wooden parts smithing of the metal, the springs...
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The Care and Use of Japanese Woodworking Tools: Saws, Planes, Chisels, Marking Gauges, Stones
by Kip Mesirow and Ron Herman Synopsis Japanese tools are manufactured to perform at the high level top craftspeople demand, but they work differently than Western tools: saws cut on the pull, not the push, and need to be properly maintained to provide decades of useful service. Covering...
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Source Book for Rule Collectors
by philip stanley Publisher Comments Rule collectors rejoice! In A Source Book for Rule Collectors and its companion A Rule Concordance and Value Guide, Philip Stanley has crafted a masterfully comprehensive, beautifully illustrated reference guide to measuring instruments covering their...
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The Tools That Built America
by Alex W. Bealer Publisher Comments 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...
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Celebrating Birch: The Lore, Art, and Craft of an Ancient Tree
by North House Folk School Publisher Comments With its graceful silhouette and distinctive white bark, the birch tree has been important to people wherever it has grown. This book covers all aspects of the North's most versatile tree; from its biology and ecology to its different uses, craft...
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Practical Carriage & Wagon Painting
by M. C. Hillick Publisher Comments Today's collectors who seek instruction on painting and decorating their vehicles can do no better than to read this reprint of M.C.Hillick's book on the subject. The book, organized not unlike the structure of an apprenticeship, is divided into 16...
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Ancient Carpenter's Tools
by Henry Chapman Mercer Publisher Comments Classic reference describes in detail hundreds of implements in use in the American colonies in the 18th century. Over 250 illustrations depict tools identical in construction to ancient devices once used by the Greeks, Egyptians, and Chinese, among them...
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Museum of Early American Tools (02 Edition)
by Eric Sloane Publisher Comments Absorbing book describes, in detail, farm tools and kitchen implements and how they were made. Includes devices used by curriers, wheelwrights, coopers, blacksmiths, loggers, tanners, coachmakers, and other craftsmen of the pre-industrial age. An...
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Sharpening Hand Tools
by Garden Way Publisher Comments Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable...
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Decorative Carving, Pyrography and Flemish Carving
by Leonard G. Lee Publisher Comments The first two thirds of this book are devoted to carving patterns, particularly of use to a beginning carver, but with sufficiently increasing complexity to be of challenge as a carver's skill increases. Numerous borders are illustrated as well as...
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Whittling and Woodcarving
by E J Tangerman Publisher Comments Best book on market; clear, full. If you can cut a potato, you can carve toys, puzzles, chains, much more. Over 464 illustrations....
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Whittling Twigs & Branches: Unique Birds, Flowers, Trees & More from Easy-To-Find Wood
by Chris Lubkemann Publisher Comments This complete reference details the unique whittling technique invented and mastered by Chris Lubkemann for producing perfect curls of wood that can be used for carving birds, evergreen trees, and flowers. Photos and drawings accompany detailed...
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The Art of Whittling
by Walter Faurot Publisher Comments This is the book that gave rise to the many carving curiosities that can frequently be found in antique stores. It contains illustrations and instructions for various puzzles, caged balls, the ever-popular arrow through a block, as well as a range of...
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American Cooperage Machinery and Tools
by Kenneth L. Cope Publisher Comments Through the second half of the 19th century and into the 20th, barrel makers followed the same path taken by many other woodworkers...they moved from hand tools to the large, efficient new machines that were the products of the Industrial Revolution...
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Country Tools and How to Use Them
by Percy W Blandford Publisher Comments Written by a master craftsman, this profusely illustrated guide to early tools and their functions depicts and describes scores of devices -- from hammers, gouges, planes, and saws to tools for blacksmithing, spinning, weaving, and baking. An invaluable...
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