House & Home, General & Miscellaneous Antiques & Collectibles, Woodworking & Carving
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Overview
Before the machine age, all woodworking and carpentry was done with hand tools, and an amazing variety of tools evolved for a wide range of tasks. Many of these tools are as elegant as they are ingenious, and Classic Hand Tools celebrates their great heritage in words and pictures.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
For the past two and half million years or so, men and women have been using hand tools; and, although we have nothing against the occasional power drill, we hope that these handy helpers never fade away. Apparently, Garrett Hack agrees, because this lap-filling book is replete with celebrations of planes, chisel, augers, adzes, hammers and saws. Browsing through the pages of woodshop photographs, one remembers Vita Sackville-West's assertion that tools have their own integrity.Jeff Taylor
If the photographs don't pull you down the rabbet hole of Wonderland, the writing...text, sidebars, and captions will rescue you tool galoots from boring old reality. You will not ever, ever, ever lend out this book to anyone. If you don't think you can resist the temptations, buy a loaner copy.— Fine Gardening
Booknews
A professional furniture maker and tool collector celebrates the rich heritage of classic hand tools in words and pictures. Chapters discuss how hand tools cut; workshops, benches, and clamps; the different tools and the use and maintenance of each (separate chapters for each type, e.g. marking and measuring tools, striking tools, chisels, planes); making and restoring hand tools; and buying used handtools. Sidebars offer historical facts about the carpentry and woodworking trades as well as advice and helpful tips. Oversize: 9.25x11<">. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
April 25, 2002
Publisher
Taunton Press Inc
Pages
224
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781561585076