Tool-Making Projects for Joinery and Woodworking: A Yankee Craftsman's Practical Methods

by Steve Olesin

Overview

This practical and comprehensive handbook presents detailed instructions for making 20 essential hand tools for joinery and general woodworking at all skill levels.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781892836236
Publisher:	Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	11/01/2005
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	8.08(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

Steve A. Olesin teaches woodworking and builds stringed instruments and furnishings in Acton, MA. Trained as an engineer, Olesin is a lifelong woodworker.

Editorial Reviews

Take a step beyond fine woodworking and make your own custom hand tools. With a cursory nod toward safety concerns, first-time author Olesin jumps right into instructions for making woodworking and joinery tools such as gages, hand planes, saws, knives, and mallets. The beautifully finished pieces can be customized to fit the wielder's hands. Oddly, the instructions are accompanied by somewhat crudely drawn illustrations and black-and-white photos; measurements and instructions are mostly textual. This book is only for advanced woodworkers with a lot of confidence in tool use and basic design. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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