Traditional Jigs & Fixtures for Handtools: A Manual of Devices for Woodworking

When traditional woodworkers wanted to improve the speed, accuracy and repeatability of their work, they developed clever jigs and fixtures such as shooting boards, a flexible straight edge and a grass­hopper gauge. But the vast majority of those aids were user-made and disappeared from sight when power tool woodworking took over in the 20th century.

The result? Beginning hand-tool woodworkers today often experience unnecessary frust...