Mastering Hand Tool Techniques introduces you to the full range of hand tools from rules and tapes to saws and planes, and offers readers step-by-step illustrated instructions on how to use them safely and effectively. Learn how to outfit a great workshop with the best tools and how to sharpen, clean, and store them. Master such techniques as sawing, drilling, sanding, assembly, claming, measuring and marking, and more. Whether you’re using a Ripsaw or Auger Twist Bits, this book will give you the confidence to be a master in your home workshop. Mastering Hand Tool Techniques is essential for all those who love working and building with their hands regardless of age or skill level. With this book, no project is too big and no tool is too complicated.

The rich variety and history of hand tools is revealed through vivid color photos while in-depth information reveals how to integrate their use into modern woodworking. 16 drawings. 320 photos.

Craftsmanship in the old style-here is a way to create it, with the traditional hand tools that master woodworkers have been using for hundreds of years. Made to use all day without raising a blister, these gems can be used in your workshop today, with the help of this complete guide to buying, reconditioning and using classic woodworking tools. First, you'll learn how to evaluate, grade, and purchase the proper tools from the wonderful variety of planes, chisels, gouges, saws, bits, and other tools available on the market. Next, you'll learn heat-treating, refinishing, and sharpening techniques that are invaluable to all woodworkers. And, because many woodworkers do not have heavy experience in using classic tools, the author tells and shows exactly how to recondition, tune, and get more from every one of these fine instruments than you can get from the newer ones you are probably using now. In almost 500 closeup photographs and drawings, Dunbar shows you how to use your classic hand tools to create the finest and most rewarding projects of your life. Book jacket.

This work provides an insight into the history of Welsh stick chairs and includes instructions on how to make a chair, covering methods of bending the wood for chair construction. Illustrations show each stage in the building process.

Details the history of the workbench along with over 275 illustrations and plans for constructing several different workbenches.