Restoring Tuning Using Classic Woodworking Tools

Author : Michael Dunbar
Publisher : Sterling Publishing (NY)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Woodworking tools
ISBN : 080696670X

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Restoring, Tuning & Using Classic Woodworking Tools by Michael Dunbar Pdf

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.

Author : Mike Dunbar
Publisher : Popular Woodworking Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Woodworking tools
ISBN : 144033675X

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Restoring, Tuning & Using Classic Woodworking Tools by Mike Dunbar Pdf

"Buy well-made, classic tools and then tune them so they'll outperform tools made today!" -- Back cover.

Author : Editors of Fine Woodworking
Publisher : Taunton Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1561580619

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The Small Wood Shop by Editors of Fine Woodworking Pdf

Outfitting and maintaining a shop is something every woodworker wants to know more about. They are always looking for new ways to improve their shops, and this practical book is packed with innovative ideas and projects. The subjects included in this book cover a wide range of techniques and ideas. Projects include how to make a cabinet maker's tool box, build a chop saw stand and put together an easy-to-build work bench. There is information on buying used hand tools, cutting sheet products, mobile machine bases, computers and repairing and tuning workshop machinery. Advice is also given on wiring a shop, collecting dust, using and maintaining shop equipment and running a small commercial shop. In addition, practical solutions are offered for solving a host of workshop problems.

Author : Garrett Hack
Publisher : Taunton Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1561582735

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Classic Hand Tools by Garrett Hack Pdf

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.

Author : Popular Woodworking
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-23
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781440302657

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Hand Tool Essentials by Popular Woodworking Pdf

Hand and Power Tools Work Best Together In today's world of more-power-is-better, it's easy to overlook the value of hand tools. What most woodworker's don't realize is that combining both hand and power tool worlds is the best way to produce the highest quality woodworking. In Hand Tool Essentials you'll learn how to choose and use hand tools for chopping, cutting, paring, sawing, marking, drilling and more. Many of the tools are familiar, but others will surprise you with their usefulness. Though they've been around for hundreds (or thousands) of years, these tools have gotten lost in the rush of the industrial revolution. Rediscovering the value of these tools in your woodworking will also give you a better understanding of how your power tools work. But this book is more than about how to use hand tools. It's about using hand tools in balance with power tools to save you time, provide a more pleasant woodworking experience and ultimately give you a better woodworking project.

Author : Garrett Hack
Publisher : Taunton Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1561587125

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The Handplane Book by Garrett Hack Pdf

Hack reveals the rich heritage of this classic tool by presenting a treasure trove of information about handplanes, focusing on the 19th and early 20th centuries. 175 photos. 152 drawings.

Author : Roy Underhill
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780807869789

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The Woodwright's Apprentice by Roy Underhill Pdf

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 to take up chisel and plane. The master woodwright returns here with instructions for handcrafting an appealing selection of projects from the American woodworking tradition. The Woodwright's Apprentice begins with directions for building a workbench. Each successive project builds new skills for the apprentice woodworker--from frame construction to dovetailing, turning, steam-bending, and carving. Among the twenty items featured are an African chair, a telescoping music stand, a walking-stick chair, a fireplace bellows, and a revolving Windsor chair. Designed both for woodworking novices and for more seasoned woodworkers looking for enjoyable projects, the book includes step-by-step directions, complete with easy-to-follow photographs and measured drawings, and an illustrated glossary of tools and terms. All of the pieces presented here are based on projects featured in past and upcoming seasons of The Woodwright's Shop television show.

Author : Christopher Schwarz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781440349560

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Handplane Essentials, Revised & Expanded by Christopher Schwarz Pdf

Everything you need to use your handplanes! No woodworking tool is more satisfying, quick and precise to use than a handplane. Planes can process timber in its rough state, bring boards up to a glimmering smoothness, cut rabbets, dados, grooves and other joints, and trim wood with a precision that has yet to be matched by power tools. Yet many woodworkers--both beginners and professionals--are intimidated by handplanes. This book is here to set the record straight. Handplane Essentials contains everything you need to choose the right plane for your project (and for your budget), sharpen it and use it successfully. Compiled from more than 15 years of the author's writings on the subject of handplanes in magazines, trade journals and blogs, this book is an indispensable guide for woodworkers. This revised edition includes 14 new articles as well as new and updated tool reviews.

Author : Zachary Dillinger
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781440343414

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With Saw, Plane and Chisel by Zachary Dillinger Pdf

Build furniture the way your ancestors did! Do you enjoy the satisfaction of creating things entirely by hand? Immerse yourself in the world of traditional woodworking as period furniture expert Zachary Dillinger walks you through the hand-tool-only construction of six pieces of classic American furniture. From preparing stock by hand to period-correct joinery methods, you'll learn how our forefathers built furniture--and why they did things the way they did. Within these pages you'll find: • An overview of the historical development of major furniture styles from the 1960s through to the mid-19th century--and the European influences from which they evolved. • Instruction for period-correct woodworking techniques. • Six detailed furniture projects covering popular period styles. • Traditional approaches to finishing touches including insights into upholstering by renowned teacher Michael Mascelli and advice from Nancy Cogger of Londonderry Brasses for choosing period-accurate hardware. With Saw, Plane & Chisel shows you how period furniture was made, explains how furniture styles developed and in turn helps you build excellent, realistic heirloom pieces.

Author : Roy Underhill
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780807888711

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The Woodwright’s Guide by Roy Underhill Pdf

For thirty years, Roy Underhill's PBS program, The Woodwright's Shop, has brought classic hand-tool craftsmanship to viewers across America. Now, in his seventh book, Roy shows how to engage the mysteries of the splitting wedge and the cutting edge to shape wood from forest to furniture. Beginning with the standing tree, each chapter of The Woodwright's Guide explores one of nine trades of woodcraft: faller, countryman and cleaver, hewer, log-builder, sawyer, carpenter, joiner, turner, and cabinetmaker. Each trade brings new tools and techniques; each trade uses a different character of material; but all are united by the grain in the wood and the enduring mastery of muscle and steel. Hundreds of detailed drawings by Eleanor Underhill (Roy's daughter) illustrate the hand tools and processes for shaping and joining wood. A special concluding section contains detailed plans for making your own foot-powered lathes, workbenches, shaving horses, and taps and dies for wooden screws. The Woodwright's Guide is informed by a lifetime of experience and study. A former master craftsman at Colonial Williamsburg, Roy has inspired millions to "just say no to power tools" through his continuing work as a historian, craftsman, activist, and teacher. In The Woodwright's Guide, he takes readers on a personal journey through a legacy of off-the-grid, self-reliant craftsmanship. It's a toolbox filled with insight and technique as well as wisdom and confidence for the artisan in all of us.

Author : Shayne Rivers,Nick Umney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-07
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781136415364

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Conservation of Furniture by Shayne Rivers,Nick Umney Pdf

This book is a comprehensive resource covering the principles and practice of the conservation and restoration of furniture, and other decorative art objects made wholly or partly of wood. It integrates theory with practice to show the principles which govern interaction between wooden objects, the environmental and conservation treatments and the factors which need to be taken into account to arrive at acceptable solutions to conservation problems. The practical knowledge and experience of a team of conservators active in the field are bought together with theoretical and reference material from diverse sources and unified within a systematic framework. Specialist conservators from related disciplines cover diverse materials often incorporated into furniture.

Author : Roy Underhill
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780807869819

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The Woodwright's Eclectic Workshop by Roy Underhill Pdf

For more than ten years, Roy Underhill has taught the techniques of traditional woodcraft, or 'how to start with a tree and an axe and make one thing after another until you have a house and everything in it.' Through his popular PBS series, The Woodwright's Shop,' and his previous books, Roy has inspired millions--from professional craftspeople to armchair woodworkers--with his talent, knowledge, and enthusiasm. Roy returns now with his fourth book, The Woodwright's Eclectic Workshop. It features step-by-step instructions for many projects featured on the television series in recent years, including such popular projects as the Adirondack chair, tavern table, folding ladder, rocking horse, lathe, and kayak. All projects are illustrated with photographs and measured drawings. The book also includes colorful descriptions of what it was like to be a tradesperson who made a living by hand, working with the tools and methods Roy describes on television and in his books: carpenters, joiners, wheelwright, millwrights, chairmakers, and blacksmiths. As Roy puts it, he wants to examine 'the old paths in the way that they were originally taken: not as adventuresome recreations but a profession that put food on the table and clothes on the kids.'

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Woodwork
ISBN : UOM:39015058290399

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Fine Woodworking by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mark Krawczyk
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781550927641

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Coppice Agroforestry by Mark Krawczyk Pdf

Cut and come again forestry – reviving the ancient practice of resprout silviculture to power local woodland-based economies. Coppice Agroforestry is a richly illustrated, comprehensive guide to resprout silviculture – managing trees and shrubs by coppicing, pollarding, shredding, and pleaching – for a continuous supply of small diameter polewood for products from firewood to fine furniture. Contextualizing resprout silviculture historically, ecologically, and economically, Coppice Agroforestry explores the potential of this ancient practice for modern times. Coverage includes: The cultural history of coppicing in Europe and North America Tree and shrub anatomy, biology, and woodland ecology A suite of woodland management systems Dozens of handcrafted wood products on a continuum of value, offering a wide range of business opportunities Case studies of diverse coppice-based enterprises Assessing existing forests for coppice potential Designing new resprout silviculture systems Tables highlighting diverse species for various uses A vision of a modern resprout silviculture renaissance. A decade in the making, encyclopedic in scope, and written by the hand of a woodsman, Coppice Agroforestry is a deep dive into this ancient practice, blending it with modern science, systems thinking, and tools to land it firmly into the 21st century. Whether you have a few trees or an entire forest, Coppice Agroforestry is the must-have practical guide for homesteaders, farmers, foresters, land managers, and educators who ally themselves with the remarkable resilience of woody plants.

Author : Michael Dunbar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Woodworking tools
ISBN : 0854420142

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Antique Woodworking Tools by Michael Dunbar Pdf