Hand Tool Essentials: Refine Your Power Tool Projects with Hand Tool Techniques

by Popular Woodworking

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.

Genres: Woodwork

224 pages, Paperback

First published June 6, 2007

Reviews

[Alex · Rating 4 out of 5]

Algunos capítulos se hacen un tanto repetitivos, pero en general es un libro muy útil. Lo recomiendo.

[Andy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Collection of hand tool articles from Popular Woodworking magazine. It has a lot of great info, but it's not very focused as a purpose written text would be. There is a bit of repetition, and even some contradictory advice by the various authors.

[Brian · Rating 4 out of 5]

More a collection of articles from Popular Woodworking, but still lots of good information for the beginner.

[Eric Cohen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ueful

[Ietrio · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nice book, yet very strong anchored in the States.