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The Essential Woodworker Book- Skills, Tools, and Methods by Robert Wearing
In our opinion, The Essential Woodworker is one of the best books on hand-tool usage written in the post-Charles Hayward era. Wearing was classically trained in England as a woodworker and embraced both power and hand tools in his shop and in his teaching.
He begins with a table. As you read the chapter on building a table, Wearing connects the dots for the hand-tool user by showing how all the tools are used in concert to produce accurate work. Its not just about sawing a tenon or planing an edge. Instead, it is about how to gather these skills and apply them to building furniture tables, doors, carcases, dovetailed drawers, plinths, etc.
The book is filled with more than 500 hand-drawn illustrations by Wearing that explain every operation in a hand-tool shop. His illustrations are properly drafted, drawn in perspective and masterfully clear.
“The Essential Woodworker” is printed in a 6″ x 9″ format, hardbound with a cloth cover, and produced entirely in the United States.
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