5 Responses to “Hand Tool Essentials: Refine Your Power Tool Projects with Hand Tool Techniques”

• By J. Burritt on Jun 26, 2010

  The book is a thorough exploration of using hand tools as an integral part of building your woodworking projects. It discusses everything from tuning your hand tools to become precision instruments on to using them to compliment your power tools, doing things that power tools can’t. A variety of authors deal with a wide range of topics.
  Rating: 5 / 5
• By Sharker on Jun 26, 2010

  Woodworking for me is a hobby. Like many, I am always looking for new methods and ideas. This book is wonderful! It covers information for the beginner, but also is a tremendous source of ideas and methods for someone more experienced. If you have evolved from using mostly power tools, this is a teriffic starting place. Ways to sharpen, ways to modify and restore old tools made in yesteryear… You can’t go wrong with this book.
  
  Rating: 5 / 5
• By Philip Washburn on Jun 26, 2010

  Great book at a great price. If you want to do great woodworking this book gets you there. Came looking new which was a bonus.
  Rating: 5 / 5
• By HAC on Jun 26, 2010

  I’ve done my first read through of this book and I think it is outstanding. It will definitely be a used reference book in my shop. Almost like having a master carpenter to tutor you.
  Rating: 5 / 5
• By Tory Swetland on Jun 26, 2010

  Let me start by saying, this is a great book. I have been a wood worker since high school. Up untell now my work mostly has been with power tools. I have wanted to start using more hand tools, but have not known where or how to start. I dont realy have the time to take a class right now so the next best thing was books. One day I was roaming through the book store looking for books that would apeal to my needs. I thumbed through a handfull with nothing realy having everything in it I was looking for. I wanted something that covered a lot of differant tools, so I didnt have to get 4 or 5 differant books. I found this one on the bottem shelve and knew right away that this was the book for me. It covers planes(just about all of them), saw, chisels, drawknifes, spokeshaves, dovetails, awls, marking knives, try squares, drawboring, the rasp, and great info on sharping. I read some of the other reviewers complain about all the content on sharping. I thought it was very usefull. The editors cover all areas and let you the reader deside which is best for you. There is also a section on a great workbench close to the end. This book is as close to hands-on training a book can be. Great, easy to read writing, lots of color pictures of the things you need to see. I have read this book in part about half-a-dozen times. a great book to keep going back to.
  Rating: 5 / 5

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