Home Back My Cart : 0 item(s)

 

HOW TO CHOOSE AND USE BENCH PLANES & SCRAPERS

HOW TO CHOOSE AND USE BENCH PLANES & SCRAPERS
Sale Price: $13.17
Compared at: $21.95
You Save: $8.78
Product ID : 14-511

Purchase

Description

Working wood with hand tools is one of the most satisfying, relaxing and rewarding activities available, and adding planes to a woodworking regimen augments it in several ways. When we plane the face or edge of a board, we slice across cells, exposing a multitude of voids. When we sand, we fill up those voids with dust, the residue of crushed cell walls. As a finish is applied, the difference is immediately obvious. A planed surface has a deep, rich, translucent quality that is missing in a sanded piece. This is a book for the average woodworker of every skill level (except for the very advanced) – a simple, straightforward shop manual for people who own a few bench planes and would like to know how to use them. This book dispenses with the lore and legend of planes, and treats them simply as tools while still preserving their dignity. The book contains how-to photography that is in step-by-step support of the text. Each image visually represents hard facts that are alluded to in the text. For example, a page on sharpening an iron will show the reader four images that illustrate flattening the requisite area of the back; grinding a primary bevel; honing a secondary bevel; and testing for sharpness.

Products You May Like

  • THE TOOLBOX BOOK PB

    THE TOOLBOX BOOK PB $22.95
    $13.77

    A complete survey of toolboxes for everyone who values tools. Tolpin's beautifully illustrated guide shows ingenious tool storage solutions from rugged old time journeymen's chests to todays versatile truck boxes. Tool users learn to plan and design boxes to increase productivity, save time and prevent loss of their most valuable assets. The book covers storage, organization, transportation and protection of tools for every trade.

  • A MUSEUM OF EARLY AMERICAN TOOLS

    A MUSEUM OF EARLY AMERICAN TOOLS $8.95
    $5.37

    This was one of the most influential books on tools and had an impact on the current interest in tool collecting. There are over 180 pen and ink drawings by the author. Originally published in 1964, Sloane illustrates the uses of many of the tools and covers such diverse crafts as logging, carpentry, wheelmaking, tanning, splitting, tools with legs and much more.

  • MAKING TRADITIONAL WOODEN PLANES

    MAKING TRADITIONAL WOODEN PLANES $19.95
    $11.97

    Whelan lays out clear, step by step instructions that will enable any woodworker to make a plane. Each chapter, covering 20 different types of planes and spokeshaves, is fully illustrated. In addition, there are chapters on alternative methods of planemaking, plane irons, and the tuning and using of wooden planes. John Whelan is a recognized authority on wooden planes and their construction.

  • WOODSHOP DUST CONTROL

    WOODSHOP DUST CONTROL $21.95
    $13.17

    A Complete Guide to Setting Up Your Own System. This is the revised and updated color version of the original Woodshop Dust Control

  • THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED G/T JIGS & FIXTURES

    There is no image yet $39.95
    $23.97

    A highly visual, step-by-step guide to building jigs and adding modifications. Organized according to function, this in-depth reference covers all aspects of jig-making. Nagyszalanczy is a well-known designer and lecturer with over 20 years in woodworking.

  • 1001 TIPS FOR WOODWORKERS

    1001 TIPS FOR WOODWORKERS $21.95
    $13.17

    This is a comprehensive collection of tips compiled over a lifetime of experience of woodwork and associated crafts. The tips cover all aspects of woodworking with hand and power tools. There are ways to improve the use of traditional and new hand tools and ways to get the most out of the many hand and stationary power tools available today. Workshops and their equipment are covered, from compact to extensive, improvised and permanent.

Call us: 800-345-4447

Full Website