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500 questions 500 smart solutions! From worn shingles, leaky windows, and squeaky floors to musty odors, slow-heating furnaces, and sump pit drainage, every house has something that needs repairing, changing, or upgrading. And Norman Becker, the engineer who writes Popular Mechanics Homeowners Clinic column, can help homeowners fix the problem. Three easy-to-follow sectionsExterior, Interior, and Electromechanicalscover all areas of the home environment.
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This is a basic resource for today's blacksmith. Volume I begins with an account of the tools and equipment of the blacksmith and continues with shop plans, diagrams demonstrating various smithing techniques, and discusses iron and steel. Richardson also discusses a number of basic processes such as drilling, fullering, and swaging. Volume II see item 2-309
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For over 100 years the Barrister's bookcase has been one of the finest ways to display a fine collection of books or treasured art objects. This bookcase can be built out of any hardwood. Rather than use modern hinges and slides, this bookcase was created using the traditional two pin wooden sliding mechanism. Size: 52 1/4" high by 36 1/2" and 12 3/4" deep. Skill level-Beginner
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Written in 1881 by William N. FitzGerald, a veteran of the carriage industry, this was the most comprehensive addition to trade literature on the subject at the time of its publication. Rare, hard-to-find and long out of circulation, it is now back in print to inspire a new generation of carriage enthusiasts. Provides descriptive text and illustrations of numerous carriage interiors: from the everyday model to those suited for royalty. Furthermore, the book describes the complexity of materialsleathers, silks, lacesand range of skills (upholstering, tufting, stitching and binding, cutting enameled leathers, making leather sockets, welting, fabric selection, etc.) required for this branch of the carriage trade. It also includes recipes for cleaning, oiling and blacking leather, polishing metals and restoring ivory, among others.
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This is the Cutler roll top desk. Abner Cutler was the first American to patent the roll top desk. 14 pages includes details for jigs and fixtures for building the tambour. 49" H X 51 1/2 W X 30"D 36" x 48" CAD format plans with instructions and photos.
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Includes plans, materials lists, tools lists and instructions for 40 projects. Some of these are a bit unusual. For example the Folk Art Fantasy Bench out of concrete, the chair out of rebar, recycled granite curb bench, and a Low Country Joggle Bench. Plus many others.