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" Mastering hand tool techniques : "
Alan & Gill Bridgewater.
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BL
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1021608
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b775978
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| Main Entry
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Bridgewater, Alan.
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| Title & Author
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Mastering hand tool techniques : : a comprehensive guide on how to sharpen, tune and use classic hand tools to add power to your woodworking /\ Alan Gill Bridgewater.
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| Publication Statement
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Cincinnati, OH :: Betterway Books,, 1997.
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144 pages :: illustrations (some color) ;; 29 cm
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1558704574
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: 9781558704572
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"A Quarto book"--Title page verso.
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Includes index.
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| Contents
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Workshop (The workbench and vise -- Lighting -- Storage) -- Working with wood (Grain and figure -- Milling wood -- Defects to avoid -- Strength and qualities of wood -- Good finish) -- Measuring and marking (Measuring rules -- Rules, ticks and tapes -- Marking knives -- Scribes and awls -- Squares -- Gauges -- Dividers -- Calipers -- Trammel points -- Jigs) -- Clamping (The vise -- Bench stops and dogs -- Wooden handscrew -- Bench holdfast -- The hand vise -- C-clamps -- Steel bar clamps) -- Sawing (Sharpening saws -- Cuting out a chair seat -- Fretting a chair splat) -- Paring (Mortise chisels -- Beveled edge chisels -- Woodcarving gouges -- Carvig mallets -- Woodcarving in relief -- Carving in the round -- Woodturning chisels and scrapers -- Woodturning gouges -- Turning a chair leg spindle -- Turning a bowl -- Spokeshaves -- Shaping a chair arm -- Knives).
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"Mastering Hand Tool Techniques will enable you to get the best out of your hand tools. It introduces you to the full range of hand tools from rules and tapes, to saws and planes, and gives step-by-step illustrated instruction on how to use them. There is advice on what tools to buy, how to sharpen and tune them and how to care for and store them. In addition, the book is packed with tips on workshop layout, working wood, safety, measuring and marking, clamping, gluing, repairing and renovating tools and ways of combining power tool working with hand techniques. Finally, a directory of over 40 of the most popular woods provides guidance on the best wood for your particular project."--Jacket.
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Woodwork, Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Woodworking tools.
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Woodwork-- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Woodwork.
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Woodworking tools.
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684.082
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OS/621./908
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TT186.B74 1997
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Bridgewater, Gill.
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