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Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Featuring over 500 entries on tools categorized by function, Compendium of Tools is a celebration of home improvement and skilled craftwork. The book covers a variety of tools used by amateurs, both hand tools and power tools, and offers some background information, interesting history, care tips, advice on what projects they are best for, and suggestions of other similar tools to consider adding to a collection. With detailed entries and illustrations,...
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Description
With The Woodwright's Companinon, Roy Underhill continues to demonstrate "how to start with a tree and an axe and make one thing after another until you have a house and everything in it." This volume features chapters on helves and handles, saws, the search for the whetstone quarry, crow chasers and turkey calls, hurdles, whimmy diddles, snaplines and marking gauges, candle stands, planes, window sash, riven shingles, and pit sawing. The final chapter...
7) Trains
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Explains what different parts make up a train, that trains travel on special railroad tracks, and what trains are used to transport.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Regarded by collectors and students as the finest text available on the subject and the standard book on ancient woodworking tools, this classic reference describes in detail the many hundreds of implements in use in the American colonies during the 18th century. Many were largely unchanged in form since Roman times; others were identical in construction to ancient Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian, and Chinese implements. More than 250 illustrations depict...
12) The toolbox
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An easy-to-read description of the basic tools found in a toolbox.
13) Tools rule!
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In a messy yard, a team of tools gets organized, then spends a busy day building a shed.