American Woodworker’s Hand Tool Fundamentals: Advice, Techniques and Projects

Lay a foundation for hand tool excellence! Now you can learn the hand tool skills used by the best woodworkers to achieve handcrafted excellence in all your woodworking projects. Hand Tool Fundamentals introduces you to all the key tools and techniques you need to learn for sterling work, then shows you how to incorporate them into the modern woodworking shop. You'll learn: What to look for when buying new precision hand tools. How to tune your tools so they perform well. The time-tested hand tools everyone should own. How to make a smoothing plane, infill jointer plane and dovetailing tools. 10 hand-tool projects you can build to improve your skills. More than 75 hand-tool tips and techniques. And more! This book is jam-packed with trustworthy advice and instruction from top editors and contributors to American Woodworker, including Toshio Odate, Frank Klausz, Mario Rodriguez, Andy Rae, Ellis Walentine and Tom Caspar.|This book is jam-packed with trustworthy advice and instruction from top editors and contributors to American Woodworker, including Toshio Odate, Frank Klausz, Mario Rodriguez, Andy Rae, Ellis Walentine and Tom Caspar.|Drawn from more than 25 years of excellent advice that has appeared in American Woodworker, this book offers a wide range of hand tool techniques and tool-making projects. The advice is from the top editors and contributors at American Woodworker and it is presented in a way that helps readers build their hand tools skills so they can incorporate them into their work. The book includes contributions from well-known woodworkers, including Toshio Odate, Frank Klausz and Mario Rodriguez, along with the best editors over the years, including Andy Rae, Ellis Walentine and Tom Caspar, who has taught a course on hand tool skills for more than 20 years. The book is organized around common groups of tools, such as planes, layout tools, chisels, etc. and incorporates instruction on hand tool techniques and projects.