BOOKS - anyone know any good ones?

[Phil Pascoe]

I have to spend £30 (a bit more maybe) quickly on Amazon. My No.1 child bought me two nice books for father's day but unfortunately I already had both of them - so if you can recommend a good reference book on woodworking or turning I'd like a thumbs up.
Thanks, Phil.

 

[Racers]

These

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Impractical-Ca ... mes+krenov

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Technique-Furn ... oodworking

Pete

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Got the Joyce already.

 

[Racers]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Impractical-Ca ... mes+krenov


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Technique-Furn ... oodworking


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Soul-Tree-Mast ... N0RWH7MCER

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nature-Art-Wor ... HCQKZX79DC

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Japanese-Woodw ... YG0Q3QHKYE

All good...

Pete

 

[Phil Pascoe]

The Nakashima looks interesting.

 

[Droogs]

why not push yourself with complex ornamental turning by holtzapffel:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Principles-Pra ... oltzapffel

 

[Aggrajag]

The Day of the Triffids - one of the best books I ever read, not about Triffids per se, but about human survival.

Oh! You said woodworking books....

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I had the Dover reprints of Holtzapffel and sold them on (for next to nothing) as reading them was like wading through treacle.

 

[AndyT]

Simon Barley's latest on saws might awaken your interest in the ones you have given away...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/British-Saws-H ... inw_strp_1

It's an introductory pictorial guide, aimed at showing how saws were made and what is interesting about them. There's a bit of overlap with his big reference book

https://www.amazon.co.uk/British-Saws-S ... itish+saws

but you need both really... :wink:

Or for a real treat, a big beast of a book, but much cheaper and more compact than buying all the amazing things shown inside:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Antique-Woodwo ... l+in+books

 

[Phil Pascoe]

For £55 it would have to be something I'm really interested in ... and that's not saws, really, good as it undoubtedly is.

 

[AndyT]

For £55 it would have to be something I'm really interested in ... and that's not saws, really, good as it undoubtedly is.

But that's why I showed you the little £15 one as well!

What areas of woodwork would you like? I could maybe guide you towards a whole shelf full of bargains...

 

[Phil Pascoe]

The little one a kindle.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I'm just reading The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees. I enjoy books like that and books like the George Sturt Wheelwright's Shop although I'd rather buy reference. I like turnery, although one of the books bought for me was the new D. Springett, and I have the older one. I can't be bothered with stuff that fiddly and time consuming, clever as it is. I tend to like books about forestry and trees, wood and its uses.

 

[AndyT]

If you've not got Edlin's classic on woodland crafts, I'm sure you'd like it:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Woodland-Craft ... n+in+books

and on forestry in general

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trees-Woods-Ma ... +woods+man

I'm just reading this, which is aimed at the sort of person wanting to tell one tree from another, so may be too elementary

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Woods-Armc ... +the+woods

There's a whole series of books on the early American experience of exploiting what they thought of as an inexhaustible supply of timber - good old photos and tales of real men in the forests (!) such as this one

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Logging-Drama- ... ffer+press

which will probably list similar titles from Schiffer Press alongside.

(BTW, if Amazon direct you to a Kindle edition, you're not many clicks away from a real book - both saws books are definitely available on paper.)

 

[Smithy]

Hi

I have all the James Krenov books. Never tire of them and have re read them several times.

Smithy

 

[Phil Pascoe]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Antique-Woodwo ... l+in+books
What a cracker! but I just can't justify it atm.
I've just seen Walter Rose The Carpenter's Shop - I tried once before to get that, but it must have been out of print.

 

[AndyT]

I've just seen Walter Rose The Carpenter's Shop - I tried once before to get that, but it must have been out of print.

I hope you mean "The Village Carpenter" or else I'm off hunting myself...

But yes, if you've not got that, get it before anything else. A rare category - a well-written, informative book about a vanished way of life, by a tradesman. You should find a wide choice of new and used editions.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Yes, you're right - i don't know quite where that came from. I have read that it's a better book than the Sturt, and I enjoyed the Sturt. I'm looking into a krenov atm.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Well. I've gone for Walter Rose (because I wanted it before) and Krenov's Impractical Cabinetmaker. Sorely tempted by a Sam Maloof and a Nakashima, but I wanted the W. R. and I didn't want to spend any more atm.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Sorry, I should have thanked everyone. I was a little limited as the money was spent with Amazon itself, so I presumed the refund would have to be likewise.