jimi43
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As some will know...I love books and books on woodworking fascinate me.
I tend to aim at old books as I truly believe they contain all the information one needs in a deeper form...most books these days are aimed at the mass market...and are...as such...dumbed down to sell more copies.
Proof, if proof were needed came in the form of a fantastic "little" book I purchased at my local bootfair last weekend entitled simply "The Home Workshop - 1.150 Drawings, Photographs and Diagrams...Shows you how to do hundreds of home jobs yourself. This book will save you pounds...5 /-"
I touched on this excellent and strange volume over on the Hand Tools Forum and thought I would bring it to the attention of the "wider" audience of UKW...for it is worth it....
Just a brief summary if I may....
Now I would have thought that it would cover woodworking in a rather small and simple way...None of it!! (pictures are clickably supersizeable!)
My day starts upon my return from the office in the city....a quick trip to the workshop to whittle up a coffee table with my trusty spokeshave...remembering to remove ones jacket so as not to get shavings in my breast pocket.
Infuriating calls from SWIMBO "Darling...how often have I told you a jack plane must be rested on its SIDE on the bench"...were ignored as I worked away to finish before dinner....
For those of you interested in my workbench...here is one I knocked up earlier....
Note the simplicity of design....an evening's work after listening to Dick Barton - Special Agent....
Now...to a more serious subject fellow readers....
How often have you lain awake at night in fear of being bombed or gassed....?
A troublesome thought....but never fear...over the next few chapters I will show you how to reinforce your parlour to prepare for an air raid...build a DIY Anderson shelter and seal you doors from the evils of gas attack...
Once the Luftwaffe have departed for the evening we shall decarbonise the car engine....and whittle up a few dovetail joints....
What amazes me is that all this is done by the "home" worker....with bombs falling around him...dressed in a business suit and without power tools!
Are books today dumber......HELL too right they are....
Here endeth the tongue-in-cheek lesson on precisely why I love old books.....
Thank you
Jim
I tend to aim at old books as I truly believe they contain all the information one needs in a deeper form...most books these days are aimed at the mass market...and are...as such...dumbed down to sell more copies.
Proof, if proof were needed came in the form of a fantastic "little" book I purchased at my local bootfair last weekend entitled simply "The Home Workshop - 1.150 Drawings, Photographs and Diagrams...Shows you how to do hundreds of home jobs yourself. This book will save you pounds...5 /-"
I touched on this excellent and strange volume over on the Hand Tools Forum and thought I would bring it to the attention of the "wider" audience of UKW...for it is worth it....
Just a brief summary if I may....
Now I would have thought that it would cover woodworking in a rather small and simple way...None of it!! (pictures are clickably supersizeable!)
My day starts upon my return from the office in the city....a quick trip to the workshop to whittle up a coffee table with my trusty spokeshave...remembering to remove ones jacket so as not to get shavings in my breast pocket.
Infuriating calls from SWIMBO "Darling...how often have I told you a jack plane must be rested on its SIDE on the bench"...were ignored as I worked away to finish before dinner....
For those of you interested in my workbench...here is one I knocked up earlier....
Note the simplicity of design....an evening's work after listening to Dick Barton - Special Agent....
Now...to a more serious subject fellow readers....
How often have you lain awake at night in fear of being bombed or gassed....?
A troublesome thought....but never fear...over the next few chapters I will show you how to reinforce your parlour to prepare for an air raid...build a DIY Anderson shelter and seal you doors from the evils of gas attack...
Once the Luftwaffe have departed for the evening we shall decarbonise the car engine....and whittle up a few dovetail joints....
What amazes me is that all this is done by the "home" worker....with bombs falling around him...dressed in a business suit and without power tools!
Are books today dumber......HELL too right they are....
Here endeth the tongue-in-cheek lesson on precisely why I love old books.....
Thank you
Jim
and it's still as solid as the day it was made. Which isn't bad, considering the basic frame was made from timber thrown away by the contractors building Lancaster University.
