A new title has just been added to the books on woodworking at Project Gutenberg (the web's ever-growing library of free-to-download out of copyright books).
It's a history of Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 written by a historian at the Smithsonian Institute. It looks at written descriptions of the tools used by carpenters and joiners, with some discussion of design development in planes and braces.
It's an academic work, and I expect some readers will disagree with what he says, but even so it's an interesting browse, with some historic illustrations from well known sources (Moxon, Nicholson, Roubo, Diderot) and others less well known.
Make sure you download the html zip file that includes the pictures!
More at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/27238
Andy
It's a history of Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 written by a historian at the Smithsonian Institute. It looks at written descriptions of the tools used by carpenters and joiners, with some discussion of design development in planes and braces.
It's an academic work, and I expect some readers will disagree with what he says, but even so it's an interesting browse, with some historic illustrations from well known sources (Moxon, Nicholson, Roubo, Diderot) and others less well known.
Make sure you download the html zip file that includes the pictures!
More at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/27238
Andy
