Robert Wearing

[marcros]

I am looking for a book that covers making screw clamps, and such like. Robert Wearings name keeps cropping up, but he has done several books, all bar one not available to "look inside" on Amazon.

Any thoughs on Making Woodworking Aids and Devices, The Resourceful Woodworker and The Essential Woodworker as to which is best/most suitable?

I dont really want something that spends half the book on drill press jigs etc.

 

[bugbear]

I am looking for a book that covers making screw clamps, and such like. Robert Wearings name keeps cropping up, but he has done several books, all bar one not available to "look inside" on Amazon.

Any thoughs on Making Woodworking Aids and Devices, The Resourceful Woodworker and The Essential Woodworker as to which is best/most suitable?

I dont really want something that spends half the book on drill press jigs etc.

The most up-to-date jig-tastic one is "Making Woodworking Aids and Devices". "Essential Woodworker" is more about handtool technique.

"Resourceful Woodworker" is a bit of a hybrid of those two.

BugBear

 

[marcros]

cheers.

 

[SammyQ]

With the greatest respect BB, beg to differ, "Resourceful W/W" is much better for O.P.'s query. Apples and pears yúnderstand? :|

Sam - who can't remember the last time he slighted P.W./B.B.

 

[bugbear]

With the greatest respect BB, beg to differ, "Resourceful W/W" is much better for O.P.'s query. Apples and pears yúnderstand? :|

Sam - who can't remember the last time he slighted P.W./B.B.

Some googling reveals the situation to be complicate, with both book having multiple editions, not just reprints ;-(

BugBear

 

[AndyT]

I have a copy of "The Resourceful Woodworker" (Batsford 1991) and it has a lengthy first chapter covering lots of ways to make clamps. It also covers measuring and marking, router techniques and some tool making.
There is considerable overlap with "Making Woodwork Aids and Devices" - which includes the ideas on clamps - and the same material can be found (possibly more cheaply) in a cover-mount booklet given away with Traditional Woodworking magazine in 1993, called simply "Traditional Woodworking Workshop Devices".
A likely reason for the overlap is that many of the (very good) ideas covered were published as columns in magazines such as The Woodworker, back in the 1980s.

So any of those three titles will cover what you want. I don't have "The Essential Woodworker."

It's worth checking your local library; secondhand copies are not rare.

 

[marcros]

I got a copy of the aids and devices book for just over £3 including postage. If it doesn't cover what I wanted I will invest in the resourceful woodworker which is about the same money. Both cheaper than a pint in town so happy to take my chances.

 

[SammyQ]

"Some googling reveals the situation to be complicate, with both book having multiple editions, not just reprints ;-("



I most respectfully concur with my more diligent colleague, who has, not for the first time, exhibited a more developed sense of information mining than I had. :!:


I was of course, posting earlier from the restricted viewpoint of my Batsford (?)edition, which I regard as the cat's P.J.'s, dog reproductive organs and......

Sam

 

[bugbear]

"Some googling reveals the situation to be complicate, with both book having multiple editions, not just reprints ;-("



I most respectfully concur with my more diligent colleague, who has, not for the first time, exhibited a more developed sense of information mining than I had. :!:


I was of course, posting earlier from the restricted viewpoint of my Batsford (?)edition, which I regard as the cat's P.J.'s, dog reproductive organs and......

Sam

In fairness, I too was only posting on the basis of the editions I'd read. It took your extra information to send me in the direction of the more complex truth.

BugBear

 

[AndyT]

Gentlemen,
If I may proffer an unsolicited encomium, this thread is most refreshingly polite and helpful. Bravo!