Came across this one on Amazon, around £6 for 412 pages. My six quid copy was brand new, came yesterday. Don't think it's been mentioned before?
Hand Tools: their ways and workings, Aldren A Watson first pub. 1982
Being self taught, (ie. 50yrs ignorance), I'm always on the lookout for good information, which on handwork, isn't easy to find. The excellent reprints of Victorian/Edwardian Tech college textbooks expect the 'how' of handskills to be taught at work on the job.
This book has some novel basic stuff within, which some others rather gloss over. Alf would approve of nearly 40 pages on the Brace, and Bits, about 25 pages on handling chisels, 60 odd on planing and over 20 on sawing. There's even a dozen pages on the file and rasp. Copiously illustrated by the author's pencil sketches, in something of the style of early FW, and almost entirely about how to use the item in question.
It has a 5 star Amazon clapometer rating, and looks full of good stuff to me - but can any of our hand tool gurus offer a knowledgeable endorsement?
Hand Tools: their ways and workings, Aldren A Watson first pub. 1982
Being self taught, (ie. 50yrs ignorance), I'm always on the lookout for good information, which on handwork, isn't easy to find. The excellent reprints of Victorian/Edwardian Tech college textbooks expect the 'how' of handskills to be taught at work on the job.
This book has some novel basic stuff within, which some others rather gloss over. Alf would approve of nearly 40 pages on the Brace, and Bits, about 25 pages on handling chisels, 60 odd on planing and over 20 on sawing. There's even a dozen pages on the file and rasp. Copiously illustrated by the author's pencil sketches, in something of the style of early FW, and almost entirely about how to use the item in question.
It has a 5 star Amazon clapometer rating, and looks full of good stuff to me - but can any of our hand tool gurus offer a knowledgeable endorsement?
