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Woodworking Tools 1600-1900
By John Morris
Author: Welsh, Peter C.
LoC No. 66061920
Title: Woodworking Tools 1600-1900
Language: English
LoC Class Q: Science
LoC Class T: Technology
Subject Woodworking tools -- History
Release Date: Nov 12, 2008
Copyright Status: Public domain in the USA.
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Rustic Carpentry
By John Morris
Editor: Hasluck, Paul N. (Paul Nooncree), 1854-1931
Title: Rustic Carpentry
Contents: Light rustic work -- Flower stands, vases, etc. -- Tables -- Chairs and seats -- Gates and fences -- Rosery walk -- Porches -- Canopy for swing -- Aviary -- Foot-bridges -- Verandahs -- Tool houses, garden shelters, etc. -- Summer houses.
Release Date: Dec 20, 2012
Copyright Status: Public domain in the USA.
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Disston Saw, Tool, and File Manual
By John Morris
Publication date 1953
Usage Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International
This is from the site WKFineTools.com.
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1908 Elementary woodcarving
By Snogard64
Description:
This handbook, the 7th of the Woodworker Series, is issued with the objective of instructing those who wish to enter the ranks of woodcarvers and to start them on the road to become eventually, if their inclination and aptitude leads them that way, experts in the craft of woodcarving.
Part of the classicarchives.com vintage wood working book collection. All of our vintage woodworking books are available for immediate download after checkout. All of our woodworking books come in .pdf format for easy viewing and reading
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Fourty Lessons in carpentry
By Snogard64
PREFACE.
THESE lessons have been drawn up for students who are intending to follow cither the Course of Manual Training in Woodwork, as indicated in the instructions of the Science and Art Department, or that as specified by the City and Guilds of London Institute : to teach the use of tools employed in the handicrafts using wood, and to serve as a disciplinary educational course in training the hand and eye to accuracy, by a progressive series of exercises connected with Freehand and Drawing to Scale, and thus tend to produce thoughtful and efficient workmen.
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By Snogard64
Author: William Fairham
Release Date: May 19, 2007 [EBook #21531]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WOODWORK JOINTS ***
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Fret-Sawing and Wood-Carving for Amateurs
By Courtland
Fret-Sawing and Wood-Carving for Amateurs is book by George A. Sawyer. This book was downloaded from the Google Books Project.
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Wood Carving, Design and Workmanship
By Courtland
Wood Carving, Design and Workmanship is a book by George Jack, Copyright Year of 1903. This book was downloaded from the Google Books Project.
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Well with this new regulation and laws pretty soon electrical power is bound to be found to cause cancer in the state of California. Thus it is banned. -
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By FlGatorwood · Posted
They can have my Shopsmith after they pry my dead cold fingers from it. -
By John Morris · Posted
There is a whole world of woodworkers working without power, it's wonderful, creative, and beautiful. Jarrod Dahl is one of those woodworkers, creating his turnings by roughing out the blank by hatchet, then turning on a pole lathe, all his creations on his website are done entirely without electricity, something I aspire too. His wooden ware is done in the Slojd tradition, as all his work is. I hope to be there someday in my journey. WOODSPIRIT HANDCRAFT WW -
By John Morris · Posted
Sure nuff guys! I am heading in this direction, I'll have a wonderful write up of the pole lathe build too! And I'll soon have my electric lathe up for sale! -
Yeah I read some about that, John you might want to get started on a solar / wind turbine / go back to candles projects.
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By FlGatorwood · Posted
Why not? The parts are easily replaced, no shipping charges, no electricity when PG&E turn off the electricity. And, he'll get in really good shape. One thing you might consider is a stationary bike and use those old web belts as they used to use. -
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