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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
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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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Ditto! This only proves that these guys had their "stuff" together! What a wealth of information all in one place. This should be required reading for every young person learning to use tools. I wish that I had read this when I was a youngun. It would have accelerated my learning curve tremendously. I have seen excerpts from this over the years but never the whole pamphlet. This is really a great primer for anyone learning the basics of handsaw use(s) and how to maintain
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By Grandpadave52 · Posted
Thanks John...downloaded and saved...great stuff...will be good reading over this long winter season. -
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That would make a GREAT baby changing table. Maybe add a shelf for wipes. -
By John Morris · Posted
Some of these old ones are really interesting aren't they Lew? -
I may have to put this one in the to-do projects! -
Those were a blast Lew, we had one as a kid, it did not get used much, but it was pretty piece of furniture to display. -
Wish I still had that old treadle-powered Singer!
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