I have to brag about a book I purchased a couple weeks ago, it's been by my bed and I have been reading it every night before going to bed. A couple weeks ago I also built a mallet, and I loved the experience of building my own hand tools. It gave me a satisfaction knowing that a tool I need to use, I built! You can see my Big Ash Mallets by clicking on the link.

 

Now, leading up to the subject of this topic, the wonderful and very interesting book, Making and Mastering Wood Planes by David Finck. The book is priced well, actually it's a great book that should probably have a higher retail value on it than what David Finck is selling them at, but shhh, we won't tell him that!

You can go to this link Purchase the Book and pick one up for yourself, at this point in time he ran out of new books till mid to late August 2016, but you can still get a great deal on lightly used books for a very deeply discounted price.

 

The book itself is loaded with beautiful images, very easily understood illustrations, and it's not just a plane book, it's also a book on tuning up machinery and hand tools, in order to make your own hand planes correctly and accurately. About 5/8ths of the book is actual hand plane building, the rest is about how to use the tools you need to build them, and once you build the planes to tune them, and use them.

 

This is not only a book to keep in your shop for reference as you build your hand planes, but it would also make a nice coffee table book as well. It's that nice looking!

 

It's not often I give a book review, but I just had to in this case as this is a very special book. Also, if you order David's new book, he'll sign it before he sends it to you, he signed mine, and it looks cool.

Have fun folks, by the way, I have no horse in this game, David Finck does not even know who I am, I make no commission on this plug, I just love this book that much, I felt I had to let the world know about it.

Bump to the top, just because I love this book! I wanted to share it with our newer members.

 

BTDT...