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Best woodworking planes book
1. The Handplane Book (Taunton Books & Videos for Fellow Enthusiasts)
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The Handplane Book is a complete guide to one of the best known and most collectable hand tools. It covers all the basics, including how to buy a plane, tune it up, and use it. Fascinating background information on the development and manufacture of handplanes shows the rich heritage of this versatile tool. Focusing on planes from the golden age of the handplanes (19th and early 20th century), it also profiles tools from many sources around the world.
2. Getting Started with Handplanes: How to Choose, Set Up, and Use Planes for Fantastic Results
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Getting Started with Handplanes is loaded with technically rich diagrams, illustrations, practical advice, and skill building exercises.With this book and a well-chosen and correctly maintained set of planes, you will be able to handle any type of wood in every woodworking situation. In an age of power tools the traditional handplane still has a place. Working with handplanes is often quicker, and leaves a cleaner finish. Versatile handplanes can be used as a router, thickness planer, or edger. They can accomplish jobs that would otherwise require expensive, specialized power tools.
Author and woodworking instructor Scott Wynn teaches how to choose, set up, maintain, and master the basic variations of this indispensable hand tool. Scott shows how to discern the difference between each style of plane, how to select one that's best for your approach to woodworking, and how to setup and maintain different types.
3. Discovering Japanese Handplanes: Why This Traditional Tool Belongs in Your Modern Workshop
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Fast, efficient, and effective, Japanese handplanes are attracting increasing notice among Western cabinetmakers, carpenters, and woodworkers. These tools are meant to be used, used hard, and produce rapid, excellent results. Author and woodworking instructor Scott Wynn shows you how to choose, set up, maintain, and use these versatile tools to achieve stunning results. Japanese blades are arguably the best in the world, and Scott shares his methods for keeping those blades sharp. Japanese-style planes are also quick to build, and Scott shows how to make your own custom plane in a special section. Discover why this traditional tool has a home in your modern workshop, with step-by-step instructions, full-color photos, detailed illustrations, and clear diagrams.4. Stanley Planes: A Guide to Identification and Value
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A comprehensive guide to identification and value for collectors of Stanley planes with hints and tips accumulated over 20 years of full time tool dealing and countless mistakes you don't want to repeat! hints and tips on collecting cleaning and restoring a short Stanley history manufacturing details tricks of the trade what to check real market values detailed colour pictures A4 magazine format, full colour, 42 pages5. Working with Handplanes: The New Best of Fine Woodworking
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Of all the hand tools used in the modern shop, planes exert a special fascination. Though quite simple, planes are enormously versatile and practical when skillfully used. The articles in this book, collected from Fine Woodworking, illustrate a host of topics, including basic plane operation, how to choose the right plane for the job, and specialty planes. Step-by-step instructions show how to build wooden planes - a popular project for hand tool fans - and how to correctly tune and sharpen, essential for proper plane operation.
6. Shoji and Kumiko Design: Book 1 The Basics
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Shoji and Kumiko Design: Book 1 The Basics, the first of a planned series of books on shoji and the vast array of intricate patterns possible within the shoji frame, covers in detail all the basic skills and techniques needed for making traditional shoji. The shoji and patterns described in this book can be made with the tools found in any normal home workshop. Japanese tools are not essential.
Book 1 features:
- Extensive information on the Japanese plane - the kanna- and detailed instructions on adjusting a new kanna, and how to maintain and use it so that it always performs at its peak.
- Detailed step-by-step instructions on how to make three different kinds of shoji with progressively more complex kumiko pattern arrangements. This includes a number of sawing and joinery exercises for you to complete so your frame and kumiko joinery is accurate, firm and tight.
- Explanations of different rail and stile joinery options and different structure and rail types so you can add variety to your own shoji designs.
- A comprehensive explanation of kumiko interval and pitch calculations that can be applied equally to the simplest or most complex pattern arrangements.
- Detailed step-by-step instructions on making three kumiko patterns, including four different methods of making the asa-no-ha pattern.
- Numerous photographs and diagrams to complement the instructions and information.
7. The Complete Guide to Sharpening (Fine Woodworking)
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You know how frustrating it is to work wood with tools that are dull. All that is over. Tool expert Leonard Lee has consolidated a lifetime of study of sharpening methods, techniques, and devices into the most practical reference on the subject. In The Complete Guide to Sharpening, you'll discover the most effective ways to sharpen your toolsfrom chisels to drill bits. You'll get better edges than on most razor blades, and you'll learn how to shape them to cut better and stay sharp longer. In fact, Lee's simple principles and some basic equipment wil allow you to sharpen any woodworking tool you are likely to encounter.
8. The Tool Book: A Tool Lover's Guide to Over 200 Hand Tools
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"Tools. Yes!"--Nick Offerman, from the forewordThis user's guide to over 200 hand tools highlights how to use tools effectively, understand them better, and how to properly care for them.
With foreword by Nick Offerman, host of the new show Making It on NBC. Salute generations of craftsmanship, ingenuity, and know-how with The Tool Book . Explore tools from every angle, with detailed patent drawings, exploded diagrams, and step-by-step illustrations of tools in action with the science behind the techniques. Gallery pages display different types of hammers, spades, or chisels, while expert advice tells you what to look for when choosing a tool, and how to use it and care for it best. Discover why each tool is perfect for the job, and why it deserves a prominent spot in your shed, workshop, studio, or makerspace. The perfect gift for craftsmen, makers and anyone with an interest in DIY.
9. Traditional Wooden Handplanes: How to Restore, Modify & Use Antique Planes, Plus a Bonus Section on Making New Planes in the Antique Style (Fox Chapel Publishing) Over 200 Photos & Illustrations
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Traditional Wooden Handplanes is the essential reference for hand tool enthusiasts! Learn how to:
- Restore, make, modify & use traditional wood handplanes
- Tune up a new plane to get the best performance
- Sharpen plane blades
- Make a set of 6 types of this style of plane with Step by step instructions
- Set up a flea market find
In a world of heavy and expensive handplanes, traditional wood handplanes are affordable, light in weight, low in friction, comfortable to use, and available in a wide variety of blade angles.
Author and woodworking instructor Scott Wynn has been working with this versatile tool for four decades. In Traditional Wooden Handplanes he shows you how to make, modify, restore, and use antique planes.
Scott reveals how traditional wood planes work, how to set up a flea market find, and how to tune up a new plane for peak performance.
You'll learn about the different types and how to use them to their best advantage; which blade angles are best, which blade steel you might want to use, and finally, how to make your own set of planes using some modern techniques that simplify construction and improve performance.
10. With Saw, Plane and Chisel: Building Historic American Furniture With Hand Tools
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Do you enjoy the satisfaction of creating things entirely by hand? Immerse yourself in the world of traditional woodworking as period furniture expert Zachary Dillinger walks you through the hand-tool-only construction of six pieces of classic American furniture. From preparing stock by hand to period-correct joinery methods, you'll learn how our forefathers built furniture--and why they did things the way they did. Within these pages you'll find:
- An overview of the historical development of major furniture styles from the 1960s through to the mid-19th century--and the European influences from which they evolved.
- Instruction for period-correct woodworking techniques.
- Six detailed furniture projects covering popular period styles.
- Traditional approaches to finishing touches including insights into upholstering by renowned teacher Michael Mascelli and advice from Nancy Cogger of Londonderry Brasses for choosing period-accurate hardware.