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Classic Hand Tools
by Garrett Hack

Publisher Taunton
Edition Paperback

Bring the richness of the past into the present by integrating old hand tools into modern woodworking. Chapters cover every type of hand tool from saws and hand drills to scrapers, chisels, planes and hammers. With practical information on how to buy, use, and maintain hand tools.

Price: £19.95

The Handplane Book
by Garrett Hack

Publisher Taunton
Edition Paperback

More than any other tool, the handplane has come to symbolise fine craftsmanship. This treasure trove of information covers history, theory and practice for the user and is a mine of information for the tool collector, such as what to look for when purchasing and renovating fine used planes.

Price: £19.95

Working with Handplanes
Editors of Fine Woodworking

Publisher Taunton
Edition Paperback

This book covers all subjects from correct tuning and sharpening, to handplane relations. Basically simple tools, planes are enormously versatile and useful when used with skill. There are articles on getting a plane sharp and ready for work. Also included are articles on the wide variety of handplane relations.

Price: £12.95

Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide to Using Woodworking Tools
by Lonnie Bird

Publisher Taunton
Edition Hardback

This step-by-step guide covers the essential techniques for using hand and power tools. Includes correct set-up and safe use of machines plus skillful use of handtools.

Price: £29.95

Tools Rare and Ingenious
by Sandor Nagyszalanczy

Publisher Taunton
Edition Hardback

Over the centuries, craftsmen have transformed humble objects - drills, saws, planes, and levels - into works of art. This book is a visual feast of the finest most beautifully crafted vintage tools ever made, offering engaging facts about their history, function, and manufacture.

Price: £29.95

The Art of Fine Tools
by Sandor Nagyszalanczy

Publisher Taunton
Edition Paperback

A celebration of the world's most incredible woodworking tools. Each tool featured has been made with remarkable precision, built of sumptuous materials and has an ancient significance. Contains an extensive range of hand tools plus some ingenious people-powered machines for you to savour.

Price: £19.95

The Toolbox Book
by Jim Tolpin

Publisher Taunton
Edition Paperback

If you value your tools and want to find the best way to store or transport them, you'll find essential information in this fully illustrated guide. Suitable for shop-based woodworkers, carpenters, builders and anyone else working with wood.

Price: £19.95

Hand Tool Essentials
by Popular Woodworking

Publisher David & Charles
Edition Paperback

Hand tools (tools that are not powered, such as hammers and chisels) are currently the hot trend in woodworking purchases. "Hand Tool Essentials" is a book that will benefit all woodworkers, whether new to the hobby, or a seasoned woodworker. For the new woodworker, the book will provide a solid education on the use of hand tools and how they can be used with power tools to provide a balanced approach to woodworking. Many seasoned woodworkers have been taught only the power tool side of the hobby. By adding hand tool knowledge and use into their woodworking, they can improve the quality of their projects and also improve the safety and comfort of their hobby. "Hand Tool Essentials" (written by the experienced editors and authors of "Popular Woodworking" magazine) includes over forty no-nonsense articles on choosing and using common and not-so-common woodworking hand tools. Tools included are: mallets, chisels & gouges, wood and metal-bodied planes, wood and metal-bodied spokeshaves, measuring and marking tools, rasps, awls, Eastern and Western handsaws and other hand tool accessories.

Price: £14.99

Choosing & Using Hand Tools
by Andy Rae

Publisher GMC Publications
Edition Paperback

This is the essential who, what, when, where, and why of hand tools! Not only is the equipment itself beautiful, it’s the classic and most pleasurable way to work with wood. Hundreds of photographs, accompanied by explanatory illustrations, escort you through the traditional woodshop, introducing everything from indispensable clamps and drills to chisels and saws. And not a question goes unanswered in this guide to buying, tuning, sharpening, and operating both antique and contemporary pieces: you’ll find out which tools you really need, which ones are the best, and how to use them most effectively. There’s advice on work surfaces, marking and measuring utensils, edgers, and tools that pull, pry, twist, bore, and scrape. You’ll discover things you never knew before!

Price: £10.99

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