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• AMERICAN LATHE BUILDERS 1810-1910

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  This is a major new reference work that broadens our range of understanding of the history of technological innovation. This encyclopedic volume provides the collector, user, and researcher with invaluable information on over 330 lathe builders. More than 1000 illustrations are included.

• THE TOOLBOX BOOK PB

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  A complete survey of toolboxes for everyone who values tools. Tolpin's beautifully illustrated guide shows ingenious tool storage solutions from rugged old time journeymen's chests to todays versatile truck boxes. Tool users learn to plan and design boxes to increase productivity, save time and prevent loss of their most valuable assets. The book covers storage, organization, transportation and protection of tools for every trade.

• Complete Dovetail, The [LSI]: Handmade Furniture's Signature Joint

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  The dovetail is the hallmark of fine woodworking. This unique and comprehensive handbook unlocks the intricacies of the classic joint. Woodworkers will learn exactly how to design and lay out the four major forms of dovetail, and how to saw and chisel the mating parts to a perfect fit. An excellent reference work.

• NEW BEST OF FWW: WORKING WITH HANDPLANES

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  Advice on choosing, tuning, sharpening, and using this classic handtool. With a sharp, well-tuned handplane you can quickly adjust the fit of parts or joints, flatten a panel or produce a glass-smooth surface for finishing. But learning to use this classic handtool can be something of a challenge. This book offers advice on how to choose handplanes and tune and sharpen them for top performance. There is also in-depth information on specialty planes and spokeshaves. Sections include: # Choosing the right bench planes # Flattening wide panels # Planing difficult grain # Making and using a shooting board # Using rabbet planes # Tuning up a spokeshave # Making wooden planes

• DECORATIVE ROUTING: JIGS & TECHNIQUES ^

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  This is an innovative book on making even more use of your router. Jack Cox's recent inventions, the Pivot Frame jig and the Pivot Frame Ellipse jig, now make it possible for all woodworkers to achieve superb decorative work , inlaying, routing circles and small ellipses and scalloped patterns based on the circle and ellipse. The book includes many other jigs by the author and all of them can be easily made in the home workshop. A number of projects involving ornamental routing are discussed in detail.