Making & Modifying WOODWORKING TOOLS
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Making & Modifying Woodworking Tools - Jim KINGSHOTT
Soft Cover
CONTENTS
Introduction
- Why Make or Modify a Tool?
- Materials & Finishing
- Tools Required to Make Tools
- The Workshop
- Techniques
- Heat Treatment
- Pattern Making
- The Technology of Planes
- Special Purpose Planes in Wood
- Turning & Improving the Baiey Pattern Plane
- Making a Chariot Plane from Scratch
- Bronze Thumb Plane from a Proprietary Casting
- Britsih Dovetaileed SteelPlane
- Norris Pattern Smoother
- Norris Blade Adjuster
- Stanley 52 Board & Plane
- Brass & Steel Mitre Plane
- Superior Marking Gauges
- Forge Work & screwdrivers
- Modification to the bench Vice
- Knives
- Handles
Old woodworking tools have a romance, fascination, and value all of their own, bringing back the days when pride in woodworkship was paramount. More than that, a properly functioning hand tool of the classic style can bring superlative today - and the projects in this book show you how to:-
- tune and improve a Bailey Plane - make a chariot plane from scratch
- make a bronze thumb plane from a proprietary casting - make a dovetail steel plane
- make a Norris pattern - make a Norris blade adjuster
- make an improved Staley 52 shooting board and plane - make a brass and steel mitre plane
- make full-size and miniature marking gauges - forge and make handles for chisels, saws, etc.
- modify and improve bench vices
Materials and finishes, the technology of planes, tools required and workshop safety, heat treatment, pattern making, and simple metalworking techniques are all explained and backed up by the author's black-and-white photographs and detailed and dimensioned line drawings. There is also a clour section showing the stunning tools to be made by using this book.