JAPANES WOODWORKING TOOLS - Henry LANZ

JAPANESE WOODWORKING TOOLS - Henry LANZ

Selection, Care & Use

Soft Cover

Japanese tools, which are now available here - and much coveted for their precision and beauty - are often very different from conventional tools. Some of them can do certain woodworking jobs faster and easier than Western tools. Some don't even have a counterpart in the United States or Europe.

If you want to understand and work with these tools, you need to know how they are similar, how they differ, and what they do best, as well as how to use and maintain them.

In this practical step-by-step guide the author, an engineer, tool buyer, and woodworker, explains everything you need to know about all the tools used for everyday tasks, the moderately priced and available ones you're likely to consider buying and using. 

He covers:-

• A variety of crosscut, tenon-cutting, flush-cutting, trim compass, slotting saws, and rip and back saws
• Natural and man-made sharpening stones (their advantages and disadvantages and techniques for using them effectively)
• Methods for preparing and using planes, plus dozens of illustrations of finger, cabinetmakers. general-purpose and specialty planes.
• Ways to condition, sharpen, and morrised dovetail, paring, bevel-edge, firmer and specialty chisels.
• Framing and mitte squares, making knives .... and woodworking knives, gimlets, Hatches, nail pullers, and ......... more! This practical handbook is the only manual a woodworker needs to work with these conceptually different tools successfully and safely.