>"Ralph Brendler"  writes about good WWing books:
>both good additions to any hand-tool woodworker's library.  FWW has
>done a couple of reprints that may be of interest (FWW on Hand Tools, ...
>but I've never been too impressed with these myself)......

Hmm.  Dare I risk appearing to conflict with the estimable Dr. Brendler?
FWW on Hand Tools.  This book is like a primer on the galoot life.  I've
been enjoying the '93 reprint of this, which I just picked up mint for a
buck.  Especially when I found therein a contribution from our own Trevor
Robinson on making a tap for making wood threads.  (Maybe there are other
galoots in there I haven't recognized?  If so, my apologies.)

There's basic stuff on blacksmithing for woodworking tools, heat treating,
and chisels and steel; a brief treatise on spoon bits; a piece on tuning up
your auger bits; how to tune your screwdrivers (a practical, uh, bit that
contains the sort of minutia, accessably presented, that us newbies can get
alot of learnin' from); the treatise on a handmade tap and screwbox for
making wood threads; a succint summary on files and rasps for woodworking;
some shop math and layout; couple nice pieces on bowsaws, sawing, and
sharpening; and finishing up with good stuff on hewing and working green
wood and pieces on spoke shaves and draw knives.

This is the older FWW, the stuff is from '78 to the mid-eighties.  I'm
reading some other twenty-something year old Taunton magazines (FWW, and an
apparently ill-fated furniture publication), when I have a few minutes....
I am going to save the FWW article from '78 (is it?) showing a rather baby
faced Prof. J. Alexander astride a shaving horse.  And in that same issue,
if memory serves, a contribution from a gentlegaloot from across the pond
(England, Jeff).

Ahhh, to know that I am brushing emails with greatness.  So for the
multitude of wannabe galoots like me (and we know who we are), find some of
this old stuff in original or reprint.

Now, where is that address for Tod's planemaking video.......

chris

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 "A man who wants to work must attach value to the best tools."

					-- Goethe