Old Ways of Working Wood

Old Ways of Working Wood by Bealer, Alex. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780517517420.

A classic guide to woodworking methods that have been refined and developed over many many years. This book can be the start of a great hobby that will reward you with truly handcrafted products. It will give you a lot of respect for the wooden furniture of the olden days and also even more respect for the power tools in use today. It teaches and preserves techniques and historical information that were lost when modern woodworking technology, dedicated to mass production, displaced the craftsman. Every woodworking operation "chopping, splitting, using the workbench, sawing, hewing, boring, chiseling, shaping, planing, turning" is described in detail.