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Summary: Run For Your Life!
Review: I am really surprised this book is still in print. I purchased it thinking I would at least get a few new ideas on advanced techniques and perhaps some real interesting gallery photos to reference for inspiration. I was a bit disappointed.
Jack Cox is obviously an extremely talented mathematician and a talented turner as well, but the book proves itself difficult to follow and a bit too obscure. Much of the information, while interesting if you can understand it after reading it several times, is outdated. There are many other books out there on advanced turning and a few on segmented turning, I have all that have been in print in the last twenty years and would recommend ANY of them over this book.
It seems to be too complex and hard to follow with little in the way of "user friendly" instructions....Sorry Jack. You are talented, have someone else help write the next book.
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Summary: Book too technical
Review: Book is very much into engineering math. I only had 1 year of algbera and I would have spent all of my time trying to figure it out and not making anything. I returned the book.
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Summary: Book too technical
Review: Book is very much into engineering math. I only had 1 year of algbera and I would have spent all of my time trying to figure it out and not making anything. I returned the book.
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Summary: Beyond Basic Turning
Review: I was looking for a book to enable me to take the next step in segmented turning. The book I desired should feature jigs and techniques used to make laminated, coopered, and cut compound angled segments. I feel that "Beyond Basic Turning" by Jack Cox to have fallen fell well short of the mark.I found the documentation wordy, and extremely difficult to follow. This book was written more along the lines of a high school calculus or algebra book than a book on turning (and it was just about as interesting). Numerous references in the documentation to figures, tables, and photos arranged haphazardly through the book required that I constantly flip back and forth between pages while reading. This was very distracting. As far as the jigs the author uses to assemble his turnings; I've seen less complicated structures used in the space shuttle. I attribute this book's total failure on getting the author's point across to its relative age. This book is approximately 10 to 15 years out of date. Numerous advances such as desk top computers (for spreadsheets), hand held calculators, and high quality after market miter gauges for saws, make these arduous tasks much easier than as detailed in this book After attempting to read the entire book on 3 separate occasions, I gave up. It now exists as a monument to never buying a book without actually reading a detailed review, or physically picking it up in a store.
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