Traditional Woodworking Handtools

Rating:
Summary: Throw away your sandpaper!
Review: My favorite bookstore was closed by a power outage, so I was forced to go to a nearby "big box" media store.

It was destiny! I found this book on a bargain rack.

Graham Blackburn provides precise descriptions regarding the history, form, function and use of all the old tools. He applies this wonderfully researched information to today's world of noisy, expensive power tools - showing many benefits to doing things "the old" and often better way. He doesn't suggest that you trash your tablesaw, drillpress or router, but offers effective alternatives that have increased my enjoyment of woodworking as a hobby. I've spent hundreds on woodworking titles, but none have had such a profound influence as this.

Very readable and intelligent - entertaining dry wit. It's like having an old timer, with old time wisdom in the shop.

It will pay for itself in a week, and maybe change your methods of work for life! Negatives? I have bandages on two fingers and my thumb, but I'm having a ball!