Tool Making for Woodworkers

By Ray Larsen

Book Overview

Tool making is the traditional province of the blacksmith, and until now it has been shrouded in mystery. This useful volume brings tool-making within the reach of anyone who starts with modest hand skills. Readers will learn about suitable steels, and how to identify them and buy them at reasonable cost. Through sharp photos and drawings, readers will see how to set up a small, basic forge and anvil suitable for making their own tools. They will learn how to forge, heat-treat, and finish common woodworking tools through detailed, highly illustrated exercises. Larsen leads readers step-by-step through the creation of a heavy mortising chisel, a delicate skew chisel, and a curved carving gouge. Along the way, readers will learn dozens of little secrets and time-saving shortcuts that make small-scale tool-making both possible and fun.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0964399989
• ISBN13: 9780964399983
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.5" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Very Useful Book

I think the pictures are very useful. Like the other reviewer I think the text could have been beefed up (thats why I didn't give it a 5) but this is never-the-less a VERY useful book and you can definitely make some great tools using this book.

Excellent introduction

If this book were bigger with more projects than I'd heartily give it 5 stars. As it is, the projects are interesting, and I feel that there is enough information for me to start making tools. Some areas are lacking, but the bibliography at the end more than made up for the void. I knew next to nothing about blacksmithing before and now I feel I can start making tools. Actually I've already made a few plane irons using the parts about hardening and tempering.