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"Made By Hand" is the definitive book of how to build woodworking projects using hand tools. While there are a number of books on hand tools for woodworkers that provide information about hand tools and their individual uses, no one has put these tools to use on a project. In that regard, this book is unique and will fit in perfectly with the rapidly expanding category of hand-tool woodworking. The six projects and companion DVD offer excellent views of the hand tools in use, and the critical body positioning necessary.
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Tom Fidgen builds custom furniture using hand tools and fine, hand-selected hardwoods. He is a contributing author to Woodworking Magazine and has written for Fine Woodworking and Popular Woodworking magazines.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
Excellent joinery. Variable writing. Poor English. Dreadful editing.
The author veers between straightforward, well illustrated and detailed descriptions of his joinery and rather odd spirit-guide, zen philosophy about woodworking.
Having decided to buy a book specifically about hand tool use most readers probably don't need much convincing about its benefits. The author doesn't miss an opportunity to reaffirm that we've made the right life choice!
The meat of the book is a description of several different projects that build a set of skills. This is well done and carefully illustrated with clear photographs and less clear drawings. There are some useful tips for particular skills and a reassuring have-a-go attitude.
Sadly the English is woeful. This can't be forgiven by the folksy American style (the writer is Canadian). Mistakes such as "they're" instead of "their" should be corrected by the writer proof-reading his own work and certainly shouldn't slip by a professional editor.
This sort of thing might be forgiven in a stream-of-consciousness blog but there's no place for it in print.
I look forward to the author's next book. He sounds so exhausted at the end of this one that it might be some time coming.
I hope he finds a better editor.
The author veers between straightforward, well illustrated and detailed descriptions of his joinery and rather odd spirit-guide, zen philosophy about woodworking.
Having decided to buy a book specifically about hand tool use most readers probably don't need much convincing about its benefits. The author doesn't miss an opportunity to reaffirm that we've made the right life choice!
The meat of the book is a description of several different projects that build a set of skills. This is well done and carefully illustrated with clear photographs and less clear drawings. There are some useful tips for particular skills and a reassuring have-a-go attitude.
Sadly the English is woeful. This can't be forgiven by the folksy American style (the writer is Canadian). Mistakes such as "they're" instead of "their" should be corrected by the writer proof-reading his own work and certainly shouldn't slip by a professional editor.
This sort of thing might be forgiven in a stream-of-consciousness blog but there's no place for it in print.
I look forward to the author's next book. He sounds so exhausted at the end of this one that it might be some time coming.
I hope he finds a better editor.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book was a disapointment as it gave nothing new about making furniture by hand. It does however give a useful selection of projects and shows how these are made using hand tools and if these projects are made it will give a good grounding in the art of hand cabinet making. He suggests that shooting boards might be named chutes but this is not so as the word shoot comes from shooting a straight edge as in shooting straight with a gun.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
What an excellent book. So easy to read, I can't put it down. Easy style and full of practicable advice. ( Living in the U.K. I always was confused with the American style of measuring wood. Here in the first few pages he answered the puzzle, they work in 1/4", so 8/4 is 2"square. easy eh. ) I feel that this is one book that everyone who aspires to be a good woodworker should have to hand by the workbench or bedside cabinet for those moments during the night when a problem arises. Highly recommended.
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