Hand Tool Essentials: Refine Your Power Tool Projects with Hand Tool Techniques (Popular Woodworking)

Hand tools (tools that are not powered, such as hammers and chisels) are currently the hot trend in woodworking purchases. "Hand Tool Essentials" is a book that will benefit all woodworkers, whether new to the hobby, or a seasoned woodworker. For the new woodworker, the book will provide a solid education on the use of hand tools and how they can be used with power tools to provide a balanced approach to woodworking. Many seasoned woodworkers have been taught only the power tool side of the hobby. By adding hand tool knowledge and use into their woodworking, they can improve the quality of their projects and also improve the safety and comfort of their hobby. "Hand Tool Essentials" (written by the experienced editors and authors of "Popular Woodworking" magazine) includes over forty no-nonsense articles on choosing and using common and not-so-common woodworking hand tools. Tools included are: mallets, chisels & gouges, wood and metal-bodied planes, wood and metal-bodied spokeshaves, measuring and marking tools, rasps, awls, Eastern and Western handsaws and other hand tool accessories.