Making Woodwork Aids & Devices Book

“203 ‘original’ solutions for various woodworking endeavors...ideas range from simple jigs, marking aids and holding devices to more complex machining aids and specialty tools...goals are to eliminate difficult procedures, speed up time-consuming and repetitive jobs, reduce costly material waste and make better use of tools already owned...projects feature instructions and illustrations.”—Woodshop News.

Publishers Weekly

Advanced amateur and professional wood-workers should be delighted with the 203 projects suggested here for making a job easier or solving a specific problem. Beware, however: this is not a manual for beginners. Furniture-maker and teacher Wearing offers no introductory text, nor does he state the purpose or function of any tool or procedure described. The first project is an ``improved sawing board,'' the last ``a carcase cramping system.'' In between come a dovetail marking system, a combined ``grasshopper'' and deep gauge, a wooden jack plane and a method of diametric drilling of cylinders, to name a few. The instructions are clear and detailed, and the accompanying drawings and diagrams are easily understood. December