[TheForge] Woodworking Tools, forging of

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The books I have that I used as a resource for woodworking tools are:

Complete Modern Blacksmithing, A Weygers.   Already mentioned here.  It 
lacks a lot, but is one of those books that is less of a howto and more 
a guilt trip/inspiration  to get you in the shop.   You see all the 
stuff Weygers puts together in often the most difficult way, and before 
you get very far on the superior trip, your reminded that you haven't 
even made clinker in months, much less a handmade pump from tin cans to 
recycle grey water in your shop.

Custom Tools For Woodworkers, by J Petrovich,  
This is a pretty good book, although the bulk of it is an introduction 
to metalwork and smithing(104 out of 226 pages).   It is however one of 
the best and most concise yet complete  introductions that I have seen. 
  He also recomends some procedures that are counter to my other 
reading.   For example, he specifies Brine quench for heavy sections and 
an oil quench for small sections.  

How To Make Your Own Knives, by Percy Blandford,   Mostly pretty 
pedestrian knives, but several are aimed at woodworkers.  

Country Craft Tools, by Percy Blandford.    This is really a catolog of 
all the really odd tools used by vanishing crafts.  Many are stone and 
wood, but a fair number are smithed, and used by woodworkers.   No how 
to information, just a picture and what it was used for.  Great book.  

Making and Modyfying Woodworking Tools, by Jim Kingshott.   Good book, 
mostly planes, and primarily of a machinist sort of bent rather than 
smithing.  Fascinating to see some complex metalwork assmbled by 
woodworking techniques.  I.E. dovetailing the sides and sole of a plane 
together out of brass and steel.(I know several production planes were 
made this way turn of the century)

I have a few more, but less memorable.


Charles








P. McComb wrote:

>Thanks Stephen...already put dogears on my copy of "Complete Modern
>Blacksmithing."  Just looking for another resource.
>
>Paul McComb
>Fat Raccoon Forge
>London, Ontario
>fatraccoon@execulink.com
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