[TheForge] Interesting books from Lee Valley

[Michael Horgan]

I got the Bull of the Woods series, Mission Furniture Catalog, Mr Punch, 
and the Farm Blacksmithing  and Forgery.   Some interesting techniques 
there that "I" am not about to try... Such as a really fast quench for 
maximum hardness.... Using Mercury.   <Maybe molten Bismuth would work as 
well, or Woods metal... Hmmmm>
At 11:23 PM 1/20/2005, you wrote:

>Lee Valley Tools has an interesting line of books that you may not
>have noticed.  The (now retired) founder and former CEO works up
>reprints of old books relating to wood- and metal-work and other
>trades and crafts.  Sort of his personal enthusiasm.
>
>I got _507 Mechanical Movements_ (Harry T. Brown, 1868) for Christmas.
>Paper but with sturdy binding and sewn signatures.  Lots of pics of
>things like the Scotch yoke and the ellipse-drawing widget someone
>here was asking about recently.
>
>- Mike
>
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>Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.
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>mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
>http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/                        ^^-^^

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