[TheForge] Interesting books from Lee Valley
Dan Scheid
damales at earthlink.net
Sat Jan 22 14:33:26 EST 2005
Sigh Powell's the place that you walking with money and leave with none.
But you do get to save books from being lonely in a 1 block square 5 stories
building.
Dan Scheid
/
Speaking of books, while in Portland I stopped into Powell's and picked
up two old blacksmithing volumes, "Plain and Ornamental Forging" by
Schwarzkopf (1916) and "Blacksmith's Manual Illustrated" by Lillico
(1960 fourth edition). Hey, for $10 I couldn't pass them up. Both are
full of very good industrial smithing techniques. Anyone know if they
are in reprints?
-Andy
Mike Spencer 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.
>
> Mechanics & Metalwork
>
> http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=1&p=46130&cat=1,46096
>
> Classic Reprints
>
> http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=1&p=46100&cat=1,46096
>
> Links to all the books at Lee Valley
>
> http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=1&cat=1&p=46096
>
> 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
>
--
-Andy V.
A dog, a woman, a walnut tree...
The more you beat `em, the better they be.
_From "The Red Badge of Courage"
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