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The Hand Tool on the Cutting Edge of History In the hands of lumberjacks, homesteaders, farmers, and foresters, the axe forged a path to a new way of life in North America. This simple tool - "a wedge with an edge" - cleared forest for farmland, delivered raw materials for housing and heat, and fueled the fires of industry. Explore the axe's fascinating evolution from colonial innovation to today's collectors' obsession, from a hand-forged workhorse to a sleek modern specimen, from a weapon in wartime to a recreational pastime.

In this contemporary look at the world of workbenches, Lon Schleining takes us on a guided tour of a wide variety of classic, modern, and specialty benches and offers hundreds of options for choosing or building that perfect bench and its accessories.

Veneering Essentials demystifies the craft by using plain and simple language to describe the timeless techniques and the latest tools needed to build a range of modern, useful projects that will find a place in any home.

Wood bending is intriguing to the vast majority of woodworkers. This book and DVD changes that. It features step-by-step instruction on some of the most common techniques. It explains and demonstrates both steam bending and bent lamination. It shows just how easy it can be to master these techniques, even using relatively low-tech equipment.

Nomad at Home dissects the desire to wander the globe from the point of view of the design-led traveller, those for whom 'it is a better thing to travel hopefully than to arrive'.

A complete guide to growing tobacco at a scale suitable for home-growers. It's first chapter is a Quick Start summary of the basics of tobacco growing. The remainder of the book fleshes out all the details of growing, harvesting, and curing. Various finishing methods are explored, including Cavendish, Latakia, plugs, twists, pressing methods, and perique. Blend instructions and recipes are provided for cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, and smokeless tobacco. There are also a chapters on tobacco varieties and the whole leaf trade. 200 black and white images. Appendixes -Tobacco Glossary -Tobacco-Safe Plastics -Kiln / Flue-Cure Chamber Plans -Tobacco Pests -Fertilizers -Experimental Crossing -Resources Library of Congress Control Number: 2019917726

Human life today is full of cares, anxieties, worries, complexities, unhappiness, and rat-races all over the world. Most people do not know that causes of our miseries lie mostly in our faulty and defective house building architecture - whether in dwelling units, business premises or any other constructions, inviting adverse cosmic interplanetary influence. This can easily be avoided and life can be made happier and peaceful with harmonious relationships, glories of success and achievements if the knowledge of the rich ancient Indian proven Architectural Science called "Vastu Shastra" is adhered to right from selection of a plot of land to completion of construction. The effect is magical. The book, "The Need of Vastu Shastra" is an honest and philanthropic effort and attempt of the author in plain words and candid language to open the door of the lighthouse of knowledge of this ideal Architectural Science to the people at large to make their life happier and easier. The book can be termed an encyclopedia of ideal architectural science and a panacea for all peacelessness and unhappiness of human life. The book deals with Ancient Indian architectural science of building constructions technology, equilibrium with directional alignment of magnetic field, energy sources of nature, positioning of five elements, and material to ensure prosperity and happiness. It gives a picturesque description of how a complete balance of the five elements, Fire, Air, Space, Earth, and Water, are associated with premises and construction controls prosperity, fortune, peace, and harmony in life. The book also deals with the subject of how Vastu of an existing defective construction can be corrected without demolishing it. It is a must-read book for all equally - one having an existing construction or one intending to construct one. Certain colored images have been provided in the book.

Shoji & Kumiko: 85 Vintage Designs was produced from the original, one of a kind c1930 Japanese Architects Design Proposal book in the collection of Gary Roberts, Publisher: Toolemera Press. www.toolemerapress.comNOTE: This reprint was produced in-house on professional flat bed scanners from the original book in my personal collection. The Architects Designs were intended for a community outside of Osaka, Japan and were for use by local carpenters. As such, there are no titles or dimensions.SHOJI: A Japanese screen or sliding door used to partition living spaces. KUMIKO: A decorative and practical Japanese woodworking system consisting of lattice pieces held together through precision joinery lacking any nails or other metal supportsToolemera Press preserves the printed history of early crafts, trades and industries. Visit www.toolemerapress.com for the online museum and book shop.

A guide to the art of turning delicate bowls and goblets from freshly felled, unseasoned wood. It explains how to harvest and store timber, and how to make the best use of the grain patterns and other properties. Six projects are described and illustrated.

Are you looking to get into bouldering/climbing?Would you like to learn how to climb like the pros do? If you answered yes to these questions then this book is for you. Learn how to get started as well as everything you need to know about the sport and how to climb like a pro. Using these climbing techniques and tips will help you get started & climb better than ever before! Introducing the secrets bouldering professionals use to scale the most difficult surfaces! With decades of tested strategies, this ebook will show you the fastest and most effective way to learn the sport! Whats Included: - Getting Started.- Bouldering Background.- Scales & Grades.- What Gear to Use.- How to Climb & Fall.- Spotting.- Bouldering Types.+ MUCH MORE! If you want to be stronger and more effective at climbing, then this guide is for you. --> Scroll to the top of the page and click add to cart to purchase instantly

This edition of the "Machinery's Reference Series" deals with iron and steel, exploring how they are smelted, refined, and used in various mechanical processes of the iron and steel industry. It also contains chapters on the physical and chemical characteristics of these metals, and which tools they are best used to make based on this. Erik Oberg's "Iron and Steel" is perfect for novices or apprentices, and would make a handy reference guide for more experienced metalworkers. Contents include: "Principles of Iron and Steel Manufacture", "Steel Castings", "Open-hearth Furnaces", "Tests on Steel Castings", "Steel Hardened Metals", "Development and Use of High-speed Steel", "Hardening Steel, by E. R. Markham", "Case-Hardening", "The Brinell Method of Testing the Hardness of Metals", "Uses of Steel Castings", "Reliability of Steel Castings", "Manganese Steel", "Nickel Steel", "Tungsten Steel", "Molybdenum", etc. This book contains simple explanations and step-by-step instructions for any processes dealt with, making it ideal for novices or apprentices, as well as a handy reference guide for more experienced metalworkers using steel or iron. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on metalwork.

Donald Lee Smith came on the electrical energy sceen in the mid 1980s after a very active life in geology and teaching high school science. Since his death over 12 years ago there has been little progress in English forums in replicating his various systems, which is rather a mystery. We have watched the lack of progress with great dissapointment for some years now. About half of the information Don shared with the public relating to Resonance Systems has been online for years. The other half consists in material form his original publications and the two oldest videos that we recently uploaded to YouTube. These videos actually provided the main context for his later videos and the information in the online book and documents floating around. This book fills in the gaps and provides a fuller context. This is all the available Don Smith books, video transcripts, and relevant emails in one place. It has a Systematic Index, regular Index, and many helps to understand Don's technology. It lists and illustrates all the models shown with many color pages. We hope this book will bring order to the existing chaos, and give people the practical tools to learn how to use everyday parts all around them to provide for their energy needs. It is really that simple. The problem is getting past bias and disinformation.

A valuable directory that illustrates and lists over 1000 fully-indexed patents, covering all American machinist s tools patented through 1905 and the more important ones patented between 1906 and 1916. Each patent is represented by at least one illustration, and each is indexed in three separate ways: alphabetically by patentee name, chronologically by date and patent number, and by type of tool. Required for anyone interested in American machinist s tools.

A lush, photographic guide to unconventional homes around the world and the free spirits who live and work in them.

A practical guide to all things wood fire, both indoors and out; packaged in an earthy, 'grow your own' style - perfect for the male gift market.

The essential guide to retrofitting old houses to be energy efficient and sustainable. Now revised and updated throughout.