Audel Carpenters and Builders Library: Tools, Steel Square, Joinery (Carpenters & Builders Library) [Paperback]

John E. Ball (Author), John Leeke (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 4, 1991 | ISBN-10: 0025064517 | ISBN-13: 978-0025064515 | Edition: 6

Fully updated; the first in a four-volume set of indispensable builders' guides

Builders, remodelers, and do-it-yourselfers will love these revised, clearly organized guides. This one walks the reader through choosing, using, and maintaining appropriate hand and power tools for various jobs, then explains appropriate methods of wood joinery for different building and finishing applications. Includes an updated reference appendix.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Audel; 6 edition (December 4, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0025064517
• ISBN-13: 978-0025064515
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,184,699 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars outstanding book for the beginner, November 8, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Audel Carpenters and Builders Library: Tools, Steel Square, Joinery (Carpenters & Builders Library) (Paperback)

This book is a wealth of information on the how to. It doesn't provide an answer on how to create the universe, but it covers enough of the basics that you could take over the project. From how to stand properly while using a saw, to how to use and maintain hand tools that have been lost and forgotten as antiques or replaced by power tools. This book provides the level of detail and explanation of how and where to use various types of joinery. The book gives a user a greater understanding of why a two hundred year old barn is still standing and in use and there isn't a single nail in it. The book even provides explanations of how and why certain nails are selected for any given job (bigger is not always better). The book covers in painful detail the use of a framing square (ever try to transfer a nine and one half degree angle from a six inch protractor, only to find it wasn't quite right and have ugly gaps in your project).

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Steel framing square section too tightly written, July 19, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Audel Carpenters and Builders Library: Tools, Steel Square, Joinery (Carpenters & Builders Library) (Paperback)

Steel framing square section too tightly written...the chapter is not for those that do not have any past experience with the steel framing square. This chapter leaves me wishing to ask additional questions...perhaps there is a Video