Making Wooden Mechanical Models [Paperback]

Alan Bridgewater (Author), Gill Bridgewater (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1995

Complete with materials lists, diagrams and photographs, this book provides woodworkers with plans for 15 handsome and clever machines with moving parts.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Popular Woodworking Books; 1st edition (October 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558703810
• ISBN-13: 978-1558703810
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #619,143 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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38 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Making Wooden Mechanical Models, June 25, 2000

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Doug Iske - See all my reviews

This review is from: Making Wooden Mechanical Models (Paperback)

This book is great. I am looking at it from a teachers point of view. With our highly mechanized world, I find that students sometimes do not understand the priciples behind some of our most simple machines. Examples might be a lever, inclined plane, pully, or gears and cams. This book not only teaches about the make-up of machines, it teaches them a lesson in woodworking craftsmanship. In order for these projects to work superbly, great care and pride must be taken in the making and assembling of each project. When the projects in this book are completed, they can serve as a model for someone to actually hold and use to grasp concepts of the mechanical nature. They are also great conversation pieces. I would highly recommend this book not only for it's projects, but it's easy to read and understand format.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, May 27, 2002

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"giannigabriele" (São Paulo, SP Brazil) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Making Wooden Mechanical Models (Paperback)

This book has a series of interesting projects that can be explored in different ways by teachers and educators. Besides the obvious applications in woodworking practical classes, the projects illustrate in a very simple way concepts and basic ideas in motion and mechanics. These are undoubtedly exciting ways to "tease" students in his discovering of physics and mechanics.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A fabulous book - but go for the 'MORE' version, August 5, 2007

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B. Kramer "Baker Boy" (Englewood, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Making Wooden Mechanical Models (Paperback)

I bought both books (the first and the 'More') and I have to admit comparing the models in the first and second, the second book 'Building More Mechanical Wooden Models' has far more interesting and 'tactile' machines to build.

Be wary, there are a few omissions, mistakes and mis-prints; probably enough to feel like you're being steered by a forgetful but friendly master carpenter, but if you are an astute reader and do some careful comparisons you can get past these fairly easily. Good Luck!