Amazon.com Review
There's an old chef's saying that more people get injured using dull knives than sharp ones, and it carries over easily to the home workshop, too. Trying to cut wood with a dull saw, remove a screw with nicked screwdriver, or cut a hinge mortise with a dull chisel will be more difficult and create messy results. It can turn a simple repair into a major frustration, resulting in bruised knuckles and bandaged fingers. This is a book to keep within easy reach in the workshop, and it includes instructions about sharpening knives and scissors, too. Excellent photos and diagrams make the instructions easy to understand and follow, even for a beginner.
From Booklist
Titles such as this one usually get yawns from most woodworkers, but those among them who still have all of their fingers are likely to be the ones who've actually read one. Assuredly, Geary breaks no new ground here, but he does make a very thorough job of it, since he covers how to sharpen, not only blades, but all of those router bits, chisels, and other cutters one manages to accumulate. Woodworkers ought to own or at least thoroughly peruse a copy of a book like this and at least attempt to do their own sharpening, if only to keep their tools safe. Only then, if and when they get fed up with the monotony of sharpening, should they ship their blades, bits, and saws off to the local sharpening service, for then they may be able to evaluate just what that sharpening service does day after day after day after day. Jon Kartman
