Traditional Woodworking Handtools [Hardcover]

Graham Blackburn (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: Gramercy (September 5, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0517162024
• ISBN-13: 978-0517162026
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.9 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,158,261 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Graham Blackburn was born in London, England. After studying at the Juilliard School in New York he played with numerous bands in the sixties and seventies, including Van Morrison, Maria Muldaur, and Full Tilt Boogie, as well as recording his own music for the Warner Bros. label. He built several houses in Woodstock, NY and for more than thirty years built custom furniture on both sides of the continent. He has written many books on woodwork, furnituremaking, and home repair, and been editor and contributing editor at national magazines including 'Fine Woodworking', 'Woodwork', and 'Popular Woodworking'. He now teaches nationally at schools, guilds, and woodworking shows in addition to running Blackburn Books, which publishes not only the 'Blackburn on Woodworking' series but also his own fiction. His latest title 'for LOVE or MONEY' may be read in installments at blackburnbooks.com.

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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Throw away your sandpaper!, July 8, 2002

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Eric Bennett (Northwest of Detroit, MI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Traditional Woodworking Handtools (Hardcover)

My favorite bookstore was closed by a power outage, so I was forced to go to a nearby "big box" media store.

It was destiny! I found this book on a bargain rack.

Graham Blackburn provides precise descriptions regarding the history, form, function and use of all the old tools. He applies this wonderfully researched information to today's world of noisy, expensive power tools - showing many benefits to doing things "the old" and often better way. He doesn't suggest that you trash your tablesaw, drillpress or router, but offers effective alternatives that have increased my enjoyment of woodworking as a hobby. I've spent hundreds on woodworking titles, but none have had such a profound influence as this.

Very readable and intelligent - entertaining dry wit. It's like having an old timer, with old time wisdom in the shop.

It will pay for itself in a week, and maybe change your methods of work for life! Negatives? I have bandages on two fingers and my thumb, but I'm having a ball!