Working With Wood Books

The editors of Popular Woodworking magazine have gathered together all of their articles and expertise into one book, offering advice on how to maintain and work with your hand tools. In these 224 pages, you’ll find full-color photographs and instructions to help you out every step along the way, covering topics such as sharpening, chisels, handplanes and sawing. There are also complete plans for a French-style workbench, a wall-hung tool cabinet, an English sawbench and a miter shooting board.

All of the essentials you could ever want or need to know about have been assembled by the regular contributors to Popular Woodworking during the last 10 years. They’ll take you through some basic steps, such as how to assemble your first kit of hand tools, to the more advanced topics, such as how to blend bench planes with power tools and make custom chisel handles.

Hand Tool Essentials also covers methods and techniques both antiquated and modern, to help you find your own style of working and develop your own practices by picking and choosing from the best of both worlds.