HANDBOOK OF TURNING
F. Gascoigne
Description
This book deals with concentric, elliptic, and
eccentric turning, including directions for using the eccentric cutter, the vertical cutter and the circular rest. Patterns are included as well as the instructions for working them.
Price
$7.95

HOW TO USE THE STEEL SQUARE
Algrove Publishing
Description
This booklet describes many uses of the steel square with the main focus on how to calculate and cut refters, including hip, jack, valley, cripple and common rafters.
Price
$4.95

FORGING
John Jernberg
Description
A more advanced book than Farm Blacksmithing, it includes a greater variety of procedures (butt, split, and angle welding, shaping, finishing, drawing out, upsetting, punching, etc.) plus basic measuring and calculating of material.
Price
$5.95

FARM BLACKSMITHING
J.M. Drew
Description
Unquestionably a book designed to instill confidence and encourage self-sufficiency. The simple operations include forming, scarf-welding and tempering, the steps used to produce items such as door hooks, chain, rings, clevises, bolts, your own blacksmithing tools, etc.
Price
$5.75

HANDY FARM DEVICES
Rolfe Cobleigh
Description
It is always handy to know how to make a simple wire splicer or wire tensioner, how to build simple trellises and how to make concrete forms. It shows how to multiply your strength
using lever and pulley mechanisms to move
awkward and heavy loads as when transplanting trees.
Price
$6.95

BARN PLANS & OUTBUILDINGS
Orange Judd Co.
Description
A beautifully illustrated book with 257 engravings, woodcuts and line drawings of everything from the giant general-purpose barns of the day to the simplest root cellars, many with floor plans and key construction information.
Price
$6.75

BEAUTIFYING THE HOME GROUNDS
The Southern Pine Association
Description
This resource very effectively illustrates 180
different designs for exterior structures in the garden.
Price
$9.50

LEE'S PRICELESS RECIPES
Algrove Publishing
Description
Covers an extraordinary range in its 3000 secrets. There are several hundred formulas for stains, paints, waxes, and false finishes of all types, as well as advice on tanning hides, preserving eggs, drying fruit and purifying rancis butter.
Price
$5.95

LOG CONSTRUCTION MANUAL

Robert W. Chambers

Description

This book tells you what you need to know to bouild your own handcrafted log home, and also reveals the deep rhythms and patterns of log construction. This is a comprehensive book for log home owners-builders-beginners as well as log home professionals.

Price:$27.95

"YOU CAN MAKE IT" SERIES

The National Committee On Wood Utilization

Description

Camp and cottage equipment with everything from tables, seats, toys, weather vanes and doorknockers to simple scrow.

Price: $3.95  

 

ORNAMENTAL & DECORATIVE WOOD CARVINGS
J.H. von Hefner-Alteneck
Description
The 40 plates in this book cover over 800 samples of decorative carvings from 1450 to 1820 from the Bavarian National Museum.
Price
$13.95

OVERSHOT WATER WHEELS FOR SMALL STREAMS
Edited by Leonard G. Lee
Description
The design is ideally suitd to small streams of variable flow and the catalog has many photos of installations as well as practical advice regarding effective use.
Price
$8.95

FROM LOG TO LOG HOUSE
Sven-Gunnar Håkansson
(translated by Sture Carlsson)
Description
This book captures the essential knowledge developed over the centuries by Scandinavian log builders, together with a range of ideas for modern plans and designs.
Price
$22.95

BOOK OF TRADES
Algrove
Description
In general, it shows the tools of the trade, describes the various trade practices, and has illustrations of tradesmen at work. The great value of the book today is its succinct capture of information on trades that either no longer exist or are in decline. For one who is a tool collector, it is a must.
Price
$10.50

COPING SAW WORK
Edward F. Worst
Description
This book is a valuable for scroll saw work today as it was for coping saw work in the 1920s. It is an excellent source of ideas for
anyone making gifts or craft items and is ideal for introducing children to woodwork with a range of projects that can quickly build both
their skills and confidence.
Price
$6.95

WINDMILLS & WIND MOTORS:
HOW TO BUILD AND RUN THEM
F.E. Powell
Description
This little book gives the evolution of the windmill with historical examples, then moves through anemometers and horizontal windmills to wind motors with a vertical axle and a pantanemone, simple precursor to the modern turbine.
Price
$3.95

WOOD HANDBOOK: WOOD AS AN ENGINEERING MATERIAL
The Forest Products Laboratory of USDA
Description
Starting with characteristics and availability of
commercially important wood, it lists physical and mechanical properties, lumber grading, fasteners, adhesives, composite and panel products, drying of wood, protection from fungi, bacteria and insects, wood finishing, and much more.
Price
$19.95

THE LOG CABIN

Len McDougall

Description

An extraordinary blend of how-to manual and memoir of resilience that will surely fascinate, perhaps repel, and maybe even inspire the reader to take a chance on a little more self-reliance-if not in the woods, then in everyday life.

Price: 22.95

HOW TO BUILD YOUR DREAM CABIN IN THE WOODS.

J. Wayne Fears

Description

A guidebook to make dreams become reality, Fears covers-in words, photos, diagram, and blueprints-all the important points, from buying land, to planning your structure, to actually doing it-either on your own, or with some help.

Price: $14.95