Essentials of Woodworking - A Textbook for Schools

This book contains an introductory guide to woodworking, originally designed for use in schools and proudly republished here as a handbook for modern students of carpentry. Comprehensive yet concise and easy-to-digest, this book will be of much value to the novice woodworker and to those looking to embrace woodworking as an avocation. The chapters of this book include: 'Laying-out Tools – Their Uses'; 'Saws'; 'Planes'; 'Boring Tools – Boring'; 'Chisels and Chiselling'; 'Form Work – Modelling'; 'Laying Out Duplicate Parts – Scraping and Sandpapering – Fastening Parts'; 'Type Forms'; 'Elementary Cabinet Work'; 'Wood'; 'Lumbering and Milling'; et cetera. This text has been chosen for republication due to its timeless educational value, and we are proud to republish it here complete with a new introduction to woodworking.