Making Wood Tools with John Wilson, Second Edition
Home Shop Books, 2013.
$39.95; 280 pp.
We have winners!
This is what I wrote last time:
Some of you might know John Wilson for his Shaker oval box making classes and supplies but he also teaches tool making in The Home Shop. Making Wood Tools is his first book. In it he not only teaches you how to make wood tools, but he provides interesting background stories and histories. The book covers the making of several different planes and other tools, such as a spoke shave and travisher. It also has chapters on blade making and several on keeping tools and holding work such as a workbench, work horse for dovetailing, Japanese tool box, and a carpenter’s tote, to name a few.
The Second Edition includes some modifications to the original tools as well as the addition of some new tools, including a shoulder plane and a compass plane.
The 1st lucky winner is Taytoo – he won the book. The second winner is HuntsCustom – he won the DVD. Their commetns were chosen at random.
Be sure to check back often for more grat giveaways.
Comments
"Sounds like a great book, I would like to make the travisher." There's my comment. ;)
would be interesting to learn
I made a wooden smoothing plane earlier this year. This would be be a great help in making more wooden tools.
This would be a great book to read and own.
This book or dvd would be something that defiantly help me hone my skills
Would love to add this book to my library!
Sounds like a good book. Please let me win!
Need the book to make the tools to make the cabinets to hold the book...
As a father of four, and advancing talent of wood working I would LOVE to expand my knowledge with this fine book.
I have wood. I want more tools. This sounds perfect. I just hope they are better than some of the Dave Gingery contraptions. Ever seen Dave's homemade wooden impeller for a dust collector?
I like the look of this Betsy! Fingers crossed I get it :)
I sure would like this book...looks awesome!
I've been a fan of John Wilson for many years and I would love to have his book
I can't use the tools I have now. Maybe if I made my own...?
I've just started making wood tools - looks like a great book
Please add me to the pool.
I think there is a spot on my bookshelf for this one.
Even in South Africa, John Wilson is a legend. Would love to add this book to my collection.
Looks like a great book.
Looks like a great book.
This looks like a very useful book.
Looks like a very useful book!
Looks great!
i am Alien from Brooklyn
i am trying to build spaceship out of wood to get off this planet....... so i need this book....Obviously
give it to me. :-0 thank you
JPL
Always looking for new opportunities to explore this awesome hobby, woodworking.
That book would fit well with my current activities in my shop. Making a shave horse and hoping to expand my skills in green woodworking!
Thanks,
Don
I like tools.
Count me in!
Yes please.
Would love it, thanks for the chance to win.
Looks fun.
I enjoy making my own tools and am very interested in this book.
sorry y'all - this one should be mine !!!
i'm in. Great addition to a library.
2 formats? Double the chances!
It is great to see books like this that make you think outside the realm of off the shelf tools. I have made and used wooden planes for almost 40 years after reading books by James Krenov and I still enjoy using them more than the store bought ones.
This is just the kind of book I'ld buy they need to write more of them.
Instead of buying a tool bomb, I could make one!
This might be the one thing to make me put down my tools and pick up a book!
I would be happy with the book or DVD. I have made a few spoke shaves from the "Dave's Shaves" pattern/style.
This would be a great book to add to the wood working library.
looks like a good book!
I met John Wilson in the early 80's at Cedar Lakes in West Virginia. He was teaching a Shaker Box class. I was taking a pottery class. I made a small Raku pot that honestly, I wasn't very happy with. John happened to see the pot and commented that he thought that was one of the most beautiful pieces of pottery he had ever seen. He asked me if I would consider trading the pot for one of his shaker boxes. I was thrilled! He said I could pick out any one I liked. I still have that shaker box signed by him and it is one of my prized possessions, even more so because it is one of the few things that survived a devastating house fire several years ago. I saw a public TV episode not long ago about John and his tool making skills. He is not only an exceptional craftsman and gifted teacher, he is an "old soul" who has truly dedicated his life to sharing his knowledge and wisdom with others on many topics. We are most fortunate to have people like him in this world.
please?
Another hat in the ring...
cool, count me in.
The more books the better!
Looks like a great addition to any library.
Looks like a perfect source for gift ideas.
The only thing better than woodworking is reading about it! Looks like a great read.
Got to like a book on making woodworking tools. Looks good.
I could use this book.
Feel free to send either my way.
Let's make some hand tools.
Allons-y!
Shaping wood with wood tools, I am game! This would be a welcome addition to my small library of woodworking books.
This would be a great book or dvd to have considering I'm just starting out in woodworking and my budget is next to nil.
I'm a needing this book guys!!!
Please consider me for the book or DVD
This would be a neat book to advance my tool knowledge.
Leaving a comment.
This would make a very nice addition to the other books and videos I have on making wooden planes.
I'm in!
The more advanced that my skill set becomes, the fancier the power tools available, the more I gravitate to hand tools and a simpler, tactile approach to working wood.
Would be a great book to have.
Thanks
I'll enjoy reading it after I win it.
Wood I love to add this book to my library? You can be sure that I wood!
Can't wait to read this & make tools.
This would be great for my library!!!
Looks like a book I would like in my library.
John Wilson book is a excellent resource of information!
Would love to win.
I'm in! Great chance to learn a new skill
Just moved and have to create a new workshop. This book would be a great help.
Ciao, ho bisogno di questo libro per il mio laboratorio in California. Mi dovrebbe aiutare dopo torniamo dal nostro viaggio in Italia ...C'è il mio commento.
Love it.
Tá mé i gá mór den sórt sin leabhar. Tá mé ag iarraidh a mo chuid scileanna uirlis lámh roimh ré, laddy.
Ba mhaith liom a bheith sásta a fháil an leabhar seo ó Fine Woodworking!!!
Is Woodworking Fine an chuid is fearr
Just a comment amháin níos mó chun tacú le mo seans a bhuaigh an leabhar seo.
I've made a number of shaker boxes following John Wilson's direction. This book would be great to get ideas for building other hand tools.
Thank you for the inspiring stories and techniques!
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