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Charles G. Wheeler. Wood-working for Beginners: A Manual for Amateurs
Wood-working for Beginners: A Manual for Amateurs
Table of Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
PART I. A WORKSHOP FOR AMATEURS
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER II. TOOLS
CHAPTER III. WOOD
CHAPTER IV. WORKING DRAWINGS, LAYING OUT THE WORK, AND ESTIMATING
CHAPTER V. THE WORKSHOP
PART II
CHAPTER VI. ARTICLES TO BE MADE IN THE WORKSHOP
CHAPTER VII. A FEW TOYS
CHAPTER VIII. HOUSES FOR ANIMALS
CHAPTER IX. IMPLEMENTS FOR OUTDOOR SPORTS AND ATHLETICS
CHAPTER X. FURNITURE
CHAPTER XI. A FEW MISCELLANEOUS OPERATIONS
PART III. HOUSE-BUILDING FOR BEGINNERS
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII. SIMPLE SUMMER COTTAGES
CHAPTER XIV. A FEW SIMPLE STRUCTURES
PART IV. BOAT-BUILDING FOR BEGINNERS
CHAPTER XV
PART V. COMMON TOOLS AND THEIR USE, WITH SOME EVERY-DAY OPERATIONS
CHAPTER XVI
APPENDIX
INDEX
FOOTNOTES:
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Charles G. Wheeler
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Do not place too much reliance on the lists of tools which you find in books and magazines—the "tools necessary for beginners," "a list of tools for boys," etc. Such lists are necessarily arbitrary. To make a short list that would be thoroughly satisfactory for such varied work as a boy or amateur may turn his hand to is about as impracticable as the attempts you sometimes see to name the twenty-five greatest or best men or the one hundred best books. When you can find half a dozen independent lists which agree it will be time enough to begin to pin your faith to them. The most experienced or learned people cannot agree exactly in such matters. It depends somewhat, for one thing, on what kind of work you begin with, and, of course, somewhat upon yourself also.
Now while, as we have seen, most wonderful work can be done with the most primitive tools, the fact remains that you are neither Chinese nor Japanese, but Americans and English, and you cannot work to the best advantage without certain tools. "Well, what are they? Why don't you give us a list to begin with? That's what we are looking for." Simply because a quite varied experience has taught me to think it better to give you suggestions to help you make the selection for yourselves.
