Museum of Early American Tools

Name: Museum of Early American Tools
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ISBN: 9780345326119

ISBN-10: 0345326113

ISBN-13: 9780345326119

Edition: N/A

Authors: Eric Sloane

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Fresh, informal, direct, and expressive, A MUSEUM OF EARLY AMERICAN TOOLS covers early tools and the wooden and metal artifacts that our forefathers made with them. Including dozens of pen-and-ink sketches.

Book details

List price: $9.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/12/1985
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 105
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English



Author's Note


The Romance of Tools


Crude Shops, Magnificent Results


An Ax Is an Axe!


A World of Axes


The Broad Axe


How the Broad Axe Was Used


A Giant and a Midget


The Hatchet


Hammers


The Axe and the Log House


The Adze


Canoes and Bowls


Wedges and Froes


The Fine Art of Splitting


Tools with Legs


The American Horse


For Making "Snitzels"


Little Shavers and Big


The Days of River Rafting


Tools of the River Lumberman


Of Cider and Apple Butter


To Remove Bark


Two Heads Are Better Than One


The Chisel


Chisels and Gouges


Planes 56


The Moulding Plane


The Rabbet


The Plow


Early American Saws


A Gallery of Frame Saws


The Biggest Saws


To Make a Hole


To Make a Hole Bigger


To Make a Bigger Hole


The Brace or Bitstock


The Things You'll Find in a Barn!


Some Were Special


These Were Tools Too!


Jacks


The Blacksmith


Wrought Nailmaking


Tanners and Curriers


About Wheels


It's All in the Way You Hit It


Hay Implements


Knives and Grass


Found in the Barn


Index