Museum of Early American Tools

Name: Museum of Early American Tools
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ISBN: 9780486425603

ISBN-10: 0486425606

ISBN-13: 9780486425603

Edition: 2002

Authors: Eric Sloane

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Absorbing book describes, in detail, farm tools and kitchen implements and how they were made; includes devices used by curriers, wheelwrights, coopers, blacksmiths, loggers, tanners, coachmakers, and other craftsmen of the pre-industrial age. An informal, expressively written book for cultural historians, woodcrafters, and Americana enthusiasts. 184 black-and-white illus.

Book details

List price: $11.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Dover Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/14/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 7.01" wide x 8.74" long x 0.24" tall
Weight: 0.484
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