Product Description

Featuring more than 60 categories, including adzes, anvils, mallets, cement tools, carpenter tools, drills, hatchets, chisels, beekeeping, plumbing tools, gardening tools, surveying and wood cutting, this comprehensive guide covers the tools and machinery of yesteryear. The author has spent the past 40 years gathering information, literature, old catalogues, as well as antiques, and has assembled them all into this fully-illustrated identification guide. Each item is listed with a description, history, common uses, and manufacturers. Many tools are depicted with fascinating photos and illustrations. This is a great identification resource for all collectors.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #835349 in Books
• Published on: 2001-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 255 pages

Customer Reviews

An eclectic mix
While many books in this field are centred mainly on woodworking, this one has a much wider scope including tools used in the smithy and on the farm, for example.

It falls well short of being a true encyclopaedia, nevertheless there's plenty here to help identify a wide range of tools and the author's experience in using them makes for good reading.

The illustrations are adequate rather than excellent; the attempts at valuing tools are less than useful because they are mostly rather vague.

If you're a collector specialising in a particular craft this book may not add much to your knowledge. However, if you have a wider general interest in tools it's a good book to have.