Condition: Good. SIGNED! Not personalized (See Photos)! Packed in a BOX with cardboard backing and padding. (See Photos!) Pages: not written on, clean, bright, odor free. Dust Jacket: clean, bright, moderate bumping to edges, fading and scuffs to back middle. Same or next day shipping (weekdays and Saturdays)! Ships from California.  ABOUT THIS: This book descibes all the major handtools that were used by cabinetmakers, furnituremakers, carpenters and numerous other woodworking trades in the centuries before the introduction of powertools and machinery. These are the tools that built the masterpieces we now know as Chippendale, Sheraton, Hepplewhite, Federal, and many other styles. 

Illustrated with over 400 detailed line drawings, the tools are grouped in major classes, from holding, marking, setting-out, and sawing, through planes, edge tools, and boring tools to striking tools, and bench accessories. 

Complete with an annotated select bibliography, lists of tool associations, dealers, and auctions, this fully indexed book describes not only what these tools were used for and and how they were used, but also, perhaps most importantly, how they may be used by today's woodworker to enrich the technical vocabulary. 

TRADITIONAL WOODWORKING HANDTOOLS is both a guide for collectors and antique-tool enthusiasts as well as a manual for all woodworkers who would increase their vocabulary of wood-working techniques.