Wood Working, Joinery, Tool, other Alternative Building Books

This illustrated sourcebook of seventeenth and eighteenth century construction reveals the expertise and foresight of Colonial builder who created structures that could withstand decades, even centuries, of wear and weather.
Learn here how colonists:

• Confirmed the straightness of trees before felling them 
• Used a chalk line, broadax and adz to square a home's main beams
• produced post and beam joints with a crosscut saw, square and chisel
• raised outer walls and rafters
• used a whipsaw to make clapboards 
• designed a water supply system using "pump logs"

This meticulously researched volume traces every step in the construction of a pre-revolutionary home.
A select chronology of the wood working tools is included giving an intriguing history of the tools used.

Softbound / 120 Pages.

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Home Building

This one-of-a-kind book will save you money, time, and materials in building a small home, barn or other structure. Involves limited grading, no excavation for a foundation, use of sites unsuited for other types of buildings, good wind resistance, and fewer materials. You can build it yourself with this book, illustrated with plans, drawings, and photographs. Construction techniques are carefully explained. This book will make pole building construction the answer to your building needs. 
Includes plans for:
Year round houses, vacation homes, garage and tool shed, woodshed, solar cottage, small pole barn, and storage shed. 

Softbound / 182 Pages.

Low Cost Pole Building

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The Complete Japanese Joinery is the most comprehensive manual available in English on the art of Japanese woodworking. Covers all aspects of the complex and demanding craft of Japanese woodworking, including the care and use of tools, the layout and marking of wood, the cutting of joints, and their final assembly. Includes explanations of various types of tools, their uses, sharpening methods and the best methods for their protection and storage.  This guide devotes much attention to the tool itself as an essential component of fine woodworking. Included are over a hundred splicing and connecting joints with detailed, illustrated, step-by-step instructions and explanations of their uses. Both simple and highly complex joints are included. A compilation of Sato's Japanese Woodworking and Nakahara's Japanese Joinery. Hundreds of illustrations. 

Softbound / 397 Pages.

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The Complete Japanese Joinery

Completely Revised and Updated.

Understanding Wood covers all aspects of working with this material intelligently, efficiently, respectfully=from how tress grow-to how best to cut, season, machine, join, bend, and finish wood. The author has been teaching wood technology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst for 18 years, but his knowledge of the field comes as much from the workshop as it does from the lab. Hoadley is also a talented woodcarver who has acquired many of his insights the hard way. His experience enables him to blend with science, a rare sympathy for the woodworker's problems. This book is full of photos, illustrations, charts, graphs and excellent information. Everything you ever wanted to know about wood and more. 

Hardbound / 276 Pages.

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