Make Your Own Woodworking Tools: Metalwork Techniques to Create Customize, and Sharpen in the Home Workshop

by Mike Burton

Overview

There are few things more satisfying for a woodworker than working with tools you have made yourself.

In Make Your Own Woodworking Tools, professional woodworker and author Mike Burton introduces you to the straightforward and economical methods of making your own woodcarving and woodturning tools.  Armed with 50+ years of tool making experience and a down-to-earth style, the author will guide you through the fulfilling process of creating exactly the woodworking tool you want.   After an introduction to the basics of materials, tools, and safety, you'll be learning the techniques required to tackle projects that will develop and hone your skills as a tool maker.  

Among the chapter topics, you'll find:

- Steel and Other Raw Materials

- Equipment and Tooling

- Safety

- Tools Without Blacksmithing

- Simple Blacksmithing Techniques

- Heat Treating

- Dressing and Sharpening Tools

- Handles and Mallets

- Special Purpose Tools

- Five Projects

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781565233065
Publisher:	Fox Chapel Publishing
Publication date:	04/15/2006
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mike Burton has been a professional woodworker for more than 40 years, creating projects that vary from a furniture line to guitar bodies. He is the author of Architectural Carving, Simple Marquetry, and Veneering a Foundation Course. He lives in Ogden, Utah.