The Minimalist Woodworker. Vic Tesolin

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      Text © 2015, 2020 by Vic Tesolin

      Photographs © 2015, 2020 by Vic Tesolin

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      Publisher: Matthew Teague

      Design: Lindsay Hess

      Layout: Michael Douglas

      Photography: Vic Tesolin

      Illustration: Carolyn Mosher

      Copy Editor: Kerri Grzybicki

      Blue Hills Press

      P.O. Box 239

      Whites Creek, TN 37189

      ISBN: 978-1-951217-06-8

      e-book ISBN: 978-1-951217-17-4

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2020944836

      Printed in the United States of America

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      This book was previously published by Spring House Press. This is the first edition

      by Blue Hills Press.

      Note: The following list contains names used in The Minimalist Woodworker

       that may be registered with the United States Copyright Office:

       Workmate; Disston D-28; Robertson; Clapham’s Beeswax Polish

      The information in this book is presented in good faith; however, no warranty is given,

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      For my girls, Christina and Alex.

      Thanks for keeping me sane . . . a big job, I know.

       Knowledge is only a rumor until it is in the muscle.

      — PAPUA NEW GUINEA PROVERB

      CONTENTS

       Foreword by Tom Fidgen 8

       Introduction 10

       Chapter 1 — A Space to Work 14

       Chapter 2 — Tools in the Small Shop 24

       Chapter 3 — Marking and Measuring 42

       Chapter 4 — Practical Sharpening 50

       Chapter 5 — Saw Bench and Bent 60

       Chapter 6 — Shooting Board Hook 92

       Chapter 7 — Wooden Mallet 104

       Chapter 8 — Workbench 116

       Chapter 9 — Hand Tool Shelf 134

       Summary 146

       Conversion Chart 148

       About the Author & Acknowledgements 149

       Index 150

      FOREWORD

      BY TOM FIDGEN

      the minimalist woodworker . . .

      Ok.

      Woodworker.

      Most of us can relate to that part, but minimalist?

      Let’s break it down to the bare essentials;

      bring it back to the core.

      Here’s what the dictionary says:

      minimal

      adjective

      Of a minimum amount, quantity, or degree

      In art it’s characterized by the СКАЧАТЬ