Saws, Planes, and Scorps: Exceptional Woodworking Tools and Their Makers

Description

Saws, Planes, and Scorps is an exploration and celebration of high-quality hand tools for woodworking and the stories of the people who make them. Organized by the basic tools and beautifully presented with gorgeous photographs from the boutique makers and small factory makers, this book is an engaging, inspiring, and informative exploration. Saws, Planes, and Scorps is a celebration of splendid, high-quality tools from the best woodworking hand-tool makers active in North America, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand.

David Heim is a prolific writer and editor specializing in woodworking and woodturning. When he's not pecking away at his laptop, he can be found at the lathe in his shop, turning a bowl. Joshua A. Klein is editor-in-chief of Mortise & Tenon Magazine. He has been selected for the Early American Life Directory of Traditional American Crafts from 2015-2020 for his authentic approach to period furniture making, and he is the author of Hands Employed Aright: The Furniture Making of Jonathan Fisher and Another Work is Possible.

"This book greatly enriched my understanding of and appreciation for the fuller range of maker tools that are out there. I think, for hand tool woodworkers, Heim's book makes it clear that now is a great time to be alive and working wood." - Highland Woodworking "Readers need not know a lump hammer from a bevel gauge to appreciate durable, efficient, and striking hand tools. A resurgent interest in handcrafts will draw in newbies as well as seasoned woodcrafters and collectors with an appreciation for tool function and design." - Library Journal, "Artisans and their admirers will find ample material to savor in David Heim's Saws, Planes and Scorps, a compendium of hand tools around the world." --The New York Times Holiday Gift Guide, One of "5 Design Books That Are Easy on the Eyes." "The woodworking writer David Heim offers about 80 profiles of workshops around the world, mostly tiny. Their specialties are as niche as spokeshaves (used to shape carriage spokes or smooth arrows) and birdcage awls. Mr. Heim's interviewees find design inspiration in fighter plane wings and foxes' tails." - The New York Times, "Heim, a veteran magazine and book editor, highlights the tools of the trade and the craftspeople who make them, through interviews, photos, sketches, and vintage ephemera. This book is for anyone who, for instance, ever contemplated how a workbench in Great Britain or the U.S. differs from one in Japan." - Publishers Weekly,