| A Museum of Early American Tools Contributor(s): Sloane, Eric (Author) |
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ISBN: 0486425606 ISBN-13: 9780486425603 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $10.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2002 Annotation: Absorbing book describes, in detail, farm tools and kitchen implements and how they were made. Includes devices used by curriers, wheelwrights, coopers, blacksmiths, loggers, tanners, coachmakers, and other craftsmen of the pre-industrial age. An informal, expressively written book for cultural historians, woodcrafters, and Americana enthusiasts. 184 black-and-white illustrations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Antiques & Collectibles | Americana - House & Home | Power Tools - History | Military - General |
| Dewey: 621.900 |
| LCCN: 2002067554 |
| Series: Americana |
| Physical Information: 0.25" H x 7" W x 8.74" (0.52 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This absorbing and profusely illustrated book describes in detail scores of early American tools and the wooden and metal artifacts made with them. Informally and expressively written, the text covers bulding tools and methods; farm and kitchen implements; and the tools of curriers, wheelwrights, coopers, blacksmiths, coachmakers, loggers, tanners, and many other craftsmen of the pre-industrial age. Scores of pen-and-ink sketches by the author accurately depict special tools for every job, among them a hollowing gouge, hay fork, cornering chisel, apple butter paddle, boring auger, mortising chisel, a holding dog, hauling sledge, winnowing tray, reaping hooks, splitting wedge, felling axe, propping saw horse, and other traditional implements. Sure to be prized by cultural historians, this volume will delight woodcrafters interested in making their own tools and thrill general readers with its store of Americana. |