Essentials of Woodworking - A Textbook for Schools

This book contains an introductory guide to woodworking, originally designed for use in schools and proudly republished here as a handbook for modern students of carpentry. Comprehensive yet concise and easy-to-digest, this book will be of much value to the novice woodworker and to those looking to embrace woodworking as an avocation. The chapters of this book include: Laying-out Tools - Their Uses; Saws; Planes; Boring Tools - Boring; Chisels and Chiselling; Form Work - Modelling; Laying Out Duplicate Parts - Scraping and Sandpapering - Fastening Parts; Type Forms; Elementary Cabinet Work; Wood; Lumbering and Milling; et cetera. This text has been chosen for republication due to its timeless educational value, and we are proud to republish it here complete with a new introduction to woodworking.