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Hand Tool Essentials includes over forty no-nonsense articles on choosing and using common and not-so-common woodworking hand tools. Hand tools (tools that are not powered, such as hammers and chisels) are currently the hot trend in woodworking purchases. This book shows the woodworker how hand tools can be used in tandem with their power tools to produce superior work, improving and enriching their woodworking experience. Hand Tool Essentials blended approach makes it valuable for experienced, as well as beginning woodworkers. Tools included are: mallets, chisels & gouges, wood- and metal-bodied planes, wood- and metal-bodied spokeshaves, measuring and marking tools, rasps, awls, Eastern and Western handsaws and other hand tool accessories.