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A museum of early American tools /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Wilfred Funk, Inc., c1964.Description: xii, 108 p. : ill. ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 0308700465
  • 9780308700468
Other title:
  • Early American tools
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Museum of early American tools.DDC classification:
  • 621.908
LOC classification:
  • TJ1180 .S59
Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Contents:
The romance of tools -- Crude shops, magnificent results -- An ax is an axe -- A world of axes -- The broad axe -- How the broad axe was used -- A giant and a midget -- The hatchet -- Hammers -- The axe and the log house -- The adze -- Canoes and bowls -- Wedges and froes -- The fine art of splitting -- Tools with legs -- The American horse -- For making "snitzels" -- Little shavers and big -- The days of river rafting -- Tools of the river lumberman -- Of cider and apple butter -- To remove bark -- Two heads are better than one -- The chisel -- Chisels and gouges -- Planes -- The moulding plane -- The rabbet -- The plow -- Early American saws -- A gallery of frame saws -- The biggest saws -- To make a hole -- To make a hole bigger -- To make a bigger hole -- The brace or bitstock -- The things you'll find in a barn -- Some were special -- These were tools too -- Jacks -- The blacksmith -- Wrought nailmaking -- Tanners and curriers -- About wheels -- It's all in the way you hit it -- Hay implements -- Knives and grass -- Found in the barn.
Summary: More than 100 pen-and-ink sketches and descriptions of old tools and the things that were made with them.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Status Date due Barcode
NF NF Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 621.908 SLO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) TJ1180 Available 34517000198575

Includes index.

The romance of tools -- Crude shops, magnificent results -- An ax is an axe -- A world of axes -- The broad axe -- How the broad axe was used -- A giant and a midget -- The hatchet -- Hammers -- The axe and the log house -- The adze -- Canoes and bowls -- Wedges and froes -- The fine art of splitting -- Tools with legs -- The American horse -- For making "snitzels" -- Little shavers and big -- The days of river rafting -- Tools of the river lumberman -- Of cider and apple butter -- To remove bark -- Two heads are better than one -- The chisel -- Chisels and gouges -- Planes -- The moulding plane -- The rabbet -- The plow -- Early American saws -- A gallery of frame saws -- The biggest saws -- To make a hole -- To make a hole bigger -- To make a bigger hole -- The brace or bitstock -- The things you'll find in a barn -- Some were special -- These were tools too -- Jacks -- The blacksmith -- Wrought nailmaking -- Tanners and curriers -- About wheels -- It's all in the way you hit it -- Hay implements -- Knives and grass -- Found in the barn.

More than 100 pen-and-ink sketches and descriptions of old tools and the things that were made with them.

Also issued online.

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