Friday, January 23, 2009

The Handplane Book, by Garrett Hack

I wanted to know more about how to tune up my handplanes. For those of you wondering, these are fundamental to woodworking: they take a small shave of wood, enabling boards to meet each other tightly for jointing them together in a variety of ways. It is important to working with wood.

About a quarter of the book was interesting. The remainder was more about planes than I ever wanted to know. The target audience seems to be collectors of old planes and those who are unnaturally obsessed with this topic.