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The Precision Handcutting of Dovetails

Cecil E. Pierce

The Precision Handcutting of Dovetails by Cecil E. Pierce

In this book, Cecil Pierce, author of Fifty Years A Planemaker and User, addresses the subject of dovetails, the strongest and most beautiful of joints. As with his first book, he guides the reader through the entire process of handcutting a dovetail by means of detailed photographs and commentary, with a number of new and practical suggestions for problems encountered along the way.

 

Later in the book, Pierce returns to the subject of wooden handplanes, including the discovery of a new method for precision adjustment of the iron. This book exemplifies Pierce’s simplifying and painstaking philosophy of woodworking.

56 pages. 8-1/2 x 11. B&W photographs throughout. Hard cover. © 1995.
ISBN: 0962800147.
Order Number: VAP169. Price: $18.00
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