WTB: Making & Mastering Wood Planes

patriarch <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...

> While it is a good book, there is not really a lot more material there than
> is contained in the various articles which have been published in FWW over
> the years, starting with Issue #1, Timothy Ellsworth and #126, David
> Welter.

Yep. I got my copy a few years back and was somewhat disappointed
that it didn't contain much new info. IIRC, a good portion of it was
devoted to sharpening, etc., so it might be useful to someone who's a
relative newbie to planes. For someone just wanting info on the
mechanics of putting together plane, they could do just as well with
the FWW articles. Even better, get the little book that Lee Valley
sells called _Wooden Planes and How to Make Them_ by David G. Perch
and Robert S. Lee (no relation). It costs only $10 and has detailed
instructions for making several different types of planes (smoothers,
including an adjustable mouth version, chamfer plane, and a few
others).

> The difficult part of the construction for me is being able to get back to
> the planes now sitting incomplete, waiting for me to cut the openings in
> the bottom. My wife is being entirely unreasonable, and wants me to
> complete the hall bathroom remodel. ;-)

I thought I was the only one with that problem. ;-) I've built a
couple, including a little-bitty cocobolo smoother, and I have all the
pieces for a beech smoother sitting in a corner of my shop just
waiting for the time I can get around to putting it together. (It's a
Krenov-style laminated plane.)


Chuck Vance

"John Smith" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> WTB: Book: Making & Mastering Wood Planes. by David Finck.
> [email protected]

It's out of print. Send an email to David and he will let you know
when it is reprinted.

Regards,
Dick

Mr. Finck says he is working on getting it back in print:

http://www.davidfinck.com/book.htm

It is a book well worth having in your woodworking library.

"John Smith" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> WTB: Book: Making & Mastering Wood Planes. by David Finck.
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[email protected] (Dick Latshaw) wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> "John Smith" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:<[email protected]>...
>> WTB: Book: Making & Mastering Wood Planes. by David Finck.
>> [email protected]
>
> It's out of print. Send an email to David and he will let you know
> when it is reprinted.
>
> Regards,
> Dick
>

I found my copy at a Woodcraft store in Sacramento, CA, last fall. The
book was recommended to me by a woodworker who had gone to the College of
the Redwoods with David.

While it is a good book, there is not really a lot more material there than
is contained in the various articles which have been published in FWW over
the years, starting with Issue #1, Timothy Ellsworth and #126, David
Welter. (David still teaches at College of the Redwoods. We met him a
couple of weekends ago. A delightful fellow...) There may have been other
FWW articles, and they MAY be in the CD ROM version of FWW. I don't know.

I suppose that, if you find no easier method of finding the book, I could
be convinced to part with my copy. Contact me on regular email via gmadsen
at comcast dot net if you're interested.

The difficult part of the construction for me is being able to get back to
the planes now sitting incomplete, waiting for me to cut the openings in
the bottom. My wife is being entirely unreasonable, and wants me to
complete the hall bathroom remodel. ;-)

Patriarch

Hi John

Do an "advanced Google" search for the title "Making and Mastering Wood
Planes",
you will get over 30 hits.

The book seems not to carried by the big online book sellers. I can't
believe it
is out of print so soon.

Information about the book:
Title: Making and Mastering Wood Planes"
Author: Finck, David with foreword by James Krenov
ISBN: 0906961635
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Co.
Softcover, 192 pages, publish date Oct 2000
Retail price: $17.95

I did find the book for you at Blackwell's books an US affiliate of a
English book seller.
The book looks like it was reprinted by an English firm -- not Sterling
Publishing.

URL: http://bookshop.blackwell.com

Price $21.95 plus shipping.

Some of the Big online book sellers had the book at a cheaper price, but it
was out of stock.

Regards,
Tom Green

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"John Smith" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> WTB: Book: Making & Mastering Wood Planes. by David Finck.
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That IS unreasonable. Doesn't she realize you can get by with plastic
garbage bags duct taped to the walls until you are able to get back to
the tiling. Trust me, it works fine.


> The difficult part of the construction for me is being able to get back to
> the planes now sitting incomplete, waiting for me to cut the openings in
> the bottom. My wife is being entirely unreasonable, and wants me to
> complete the hall bathroom remodel. ;-)
>
> Patriarch

In article <[email protected]>,
"John Smith" <[email protected]> wrote:

> WTB: Book: Making & Mastering Wood Planes. by David Finck.
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Try Lee Vally tools.com

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