Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1441597 in Books
• Published on: 2003-01-23
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

From Amazon.com
As any woodworker knows, working with properly sharpened tools makes even the rank amateur a better woodworker almost instantly. Kirby has taken a step-by-step approach to showing the reader in explicit detail how to keep common workshop tools perfectly sharp: exactly how to hold the tools, where and how to stand, and how to move. Extremely well illustrated and indexed, this is a new workshop classic and should find its way into any serious woodworker's (or even not so serious hobbyist's) library. --Mark Hetts

Customer Reviews

60 seconds?
Here's the whole book- Buy a grinder. Sharpen your blade. Use a waterstone, and make it sharper. Here's some illustrations.
Not very helpful. It didn't really cover anything for amatuers, but it didn't give much to a pro either. 2/3rds of the book is his view on how to set up a bench grinder.

Not the least bit dull..
If you want sharp tools and don't give two hoots about all the theory and gab most books offer on the subject, this is a good read. The text is clear and the drawings are very useful. Plain and simple, it guides you toward all it takes to get your chisels and plane blades sharp and keep them that way.

Not bad...
I purchased this book to learn to get a keen edge on my tools in a minimum amount of time. This book offers a number of good pointers, although much of the advice is also to be taken with a grain of salt (the uselessness of sharpening guides, for example). Overall, a good book. The size and readability make it perfect for the workshop shelf as opposed to the office library.