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K O The BO L O O T 001-003_US_Prelims.indd 1 22/11/2017 11:12 001-003_US_Prelims.indd 2 22/11/2017 11:12 K O O he T B L O O T MORE THAN 200 HAND TOOLS A TOOL LOVER’S GUIDE TO 001-003_US_Prelims.indd 3 22/11/2017 11:12 Contents Writers Phil Davy, Luke Edwardes-Evans, Jo Behari, Matthew Jackson Senior Editor Ruth O'Rourke-Jones Editor Jamie Ambrose PLAN YOUR WORK AREA 8 44 US Editors Lori Hand, Jenny Wilson CHOOSING A TOOL BELT 10 THE TOOLS FOR Project Art Editor Vicky Read CHOOSING A TOOLBOX 12 CUTTING & Managing Editor Dawn Henderson CHOPPING CHOOSING A TOOLSHED 14 Managing Art Editor Marianne Markham Asset Management Emily Reid HISTORY OF CUTTING & CHOPPING 46 16 Jacket Designer Steven Marsden CHOOSING A SAW 48 THE TOOLS FOR Producer Rebecca Fallowfield STRUCTURE OF A HACKSAW 52 MEASURING & Creative Technical Support USING A HACKSAW 54 Sonia Charbonnier, Tom Morse MARKING STRUCTURE OF A HANDSAW 56 Photography John Spence at MMS Marketing Services HISTORY OF MEASURING & MARKING 18 USING A HANDSAW 57 Illustrator Andrew Torrens CHOOSING A MARKING TOOL 20 CHOOSING AN AX 60 Art Director Maxine Pedliham STRUCTURE OF A MORTISE GAUGE 22 STRUCTURE OF A SPLITTING AX 64 Publishing Director Mary-Clare Jerram USING A MORTISE GAUGE 24 USING A SPLITTING AX 66 CHOOSING A MEASURE 26 CHOOSING A KNIFE 70 First American Edition, 2018 Published in the United States by DK Publishing CHOOSING A CALIPER OR DIVIDER 30 STRUCTURE OF A UTILITY KNIFE 72 345 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014 STRUCTURE OF A DIGITAL CALIPER 32 USING A UTILITY KNIFE 74 Copyright © 2018 Dorling Kindersley Limited DK, a division of Penguin Random House LLC USING A DIGITAL CALIPER 33 CHOOSING A SCYTHE OR SICKLE 76 18 19 20 21 22 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 CHOOSING A SQUARE 34 STRUCTURE OF AN ENGLISH SCYTHE 80 001–305962–May/2018 STRUCTURE OF A USING AN ENGLISH SCYTHE 81 All rights reserved. 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For details, contact: DK Publishing Special Markets, 345 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014 [email protected] Printed and bound in China A WORLD OF IDEAS: SEE ALL THERE IS TO KNOW www.dk.com US_004-005_Contents.indd 4 07/12/2017 15:00 98 166 218 THE TOOLS FOR THE TOOLS FOR THE TOOLS FOR FIXING & DIGGING & FINISHING & FASTENING GROUNDWORK DECORATING HISTORY OF FIXING & FASTENING 100 HISTORY OF DIGGING HISTORY OF FINISHING & GROUNDWORK 168 & DECORATING 220 CHOOSING A SCREWDRIVER 102 CHOOSING A SHOVEL OR SPADE 170 CHOOSING ABRASIVES AND STRUCTURE OF A RATCHET SANDING BLOCKS 222 SCREWDRIVER 104 STRUCTURE OF A SPADE 172 USING A SANDING BLOCK 224 USING A RATCHET SCREWDRIVER 106 USING A SPADE 173 CHOOSING A PAINTBRUSH 226 CHOOSING A WRENCH 110 CHOOSING A POST-HOLE DIGGER 174 STRUCTURE OF A PAINTBRUSH 228 STRUCTURE OF A TORQUE WRENCH 114 CHOOSING A HOE OR CULTIVATOR 176 USING A PAINTBRUSH 229 USING A TORQUE WRENCH 116 STRUCTURE OF A HOE 180 CHOOSING A ROLLER 230 CHOOSING A DRILL AND DRILL BIT 118 USING A HOE 181 STRUCTURE OF A ROLLER 232 STRUCTURE OF A POWER DRILL 122 CHOOSING A TROWEL, FORK, OR DIBBLE 182 USING A ROLLER 233 USING A POWER DRILL 124 STRUCTURE OF A TROWEL 184 CHOOSING WALLPAPERING TOOLS 236 CHOOSING A VISE 126 USING A TROWEL 185 CHOOSING TILING TOOLS 238 STRUCTURE OF A MECHANICS VISE 128 MAINTAIN TOOLS FOR CHOOSING A CABINET SCRAPER 240 USING A MECHANICS VISE 129 DIGGING AND GROUNDWORK 188 MAINTAIN TOOLS FOR CHOOSING A CLAMP 130 FINISHING AND DECORATING 244 CHOOSING PLIERS OR PULLERS 134 190 STRUCTURE OF INDEX 246 THE TOOLS FOR COMBINATION PLIERS 136 SHAPING & ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 252 USING COMBINATION PLIERS 138 SHARPENING MAINTAIN TOOLS FOR FIXING AND FASTENING 140 HISTORY OF SHAPING & SHARPENING 192 142 CHOOSING A CHISEL 194 THE TOOLS FOR STRUCTURE OF A MORTISE CHISEL 196 STRIKING & USING A MORTISE CHISEL 198 BREAKING CHOOSING A PLANE 200 STRUCTURE OF A JACK PLANE 202 HISTORY OF STRIKING & BREAKING 144 USING A JACK PLANE 204 CHOOSING A HAMMER 146 CHOOSING A FILE OR RASP 208 STRUCTURE OF A CLAW HAMMER 150 CHOOSING A GOUGE USING A CLAW HAMMER 152 OR SPOKESHAVE 210 CHOOSING PICKS AND MATTOCKS 156 CHOOSING A SHARPENING STONE 212 STRUCTURE OF A PICKAX 158 MAINTAIN TOOLS FOR USING A PICKAX 159 SHAPING AND SHARPENING 216 CHOOSING A WRECKING BAR 160 MAINTAIN TOOLS FOR STRIKING AND BREAKING 164 US_004-005_Contents.indd 5 22/11/2017 11:12 T H E T O OL BOOK Foreword BY NICK OFFERMAN a mystical object, like a wand, a staff, or a ring. And now that I think about it, perhaps my infatuation with “tools” and “wizardry” are not so unrelated after all. As a youth in rural Illinois (the American state that contains Chicago and corn, among other things), much of my spare time was spent learning to gainfully employ many of the implements represented in this magnificent catalogue you are about to read. My many teachers included my mother and my father, along with their own siblings and parents, most of whom maintained a family farm operation, raising pigs, soybeans, and corn. Every household in the family cultivated a robust garden and attractive yard (some more so than others, as in any family) whilst perennially investing in the beauty and tidiness Photo Emily Shur of their houses and outbuildings. Tools. Yes! These extremely practical humans were always The mere mention of the word thrills my blood, in the process of getting good work done, and that much as I have been given to understand the words usually with tools. Their sphere of influence was “chocolate”, or “gin”, or “fireman” can sometimes not limited to their yards, either, because neighbors titillate others. Another similarly rousing but unrelated in our community would readily share tools, as well term for me is “wizardry”. Like many, I have always as their kind attentions and the labor of their hands. been strongly attracted to the magicks described in In my 30 or so years living as an “adult” I have stories of enchantment; the eldritch knowledge and inhabited and visited a pretty full spectrum of “old ways” passed down over generations. I am living arrangements, from abject poverty (working a complete sucker for the sorts of charms and in theater) to the lap of luxury (working in television), glamours to be found in your Chronicles of Narnia, and I can attest from my experience that the homes your Lord of the Rings, your Dungeons & Dragons, in which health and love and economy most readily and your Harry Potters, particularly those flourished were the ones that knew the use of containing the stripe of conjuring that requires some of the noble equipment in this here book. US_006-007_Foreword_NickOfferman.indd 6 07/12/2017 14:51 I daresay that the older I grow, the more the Think about that. I know that he learned the ways of wrenches and the hammers begin to resemble the shovel from his dad, as well as other workers in the tackle of wizards. the neighborhood from his own youth, but where did his dad get it? And what of the myriad other tools I think that had anyone suggested to me in my in which he schooled me, not to mention the other teenage years that my love of tools might be remotely methods I gleaned from my aunts and uncles? It comparable to my reverence for sorcery, I would stands to reason that my very own erudition in the art have muttered something terribly pithy from the of the hole can be traced ancestrally all the way back film Highlander under my breath, perhaps the to the first inventor of the shovel. Since we humorously epic “It’s better to burn out than to fade away…”, cognizant monkeys first began to swing a stone at the to which someone might have said “isn’t that a Neil end of a stick, we have been quietly and confidently Young lyric?”, to which I would have defiantly stated passing along our collective knowledge to the next “You don’t know dick”, and lurched off in a very generation, again and again over the millennia, each Emilio Estevez fashion to admire my cassette tapes. apprentice acquiring an eventual mastery, occasionally In my crotchety middle age, however, I am finding adding slight improvements, until we humans can it easier to comprehend the reason that I find an now print a book like this one , full of colors and adze every bit as compelling as Gandalf’s magic handsomely worded pictures, containing among its sword Glamdring. It’s because both carry the deep juicy offerings categories of tools like “Digging and wisdom of true handcraft. Through the painstaking Groundwork” and “Striking and Breaking”. It’s centuries of trial and error on the part of man and downright Homeric. womankind (or elves, in the case of the sword), these clever sticks have been imbued with the cumulative, The tools in this book are not those of the specialist. arcane intelligence of the generations of hands that It is unlikely that you will build a serviceable rocket perfected their forms, and thereby, their uses. ship or a nickelodeon with the stuff in here. On the contrary, the authors have chosen to honor the One of my most poignant brand of tool memories is venerable tools of the generalist. What you can create when my dad would take me out in the yard to help with these charismatic utensils is a limitless sense him plant trees, or do anything with a shovel or a of adventure and accomplishment—a life rife with spade. The honest mastery with which he brandished practical industry. The list does not necessarily said item to sculpt an accurate and practical hole contain the items that spring to mind when one out of the gravelly soil might just as easily have been considers creating “art”, as it were, but (in my book) found inhabiting a virtuoso soloist’s bow, as she sawed they are precisely the devices necessary for the art away on some Tchaikovsky (Valse Sentimentale of living well, and I think that is about as magical please and thank you). To mine, a child’s perception, as it can get. his skills could easily be accused of witchcraft, especially when the spell did not end at the digging. My dear dad was not only accomplishing his task of landscaping, he was also teaching me to use the spade. To this day, when I grip a shovel’s staff in my hands and place my foot upon the shoulder of the blade in preparation for its initial plunge into the ground, my dad is there with me, his hands upon mine, his gentle tutelage in my ears. US_006-007_Foreword_NickOfferman.indd 7 11/12/2017 11:44 P L A N YOUR Work Area n Whether you’re fixing a bike, decorating the house, o or making furniture, you need somewhere to work. i t Depending on space and budget, this could be c u a folding workbench that stores in a cabinet, d or a fully equipped studio. For occasional jobs o r a temporary solution may do, but for long-term t projects a more permanent work area is necessary. n I Work surface For many tasks a solid work surface makes a big difference. A workbench doesn’t need to be huge, but it should be as solid as possible. You can fit a vise to the front or one end for working with wood, metals, or other materials. A portable Workmate or similar bench is a cheaper, lightweight alternative and can be used outdoors or moved from one room to another. Tool storage Tools should be stored so that you can find them easily. Displaying them on a wall or in a dedicated cabinet means you can spot if a tool is missing and is safer than rifling through a toolbox. Keeping a work area tidy and well organized helps you work efficiently. 008 Heat, light, and power 009 For lighting and electricity, you will need a power supply, which should be installed by a qualified electrician. You may also need heating as an unheated work area in cold weather can be miserable. Think about the type of heating: a mobile gas heater is efficient, but an open flame in a dusty workshop is not wise. An electric heater may be safer, but costly to warm a large space. Environment Some hand tools, such as hammers, can be noisy in use. For frequent work, consider insulating a workshop or restricting work times: think about the neighbors! Fire safety is a must, especially if storing flammable materials. Fire extinguishers are inexpensive, but make sure you get the correct type to fit the situation. FOCUS ON… Security Keeping your tools safe should be a priority. Don’t rely on a flimsy padlock on the shed door. Thieves will aim for the easiest method of breaking and entering, so think about how you would gain entry to your workshop if you lost the keys. Adding internal shutters to windows, security bars across doors, and battery-operated alarms Woodworkers often store tools in purpose-made can help. Track tools by using a security-marking kit to label them cabinets with hinged doors. This a good use of wall invisibly with your name—it will show up under ultraviolet light. space and protects the contents from workshop dust. Installing locks makes tools more secure, and keeps them out of the reach of children. US_008-009_Introduction.indd 8 21/11/2017 12:51
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