A Museum of Early American Tools - Rilegato

Sloane, Eric

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0486463036 ISBN 13: 9780486463032

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 2008

Riassunto

Venture back into the handmade world of apple butter paddles, hay forks, and other traditional implements with this fascinating and charmingly illustrated book. Its guided tour of folk tools and artifacts from the pre-industrial age examines farm and kitchen utensils as well as devices used by curriers, wheelwrights, coopers, blacksmiths, coachmakers, loggers, tanners, and other craftsmen.
Written by a distinguished historian and collector of antiques, this absorbing survey offers informal but accurate depictions of "special tools for every job," from a holding dog and a hauling sledge to reaping hooks, splitting wedges, and felling axes. Scores of pen-and-ink sketches by the author portray simple tools and other items that are ingeniously devised and exquisitely constructed. A valuable textbook for historians, this volume is also a fascinating handbook for all those who love Americana.

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Contenuti:

Author's Note The Romance of Tools Crude Shops, Magnificent Results An Ax Is an Axe! A World of Axes The Broad Axe How the Broad Axe Was Used A Giant and a Midget The Hatchet Hammers The Axe and the Log House The Adze Canoes and Bowls Wedges and Froes The Fine Art of Splitting Tools with Legs The American Horse For Making "Snitzels" Little Shavers and Big The Days of River Rafting Tools of the River Lumberman Of Cider and Apple Butter To Remove Bark Two Heads Are Better Than One The Chisel Chisels and Gouges Planes The Moulding Plane The Rabbet The Plow Early American Saws A Gallery of Frame Saws The Biggest Saws To Make a Hole To Make a Hole Bigger To Make a Bigger Hole The Brace or Bitstock The Things You'll Find in a Barn! Some Were Special These Were Tools Too! Jacks The Blacksmith Wrought Nailmaking Tanners and Curriers About Wheels It's All in the Way You Hit It Hay Implements Knives and Grass Found in the Barn Index

Product Description:

This delightful evocation of simpler times and the tools that built America has always held a special place in the hearts of lovers of Americana and Yankee ingenuity. Now available in a handsome hardcover gift edition, this engaging, informative book features 184 of the author's inimitable drawings.

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• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0486463036
• ISBN 13: 9780486463032
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 108