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Book recommendations needed
A Christmas gift certificate is burning a hole in my pocket!
I was about to order Landis' _The Workbench Book_, which I have heard highly praised, and seen in the library. But I was intrigued by the description and Amazon reviews of The Workbench : A Complete Guide to Creating Your Perfect Bench -- by Lon Schleining. Anyone here seen both books and can give pros and cons of each? Similarly, I was going to get Leonard Lee's Sharpening book, but see the new one from Tauton, authored by Lie-Nielsen. Anyone who has seen both and can offer a comparison? -- Alex -- Replace "nospam" with "mail" to reply by email. Checked infrequently. |
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The Landis book is pure inspiration. There was/were three
books put out by Taunton in almost the same time frame, The Workbench Book, The Workshop Book (also by Landis) and The Toolbox Book by Tolpin that really belong in any tool junkie's LEEbrary. Sorry, I don't know about the other. UA100, who isn't much of a help other than to say that the money won't be wasted on the Landis book... |
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A Christmas gift certificate is burning a hole in my pocket! I was about to order Landis' _The Workbench Book_, which I have heard highly praised, and seen in the library. But I was intrigued by the description and Amazon reviews of The Workbench : A Complete Guide to Creating Your Perfect Bench -- by Lon Schleining. Anyone here seen both books and can give pros and cons of each? Similarly, I was going to get Leonard Lee's Sharpening book, but see the new one from Tauton, authored by Lie-Nielsen. Anyone who has seen both and can offer a comparison? -- Alex -- Replace "nospam" with "mail" to reply by email. Checked infrequently. I have the Scott Landis book "The Workbench Book", this gives four complete classic designs, total plans you can build from as well as a vast history of wood working benches, awesome book. I intend to buy the Schleining book but I cannot comment on it yet. I also have the Lee sharpening book which simply is an awesome wealth of info on it's subject, in every field of sharpening of every type of tool from chisels to plane blades to drill bits and kitchen knives, nothing about your lawnmower blade I don't think...but entirely worth buying. My suggestion, you have an Amazon gift certificate, just go to a major chain store like Borders and Barnes & noble where you can compare two books side by side. Alex |
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On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 23:28:41 GMT, Unisaw A100
wrote: LEEbrary. (sigh...but I mean this in a good way...) Regards, Tom. "People funny. Life a funny thing." Sonny Liston Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.) tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email) http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1 |
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(sigh...but I mean this in a good way...)
TJW LEE WARD. I figure that at any given minute of the day there's a library being built somewhere. You'd think we could convince at least one of them to pay tribute to the man. sigh... In a good way. UA100 |
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