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One of my books surfaced the other day, and I was looking through
it. It's one of those I got at my favorite used book store.

Ttitle: BUILD A BOAT For Pleasure or Profit (It's East To Build
Your Own Boat). It's a Popular Mechanics Press book, copyrighted 1941.

Got some powertool info, besides the handtool stuff. Loads of
photos, detailed drawings, information. Several examples of steamboxes,
etc. One thing is doing curved rabbets - with a hammer and chisel.
Most of you guys would want to know how to do it with a router. By the
time you set up to do it with a router, you probably could have done
half a dozen by hand..

You guys that want good books on woodworking really need to start
checking out used bookstores. Prices are very much lower than new
bookstores, and they have books that are lonnng out of print. Not sure,
but I think the most I've paid for any woodworking book is about $9,
lowest 50 cants. My personal woodworking library is larger than the
local library, and probably than the county library's too.

Books like this are geared toward people who aren't professionals,
and have pretty clear instructions. Or, at least what I consider clear.
I guess the authors back then figured people were capable of doing the
work on their own. I think they were right. As a bonus, it has plans
for some very neat boats, and most of them look as good as anything made
today.

I love old books.



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J T wrote:

You guys that want good books on woodworking really need to start
checking out used bookstores. Prices are very much lower than new
bookstores, and they have books that are lonnng out of print. Not sure,


You can learn how to use an arfl and a splinth to defuliminate the
splinnoxes too.

I love old books.


Me too. I find it especially fascinating to read about how they used to
build steam locomotives in an era before electric motors were prevalent.
Not WW-related, but still. We're so spoiled, and we've lost so much
technology; except for what is preserved in those old books, which might
come in handy someday.

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On 2005-02-12, J T wrote:

You guys that want good books on woodworking really need to start
checking out used bookstores. Prices are very much lower than new
bookstores, and they have books that are lonnng out of print. Not sure,
but I think the most I've paid for any woodworking book is about $9,
lowest 50 cants. My personal woodworking library is larger than the
local library, and probably than the county library's too.


You're not buying the right books:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3779961219

$510 for a catalog. I almost bid on this thing, but the price shot over
two hundred and I passed.

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J T wrote:


Got some powertool info, besides the handtool stuff. Loads of
photos, detailed drawings, information. Several examples of steamboxes,
etc. One thing is doing curved rabbets - with a hammer and chisel.
Most of you guys would want to know how to do it with a router. By the
time you set up to do it with a router, you probably could have done
half a dozen by hand..


I don't know how you'd do it with a router. Since most are curved, the
angle changes along the curve, etc. You have to loft it out, cut the rabbet
with a chisel in particular locations along the rabbet, then 'connect'
them.


I love old books.


While it's still in print, I really like "The Complete Woodworker" edited
by Jones. It was put together aournd the turn of the 20th century so it's
all handtools, but the joint, technique, etc info I think is more than
worth the price of the book. I think it's still in print.

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Restoration of my 82 year old Herreshoff S-Boat sailboat:

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Steambending FAQ with photos:

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On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 02:27:35 -0500, the inscrutable Silvan
spake:

J T wrote:

You guys that want good books on woodworking really need to start
checking out used bookstores. Prices are very much lower than new
bookstores, and they have books that are lonnng out of print. Not sure,


You can learn how to use an arfl and a splinth to defuliminate the
splinnoxes too.

I love old books.


Me too. I find it especially fascinating to read about how they used to
build steam locomotives in an era before electric motors were prevalent.
Not WW-related, but still. We're so spoiled, and we've lost so much
technology; except for what is preserved in those old books, which might
come in handy someday.


Me, three! I love reading about the lost arts.

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Sat, Feb 12, 2005, 10:53am (EST+5) (Ed=A0Clarke) says:
You're not buying the right books:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=3D3779961219
$510 for a catalog. I almost bid on this thing, but the price shot over
two hundred and I passed.

Old catalogs, interesting, but once the price for one goes over a
dollar or two, my interest goes too. I think the most I ever paid for
one was a repro early Sears catalog for about $5, and it was about 2
inches thick. And you've got to remember, on eBay, you also got
shipping.



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On 12 Feb 2005 10:53:45 GMT, the inscrutable Ed Clarke
spake:

On 2005-02-12, J T wrote:

You guys that want good books on woodworking really need to start
checking out used bookstores. Prices are very much lower than new
bookstores, and they have books that are lonnng out of print. Not sure,
but I think the most I've paid for any woodworking book is about $9,
lowest 50 cants. My personal woodworking library is larger than the
local library, and probably than the county library's too.


You're not buying the right books:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3779961219

$510 for a catalog. I almost bid on this thing, but the price shot over
two hundred and I passed.


Interested in going to 42 volts lighting? Here is a paperback book of
research along that line:

http://www.sae.org/servlets/productD...PROD_CD=RR-018

The mere $510 pales in comparison, wot?

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I remember seeing just recently in one of the mega bookstores a catalog from
the Cumberland General Store. What was neat about it was that it looked
just like those old catalogs, and they sold many of the same old useless
gadgets. I did a short web search and found some references to the place
but could not find their site. I'll check to see if the catalogs is still
carried at the store, Amazon has an old one (1991) listed for $15.00

John C

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Sat, Feb 12, 2005, 10:53am (EST+5) (Ed Clarke) says:
You're not buying the right books:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3779961219
$510 for a catalog. I almost bid on this thing, but the price shot over
two hundred and I passed.

Old catalogs, interesting, but once the price for one goes over a
dollar or two, my interest goes too. I think the most I ever paid for
one was a repro early Sears catalog for about $5, and it was about 2
inches thick. And you've got to remember, on eBay, you also got
shipping.



JOAT
Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.
- David Fasold


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Ed Clarke wrote:
On 2005-02-12, J T wrote:


You guys that want good books on woodworking really need to start
checking out used bookstores. Prices are very much lower than new
bookstores, and they have books that are lonnng out of print. Not sure,
but I think the most I've paid for any woodworking book is about $9,
lowest 50 cants. My personal woodworking library is larger than the
local library, and probably than the county library's too.



You're not buying the right books:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3779961219

$510 for a catalog. I almost bid on this thing, but the price shot over
two hundred and I passed.

Did you see what he started the bid at? $8.99. It fetched $510. Makes me
wonder how much he paid for it.
Joe
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J T wrote:

Sat, Feb 12, 2005, 10:53am (EST+5) (Ed Clarke) says:
You're not buying the right books:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3779961219
$510 for a catalog. I almost bid on this thing, but the price shot over
two hundred and I passed.

Old catalogs, interesting, but once the price for one goes over a
dollar or two, my interest goes too. I think the most I ever paid for
one was a repro early Sears catalog for about $5, and it was about 2
inches thick. And you've got to remember, on eBay, you also got
shipping.



JOAT
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- David Fasold

Keep it in the outhouse?


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Hey guys,
Check out abebooks.com for your old and maybe out-of-print books. I am
not affiliated, just a past customer.
I like old books too.
Joe






J T wrote:

One of my books surfaced the other day, and I was looking through
it. It's one of those I got at my favorite used book store.

Ttitle: BUILD A BOAT For Pleasure or Profit (It's East To Build
Your Own Boat). It's a Popular Mechanics Press book, copyrighted 1941.

Got some powertool info, besides the handtool stuff. Loads of
photos, detailed drawings, information. Several examples of steamboxes,
etc. One thing is doing curved rabbets - with a hammer and chisel.
Most of you guys would want to know how to do it with a router. By the
time you set up to do it with a router, you probably could have done
half a dozen by hand..

You guys that want good books on woodworking really need to start
checking out used bookstores. Prices are very much lower than new
bookstores, and they have books that are lonnng out of print. Not sure,
but I think the most I've paid for any woodworking book is about $9,
lowest 50 cants. My personal woodworking library is larger than the
local library, and probably than the county library's too.

Books like this are geared toward people who aren't professionals,
and have pretty clear instructions. Or, at least what I consider clear.
I guess the authors back then figured people were capable of doing the
work on their own. I think they were right. As a bonus, it has plans
for some very neat boats, and most of them look as good as anything made
today.

I love old books.



JOAT
Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.
- David Fasold

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Larry Jaques wrote:

Interested in going to 42 volts lighting? Here is a paperback book of
research along that line:

http://www.sae.org/servlets/productD...PROD_CD=RR-018


There is a "42 volt electrical system architecture" in some kind of
vehicle? What kind? I am baffled...

As an aside, why does everything technical have to be an "architecture"
now-a-days? Whatever happened to "system"; does "architecture" make it
sound more fancy then "bunch of wires carrying current"?

PK
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On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:29:07 -0500, (J T)
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I sometimes go to new bookstores with the specific goal of checking
specific books. A few time have found a book I wanted, but waaaay too
expensive; so I've bought a used copy on-line. I shop around on-line
too. A number of times I've gotten out-of-print books I really wanted,
for less than $20 (ncluding shipping), and most places were asking way
more, like $30-35, not including shipping. Nice thing about used
bookstores, you can run across books you've never even heard of, at some
really reasonable prices - $4-7 usually.


Just outside of the town where I grew up there was a place called
Baldwin's Book Barn.

http://www.bookbarn.com/

It was just like what its name says; a barn full of books.

It was an easy bike ride and I used to go there maybe every other
weekend when I was a kid.

A lot of the books were only a dime or a quarter and they would take
old books in trade.

Unfortunately I traded in my Tom Swift Jr. collection to buy some
stuff that was probably far less memorable. I'd like to have those
books today. I'm just glad I didn't trade my Hornblower books, or the
Albert Payson Terhune (sp?) series, because my kids read them now.

Baldwin's Book Barn may have been the cause of my becoming a
Philosophy major in college. When I was in my teens I was a great fan
of anything having to do with The American Civil War (cf: War Between
The States, War Of Northern Aggression, et al.)

On one trip I picked up a book that I intended to use for a book
report. I figured it would fit right in with my current interests of
the time. It was called, "The Rebel", by some dude named Albert Camus
(which I pronounced as "Caymuss"). I maybe should have paged through
it before writing it down as my choice for the report.

My tenth grade English teacher was both surprised and intrigued by my
choice - and my life took a sharp left turn - from which it has yet to
recover.

I still love old books and the places that hold them. I love the
musty smell and browned edges - and the connection between me and
someone of another time.


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For used books worldwide try www.abebooks.com.


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snowdog wrote:
I remember seeing just recently in one of the mega bookstores a catalog from
the Cumberland General Store. What was neat about it was that it looked
just like those old catalogs, and they sold many of the same old useless
gadgets. I did a short web search and found some references to the place
but could not find their site. I'll check to see if the catalogs is still
carried at the store, Amazon has an old one (1991) listed for $15.00


It's down right now but when it's working it's
http://www.cumberlandgeneral.com/
The store's not as big as you'd guess by the catalog.
Joe
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