An easy-to-read description of the basic tools found in a toolbox.

"Featuring over 500 entries on tools categorized by function, Compendium of Tools is a celebration of home improvement and skilled craftwork. The book covers a variety of tools used by amateurs, both hand tools and power tools, and offers some background information, interesting history, care tips, advice on what projects they are best for, and suggestions of other similar tools to consider adding to a collection. With detailed entries and illustrations,...

Whether you're interested in becoming a handyman or developing artisanal woodworking skills, the place to begin is by learning the fundamentals of using basic workshop tools correctly. The place to find out how is right here. Make: Tools is shop class in a book. Consumer-level 3D printers and CNC machines are opening up new possibilities for makers. But there will always be a need for traditional workshop skills and tools. Charles Platt's Make: Tools...

"Simple text and photographs present garden tools and how they are used"--Provided by publisher.

Explains the history, uses, operation, and maintenance of hundreds of hand and power tools, arranged in thirty-one major categories.

This book teaches young readers what a wedge is, how it is useful, and discusses how wedges can make daily work less difficult to complete.