Power Tools: An Electrifying Celebration and Grounded Guide FROM THE PUBLISHER
The ultimate tool book, Power Tools is the next best thing to owning every tool on the planet. Featuring more than 200 tools from classics to the most inventively engineered newcomers, this book shows power tools and machines as they've never been seen before. Power Tools takes the reader inside the tools, explains how they work, compares the features that make great tools, and shows the accessories that make great tools versatile. Power Tools delivers the spark that will bring a twinkle to every tool lover's eye. It explores the ingenious engineering behind each tool's design, including more than 400 color photographs and tables of specifications. This book also takes a look into the future, including cutting-edge tool technology.
FROM THE CRITICS
Library Journal
Tool junkies are sure to fall in love with this survey of power tools from a former editor of Fine Woodworking magazine. Detailing both portable and stationary power tools, this work covers not their uses but instead their history, design, accessories, recent development, and a prototypical "classic" model using the beautiful color photographs for which Taunton is known. Tool collectors and those considering tool purchases will find this title invaluable. A coffee-table book for craftspersons, it is recommended for public libraries. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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