The Essential Woodworker

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Robert Wearing's hand-tool bible, the finest since Hayward's legendary works.

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  • Learning hand tool method
  • Foundational technique study
  • Serious beginners

The Essential Woodworker by Robert Wearing is widely regarded as the most comprehensive hand-tool woodworking guide since the legendary works of Charles Hayward. It teaches the how and the why of working wood with hand tools, in the order a craftsman actually needs them.

  • Author: Robert Wearing
  • Format: 6 x 9 in hardbound, cloth cover, over 500 hand-drawn perspective illustrations
  • Subject: hand-tool woodworking method
  • Published by: Lost Art Press

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