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Internet Resources


​The resources listed here are by no means exhaustive, but a great start to learning about traditional joinery! 
​Also, be sure to check out the following video which does a great job showing sash joinery:  

The Trade of the Joiner

Finding Antique Tools
  • Jim Bode Tools
  • The Best Things
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Learn about Historic Trades
  • Colonial Williamsburg Trades 
  • Book of Trades, or Library of Useful Arts - This is a children's book published in 1807, but provides great descriptions of all the trades to help them choose their future profession.  Thanks to Google Books for making this available!    
  • Dominy Craftsman Collection - Browse accounts from the Dominy cabinet making shop.
  • Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert - This is a tremendous resource!  This is a translation of an encyclopedia documenting the historical trades in eighteenth-century France.  
  • Joseph Moxon's Mechanic Exercises - Available online through Google Books.  This is a must-read for anyone interested in historical woodworking or blacksmithing.  This is a very early manual on smithing, house carpentry, joinery, turning, and making sun-dials published in the 1703.

Woodworking Techniques
  • Colonial Apprentice Shop - Great blog showing eighteenth-century woodworking methods.  
  • Paul Sellers Youtube Channel - Paul Sellers is a master craftsman who has been woodworking for over 50 years and has great insights on the use of hand tools and traditional joinery.  
  • The Unplugged Workshop Youtube Channel - Tom Fidgen demonstrates woodworking techniques using hand tools.
  • The Woodwright's Shop​ - Check out Roy Underhill's extensive series on PBS.  He does an excellent job showing how to construct things using only hand tools in an entertaining and highly whimsical manner.  
  • Wood by Wright Youtube Channel - James Wright has developed a strong passion for working wood with hand tools.  He presents traditional techniques in a very easy to understand and enthusiastic manner.   
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Books

​​Books on Tools
  • James Gaynor, ed., Eighteenth-Century Woodworking Tools, (Williamsburg, VA:  Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1997)
  • James M. Gaynor and Nancy L. Hagedorn, Tools: Working Wood in Eighteenth-Century America, (Williamsburg, VA:  Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1993)
  • Emil & Martyl Pollak, Guide to the Makers of American Wooden Planes, (Mendham, NJ: Astragal Press, 2001)
  • ​Garrett Hack, Classic Hand Tools, (Newtown, CT:  The Taunton Press, 1999)
  • Garrett Hack,  The Hand Plane Book, (Newtown, CT:  The Taunton Press, 1997)
  • Charles F. Hummel, With Hammer in Hand: The Dominy Craftsmen of East Hampton, New York, (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1968)
  • Herbert P. Kean & Emil S. Pollak, Collecting Antique Tools, (Morristown, NJ: Astragal Press, 1990)
  • Henry Mercer, Ancient Carpenter's Tools, (Mineola, NY:  Dover Publications, 1960)
  • Kenneth D. Roberts, Tools for the Trades and Crafts, (Fitzwilliam, NH: Ken Roberts Publishing Company, 1976)
  • R. A. Salaman, Dictionary of Woodworking Tools, (Mendham, NJ: Astragal Press, 1997)
  • Christopher Schwartz, The Workbench Design Book, (Popular Woodworking Books, 2010)
  • Christopher Schwartz, Workbenches:  From Design & Theory to Construction & Use, (Popular Woodworking Books, 2007)
  • Eric Sloane, A Museum of Early American Tools, (New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1964)
  • John M. Whelan, The Wooden Plane: Its History, Form, and Function, (Mendham, NJ: Astragal Press, 1993)

Books on Woodworking Techniques
  • Alex Bealer, Old Ways of Working Wood, (Edison, NJ:  Castle Books, 1996)
  • Paul Hasluck, The Handyman's Book, reprinted from the 1903 edition, Tiger Books International, 1998)
  • Ian Hosker, Veneering:  A Complete Course, (Guild of Master Craftsman, Ltd., 1998)
  • Bernard E. Jones, The Complete Woodworker, (Berkeley California: The Speed Press, 1980)
  • Bernard E. Jones, The Practical Woodworker, (Berkeley California: The Speed Press, 1983)
  • Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises or the Doctrine of Handy-Works, reprinted from the 1703 edition, (Morristown, NJ:  Astragal Press, 1989)
  • Eric Sloane, A Reverence for Wood, (Mineola, NY:  Dover Publications, 1965)
  • Roy Underhill, The Wood Wright's Apprentice, (Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1996)
  • Roy Underhill, The Wood Wright's Eclectic Workshop, (Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1991)
  • Roy Underhill, The Wood Wright's Guide, (Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 2008)
  • Roy Underhill, The Wood Wright's Shop, (Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1981)
  • Roy Underhill, The Wood Wright's Work Book, (Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1986)
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