"Handplane Essentials, Revised & Expanded," by Christopher Schwarz is another recent book on handplanes that is worth owning. "The Handplane book", by Garrett Hack is another important book on using planes. "Hand Planes in the Modern Shop," by Kerry Pierce Here are three books that we like, but don't stock for business reasons: Woodcraft reprinted the earlier edition at some point but I don't think that either edition is available today. It was expanded with photographs and a section on modern planemakers (circa 1984, before the current crop of modern makers). It still features Record planes, but the information has been pruned to make it more applicable to the beginning hobbyist. The copy I grew up with was the 1984 edition "Planecraft: A Woodworker's Handbook," by John Sainsbury. This however is a recent addition to my library. My copy from 1959 is the seventh edition and was expanded. It's the book lying open in the foreground of the blog picture. Hampton to help educate and promote its line of "Record" brand planes. The oldest book in this collection is "Planecraft," originally published in 1939 by C. I find I learn faster off a concisely written page that just about any other media. But I find the written word a far better use of my time. You can see many different approaches - especially now that production is available to anyone with a phone and an app. I am not against the modern way of learning via watching videos. Finney is in the process of being absorbed and the status of Astragal's out-of-print titles is up in the air. Astragal was bought by Finney Publications several years ago, and Finney was was just bought by Rowman & Littlefield. In fact, Astragal books were the very first items we ever sold. I never got a chance to meet Emil, but Marty was a wonderful person and supporter of TFWW in its earliest days. Both books were published by The Astragal Press, owned by the late Martyl and Emil Pollak. A second book by Whelan, "Making Traditional Wooden Planes," is currently out of print (and I am sad that I don't own). John Whelan wrote the comprehensive "The Wooden Plane: Its History which is an exhaustive encyclopedia of plane types and styles throughout history. Two very important books are on the endangered list. There have been serious writings about planes since Moxon, but I decided to focus on books that were only about planes, and were not about specific companies, catalog reprints, or about collecting. I was very pleased to see Lost Art Press reprint David Finck's classic "Making and Mastering Wood Planes." We of course stock it here, but in thinking about the book my mind wandered to other books on planes and I thought a round-up might be useful.
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