How to make a jack plane
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References and further reading
Woodworking Practical Action Technical Brief.
How to Make a Woodworking Bench Practical Action Technical Brief.
How to Make Carpentry Tools: An Illustrated Manual Aaron Moore, Practical Action
Publishing, 1992
Carpentry Toolmaking: An instructors’ guide, Aaron Moore, Practical Action Publishing,
1993
Basic Blacksmithing: An introduction to toolmaking, David Harries, Practical Action
Publishing, 1993
Blacksmithing Instructors’ Guide: Sixteen lesson plans with teaching advice, David
Harries, Practical Action Publishing, 1993
Made in Africa: Learning from carpentry hand tool projects, Andrew Scott, Matthew Taylor
and Janet Leek, Practical Action Publications, 1993
This technical brief was originally written for the Appropriate Technology
magazine Volume 24/Number 2 September 1997 Technical Brief No 21 and
Volume 24/ Number 3 Technical Brief No 22, by Aaron Moore.
The information in this brief is from How to Make Carpentry Tools: An Illustrated
Manual by Aaron Moore, Practical Action Publications 1992.
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