Non-poisonous timber protection
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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 a Jack plane 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
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 published in the Appropriate Technology
journal Volume 18/Number 4 March 1992.
This Technical Brief is based on the ESCAP Building Technology Series No 9:
Non-poisonous timber protection, prepared by Kiran Mukerji on behalf of
ESCAP/UNCHS Joint Unit on Human Settlement, Bangkok, Thailand, 1987 and
adapted by Rod Shaw, WEDC for Appropriate Technology and printed with the
permission of ESCAP.
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