A woodworking forum for woodworking hobbyist and woodworking projects related and unrelated to the Shopsmith MARK V
https://forum.shopsmith.com/
And if you have Apple products you can put the PDF file in IBooks and it is there as an E-Book.Beave2012 wrote:thunderbirdbat wrote:It is available as a free PDF download now. At least I believe it is the whole book at 509 pages. http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/fplgtr/fpl_gtr190.pdfcharlese wrote:Took some time, but just finished reading Chapter 16 in the "Wood Handbook..." (Subject Finishing) In the old days it was called just the "Wood Handbook" made and published by the U.S.D.A. Forest Service Experiment Station. Now they have added the title to mention 'as an engineering material'. Myself and all my classmates got free copies from our Senator. All we had to do was ask! The books were free to anyone that asked. They probably still are."
As a side note, you if you have a android tablet/phone, you can upload that PDF onto Google Play Books and it will then be accessible as an e-book. Keep track of your pages, read on any android device... etc... pretty nice feature for 500 page PDFs.
However in reference to the above conversation. Sandpaper is like the power tool of finishing. It can be done well, but its the quick route. The cabinet scraper and hand plane is the true craftsman route. Now the real trick is if you can tell between the two as a cabinet scraper cuts the fibers while the sandpaper simply rubs em off eventually...
Hmm I wonder if the old monks that transcribed books and bibles before the printing press looked at the printing press as a cheating way to copy down information. Food for thought.