Cedar Lane Press Traditional Jigs & Fixtures for Handtools: A Manual of Devices for Woodworking

Very informative... Graham's woodworking acumen shows!

Graham’s books can easily be used as companion texts to his excellent YouTube channel. His prose is straightforward and understandable. The illustrations are copious and notated. If you are interested in tools and woodworking Graham’s books will not disappoint the beginner and expert alike.

Good book full of solid jigs and fixtures. I have a couple of these books, and there is necessarily a lot of overlap between them, but Blackburn's treatment of the subject is solid and there are enough designs that you won't see elsewhere to justify the purchase cost.The book is gorgeous to look at, and therein lies the problem with the Kindle version: in order to preserve the aesthetic, the contents are presented whole-page like a PDF, meaning a) that you cannot increase the 4-point font size, and b) you cannot zoom in on an image. The Kindle panel view is awkward to use, especially when you need to reference text to an image (maybe it was intended for comic books?). So if you have a standard kindle with the 7" screen, you're not likely to find this easy to read.I returned the Kindle copy and purchased the print edition. The plus side of having the Kindle version available is that I was able to do that: I skimmed through the book, found it worth the shelf space, and placed an order for the print edition.

The book is set up nice, and has good ideas. Some of those ideas are based on a workbench like his, so keep that in mind. Most of the best stuff in there, I had already figured out on my own over the years, but there is a lot of info for the new comer.

Item arrived in a timely manner AND in pristine condition. Highly recommended seller.