The Precision Handcutting of Dovetails

By Cecil E. Pierce

In this book, Cecil Pierce, author of Fifty Years A Planemaker and User, addresses the subject of dovetails, the strongest and most beautiful of joints. As with his first book, he guides the reader through the entire process of handcutting a dovetail by means of detailed photographs and commentary, with a number of new and practical suggestions for problems encountered along the way. Later in the book, Pierce returns to the subject of wooden handplanes, including the discovery of a new method for precision adjustment of the iron. This book exemplifies Pierce’s simplifying and painstaking philosophy of woodworking.

56 pages. 8-1/2 x 11. B&W photographs throughout. Hard cover. $18.00. (1995)
ISBN 0962800147