Your practical, hands-on guide to engineering benchwork.
- For apprentices and amateur metalworkers looking for a no-nonsense guide
- Learn skills and procedures for files, punches, hand filers, and more
- Helpful diagrams, concise tables, and illustrative photography
- Begin a career in metalwork engineering and know the proper practices early on to avoid common mistakes
For apprentices and amateur metalworkers, this book is your practical, hands-on guide to engineering benchwork. Basic Benchwork for Home Machinists teaches you all the valuable hand tool skills and procedures for files, punches, hand filers, and more.
Well-illustrated with concise technical diagrams, tables, and black and white photos, you'll learn all the insider tricks and gain a solid foundation in the basics of engineering benchwork. With practice, these primary skills will become second nature over the course of your career or hobby as a metalworker.
Not only are these proper practices essential knowledge to get started in the industry, they will also save you spoiled work and tools!
Les Oldridge passed away shortly after he finished writing Basic Benchwork.