Power Tools: An Electrifying Celebration and Grounded Guide

Sandor Nagyszalanczy

Taunton Press, 2001 - House & Home - 266 pages

The ultimate tool book, Power Tools is the next best thing to owning every tool on the planet. Featuring more than 200 tools from classics to the most inventively engineered newcomers, this book shows power tools and machines as they've never been seen before. Power Tools takes the reader inside the tools, explains how they work, compares the features that make great tools, and shows the accessories that make great tools versatile.

• Explores the ingenious engineering behind each tool's design.
• Includes more than 400 color photographs and tables of specifications.
• Takes a look into the future, including cutting-edge tool technology.

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Tool junkies are sure to fall in love with this survey of power tools from a former editor of Fine Woodworking magazine. Detailing both portable and stationary power tools, this work covers not their ...

About the author

Sandor Nagyszalanczy of Bonny Doon, California is a professional furniture designer and freelance writer, photographer and consultant. With nearly 25 years of experience building custom furniture, he is a former senior editor of Fine Woodworking magazine and has appeared on The History Channel's "Modern Marvels" and ABC Television's "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings." Sandor has authored and photographed nine books published by the Taunton Press, including: Woodshop Jigs and Fixtures, Fixing and Avoiding Woodworking Mistakes, Woodshop Dust Control, The Wood Sanding Book, The Art of Fine Tools, Setting Up Shop and Power Tools: An Electric Celebration and Grounded Guide, The Homeowner's Ultimate Tool Guide, and Tools Rare and Ingenious.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Power Tools: An Electrifying Celebration and Grounded Guide; Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis Series
• Author: Sandor Nagyszalanczy
• Photographs by: Sandor Nagyszalanczy
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Taunton Press, 2001
• ISBN: 1561584274, 9781561584277
• Length: 266 pages
• Subjects: House & Home / Do-It-Yourself / General; House & Home / Power Tools