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By James Hennessey, Victor J. Papanek

ISBN-10: 0394475771

ISBN-13: 9780394475776

ISBN-10: 039470228X

ISBN-13: 9780394702285

Ever ask yourself how one can do construct light-weight furnishings your self that's far better than the ubiquitous Swedish save? try out the unique as defined during this booklet. nice principles undying of their use.

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Ce n te r an d righ t: Str ap s are r ivete d to th e handles, r un th rough th e eyes, and cl inche d . L ength of head s, 3% to 4 % in ches. 43 AiVlE R ICAN W O O DW O R K IN G TOOLS • FIG UR E 30. M allet . Rectangu lar head with gnarled and swirl ing grain is ma de from th e burl of a tr ee. Length of head, 5 ~ inches. 44 Som e Basic Tool s • splitt ing. The heavy m aul , kn own as a "beetle" or "comma nder," was m ade wit h a head six inches or more in di am eter and at least a foot long .

Our present age of steel and the machine can be considered a part of the Iron Age. These "ages" of man are in fact not strictly datable; they are relative cultural time frames . Thus, a Stone Age tool may be one made by the earliest tool-making man, by a nineteenth-century Australian aborigine, or by a twenti ethcentury Indian of the upp er Amazon; th e implements of each of these tool-makers are the product of a Stone Age culture. Stone Age man made his core, flake, and blade tools by a variety of methods, including percussion ( striking a stone core with a heavy, hand-held hammerstone or with a lighter bone or wooden "baton") ; pr essure flaking (splitting away flakes of stone with a pointed bone or stick ) ; and grinding and polishing.

After reheat ing, th e tool was qu ench ed by plungin g it in wa ter or other liquid. When th e ability to measure temperature accurately and kn owled ge of th e pr operti es of metal were limited , obtaining th e desir ed result of th e temp erin g pr ocess was largely accidenta l. But th e ironw ork er discovered by experience th at heatin g th e metal to certain temp eratures th at he could identify by color -light straw, dark stra w, light purple, or blu e - produ ced th e qu aliti es required for a specific tool.

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