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Euclid's Door

Euclid's Door

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“Euclid's Door: Building the Tools of ‘By Hand & Eye’” is an illustrated how-to journey through building the ancient tools that still help us to build, well, everything today. 

You’ll learn how to use basic, easy-to-follow artisan geometry to make eight indispensable wooden layout tools – tools found in every cabinetmaker’s tool chest – that you can then use to build furniture (or houses). Plus, you'll learn how to tune them up to an incredibly high level – techniques you can use in all your work. 

Tools that you will make include: a set of straightedges,  a pair of winding sticks, a try square, marking square, some handle triangles, miter squares, and a panel guage. 

As the author George R Walker states in the forward to the book, "Why should someone take this path? ...Why learn an ancient design language and the trouble of crafting these wooden tools?... I have to go way back in time and look again at the folks who first learned this language and used these tools. They didn't just build amazing things, they invented the crafts of building... They scaled heights we admire, but often we miss that they actually had to create the ladder itself to go places no one had ever gone." 

The cloth-covered hardbound 115-page book has a sewn and glued binding for durability. Like all Lost Art Craft products, "Euclid's Door" is printed in the United States.

(We also sell the Book 'By Hand & Eye' in our online store.) 

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