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Q re Practical Carpentry Joinery Cabinet Making + non-US purchases?

It seems that cost-wise it makes more sense to buy this book, than to download/print it.

http://www.survivorlibrary.com/library/ ... g_1826.pdf

But the choices apparently are endless!

practic - Google Search ... e&ie=UTF-8

Has anyone already bought a reprint? as noted, there is a surprisingly wide range of options in covers, possibly which edition, format; + where it comes from. (hardbound repro from India, e.g.)

1.) anyone already bought it, from where, which version?
2.) does anyone see or know of a substantive difference between original editions? as far as narrowing repros down by that factor. Seeing editions from 1826 to 1860's. I presume later is better in terms of pictures? Or not
3.) anyone ordered books from a non-euro coutry? Maybe particularly India? Advice or comments?

Waiting for reply from vendor of original, does anyone else know what size it was? (Is repro similar or smaller?)

PS, regarding original size, got this reply from a rare book vendor:
"Hi Stephen, the books measures 9 inches wide by 11 tall. The plates have a 1-inch border along the margins, but are otherwise full size."

One question answered! :)

Thanks!
smt
 
Hi Stephen,
Can’t figure how to contact you otherwise. Really enjoy your posts about using the old small Sears three knife heads. I have a c. 1990 Robland X31 euro combo. The shaper has a flat head machine screw to hold down the cutters (runs at 6000 rpm). I chamfered the bore on one of the five Sears heads I bought on eBay. It works great now as a cope head. I ground back two knives with a stubby projection on the bottom to balance the head (used a scale to weigh them). I have a couple euro blocks, rebate head with knickers. lockedge collars, etc. but the Sears head with one knife cutting is very smooth, fast to grind a knife, and old school. Newer shaper limiter tooling seems to be designed to reduce injury from inattention and boredom in a commercial setting. I’m always doing special setups, guarding, short runs, and never bored running the shaper. Some of the very old Sears cutters with the slot have bigger holes more like the big Delta molding head, but the set screw still pushes the knife slot firmly onto the head. It works great, cheap, and I can’t thank you enough.
 
hey , the problem with the print on demand books is that if you look at their listings it will say that there may be imperfections , missing or blurred pages , writing on pages and so forth. what that means is there will be some or all of those things wrong with the reprint . Amazon , Abebooks , Alibris and others are pushing that junk in a big way.some may be alright but I've been burned quite a bit with the reprints. that book and nicholsons book on stair building and hand railing are historically important works.check around to see if they were ever reprinted by a responsible book publisher like Dover. good luck
 
I don't think I will ever be able to become a carpenter, but I respect and admire those who chose this profession. They do great and beautiful things. I succeeded to make my house like a castle, due to collaborating with custom-made architectural joinery. I don't want to make advertising, but if you want, you can check the site of the company I am talking about by clicking on URL REDACTED Specialist Joinery Companies | Carpentry and Joinery | Bespoke Joinery - Exmouth - Torquay - Paington - Brixham - Plymouth[/url]. They provide awesome service and make awesome wood architectures.
So why do it then? Would you trust somebody who can't even spell Paignton? Reported as spam.
 
hey , the problem with the print on demand books is that if you look at their listings it will say that there may be imperfections , missing or blurred pages , writing on pages and so forth. what that means is there will be some or all of those things wrong with the reprint . Amazon , Abebooks , Alibris and others are pushing that junk in a big way.some may be alright but I've been burned quite a bit with the reprints. that book and nicholsons book on stair building and hand railing are historically important works.check around to see if they were ever reprinted by a responsible book publisher like Dover. good luck

I've been caught by that. I bought a 'reprint' of a classic book on lathe techniques and it was simply a text conversion of a scan, complete with text 'conversions' of the diagrams (!) by a program which also gibbered whenever it saw a fraction. It is the only new book I have ever thrown straight in the recycling.

By the way, Abe Books is owned by Amazon, so every book you buy through them makes Jeff Bezos even richer.

George B.

P.S. Stephen, your link didn't work for me, but I found the book by going direct to their website and hunting around for it. G.B.
 








 
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