Field Guide to Tools

How to Identify and Use Virtually Every Tool at the Hardward Store

John Kelsey

• Publisher: Quirk Books
• eBook ISBN:
  9781594748479
• Year: 2015

Field Guide to Tools is the ultimate guide to all the gear any handyperson requires. Hardware stores, home stores, and garden stores are full of unrecognizable items—here's how you can find out what tool is appropriate for your job and just how to go about employing it.
 
Descriptive pages outline the basic history and use for each tool, inventive alternate functions, and operating principles; component parts are illustrated by helpful diagrams; and more than 100 full-color photographs aid in identification while at the hardware store. Step-by-step directions walk you through the basics of using each tool properly and safely.
 
Don't attempt another at-home fix-it project without Field Guide to Tools!

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• I. Shop Safety
• II. Cleaning and Maintenance
• III. Home Decorating
• IV. Garden and Yard
• V. Electrical and Electronic
• VI. Carpentry and Building
• VII. Woodworking
• VIII. Fasteners
• IX. Plumbing
• X. Mechanical and Automotive
• Index
• About the Author