More than 100 pen-and-ink sketches and descriptions of old tools and the things that were made with them.

Includes index.

The romance of tools -- Crude shops, magnificent results -- An ax is an axe -- A world of axes -- The broad axe -- How the broad axe was used -- A giant and a midget -- The hatchet -- Hammers -- The axe and the log house -- The adze -- Canoes and bowls -- Wedges and froes -- The fine art of splitting -- Tools with legs -- The American horse -- For making "snitzels" -- Little shavers and big -- The days of river rafting -- Tools of the river lumberman -- Of cider and apple butter -- To remove bark -- Two heads are better than one -- The chisel -- Chisels and gouges -- Planes -- The moulding plane -- The rabbet -- The plow -- Early American saws -- A gallery of frame saws -- The biggest saws -- To make a hole -- To make a hole bigger -- To make a bigger hole -- The brace or bitstock -- The things you'll find in a barn -- Some were special -- These were tools too -- Jacks -- The blacksmith -- Wrought nailmaking -- Tanners and curriers -- About wheels -- It's all in the way you hit it -- Hay implements -- Knives and grass -- Found in the barn.