DETAILS: Paperback: 160 pages Publisher: Taunton (February 15, 2005) Language: English

The New Best of fine Woodworking Series is an admirable collection of books on woodworking and Taunton has added an outstanding book to its collection through this book. Though this is really just a collection of articles written by many different authors surrounding the general theme, but make no mistake, there is a lot of very valuable information here.
As always with Taunton, the writing/editing is excellent and the color photographs and illustrations are quite good, apart from this you read expert advice of different pros who may not agree on everything which is exactly what makes the book far better than a single author book. As for downsides to this book, it can get a bit tedious to read about tuning a block plane for the fifth time if you grasped the concept the first time it was mentioned.

All in all, a highly recommend this book as an excellent resource to all beginner to intermediate woodworkers interested in beefing up their hand plane skills and anyone else interested in a tool that mankind has been using for thousands of years.