Back to Basics Book Learn Traditional Practical Skills Hunting tools Tanning Blacksmithing Saddlery

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1 Back to Basics Book… How to Learn and Enjoy Our Traditional Skills, 1981, Stated First Edition, 456 pages…

It’s packed with hundreds of projects and illustrated step-by-step sequences to help you learn to live more self-sufficiently, with sections on shelter, alternative energy sources, growing and preserving food, home crafts, and even recreation. Includes over 2,000 photos, diagrams and drawings.

Part One – Land Buying it and building on it
Part Two – energy from Wood, water, Wind, and sun
Part 3 – Raising your own vegetables, fruit and livestock
Part 4 – Enjoying your harvest the year round
Part 5 – Skills and crafts for House and Homestead
Part 6 – Recreation at Home and in the wild.

used, pages are intact, shows some shelf wear

2 Gene Logsdon’s Practical Skills A Revival of Forgotten Crafts, 1985 Techniques and Traditions Book,

Home Improvement – from planning the workshop to painting, gutter repairs, roof leaks, all types of finishing, drilling holes in cement, endless listings; Home Productivity – Making and Making Do – from dyeing to butcher blocks, quilts, rugs, brooms, useful objects, things for kids, etc, everything about food preparation – handling milk from the cow to the refrigerator, butchering a chicken, practical wild foods, etc. The Yard and Garden – Things to build and maintain – anatomy of a homestead, a practical privy, wood heated fruit dryer, hoemanship, horse manure hotbeds, bug fighters, etc, Around the Barn and Livestock – everything, On the Land: In the Fields and Woodlot Management. The selections under each heading is numerous, and many are unique, way to many to list.

Contents: Part I: Home Improvement: The Home Workshop – Maintaining and R repairing – Home Comfort and Wood Stoves — Part II: Home Productivity: Making and Making Do: everyday household items – Food Preparation from farm animals — Part III: In the Yard and Garden: Things to Build and Maintain from Septic Tanks to Walls and Fences and Barbeques – Garden Skills — Part IV: Around the Barn: Construction of Coops, pigpens, corncribs and barns – Livestock: Fences, gates, milking, raising and training livestock — Part V: On the Land: In the Fields: Pastures and Crops – Woodlot Management.

name inside front cover, no RIPS, NO TEARS, BINDING TIGHT, some SHELF WEAR

3 Whittlin Whistles Thingamajigs Pioneer hunting Crafts 1974 Harlan G. Metcalf, 190 pages, indexed

history of and directions for making various projects with wood and other materials found in nature. Includes whistles, hurling stones and javelins, spears, whip-darts and slingshots, other slings, blowpipes, boomerangs, archery tackle, walking sticks, fishing tackle. Illustrated with photographs and line drawings.

exlibrary with pockets markings, binding is intact with no loose pages, shelf worn edges, dustjacket is price clipped and covered with mylar jacket.

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4 Saddlery book, E. Hartley Edwards, copyright 1963 this edition reprint 1977, 200 pages, indexed… Foreword by Lieut.-Colonel Frank Weldon. Author was managing director of a saddlery firm. Chapters on basic materials – leather and metal; principles on saddle fitting in relation to horse and rider; evolution and purpose of the…

Hardcover book with dustjacket, not price clipped, UK printing, binding is intact with no loose pages, bookseller sticker inside front cover, minimal shelf wear, no writing

5 The Art of Blacksmithing book Alex Bealer 1995 Revised edition

A nostalgic history of this ‘lost art,’ and a guide to the beginner interested in starting his own forge. Much of the information is drawn either from personal experience or that of iron workers & armour experts in America & Europe. The Art of Blacksmithing book… Alex Bealer Rev Ed 1995, 438 pages… Tells how they did it in yesteryear. Over 500 illustrations show how they made everything from knives to horsehoes, from iron grills to rifle barrels and barrel hoops… Condition , NO RIPS, NO TEARS, BINDING TIGHT, No writing,

6 Home Tanning and Leather Making book A. B. Farnham 1950

176 pages, paper covers, binding is a stapled booklet, intact with no loose pages, no rips, no tears, previous owner name in tiny letters top front cover, some pencilled pricing from book seller

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