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If you're a beginner at metal working this is a great book. It's all here. If you're an old hand at metalworking you can find some good in here as well like the basics of grinding lathe tools, using measuring tools and general setup and planning of your projects.
If you want to get into scratch building models, this a great book to have.
The small manual that came with my Sherline lathe was more useful than this. I thought there would be more details on how to use a lathe (i.e. This book is geared towards an absolute beginner with no knowledge of machining, tools, or measuring. setup, cutting techniques, etc). Other reviews on Amazon, led me to believe that this book was better than it really is. Just a basic overview of the tools used in machining.
This book is very confusing. (For example, making parallel bars isn't a project, it is a trivial operation that should have been shown in the main test).I would suggest anyone interested in a home shop purchase "Machine Shop Essentials: Questions and Answers [Illustrated]" by Marlow, Frank. The diagrams are often several pages before or after the text that discusses them. The projects are incomplete or downright stupid.
A glossary and better indexing is needed. More valuable for Sherline owners. Very much for the beginner, but some good tips and techniques. Seems like there is too much detail in some places, especially in the chapter on hand tools. It's a bit dated; 1983 copyright. Later chapters on machine tools occasionally use terms that a novice would not understand.
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