This book contains an introductory guide to woodworking, originally designed for use in schools and proudly republished here as a handbook for modern students of carpentry. Comprehensive yet concise and easy-to-digest, this book will be of much value to the novice woodworker and to those looking to embrace woodworking as an avocation. The chapters of this book include: 'Laying-out Tools - Their Uses', 'Saws', 'Planes', 'Boring Tools - Boring', 'Chisels and Chiselling', 'Form Work - Modelling', 'Laying Out Duplicate Parts - Scraping and Sandpapering - Fastening Parts', 'Type Forms', 'Elementary Cabinet Work', 'Wood', 'Lumbering and Milling', et cetera. This text has been chosen for republication due to its timeless educational value, and we are proud to republish it here complete with a new introduction to woodworking.