New Edition? - Complete Guide to Sharpening

Andrew Greensted asks:

Get the current edition. I'm not sure what could be added except maybe color pictures, anyway.

Charlie Self "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." Sir Winston Churchill

Even the book of Tom Lienielsen's (coffeetablebook?) doesn't add. Tom's book is a Lee's book/dvd + www.woodcentralcom . A good buy can be: Leonard Lee's DVD + his book. Sharpening is understanding.

KL

There seems to be a bit of a shortage of Leonard Lee's book in the UK. Would you say that Tom Lie-Nielsen's Book (easily available) is comparable? Thanks

No. I have them all and can only tell you if you cannot get the book buy the dvd/video and maybe the video of Mike Dunbar/Taunton. They are real hands on instruction. Get LL's book later. Sharpening is understanding what you are doing. The more I think about it LN's book is a disappointment.

kees

It could show you how to sharpen pencils.

Who publishes it ? I think it used to be published by Batsford (a UK publisher), but no longer. Now we're looking for imported editions from Taunton. Amazon UK certainly have the paperback.

There are several books that are as good as Leonard Lee's on "how to remove metal and make a sharp edge". What I like about it particularly is that it covers what _shape_ you should be aiming for as well. There's a lot in there about how to make left-handed grockle punches that you just won't see elsewhere.

Search Amazon.co.uk They still have according their website

kees

The original publisher was Batsford, and yes, it's now Taunton press.

As for amazon.co.uk, they do have the book listed, but it's not available direct from them, only through their 'market place' system.

Andy

They had the paperback in stock a week ago - I checked prices with it.

...before I snarfed a pristine hardback copy from eBay for £6 8-)

Yeah, it's not very convenient when you want five books, and they're only available from some combination of three suppliers. There's not even a mechanism to really make it obvious what's available from whom in order to consolidate supplier choices and pay a reasonable amount of shipping. Mom was thrilled to discover all the $0.01 used paperbacks, and she accidentally ordered from 200 different suppliers, at something like $3.75 per for shipping. She was really upset when I explained what she was about to do, but at least I saved her from catastrophe.

kees wrote in news:41c04f95$0$14941$ snipped-for-privacy@news.xsall.nl:

In general, the Tauton/Fine Woodworking "complete illustrated guide" series is disappointing (Lie-Nielsen's book is in that series). A pity, really; FWW has a lot of knowledge on their staff and they could have produced dense, comprehensive books, rather than the rather fluffy product they did.

John

But the name LN is on it! I know LN is for collectors :-( LV for using.

kees

Ouch! I've been using my LN's. In fact, I love to collet them for using. Obviously, I disagree with your statement, even with the ":-("....