'Knitting With Wire' is a book designed to be a very practical guide for the Home Workshop. Andrew has had a lifetime of working with wood, initially making spinning wheels, furniture and joinery, then including various metals, acrylic and other media into his kaleidoscopes. While living in India for two years and seeing workers struggling to perform some quite fundamental tasks in very simple workshops, he thought it would be a good idea to write a book that passed on all the information, ideas and shortcuts he had learnt and developed over the years. Specifically, that it is possible to...

This book has over 200 pages and 200 photos of accumulated home workshop experience. With no formal training, I have learnt thousands of ways of achieving a high quality result, in a safe way, in my home workshop. I explore all kinds of practices, from marking out, using saws, drills, planers, grinders, lathes, both wood and engineer's, welders and more. Lots of notes on glues, finishes, electric motors and compressed. A big point of discussion is the important one of safety. The appendix has lots of data, conversion factors and formula. Presented in a large A4 ( 8.75 x 11.5 inch ) format,...