Rebuilding Libri GmbH Rebuilding Without Power: Volume Three: The Workshop | Making and Keeping Tools Without Electricity - Charcoal, Forging, Casting, Green Woodworking, ... Rope, Tanning, Lime, Soap and Pottery: 3

Every tool was made by a worse tool.You do not need a good lathe to build a good lathe. You need a rough one, which makes a better one, which makes a good one. That chain is how every workshop in history got started, and it is what this book is about.This is Volume Three of Rebuilding Without Power, and it assumes there is nothing to buy: no hardware store, no power tool, no welding gas, no new steel. It starts with a wood fire and a pile of scrap and works forward - charcoal, forge, hammer, first tools, and then everything those tools make.Inside: - Burning your own charcoal, and building a forge and bellows out of salvage- Reading scrap steel by its sparks - what will harden and what never will- Drawing out, upsetting, punching, forge welding, hardening and tempering- Your first three tools, and the order to make everything else in- Melting and casting metal in a crucible, with sand moulds and patterns- Green woodworking, the shaving horse, and the joints that hold without glue- The pole lathe - the first machine tool, built from a sapling- Steam bending, coopering, and wooden screws that give you real clamping force- Cordage and rope from plant fibre, baskets, tanning, and leatherwork- Burning lime for mortar, making soap from ash and fat, firing pottery without a wheel- Handles, saw sharpening, and rust - the maintenance nobody writes down31 step-by-step line diagrams, a full bootstrapping sequence showing what to build in what order and what each stage unlocks, a troubleshooting section covering the failures of every craft in the book, and a glossary of the trade vocabulary.It is blunt about danger - quicklime, molten metal, lye, hot pitch, hides, and the many ways a forge will hurt you - and blunt about its own limits.Volume One covers shelter and water. Volume Two covers food and heat.