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From Truths to Tools - Jim Tolpin and George Walker

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From Truths to Tools. Authors, Geo. R Walker & Jim Tolpin

Illustrated by Andrea Love

Good books give you a glimpse of small truths - about workbenches, joinery or sharpening, for example. Great books, on the other hand, stitch together seemingly disparate ideas to present a new way of looking at the whole world, from your marking awl, to your hand or to the line of the horizon. From Truths to Tools is a hand-illustrated work that masquerades as a children's book. There are funny drawings. There aren't a lot of words. You can read the entire 208-page book in one sitting.But From Truths to Tools somehow explains the craft, the entire physical world, our language and geometry in a way that makes you feel like the authors have revealed a huge secret to you. One that has been sitting in front of you your entire life.

From Truths to Tools begins with an explanation of a circle and a single point, and it then shows how those simple ideas can be used to create an entire set of layout tools, a try square, a straightedge, dividers etc. that allow you to build furniture.Once you understand the language behind your tools, very complicated things become easy to understand... compound joinery, fitting odd miters, making curves that taper.And once you get those ideas in your head, it is a short hop to grasp how those same ideas can be applied to building anything of any shape imaginable - skyscrapers, boats, bridges. When you can calculate if a tree will hit you when you fell it in the forest, you will be able to calculate the circumference of the earth.

From Truths to Tools is the third book from the geometry-loving team of Jim Tolpin and George Walker. Their first book, By Hand & Eye , makes the case that simple whole-number ratios are the underpinning to the built world and our furniture. Their second book, By Hound & Eye , gives you the exercises that open your eyes to the way geometry and ratios govern our world. And the third, From Truths to Tools , shows how geometry creates our tools and, once understood, leads to a deeper grasp of the things we build, the world around us and even our language.


ISBN 978-0-9978702-5-1

208 pages, Paperback

Norm Reid's Book Review of From Truths to Tools - Jim Tolpin and George Walker .

Publisher: Lost Art Press
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