On 2010-07-03 Bob N. Johnson, wrote: Bought this book hoping to use it to teach my son geometry through practical application, but the author has little if any understanding. Also, for a book that is promoted as ´shows that one needn´t be a master mathematician to assure accuracy in projects, nor use space-age, high-tech equipment to achieve near-perfect results´, it spends a lot of time on the use of transits and even mentions lasers. This book would have benefited from a stand alone chapter listing basic layout tools and how to use them along with a chapter on the construction of jigs, fixtures, templates, and storyboards. If and when these basic tools and tricks are mentioned it is often buried and mentioned in passing. Examples of this are the use of the sliding T-Bevel for transferring angles or finding complementary angles and the simple marking gauge.
This statement in the Amazon review should have sent up a red flag, ´This is the book to tell you everything you need to know before you get started.´ While there is some very good information in this book it does not leave the reader with the knowledge and tricks that carpenters and masons have been passing down for generations.
What we had hoped to buy was what was described in the Product Description, ´Provides simple techniques for accurate measuring using a number of basic tools.´ This is only partially true; this promise is a halfhearted incomplete attempt, missing many simple techniques. Examples of which are the use storyboards for transferring multiple measurements, the use of jigs and fixtures, or even a mention of transfer punches. The information on page 29 for dividing a circle is especially wrong and a very good example of how the author has little understanding of simple techniques or geometry.. And summed up by saying Too basic and not in a good way.. Currently Measuring, Marking, and Layout: A Builder´s Guide has an overall rating of 8 over 10.
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