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The Jack of All Trades: fair weather ideas on Google Book search

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Shawn writes -

"This is a great book that is no longer in print that shows how to build everything from a log cabin to a wooden bugle. Even if you can't build some of the things in this book it still can flood the imagination with great ideas." - Link.

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Posted by: toekneebullard on February 1, 2007 at 7:04 AM

This book is awesome. I love just how much of an undertaking most of the projects in there are. I built a tree fort or two in my childhood, but a log cabin?

Makes me sad though, as a lot of the book says things like "use your common sense." Remember those days? remember common sense?

sigh.

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Posted by: KWillets on February 1, 2007 at 2:45 PM

Gutenberg.org has a book called "The Scientific American Boy" that has all kinds of constructions like these. The pdf has images.

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Posted by: Becky on March 9, 2008 at 11:07 AM

It is back in print, from Applewood Books, and you can find it for around $15 at Amazon.com (ISBN 1557091854),

http://www.amazon.com/Scientific-American-Boy-Russell-Bond/dp/1557091854/ref=ed_oe_p

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