Worked, by Joshua Klein
Review by J. Norman Reid

Recently, Norm Reid got an opportunity to sit down with Worked, by Joshua Klein:

Joshua Klein's latest book, Worked, is a companion to his earlier volume, Joined. While Joined addressed joinery techniques, Worked is in effect a prequel whose focus is stock preparation. Worked is a slender volume that's packed with practical, down-to-earth guidance on how to work efficiently with hand tools. Its goal is simple enough: to inform readers about how hand tool woodworking can be simplified and, in the process, speeded. Klein does so by breaking down basic woodworking operations into their elemental steps and showing his preferred ways of working. In so doing, he advises his readers about where care is especially needed, and where excessive concern amounts to wasted effort.