This is a cracking good book, with great ideas and projects well explained, a lot of humour, and a lifetime’s experience in engineering. Six of the fifteen chapters of this book are expanded versions of articles which appeared in The Home Shop Machinist or Machinist’s Workshop, and cover such things as building a Variable Speed Vertical Bandsaw, Removing Broken Taps and Studs by Welding (this alone worth the cost of the book). Lifting Devices for the Small Shop, Repairing Worn or Damaged Shafts, Another Wife Pleaser(!) and Making Eggs. The author’s experience is in small commercial workshops, rather than model engineering, and some of the projects are big - the bandsaw is floor-standing, but they can generally be scaled, and anyway there are so many useable hints, tips and suggestions here it hardly matters, plus you will chuckle much more reading this book than you will with any other engineering book I have come across; this is a pleasure just to read, even if you never Build a Better Powder Measure, or Organize Your Tool Box. 226 very well produced pages. Hardbound. Bulgin Forge