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New Ebook: K And D Catalog Of Tools No. 6, Ca. 1908

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I've completed the creation of an electronic version of the Kendrick & Davis Book Of Tools Number 6 (circa 1908).

 

This book contains some information about the Inverto staking tools that is of slightly earlier vintage than that found in Staking Tools and How To Use Them (circa 1910).

 

The best part of this book is the (hundreds of?) well executed engravings of different watchmakers tools. There is also a short tutorial on poising at the end of the catalog.

 

I've posted screen resolution scans at http://kanddinverto.weebly.com/k-and...6-ca-1908.html

The entire book is available as a single pdf of high resolution scans at https://www.dropbox.com/s/4ww2xyb467...lsNo6.pdf?dl=0

 

This book was scanned and converted with a new method compared to Staking Tools and How to Use Them. The new method resulted in a far smaller file size at the cost of some (hopefully unnoticeable) compression. Any comments about the relative readability of the two different methods would be greatly appreciated.

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Thanks for doing the conversion. For those primarily interested in the text, your compressed OCR version should be helpful.

 

For those interested in both the illustrations and the text, there is an OCR version posted with minimal compression at

 


 

The file is still fairly large, but there's no way around it if you want the illustrations as close to the originals as possible.

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