| Publisher | Year | ISBN |
| Sterling Publishing Company | 1981 | 0-8069-6264-X |
Ken Greenberg
It's probably hard to come up with any new ideas for jigs, fixtures, or techniques that Robert Wearing hasn't already thought of. This book is mentioned with some frequency on the old tools list for good reason. Someone will come up with a problem they need to solve, and another galoot will simply point out that the answer is already available in this book.
The book is divided up into seven sections - holding devices, marking aids, tools, lathe aids, drilling aids, sawbench aids, and miscellany. The last covers drawing and disc sanding. Over 200 ideas are presented across these areas. The descriptions tend to be short, but there are many illustrations. Between the two, there should be no problems in constructing anything in the book that you need. Everything you would expect to find is here - shooting boards, shop-made clamps, specialized planes, gages, and so on.
This is the perfect book for the galoot with a short attention span. A few of the ideas presented here cover more than a page, but many are significantly less. Thus, you can read it in the midst of any task that requires a lot of short breaks. A better use, however, would be to treat it as a reference book and look up exactly what you need.