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Paladin Press
Softcover
978-1-58160-705-5
220 pages
8.5" x 11"
photos, illustrations

Makeshift Workshop Skills For Survival and Self-Reliance
Expedient Ways to Make Your Own Tools, Do Your Own Repairs and Construct Useful Things Out of Raw and Salvaged Materials
by James Ballou, with a foreward by Charlie Richie, Backwoodsman magazine

In today's high-tech society, even the most advanced devices and systems are not failsafe. Tools can break or wear out, batteries can go dead, and all sorts of malfunctions can render the modern conveniences we rely on totally useless. If quick replacements of failed items are not readily available, the ability to improvise and adapt in the workshop suddenly becomes very practical.

James Ballou, author of the best-selling Long-Term Survival in the Coming Dark Age, dramatically expands on the popular home workshop material in his first book to present a "makeshifter's" way of building and repairing things with only a pile of raw or salvaged materials, your hands and your mind. In this fascinating new book, he presents a wide range of unconventional, remarkably creative home workshop skills, including:

• HOMEMADE TOOLS—Make your own hammers, drills, screwdrivers, wrenches, pliers, saws, files, chisels, vises, clamps . . .

• EXPEDIENT REPAIRS—Perform sturdy repairs with ordinary glue, tape, cord, wire, dowels, nuts and bolts . . .

• MAKESHIFT CONSTRUCTION—Construct all sorts of functional items out of coat hangers, old car parts, 2 x 4s, wooden dowels, nails, rebar, coffee cans . . .

• USEFUL PROJECTS—Build a homemade forge out of an old barbeque; handle simple soldering jobs with a road flare; perform quick weld repairs with car batteries, jumper cables, and a pair of pliers . . .

Ballou also gives extensive instruction in makeshift metalworking, practical calculating skills, resourceful salvaging, plus dozens of practical tips for the craftsman or handyman who might need this information in an emergency or who simply enjoys learning about alternative ways to handle home workshop projects.

Click here to read more about Ballou's second volume, MORE Makeshift Workshop Skills.

As far back as James Ballou can remember, his interests have included survival activities — hunting, fishing, exploring, treasure hunting, backpacking, shooting, making and using tools, and just plain improvising. The author of dozens of magazine articles on various subjects, he also served four years in the U.S. Army as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division.

Click here for more information and to download a podcast interview with James Ballou.

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Paladin Press
Two softcovers
978-1-58160-705-5
978-1-58160-746-8
420 total pages
8.5" x 11"
Photos, illustrations

Makeshifter Set
by James Ballou, foreword by Jim Benson and Charlie Richie

SAVE WHEN YOU BUY BOTH OF THESE MAKESHIFT WORKSHOP BOOKS.

Double your savings with James Ballou's Makeshift Workshop books. First you'll get a discount for buying both and then you'll save every day when you use the skills and knowledge you learn from them to make your own tools, do your own repairs, and construct valuable items out of found objects. You can pay now for these two books or pay later when you have to fork over big bucks for pricey tools, parts, and repairs.

In the first volume of Makeshift Workshop Skills for Survival and Self-Reliance , Ballou provides extensive instruction in makeshift metalworking, resourceful salvaging, practical calculating skills, plus dozens of practical tips for the craftsman or handyman who might need this information in an emergency or who simply enjoys learning about alternative ways to handle home workshop projects.

In More Makeshift Workshop Skills for Survival and Self-Reliance , Ballou is back with even more plans, projects, and concepts for do-it-yourself craftsmen, preppers, and anyone interested in creative improvised workshop methods. Get set to learn how to make dozens of useful items out of nothing more than scrounged materials or common, inexpensive products found in every home.

This set is not available to wholesalers.

As far back as James Ballou can remember, his interests have included survival activities — hunting, fishing, exploring, treasure hunting, backpacking, shooting, making and using tools, and just plain improvising. The author of dozens of magazine articles on various subjects, he also served four years in the U.S. Army as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division.

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Paladin Press
Two book set
Softcovers
978-1-58160-575-4
978-1-58160-705-5
352 total pages
photos, illustrations

James Ballou's Survival Set
Long-Term Survival in the Coming Age & Makeshift Workshop Skills for Survival and Self-Reliance
by James Ballou, with a foreward by Ragnar Benson and Charlie Richie

SAVE WHEN YOU BUY BOTH SURVIVAL BOOKS.

These two essential survival books by James Ballou provide more than a blueprint for bad times ahead; the essential information in them may inspire you to attain a whole new level of self-sufficiency regardless of whether times are good or bad. Long-Term Survival teaches the essential skills and mind-set you will need to survive a complete, long-term shift in the way the world operates. Makeshift Workshop Skills dramatically expands on the material in the first book to present a makeshifter's way of building and repairing things with only a pile of raw or salvaged materials, your hands and your mind.

See the descriptions of the individual volumes for more details.

This set is not available to wholesalers.

As far back as James Ballou can remember, his interests have included survival activities — hunting, fishing, exploring, treasure hunting, backpacking, shooting, making and using tools, and just plain improvising. The author of dozens of magazine articles on various subjects, he also served four years in the U.S. Army as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division.

Click here for more information and to download a podcast interview with James Ballou.

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