TMBR#1 (as we now usually call it for short) includes working drawings and detailed instructions for making 15 useful and practical machinists tools and lathe accessories, PLUS much good info on a wide variety of machine shop topics.

Here is the complete Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Acknowledgements
• Notes to Reader
• The Scrap Patrol
• Standards of Workmanship
• Cross-Fertilization
• A Source of Welding Rod for Fine Welds
• An outfit you should know about (Brownell's Inc.)
• Filing in the Lathe and Elsewhere
• A Low-Cost Granite Surface Plate
• A Cutting Speed Chart from American Machinist Magazine
• Two not-so-common Ways of Measuring Holes
• How to Put on a Mighty Fine Cut
• Some Notes on Reaming and Tapping
• Figuring the Minor Hole Diameter for any Thread
• Drilling to an Exact Depth
• How to Sharpen a Centerpunch (properly!)
• A Device for Indicating Centerpunch Marks to run true in the lathe
• How to Get More Work Done in the Shop
• Cold Rolled Steel - What it is, and How to Stress Relieve it
• A Fix for Electrical Cords that are Hard to Plug In
• A Jig for Sharpening Drills from 1/8" to #60 (Detailed working drawings)

• A Small Depth Gauge and a Small Tap Wrench (Detailed working drawings)

• Swivelling Base Fixture for a 2" Wilton Vise (Detailed working drawings)
• Other ways of Workholding
• Dividing and Indexing
• Indexing on a Rotary Table
• Shop-made Division Plates from Bandsaw Blades
• Dual Set Screws for V-Belt Pulleys
• An Excerpt from the fiction story, Strike While the Iron is Hot. (Includes info on a fail safe method of heat treating small cutters.)
• Bernzomatic Torches and Homemade Propane Torches
• How to Make Your Own Reamers
• How to Make a Caliper-type Knurling Tool (Detailed working drawings)

• How to Make a Tool for Straight Knurling (Detailed working drawings)
• A Note re Slitting Saws (and detailed working drawings for a good slitting saw arbor)
• Fruit Acids and Fine Tools don't Mix
• Some Notes for Myford Lathe Owners
• A Simple Lathe Carriage Index
• Holding Thin Work in the Chuck
• A Graduated Handwheel for the Lathe Leadscrew* (and a ..."Rubberdraulic" Slip-Ring Lock)
• Ball Turning without Specialized Attachments, and ...
• an unusual type of Ball Handle for which you'll find lots of applications (Detailed working drawings)
• Oddleg Artistry - fine and speedy results from "eyeball" methods
• Grasping Groove Cutter (dimensioned drawings)
• A Finger Plate or Flat Vise (Detailed working drawings)

• Designing and Fitting Split Cotters
• A Small Scribing Block (Detailed working drawings)
• Cutter Blocks and Shop Made Cutters

• Some Info on Silver Soldering
• A machinists' short story: The Secret of the Old Master, wherein a young toolmaker attempts to learn the secret behind the legendary reputation of a master rifle barrel maker.
• A Toolroom-grade Sling Swivel Base for Tubular Magazine Rifles (Detailed working drawings)
• Gun Making (and some info on how one chap made several from scratch)
• Some Ideas on making Bullet Molds
• Designing and/or Deciphering Verniers
• Some Thoughts on Tool Storage
• The Ultimate Box Latch (Detailed working drawings)

• Working Drawings for a Machinist's Wooden Toolchest
• Imitation Ivory
• The Machinist's Workbench and Other Ideas
• Simple Workbench Legs
• Re-babbitting Machinery Bearings
• Some notes on Photo-Etching
• How to Handle New Coils of Music Wire
• Some Workholding and other Ideas from Texas
• For the Camera Buff
• Why Not Build a Harmonograph?
• A Set of Heavy Brass Napkin Rings (working drawings)
• Model Internal Combustion Engines
• Clock Making
• Sharpening Tungsten Carbide Tools
• A Hand Beading Tool for Sheet Metal
• Dimensions for Many Sizes of Toolmakers Clamps and How to Make them (Detailed working drawings)
• Some Notes on Spring Making
• Tool Stands
• The fascinating account (and photos) of A Beautiful Little Lathe Secretly Built and Used in a Japanese POW Camp, by R. Bradley
• 3 Useful Accessory Lathe Faceplates (Detailed working drawings)
• Metal Polish - bought and home made
• The Blueing of Steel
• Should you turn wood on your metal lathe?
• Some Thoughts on Lathe Cleaning
• A Corrosion Preventive Cutting Compound
• Shipyards and Home Shop Machinists are in the Same Boat
• A Fair Return for One's Work
• Cold Working of Steel
• A Cobalt-free Tool Steel that Outperforms HSS
• Good Advice on Getting Ahead
• A Source of Information on Old Time Pack Casehardening Methods (see TMBR#2)
• Sharpening Safety Razor Blades
• Making Welded Steel Boxes
• Some Tricks you may not know about Handling a Triangular Scraper

A collection of machine shop anecdotes:

• How Bill Fenton Came to Join the Army
• Matilda Jane
• "Stealing the Trade"
• Helping the War Effort
• How Not to Get a Welding Ticket
• Delphon and the Adding Machine
• The Sleepy Apprentice Boy
• A 19th Century Machinist's Apprenticeship
• An In-situ Shaft repair
• How to Impress Your Mother-in-Law
• A worst-case Method of Removing a Jammed-on Lathe Chuck
• One Way to Ruin a Lathe
• A Coal Miner's Cure for Headaches
• Where gears come from

And back to more serious stuff:

• A Saleable Product
• A Source of Project Plans
• Some Interesting items in Popular Science Magazine
• Finger Knobs
• Calculations re V-belt Drives
• Some Useful Temperature Bench Marks
• Some Screw Thread Data
• Socket Head Capscrew Dimensions
• First Impressions of the Darex M3 Drill Sharpener.

And..... a list of suppliers of interest to people who would like this book

210 pages, 8-1/2" x 11", soft bound