Publications by Tom Clark

Practical Shop Cabinets by Tom Clark
December 2004

Practical Shop Cabinets is the home workshop book you have been looking for. No matter what your skill level is, if you have a few basic woodworking machines, you can build your own custom quality cabinets to make your shop a far more productive place to spend your time.
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The Sunday Flyer by Tom Clark
April 2008

If you are tired of flying the same old thing everyone else does, it's time to learn how to build anything you want, in any size you want. Put the fun and excitement back into your flying. TSF is filled with easy to understand tips on aircraft design and construction. TSF contains 86 full-size 8.5 x 11" pages and hundreds of clear photographs.     Details and Ordering Information

The Modern Dobsonian by Tom Clark
Revised Edition January 2005

After an article ran in the June '90 Sky and Telescope about a new telescope he designed, Tom Clark wrote The Modern Dobsonian. It is a how-to manual about taking your large, old-fashioned Dob and rebuilding it into a light-weight high-performance telescope that folds up into a small package for storage and transportation.   Price and Ordering Information

Amateur Astronomy Magazine
Tom Clark, Publisher and Editor - Quarterly Magazine 1994 - 2007

Amateur Astronomy, Observing , and Telescope Making around the world. Imagine a book nearly eight inches thick, containing thousands of pages and photographs - all on your favorite hobby. Now imagine that every three months another 68 page chapter and another hundred plus photos are added to this book. This is Amateur Astronomy Magazine! Tom sold the magazine in 2007 and is still a contributing author.
Tectron Collimination Tools     Amateur Astronomy Magazine

About the Author

Tom Clark is a retired tool and die maker. Born in 1946 in Ohio, he has lived in Florida since 1972, after discovering that, through no fault of his own, he was born in the wrong place.

Tom founded Tectron Machine Corporation in 1979, and specialized in contract machining until retiring in 1997. He started building large custom amateur telescopes in 1986 until retiring from that business in 1999. Tom became a woodworker by default after he had already built 40 wooden telescopes using only a bandsaw. Then it was decided that it was time to properly learn woodworking. Unfortunately, he had to reinvent and simplify most of what he learned to suit his practical nature. Thus his books came to be.

In 1994 he founded Amateur Astronomy Magazine and is still a contributing author for this small quarterly publication today. The magazine focuses on telescopes and observing for the amateur astronomers of the world.

The Clarks spend about four months a year traveling North America in their motorhome, and while wintering in Florida, Tom spends his days puttering around in his workshop, nights out in the observatory, and sometimes terrorizes local golf courses.

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