The Modern Dobsonian is a telescope making how-to book on designing and building your own light-weight, high-performance telescopes from the designer of Tectron Telescopes. The book covers everything from travel scopes to the largest amateur instruments. These telescopes fold up into very small packages for easy transportability, and are easy to build. The newest edition also covers building small travel scopes. This latest edition was revised in Nov. of 2010. 92 pages  8.5x11"  $12.95



Practical Shop Cabinets is an easy to understand guide that makes designing and building shop cabinets, workbenches, and home office furniture easy. Simple plywood construction is strong, fast, light, and easy to build . No matter what size your workshop is, it's the cabinets that make or break the usefulness of your shop.  92 pages  8.5x11"  $9.95




The Sunday Flyer Turn your creativity loose and learn to design and scratch build RC aircraft – in any size you want. The Sunday Flyer will teach you the basics of scratch building and good aerodynamics.  86 pages  8.5x11"  $13.00



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No order forms are necessary. Sorry, due to our retirement, we can no longer accept credit card phone orders. For quickest delivery, please mail your check, money order, or cash to our address. We now accept PayPal. We know which book you are ordering by the price. If ordering more than one, please send an email with your instructions. Thank you!


All books please add $3.50 for postage and handling to the 48 states, and mail your check to:


Tom Clark

5450 NW 52 Ct.

Chiefland, FL  32626



To keep book prices as low as possible, all books are available direct from the author. By using high-quality black and white printing, the cost of these books are less than a single plan from many other sources, and are about half the cost of similar books. Quantity discounts are available for retail outlets.

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Starry Starry Nights  

second edition now in stock


Starry Starry Nights is about living the astronomer's dream: Observing with huge telescopes,  attending big star parties, and living under dark skies. Stop fantasizing and read about living the dream.


Starry Starry Nights covers all of the above and much more. Come with us and see what it is like…



184 pages  5.5x8.5"  200 photos  $16.95

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