Coffin-Making and Undertaking
edited by Paul N. Hasluck
reprinted by Lindsay Publications

Are you dead? No? Are you sure? Plan to be soon? Just wanna be? ...because your income is so low and taxes so high? Then get started building a coffin. It's easy, useful, and oh, so comfortable.

From over a hundred years ago comes this handy manual with chapters like: special appliances, Lancashire coffins, southern counties and other coffins, children's coffins, adults' covered coffins, Polishing, inscription plates, trimming or lining, ornamented and panelled coffins, shells and outer coffins, lead coffins, and a quick course in undertaking.

Being British, it's interesting to see the variations in styles and construction techniques. As small as England is compared to the U.S., the variation from one county to the next is impressive.

So what can you do with this? (do I have to think for you, too?) Geez... the most obvious application other than burying the dead would be as a sidecar for your Harley. That oughta freak people out!

What I'm going to do is have a coffin in the living room during the next family get-together. When the ol' bitch aunts get a look at that, they will run out of the place screaming. The rest of us will open the coffin and find it to be fiberglass-lined and filled with crushed ice and beer. We'll party while the aunts are running down the road. 'Course maybe I'll build a double or triple-wide model and bury all the aunts in the same coffin. A good way to save a little money, I suspect. (and get some relief from their know-it-all nagging...)

Interesting book. Historical, and, believe it or not, practical. This is woodworking at its best! Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 96 pages

No. 23829 ... $9.95