Squares are indispensable shop tools for layout and measurement, and also invaluable for aligning shop machines.
Hand Tools
Hand Tools, from Canadian Woodworking, provides reviews and detailed insights on the hand tools essential to every woodworker’s shop.
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To hand carve furniture hardware a lot of knives on the market are just not suitable. What you really need is a knife with a short, thin, and very sharp blade.
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Felling, splitting & chopping – grandpa’s tool kit Part 3
Tools used at the turn of the 20th century to harvest trees for lumber.
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Securing and preparing tools – grandpa’s tool kit part 2
Tools of the 19th century used to secure and prepare wood.
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19th Century rural Canada woodworking tools. What a voyage of discovery this family story would become!
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A good set of chisels is an important shop purchase. Next to hand planes and saws, chisels are the next most frequently used hand tools.
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Veritas has introduced two new products that are getting a lot of woodworker’s attention: the Veritas Medium Shoulder Plane and the Veritas Scraping Plane.
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This is one sweet plane!
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There are all manner of marking and cutting gauges on the market and many have been around for ages – Noah probably used one while building the ark.
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Spokeshaves: life on the cutting edge
The spokeshave fits nicely between the drawknife and the handplane.
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Introduction to handsaws – part 2
This article covers traditional and contemporary Japanese style saws.
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Introduction to handsaws – part 1
There is a level of satisfaction and enjoyment you get from hand planing a surface or hand sawing a tenon that you don’t get in using a jointer or table saw.
