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Woodworking Hand Tools

Understand Your Woodworking Hand Tools – Improve Your Woodworking

Hand tools are the core of what we do and how we build.
There’s many ways to approach your woodworking, but I’ve always believed that a minimal tool kit is the best.

Fewer tools means we  get to understand each one that bit better. We learn how they work, and build up skill with less confusion.
And in all honesty, woodworking by hand is simple. So you really can be minimal.

Below you’ll find all our posts on hand tools.
From saws to hand planes, & drills to marking tools.

There’s thoughts on buying, videos on setting up, and ideas for building you own…


The Hardpoint Saw

The Hardpoint Saw

Like any item designed to be used and then chucked, hardpoint saws are not the best type of tool to be promoting. But I did decide to use one throughout my workbench build. It was difficult to know what tooling to use in our video because I'm hoping that many people...

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Expansive Bits

Expansive Bits

It's certainly not an essential tool but if you ever come by an expansive auger it's definitely worth grabbing as they're a great get out of shite card in the workshop. I've had this one for years and its come in useful many times when drilling out for something a bit...

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I Saw A Vice

I Saw A Vice

When I first started in woodwork I was shown how to sharpen my saws within a very makeshift device. It was simply a piece of wood as long as the saw with a kerf cut in to it to about ninety percent of its depth so that the saw could be slotted in place. The whole...

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My Essential Non Essential

My Essential Non Essential

Firstly we'd both like to say a big thank you to everyone for their response to our recent announcement. We've been reading through all of your comments and emails and have been somewhat overwhelmed by the level of support. This means a huge amount to us and will...

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I Think Jack is John?

I Think Jack is John?

This post is no more than idle chit chat and surmising, but I find it can be fun at times to have a good ponder as to  why things have the names they have. When there isn't a brawl in the pub here, this is the kind of nonsense conversations that can come out. With...

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Rebate Refurb

Rebate Refurb

I've managed to find some spare minutes this morning so I decided to take a quick look at refurbishing an old wooden shoulder plane which I've had laying around but never used. These rebate planes can often be picked up from car boot sales and flea markets for next to...

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