New Products

Drawboring is a great way to make a strong mechanical joint. A wooden pin is hammered through slightly offset holes in the two pieces, and pulls the joint together. You use Drawbore Pins to pull the joint together first (with some force and a twisting motion). This eases the edges of the hole, making driving the wood pin easier. You can also disassemble the joint if you want to work on the fit some...

These Veritas Japanese style awls have accurately turned conical tips, strong bolsters and comfortable handles. The tip is A2 steel hardened to Rc60-62 for toughness, and can be replaced if damaged. The bolster, made from stainless steel, transitions smoothly into the taper of the handle to provide a larger hand contact area. The hard maple handles have been torrefied, a heating process that changes...

Veritas Chair devils are wonderful tools for final shaping and smoothing of round parts such as chair spindles and posts. The specially shaped scraper blade rounds the workpiece, removing any spokeshave marks. • Machined steel bodies fitted with hardwood handles • Machined toe and two thumbscrews are solid brass • High-carbon steel blades are 0.040'' thick, hardened...

This 1:3 scale version of the Veritas Wonder Dog is especially useful for securing small work horizontally. Sized to fit in a 17/64'' dog hole, it has a 1 1/2'' long stainless-steel post with an O-ring for slightly elevated clamping. At 3/4'' wide and 1/4'' high, the brass head will not mark tools or workpieces. The clamping screw provides approximately 1 1/4''...

This 1:3 scale miniature version the Veritas hold-down can secure work vertically on small projects, such as when cleaning up dovetails or chopping mortises. The low-profile 3'' cast steel arm is unobstructed at the clamping end, allowing good access to work from all sides. Simply turn the brass knob to apply the desired amount of clamping force. The 3'' post fits in a 17/64''...

The new Blue Spruce Honing Guide turns the traditional honing guide design upside down and clamps the chisel from above, rather than below. And, while most honing guides have the roller directly under the clamp, the Blue Spruce Honing Guide wheels are offset. The Honing Guide will fit chisels and plane blades from 1/8" to 1-1/2", while Blue Spruce Bench Chisels, Butt Chisels, Dovetail Chisels...

The new MB-102 Multi Base allows you to sharpen on the side of the grinding wheel but, with the addition of the extra mount, the universal support can be positioned vertically on the front of the machine. The Vertical position provides better sharpening access for knife edge trailing (with the edge in the same direction as the rotation of the grinding wheel) and for guided honing using knife jigs The...

The Flexcut Hook Hone is used to sharpen the inside edge of any hook knife. This sharpening tool used abrasive paper as a more aggressive solution than stropping to remove nicks and scratches from the cutting edge. Includes 400 and 600-grit abrasive paper and an instructional guide.

by Derek Jones We will be sending out signed copies of this book until they are out of stock. If you did not want a signed copy then please contact us. Simplicity, necessity and ingenuity are the three key principles for making cricket tables. This traditional three legged table exists in a variety of forms and woods – no two are the same. So making them follows an organic process –...

The Table of Contents for Issue 15 of Mortise and Tenon Magazine is “Ambulance for Monuments: Saving Romanian Heritage” – Dragos Nuta “Making the Versatile Hutch Table” – Joshua A. Klein “The Traveling ‘Ukulele” – Aaron Keim “Accustomed to Handle the Hammer: The Nail Making Specialty in Pre-industrial Manufacture” –...

by Dr. Jeffery Hill “Workshop Wound Care” – part of the Lost Art Press pocket book series – delves right to the heart of what you need to know when faced with common workshop injuries, from lacerations, to puncture wounds to material in the eye. The author, Dr. Jeffery Hill, is an emergency room physician and an active woodworker. So he knows exactly the information a...

Quercus Magazine, QM21, Winter 2023 - Summary of Contents The Chairmakers Toolbox is introducing woodwork to a whole new audience, and this issue founder Aspen Golann tells us how they have won more than $100,000 in awards to do so. Then there’s a report from Handworks 2023 in Iowa, possibly the most important show for woodworkers who love hand-tools. And we have practical things too. You...