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African Blackwood
African Blackwood turns superbly and polishes up to a high shine.
African Blackwood is now CITES listed. Read more at https://cites.org
We have chain of custody documentation to show the African Blackwood we currently offer for sale pre-dates listing or is current with the appropriate import documentation.
Arbortech Mini Carver MKII
The Mini Carver MkII is fitted with Arbotech’s latest 1,000W motor. Whether shaping, sculpting or sanding it has plenty of power and more. The Arbortech Mini Carver is a hugely versatile power carving tool. From rough shaping to sculpting, texturing, and sanding, the Mini Carver can do it all. The Mini Carver’s narrow, extended neck offers greater access into small areas. This is a perfect...
Barr Bench Chisels
The bench chisel has the same quality construction as their popular framing chisels, but with a shorter blade length.
The chisels are all 13" (325mm) long overall.
Available as 1" (25mm), 1½" (38mm), 2" (50mm) or as a set of 3 Bench Chisels.
Barr Framing Chisels
Barr's framing chisels have become the first choice of professional timber framers and homebuilders. These chisels will take and hold a superior edge saving you time and giving you the best possible results. Hand forged from carbon steel with a flat back and socket handle, they are a must for mortise and tenon work.
The chisels are all 17½" (438mm) long overall.
Available as 1" (25mm), 1½" (38mm),...
Benchcrafted Benchmakers Hardware
Typical captive nut arrangements for knockdown bases involve either a square nut, recessed hex nut, or short, slotted cross-dowels. All of these fasteners make it tricky to assemble the joint without some frustration or extra tools.
The BenchCrafted barrel nuts and end cap barrel nuts are the ideal choise for making knock-down joints in workbench bases.
The set of 4 zinc-plated steel Barrel Nuts are...
Benchcrafted Classic Leg Vice Base Hardware
In the 19th and early 20th century, many vocational schools and commercial shops in France and its colonies were outfitted with Roubo-style benches and metal leg vice hardware. French hardware is typically made entirely of metal, whereas hardware from Britain and America usually features a T-shaped iron casting fitted with a sliding wooden handle. Benchcrafted designed theirs around the French model...
Benchcrafted Crisscross Retro
The Benchcrafted Crisscross completely transforms any leg vice into an effortless experience. Fully supporting the weight of the chop, the vice hardware, and its own weight, the Crisscross floats in and out on steel pins and bearing plates, giving a virtually weightless, friction-free action to the vice. The mechanism automatically adjusts through the range of your vice's capacity to any workpiece...
Benchcrafted Crisscross Solo
The Benchcrafted Crisscross completely transforms any leg vice into an effortless experience. Fully supporting the weight of the chop, the vice hardware, and its own weight, the Crisscross floats in and out on steel pins and bearing plates, giving a virtually weightless, friction-free action to the vice. The mechanism automatically adjusts through the range of your vice's capacity to any workpiece...
Benchcrafted Crubber
Crubber is a composite material made by grinding natural cork and rubber, then combining the materials under great pressure to form a tough, resilient, grippy matrix that is then sliced into sheets. Crubber has become BenchCrafted's favourite non-slip, super-grip material for lining vice jaws. All Benchcrafted vices are outfitted with Crubber.
What's the advantage over suede or other cow skin-type...
Benchcrafted Glide Leg Vice Base Hardware - Cast
The Glide makes holding your work quick, easy, and pleasurable. It uses a clever combination of components to deliver incredible clamping force with minimal effort.
Traditional leg vices use a sliding "tommy bar" to operate the vice. This style of handle offers one distinct advantage: lots of leverage. These guys have engineered the Glide to deliver rock-solid workholding without the need...
Benchcrafted Planing Stop
The Benchcrafted planing stop is made from mild steel. The teeth are milled into the stop then lightly deburr with abrasive paper to maintain the points of the teeth. The stop arrives sharp and ready to use.
Easy Installation
Using the same principle as their Barrel Nuts, the Benchcrafted Planing Stop mounts to the wooden stock via two machine screws and a single, double-tapped barrel nut. This provides...
Benchcrafted Tail Vice (Wagon Vice) Kit - Cast
Clamping work to a bench surface between dogs is a very old technique. The historical record gives us examples as far back as the Roman era, but most woodworkers know the tail vice from the modern Scandanavian and German tradition. The oldest detailed drawings we have are from the early 16th century by German author Martin Löffelholz.
The Benchcrafted Tail Vice uses a pair of either wooden or metal...
Blades for the Veritas Low Angle Smoothing Plane
Veritas 2" Blade in PM-V11 to fit the Veritas Low-Angle Smoothing Plane
Blue Spruce Optima Mortise Chisels - Curly Maple
Blue Spruce Toolworks new Optima Chisels feature a lapped and polished back with a flatness measured in light bands (the same system used to measure silicon wafers). When you unbox your new Optima Chisels, they’re razor sharp and 100% ready to go to work.
Each Optima Chisel is machined from A2 tool steel, then double-tempered and cryogenically treated. The tempering and cryo treatments result...
Clifton 770 Bull Nose Plane
The Clifton 770 Bull Nose plane is made to the exacting specifications as all the other Clifton planes. The 770 fulfills the need for a straight-forward bull nose plane enabling the user to plane close to an abutting section of wood and avoiding tear-out. It is a light handy plane often used for cutting rebate stop shoulders. The cutting iron fits smoothly onto the machined pad in the body and can...
Connells Leather Strop & Paste
A strop is a leather strip used to polish the edge of a chisel, plane iron or a knife. Stropping is the final part of the sharpening process in achieving a truly sharp edge. Stropping has always been the accepted way to finishing a cut throat razor guaranteeing the closet of shaves. Unlike honing which removes metal from the bevel, stropping burnishes away any microscopic metal strands clinging to...
Crown Tools Pro PM Bowl Gouge
The Pro-PM is an exclusive range for Crown Tools and is the elite if all turning chisels.
Made from advanced Power Metal, the molten steel has been compressed and sintered giving the Pro-PM turning tools a cutting edge which Crown Tools claim will last up to four or five times that of a conventional High Speed Steel tool.
The chisels are hardened to between 66 degree and 69 degree Rockwell, enabling...
Crown Tools Revolution Complete
Dave Bates (of Stiles & Bates) has described this system as one of the best systems on the market and is part of his own tool rack, which is a recommendation in itself.
Crown Tools Rolled Edge Skew Chisel
A skew chisel is a tool which repays practise with excellent results. The best, but sometimes the most daunting tool for planing spinle work and with practise, cutting clean beads and fine details.
The first skews were made from rectangular bar. Professionals then groudn a rounded edge to make tool rolling easier when cutting beads. Manufacturers then made a rounded (rolled) edge version, then...
Crown Tools Spindle Gouge
The Crown Spindle Gouges are available in 2 sizes, 3/8'' (10mm) and 1/2'' (13mm).
Standard spindle gouges are made by milling a shallow flute from a round bar.
The diameter of the bar dictates the size of the gouge. These gouges are used mostly for detail work like beads and coves.
M2-HSS (High Speed Steel)
Stained beech handle.
Walleted.
David Barron 90° Guide
A very useful aluminium magnetic jig from David Barron for guiding a saw at right angles. Great for cutting shoulders, tenons, cheeks and variable finger joints. Will work with any style hand saw although the Gyokucho 372 saw works a treat for both cross and rip cuts.
David Barron Dovetail Guides
The David Barron Dovetail Guides are back!
The 1:6, 1:8 and the 90° guides are now available from stock. The 1:4, 1:5, 1:7, spline, and the 45° guides will follow later this year.
The David Barron Dovetail Guide designed to guide a saw with powerful magnets for perfect cuts every time!
Cuts both pins and tails, on through and half blind dovetails.
Euclid's Door:
Building the Tools of 'By Hand & Eye'
Building the Tools of 'By Hand & Eye'
By Geo. R Walker & Jim Tolpin
Illustrations by R. Keith Mitchell & Barb Walker
“Euclid's Door: Building the Tools of ‘By Hand & Eye’” is an illustrated how to journey through building the ancient tools that still help us to build, well, everything today.
You’ll learn how to use basic, easy-to-follow artisan geometry to make eight indispensable...
Flexcut Slip Strop PW12
The Flexcut SlipStrop™ is an economical way for maintaining a tools razor edge. It has been specially moulded to allow for polishing and deburring the hard to reach areas on the inside of V-tools and gouges as well as the outside edge bevel. Either side of the strop can be used.
Each SlipStrop includes a mini-bar of Flexcut Gold polishing compound and detailed instructions.
German Spindle Gouge 1/2''
Spindle gouges are used for detailed shaping between centres on parallel grain, particularly for concave curves. They can be used to create beads, coves and other profiles on vases, goblets, candle sticks and more shaped work.
Handle length is 10''
Glenn Lucas 1/2'' Spindle Gouge
The Glenn Lucas Spindle Gouge - 1/2'' - the ideal tool for detailed spindle work and box making.
Handle is 10" in length.
The gouge features a secondary bevel on the heel to give the tool some clearance when going around tight corners making concave curves or coves.
Good Work:
The Chairmaking Life of John Brown
The Chairmaking Life of John Brown
by Christopher Williams
“Good Work: The Chairmaking Life of John Brown” by Christopher Williams is the first biography of one of the most influential chairmakers and writers of the 20th century: Welshman John Brown.
The book’s title of “Good Work” was an expression John Brown used to describe a noble act or thing. He once mused he wanted to create a “Good Work”...
Gransfors Bruk Small Forest Axe 420
Gransfors Bruks Small Forest Axe 420 is one of the most popular from the Gransfors Bruks range. The same size as the Hunters Axe but with a more traditional pattern and poll. The blade is thin. The handle is long enough to allow powerful chopping but not too long so it will fit into a rucksack, the back of a car or a boat. Practical for splitting small sticks for the fire or cutting small-diameter...
Hamlet Rolled Edge Radius Skew Chisels
A combination of radius skew and rolled edge for steadiness on the tool rest without fear of drag.
Hamlet Spindle Roughing Gouge
These are often simply referred to as roughing gouges but they are not to be used for roughing bowls. They are only for spindle work i,e roughing a square spindle to round.
Hamlet Woodturning Boxed Set - 8 piece
The Hamlet Woodturning 8 Piece Boxed Set comprising of:-
3/4" Roughing Gouge (HCT064)
3/8" Spindle Gouge (HCT068)
1/2" Spindle Gouge (HCT069)
1/2" Skew Chisel (HCT100)
1" Skew Chisel (HCT102)
3/4" Round Nose Scraper (HCT117)
1" Square Scraper (HCT114)
1/4" Parting Tool (HCT091)
HCT064 - 3/4" Spindle Roughing Gouge
Made in Sheffield from M2...
Handles for Veritas Low-Angle Block Plane
The bevel-up configuration of the Veritas low-angle block plane lets you vary the blade angle to suit the task, from low-angle blades for use on end grain to high-angle blades on figured wood. However, steeper cutting angles require more force to push the plane—a challenge for those with small hands or less strength.
We offer inexpensive hardwood grips to adapt our low-angle block plane into...
Hard Arkansas Bench Stones
Prized by craftsmen worldwide, Arkansas Novaculite is the only known substance that can sharpen a blade and polish it as well. All of these Bench Stones are 100% natural Novaculite, cut to size and skillfully finished to ensure precise flatness.
The recommended stone for work that requires a smooth polish, but not the finest polish. This stone will provide a final hone and polish edge.
All bench...
Hock Chipbreakers
To maximize your plane's performance, a thicker chip breaker (cap iron) can stabilize the blade's cutting edge reducing vibration and chatter. HOCK Chip Breakers are 3mm thick (.118"), almost twice as thick as a stock chip breaker and they come with with a knurled cap screw.
Hock Marking Knife Blades
This right or left hand, spear point marking knives (bevels are on one side only) are perfect for scribing fine lines against a straight edge.
High carbon steel. All steel knife.
Hock Replacement Blades for Stanley-Style Scraper Planes
The blades for the Stanley No.12 and No.112 Scraper Planes are 3/32" thick by 2-7/8" wide and 5" long with a 45 degree bevel on the cutting edge. Hardened for a balance of long edge life and burr "rollability".
No.80 replacement blade (also fits the Record 080) measures 1/16" X 2-3/4" X 3" long.
No.81 replacement blade measures 1/16" X 2-1/2"...
Hock Scratch Stock
Ron Hock Scratch Stocks are made from tough, wear-resistant bamboo plywood. Two spring steel blades are included, one of which has a quirk-bead shape cut into it, to get you started using your Scratch Stock with no more than final honing. Other shapes are up to your imagination and are cut into the blades with files and slipstones.
The body measures 3/4" x 1-1/2" x 4-3/4", the blue-tempered...
Journeyman Handcrafts Canvas Tool Roll
Keep your carving tools protected and portable with this Journeyman Handcrafts tool roll made from heavy weight 16oz green cotton canvas.
Designed with 16oz cotton canvas, this pouch is made to last and will endure many years of hard use. It’s double stitched with a very strong bonded nylon thread which is water and rot resistant. Finished with veg tan drawstrings for longevity and wooden toggles...
Journeyman Handcrafts Wool Lined Tool Roll
Keep your carving tools protected and portable with this Journeyman Handcrafts tool roll made from a two colours of 8oz waxed cotton canvas giving a lovely contrast of colour when rolled up. The tool roll is lined with a cream wool to give added protection to your tools.
This tool roll is made to last and will endure many years of hard use. It’s double stitched with a very strong bonded nylon...
Knew Concepts 5'' Fret Saw with Screw Tension
The screw tension saw was the origin of the Knew Concepts Fret saw line. It is the economy model. It provides extremely precise blade tensioning simply by turning the knurled tension nut at the top of the frame.
Saws come with a dozen Pegas Skip #7 Tooth blades (15 TPI).
Leadwood
Leadwood is well suited to turning and carving. Dark brown heartwood with blackish streaks. Hard, heavy and durable. Sandpapers, varnishes and oils well to a high lustrous finish.
Lee Valley 3/4'' Dog Hole Bushings
These 3/4'' hardened steel bushings help you make an accurate dog-hole drilling guide using any 1 1/2'' thick board.
Knurling on the bushing provides a mechanical lock when installed in an appropriately sized hole (1'' for the 3/4'' bushing), and a projecting rim ensures that it rests perpendicular to the jig's surface.
Made in Canada.
Lee Valley Vice Rack Stop
This simple device from Lee Valley is designed to help prevent racking when clamping work at one side of a vice. Simply stack up as many of the 0.10" thick shims as you need to match the approximate thickness of your work, up to a total of 4", and insert it into the vice opposite the work being clamped.
For thicker work, you can add a piece of scrap wood to occupy the bulk of the space, and then...
Lee Valley Winding Sticks
Winding sticks are not new; woodworkers have been making them for years from scrap wood and using them to check the flatness of material. Placed at opposite ends of a board, they accentuate any twist (wind), making it easier to identify and correct. With the sticks in place, sight across their top edges. If the edges are parallel, the board is not twisted. Reposition and repeat to check the entire...
Leonhard Muller Brush-Hook (Billhook)
Leather wrapped handle. Rounded tip.
430mm overall (14")
260mm cutting edge (10")
Leonhard Muller Classic Carpenters Side Axe
Good quality side axes are very difficult to source. We are happy to offer this ash handled side axe which has a 13cm edge to its sharpened blade. The length overall is 38cm and weighs approximately 1.2kg.
Available as a left or right handed axe.
Made in Austria by Leonhard Muller & Sons who have been making edge tools for over 333 years (which makes Leonhard extremely old!) This side axe...
Leonhard Muller Froe
Supplied with a 400mm (16") ash handle this froe is from Muller's "Carpenter's" range of edge tools.
The blade length is 350mm (14")
Weight 1.5kg
Lettercarving in Wood:
A Practical Course
A Practical Course
By Chris Pye
Letters are everywhere and lettercarving in wood is a tremendously useful skill for a carver to have: from memorials to signing work; from decorating bowls to house signs.
This book from internationally renowned woodcarving instructor Chris Pye will teach you fundamental lettercarving skills with which to artfully add words or text to an otherwise plain piece of wood.
For beginners,...
