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.
Bad Axe 12'' Stiletto
The Bad Axe Stiletto is a dedicated dovetail saw. You might think you need a short 8'' dovetail saw to cut your finest pins, but actually the Stiletto at 12'' will make for longer (and therefore fewer) cuts, which promotes more accuracy. The extra length is balanced beautifully by a shallow blade so it feels right in the hand.
Bad Axe Tool Works takes the finest materials and pairs...
Bad Axe 14'' Hybrid Thin Plate Carcass Saw - The Bayonet
The ''Bayonet'' - yet another strange name from Bad Axe Tool Works, but don't let that put you off. This carcass saw will excel at virtually any carcase joinery you throw at it. The hybrid-cut filing gives you a saw that will give you plenty of opportunities to put it to good use.
Bad Axe Tool Works takes the finest materials and pairs it with great craftsmanship to produce...
Bad Axe Frame Saw and Kerfing Plane Hardware Kit (no wood)
What's included.....
30 1/2" Saw Plate and 10" Kerfing Plane Plate. Blue Tempered 1095 Spring Steel. Hammer-set and sharpened by hand.
Two brackets (with kerf pre-cut), one of which is tapped for the 3/8" eye bolt.
3" x 3/8" eyebolt with jam nut.
Striker Plate with fastening screws.
Two U-bolts to secure plate to brackets.
''All you have to do is cut and form the wooden components.''
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),...
Beading Tool Set
Robert Sorby bead forming tools to cut perfect semi-circular beads every time.
The nose design permits multiple bead designs.
This ia a boxed set of 5 RS-835H Bead Forming Tools 1/8", 3/16", 1/4", 5/16" & 3/8" .
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 Benchcrafted 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...
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 Fishtail Chisels - Curly Maple
Optima Fishtail Chisels handle the most critical paring cuts in tricky spots with extremely limited access. The prime example is half-blind dovetail sockets, but once you've added these exquisite chisels to your toolbox, you'll find dozens of other places where they're just the right tool for the job. The 5:1 taper ratio provides clear access to the most common hand-cut dovetail angles.
All...
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...
By Hand & Eye
By Geo. R Walker & Jim Tolpin
"By Hand & Eye" is a deep dive into the world of history, architecture and design.
Instead of serving up a list of formulas with magical names (i.e. the Golden Section, the Rule of Thirds) that will transform the mundane into perfection, George R. Walker and Jim Tolpin show how much of the world is governed by simple proportions, noting how ratios...
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 lightweight plane often used for cutting rebate stop shoulders. The cutting iron fits smoothly onto the machined pad in the body and...
Clifton Adjustable Low Angle Block Plane
Adjustable Low Angle Block Plane - made in Sheffield, England
Made from bronze, this block plane aims to offer the ultimate in comfort and style aiming to fit your hand perfectly with it's high quality walnut handle, this block plane will allow you to shave the surface of your project with ease.
Made from a high quality bronze casting, in Sheffield UK, this is then finished with the new signature...
Compound Curve Spoon Knife (Right Handed)
A high quality spoon knife from Wood Tools designed for use with a combined 30 years of spoon carving experience.
The knives are made from an excellent high alloy steel, very hard and tough so they hold an edge for a long time. They come razor sharp and ready to use. The handles are beech and around 7.5″ long, allowing for a great range of grips to be used efficiently.
This compound curve...
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 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.
Crucible Iron Holdfast
The Crucible holdfast. Made from ductile iron in an Illinois family foundry that’s been in business for more than a century. Based on a French design salvaged from a barn. The last holdfast you are likely to need.
Since Roman times, the iron holdfast has been an essential piece of workbench equipment for carpenters, joiners and cabinetmakers. Yet many of us struggle with holdfasts that work...
Cut & Dried
By Richard Jones
Serious woodworkers have long been starved of accurate information on wood technology that's explained in language for artisans - instead of for scientists.
Author Richard Jones has spent his entire life as a professional woodworker and has dedicated himself to researching the technical details of wood in great depth, this material being the woodworker's most important...
David Barron 90 degree 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.
Dustpan & Brush
A beautifully designed dustpan and brush. Made in England by Turner & Harper. Consists of...........
Dustpan - a playful design that balances perfectly in the hand with a reassuringly sturdy feel. The quality is diifcult to put into words, but a very humble item made incredibly well with thought and care. A handy size to sweep bench debris from your workbench or floor into (brush available separately).
Made...
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.
Glenn Lucas 3/4'' Square End Scraper
Glenn Lucas 3/4'' Square End Scraper used for box making and chucking recesses.
Handle is 10" in length
Gloforce Eye-Light Pro
The Gloforce Eye-Light Pro is a 10w small but extremely bright battery floodlight with a 450mm magnetic gooseneck stand. Extremely versatile, ultra bright 10w LED rechargeable floodlight.
The light head only weighs 220g, has a diameter of 70mm, comes with a helpful LED battery indicator and it even acts as a power bank and can charge your phone.
The strong rubber magnetic gooseneck will position...
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 Froe 12'' Edge 487
Gransfors Bruk froes are the tool used to split shingles, shakes and lumber. You strike with a wooden maul or mallet, pounding the blade into the end of short logs, then quickly pulled back or pushed with the handle to split the wood.
It has a 12'' iron blade with an 18'' hickory handle and weighs 4lbs.
This tool is provided with a grain-leather sheath and a hickory handle.
Gransfors Bruk Large Carving Axe 475
A chop axe from Gransfors Bruk for hewing bowls and other wooden objects, artistic wood carving and architectural work. The characteristic curved shape of the cutting edge, carried well above the head’s eye, the position of the edge in proportion to the handle, the rather thick bit and the big angle of the wide bevelled face makes the axe a good carving tool. You "cut on the bevelled face"...
Gransfors Bruk Large Splitting Axe 442 - Standard 27'' Handle
Designed for splitting chunks of wood, "rounds". The axe head is quite heavy with forged cheeks on both sides of the blade, "splitting wedge shaped crests" which power apart the grain of the wood. A Splitting Axe does not just have to slice into the wood - the thick axe blade pushes the wood apart.
The poll of this axe, like the poll on most axes, is definitely not designed for heavy pounding...
Gransfors Bruk Outdoor Axe 425
The Gransfors Bruk Outdoor Axe was inspired and co-developed by Scandinavian survival expert Lars Fält. The handy design with iron sheathed hickory handle is well-balanced, fits into any backpack and expertly handles any outdoor task.
The head weighs 350g (12oz) and has blade length of 65mm (2½"). Overall length 370mm (14½").
Book and protective leather sheath included.
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...
Gransfors Bruk Splitting Maul 450
Also names Hammer-poll Axe. Designed for splitting apart large chunks of wood or "rounds". The Maul’s head is heavier and the cheek flare far wider behind the cutting edge compared with the Splitting Axes. The poll is designed for pounding on a splitting wedge.
The axe has a 2½" face and weighs 5½ lb (2.5kg). 31" hickory handle.
Overall weight 7 lb (3.2kg)
Danger:...
Gransfors Bruk Swedish Drawknife 486
This is a big beast and popular for quick removal of bark from logs and other large trimming work. The hickory handles are set on full-length tangs extending straight out from the ends of the blade. The blade is bowed up and curved forward in the centre for effective peeling, shaping and smoothing. The total length is 22½". The blade is 11½" in length and 1½" wide. It weighs 1lb. 5oz. The tool...
Gransfors Bruk Wildlife Hatchet 415
The Gransfors Bruk Wildlife Hatchet is a small, light axe which can be easily carried, protected by its leather sheath, inside your backpack or on your belt. With this small axe you can cut branches in the garden or chop and split sticks for a camp fire.
This little hatchet may awake memories and dreams of exciting camps and adventures.
Length including the Hickory handle is 34cm (13.5")....
Gyokucho Multi-Purpose Folding Saw - 200mm blade
A bit of a Swiss Army knife as this saw can work on many different materials such as softwoods and hardwood (not exotics), wet timer (greenwood), OSB, MDF, ply, laminates, composites and PVC. Useful in the garden or your more adventurous camping trips! The blade can be locked in to two positions so you can adjust the blade angle according to your task.
Gyokucho Razorsaw 291 Compact Ryoba 180mm
Full Name : Gyokucho Razorsaw Compact Ryoba.
Blade Length : 180mm.
Overall Length : 390mm.
Max Cutting Depth : N/A.
Teeth Pitch / TPI : Crosscut 1.5mm / 16.9. Rip Cut 3.7-2.7mm / 8-9.
Blade Thickness : 0.5mm.
Cutting Width : 0.81mm.
Teeth Pattern : Crosscut & Rip Cut.
Gyokucho Product Number : 291.
Weight : 160g.
Replacement Blade : S291
The compact range of saws can...
Gyokucho Razorsaw Seiun Saku Ryoba 300mm
Full Name : Gyokucho Razorsaw Seiun Saku Ryoba.
Blade Length : 300mm.
Overall Length : 695mm Rattan / 675mm TPE.
Max Cutting Depth : N/A.
Teeth Pitch / TPI : Crosscut 3.0mm / 8.5. Rip Cut 5.6-3.5mm / 4.5-7.3.
Blade Thickness : 0.7mm.
Cutting Width : 1.10mm.
Teeth Pattern : Crosscut & Rip Cut.
Gyokucho Product Number : 616 Rattan / 664 TPE.
Weight : 350g Rattan / 415g TPE.
Replacement...
Hamlet Bowl Gouge
Milled from round bar. Every Hamlet bowl gouge is finely turned for making the best of turned bowls, for heavy profile cuts or delicate feather cuts.