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Mechanic's Companion
by Peter Nicholson
“Mechanic’s Companion” is one of the foundational English-language texts in woodworking and the building trades. First published in 1812, "Mechanic's Companion" is an invaluable and thorough treatment of techniques, with 40 plates that provide an excellent and detailed look at the tools of the time, along with a straightforward chapter on the geometry...
Abranet Double Sided Sanding pad
A 70mm by 125mm double sided sanding pad designed to be used with the smaller sanding strips. Black gel foam with both sides velcro backed.
Crucible Chairpanzee Analog Computer
Chairmaking is complex enough without having to worry about the trigonometry used to calculate the drilling and sighting angles for a chair’s legs and spindles.
The Chairpanzee does all the maths for you with its simple, no-maths-needed interface. Simply slide the tool’s interior card so the splay you desire appears in its top window. Choose the rake you wish in the window below. The...
Peacock Oil - Wick - Rich Figure - 250ml
Wick is the the latest Peacock Oil from Skelton Saws, a hard, quick drying and figure enhancing lustrous wood finish.
A unique blend of the world’s finest natural oils, resins and waxes that together produce a hard, bright, breathable, water-repellent, figure enhancing and grain strengthening finish. Peacock Oil Wick, is uniquely formulated to enable a quick build with a fast-drying time.
The...
Auriou Roughing Rasp
This is the 'hog' that reduces your band saw blank to more closely resemble to the shape you want (think cabriole leg, guitar neck, gun stock, decoy duck blanks etc)
Flat and half round tapered section, grain 3. the rasp (excluding the handle) is 12" (300mm) long.
Available in left or right handed models.
The address position for holding your rasp is slightly skewed across the grain (just...
Lynx Concave Scraper Set
The Lynx Concave Scraper Set contains 2 scrapers shaped specifically to scrape curved areas such as spindles, chair legs etc. The high grade steel used on these scrapers, has been cut with various concaved areas to suit different sized curves.
The recess areas are sized as follows:
Scraper 1 - 1/4", 3/8", 1/2", 5/8" and 6/8"
Scraper 2 - 7/8", 1", 1 1/8",...
Gransfors Bruk Small Splitting Axe 441
Can be managed with one hand. Forged and ground to a concave, quite thin blade at the 'bit'. This design helps the axe to enter the wood rapidly and to efficiently split it when the thicker part follows to push the wood apart. The poll of this axe, like the poll on most axes, is not designed for pounding on a wedge. The head weighs 2 lb. The face is 2¬?'. The 20' hickory handle has circular grooves...
Flexcut 5'' Flexible Draw Knife KN16
This flexible Flexcut draw knife has 5 inches of workable edge, designed to flex around contours where large amounts of stock need to be removed quickly. The tool can be flexed to accommodate concave or convex surfaces. Cuts can be made that conform more closely to the finished shape, taking less time to sand or scrape.
The curved edge gives a skew-like cutting action for a low resistance cut. This...
The Intelligent Hand
By David Binnington Savage
"The Intelligent Hand" is a peek into a woodworking life that's at a level that most of us can barely imagine. The customers are wealthy and eccentric. The designs have to leap off the page. And the craftsmanship has to be utterly, utterly flawless.
How does one get to this point? And how do you stay there?
One answer to these questions is in this book....
Veritas Small Tapered Reamer
The Veritas small tapered reamer 5mm to 19mm (3/16" to 3/4") is useful to rustic furniture makers for back-tapering holes for through-tenon wedging.
The bit is 85mm overall length with an 8mm hex shank.
Designed for use in an electric drill, these tools may also be used in a traditional brace.
Table for 1 1/2'' Wheels for Veritas Grinder Tool Rest
This replacement table for the Veritas grinder tool rest has a wider slot to let you use it with 1 1/2" wide wheels (like 8" CBN wheels).
The 4" wide aluminum table has a 1 5/8" wide slot and installs easily in place of the standard table. It has the same horizontal slot and center hole for use with sliding and rotating jigs.
(For wheels narrower than 1 1/2", the standard...
Gransfors Bruk Outdoor Axe 425
The Gransfors Bruk Outdoor Axe was inspired and co-developed by Scandinavian survival expert Lars F?§lt. 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 (2¬?'). Overall length 370mm (14¬?').
Book and protective leather sheath included.
Robert Sorby Woodworkers' Square Guide
This simple to use jig has been designed as an upgrade to the current woodworking chisel jig (PESQ). This jig can be adjusted to ensure exact and repeatable 90 degree angles can be achieved every time. A stepped plate raises the tool to be sharpened away from the tool platform.
Ideal for sharpening chisels and plane irons.
Backwoods Chairmakers
In Search of the Appalachian Ladderback Chairmaker
By Andrew D. Glenn
For more than 200 years, chairmakers in Appalachia built ladderbacks to sell to neighbors and the occasional tourist. It was a tradition that was handed down through generations. But with the rise of furniture factories and mechanisation, woodworker Andy D. Glenn wondered if there were any traditional chairmakers left.
So...
Mortise & Tenon Magazine - Issue 19
Table of Contents:
Lara Reisigl Domeneghetti – “A Visual Language: The Tylldal Chair’s Ongoing Journey”
“Cheating Entropy: An Interview with Antiquarian Chris Havey”
Douglas Brooks – “KIOKE: A New Way of Tradition”
Joshua A. Klein – “Build Your Library: Making a Stepback Bookcase”
Gerald W. R. Ward – “Encounters...
Robert Sorby Bead Forming Tools - 835H
The Robert Sorby Bead Forming Tool has been designed for creating precise and consistent beads. Perfect for making decorative bangles, curtain rings, and adorning stems with captive rings, this tool ensures accuracy without compromising on ease of sharpening and repeatability.
Available in multiple sizes: 1/8", 3/16", 1/4", 5/16", 3/8", 1/2".
Includes full use...
Veritas Metric Bevel Setters
A sliding bevel is an excellent tool for transferring angles but not for reading them. This bevel setter allows you to set specific angles (from 0° to 60° in 1/2° increments) on a sliding bevel or a workpiece and to read angles already set. Both functions are useful for dovetailing, for machine set-up, for polygon work, or for accurately fitting a piece in a restricted location. Common dovetail...
Veritas Pocket Layout Square - Set of 3 Metric
Just as a speed square is an essential layout tool for carpenters and framers, these small squares are similar in both form and function but are appropriately sized for laying out joinery and other common workshop tasks.
Available individually and as a set including 35mm, 60mm and 85mm squares – each a compact, lightweight tool that fits into a pocket, comes to hand nicely, and is easy to...
Blades for Veritas Low & Standard Angle Block Plane
Replacement blades for the Veritas Low & Standard angle block planes. 1 5/8'' wide.
Pfeil Series 14 - 55° Soft V Parting Tools
For carving lettering and ornamentation and for sculpting figures.
55°
Kutzall 1/8'' Rotor Saw Burr - 3/4'' x 1/8''
Kutzall burrs are the perfect companions for your rotary carving tools.Made in the USA, Kutzall burrs provide a great combination of material removal and surface quality. Efficient with or against the grain, these burrs have a long wear life.Their outstanding performance on a wide variety of materials to include wood, plastic, rubber, fibreglass and soft stone.NOTE: These burrs should only be used...
Replacement Blade for Nakaya Ryoba Gold Saw
Replacement blades for Ryoba Gold Saw.
A double edged blade with X-cut & rip edges and traditional style handle.
A choice of 4 sizes
220mm blade - 0.4mm thick (spacing of teeth 1.3mm cross 2.0-3.4mm rip cut setting 0.7mm) WRG220
240mm blade - 0.5mm thick (spacing of teeth 1.6mm cross 2.7-3.9mm rip cut setting 0.75mm) WRG240 - This is our most popular size.
270mm blade - 0.6 mm thick...
Blue Spruce Optima Bench Chisels - Individual
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...
Mortise & Tenon Magazine - Issue 11
Volume 11 Table of Contents:
Nevan Carling – “Restoration of an 18th-century Loom”
Jeremy Tritchler – “Discovering The Trade, Art, And Mystery of 18th-Century Cabinetmaking”
Gustave Remon – “The Versatile Socket Axe”
Joshua A. Klein – “Finding The Groove: The Value of Batch Production Woodworking
Elia Bizzarri –...
Veritas Wood Carver's Vice
A good carver's vice should be adjustable in all three axis. This one has full rotation in two axes and 3" of height adjustment in the third axis. But more important, it has controlled release; when you relieve the clamping pressure, a combination of internal springs and O-rings provides residual resistance so that your work does not suddenly fall or rotate. You can reposition the work and...
Brusso Brass Side Rail Hinge SR-680
The Brusso SR-680 brass square knuckled full mortice side rail hinge is engineered with a built-in stop that allows a lid to remain open at a 95° angle. These hinges are milled from 1/4" thick solid brass stock to precise dimensions and are designed to last a lifetime. They feature stainless steel hinge pins and our standard Brusso burnished finish. The leaf measures 1/2" wide x 2"...
Hamlet Round Nose Scrapers
Hamlet round nose scrapers are used on concave surfaces such as bowls to leave you with a smooth finish.
Shaker Inspiration
Five Decades of Fine Craftsmanship
Star-M Japanese Long & Smooth Auger Bits
STAR-M Ultra Smooth Japanese Auger Bits
These are superior quality Japanese auger bits imported directly by Classic Hand Tools from The STAR-M CORPORATION who have their manufacturing facility in Miki City, Japan (established in 1923).
We have imported these augers based on requests from timber framing customers.
(Note these superior auger bits are branded as Wood Owl in the USA and Canada).
Please...
Veritas Saw Set
At last, a high-quality saw set is back on the market! For years, these tools had vanished from our range, and even the older versions we once carried had their drawbacks. True to form, Veritas has completely re-engineered the design, creating a tool that’s a major leap forward from the originals.
The Veritas Saw Set blends the finest elements of traditional designs into one versatile tool,...
Hock 3 1/2'' Straight-Edge Krenov-Style Plane Assemblies
Dimensions
PI100: High Carbon Krenov-Style Blade and Cap Iron - 1'' x 3 1/2''
PI125: High Carbon Krenov-Style Blade and Cap Iron - 1 1/4'' x 3 1/2''
PI150: High Carbon Krenov-Style Blade and Cap Iron - 1 1/2'' x 3 1/2''
PI175: High Carbon Krenov-Style Blade and Cap Iron - 1 3/4'' x 3 1/2''
PI200: High Carbon Krenov-Style...
Henry Taylor Swan Neck Chisel 1/4''
A Henry Taylor swan neck chisel is used to clean the bottom of mortices. The chisel is levered in use, not struck.
Available in 1/4".
Lie-Nielsen Tongue & Groove Plane - 3/4''
The Lie-Nielsen Tongue & Groove plane cuts a groove with one side of the cutter exposed. Swing the fence to expose both sides to cut the tongue. The slot in the one piece blade registers on the milled body casting, to ensure squareness and equal depth of cut on both sides. Since this is a heavy stock removal tool no depth adjuster is needed.
Comes with a 3/16'' (4.8mm) thick A2 steel...
Ray Iles Small Froe
The Ray Iles small 5 1/2" froes are made from hardened and tempered EN9 spring steel and fitted with a 10" beech handle, treated with raw linseed oil.
Ideal for finer work
Veritas String Inlay Tool System
Used much like a marking gauge, this inlay tool lets you accurately cut narrow grooves in a workpiece as well as neatly slice fine strings from a sheet of veneer. Its interchangeable blade system lets you quickly swap blades to suit the activity.
The hook-shaped blade is designed to cut grooves. Used in a sweeping push-pull motion, it has outlining spurs on one side of the blade to score the groove...
Accessories for the Benchcrafted Drawsharp
Rehab kit
Most knives will be in good enough condition to use the abrasives included with the Drawsharp. But for those which require more aggressive material removal (removing knicks or severely blunted edges) or for those who may not want to grind their knife, Benchcrafted offer a rehab kit with medium and coarse diamond abrasives. The kit includes two sleeves and two each of coarse and medium diamond...
Narex Richter Mortice Chisels
These are the premium range of mortice chisels from Narex which have earnt the name ''Richter'', who was the founder of Narex company in the Czech Republic.
Sides are slightly relieved to reduce sidewall friction and to allow minor adjustments.
CR-V cryogenically treated steel to 62HRc .
Ash handles with a stainless steel hoop and ferrule.
149mm blade length. 284mm overall...
Pfeil Chip Carving Knife - Kerb 4
Pfeil Chip Carving Knives come in a variety of shapes, this one is a Kerb 4 also known as Schnitzmesser.
This knife is for whittling and for simple small objects like little animals. The blade is too thick for chip carving but is sturdy enough for rough cutting.
Fine cherry wood handles, shaped to correspond to the use of the knife.
Blade length 50mm
Veritas Flushing Chisels
Veritas designed this flushing chisel based on a set of antique patternmakers’ chisels from their collection. More than just for flush trimming inlay or joinery, a flushing chisel allows you to work into corners and extend flat surfaces right up to adjacent surfaces where a plane blade cannot reach. One hand pushes the tool while your other hand guides the blade along the workpiece, giving you...
Gransfors Bruk Carpenter's Axe 465
These axes have a straight edge and thin blade with low angle of the bevel face, suited for work in dry wood. The forged inward curve from the heel to the lip of the head allows your hand to grip almost straight above the centre of the edge. This, and the long straight cutting edge, gives rigidity, stability, and control when cutting. Functions like a good heavy knife. The axe poll is ground and...
Knew Concepts 6 1/2'' Coping Saw
On the Knew Concepts Coping Saw the blade is tensioned by a cam-lever and pulls so taut that the blade "sings" when plucked. Chris Schwarz said "...it's more like sawing with an unbendable wire than a floppy steel hotdog (which is what is typical of most saws)". Make turns that are tighter than ever before.
The solid steel indexing blade-hooks lock in eight 45° positions...
Lie-Nielsen No.6 Fore Plane
The Lie-Nielsen No.6 Fore Plane is sized midway between a Jack and a Jointer. The No.6 Fore Plane is designed to further true the surface after the Jack has sized it. Its length enables it to skim off high spots as it bridges low spots, delivering a leveled surface ready for the smoothing plane.
18" (457mm) long
2 3/8" (60mm) blade. A2 steel.
Iron body. 7½lbs (3.4kg).
...
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...
Mortise & Tenon Magazine - Issue 10
Table of Contents:
Will Wheeler - “An Unexpected Gift: Discovering Calm in a Modern Apprenticeship”
Jeff Miller - “An Exercise in Precision & Randomness: Replicating David Pye’s Fluting Engine”
Al Breed - Book Recommendation
Joshua Klein – “Ready Hands: A Letter to My Sons”
John Ruskin - “Savageness”
George Walker –...
Pfeil Brienz Carving Knives
Pfeil Brienz carving knives are detail carving knives designed by the Brienz Woodcarving School.
Large - 190mm total length, blade 75mm
Small - 170mm total length, blade 60mm
Image shows the large knife.
Pax Burnisher
Used in conjunction with Cabinet Scrapers to hone their edges after use.
* Walnut handle with Brass Ferrule
* Steel blade
* Puts burr back on Cabinet Scrapers to keep their edges sharp
Veritas Metric Sliding Square
These cabinetmaker's squares are used to lay out or transfer measurements quickly and accurately; you always have an ample reference face against your work without having to flip the square. This also simplifies working in two axes at once (e.g., measuring in 50mm and over 40mm), substantially reducing the chance of error when measuring and marking two dimensions.
The stainless steel blade...
Auriou Cranked Neck Curved Ironing Rasps
These are the Right Handed versions, to see the Left Handed please CLICK HERE.
These are very useful for working in small areas. The rasp is short and is curved along its length so you can enter your work easily.
The tang is cranked to allow knuckle clearance.
4 sizes and grains based on width:-
10mm wide Grain 12
15mm wide Grain 11
20mm wide Grain 10
25mm wide Grain 09
30mm wide Grain...
