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With The Grain
By Christian Becksvoort
July 2023 - Note the change in cover colour.
A little knowledge about trees goes a long way toward improving your woodworking.
You don’t need a degree in dendrology to build a desk. But you do need intimate knowledge of how our raw material grows and – more importantly – how it responds to its environment after it has been cut and dried.
This knowledge...
Brusso Brass Ball Catch BC-265
The Brusso BC-265 brass morticed ball catch, consisting of a brass cylinder with spring-loaded steel ball and a brass keeper, is used to secure cabinet doors. The grooved sides of each half, measuring 11/32" in diameter, provide grip when mounted and a reservoir for glue.
Diameter: 0.344" - 11/32" - 9mm
Lie-Nielsen No.4 1/2 Iron Smoothing Plane
Solidly built, this is the ultimate smoothing plane. It is longer, wider, and heavier than the No. 4, and its extra thick blade eliminates the possibility of chatter.
Comes with a 45° frog as standard. Other frogs are available separately.
10-3/8" (264mm) long.
2-3/8" (60mm) blade. A2 steel.
Iron body 5½lbs (2.5kg).
Hard Black 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.
Harder and finer than Hard Arkansas. Not as pure black as Surgical Black Arkansas. Coloration is more dark grey than black. This stone will polish finer...
James Barry Double Sided Leather Strop 8'' x 3''
This double sided leather strop from James Barry measures 8" x 3" x 3/4". The UK sourced leather is 4.5mm thick and is bonded to both sides of a wooden block.
One side is coarse which is used to accommodate the James Barry Mirror Paste. This does not just polish to an amazing standard but also puts on that final hone to achieve a scary edge.
The size is ideal to compliment the...
Lie-Nielsen No.4 Iron Smoothing Plane
Lie-Nielsen's smoothing planes are precision machined from a manganese bronze casting, or an iron casting. They all come with a beautifully formed handle and knob made from American cherry. They have the Stanley Bedrock style frog which gives a fully machined mating fit between the frog and body. You can move the frog backwards or forwards, allowing the opening or closing of the plane's mouth...
Simon James 19mm (3/4") Holdfast
Handmade, using traditional methods and a small forge by experienced craftsmen as a cottage industry. They are not mass produced so every one has very slight differences, which is what you expect with handmade workmanship. They are all hand stamped with the Simon James logo.
Made from 18mm steel and are designed to fit 19mm (3/4") holes.
Overall shaft length is 12" (30cm)
Overall length of reach...
James Barry Credit Card Stones
Professional double sided credit card stone. Unique 1.6mm thickness means no flexing as in cheaper thinner products.
Available in 3 different combinations:
180/300 grit - Great for turning tools. Perfect for sharpening roughing gouges, and repairing damaged edges. Can create a durable edge on roughing gouges in seconds and will give a tough lasting burr on a scraper. Comes complete with red...
The Tool Chest of Benjamin Seaton
This important publication describes a unique set of over 200 tools from the late eighteenth century, giving an extraordinary insight into the trade practices of the time. The tools were bought by Joseph Seaton for his son Benjamin but were hardly used - instead they survive intact, with an original inventory recording the prices paid at Christopher Gabriel's London toolshop, and can be seen in...
Veritas Flush Cutting Saw
Traditionally used for the rapid trimming of plugs and dowels flush with a surface, the Veritas flush cutting saws can be used where you want to cut off a projection without damaging the surrounding or adjoining face. This is possible because the teeth are set one way only
The 22 tpi Japanese tooth-pattern blade cuts aggressively (on the pull stroke), but does not mark the surface that it is...
Brusso Brass Offset Pivot Hinge L-93
The Brusso L-93 offset pivot hinge is employed when a minimum of visible hardware is desired or when the door must swing free of its frame. It is morticed into the top and bottom of the door and frame; only the pivot is visible. The leaf measures 2½" x 5/8" x 1/4".
Length: 2.500" - 2½" - 64mm
Width: 0.625" - 5/8" - 16mm
Leaf Thickness: 0.250"...
Camelia Oil
We like vegetable oil-based Camellia Oil because it is non-toxic, odor free, wipes on easily and leaves a thin dry film on your knife. Dry your knife and coat with a thin layer of camellia oil.
Traditional Japanese camellia oil - food safe, 240ml bottle with applicator.
Pegas Modified Geometry Blades
Modified Geometry Scroll Saw Blades tooth design, minimizes burning, tolerates aggressive feed rates, expels chips extremely fast, leaves a smooth finish and cuts patterns accurately. This (plain end) blade can be used on soft and hard wood up to 3" thick. It is also well suited for plastic. If you are currently using Olson PGT or Mach blades you will love our Modifed Geometry blades.
5" (130mm)...
Spare Blade for Lie-Nielsen No. 60 1/2 Block Plane
Replacement blade for Lie-Nielsen No. 60 1/2 Adjustable Mouth Block Plane. Comes with a 25° flat ground bevel.
* 1.375" wide x .125" thick
* A2 cryogenically treated Tool Steel
Make a Chair from a Tree: Third Edition
By Jennie Alexander
In 2014, Jennie Alexander somewhat reluctantly agreed to a third edition of her 1978 seminal book on green woodworking, “Make a Chair From a Tree” – a book that launched the careers of thousands of woodworkers and helped ignite a green woodworking movement in this country.
Her reluctance wasn’t due to a lack of passion for the book’s subject –...
Pax Cabinet Scraper Set (Square Set)
The Pax Cabinet Scraper Sets are a "must" for woodworkers. Made from stiff carbon steel (saw steel) these are used to scrape along wood to give a smooth finish to your projects. One of the simplest products that work wonders! .
The Square Set contains:
1 x 6" x 3" Scraper
1 x 5" x 2 ½ " Scraper
1 x 4" x 2" Scraper
These are supplied ready to use...
Robert Sorby ProEdge Zirconium Belts
Designed for HSS tools, drill and router bits this material provides good value.
The 60 grit belt will tackle the most damaged surface. Use the 120 grit to provide a rewarding cutting edge and finish.
Pfeil Lino & Block Cutting Tools - Sets of 6
Pfeil Lino & Block Cutter Tools - Sets
Lie-Nielsen Dowel Plates
If you want to make exact-sized dowels from any wood you choose, a Lie-Nielsen Dowel Plate is the best tool.
It's also handy to get a precise tenon on chair spindles. The Lie Nielsen plates are 1/4" x 5-5/8" x 1½" surface ground A2 tool steel. The holes are machined with 6-degree clearance taper on the underside, the holes are straight for the first .025"; so this tool can be sharpened many times...
Joseph Marples Trial 1 - 9" Sliding Bevel
The Joseph Marples Trial 1 9" Sliding Bevel is a tool based on designs that were last made over 70 years ago which were marked with the Trial 1 brand or corporate mark.
This 9" sliding bevel is used for checking edges, marking joints or marking across boards.
All the Trial 1 tools are made from Walnut or Rosewood and have solid brass edges for extra protection against wear and tear.
Ray Iles 1 5/8' Stanley & Record Block Plane Blade
Designed for the older Record 09½, 015, 016, 017, 018, 019, 0120 and 0220. Stanley 9½, 9¾, 15, 15½, 16, 17, 18, 19, 118, 220 and A18.
Width: 1-5/8"
Length: 4-1/4"
High grade carbon steel hardened to 59 - 61 Rockwell C.
Brusso Brass Offset Pivot Hinge L-23
The Brusso L-23 brass offset pivot hinge is employed when a minimum of visible hardware is desired or when the door must swing free of its frame. It is morticed into the top and bottom of the door and frame; only the pivot is visible. The leaf measures 1-3/8" x 5/16" x 1/8".
Length: 1.375" - 1-3/8" - 35mm
Width: 0.313" - 5/16" - 8mm
Leaf Thickness: 0.125"...
Saburrtooth 1/8' Sphere - 3/8' x 3/8'
Now available in Fine (yellow), Coarse (green) and Ex Coarse (orange).
Head Diameter: 3/8"
Head Length: 3/8"
Pocket Stones
Used to create the finest edge on precision tools, delicate instruments, and die work. RH Preyda Arkansas files hold their shape while creating the finest, most uniform finish.
Recommended for outdoor enthusiasts in need of a sharp edge on fish hooks, arrows, and hunting knives. The pocket stone's compact size allows it to easily fit in your outerwear pocket, or pack inside your gear. Pocket...
Gransfors Bruk Swedish Broad Axes
The pattern of the Gransfors Broad Axe and the handle is based on old Swedish logging techniques for squaring logs and structural timbers of all kinds. Has sufficient space between the "blade’s beard" and the handle for the user’s fingers. There are different options of bevels (double, left or right). You also have handle options of straight (so the blade is in line with the...
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")....
Connells 8 Pocket Leather Tool Roll
The Connell Leather Chisel Roll has 8 pockets with top and tail design for better protection.
Will accept chisels up to 275mm (11') long.
Rolls up neatly for easier storage.
Made from soft moss backed leather for durability
Pockets reinforced with brass rivets. Ties for secure fastening.
Country Woodcraft: Then & Now
By Drew Langsner
In 1978, Drew Langsner released his book “Country Woodcraft” to the world, and it sparked a movement – still expanding today – of hand-tool woodworkers who make things with mostly green wood.
The 304 pages of “Country Woodcraft” showed you how to split wood from the forest and shape into anything you might need, from a spoon to a bowl, from...
Taliaplast Spring Compass with Pencil Holder - Polished Steel
These are very well made spring compasses. The adjuster doesn't wobble or fall off after a few months. Robust & long lasting.
Polished steel.
Made by the French in France.
Kitchen Think
A guide to design and construction, from refurbishing to renovation
Pfeil Chip Carving Knife - Kerb Pfeil
Pfeil Chip Carving Knives come in a variety of shapes, this one is a Kerb Pfeil also known as Kerbschnittmesser.
The most popular knife made for chip carving. The short pointy blade allows a good grip in the wood.
Fine cherry wood handles, shaped to correspond to the use of the knife.
Blade length 36mm
Veritas Medium Shoulder Plane + PM-V11 Blade
The shoulder plane (a specialized rebate plane) is the ultimate tool for trimming a joint to a perfect fit. There is no better plane for trimming the shoulder of a tenon to perfection or for rebating work.
The Veritas® medium shoulder plane is proportioned for versatility; it measures 7" long by 0.700" wide and weighs 2 lb. The ductile cast iron body is accurately machined and ground so that...
Veritas Fence for Large Router Plane
A very popular addition to the Veritas large router plane. Can be positioned on either side of the plane and will work on both straight and curved pieces.
Gransfors Bruk Replacement Axe Handles
Replacement handles for the Gransfors axes. Hickory handles have been treated with a warm linseed oil and beeswax.
Each handle comes with a wedge. More information on how to fit your handle can be found on the Gransfors Bruks website.
Brusso Brass Quadrant Hinge HD-638
The Brusso HD-638 brass quadrant hinge is engineered with a built-in stop that allows a lid to remain open at 95°. The arc is morticed into the side of the box, beneath the leaf. The hinge is sold in pairs. Each leaf measures 1¼" x 1".
Length: 1.240" - 1¼" - 31mm
Width: 1.000" - 1" - 25mm
Leaf Thickness: 0.083" - 5/64" - 2mm
Note -...
Ray Iles Large Froe
The Ray Iles large 10½" froes is tapered from top to bottom, with a tapered eye and a 14" beech shaft.
The shaft had been treated with raw linseed oil and as with all of the Ray Iles beech handles, it is recommended you add further applications from time to time, to improve the durability and appearance of the wood.
Auriou Allongee Gouge Series No.6
These Auriou Allongee Gouges form part of the Chris Pye's selection of "Basic" and Letter Carving Tools carving tools. To view more tools from these ranges please follow this link.
The woodcarving tools from this range will give you many carving choices: deep gouges for shaping, medium for modelling, flat gouges for smoothing surfaces, and the ever-useful V tool; and with these tools...
Karvsnitt: Carving, Pattern & Color in the Slojd Tradition
by Jögge Sundqvist
You can download an excerpt from this book here.
Cutting patterns and symbols in wood, and enhancing them with vibrant colour, are folk traditions kept alive in the slöjd craft. Through decorations imbued with meaning, chip carving has given soul to slöjd woodcraft throughout history. Even today, chip carving offers a natural complement to an artfully crafted...
Veritas Saw File Holder
Not only does this Veritas Saw File Holder provide a secondary grip for your saw file, it also helps you control the angle of the file as you sharpen, using the eye's natural ability to judge parallel and level.
It has a rotating collar for setting a positive or negative rake angle up to 30°, and a 3" wide protractor to set the fleam (or bevel) angle up to 45° left or right. All you need to...
Ray Iles Inshave (Scorp)
The Ray Iles Inshave (scorp) has steamed beech handles with brass ferrules. This tool is basically a semi circular drawknife with an 8" blade.
Shinwa Sliding Bevel 250mm
Shinwa Sliding Bevels are ideal for marking out any angle. This one is 250mm (10") we also stock a 200mm (8") one.
Can be adjusted to any angle and is lightweight.
Fixing screw is on the end, therefore is never in the way.
Aluminium Handle
Stainless Steel Blade
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:...
Sharp
Sharpening for all - green woodwork, workshops, bushcraft, gardening, carepentry, forestry, builders, cooking and craft
Sharp is a book that will guide the reader through the principles and practice of sharpening.
From definitions and requirements in the chapter 'What is Sharp?' and through chapters explaining edge geometry, how to observe the edge to determine correct sharpening procedures required,...
Lie-Nielsen Large Router Plane Closed Throat
A router plane is a great tool for working shallow mortices - hinge gains, inlay, doorlocks, trimming tenons and the like. Lie-Nielsen's version is based on an early Stanley 071 model, but with a closed throat which is ideal for working on the edges of boards or cleaning out the end of a stopped groove in a rail or stile. Also, the blade is held solidly in the body in a square broached hole (blades...
Gransfors Bruk Large Carving Axe 475
A chop axe 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 beveled face makes the axe a good carving tool. You "cut on the beveled face" with curved movements. This...
Replacement Blade for Tite-Mark Marking Gauge
Replacement Blade for Tite-Mark Standard and Long Marking Gauges.
Veritas Tongue-Cutting Blades for Combination & Small Plough Planes
All blades are made from A2 tool steel. Blades are made in Canada. These blades are suitable for both the Veritas Small Plough Plane and Veritas Combination Plane.
With these tongue cutters, you can now use our small plough plane for tongue-and-groove work. The blades are used in conjunction with our wide-blade conversion kit (see above), creating an interchangeable blade system that enables you...
Brusso Brass Offset Pivot Hinge L-97
The Brusso L-97 offset pivot hinge is employed when a minimum of visible hardware is desired or when the door must swing free of its frame. It is morticed into the top and bottom of the door and frame; only the pivot is visible. The leaf measures 3¼" x 3/4" x 5/16".
Length: 3.250" - 3¼" - 83mm
Width: 0.750" - 3/4" - 19mm
Leaf Thickness: 0.313"...