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Oscar Rush Large Bowl Adze
A hand forged 50mm diameter hand adze with elliptical sweep profile to the cutting edge.
The head weight is approximately 600g with a 230mm - 235mm long (just over 9"), hand carved, faceted, kin dried ash handle.
The leather adze cover is made by Oscar using Italian leather with solid brass rivets (these are much stronger than cap rivets).
This adze has been carefully designed for shaping...
Oscar Rush Side Axe - Right Grind
A hand forged, 130mm -135mm (5 1/4") edge side axe. RIGHT grind.
The head weight is approximately 775g
Handle - 320mm long (just over 12") hand carved, faceted, kin dried ash handle.
The leather cover is made by Oscar using Italian leather with solid brass rivets (these are much stronger than cap rivets).
The axe is belt sharpened (2000 grit) and then polished on a wheel to a...
Oscar Rush Side Axe - Left Grind
A hand forged, 130mm -135mm (5 1/4") edge side axe. LEFT grind.
The head weight is approximately 775g.
Handle - 320mm long (just over 12") hand carved, faceted, kin dried ash handle.
The leather cover is made by Oscar using Italian leather with solid brass rivets (these are much stronger than cap rivets).
This axe has been carefully designed as an all rounder rather than just...
Oscar Rush Small Carving Axe
A small carving axe for all sizes of carving.
This stout hand forged carving axe has a 95mm - 100mm (4") edge - SYMMETRICAL grind (also known as double grind).
The head weight is approximately 475 - 500g.
If striking the poll, do so with a wooden mallet (not a steel hammer).
Handle - hand carved 275mm - 285mm long (just over 11"), faceted, kin dried ash handle.
The leather...
Oscar Rush Medium Carving Axe
A standard weight carving axe retaining a relatively compact design but with a broader curved edge for slicy cuts.
This carving axe has a 120mm - 125mm (5") edge - SYMMETRICAL grind only for this axe (also known as double grind).
The head weight is approximately 625g. If striking the poll, do so with a wooden mallet (not a steel hammer)
The handle - hand carved 300mm -320mm long (12"...
Oscar Rush Large Carving Axe - Right Grind
Large carving axe (RIGHT GRIND) with a really broad edge, designed to throw big chips!
This axe will still work well in the right hands when creating smaller carvings.
145mm - 150mm (6") edge - RIGHT grind.
The head weight is approximately 850 - 900g - SO BEWARE THIS IS QUITE A BEAST
NOTE - Should you wish to strike the poll, please do so with a wooden mallet (not a steel hammer).
Handle...
Oscar Rush Large Carving Axe - Left Grind
A large carving axe with a really broad edge (left grind), designed to throw big chips!
This axe will still work well in the right hands when creating smaller carvings.
145mm - 150mm (6") edge - LEFT grind.
The head weight is approximately 850 - 900g - SO BEWARE THIS IS QUITE A BEAST
NOTE - Should you wish to strike the poll, please do so with a wooden mallet (not a steel hammer).
Handle...
Oscar Rush Large Carving Axe - Double Grind
A large carving axe with a really broad edge (DOUBLE SYMMETRICAL grind), designed to throw big chips!
This axe will still work well in the right hands when creating smaller carvings.
145mm - 150mm (6") edge - SYMMETRICAL grind.
The head weight is approximately 850 - 900g - SO BEWARE THIS IS QUITE A BEAST
NOTE - Should you wish to strike the poll, please do so with a wooden mallet (not...
Mortise & Tenon Magazine - Issue 16
The Table of Contents for Issue 16 of Mortise and Tenon Magazine is
Michael Updegraff – ''Gathered in Reverence: Kezurou-kai in the United States''
Ted Ingraham – ''The Whittier House Windows: Sash-making in Early America''
Joshua A. Klein – ''House By Hand''
Stefan Wolf – ''A Life of Its Own: The Practice of...
Oscar Rush Small Bowl Adze
A hand forged 30mm diameter hand adze with a compound sweep profile to the cutting edge (more of a U profile).
The head weight is approximately 450g with a 210mm - 215mm long (just over 8") hand carved, faceted, kin dried ash handle.
The leather adze cover is made by Oscar using Italian leather with solid brass rivets (these are much stronger than cap rivets).
This adze has been carefully...
Crucible Engraving Tool
The Crucible Engraving Tool is a simple, easy-to-use tool that allows you to slice straight and curved decorative lines on almost any wooden surface. The Engraving Tool was designed to create geometric patterns found on old Scandinavian and Eastern European furniture. But we found it also is excellent at carving modern geometric patterns.
The Engraving Tool consists of two pieces: a handle and a...
Warrington Pattern Hammer
Words from Christopher Schwarz......
''Small cross-peen hammers are incredibly useful in furniture making. We've used them in our work for more than 20 years.
Americans don’t have much of a history with this form of hammer. It’s a British thing, just like the lump hammer we make. We don’t know why that is the case because Warringtons are quite useful.
This small...
Lee Valley Small Double Square
This is an excellent tool for precise layout work and machinery set-up. Made entirely from stainless steel, the square includes two 2 1/2'' long rules with etched and black-filled markings for legibility.
The standard rule is graduated on one face in 32nds and 64ths. The narrow (0.2'' thick) rule, with a 1/2'' long probe on one end, is designed for access into confined spaces,...
Blue Spruce Optima Bench Chisels - Set of 9
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...
Lee Valley Replica Spill Plane
Before matches became widely available in the 1860s, long, coiled wood shavings known as spills were used to transfer a flame from one location to another, such as from a fireplace to a candle, lantern or stove. Typically made using a special inverted plane, spills burn more slowly and consistently than paper, and also double as a convenient tinder material. We based the design of our spill plane on...
Brown Ivory
Brown Ivory is red brown with a faint pink tinge with occasional blackish streak. Irresistible! For turning and furniture.
Knob Thorn
Knob Thorn is reddish brown with a very fine, dense texture. Great for turning and fine detail. Ideal for boxes and spindle work.
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.
Panga Panga
Panga Panga has dark colours, with rich parenchyma bands bringing a touch of the exotic to finished pieces. Used in furniture, turning, parquet flooring and carving.
Tamboti
Tamboti heartwood is light and dark chocolate brown Hard, heavy, durable & close grained. Oils and varnishes well finishing with a satin like lustre. Used in musical instruments, turning and carving.
Wild Mango
Wild Mango is a stunning deep cream coloured wood with golden undertones. For furniture, flooring, turning and carving.
Quercus Magazine - Winter 2023
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...
Benchcrafted Mag-Blok Cherry
We've had our eye on these Mag-Bloks by Benchcrafted for years and years, but sadly they'd previously had an agent in the UK. Thankfully, things have changed and we can import the Mag-Bloks alongside their wonderful bench hardware.
The Mag-Bloks are equally fantastic in both the home and the workshop. We use them here in the shop to display bench chisels, and a couple of us have them in...
Benchcrafted Mag-Blok Maple
We've had our eye on these Mag-Bloks by Benchcrafted for years and years, but sadly they'd previously had an agent in the UK. Thankfully, things have changed and we can import the Mag-Bloks alongside their wonderful bench hardware.
The Mag-Bloks are equally fantastic in both the home and the workshop. We use them here in the shop to display bench chisels, and a couple of us have them in...
Benchcrafted Mag-Blok Oak
We've had our eye on these Mag-Bloks by Benchcrafted for years and years, but sadly they'd previously had an agent in the UK. Thankfully, things have changed and we can import the Mag-Bloks alongside their wonderful bench hardware.
The Mag-Bloks are equally fantastic in both the home and the workshop. We use them here in the shop to display bench chisels, and a couple of us have them in...
Benchcrafted Mag-Blok Walnut
We've had our eye on these Mag-Bloks by Benchcrafted for years and years, but sadly they'd previously had an agent in the UK. Thankfully, things have changed and we can import the Mag-Bloks alongside their wonderful bench hardware.
The Mag-Bloks are equally fantastic in both the home and the workshop. We use them here in the shop to display bench chisels, and a couple of us have them in...
Cricket Tables
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 –...
Kutzall 3 Piece Fine 1/4'' Burr Kit
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...
Selection of 5 Greetings Cards - Set 4
This set of 5 greetings cards includes the following:
Fur & Ferns (15cm x 15cm)
Nene Valley Owl (DL 21cm x 10cm)
Dragon Under Willows (15cm x 15cm)
Mother's Love (15cm x 15cm)
Coming & Going (15cm x 15cm)
All images from Fiona Kingdon's fabulous creations.
Blank inside for your own greeting.
Printed on 300gsm card
Selection of 5 Greetings Cards - Set 1
This set of 5 greetings cards includes the following:
Breeze
Fisherman & Geese
Kingfisher
Bucket & Spade
Any Port in a Storm
All images from Fiona Kingdon's fabulous creations.
Blank inside for your own greeting.
All 5 are DL (21cm 10cm) and are printed on 300gsm card
Lie-Nielsen Drawbore Pins
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...
Mini Da Vinci Bombard
The latest additions to the Leonardo Line of kits is a series of laser-cut mini kits. Smaller than the main Leonardo kits. Easier to make – in about 1/2 an hour they look great on the shelf and also work!
This one of 3 hurling kits, the Bombard, Catapult and Crossbow.
Made of mdf with a wood grained paper covering, they snap together easily and hold together nicely with a drop of glue in...
Mini Da Vinci Catapult
The latest additions to the Leonardo Line of kits is a series of laser-cut mini kits. Smaller than the main Leonardo kits. Easier to make – in about 1/2 an hour they look great on the shelf and also work!
This one of 3 hurling kits, the Bombard, Catapult and Crossbow.
Made of mdf with a wood grained paper covering, they snap together easily and hold together nicely with a drop of glue in...
The Stick Chair Book: Revised Edition
By Christopher Schwarz
From the outside, it seems like you need to harvest special wood from the forest, buy a bunch of exotic tools, master a lot of crazy angles, and learn high-tolerance joinery to make a chair that is comfortable, strong and approaches sculpture.
The truth is that everyday woodworkers – farmers, amateurs and people in other trades – made wonderful chairs using...
Blue Spruce Optima Chisel Plane
The new Blue Spruce Optima Chisel Plane fills a unique void in your tool collection. It serves as a master of dexterity in the places we can't. Reach for it anytime you need to trim plugs, end grain, pare away joinery surfaces, clean glue squeeze-out, and more. It thrives in wide-open plywood projects and confined casework. The elevated handle allows the iron to lie flat - a situational advantage...
Blue Spruce Honing Guide
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...
Veritas Miniature Planing Stops
The Veritas miniature planing stop is designed to slip over a pair of miniature surface dogs (sold separately) to provide a reliable registration surface when working on thin or narrow workpieces, allowing materials to be worked without obstruction.
For tasks that involve the application of horizontal force in one direction, such as planing, a single stop can be used with no additional clamping....
Veritas Miniature Work Surface
The Veritas 11'' × 8'' miniature Worksurface is made from 18mm Baltic birch plywood and features an array of 17/64'' diameter dog holes, spaced 1 1/2'' apart.
It can be used in combination with the four miniature workbench accessories (Wonder Dog, hold-down, surface dogs and planing stops).
Four rubber feet help prevent the platform from shifting in use.
Made...
Veritas Miniature Wonder Dog
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''...
Veritas Set of Miniature Surface Dogs
Just like its full-size version, this functional 1:3 scale surface dog has a flat face for work registration and a rim that supports and stabilizes it on a miniature workbench. The post fits in a 17/64'' diameter dog hole, resisting movement from horizontal forces. The face is 11/32'' × 3/16'' tall. Solid brass, the surface dog is non-corroding and kind to your tools.
To...
Veritas Miniature Hold-Down
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''...
Blue Spruce Optima Dovetail Chisels - Set of 4
The unique blade shape of these Dovetail Chisels makes them perfect for light chopping, paring and precision fitting of your finest joinery. The 4" long, 1/8" thin blade is sized just right for close-up, intimate work, allowing clear visibility of your material. The unique concave side bevels allow the chisel to pare into the tightest corners of dovetail joints.
All Blue Spruce Toolworks...
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 Skew Chisel Sets
Optima Skew Chisels fit into intricate joinery cuts when the others just won't. The blades are thin, flat and have a concave edge profile that gets you into the tightest places with ease while the 65° skew angle of the blade shaves fibers cleanly. Whether you're tackling something as complicated as a full-blind dovetail or simple, but tiny tenons, Optima Skew Chisels will get the job done.
All...
Shapton Kuromaku Professional Series Stones
These are the ever popular Shapton Kuromaku Stones. They also known as Shapton Professional or Shapon Pro whetstones, but are all one and the same thing. They are ceramic which means they will wear more slowly than a traditional waterstone, but still cut quickly to get you back working in no time. Ideal for sharpening woodworking blades and chisels, aswell as kitchen knives and straight razors.
No...
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...