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.
American Peasant
by Christopher Schwarz
''American Peasant'' is an introduction to a style of furniture and decoration that is almost unheard of in the Americas. Built primarily with tongues, grooves and pegs, the furniture is frequently engraved with geometric symbols that beautify the piece and protect its owner.
With this book, you will learn to build 10 simple pieces using common tools and...
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...
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),...
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...
Brown Ivory
Brown Ivory is red brown with a faint pink tinge with occasional blackish streak. Irresistible! For turning and furniture.
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 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.
Crucible Dovetail Template for 1:6 & 1:8
The Crucible Dovetail Template marks out dovetail joints – both the tails and the pins – and allows you to easily and accurately lay out the angled and straight parts of the joint. This template marks out the two most common dovetail slopes, 1:6 and 1:8 (9.5° and 7.1° respectively).
This solid steel template is based on a discontinued version from Woodjoy Tools. We contacted...
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.
Doormaking and Window-Making
As the Industrial Revolution mechanized the jobs of the joiner - building doors and windows by hand - one anonymous joiner watched the traditional skills disappear and decided to do something about it.
That joiner wrote two short illustrated booklets that explained how to build doors and windows by hand. And what was most unusual about the booklets is that they focused on the basics of construction,...
Euclid's Door: 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 Roughing Knife KN14
Flexcut's roughing knife features a straight, 2" blade, for heavier stock removal, with a rounded durable point.
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
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 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...
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 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")....
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...
James Barry Mirror Paste
Micro fine abrasive paste achieves a mirror finish after initial sharpening using a leather strop. 8,000 - 10,000 Grit. Micro fine abrasive cream to create a mirror finish after initial sharpening using a leather strop. Leaves tools a super keen cutting edge to give clean accurate cuts. Simply apply paste to the strop, rub to absorb and then stroke the edge to be polished across the strop until polished...
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).
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...
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.
KS Woodwork Chisel Hammer - Small (250g)
A popular design of brass headed chisel hammer / mallet made by KS Woodwork in the south west of England.
Kate used this design herself and offered to make them for us when we met down at the Yandles show. From this meeting we commissioned a small batch of mallets in two sizes.
Ideal when a little more precision is required, fits comfortably in the palm.
60mm by 25mm solid brass head.
Ash...
Kutzall 1/8'' Cylinder Burr - 1/4'' x 1/2''
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...
Kutzall 1/8'' Flame Burr - 1/4'' x 1/2''
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...
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...
Kutzall 1/8'' Sphere Burr - 1/4''
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...
Kutzall 1/8'' Sphere Burr - 3/8''
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...
Kutzall 1/8'' Taper Burr - 1/8'' x 7/8''
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...