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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...
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.
Lee Valley 3/4'' Dog Hole Bushings
These 3/4'' hardened steel bushings help you make an accurate dog-hole drilling guide using any 1 1/2'' thick board.
Knurling on the bushing provides a mechanical lock when installed in an appropriately sized hole (1'' for the 3/4'' bushing), and a projecting rim ensures that it rests perpendicular to the jig's surface.
Made in Canada.
Lee Valley Vice Rack Stop
This simple device from Lee Valley is designed to help prevent racking when clamping work at one side of a vice. Simply stack up as many of the 0.10" thick shims as you need to match the approximate thickness of your work, up to a total of 4", and insert it into the vice opposite the work being clamped.
For thicker work, you can add a piece of scrap wood to occupy the bulk of the space, and then...
Lee Valley Winding Sticks
Winding sticks are not new; woodworkers have been making them for years from scrap wood and using them to check the flatness of material. Placed at opposite ends of a board, they accentuate any twist (wind), making it easier to identify and correct. With the sticks in place, sight across their top edges. If the edges are parallel, the board is not twisted. Reposition and repeat to check the entire...
Lettercarving in Wood: A Practical Course
By Chris Pye
Letters are everywhere and lettercarving in wood is a tremendously useful skill for a carver to have: from memorials to signing work; from decorating bowls to house signs.
This book from internationally renowned woodcarving instructor Chris Pye will teach you fundamental lettercarving skills with which to artfully add words or text to an otherwise plain piece of wood.
For beginners,...
Lie Nielsen No.66 Iron Beading Plane
This Beading Tool can quickly produce a wide range of decorative profiles without the fuss and fiddle of setting up an electric router.
Derived from an early, generously proportioned Stanley No. 66, it has a Ductile Iron body and Bronze blade clamp. Two Bronze fences are included, one for curved work and one for straight work, and can be adjusted along the slot across the bottom of the tool.
The...
Lie-Nielsen Chisel Plane
The Lie-Nielsen Chisel Plane is the perfect little tool (6½" x 1¾") for removing glue and trimming dowel plugs. It is very useful for working into corners and to the ends of rebates.
The heavy 3/16" thick blade is set at 12 degrees. You adjust the depth of the cut by a nicely machined knurled knob. American cherry handle.
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Lie-Nielsen Countersink with Cherry Handle
Cherry handle with solid brass ferrule.
3 flute, 82° countersink.
Please note that wood handles have natural figure and colour variations in the wood grain and may not match the photo.
Lie-Nielsen Cross Peen Hammer
This small hammer is not only great for tacks and brads, but also for making fine blade adjustments on your planes.
Brass Head, 4 oz (115 grams).
Cherry handle
Overall size is 12'' (300mm) long and 4'' (100mm) wide
Lie-Nielsen Fishtail Chisel
Fishtail Chisels are perfect for reaching the back corners of half-blind dovetails and paring other hard-to-reach areas. Their unique shape offers versatility for right and left hand recesses.
Made from A2 Tool Steel, hardened to RC 60-62. Hard Maple handles. Overall length is approximately 8".
The bevel comes ground sharp at 25º, but a higher secondary bevel is advisable, depending...
Lie-Nielsen Low Angle Smoother
The Low Angle Smoothing Plane is based on the rare Stanley 164, and is essentially a shorter version of the Low Angle Jack Plane - with an adjustable mouth, and a massive 2" (5.08cm) wide, 3/16" (4.7mm) thick blade, set at 12°. However, this tool is only 9½" (24.1cm) long and weighs 3¾ lbs.
It is called a Smoothing Plane because of its size (the same as the Lie-Nielsen...
Lie-Nielsen Mortice Chisels
SPECIAL NOTE - MARCH 2025
Please have a look at our Friday Finds section as we currently currently have 2 pre-owned (but hardly used) sets that will save you a few well earned pounds!
Designed with cabinetmaking in mind, these well-balanced Mortise Chisels are ground with parallel sides and are thicker than they are wide to help keep them straight in the cut.
Made of A2 Tool Steel, hardened...
Lie-Nielsen No.041 Small Shoulder Plane
This is the smallest of the Lie-Nielsen "Preston style" shoulder planes, 5/8" wide, 5 3/4" long. The blade is 0.140" thick, and the tool weighs 1.35 lbs.
With an adjustable mouth like its larger siblings, this tool is just right for trimming and fitting small tenons, dadoes and rebates.
Replacement Blades are available here
Lie-Nielsen No.3 Iron Smoothing Plane
Lie-Nielsen's smoothing planes are precision machined from an iron casting. Comes 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 without having to remove the lever cap...
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).
Lie-Nielsen Scrub Plane
This plane is based on the Stanley 40 1/2 and is designed to remove large quantities of wood quickly e.g taking rough-sawn boards down to size, before finishing with a Jack Plane and a Smoothing Plane.
It is also useful for shaping irregular objects or creating an interesting finished surface.
The Lie Nielsen Scrub Plane has a cast Iron body, 10¼" long. The blade is massive to eliminate...
Masasa
This is a hard wood used by turners and in furniture making. Its heartwood is reddish brown with occasional black or grey streak
Mastercarver 3 Piece Knife Set
Mastercarver® has improved the handle comfort of their popular 3 piece knife set. The naturally shaped hardwood handles will fit your hand better for superior grip and comfort. Perfect for right or left-handed use. The handles are lightly finished with natural Tung oil. Unlike ordinary varnish used on others, Tung oil prevents skin blistering and discomfort.
The blades are the 3 most popular...
Milk Pear
Deep reddish brown with fine, tight grain lines which vary from dark brown to reddish and straw colour. The timber is hard and tight.
MoraKniv 120 Sloyd Woodcarving Knife
The Mora 120 Sloyd woodcarving knife is the shorter of the two we carry. The thin (2.8mm thick by 60mm long) blade is made from carbon steel which is easier to sharpen, and will ultimately give you a better edge over the laminated blades. Comes sharp, ready to go to work. The handle is made from oiled birch which is barrell shaped to give good grip. The tang runs the full length of the handle which...
MoraKniv Single Edge Spoon / Hook Knife - 164 Right Hand
This new re-designed Mora knife is ideal for spoon and bowl carving. This model has a single cutting edge optimised for right handed use. So if you held it in your right hand it would cut on the pull. It can be used in the left hand but would require a push stroke away. The 164 has a tight curve.
Mora changed the design with input from renowned craftspeople Jögge Sundqvist and Beth Moen, with...
Mouldings in Practice
By Matthew Sheldon Bickford
Words from Chris Schwarz of Lost Art Press
After years of publishing woodworking information, you often hear that there is nothing new in the craft. Everything has been done before, written before and fully figured out.
I used to believe that was true, until I read the manuscript that was to become “Mouldings in Practice” by Matthew Sheldon Bickford....
Mukwa (Umbilo/Kiaat)
This wood is popular in Souh Africa with furniture makers and woodturners. Soft in comparison to the rest of our exotic timbers
Nakaya Universal Dozuki Saw
This Japanese saw combines both rip and cross cut on one cutting edge. The saw has a back and the blade thickness is 0.3mm.
J-WDU245 tooth spacing 1.5 mm (finer)
J-WDU248 tooth spacing 1.8 mm (coarser)
Narex Richter Bevel Edge Chisels
Until recently we stocked the Narex 8116 range of bevel edge chisels which were popular amongst students and people starting out in woodworking. Most importantly the steel in the 8116 range was very good but in our opinion the balance and feel would sometimes let them down. I'm glad to say that this new premium range 8150 from Narex is a massive improvement upon the old chisels. Yes they are not...
Norton Combination Oil Stone
This is the "go to" starter stone for beginners which remains super popular with craftsmen, butchers, kitchens and woodworkers the world over.
It is double sided with coarse (120 grit) & fine (320 grit) aluminium oxide abrasive surfaces that produce strong, keen long lasting edges on quality tools. Orange & brown in colour.
Mineral Oil is recommended although they can be used...
Norton Gouge Slipstone
Sharpening tools with curved edges like carving tools or gouges requires a gouge slip.
The Norton India Gouge Slip is a versatile sharpening tool. With a half cone shape, it provides a surface of various diameters to sharpen an assortment of curved edges.
6" long, 1½" high tapering to 3/8".
Because it is two sided, both the inside and the outside of the stone can be used....
Norton Waterstone Starter Kit
A complete Norton waterstone starter kit for a cleaner, easier way to sharpen tools. The 8" (205mm) by 3" (75mm) x 1" (25mm) combination stones provide a complete range of grits from 220 grit for major edge repair through to 8000 grit for producing a mirror finish.
Ideal for woodworking workshops for sharpening chisels, plane blades etc but also a great kit for the domestic or commercial...
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...
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 1'') 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...
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...
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...
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.
Parts and Accessories for 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...
Peacock Oil (Low Odour) - Antique Amber - 100ml
Skelton Saws Peacock Oil is a wood finish made up of a mixture of traditional oils, resins and waxes, each adding its own special benefit. All ingredients are naturally obtained, mainly from ancient tree species and all have been time proven wood preservatives used by the Egyptians and Ancient Greeks. Both breathable and water-repellent, unlike current commercial finishes, Peacock Oil is built up from...
Peacock Oil (Low Odour) - Clear Honey - 100ml
Skelton Saws Peacock Oil is a wood finish made up of a mixture of traditional oils, resins and waxes, each adding its own special benefit. All ingredients are naturally obtained, mainly from ancient tree species and all have been time proven wood preservatives used by the Egyptians and Ancient Greeks. Both breathable and water-repellent, unlike current commercial finishes, Peacock Oil is built up from...
Peacock Oil (Low Odour) - Clear Honey - 250ml
Skelton Saws Peacock Oil is a wood finish made up of a mixture of traditional oils, resins and waxes, each adding its own special benefit. All ingredients are naturally obtained, mainly from ancient tree species and all have been time proven wood preservatives used by the Egyptians and Ancient Greeks. Both breathable and water-repellent, unlike current commercial finishes, Peacock Oil is built up from...
Peacock Oil (Low Odour) - Regal Red - 250ml
Skelton Saws Peacock Oil is a wood finish made up of a mixture of traditional oils, resins and waxes, each adding its own special benefit. All ingredients are naturally obtained, mainly from ancient tree species and all have been time proven wood preservatives used by the Egyptians and Ancient Greeks. Both breathable and water-repellent, unlike current commercial finishes, Peacock Oil is built up from...
Peacock Oil - Wick - Clear 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...
Peacock Wax - 60ml
A natural, innovative and luxurious wax finish in a 60ml tin!
Handmade in Skelton Saws' workshop, Peacock Wax is a unique blend of the world’s finest traditional oils and waxes. This lustrous finish provides a protective film for both previously sealed wood and bare metal surfaces.
Wood Protection:
Suitable for use on previously sealed wood, Peacock Wax will protect and enhance a variety...
Pfeil - 8 Piece Carving Set
This Pfeil 8 piece carving set is a starter set containing 7 full size fully forged tools and one chip carving tool. It is supplied in a rugged canvas roll case and the tools are honed and sharpened ready for use.
The tools included are 1/12, 1s/12, 5/12, 4/20, 7/10, 9/4, 12/8 and KERB12.
This in plain English means a 12mm chisel,
12mm skew chisel,
Series 5 12mm gouge,
Series 4 20mm gouge,
Series...
Pfeil Brass Carving Mallets
These Pfeil Brass Carving Mallets have a brass head with cherry handle which are gentle on the wrist and elbow.
The MK Klein weighs 450g and the MK Gross weighs 700g.
Supplied in cardboard sleeve.
