Woodworking Tools
Wanting to start making chairs and some types of furniture I have bought some books.
Now, books alone might do for a mathematician but for woodworking you need tools as well.
I have chosen to learn to primarily work with traditional hand tools. This due to risk and cost factors as well as affinity for tradition.
General advice
- Buy the best tools as you can afford
- Quality is very important and really makes a difference
- Tools must be maintained, and this must be learned
- Skilled maintenance is as important as skilled use
Choices, choices, choices
Some choices of different levels of complexity:
- Which tools to buy?
Which types?
Which brands?
Which supplier? - Hand tools, power tools or a blend?
- Invest in woodworking as a discipline?
- Invest in any discipline?
I’ve chosen to mostly buy tools from the US brand Lie-Nilsen. These guys seem really passionate about their work and are said to produce at really high quality. They are however correspondingly expensive.
As mentioned above I chiefly want to learn to use hand tools.
Adding up all the costs will bring the total into the four digits; sky high levels. Which is why I have thought and continue to think very hard about the decision to bring this field of work into my life. Is this a worthy investment? Should I do it?
Regarding iv. see Saving and investing and Knowledge portfolio.
Tool list
Measure and mark
- Pencil
- Marking knife
- Rule
- Combination square
- Bevel gauge
- Marking gauge
- Panel gauge
Plane and shape
- Block plane
- Jointer plane (No. 7)
- Jack plane (No. 5)
- Smoothing plane (No. 4)
- Shoulder plane (large)
- Spokeshave
- Router plane
- Chisels: 1/4", 1/2", 3/4"
- Mortise chisel: ?
Cut
- Carcass saw
- Tenon saw
- Dovetail saw
- Coping saw
Felling and rough work
- Wedges
- Sledge
- Axe
- Draw knife
- Froe
Various
- Wooden mallet
- Clamps
- Rasps
- Brace and bits
- Plug plate
Get sharp
- Water stones
- Diamond plate
- Honing guide