Woodwork tools cover all types of tools that are used in woodworking. These woodworking tools include stationary machines, power tools, and hand tools.
I was cleaning out my shop and noticed that most of my common-use tools were ones that I had bought in the last 6 months. Upon looking further, I realized that my oldest tool was a table saw I had purchased over a decade ago specifically to make dado cuts. I can see that I…
I pulled out a box of router bits because I needed a spare. And guess what? It was a box of broken bits that I had forgotten about. This sent me down a rabbit hole as I looked up the possible reason for router bits breaking, something I had never really thought about before. Here’s…
When I started wood carving, I used to lump all types of carving into the same bucket. Twenty years into wood carving, I understand that there are many different types of carving practices that produce different types of projects. While whittling has come to represent carving as a whole and chainsaw carving has blown up…
I picked up wood carving again recently and ran out of the only basswood block I had lying around. The closest thing in hardness that I had was cedar, and I was quite surprised by the results of my first attempt at carving cedar. With around a week of carving cedar and over two decades…
Today, my wife said commented on why I had so many sanders. She took a look at the two sanders placed in the corner and asked if I could do with just one. “Of course, I need both! One is an orbital sander, and the other one’s a belt sander. So what is the difference…
In intermediate woodworking, one of the most common cuts I have had to make is the crosscut. There are two ways to execute it, I’ve learned. One requires driving wood across a blade, while the other requires the blade to move across the wood. The method I use to make a crosscut dictates the kind…
