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Woodworking for Beginners

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Build Your Tool Set


Andrew Strome shows you how to build a core set of hand tools. Combined with other basic tools you may already have, this versatile collection can be used to accomplish a variety of woodworking goals.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNbW8a7Extk

Tools for Getting Started

Marking a wooden plank along the edge of an 8" Stainless Square

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Aluminum and Steel Try Squares

From: $21.80

Using the Veritas Micro-Adjust Wheel Marking Gauge to measure tenon shoulder and mortise depth

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Veritas Micro-Adjust Wheel Marking Gau...

$65.50

Scribing dovetails using the Japanese spear-point marking knife

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Japanese Spear-Point Marking Knife

$28.90

Using a Lee Valley Pocket Rule to check a mortise depth

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Lee Valley Pocket Rule

$7.20

05N3501 - Precision Square, Imperial

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Veritas Precision Square

$49.50

Using a chisel to make a mortise with a canvas roll of chisels in front

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Lee Valley Bevel-Edge Chisels

From: $17.50

Using a Professional Handsaw to cross-cut a deck board

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Professional Handsaw

$38.50

10' Tapes for Cabinetmakers

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Lee Valley 10' Tapes for Cabinetmakers

$8.30

A utility brad-point bit being used to drill a hole in a wooden workpiece on a drill press table

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Utility Brad-Point Drill Bits

From: $3.00

A carpenter’s beech mallet resting on a workbench

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Carpenter's Beech Mallets

From: $23.50

05T0605 - Veritas Small Fine-Tooth Crosscut Saw, 22 tpi

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Veritas Small Fine-Tooth Crosscut Saw

$99.00

A block of wood, a cabinetmaker’s rule and a pencil sitting on a workbench.

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12" Cabinetmaker's Rule

$16.95

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