Best Woodwork Tools for Beginners

February 18, 2025 admin Tools & Equipment 50

Best Woodwork Tools for Beginners

In this video I am answering the most commonly asked question I receive; what tools should I get as someone who is looking to start hand tool woodworking. This video briefly lists out the essential tools and what they are used for.
– Vice
– Pencil / Marking Knife
– Square
– Sliding bevel
– Dividers
– Marking gauge
– Set of bevel edge chisel
– Mallet (make your own)
– Jack plane
– Block plane
– Spoke shave
– Rip cut saw
– Cross cut saw
– Tenon saw
– Gents / dovetail saw
– Flat head screwdriver
– Sharpening. Oilstone / Diamond Stone
– Leather Strop
– Triangular file (sharpening saws)
– Hand crank drill
– Brace and bit

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  3. My humble suggestion is that if you can get some cork sheet and glue it to the wooden blocks/plates of your vice to get a better grip on anything that you want to really ‘get into it’

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  8. My friend is gunna give me a few of his fathers old tools I really wanna start out with hand tools I have a dremel with some bits aventouly I’m get me a draw knife I have a whole list and I’m getting a jig saw from my friend

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  9. It’s addictive. I’m not sure if I spend more time restoring tools or using them. But there is no better therapy than woodwork with vintage tools 👍👊

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  10. I have like barely any wood working knowledge but after seeing your shorts and checking out your channel I want to lol. Alas I have nowhere to do any woodworking. Cheers mate, you earned a subscriber.

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  11. I was lucky enough to inherit my great grandfathers Sheffield woodworking hand tool he worked as a shipwright in Birmingham. I unfortunately couldn’t find his saws or chisels but I have his hand planes, draw knives , spoke shaves, brace , calipers, Dividers, brush and clamps. They’re absolutely gorgeous tools I have to finish sharpening and restoring them

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  13. once a tempered saw is gone you don’t have to throw it out
    just changes craft from woodwork to metal.

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  17. I used to love doing woodwork in my old day centre in kent but it was very good over the years but it went down hill and needs to do more woodwork more exiting and more fun

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  19. Great stuff, Eoin! Thoughtful, a good set of values and a good bit of patter. More power to you elbow! Go n’éirí an bóthar leat!

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  20. For me as a German these tools look so weird and their names are so weird too. In Germany, our tools look like they’re straight out of the 19th century. Our tools are named after what they look like and what they do. There is the Raubank (rough bench) which is the big plane, then the Schrupphobel (Scrub plane), Schlichthobel (evening plane), etc.

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  22. You over flowed the box… now what… how to get down to basics and organize! I did the same with leather tools… you’d think to much is better… however, getting trim is better. The few tools you use every time.

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  23. When I was a kid, I loved the hand-cranked drill my dad had cos it worked the same way as the whisk my mum had in the kitchen. I usually got the ‘boring’ job of whisking the eggs, cake batter, cream etc when my mum was cooking, but using the hand-cranked drill was a liiiiiiitle more difficult XD. Needless to say, I made a lot of wonky holes in wood that weren’t much help to my dad!

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  27. Love it mate. Proper woodworking, tool maintenance and skills to pass onto our children.
    Youtube is full of ‘woodworkers’ using tablesaws and high end power tools that need little to no skill.
    Paul Sellers might pass the torch onto you one day Eoin. Namaste x

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  31. I did woodworking at school in Australia many years ago.

    Now I was looking up some manual woodworking techniques, after recently getting the wordworking bug and wanting to get back into it for a few DIY projects, and found myself remembering all these tools I had used along with their hitherto obscure names!

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  33. When i started wood working a little over a year ago, i used a block p.ane for everything cause i couldn’t find anything else in my area

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  36. knowing what a rip cut saw is for…I’ve loved the whole video but it’s just…so wonderful learning about this stuff. I wish I’d gotten into carpentry and woodworking so much sooner.

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  39. Thank you kindly for this detailed rundown – lots of videos assume we know something, and I for one know nothing, and appreciate all the details (like needing a bigger form of drill for more torque or how to actually sharpen the tools.

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  44. I’m a carpenter/furniture maker/woodworker/add the title you want* and now disabled. I can use electric tools and did but came to a point I realized it was less noisy and more pleasing (as a full time hobby) to work with hand tools. It gives a lot of insight on what you are doing and it’s calm. It’s like some kind of meditation. I take my time, I think more about the designs and learning to TAKE MY TIME and rest when it’s too much. I can work like 5 to 10 minutes and have to quit so it’s really a passion but at this point it became an artist path and a part of who I am, almost a religion. I need it, I live it, I love it. there’s a lot of respect for people who recognize a good wood worker’s work and the abilities we develop and show. a respect for the ones who did and will do

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  45. Hand tools also give you more experience and learning moments. Since they are slower, you can also see your progress slowly but steady.

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  46. Does anyone know if these vintage tools are available and abundant in the United States? Or have tips on where to hunt them down?

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  48. Such a great, compelling post about hand tools and their uses. Very well done.
    I have a mix of power tools and hand tools. I often choose a power tool for the cutdown and repetitive work. My hand tools for the finish and detail work. 😊

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