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• Plane Blades and Chisels Need a Flat and Polished Back

  by Chris Gochnour

  A sharp-cutting plane blade or chisel depends upon the meeting between two flat, polished surfaces. That's why you need to pay as much attention to the backs of ...

• Got a Skew Chisel?

  by Garrett Hack

  You can buy bevel-edge skew chisels, but it's pretty easy and very inexpensive to simply make your own. Garrett Hack demonstrates how to make a skew chisel from ...

• The Woodwright's Favorite Tools

  by Roy Underhill

  Roy Underhill, aka The Woodwright, has a big, quirky collection of hand tools. These are his favorites -- the ones he says he'd be buried with: holdfast, scrub ...

• Q & A: Basic Chisel Set for Furniture Making?

  by Chris Gochnour

• Bench Chisels

  by Chris Gochnour

  Chris Gochnour takes a look at the bench chisel, that woodshop workhorse that is used for dovetailing, mortise-and-tenoning, paring, installing hinges, chamfering ...

• Best Bench Chisels

  by Chris Gochnour

  Read all about the four chisels named best overall and best value in a recent FWW tool test.

• High-End Hand-Tool Sales Surge

  by Gina Eide

  A small band of boutique toolmakers experiences exponential growth fueled, in part, by the Internet

• Video: Bench Chisels Can Do Mortises

  with Garrett Hack

  Learn to cut perfect mortises with a combination of hand and power tools in part five of our 10-question series on choosing and using chisels

• Video: Evaluating Low-Cost Chisels

  with Garrett Hack

  Find out when you should upgrade to high-quality chisels in part four of this 10-question series on choosing and using chisels

• Video: Understanding Japanese Chisels

  with Garrett Hack

  Discover what makes a Japanese chisel different from the Western variety in part six of our 10-question series on choosing and using chisels

• Video: A Case for Two Mortise Chisels

  with Garrett Hack

  Compare the chopping power of wide-blade mortise chisels and stout sash chisels in part three of our 10-question series on choosing and using chisels

• Video: Sharpness is in the Steel

  with Garrett Hack

  Find out why some chisel hold an edge and some don't in part two of our 10-question series on choosing and using chisels

• Video: The Essential Chisel Set

  with Garrett Hack

  In the first of our 10-question series on choosing and using chisels, a seasoned furniture maker discusses the eight chisels he can't live without

• Lie-Nielsen at 25

  by Tom Begnal

  Tom Lie-Nielsen started his business in 1981, making a single model of bronze edge-plane on his kitchen table. Today, some 70 employees at Lie-Nielsen Toolworks ...

• All About Chisels

  by Bob Smalser

  On the surface, a chisel is a simple tool -- just a cutting edge attached to a handle. But once a woodworker starts to buy and use chisels it is easy to be overwhelmed ...