Woodworker: John Klink

A toolmaker by trade, Klink decided to put his professional skills to the task and make some of his own tools for woodworking. The scraper plane has a cast-iron body and a curly maple handle; the chisel plane has a steel body with a padauk handle. Both planes have A2-steel blades. Klink got the idea for the steel dual-end marking gauge from Jim Kingshott’s Making and Modifying Woodworking Tools (Guild of Master Craftsman Publications, 1993) and made the body and adjuster on a CNC milling machine. The wood handles on the planes are finished with tung oil.

Photo: John Klink