Using Hand Tools

Kate Swann’s Essential Hand-Tool Kit
June 16, 2025

The Florida School of Woodwork puts these tools at every workbench. Kate Swann breaks down every hand tool to get started with.
Keeping Hand-Tool Cabinetmaking Fun
October 14, 2024

Israel Martin likes machines but prefers to work with hand tools. To avoid the tedium that can accompany working with hand tools, he simplifies his designs, using mostly straight lines and square corners.
Simple guide for straight handsaw cuts
August 27, 2024

A simple clamping aid guarantees straight cuts.
Chris Schwarz’s Irish stick chair
June 12, 2024

Chris makes chairmaking approachable with a set of basic tools.
Handwork is strong medicine
October 19, 2023

Hand-tool woodworking helped Giuseppe Deepak Benti control a deep form of anxiety called anginophobia.
Build a frame-and-panel door with hand tools – Part 2
April 13, 2023

Having created the frame in Part 1, Bill Pavlak now focuses on making the raised panel.
Build a frame-and-panel door with hand tools
February 20, 2023

Bill Pavlak demonstrates how to make the frame: chopping the mortises, fitting the tenons, and cutting the haunch.
For the Love of Pine
June 16, 2022

The wood that makes you feel superhuman
A school for simplicity and self-reliance
June 10, 2022

Kenneth and Angela Kortemeier offer hand-tool woodworking classes modeled after the Country Workshops of Drew Langsner.
How to build a Dutch tool chest
November 1, 2021

Improve your hand skills with a chest sized for travel and the shop

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