The top 8 wood tools and what you need them for
Whether you want to do smaller woodwork or build your own, individual furniture: You should buy the right wooden tools and woodworking machines for your craftsman plans.
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To cut your piece of wood to your liking, you need a saw.
You have the choice between different models.
For rough work in the home workshop, a foxtail is suitable. Finer cuts are best done with a fine saw. If your work is particularly filigree, a Japanese saw is well suited.
If you want to process larger workpieces or have to saw precise angles, you should use electric cross-cut and miter saws or a hand circular saw.
2. Clamps Set
With a clamp, you fix the piece of wood on the workbench or a work table.
So you can easily start with the woodworking or tension an element with other wooden parts. The latter is necessary, for example, if you want to screw or glue several pieces of wood together.
Indispensable for do-it-yourselfers is above all the screw clamp: With its individually adjustable wingspan, you clamp the wood in such a way that it does not slip and can be easily processed.
With the rasp, you bring your pieces of wood to the right size.
The tool is equipped with a toothed steel profile that gradually removes the surface of the wood.
If the wooden element has the desired shape and size, you go on to the fine work: Depending on its toothing, the file smoothes the processed part of the wood. Boards and Co. are given the finishing touches with the help of sandpaper.
4.Planer
With this tool, you can adapt your piece of wood to your wishes by safely removing chips.
The planer is available as a hand planer or as an electric woodworking machine. For coarser work, a rougher is best suited. If a board is to be smoothed, you reach for the simple planer.
Of course, the whole thing is also available electronically: You can choose between universal electric planers and various other electric planer variants for different areas of application. This is the best place to get advice from your specialist center.
5.Sander electric
Let's stick to the removal of the top layer of wood. With an electric grinder, you can also process large areas efficiently and without much effort.
To do this, it is best to clamp your workpiece first into a workbench or with the help of the clamp on a table so that it is fixed. Now you can start grinding.
Important: Always prepare from coarse to fine sandpaper.
For example, if you want to remove a layer of paint from your wood, you should work with a grain size of about 40 or 60 to quickly remove a larger layer. Then you continue working with finer grain size – for example, 240. You should never exert too much pressure, otherwise, the wood will get grooves and furrows.
6. Wood chisel
If you want to work in recesses into your piece of wood, you use a piercing ax.
You choose the right model depending on the type of wood and the extent of the deepening.
Wide and deeper hollows are best achieved with flattened axes, for fine slots you use a perforated ax.
7. Wood drills
The wood drill must not be missing in any tool case. If you want to drill a hole in a wooden plate, you should use a drill pin that is especially suitable for wood. This cuts the wood fibers cleanly and leaves a smooth edge. Use a nail drill if you need smaller holes for nails. If you want to drill deep holes, snake drills are the best choice.
The narrow tip distinguishes the wood drill (picture: center) from other drill heads. By placing the wood drill with the tip, the wood to be drilled is centered. This is possible because the material – in contrast to the hard metal – gives way a little. In contrast, the metal drill (picture: left) has a cone-shaped tip and has two sharp cutting edges to penetrate the solid material. The tip of the stone drill (picture: right) also has two cutting edges, which, however, depending on the material to be processed, can be dull or ground. The tip of the stone drill is characteristically very wide (wedge-shaped).
8. Wooden Mallet
To work with the bite, you need a hammer. It is also important as a tool for joining several pieces of wood. Choose a wooden hammer: It is lighter and a little gentler than a hammer with a metal head and does not damage your workpiece or your pickle. Since the wooden hammer itself is completely made of wood, it is also called knocking wood. When working with it, the momentum should come loosely from the wrist.
In general, ask yourself what work you want to do and get the wooden tools you need. If you often tackle woodwork yourself, it is best to get a selection of different tool variants. So you always have the optimal tool for every step of the process and can professionally implement your plans.
For those who prefer a linguistic type of learning, there is also Ted’s Woodworking book, which we previously reviewed. It is a resource to 16,000 plans which contain step-by-step instructions. In addition, it also features a set of detailed plan charts from all corners, angles, and joints.
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