Woodworking Tools – Hand Saw, Wood Chisel, Woodworking Vice, Bench Plane

Woodworking Tools, Woodworking Hand Tools

Tools used to cut, shape and finish wood fall under the category of woodworking tools and are important assets of a wood worker whose job is to carve furniture and to prepare products from wood.  These can be either the woodworking hand tools that work manually or power tools that run on electricity or some other source. The power tools and modern equipments can greatly enhance the productivity and convenience of woodworking as compared to hand tools, but still manual hand tools have their own importance in wood working and are preferred by many traditional woodworkers till to this day. Let us have a look at some of such important and manual tools for woodworking used by most of the woodworkers.

Hand Saw

One of the most important tools for woodworking is a hand saw. Hand saws are generally available in different sizes and types and are primary tools for cutting wood into shapes and sizes. There are cross cut saws, rip saws, hack saws, coping saws, keyhole saws that are widely employed for different types of wood cutting like trimming, molding, angle cutting, cross cutting and fine line cutting.

Wood Chisel

A wood chisel is a woodworking hand tool having characteristically shaped cutting blade meant for carving and cutting wood into various patterns. Wood chisels range from small hand tools for tiny details to large chisels used to remove big sections of wood. Butt chisel, carving chisel, bevel edge chisel, framing chisels are some of the popular kinds of woodworking chisels.

Woodworking Vice

A woodworking vice is a mechanical screw apparatus used for holding or clamping wood work piece to allow work to be performed on it with tools such as saws, planes, drills, mills, screwdrivers etc. There are jaws made of plastic or metal and split nuts in vice with the help of which the wood piece is tightly held for working purpose.

Hand Plane

The hand plane is one of the basic tools of wood working. It has three jobs in the woodshop - to straighten the wood, to smooth it and to remove it. Bench planes and block planes are two important categories of woodworking planes. Bench planes are characterized by the presence of chipbreaker and bevel facing down while the block planes do not have chipbreaker and have the cutting iron bedded with the bevel up. Rabbet plane, bull nose plane, bull nose rabbet plane, circular plane, chisel plane, combination plane are some special kinds of hand planes widely used by woodworkers for convenient and easy woodworking smoothing tasks.