Shop-Made Hand Tools

This 100-page woodworking collection contains 15 hand tool projects with complete step-by-step plans and retail sources to build them in your own shop!

As fun as complex tools can be, it’s always good to begin with the fundamentals. In this book we start with a collection of our favorite simple, shop-made tools — each is an excellent foundation for a hand tool shop.

Then we step it up with a classic workhorse for your shop. Nothing says craftsmanship like a well-made hand plane. Here you’ll find four of our favorite designs, which should prove both challenging and rewarding while providing you with an excellent new tool.

A well-made project begins with a quality layout. In this last section we’ve included some of the best shop-made layout tools we’ve made, which involve some interesting work with both wood and metals.