Wood may seem like a soft, weak material if you’re used to working with steel, but to do good work, you’ll quickly learn you need your tools sharp. Buying and maintaining a good set of tools ...

There’s no question that power tools have made things easier in the shop. But the craft of woodworking has been around a lot ...

It also can create inaccuracies if allowed to build up on a table bed or against the fence. Outperforming shop vacuums by a ...

MatchSticks doesn’t work by processing an entire piece of stock at once (that what you’re for, adaptable human woodworker) it’s really a tool for doing the complex part of the job ...

Samples taken from the wood by Wessex Archaeology Conservator ... will help us to understand the role that these wooden tools played and the similarities and differences in their use.

People of the past used stone, wood, and bone to create a variety of tools. Although stone tools are more commonly found in archaeological settings, it is likely that bone and wood tools had an ...

Adzes tools come in many shapes and sizes (see Figure 1-4), which can be used for different activities. For example, a D-shaped adze blade (see FIgure 1) is used for planing or smoothing wood planks.

Whilst staying in Andamooka, South Australia, in 1966, searching for opals around the mouth of an opal mine ('noodling')I found a small stone tool made from petrified wood. The wood clearly shows ...

About 60000 years ago indigenous people crossed the land bridge and made stone tools.Did they recognise and particularly value petrified wood or was it just a convenient stone to fashion into a tool?