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Introduction
Woodworking is one of the skills that will really come in handy, especially for homeowners. With it, you can accomplish a lot of things around the house without the need for professional help. You can also take things up a notch and make your own furniture to make the most out of your budget.
If you’re thinking of learning the ropes of woodworking, below are the basic tools you need to get started. Most projects also only need these tools so you can already complete lots of projects with them, too.
5 Tools that Any Woodworker Needs
1. Measuring Tools
When working with wood, you need the right measurements to get the results you want. You can’t just wing it and hope for the best in this craft. This is why the right measuring tools are essential for every woodworker.
There are quite a few different types of measuring tools that you can use, too. Each one will provide different ways of measuring materials and taking precise measurements of other things:
- Measuring tape for taking measurements of your materials and spaces where your piece should go.
- Framing square for measuring perfect angles when building cabinets, working on tight spaces, and checking square edges.
- Level for measuring the flatness and evenness of surfaces.
- Try square is also for measuring perfect angles like the framing square. However, it’s smaller and constructed in a way that makes it more versatile than its bigger counterpart.
- Short rule for measuring small stuff, creating straight lines, and other purposes.
2. Nail Gun or Hammer
Nail guns and hammers will help you put pieces together so it shouldn’t be surprising that they’re also considered as must-haves for woodworkers.
Here are the most basic types that you’ll need:
- Brad nailers for small carpentry and upholstery tasks. It’s a small and light power tool that will let you nail down small pieces together so it can really come in handy in many projects.
- Claw hammers for manual tasks. Sometimes using a power tool will prove to be too much for your materials, so claw hammers are better options instead.
- Rubber mallets are useful for slotting pieces together without damaging the material in use.
- Finishing nailers are useful for lighter tasks like adding trimmings and finishing touches to your project.
- Nailers like palm nailers, nail gun for flooring or nailer for fencing are very useful for specific tasks.
- Crown staplers are versatile fastening tools that you will find useful for many projects. It’s particularly useful in upholstering furniture and attaching other lighter materials to wood.
3. Saws
Since you’ll need to cut wood to smaller pieces and other shapes in order to create your project, saws are the very tools that will help you get the job done. They also come in different varieties that will make different tasks easier to accomplish. These are the most basic examples that you should have right away:
- Handsaws are the most basic saws out there. They will let you create straight cuts on wood manually.
- Circular saws are the power tool versions of handsaws. They’ll let you cut wood and other materials into smaller pieces with a single pass of the blade. As they don’t require a lot of effort to use, they’re the most common alternatives to handsaws.
- Jigsaws will let you create custom cuts on wood with ease. It’s not for straight cuts, however, so it’s more for detailed projects instead.
4. Boring Tools
As its name suggests, boring tools create holes into surfaces. They’re often used for detailing jobs or for fastening parts together.
The most popular basic example of this tool is the drill. This power tool is widely used in homes not just for woodworking but for other maintenance and DIY tasks as well. They come can perform different tasks by just replacing the drill bit.
You can also find manual drills known as the hand drill. They’re a bit harder to use but some woodworkers prefer them.
5. Joinery Tools
In some projects, you can’t just fasten pieces of wood together if you want the best results aesthetically. Piecing them together using various joinery techniques would be an alternative. This is a trickier woodworking technique and will require finer tools and skills. Some of the tools that you can use are the following:
- Biscuit joiners for seamless joins. It’s like a smaller circular saw but is made to create holes on the wood where biscuits can be slotted through and used to connect two pieces together.
- Wood chisels are also traditionally used for creating different kinds of joinery slots.
- Different types of planers for shaping the piece of wood and smoothen it for using properly.
- Backsaws will let you create precise cuts manually, so they can also help create joinery slots with ease.
Conclusion
With the complexity of carpentry and the projects you can whip up with the craft, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that you’ll need quite a few different tools for it. These are just some of the most basic and essential items that will already let you create various items with great ease.
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