Just listed Australian made spotted gum and hickory tool handles Claw hammer Axe Hatchet Engineers hammers Lump hammer

Larger range of conservator's consumables. Just listed companion products for Renaissance Wax. Pre-Lim Cleaner, restorer and burnisher Vulpex soap De-corrder Groomstick dry cleaning rubbers

Just published in response to enquiries about sharpening hand saws. Links to the best book in print and essential tools and equipment. See HERE

Just introduced, a listing of 4 sizes of zinc plated, 3 sizes of stainless steel and 5 sizes of solid brass panel pins.  Panel pins have gone off the Australian market in favour of bullet heads but a close look at the heads on these reveal their usefulness.  All of these are useful to varying degrees in rust prone environments. Get started HERE

A customer of ours recently purchased some of our Pure Tung oil to treat his new Flow Hive.  For those unaware the Australian invention of the Flow Hive which in essence involves putting a tap on a bee hive to extract the honey in a manner safer for both the beekeeper and the bees, has been an international sensation. The makers use Western Red Cedar for the hives which is renowned for its durability when used outdoors.  The manufacturers recommend tung oil as the treatment for the hives.  Pure Tung Oil is the perfect choice for this application for several…

We field quite a few requests from customers who want to get into working wood and who value suggestions as to the core selection of hand tools which would be needed. See a new Technical Data Sheet HERE for our take on this matter.

Now in stock - newly minted Gyokucho Dozuki and Kataba wooden handled folding saws. These are beautifully made and have a precise tight feel to the locking mechanism.The SUPER HARD is capable of working some man-made composites and ply. Super hard 240mm Dozuki - Item: T1381 Universal tooth Dozuki - Item: T1382 Kataba - Item: T1383

Wider range of Cabinet Scrapers We have added more options for this most essential and affordable tool. These are especially nice for fine work. Swedish steel.

Using Tung Oil on Bee Hives, Horse Stables and Concrete The inventors of the Flow Hive recommend using Pure Tung to seal the exterior of wooden beehives because of it natural attributes - a non toxic, tough and maintainable seal for the wood.  For this and other applications such as horse stables it is recommeded to use the use the Pure Tung neat and not to use any thinners. A customer is using our tung oil on concrete and is delighted with the results. Pure Tung oil is a naturally derived tree nut oil which, when applied thinly, cures by…

Joseph Marples Tools Available The Marples family name in Sheffield UK is justly famous over many generations for the production of layout tools for woodworking.  Now after many years of company takeovers, mergers and outsourcing to South and East Asia we can now source genuinely Made in Sheffield products again. Better still East Indian Rosewood - Dalbergia latifolia - is now available from certified renewable plantation sources and it looks lovely. The Rosewood Marples range looks especially nice. Search on site using the search word Marples.