Several years ago when the Wood Works had a centrally located shop in Sydney my colleagues and I used to teach a short course in sharpening.  To assist with the classes I made 8 sharpening stations which were designed to be lifted into place on the bench for the duration of the class and stowed aside afterwards.  I have had many enquiries for the design of these stations and sold all but my last one hence the point of this data sheet. The ability to quickly set up a sharpening rig and then stow it away is a common requirement…

We offer work holding solutions for many needs. See a full listing HERE. Read more: Vices with a twist

US Authors often use thread descriptions which confuse because the UNC standard uses gauge numbers for sizes under 1/4 inch. It is not immediately clear that for example, a #4-40 UNC designated screw will be a close enough fit for what Australians would know as 1/8 inch Whitworth or a #6-32 UNC designated screw will be a fit for 5/32 inch Whitworth. Use this table to decipher the US standard. Read more: Unified Thread System

We now offer a range of 8 extra slim taper second cut saw files suited to sharpening western style hand saws. Details HERE. Read more: F.D. Saw Files added

We now can offer a flat rate freight cost of AU$100 for New Zealand buyers of the Multicut 1, Multicut 2, Multicut SE and Multicut Quick machines. Delivery inside 6 to 10 working days.

When you visit our site you will see that we are suckers for listing cool and interesting items. This does result in what can be a complex searching exercise so to assist with comparing and seeing the whole listing of certain basic tool and equipment groups, we are in the process of introducing LIST OF ALL displays. Read more: Improved Searching for our Site

Further to the Lists Of All described above we also offer search results for groups of products across all categories determined by what Activity you are engaging in. For example Dovetailing will list pretty much everything available from us which you would likely need to research, mark up, cut and assemble dovetail joints. Read more: Activity Based Search Groups

Just released high quality, multi language, promotional videos of the Hegner range of scrollsaws. See HERE.

Just added, a combined time and tide cycle movement well suited to mounting in weather station projects.Two sizes of dial faces available.Full instructions included. See HERE for more information. Read more: Time & Tide Quartz Movements

Quite a few dust collection applications in the workshop can benefit from these segmented 'anglepoise', vacuum hose nozzles which you can bend close to a dust generation point such as a lathe, drill press or router table. The hose is self supporting up to a metre in length and can bend around a 150mm radius. A slide valve and three nozzle options - square, round or tapered (pictured) available. US made and top quality - 2 1/2 inch ID. Details HERE. Read more: New Vacuum Product