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

Most kids in Australia learnt their school wood work using a Dawn vice.  Their new hold down is a very useful bit of gear.  You can place our SCREW INSERTS around benchtops and provide for hold down points wherever you want. Buying details HERE. Read more: New Bench Hold Down from Dawn Tools

Just listed. Water soluble lemon shellac which is perfect for applications where an alcohol solvent, such as used for standard French Polish, is either dangerous or inappropriate. Water based shellac has a silky sheen and many uses as a sealer and final finish. See HERE for details.

Mike Darlow is a leading technical authority on hand woodturning and the author of 5 titles on the intricacies and theory of hand woodturning.  His fifth book on Design is a tour through the architectural applications of column forms in particular and places the modern fascination with wood turning in its historical context. All five books for $95 plus postage. The Fudamentals of Wood Turning Wood Turning Techniques Wood Turning Methods Wood Turning Design Turned Chessmen See details HERE Read more: Mike Darlow's 5 Books On Special

We have begun to add a range of USA made, solid brass, cut thread, wood screws and British sourced, solid brass set screws, bolts, nuts and washers.  These fasteners are of the sort of quality once standard and taken for granted in Australia until the advent of massive, big box, hardware stores. Now I happen personally to love these huge stores, but I do get a lot of bad feedback about the knowledge of staff and, curiously, the stock range which you would assume could never be an issue. Read more: Brass Set Screws, Wood Screws

We have just concluded an arrangement to market the world's leading brand of hand cut rasps.  Noel Liogier, whose factory is near Lyon in France, makes in excess of 1400 rasp options, the teeth on each one of which is hand cut.  The resulting tools are revered world wide for their cutting feel and durability which machine made rasps simply cannot match.  The range is available in traditional hardened tools and sapphire hardened which are tough enough to even work soft metals and perfectly suited to tough and abrasive Australian wood species. See the popular Cabinet Makers range HERE. Read…

These are traditionally used to mount escutcheon plates around key holes on doors and the like but have numerous other uses such as pinning glazing beads around doors and windows. In this application solid brass will not rust such as may raw steel panel pins. Read more: Escutcheon Pins

Just launched, a range of brass, nickel, antique bronze and black oxo coated, round and countersunk head wood screws.  If you need tiny screws for mounting decorative plaques or escutcheons and a host of other applications look HERE. Read more: New Range Of Small Wood Screws

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 interaction with oxygen (auto oxidation) to a tough, attractive, matte seal which can then, after some time to allow for the oil to fully harden, be buffed to a very attractive finish. The pluses are that it can be touched up at will with maintenance coats, is food safe for kitchen woodware and safe for use on toys.  Pure Tung has no added toxic driers or extender oils. Read…