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Helping Hands with Magnifying Glass List Price: $9.99 Sale Price: $3.99  |
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Quality helping hands with solid heavy duty cast iron base, great for soldering and working with small items. Useful tool for electrician, engineers, jewelers and more. Helping hand comes with 2-1/2" glass lens mangifier and 2 alligator clips mounted on 4 way swivels. |
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TEKTON 7521 Helping Hand with Magnifier List Price: $17.99 Sale Price: $5.99 |
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MIT HELPING HAND WITH MAGNIFIER features: Heavy Duty Cast Iron Base. Two Alligator Clamps Hold Light Materials Steady. 2X, 2-1/2" Magnifying Glass for Precision Work without Eyestrain. Adjustable Ball Joints Position and Hold Work at any Angle... |
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Wiha 40010 magnetize or demagnetize steel screwdriver blades, tweezers and similar tools. Box high quality plastic, shock resistant, green and cadmium free. Magnetize screw drivers, tweezers, tool bits and other steel objects as needed... |
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Stanley 60-100 10-Piece Standard Fluted Screwdriver Set List Price: $11.14 Sale Price: $8.06 |
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The Stanley Standard Fluted Screwdriver Set features ten of the most popular Phillips, slotted, stubby and pocket screwdrivers to satisfy a wide range of fastening needs. These tools are built with ergonomic, tri-lobular, slip-resistant handles to prevent blisters, provide positive torque, and make a comfortable grip; the heat treated, alloy steel blades with rust resistant nickel-plated bar hold up to repeated use... |
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Crescent CTK170CMP Mechanics Tool Set, 170-Piece List Price: $151.33 Sale Price: $94.79 |
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Cooper Tools CTK170MP 170 Piece Mechanics' Tool Set Cooper Hand Tools, a division of Cooper Industries, Inc., manufactures and markets many well-known brands of hand tools, chain, and electronic soldering products, including Campbell chain, Crescent brand wrenches and pliers, Lufkin measuring tools, Nicholson files and saws, Plumb hammers, H... |
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Hyde Tools 09165 Dust-Free Drywall Vacuum Hand Sander with 6-Foot Hose List Price: $29.10 Sale Price: $14.99 |
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Sand surfaces without creating a mess. Attaches to a standard shop-vac. Lightweight. Swivel control, clog-free suction, built-in vacuum control (Vacuum not included) and fast 'EasyClamp'system for changing abrasive sheets... |
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Stanley 94-248 65-Piece General Homeowner's Tool Set List Price: $49.99 Sale Price: $49.99 |
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The Stanley 65-piece homeowner's tool set is packaged in a blow molded case for easy tool storage. All tools in the kit meet or exceed ANSI specs. The hex key sets come in durable caddies to keep keys organized, one for SAE keys and a separate one for metric... |
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Sheffield Tools 58780 Hook And Pick Set, 4 Piece List Price: $4.86 Sale Price: $4.69 |
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Item 58780: Sheffield 4 Piece Hook and Pick Set. Ideal for separating wires. Removes small fuses and ``O`` rings. Ergonomic rubber grip handles with Sheffield Oval-Grip pattern. |
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Radius Garden NRGSET 4-Piece Gardening Hand Tool Set List Price: $29.99 Sale Price: $29.99 |
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Complete set of four Radius Ergonomic Hand Tools, including Trowel, Transplanter, Weeder and Cultivator. Each with comfortable curved grip creating more leverage and less stress. Polished aluminum blades are surprisingly light and remarkably strong... |
Why I Do My Woodworking Using Hand Tools
Most people know little about woodworking using hand tools. This may be completely new to you if you are a modern day woodworker.Some woodworkers avoid old tools at all costs. They think that they are outdated, less accurate and slower than the modern day machines. This simply is not true in most cases. This article will provide you with some facts about using planes and saws in your every day Wood Working projects.
Hand tools are safer. This is a major reason to consider using them. Woodworking machines with their sharp blades move pretty fast. You can have an accident and lose a finger or hand before you know what happened. You can be as careful as you can be but it only takes one small slip and you are off to the hospital or worse. Working by hand can get you hurt but the injury is normally not as severe. When you are operating the tool you usually have more reaction time to stop before it gets out of hand.
You can use a smaller work area. Table Saws and planers take up a lot of room. It physically takes more space to operate your home shop with machines. Starting out by hand you can start in the corner of your garage and be just fine.
Hand tools are in some cases faster than machines. You may find that hard to believe but sometimes it is a lot faster. Sure if you are cutting out one thousand boards for a wood factory you cannot touch that by hand. However for the guy at home doing one single project by the time you set up your machine, adjust the fence and make a test cut you will be done and going on to the next step by using old fashioned tools.
It costs less to get started woodworking. Starting out with woodworking machines that are of any quality cost a lot of money. Even though you can spend plenty on High Quality planes and saws the fact is you can start with a few tools and get your project done without breaking the bank.
Hand tools make less noise. This is one reason I choose to use to use these tools. There is something to be said about planning a board and hearing the blade smoothing the wood.
Achieve greater precision. Early on when using my Table Saw it was very easy to cut a little too much off my project. I have thrown away many a good-looking piece of wood because of some small mistake. When I use my Hand Saw it is much easier to sneak up on my mark and not overdo it.
I choose to use work by hand as much as I can. For myself it is a more sensible way to work with wood. The best system for most would be some sort of combination of the old and the new. Woodworking using hand tools is hard work. The rewards are worth it for me.
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