This article covers homeowner and professional Security and regular screwdriver bit sets.
Gone are the days when you needed three slotted screwdrivers and three Phillips screwdrivers to remove just about any screw.  Today there are many different types of screwheads including Phillips, Slotted, Phillips ACR®, Robertson, Slotted, Pozidriv®, Povidriv ACR®, French Recess (BNAE), Socket Head (Allen) [...]

I originally published this article on EzineArticles. Here I am going to add some examples of good pliers you can buy.
This article is going to cover what makes a quality pliers and I wil use slip-joint pliers as the example. But it doesn’t matter if it is a slip joint, pump, tongue & [...]

Why Buy Quality Screwdrivers?
Yesterday I was installing a curtain rod in the kitchen. I asked my wife for a flat bladed screwdriver and she reached into her tool drawer and handed me one. After 30 seconds of frustration I handed it back to her and went out to the garage, grabbed a different screwdriver from [...]

What is a carpenter pencil?
Carpenter pencils have been around since the early 1500’s.    A Carpenter’s Pencil is large, flat pencil designed to mark wood for cutting.  A perk of using a carpenters pencil is the lead is just about the same width as a blade of a hand saw or circular saw. If [...]

Hacksaws, Handles & Blades
Hacksaws are one of the most common hand tools.  Nearly everyone owns one, and if you don’t have one, you need to buy one.  Hacksaws are inexpensive and very economical to use.   But most of you never use it because the one time you tried to use it things didn’t go well. [...]

What is an Awl?
Awl is simply a long pointed spike (2 to 6 inches) with a handle attached.
An awl is a tool you can use to mark wood for cutting and drilling.  You can use it to scribe a fine line that you can follow when cutting with a saw or chisel.  Sometimes called a [...]

Craftsman DOG BONE SAE Wrench
When I was growing up I had a wrench like this. It was my favorite wrench. All the sizes I needed to work on mowers, and fix the farm equipment along-side my dad. When I was old enough for a car that wrench was put in my [...]

Craftsman DOG BONE Metric Wrench
When I was growing up I had a wrench like this.  It was my favorite wrench.  All the sizes I needed to work on mowers,  and fix the farm equipment along-side my dad.  When I was old enough for a car that wrench was put in my glove-box along side a [...]