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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 my toolbox, returned to the kitchen and finished the job in no time. Why…

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 you don’t sharpen it to a fine point it works very well to mark out…

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.  You broke the hacksaw blade,  the blade kept falling out of the handle, or…

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 scratch awl, it is basically a steel spike with its tip sharpened to a…