DIY Carpentry

Here's an easier way to stain or seal chairs, lattice or anything with numerous tight recesses. Pour the stain into a clean, empty spray bottle. Spray the stain onto the project and wipe up the excess with a brush or rag. The sprayer will sq**rt stain into all those tight, hard-to-reach cracks and joints.

Whether you’re a hand tool purist who appreciates the intrinsic feel and finish quality of people-powered tools or someone who uses hand tools just for the touch-ups that are hard to accomplish with a machine, Rockler has the hand tools to suit your needs. they stock everything from hand saws for ripping, crosscutting and cutting dead-on joinery to chisels for cleaning up dovetails and truing mortises and tenons to bench planes for smoothing table tops. We've also got spokeshaves and scrapers, files, microplanes and rasps

If you have to pick up long lengths of wood from the lumberyard, throw a spring clamp in the back of your vehicle. Use the clamp to attach the warning flag to the end of the protruding lumber. The clamp's easy to slip on and off, and you won't have to fuss around with staples, nails or string.

The most important consideration to keep in mind is determining what type of chisels you need. Each type has a lot of unique aspects that make each one best-suited for certain types of projects. A beveled edge bench chisel is one of the most common types of wood chisel on the market. They are easy to sharpen and, thanks to their beveled edge design, they're great for accessing those hard-to-reach joints and corners. Bench chisels are the closest thing to one-size-fits-all in the world of chisels, making them great for general use.

If you're just starting out with woodworking, the VonHaus 6-piece wood chisel set is a great introductory beveled edge kit. Traditional bench chisels cannot withstand the heavy mallet blows needed to cut out a mortise. In comparison, a mortise chisel, with its thick blade and reinforced handle, is specifically designed for mortising.

If you're trying to get into mortise chiseling, you can't beat the Narex 4-Piece Mortise Chisel Set. A registered chisel, also known as a firmer chisel, is any chisel (besides a mortise chisel) with a square edge blade. Registered chisels are much stronger than bench chisels, making them an excellent pick for heavy duty timber framing projects.

Anyone looking to start a project that requires registered chisels would be well served by the Narex 4-Piece Firmer Wood Chisel Set.