Woodworking Tools - Getting Started


by Jeff Woodard - Date: 2009-12-30 - Word Count: 417 Share This!

Woodworking tools have been a necessity since the beginning of man. Starting out in some of most primitive forms and transforming into some of the most technically advanced items of today. The form of woodworking tools today have a wide variety depending on the work you are doing. From the hand wood saws and power saw of many forms and styles to drills available today in almost any size and shape imaginable as well as hand tools in many forms.

Woodworking tools are used by a wide variety of people young or old and of many different professions. They are not just for carpenters use any more. From building shelves in a closet to improve storage or fixing some damaged trim to building some arts and crafts with the children woodworking tools are required. Woodworking tools are broadly categorized in two groups' power tools and hand tools. Power tools would be tools that would require you to plug into electrical outlets or would require batteries to operate them such as table saw, band saw, planer, belt sander, circular saw, drill press, drill driver and jig saw just to name some. The power tool accessories are another very important part of the power tool group from the blades for saws, drill driver bits and drill bits as well as many more items. Then there are the hand tools some examples are hand saw, rasp or files, chisels and hammers come in many different styles and forms. Generally now days when working with wood no matter what the project may be some tools from each group are used. The carpenters or woodworkers of the past had a limited amount of power tools that were fixed or stationary type tools that were run by a series of belts connected to an external power source like a steam engine. Before the steam engine they were run by horse or water power. With the invention of electricity & batteries power tools of today are much more versatile and in most cases portable able to be run by electric generators. Battery operated tools of today they are totally portable able to be taken to any work location.

There are very few people in the world that have not used some type of woodworking tool at some point in their life could be as simple as a hammer or something from the power tools group. The future will be no different as long as there is wood in this world there will be woodworking tools.

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