Hand shaping tools

A selection of hand tools for the blue room tenants – from the beautifully made Japanese planer, the multi-useful David Planer with its carbon steel blades, to modified Hitachi planers, stringer planes, set-out squares, fin placement tools, soft pads, hard pads, sanding pads – the whole range of essential tools for the hand shaper. There’s still quite a few shapers who have the skill to shape a blank from scratch; while machines take the mystique out of design work and the “rough” shape, hand shapers do the smart work. They know – the feel from decades of dues paid. We still provide close-to-shape blanks for those who cherish the hand shaped start to finish sense of accomplishment modern, er, finishers haven’t experienced.