(funky blues music) - so what i want to showyou is what i consider to be a basic toolkit for abeginning woodworker. someone who is interested in power tools but you're not necessarilyready to commit to the big
router woodworking lessons, power tools, the tablesaws, the band saws. so what do you need to get work done? it's really not that much, right? look across the board,i've got a couple of
hand tools here, all hand power tools. of course, i am a big fan of festool. i love the quality, i dothis for a living so for me festool is absolutelyworth the investment. it may not be for you. there are tons of brandsout there that will give you quality results and last avery long time that aren't green and black, or darkblue, as the case may be. first of all, a router.
a router is really one of the best multitaskers in your shop. you can do jointing witha router, you could do flush trimming, of course joinery. a lot of people just thinkof the router, they think of edge treatments, you know,ogees and roundovers. but it can be so muchmore useful than that. and if you build jigs tosupport the router you're really gonna exponentiallyincrease the amount
of things that you can do with it. so a good quality router,preferably a plunge router. a fixed base router isokay, but a plunge router is really gonna allow you to do a lot more in terms of mortisingand things like that. it makes it easier to use. it's more multifunctional that way. i do recommend a random-orbit sander. if you're gonna get one, get a six inch.
i think the extra realestate saves you time. you've got more sandpaperon the surface so it actually will be a time saver for you. but, random-orbit sanders,i like them better than quarter-sheet sandersbecause they sort of sand in a random orbital pattern which isn't noticeable to the eye. you get a lot less of thoselittle pig-tail squiggly lines. so random-orbit sander,i think, is essential.
a good drill. all right. you don't necessarily toget all different types of drills, just the standarddrill driver like this for drilling holes and drivingscrews will do the trick. okay, a good quality circular saw. even if you don't have agood quality circular saw, even a medium quality is gonna work. or if you have a low budget circular saw, just put a better blade in there.
the blade will make all thedifference in the world. and i'm gonna show you away to get better results out of this that are verysimilar to what i get from my festool setup with a track. you're gonna like that. all right, by the way,you'll be using this to cut sheet goods. you can use it to cutsolid wood if you have a wide enough platform to work with.
but if you want to work with plywood, mdf, things like that, circular sawis gonna be your best friend. now, you're also gonna needto cut curves at some point. i do a lot of this with a band saw. but you can do most of thatcurve cutting with a jigsaw. it doesn't really have tobe a high quality jig saw because a lot of times those curves, you're gonna sand them afterwards. or maybe use a file, orsomething, to clean them up.
all right, so this isit for the power tools but if you get into woodworking you absolutely, i believe, you can't ignore hand tools. they're essential to doing good work. and to really increaseyour versatility on what you can do, as well as your skills. so, a good set of chisels is essential. quarter inch, half inch,three quarters, and one inch. if you have those in your collection
you pretty much have your bases covered, for the most part. but chisels are going to be, i don't know, i use them on every single project. something gets touched witha chisel at some point. and a good multipurpose saw, okay? now a lot of people, withall these other sort of cutting implements andthings, don't necessarily think that a hand saw is all that useful.
but you'd be surprised how many binds this will get you out of. all right, and that is,what i consider to be the basic tool kit. now you can step this up. you could upgrade from a jigsaw and get yourself a band saw. you could stop relying somuch on your circular saw and get yourself a table saw.
i mean, you could take therouter, flip it upside down and put it in a table, and now you've got even more functionality. so there's upgrades,you know, up the wazoo. but, for now, if you'rejust getting started and you want to do some of those things, like that instructableslink that i put in there, these are tools that aregonna allow you to do that. and if you shop carefully andmaybe look at the used market,
you can get all thisfor a pretty low price. (gentle acoustic guitar)
