Workshop Inventory
Christopher Schwarz
October 2007
Critical Machinery:
1. 14” band saw, ½ hp motor, cast-iron frame, no riser block
2. 8” jointer, 2 hp motor
3. 15” planer, 3 hp motor
4. 10” table saw, 30” rails, aftermarket sliding crosscut table
5. Hollow-chisel mortiser
6. Two portable dust collection units, one shop vacuum
7. Floor-model drill press
Critical hand-held power tools:
1. 12-volt cordless drill, 3/8” chuck, two speeds
2. 1-1/2 hp fixed-base router, used hand-held and mounted in portable router table
3. DeWalt 621 plunge router
4. 18-gauge brad nailer and small 5-gallon compressor
5. 23-gauge pinner
6. HVLP turbine and spray gun
7. Circular saw with quality carbide blades for cutting plywood
8. Variable-speed jigsaw
9. 10” sliding compound miter saw
Router bits:
1. Beading bit
2. Roundover (three sizes)
3. Pattern bits, a wide variety of diameters
4. Straight bits, spiral bits
5. Chamfer bits (three sizes)
6. Cope-and-stick bits (chamfer-edge profile)
7. Ogee bits (two sizes)
Hand planes:
1. No. 8 jointer plane
2. No. 4 smoothing plane
3. No. 5 jack plane
4. Low-angle block plane
5. 1-1/4” shoulder plane
6. Large router plane
7. Small router plane
8. Record 044 plow plane
9. Moulding planes: 1 pair hollow and rounds
10. Moulding plane, 5/16” beading plane
11. Moving fillister plane
12. Small scraping plane, Stanley 212 size
13. Bevel-up jack plane for shooting
14. Card scrapers, about 10
15. Spokeshaves, flat sole and round; large and small
Saws
1. Dovetail saw, 15 ppi, filed rip
2. Carcase saw, 14 ppi, filed crosscut
3. Tenon saw, 10 ppi, filed fip
4. Handsaw, 7 ppi, filed crosscut
5. Ripsaw, 4 ppi, filed rip
6 Lee Valley Japanese flush-cut saw
7. Modelmaker’s saw
8. Coping saw
9. Jeweler’s saw, equipped with scrollsaw blades
10. Hacksaw
11. Fine Japanese saw, filed crosscut, for detail cuts
12. Two sawbenches
13. 8” dado stack
14. 24-tooth rip blade
15. 40-tooth combination blade
Chisels
1. Bevel-edge chisels: 1/8” to 1” in 1/8” increments
2. Mortise chisels, ¼”, 5/16”, 3/8”
3. Mallet
3. Paring chisel, 2” wide
4. Skew chisels, left and right
5. Set of small-scale carving chisels
6. Corner chisel, 3/8”
Layout tools
1. 6” 4R rule
2. 6” and 12” combination squares
3. 8” try square
4. Miter square
5. Sliding T-bevel
6. 12’ tape
7. Saddle square
8. Dovetail square
9. Tite-Mark marking gauge
10. Blue Spruce marking knife
11. Awls, scratch and bird-cage
12. Two dividers
13. Set of three French curves
14. Compass
15. Protractor and center-finder for combination square
16. 24” aluminum straightedge and 32” wooden straightedge
17. Levels, 18” and 48”
18. 5mm-lead mechanical pencil
19. Dial caliper
Percussive tools
1. 22 oz. wooden mallet
2. 16 oz. hammer
3. Plane-iron hammer
4. Warrington-style hammer
5. Nail pullers, Japanese and Western style
6. Dead-blow mallet
Boring
1. Brace, 8”, 10” and 12”
2. Augers, full set of 13
3. Auger bit file
4. Forstners, ¼” to 1”
5. Brad-points, complete set by 1/64s up to ½”
6. Instybits, pilot and countersink bits, set from No. 6 to No. 10 screws
7. Countersink
8. Set of spade bits
Clamps
1. Two 12” F-style
2. Six 4” F-style
3. Eight 12” parallel jaw
4. Fourteen 26” parallel jaw
5. Four 40” parallel jaw
6. Four handscrews, large size
7. Four quick-release plastic clamps
8. Eight spring clamps
Shaping
1. Cabinet rasps and files
2. Floats, ¼” mortising float, bed float
3. File card
Screwdriving
1. Complete set of screwdrivers, Phillips, straight, Robertson
2. Set of index bit and driver for drill/driver
Sharpening
1. Eclipse honing guide
2. Duo-Sharp Diamond stone (x-coarse and coarse)
3. Sharpening stones, waterstones, 1,000, 4,000 and 8,000
4. Plant mister
5. Hand blocks (medium and fine)
6. Oil and oil-soaked rag
7. Mill file
8. Burnisher
9. Cheap 6” stainless ruler
10. Kell honing guide
11. 6” grinder
Miscellaneous
1. Detail carving knives, used for a wide variety of tasks
2. Sloyd shop knife
3. Sanding disk for table saw
4. Paraffin
5. Bench brush
6. Needlenose pliers, locking pliers
7. Putty knife
8. First aid kit
9. Two drawbore pins
10. Spray gun cleaning kit
11. Wide and varied collection of screws, nails, bolts, nuts, hardware
12. Hemp string, for measuring diagonals