What Tools Do You Need to START Woodworking? Beginner Woodworking Tool List

Nice to see most of you links weren't Amazon.

Great video. Next tool to get: lathe.

Great

It'd be good if you can rent out a workshop with all the tools..

This was the first "Beginning tools for woodworkers" list that's actually practical and helpful. I've seen so many vids where in the top 10 people have listed 3 different types of saws, no sanding, no PPE, no dust collection. Those aren't good lists because you're 100% right, we need to focus on what's helpful for our situation and budget. I also liked how you explained WHY you bought some of the tools you did and avoided others. I would like to hear more about that pocket drill jig and table and how that whole story played out for you and why it looks the way it does. Anyways, thanks for this thoughtful list. This is the first vid I've seen of yours but I liked it so I also subscribed. Looking forward to more of them. Well done.

Why you no love the jigsaws?

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Ughh…not the router. Had one of those fly out of my hand a few times.

id have to put clamps in the top 5.

I like that she doesn't waste time and jumps right in. Definitely going to bookmark this for later reference.

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Is there a brand you'd recommend for a bandsaw, to include a size?

This is probably the most helpful video I've watched so far. I've just started with woodworking, and with such a vast amount of information, you could easily get lost. There is so much information, but your video was straight to the point, exactly what I needed.

A jigsaw can theoretically, on a perfectly flat plane in a frictionless vacuum, can do everything a circular saw can do, plus curved cuts, and the blade is perpendicular to the wood surface, so it can do stopped cuts without embarrassing itself.
My workshop isn't a perfectly flat plane in a frictionless vacuum. I get much worse tear-out with a jigsaw, it's not as good at cutting along a fence to make straight cuts, I'm more likely to have an all night threesome with Christina Hendricks and another Christina Hendricks before I freehand cut a usable straight line with a jigsaw, plus a jigsaw is slower, and way more irritating to use because it shakes like a chihuahua.
For cutting curves...I would rather use a band saw or a scroll saw if feasible, I always find jigsaws more clumsy, with the "backwards shopping cart" feel to how they steer. But, of the three, a jigsaw is the easiest to "own." it's a hand tool, it's compact, it can store in a drawer or hang on a wall, etc.
My jigsaws tend to come out when completing stopped cuts made with a circ saw, notching, or the occasional freehand curves/patterns that aren't practical to do with a router. That said, I don't think I could do entirely without them; note I own two.

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Hi tamar how do you get started without a work bench? Did you build your workbench without having a bench first?

Great video - thank you for the insights!
I have the DeWalt DWE7480 table saw which I believe is very similar to the DW745 that you have and I love the 7480!

Very good list. I was at Harbor Freight today trying to decide if their clamps were good enough. Kind of wish I hadn't talked myself out of purchasing more clamps. I will most likely go and buy a few kits for pole clamps.

Budget ? What would be Cost of the all equipments ? Can you tell me ?

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Thank you for being so detailed! 🙌

Cool

I thought the pocket hole jig was the answer for me too until I built a dining room table! I learned I needed to learn more lol

Ryobi is the best brand to start with or hyper tough even better for beginners budget

Love your videos. Love your style. Impressive skills my dear.

What size band saw is recommended, since you use it to cut boards along thickness.

This is a truly awesome video! So inspirational!

Dang, what a great communicator!

Thanks a ton for the video.. but why not a jigsaw over a circular saw.. i mean from a pure beginner point of view ??

Perfect Video for beginner to get knowledge. loved it

another brilliant video - well done!

Sorry if someone needs a video this basic they should just stay away from wood working.

So many jigs.....

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You just saved me several hundred dollars, thank you.

Regarding batteries, what are the power tools that need them vs nice to have? Eg a battery circular saw is 3x the price of a corded one (where I live). Worth the money?

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The comment near the end about getting tools to save you time for your projects is key. A lot of these videos give these generic lists of what and when to buy. But depending on what you typically make you may never need a certain tool, or you may need a tool sooner. Thanks for this video!

Hi, would you mind introducing you dust collector tools? Thanks!

If I could “overlike” videos, this one would be my first target. Thanks so much for sharing!

there is a type of clamp that you attach to a peice of pipe for the bar. the advantage of these is you can get long pieces of pipe and make the clamp what ever lengths you want. also, given the thickness and shape of pipe, the clamps end up being very strong.

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This is very useful. Thank you so much.

OMG, thank you thank you thank you!!! I'm in the process of setting up my shop and this video is going to help me do just that. Clear concise information for beginners like me and presented in an easy to understand way. The most important advise for me was, know what you want to make and purchase tools accordingly. I'm excited and ready to get started. God Bless!

I am building things in the woods so I have quite a few more constraints than this for my own projects. My main constraints are that it has to be a hand tool since I'm doing bush craft, it can't be too expensive because I hardly have any money, it can't be too heavy because I have to carry it in my backpack, and it can't take up too much room since I have to carry other things in my backpack too.

So far, I have a Corona folding saw (that I am sharing with my mom), a hatchet, a small set of carving knives, and a Scotch eye auger. One of the most useful things that I recently bought was some wood glue because it's hard to hand-carve tenons that will hold a stool solidly without anything but the pieces of wood being joined together. There are certain ways to make glues from natural sources but there aren't any such things near where I've been building so I just got some wood glue from the store. The glue immediately (once the glue dried) made my stools as solid as any you would buy in the store. I didn't have a clamp so I just held them together with my hands for the first 30 minutes. Since my outdoors woodworking is supposed to be meditative, it's fine for now for me to hold them together until the initial bond is achieved.

Now, as far as the tools you've mentioned here, that's the kind of thing that we have at the house since my mom and I build things and fix things all the time. We are still lacking a few of these tools but I'm sure we'll get them as soon as my mom decides that they would be useful for our projects and she's the only one with enough money to buy them. Most of the garage is full of various tools, mostly for woodworking, but also several other ones for building and fixing things from other materials.

The one thing that I really do like about working with wood using hand tools is that I can forego the ear protection. The sound of hand tools cutting wood is such a nice sound, particularly when it comes to the auger. The downside of hand tools is that I'm not a spring chicken anymore and so I get really tired using them. Since my woodworking is meditative, though, taking a break is an important part of that meditation.

The other non-woodworking tools that I carry with me are a folding shovel and a bucket so I can dig and work with clay. So far, I've made a shelter with a stealthy Dakota fire pit surrounded by a clay enclosure to prevent too much light leaking out when I have a fire and to keep the rain from putting my fire out. I still have a lot more work to do on the place but things just take time when you do everything by hand. It's also pretty damn hard to carry some of the lumber I cut around and it's a rare thing when I can get a smooth piece of wood just from splitting a log, although my carving knives make it good enough for bush craft work usually.

I like that bit of advice you gave about making a spoon since that's how I learned in practice how to work with the grain of the wood. I had watched videos about it but there's no substitute for feeling it out yourself as you work with the wood. Cheers from a fellow woodworking woman!