Special Discount on Circular Saws

25% off
Sheffield made circular saw blades.

Each of these beautiful quality, re-sharpenable, industrial circular saw blades is individually heat treated, hand smithed and tensioned by time served professional sawsmiths in Sheffield. This process ensures that the internal structure of the saw body is correctly established so that the saw 'wants' to run true.  

The installation and grinding of the meaty tungsten carbide tips is carried out by state of the art computer controlled robots to 1/100mm precision. 

The result is a saw blade of unrivaled quality that delivers the smoothest, cleanest, most sublimely accurate cut that your machine is capable of.

Individually hardened and tempered saw bodies.
Hand smithed and tensioned for perfect balance. 

Precision computer ground tungsten carbide tips.
Custom bore sizing / bushing at no extra charge.
FREE UK mainland delivery for orders over £100  

Enter the Workshop Heaven discount code:

AWWH25

at the checkout to redeem your discount.

Offer ends 19th August 2016.

The Humble Gimlet

Gimlet is a lovely word, it comes from the French 'guinbelet' and refers to a small, very simple type of hand drill that was ubiquitous up until the invention of the lip and spur. 

The French got the word from the Dutch 'Wimmel' meaning auger, which despite the best civilising efforts of 'le bourgoise' also survived intact in colloquial French and was brought over by the invading Normans to become 'Wimble' - a common generic term in old English for any type of drill.

It is appropriate then, that our new 7 piece sets of crisp, sharp classically formed gimlets are made by a small company in France. I had used old ones before and they still did a reasonable job, but the difference when you try one that is new and sharp is nothing short of remarkable.

The gimlet has survived, virtually unaltered for a thousand years, thanks to its usefulness for preparing fixing holes at the ends of boards. Having planed your boards true, the last thing you want to do is split them near the ends when you drive a nail or screw. In good air dried timber a gimlet will cut a beautifully formed hole anything up to one and a half times its own diameter from the end of a board. The conical shape of the hole allows screws to engage fully, or if you prefer you can clamp on a sacrificial backing board and carry on drilling for a clean, parallel sided, through hole.

I don't expect these to catch on with the power tool crowd, but if your heart is set on working unplugged they are something of a necessity.