What tools do I need for carpentry

[@FINNEGANPLANTANDCONSTRUCTION]

Hello robin I am a young carpenter I’m 14 I love ur videos I learned from my father who is a brickie and many relatives and lots from you Im still in school and I can’t wait to go to college when I’m finished school because I’m still in school, thank you so mush for uploading the videos, I love working on the weekends and school breaks I don’t have to work but I love to and have learned from many good carpenters I’m not made work it’s my choice to and I wish I could drop out of school but I have to finish school. Ur a very inspirational carpenter and a role model for me, Thank you.

[@stephenhotchkiss7497]

@ Sean, well done mate, good for you. Its a lovely trade to have or so everyone tells me, I'm a 58 y/o chippy and my own boss and I love it. Beware though, it cost a fortune in tools and accessories and there is no end to it. Enjoy

[@FINNEGANPLANTANDCONSTRUCTION]

@@stephenhotchkiss7497 agreed still buying tools 😂 I love Milwaukee I have a couple of there tools handy to be cordless thanks for the inspiration 👍

[@iplayzthegames6968]

I must say a Tracer mechanical pencil is a must have. I've been using mine for 2 years and must say it's one of the best purchases I ever made. £15 for the pencil and 10 leads, 2 yellow for darker materials. Used about 6 so far

[@andyraven6219]

I started my "time" in 82, last year they did the full indentured apprenticeship. My full set of hand tools cost £440. I was only earning £42 a week and had to pay £5 a week to pay off the tool loan. We all had Yankee screwdrivers and a wheelbraces, because cordless drill drivers ( makita with the stick battery) didn't become popular till the early 90's. That's enough history for now. Keep up the great work.

[@stevend9960]

That makita cordless with the stick battery was my first power tool back in the 90’s. lot of water under the bridge since then and many regrets about work I took on and people I worked for. If I have one piece of advice for apprentices it would be to leave the family firm after completing your apprenticeship and never, ever go back. Never work for, or with family.

[@Toyotaamazon80series]

@@stevend9960 I've never worked with Family members but I have worked for Family members. A first cousin of mine did me out of €450 recently. He got a champagne job done for cider money and he still held back on what I was rightfully owed. I'll never do work for any relations of mine ever again.

[@iplayzthegames6968]

Wheelbraces are such a pain

[@Saxondog]

Yes..Stabila, Lufkin, Diston..last two don't see about much. Don't forget sliding levels, nail punch, pincers and junior hacksaw, to name but a few more.

[@andrepoon]

Try out a Japanese pull saw... you’ll love it

[@mattridler377]

Love your vids Robin but 360p. Thought my eyes were still blurry from last nights stellas 😂🥸

[@MissGretch14]

hahaha, agreed. I thought my internet was crapping out!

[@ukconstruction]

Hi Matt, not sure why the quality was at this level as it was recorded in HD!!! maybe I pressed the wrong button (again!!)

[@GregsMowing]

@@ukconstruction 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@alan36753]

Love the trip down memory Lane Robin but...Henry Disston saws not Dissiton and Estwing hammers not Eastwing. We carried a stanly knife which was the only sliding knife in existence, a large spiral Yankee pushed our screws in, we made the saw stocks you describe plus a tool chest with our rip and crosscut saws plus tenon and dovetail and coping saw pegged in the lid. We used a wheel brace for drill bits and a swing brace for augers. Your marking guage is a mortgage guage because it had the two pins. A marking guage had one (scribing guage had a blade for cross grain) Plus we were taught to hit chisels with the side of the hammer head. Keep it up I enjoy these videos for so many reasons.

[@therabman_5606]

I bet your fun at parties! everyone I’ve ever met says eastwing as it just rolls off the tounge better

[@jonbarrie7002]

Hi Robin. Great video as always! A fantastic insight to the skilled trade of carpentry joinery tools. I just followed your link to the dreaded Amazon store.... and noticed that 3 of the books you recommend are by Brian Porter. I was lucky enough to be taught by this fantastic carpenter! A truly skilled and knowledgeable carpenter snd a really down to earth helpful chap. I studied at Leeds college of building where Brian spent his final yesrs as a tutor passing on his knowledge along with Mr Smith featured in the book images i learned as much as was practically possible within a classroom/workshop environment! I feel very lucky to have bern been taught by Brian and learned a tremendous amount from him. A complete authoritarian on our trade and always had time to explain everything. Our trade needs people like him and yourself to pass our historic skilled trade to the younger up coming generation. And what a media to do it on for the new carpenters to learn from. We need the pride and skill back in our trade. So many are driven by price that the skill and pride is missed all for the money. Anyway, the purpose of the message was just about Brian. A super chap and skilled carpenter. Keep up the fantastic instructional video's you're pride of the trade.

[@kwizmon]

Lovely comment

[@stevend9960]

Agreed, great comment and I agree wholeheartedly. My tutors were rubbish carpenters that took an easy job at college and my father was great tradesman but terrible teacher. I gleaned what I could from other good tradesmen and learned as I went.

[@nickhaley4663]

One tip regarding spirit levels. They all have an allowable margin of error, Stabila is, I think, 0.5mm per metre. So some will be spot on and others will be less so. The trick is to find the one thats spot on, so rather than order online, go into a good tool shop and go through the rack of levels checking them until you find the best one. It can take a while to find one thats good on all three vials, and you might have to compromise on one of the verticals but if you can get a good central one and one good end one, happy days. Robin, maybe you can do a video showing how to check if you're levels are accurate. It's second nature for me but I do see a lot of guys using levels with no regard as to their accuracy.

[@neiltrevatt]

And never let the brickie use it

[@calebfuller4713]

@@neiltrevatt As the overall handyman and DIY guy, gotta confess my level has a couple of cement blobs fixed onto it. Just make sure there isn't one fixed onto the base... 🤣🤣

[@pauln7422]

Don't think you mentioned the hacksaw right in the middle of the table, unless i missed it, it was a bit like the Generation game conveyor belt, cuddly toy!

[@stevend9960]

Clifton make a beautiful block plane Robin. Solid bronze with a walnut handle and beautiful cutting iron. I bring it out for quality jobs alongside my Japanese chisels.

[@gsgaming7503]

When I started over 30 years ago I bought a Diston saw never got on with it and never really used it|! It’s got a lovely handle though! 😉

[@300leothelion]

Funny you should say that. I could never be bothered with resharpen handsaws. I’ve only ever sharpened a tenon saw at college and that was to just get sharpening tools signed off in my book. But the other week I needed some time to think on my own. So I usually take my tool bag off the van and in to my workshop and get down to sharpening my chisels and planes. I’ve now decided I can spend longer if I sharpen a hand saw. I bought 3 second hand saws off eBay and plan to make a holder and get down to some thinking time. 👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@barryford7135]

Forgot to mention the hacksaw?

[@stevejohnson5461]

Thanks for taken the time for us no notices ,I've got them. In The Box just got to put them to Use. Thanks for your time.

[@Goalsplus]

It's great how you don't fixate on brands, traditional over new, price, etc. You seem to have a high ability to be mentally flexible and keep your eye on the result.

[@mfcman2k7]

diamond stone and bevels i would include with those and a box to carry them all in stanley 28'' perfect you can fit full 22'' saw in

[@jackhoskins3847]

Just ordered the 76mm hinge jig as the new site I’m on the houses have a average of 15-19 doors per house traditional and I’ve always been hammer and chisel so got the dewalt router and correct cutter you recommended! Can’t wait to speed that process up! Love the video’s! You are a true inspiration for quality and pride in the job!

[@ianfinch1522]

My father was a amazing cabinet maker and as such it’s lovely to have some quality hand tools passed down to me. The steel in the older chisels and planes holds a far better edge. Though like you power tools have taken over my trade. If worth a note though to the young tradesmen and new diy people starting out to look at the second hand quality tools out there. 👍

[@areyouundoingthatorwhat9181]

The steel in older chisels was probably virgin,modern steel is recycled so much and poorer because if it,your new chisel has probably been a part of 3 cars,a fridge,umpteen bean cans and a baby gate on its way to becoming a chisel😄.

[@Toyotaamazon80series]

It's best to source old hand planes online from the likes of eBay. I picked up a Stanley Bailey made in England no four smoother two Years ago. It was wrapped in greased brown paper and in it's original box. It was found in someone's attic, it was purchased in the sixties and had never been used. It was in mint condition, I paid over £120 for it. A quick tune up of the iron on the diamond plate and leather strop and she was singing. What a beautiful tool. The finest Sheffield steel made in England by real English craftsmen. All those Baileys one gets nowadays are Chinese or Indian knock offs, pure rubbish, 🙄🙄

[@Dazza19746]

In some old tools particularly plane irons ( wooden planes) the blade ( iron) was laminated and much thicker, the bulk of it was a softer steel, easier to grind and more ‘give’ then a thin much harder steel right on the face which would take and hold an edge MUCH better.

[@ADE2366]

Look after your tools, and your tools will look after you !!!, that’s what was drilled into me as an apprentice 😀👍🏼

[@chrisfinds7745]

I'd add in a couple of sliding bevels also

[@Theforestcarpenter]

That's a must 👌

[@kwizmon]

Why a couple?

[@Theforestcarpenter]

@@kwizmon probably so you can have multiple set angles when working on stairs etc

[@jeffreywarner9992]

I've still got the saw jack I made to hold the saw while sharpening when I was an apprentice carpenter and joiner in the early sixties,but have'nt used it for years !

[@cuebj]

Useful tip: if you can wait till weeks before Christmas, lots of shops, even chains, have the same catalogue of big reductions on usually Faithful and Bahco tools. Check exactly what models the power tools are - often not the DeWalt bargain they appear to be.

[@bhaktimay2488]

Look out for 'tool fairs' great place to buy discounted hand tools and power tools.

[@Elfin4]

I remember making a saw clamp as an apprentice and a wood tool box, also my first tools which included a Brace and a Yankee screwdriver. Let's not forget the traditional folding Rabone Chesterman wood rule.

[@gerardrooney4366]

The other day was building stairs outside and used my Brace and Bit also still use my Rabone Chesterman Tufrule No.1304.

[@leighwilliams5082]

Never forget buying my first set of hand tools back in 1994. Brings back so many memories..

[@gbwildlifeuk8269]

I spent a weeks wages in 1973 on a Disston saw. Still got it along with chests of others! Only thing i never got on with was the router, too much noise, too much mess and too much pratting setting it up!

[@ng178jt]

Mitre saw, mitre block and bahco are also good to have if using hand tools and definitely for the DIYer but great video 👌. Cats paw is the pry bar he was using and there great

[@stevend9960]

It was a fish tail that Robin showed actually. I prefer the cat’s paw style nail bar myself.

[@ng178jt]

@@stevend9960 sorry bud quite right as well

[@georgemorton6199]

Good selection, The only thing I wouldn't bother with would be the marking gauge.

[@skaterguy52]

I’d agree. The sliding square can do the same job

[@stevend9960]

Rubbish. Marking or cutting gauge for quality work. Combination square absolutely does not replace these.

[@skaterguy52]

@@stevend9960 mate you can mark properly using a sliding square on site unless your totally inept. If you can’t manage get an office job princess

[@Toyotaamazon80series]

A twin bar cutting guage from Veritas is a beautiful tool, 👍 🔨 🇮🇪

[@cuebj]

Haven't used jab saw in years. Use a very old Bosch DiY multitool with used blades for socket boxes in plasterboard etc. If we're sticking with hand tools, I think I'd use a bradawl to start then pad saw for cleaner cut in the PB. Then dilute pea to bind the cut edge. I want my socket boxes set as perfectly as possible so no excuse for sparkies to be slapdash

[@marlowjoinery9783]

When I was 17 I brought a secondhand dewalt 706 mitre saw 110v 305mm blade for £100 I ’m turning 34 and still use my saw practically everyday and not once has it let me down it’s still true and works a treat for the young apprentice out there you should think very carefully about your tools you buy because they will last a lifetime if used correctly

[@johnmackay7789]

Great video once again Robin. Reminds me of starting my apprenticeship in 1984 and being presented with my bass of tools. £277 worth and paid them off at £5 a week. Still got a handful left but the #4 hand plane is the only one I keep in my tool box. The full set of Disstons are somewhere too, was forever resetting and sharpening them so they were retired early for the Sandvik throw away saw in the end. Different days.

[@stevend9960]

Used to love a sandvik saw. Much better than the equivalents now.

[@johnmackay7789]

@@stevend9960 I agree, great saws. Back in the day it was costing as much to get the Disston's sharpened and set from the local saw doctor as it was to buy a Sandvik.

[@olliefarrall2816]

You just made me spend £50 on some new tools😂 new block plane for second fix and i needed some new hand saws blades 🪚! Definitely do a power tool video! Helps people identify what tools they might need and for people who might not know the best ones to get! Keep it up rob🤙

[@lameduck3630]

Aldi do a set of chisels for £8 according to Paul Sellers' channel. He then flattens the back of them with wet and dry sandpaper on glass then sharpens the bevel.

[@grahamsly4912]

Sharping saws as you said first make your clamp by copying your mans your apprenticed to then get shown how to set and sharpen a saw always had to run the file flat across the teeth then file out the flat spots so always keep the teeth straight.Great when employed doing it firms time but once self employed no time many a evening spent on my saws ready to hit a nail next day on first cut.

[@ukconstruction]

So True Graham!!!

[@tellis9844]

That is a great list, it's pretty much all the tools i bought recently when replacing my kit after my van was broken into. I would add a pair of carpenters pincers and a small digital angle finder. That's obviously before we get into power tools which is when you get into big money.

[@philipwatson9749]

my first wage as an apprentice joiner was £23 .50 and just about every major tool was 23.50 or more my Tyzack 14"brass back tenon saw was 23.50

[@martinhowes3578]

I know this has been on for a year but just found it. I remember when I started my c&j app in 1986 at St Albans building college. We were given a basic tool kit. Have noticed you didn’t show the sharpening Stone. I had one in my tool kit. Very important 👍

[@ukconstruction]

Hi Martin, I also started in 86 and I got the tool kit too!! I did not include the stone as most people use a diamond wet stone now and I was trying to get a kit together for around the £300 mark and the diamond stone would have put up the cost considerably!!

[@tomsmith9048]

Don't forget a toolbelt if your not on site just get something cheap to keep you going and a bradawl to help start your screws 🔨

[@Hayseboy]

Mr Clevett I would love to work along side you and as we can’t. This channel gives that to me so keep up the good work. 💪🏻

[@jasonantigua6825]

🤔🤔🤔

[@T.E.P.]

wonderful Robin soooo glad you keep this going and stay in touch with us viewers

[@anthonyschofield7807]

The best saws I ever knew wereoriginal Disston from Canada,the only ones that you could bend the blade and put the tip through the handle and it would go back to being perfectly straight again

[@anthonyschofield7807]

I don’t know whether you have seen the Rolgear 15 in one screwdriver but in 58 years of driving screws this is the best that I have found,available on Amazon

[@kevinchamberlain7928]

Re Hammers: I have 3 Estwing's, a 240z English pattern for roofing, carcassing etc A 20oz ripping claw for house bashing/finishing/general purpose and a a long 22 oz ripping claw for extra leverage for shuttering (most formworkers use preposterous 34 oz long, ripping hammers that look identical to my 22 but weigh a ton! HERES THE ADVICE: FORGET THE ENGLISH CURVED CLAW REGARDLESS OF HAMMER, GET A RIPPING CLAW - IT IS A MULTITOOL!!! Once you've used a ripping claw, you cannot go back to curved!

[@johnfithian-franks8276]

Hi Robin, I watched your video expecting to see the large carpenters square, especially because you had one in the background, but you missed it completely, as this is an eventually the tool you need to set out rafts and bird mouths joints. I know you have your own brand of this tool but that doesn’t make it any less of an especial tool

[@thomascoyne157]

Hi Robin nice video brought back a memory of a friend who had a plane it is duffel bag on his way to lay a gym floor in a Oldham school fell out broke the handle ended up making an aluminium one and worked for many years after. 👌

[@mattschannel1502]

Iv also got the big blue 28oz eastwing and I love it I can't use any other hamer now! But I get so much stick and comments from other carpenters about it saying its to big and I shouldn't use it! And that im just attention seeking and all that it does my head in but I'm not gonna change it!

[@ukconstruction]

Once you have had a big blue thats it!! Nice one bro

[@mattschannel1502]

@@ukconstruction thanks

[@calebfuller4713]

I could basically build a house with that kit. Have done a couple of sheds with nothing more. 😂Might take slightly longer, but I much prefer working with a hand saw and hammer. My only "go to" power tool is really an 18V cordless impact driver. The rest of the power tools sit in the hand built shed unless REALLY required.

[@gbdivering]

You missed an opportunity on your logo to get a circular saw blade on the curve of the C or R :)

[@dannyshennan7810]

Just ordered your hinge jig....sods law though won't have any doors to do for a year 🤣🤣🤣

[@tlangdon12]

What do you think about the idea of buying a plane second-hand? As an apprentice, you are going to need to get the hang of sharpening planes and even taking dings out of the blade.

[@danridesbikes683]

Im an apprentice at the moment. I bought a Record Stay Set No 4, second hand recently. Got it for 20 quid from a bloke at work. they go for about 60 on eBay. It works just fine and will last many years I’m sure !

[@tomsmith9048]

Make sure you can hold it in your hands so you can make sure there's no cracks in it and if the iron is in extremely bad shape you can easily replace it 🔨

[@tomgriffiths772]

Hi Robin, when will your roofing square be available to buy? Also where can I get it?

[@johnburgess8530]

Got to admire your dedication mate keep it up

[@tlangdon12]

It's a good tip about using a screwdriver that takes bits as your main screwdriver, as this cuts down on the number of tools you are carrying around.

[@ethanparker5082]

Still got to have a random flat head for some persuasion situations, open a tin of paint/stain

[@juancornetto8243]

Hacksaw just along for the ride eh :)

[@jmh70]

I've still got the chisels we were given when I started my apprenticeship/college in 1986.

[@kwizmon]

Lol. Same here bruv. 1989 for me. I still have chisels, marking gauge, wooden mallet, stanley tape measure, sliding bevel. Still use it all apart from the marking gauge.

[@jimbob6290]

Only in 360p? What happened there?

[@richardstrange7629]

Robin , what ever happened to the Stanley 'Yankee ' screwdriver ? back in my early carpentry days , this was the screwdriver ! Although i have to say , i hated slot or flat-end screws !! god bless phillips , then posi , now torcx screws !! Great content , should have had a bevel also ?? Sorry being picky , and a little bit nostalgic ;)

[@garyblake3130]

Still got my collection of Yankee's, I wouldn't dream of putting a slotted screw in with a drill/driver. I don't use them quite as much as I used to but they were my speed driver back in my early days. Sadly they are becoming museum piece's these days.

[@cliveramsbotty6077]

my dad has one, every now and then he breaks it out for the odd stubborn screw and it never fails. i wish you could stick conventional bits in the end of it though instead of those old ones

[@johnmackay7789]

@@cliveramsbotty6077 pretty sure you can get a hex bit adapter for the Yankee.

[@garyblake3130]

@@johnmackay7789 Yes you can, I have one you just pop the adapter in and then you can use a variety of bits in the end.

[@TheStevenWhiting]

Can we have a video on storage space as well? That's the issue I have with my DIY tools. Shove them all in the nice big dewalt bag but its not big enough.

[@ukconstruction]

Great idea!

[@chrismorris9396]

Can you tear off the nails in paper collated strips to be used with a hammer

[@17MikeThompson]

How do you store your hand tools robin? Do you have a bag for roofing/first fix and also a bag for 2nd fix?

[@alexdaly6895]

Love watching all your videos Robin. Currently a third year engineering student, although I’ve been considering a carpentry apprenticeship for a while now - it’s been mentioned to me a few times. Woodwork’s been my favourite hobby since I could hold a hammer, have accumulated few tools since then! Wonder what advice anyone would have 🤔🤔 afraid to drop everything and make such a change

[@goonugoodthing]

100% finish your degree if you can. I’m 36 and have a degree in mechanical engineering. I also got two years into an motorsport engineering degree after that but left because I wasn’t enjoying it. I’m currently getting myself set up to start a job as a carpenter. I never regret doing my degree because it taught me how to learn and understand things on a fundamental level. I would say follow your passion and do what ever makes you happy.

[@alexdaly6895]

Cheers @@goonugoodthing - great to hear from someone with a similar situation (but also from someone with experience!), really appreciate the advice. Best of luck with your career 👍

[@goonugoodthing]

Cheers @ Alex Daly. Best of luck to you too mate 👍

[@ldighton]

Great video again!! Only problem Robin, the quality is low!

[@adamvictory9381]

Great Vid Robin, out of interest what make is that tape measure? I need a new decent one. cheers.

[@adamvictory9381]

Sorry just managed to find it in the other comments below. :)

[@scottfraser3661]

Thanks Robin

[@markjarman7819]

I have had the same set of Stanley no 6 chisels for years. Better than most out there now. Robin you forgot the pencil 😂😂

[@GaryWall]

Glad you mentioned the pencil and I still have my Stanley 'Black Handle' chisels my dad bought me 1981. Still going strong

[@markjarman7819]

@@GaryWall yes I thought the rest was pointless without a pencil. Great chisels them. I also have a set of Stanley chisel USA style. A Irish customer bought them back with him in 1978. The last job I did for him he gave them to me. I’ll cherish them forever.

[@michaelplays2449]

Good video thanks

[@ThomasMorleyceramics]

Hi there, asked a few times; just wondered again where I can get the deck tape you use on the top of your frame where I can find it or what can be similar alternative. Thank you.

[@davetaylor4741]

Your enthusiasm for your trade shines through in all your presentations and when combined with the style of production is eminently watchable. Good selection that could do most things. I reckon you should finish your time as one of those lecturers you are always on about. The kids could benefit from your font of knowledge and manner of teaching. Unless the UK has become like OZ where knowing how to do something is irrelevant. You would need a degree and ten bits of paper to be able to teach a subject you have no practical knowledge of. Like Building Inspectors.

[@rcr76]

Building inspectors here are a great example 👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@chriskehoe3180]

Robin big blue 18 inch builders hammers are 25 oz

[@tomsmith9048]

You can get a 28oz estwing aswell

[@chriskehoe3180]

@@tomsmith9048 thats very true, but the one robin uses is 25

[@tomsmith9048]

@@chriskehoe3180 why did he say 28 then

[@chriskehoe3180]

@@tomsmith9048 i dont know maybe he thinks it is but if you look up the 18 inch builders series the one he uses it is 25oz i have the exact same one.

[@chriskehoe3180]

Its model number is the e3 25s big blue.

[@robertsullivan2396]

how about something to sharpen those chisels or are they use once and throw away

[@alistairstanger2940]

What is the model of the Wera screwdriver please? Could not see it in your Amazon store. Thanks.

[@William1st]

Who makes the tape measure? I tried pausing the video but it's only 360p and the packaging was blurry!

[@stephencollins7714]

Very informative and interesting, I always learn something from your videos and am convinced that watching them has improved my DIY no end and really boosted my confidence. What are your thoughts on pencils, markers etc?

[@stevend9960]

They’re very good at drawing lines, marks and writing. Excellent invention. You should get one, or even two!

[@stephencollins7714]

@@stevend9960 that is a great idea, I have tried fruit, twigs and thought that I was on to something with blood (a regular part of my DIY) but I will take your stellar advice and give this new fangled wizardry a try. Do you favour a particular colour, I quite like the wood coloured ones myself?

[@stefansee135]

Wear can I get the rc hooded top

[@Samfarrelly]

The bloody rugby’s on robin! It’s hard to watch both

[@ukconstruction]

Sorry Sam, thanks for doing both mate you are a star

[@thetallcarpenter]

It seems watching Robin and the rugby at the same time was good for England this afternoon.😝

[@PaulSmith-pn8hi]

No chop saw?

[@garethroberts9223]

Can you recommend a decent pouch/tool belt? Also would you advise a competent DIY'er to take on a small DIY mono-pitch roof with tricky angles ?

[@tomsmith9048]

Try kunys there great quality and reasonably priced 🔨

[@clive55]

I'm 43 years old and desperately want to retrain into carpentry and was wondering if this is practical, what with my age etc?

[@BadHorsie1]

Missed the hacksaw

[@cookdislander4372]

360p is the highest resoloution? 🤔

[@cglees]

What brand is that tape measure? It sounds a good bit of kit

[@ukconstruction]

Komelon

[@cglees]

@@ukconstruction cheers Robin 👍

[@thetessellater9163]

Did you miss the hacksaw ?

[@ukconstruction]

I did!!!!

[@stun9771]

And there I was thinking a good tradesman would maintain, sharpen, hone, and clean his tools in his own time...as opposed to buying cheap Chinese tools (are there any British made tools these days?) and throw them away when, for example, the blade dulls...probably a sign of the times, and why our world is in such a state...

[@lukek4516]

Stu, why is it reasonable to expect someone to do this in their own time?

[@markjarman7819]

@@lukek4516 who’s earring the money? Look after the tools and there keep earning you the money.

[@thecuttingsark5094]

@@markjarman7819 I’ll tell you who’s earning the money. It ain’t the guy spending £100+ on a panel saw and spending hours sharpening it. Good tradesmen still look after their tools. But time is money. I don’t Re sharpen my Stanley blades after all!

[@lukek4516]

@@markjarman7819 I’m all for looking after your tools, but to Robin’s point in the video, it is more economical to buy a brand new saw than it is to sharpen a heirloom tool. I don’t deny that this is wasteful, but is a customer going to want to pay a tradesman for an extra hour or more on the job to sharpen his saw half way through installing a roof? I think the answer is most likely to be no!

[@markjarman7819]

@@lukek4516 I totally agree on the saw side of things. No ones got time to sharpen a handsaw. But the rest of my tools yes I do spend time putting super sharpe edges on my chisels and cleaning my power tools. It’s just something I enjoy doing and they serve me well. I’ll be honest I can’t remember the last time I used a handsaw😊 I do more shop work now based in a workshop at my home. But still enjoy doing private work but never touch site work now.

[@westwonic]

No clamps or bevel?

[@stephencarlisle3743]

Did you do the C&G Advance course Robin ? The exam was tough I thought . Makes me annoyed when you go to renew your CSCS card they barely recognise C&G certs

[@gbwildlifeuk8269]

Retired now but i was lead IV for C&G. They are an awarding body the same as EAL, VQSet, ECITB etc. Nowadays its NVQ and as the standards for all awarding bodies are written by Ofqual, all NVQs' are the same, regardless of awarding body. Some say theyre no good. They are as good as the people teaching them. The same as the old apprenticeship, theory (and basic level 2 hand skills are college taught) but level 3 is site taught by the craftsmen there, as its always been. If theyre not recognised its probably due to the people looking at them, not knowing what theyre looking at! In the 60s a lot of apprenticeships stopped until the 80s, so there's a LOT of people out there with no qualifications, so they wont recognise any!

[@tomsmith9048]

I did a 4 year city and guilds apprenticeship with a year advanced craft on top and when I moved over here they tried to tell me I had to sit and nvq level 2 test needless to say I didn't that was nearly 16 year's ago and I've never had trouble getting on a site 🔨

[@rosspeachey413]

What brand is the tape measure. Thanks Ross

[@ianpluves]

Komelon - Robin replied below.

[@AcheForWake]

The resolution is capped for me at 360p!

[@Kenjiru]

Same here!

[@areyouundoingthatorwhat9181]

Most important is at least one ear to put your pencil behind.

[@kmonnier]

We’re you able to take the stuff back

[@SavvasPapasavva]

A tape measure is like a pair of shoes, you should never go out without a pair.

[@kwizmon]

A pair of tape measures? I agree.

[@johnmorrissey1675]

Another great video remember buying my first tools something new every week or so ☺️🇮🇪🍀👋

[@ianpluves]

Anyone know the make of the pry bar? Dogyu?

[@phillipcave8573]

Nice vid Robin You must have enough tools to stock a warehouse!!I hope your missis doesn't give you a hard time for spending £400 on more tools 😉

[@martinknight510]

I sense a tool giveaway coming up

[@phillipcave8573]

@@martinknight510 👍

[@kwizmon]

He didnt open anything so I sense a big toolstation return coming up.

[@01dirtmonkey]

Clamps. Can never have enough clamps

[@swojto2598]

Hi, and you still forgot the hacksaw. Stefan

[@behrooz.n9826]

Picture of the tools are not clear.

[@davida369]

What brand and model is the tape measure?

[@ukconstruction]

Hi David, this Tape was a komelon here is a link to it amzn.to/3eLIEF7

[@davida369]

@@ukconstruction Thankyou.

[@danielcolley7230]

I prefer a bahco

[@tlangdon12]

Bahco is a very good brand.

[@valensi83]

Hi RC, that looks like a great starter set for someone, how would we go about winning the lot? 😁👌🏻

[@JayGee6996]

I thought that’s how the video was going to end too

[@mrsbradpittiful]

Throw a couple of carpenters pencils on that list rob

[@TheSudsy]

I would add Steel rule, bradawl and carpenters pencils. another £5 for these from Wilkos. :)

[@garyblake3130]

And a sharpening stone, chisels and planes are pointless unless they are sharp.

[@marcusregan4815]

You a fan of Japanese saws?

[@rcr76]

No

[@petertaylor3150]

You forgot a sharpening stone!

[@helmutsvainovskis5967]

360p..??

[@ukconstruction]

Yes this was how YT processed it!!