My Top Recommendations
This is a collection of tools, materials, and bits of equipment that I use regularly in the workshop and recommend to students. Everything here has been tried and tested at the bench, so you can feel confident you’re choosing something that works.
I’ll be adding to this over time and organising it into categories as it grows, but for now you’ll find a mix of essentials that I reach for day to day.
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I use these wheels to shape and grind all sorts of tools from gravers to burnishers. Exceptionally useful when making your own tools or maintaining the ones you have.
Diamond Wheel Coarse
Plasti Dip
I have been using Plasti Dip to repair the coating on pliers, colour code my tools and add a rubber coating to tools that done already have one. Its also a nice way to add a pop of colour to your tools.
Rubber Coating
I use these wheels to shape and grind all sorts of tools from gravers to burnishers. Exceptionally useful when making your own tools or maintaining the ones you have.
Diamond Wheel Fine
Simichrome Polish
This is the polish that is used in the workshop to maintain the polish on the schools rolling mills, clean rollers equals clean metal.
Metal Polish