Striking Knife:  When we started our quest to find a new supplier of carving knives we were not aware that we would be so lucky in finding a specialist able to offer such a wide range of products to our specification.  One of the spin-offs from that search is this excellent striking knife which is the ideal "universal" marking knife, being usable left- or right-handed, striking forwards or backwards.  The robust 40 mm blade has two cutting edges, as illustrated, ground from one side only so that the knife can be run up against a square or straight edge without causing damage.  With an overall length of 172 mm and supplied with a blade guard, this is an ideal tool for every fine woodworker's toolbox.

Marking Knife: the traditional marking tool used by joiners and cabinet-makers when needing to mark across the grain.  This nicely-produced version has a carbon steel blade and rosewood handle "scales".  Produced in right- and left- handed versions.

Scratch Awls:.  For use in marking out and pricking through, a scratch awl is a very useful tool.  Equipped with a 5 inch (125mm) round blade, or spike, these awls are supplied with choice of beech or rosewood handle.

These spirit levels are somewhat bigger than those above: twice the size in fact. This makes them ideal tools for checking and setting out levels on larger jobs such as door-hanging, brickwork and  is setting out timber frames for scribing where small natural deviations occur readily over the timber and need to be averaged out over its length.

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