Classic Hand Tools is featuring Blue Spruce tools at THE FESTIVAL OF THE TREE at the fabulous Westonbirt Arboretum, in Gloucestershire, England, 22-25 August 2008. Wonderful location, wonderful demonstrators! Also at Yandles Woodworking Show in Somerset, England on 5-6 September, and again at the Midlands Woodworking Show, Stoneleigh Park, Coventry, England 10-12 October. For more details of these and other UK shows please go to their web site at www.classichandtools.co.uk.

Blue Spruce Toolworks marking knives are featured in the newest article from Woodworking Magazine Weblog entitled 'Marking Knives: Stuff They Never Teach You' by Christopher Schwarz.

Taunton's Fine Woodworking.com reviews Blue Spruce Toolworks Dovetail Chisel set. Rich Macrae writes "they make perfect supplements to a veteran’s tool collection—a Stradivarius within reach." Click on the logo to read the entire review.   Be sure to check out the User Reviews that have been posted.

Taunton's Fine Woodworking.com reviews Blue Spruce Toolworks marking knives. In Tool Test: Marking Knives, Steve Latta gathered 16 different varieties and put each knife through five tests, each a real-world woodworking task relating to scribing, dovetails, mortises, banding, and inlay. Blue Spruce Marking Knives are rated Best Overall!

Also in Taunton's Fine Woodworking.com, Blue Spruce Tools and others are discussed in Gina Eide's new article "High-End Hand-Tool Sales Surge - A small band of boutique toolmakers experiences exponential growth fueled, in part, by the Internet."

Popular Woodworking magazine rates Blue Spruce Toolworks dovetail chisels Highly Recommended in the "Tool Test" column in the April 2007 issue. "These tools are simply over the top in every way." Click Here to read the article (Copyright 2007, Popular Woodworking).

Read other recent Articles that have highlighted Blue Spruce Toolworks products.

This article by Chris Schwarz which originally appeared in 'Fine Tool Journal' entitled Blue  Spruce Toolworks 'An engineer turns his understanding of metal and a love of woodworking into a busy tool-making enterprise' to get the full history of how Blue Spruce Toolworks evolved.

Blue Spruce marking knives are featured as highly recommended in the Endurance Test section of the April 2006 issue of Popular Woodworking.
"Handmade and perfect in every detail" by Christopher Schwarz.

'Popular Woodworking' December 2005 issue, in the section "Best New Tools
of 2005", subheading "Too New to Test" exerpt:
"Blue Spruce Toolworks Dovetail Chisels
This small company makes the best marking knives, and now it is beginning to offer some sweet chisels designed for dovetails. The side bevels are actually concave so you can sneak into tight places."

>Canadian Woodworking Tool Review June 2005:  Page 1
>Woodworking Magazine Spring 2005:  Page 1   Page 2
 

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