Hey fellas I need your help in buying some tools for carpentry as I am new in this field and want to start my own carpenter workshop so will be needed some basic tools for it. So suggest me some good brands for it.

Kinda depends on the kind of carpentry you plan on doing. 

Gene is asking a great question Stephany, what type of work do you want to do? Cabinets, small crafts, sculpting, etc. If you can provide more information we can help much better.

5 hours ago, stephany said:

Hey fellas I need your help in buying some tools for carpentry as I am new in this field and want to start my own carpenter workshop so will be needed some basic tools for it. So suggest me some good brands for it.

 

Stephany, first off, welcome to TPW.  Would love to see pics of some of your past work, and tools that you already might have.  I am having a bit of a disconnect between your request above and your profile which suggests that you are well experienced and that you also have quite an accumulation of tools on hand... plus a serious health risk if you work with wood?

Edited June 11, 20196 yr by Cal

My aim is on small crafts and cabinets basically and I don't have any tools yet.

I have read this guide and seen this video 

on youtube  about tools but couldn't able to find anything specific related to carpentry.

Are you wanting wood working tools, cabinetry tools, or carpentry tools?  Danl

For cabinetry work you'll definitely need a decent router and router table. My personal recommendation for a router is the Bosch1617E VSPK. I built my own router table  cabinet but used a Rockler table top. Bench top models just don't cut it.

As others have said, it depends a lot of what you are thinking of making (and the space and budget available).  Your needs will vary considerably if you are interested in pen turning vs. building kitchen cabinets or decks.

Here is another opinion:

 

 

 

If you know what to look for, getting used older equipment can be a good deal.   Most of that stuff is very durable and available for half or less of what a new one would cost.

For me, who builds furniture, boxes, picture frames, theater sets
Top tier

• table saw - ripping, crosscutting, mitering, joinery
•  jointer/planer (yes a machine with two sets of blades and tables) - getting rough wood smooth, edges straight, and keeping from making everything from 3/4" wood
•  random orbit sander(s) - smoothing before finishing
•  cordless hand drill - drilling holes and driving screws

 

next tier

• router - edge profiling, plunge cutting
• miter saw - cross cutting or mitering narrower pieces
• corded drills - when I need higher speeds or more than one drill bit at a time, e.g.,  vix bit, countersink bit, pocket hole bit, etc. 

 

next tier

• Drill press - larger diameter holes, holes where perpendicular is important
• disk sander - smoothing convex surfaces
• band saw - detail cutting and curve cutting
• jig saw - curve cutting larger pieces
• spindle sander - smoothing concave surfaces
• belt sander - smoothing larger surfaces, finished joints, etc.
• plate joiner - joining engineered wood (plywood, MDF)
• brad nailers and staplers - joining rough projects, back panels, etc.
• pocket hole jig
• circular saw - rough cutting sheet goods to break down larger sheets
• impact driver - driving construction screws

Edited June 17, 20196 yr by kmealy

Well, like many others, I have to operate within a tight budget.  I found one of my Shopsmith's for $500 that came with a everything including a bandsaw.  I had to purchase my lathe chisels and drive center from eBay, but all is great.  I can do all that I need to do and change over is very minimal.  I leave my bandsaw set up all the time, without being connected to the headstock, but it's just a matter of sliding the headstock in place, place the coupler, locking both down, and tensioning the blade.  I can make most of my changer overs under 60 seconds.  It takes minimal space and renders sufficient power for most anything I want to do. 

As others mentioned it really depends on what you plan to do.  My work here at the house encompasses a great many of the various disciplines so I have tools that say a pure cabinet maker would not have.  

There are a few of us here that use and enjoy our Shopsmiths. An inexpensive way to set up a shop. And a machine that will give you almost trouble free service for years. Mine's been used nearly every day since 1975. 

Steph, I think you're doing this backwards.  First you keep mixing the terms "carpentry", "cabinets",  "small crafts".  Those are objectives that don't really fit with each other, and while there are some things in common, each of those has really different tooling.  I suggest you pick a project, something simple that you want to make, and more especially something that comes with instructions on how to make it.  There are lots of videos on YT about projects and how to do them (step by step, including showing tools and how to use them).  I'm specially fond of Steve Ramsey's series.

    Once you have a "something", buy the minimum tools to do it.  Buy used stuff, or really cheap stuff (Harbor Freight, Ryobi, Amazon are all good resources).  But make the Something.  The worse you do, the faster you will get to this point (really critical point):  does doing this make me happy?  The faster you get to the "flunk test", the more time and money you'll save.  If you liked the process, no matter how crappy the Something looks, you're hooked, which can be a good thing.  

     Pick another Something, same process, but make this rule:  every project can buy one tool, but only one tool.  I think you'll test yourself best by making a series of the same thing for friends and relatives; Something in 5 or 6 copies so you get halfway good at that one thing.  It's another test:  how do you like the process thus far?  (That's a question you ask yourself continuously for the first couple decades.)  

    After several years of really cheap tools you will find a day that you realize  a) you like this woodworking thing, and b) this tool in front of you just will never do what you need it to do.  At that point, start upgrading your tools.  Subscribe to one or two woodworking magazines, get a feel for the industry.  The ads are almost as useful as the articles.  Don't buy a "presentation jacket".

     After the first year, write down a plan for the next year, what you want to do, maybe projects you want to tackle, tools you might buy.  Figure out how to pay for it.  If you have commercial tendencies (you think you can make money in this thing), be aware that most failures come from too much ambition, too much initial expense (where do you think Craig's List gets all those used tools?  Eh?!).

    And don't take advice from enthusiasts.  Look for pessimists.  Only halfway listen to them.

 

And...you will soon find out...it is not how much a tool costs.....it is the skill of the user that matters the most.....Only way to gain that skill, is to do the jobs over and over....like playing a Guitar...PRACTICE....although, there are some out there, that think they can simply buy their way....just open up a new tool's box.   And learn to do...what?   Open a box....

 

By Trade, I am a Carpenter.  Yet, the tools to build a house are very different than those to build a small Recipe Box.   I have a lot of tools, because one project might be building a new porch...the next a small box, and the next a 5 drawer chest of drawers...

 

Free to visit the Dungeon Wood Shop, if you are coming through the area.  getting ready to start building a desk for my computer...will do a "build-along" for that. 

 

HMmmmm ! Where's Steph ?

On 6/19/2019 at 6:37 AM, Gene Howe said:

There are a few of us here that use and enjoy our Shopsmiths. An inexpensive way to set up a shop. And a machine that will give you almost trouble free service for years. Mine's been used nearly every day since 1975. 

I still want to see you Smithy boy turn a 20 inch bowl on one and do it in one afternoon.

As you probably know, I don't do any lathe work. However, I can't see any limitation that would make turning a bowl of that size impossible. But, I've not tried it, either.

28 minutes ago, Gene Howe said:

As you probably know, I don't do any lathe work. However, I can't see any limitation that would make turning a bowl of that size impossible. But, I've not tried it, either.

Come on Gene you are missing all the fun. After all even @John Morris likes the lathe

You gotta count me in the Shopsmith group, but then again, it’s all I know. I tucked a bit money away from my inheritance, and after doing all the husband/father adult things with the money, I set up a small workshop in my basement. A friend at work has had a Shopsmith since 1968, bought when he was home on leave, and he swears by them. I am not yet a competent/experienced WW’er, but I love my Shopsmith.

On 6/19/2019 at 7:25 PM, steven newman said:

And...you will soon find out...it is not how much a tool costs.....it is the skill of the user that matters the most.....Only way to gain that skill, is to do the jobs over and over....like playing a Guitar...PRACTICE..

Best advice given yet.  While in Iraq all I had was a Dewalt 18 volt NiCad drill, hammer and a handsaw.  Made lots of stuff!  Sure not fine woodworking for here at home but we lived quite comfortably considering where we were.

Check estate sales, you'd be surprised at some of the deals out there. a friend of mine got basically a complete shop for $300.00. The deceased's relatives had no idea what things were worth, and basically didn't want to deal with having to move/store the machinery. The table saw alone was worth roughly $1500.00.