You don't have to spend a lot of money on the biggest, best tools you can find.  Depending on your long-term plans smaller lower cost tools will usually do the job.  If you have the money to spend concentrate on quality not quantity.

Woodworking Tools for Beginners

There has never been a better time to get started in the woodworking hobby. Information is everywhere with woodworking how to books and magazines at every bookstore. Add the Internet into all of this and you have a lot of choices to learn.

Tools For A New Woodworker?

When you are getting started, tool-buying decisions can be very daunting. To make matters worse, this is the worst possible time to buy your tools. You are just now learning about different aspects of the craft and your personal preferences, how can you be expected to know which tools to buy.

Beginner’s Woodworking Tips

Tips for a beginning woodworker.

Beginner's List of Woodworking Tools

These basic tools are most used while working with wood, no matter what the project is. It's important to know what the tool is, when you need it, and what it is used for. Keep in mind that woodworking is more than  a hobby, it's also a skill. This means that you should take caution so you can safely accomplish your project. And it is always best to have full knowledge about every thing you do. The more you know about your tools the smaller the risks.

Getting Started

In my unscientific opinion, the woodworker needs to assess the type of work that they plan to do. They should also assess the volume of work that they plan to do.

Beginner's Guide to Woodworking Power Tools

A beginning woodworker has a huge array of power tools from which to choose. It can be quite difficult to decide on just what power tools to purchase when you are standing in front of the impressive displays at Home  Depot. With some careful consideration and a few tips from an experienced woodworker, you can make your tool investment wisely.

Setting Up Shop: Stationary Power Tools

In this article we're going to talk about the big guns; the tools that you see in all the TV shows and all the pictures of "serious" woodworking shops. I'm going to go though the list of stationary power tools that I think make up a basic shop.