Making Small Workshop Tools

Build useful workshop tools in no time with practical, beginner-friendly projects!

Making Small Workshop Tools is a hands-on guide to tool making for the home workshop, originally written by Stan Bray and thoroughly revised by Stewart Hart. Featuring more than 20 practical projects, this updated 2nd edition shows how to turn saved odds and ends into timesaving, cost-effective, and professional-grade workshop tools that are satisfying to make and useful to keep close at hand.

Each project includes step-by-step instructions supported by full working drawings, photographs, and figures to make every stage clear to follow. Designed for beginners but still valuable for more experienced readers, the projects focus on practical metal work and workshop problem-solving, with none taking more than 4 hours to complete, typically within just 3 to 4 hours.

• Make more than 20 handy workshop tools including marking-out tools, clamps, chucks, fly cutters, knurling tools, bevels, jacks, and more
• Learn through practical tool making with clear instructions and workshop-friendly guidance
• Follow full working drawings, photographs, and figures for each project
• Finish fast, useful builds with projects suited to short shop sessions
• Put spare odds and ends to work in ways that save time, reduce cost, and improve your workshop

Whether you are building your first small workshop tools or adding to an established collection, this 104-page guide offers practical skills, accessible projects, and dependable, professional-grade results for beginners and experienced makers alike.

Stan Bray has had his own workshop for most of his life and has made many tools, models and clocks. He is the founder and former editor of the magazine Model Engineers' Workshop, and former editor of Engineering in Miniature. He is associate editor of Model Engineer where he has a regular column called "Bray's Bench".

Stewart Hart is a trained tool maker and manufacturing engineer, with extensive experience in product design and project engineering. With impending retirement, he set up a small home workshop to design and manufacture a range of stationary engines, specialized tooling and 5"-gauge model steam locomotives. Many of his projects have been featured in model and home workshop magazines.