Käsitööriistad

Core — out of ten: how often it comes off the shelf and how much of the craft is shut to you without it. Ten means you cannot work without it. Default sort, highest first.

Lists — how many of five published "essential hand tools" lists include that tool: Christopher Schwarz's Anarchist's Tool Chest set and Paul Sellers' essential and minimalist lists, Joshua Farnsworth's twenty tools at Wood and Shop, The Woodworking Shed's beginner kit, and Bernd Kremer's German Grundausstattung. Two American, three European. Sized variants inherit their parent tool's count, so both jack planes score as "jack plane". It is a crude tally of consensus, not a quality measure.

One flaw worth knowing, because it distorts the column: this table splits planes into nineteen rows and chisels into three, so a list that says "bench chisels" gives one row a full vote while a list naming four planes spreads its votes thin. No single plane scores 5/5, yet every one of the five lists is built around planes. By category, at least one tool appears on: planes 5/5, saws 5/5, chisels and edge tools 5/5, marking and measuring 5/5, sharpening 5/5, striking 5/5, workholding 3/5, shaping 2/5, boring 2/5, fixing 2/5. Read the plane rows against that, not against each other.

Skill — more bars, more learning. This is the effort to use it well, not to pick it up: one bar is self-explanatory, five means years.

Upkeep — more bars, more maintenance. Sharpening frequency and difficulty, mostly. A saw that needs filing is a different commitment from a gauge that needs nothing.

Price — realistic euros for a good example bought new, at the Dictum and Lee Valley level you already buy at. Where a vintage tool is the smarter route, the notes say so and give that figure instead.

Mine — tap the chip to cycle a tool through have, upgrade and want, or set it from the buttons inside an open row. The filters narrow the table to one state, so Want on its own is your shopping list, and the search box matches tool names — tap Notes beside it to search the text inside the rows as well, so a maker or a term like “figured” finds every tool it appears in. Marks save in this browser on this device only. Nobody else sees them, and they do not follow you to another phone or computer.

While a filter is on, a tool you re-mark stays where it is, dimmed and labelled with its new state, so the list does not shift under you and you can keep cycling the same chip. Clear removes them once you are done.

The marks start out as Hando’s own kit and wish list, as of October 2026. Change them freely; your changes stay on your device.

Sources that ship to Estonia sensibly: Dictum and Fine Tools in Germany, Workshop Heaven and Classic Hand Tools in the UK, Lee Valley direct from Canada for Veritas. Narex and Juuma are the value benchmarks; Pfeil, Ashley Iles and Auriou the quality ones.