Holding & Cutting Hand Tools for Woodworking
Precision hand-tool woodworking depends on two fundamentals: holding the workpiece securely and cutting it accurately. Infinity Tools' holding and cutting collection brings together chisels, hand saws, fret saws, vises, and mallets from trusted makers — giving you a curated toolkit for joinery, carving, and detail work at the bench.
For carving and detail cutting, the carver's vise locks workpieces at any angle for safe, controlled material removal. Complement it with the Narex 8-piece professional carving chisel set or the Narex 8-piece palm chisel set for a range of profiles suited to chip carving, relief carving, and fine paring. The Grace brass mallet with Delrin face delivers controlled strikes without marring chisel handles.
For sawing, the collection includes Japanese pull saws for clean, thin-kerf crosscuts and rips, Pax Gent hand saws for traditional Western-style sawing, and precision fret saws — including the Knew Concepts fret saw and Pegas 7 skip-tooth fret saw blades — for intricate scrollwork and fine joinery cuts in thin stock. The Narex Wood Line imperial bench chisels round out the joinery toolkit with forged-steel blades ready for paring, chopping, and mortising.
Choosing Chisels for Bench Work vs. Carving
Bench chisels are optimized for chopping mortises, paring joints, and general joinery with a mallet. Carving chisels have a wider variety of blade profiles — gouges, veiners, and skews — suited to removing material in three dimensions. If you are new to carving, a palm chisel set is a good starting point for controlled, detail-level work.
