Set 2 The Starter Tool Set

The “Starter” Tool Set (to get you, or someone special, started making furniture)

This tool set was originally called the “Creepie” set because it was designed to be sufficient tools to make a creepie stool but this name didn’t fit well with the range of tool sets so we changed it to “Starter”.

Despite this the intention and the set of tools remained the same.

A lady from Shetland recently told me why the “creepie stool” is so-called.

In the Old Days - and this could go back a long way - (they probably had them at Skara Brae, but made of stone), the islanders would sit round the fire at night, to keep warm and tell stories, etc

and as the fire died down and the heat dropped off, they would pull their “Creepies” nearer the embers. That’s the best explanation I’ve heard.

I’m collecting “Creepie Stories” so anything that I can add to the mythology is treated with an open mind. I believe they have a similar piece of furniture in Slovakia and they also have them in Denmark.

These are the basic tools you need for making a  Creepie stool. They will form t he basis of a good woodworking  tool  set

 and include some of the same tools as the “Wood-shop” Tool set, mentioned in this series of blurbs, and also for sale in the wood-shop. The “Wood-shop” Tool Set is the same as the list of tools highlighted in Article 22 of the “Background”

The Triplane is from ECE and the Smoothing Plane is an upgraded Faithfull one, with added Clifton 2-part chip breaker.

There’s only 1(x12mm) chisel (but this can easily be added to later) and no hand router – you can make sure that the depth of the dado is consistent by checking with a ruler.

2 x Clamp heads are included and they have to be fitted to 1”x 2” shafts which can be made from timber or box section steel and bored. You can make them any length you want – I suggest having a pair 1.00m long and a replacement pair of 2.00m for those longer jobs.

Free of Charge A sanding cork is included with silicon carbide sandpaper. You’ll never buy glass paper again once you have used this stuff.  See us at http://www.wood-shop.co.uk