Looking for recommendations for the following:
1. A good try square, brand/model (accurate for doing fine woodworking). All I have is rough-cut, low precision badly dented and beat construction tools. I primarily want to use this to check the true-ness of soles of my plane, but also for checking the squareness of the face of wood for 90 degrees during the planing process.
2. A recommendation for a Dozuki (brand/ model). I have a couple older western miter saws. Looking for thinner kerf, but one that could be used to do a miter, tenon, dove-tail, lap joint, or corner spline for picture frames.
3. A good set of hand carving chisels for surface carving of decoration of picture frames/moldings. I was looking at Flexcut on Rockler's site. But I have been bitten so many times in buying anything modern made. So many goods are typically so magnificently branded and promoted, but are poorly Chinese made using cheap alloys and plastic. Is there a brand of good quality (tough, good steel) carving tools out there? I'm not a millionaire, but neither can I afford to waste money by buying landfill-ready goods.
Thanks. FWIW, this is an offshoot of my first post here. I'm a noobie trying to learn to make picture frames by hand. I'm getting there. I've got a couple Stanley planes on the way to begin working with to help face surface / dimension my stock. I've figured out how to get quite a good enough miter for now (< 1/32" off). I need to get a better low-angle jack plane to go with my shooting board. (The first low angle block I got isn't going to cut it).
Just rounding out some of the gear I need to get going better. And I'm about to take the plunge and build my own wood bench. The wife approved my using the basement for this.
It's gonna be fun!
A lot to learn, some tools needed to get started. One step forward...