These three tools are among Frank’s personal favorites at the workbench—tools he has used, refined, and developed over many years of furniture making and teaching. In this class, students will build these tools while learning not only how they are made, but why their design details matter. For centuries, woodworkers made many of the tools they used at the bench. In this five-day workshop, students will continue that tradition by building a traditional cutting gauge, joiners mallet, and wooden-frame fret saw. Each project introduces precision layout, joinery, shaping, fitting, and toolmaking. Students will also learn how tool design affects performance as Frank demonstrates traditional techniques for working accurately and efficiently with hand tools. The finished tools are designed to become part of each student’s everyday working kit. Students will strengthen fundamental hand skills used in fine furniture making while producing three useful tools to take back to their own benches.