Hewn is building a library of human making: what is known about each tool, researched from named sources and written down so it does not disappear with the people who carry it. This is the tool shelf of that library. Every tool here has a long entry, and every entry was read by an independent reviewer before it was published.
Craft intelligence, written down.
244 tools · 154 from the woodshop · 242 with a bench card
A store page tells you what a tool costs. An entry here is written by Hewn from named sources and read by an independent reviewer. It brings together uses, limitations and failure modes, starting with how it goes wrong, because that is the part that gets someone hurt. Read it alongside the instructions for your own tool.
The misuse people actually make, and why it matters. Your tool's own manual has the precautions for your model; read the two together.
What the tool is for, the technique that gets the result, and which other tools belong beside it on the bench.
The lineage: who made it, what it replaced, how the design settled. Not an inventory of steel, a record of the relationship between people and their tools.
Each entry was read by an independent reviewer. What they found is published with the entry whether or not it has been fixed yet. We would rather you see the correction than not.
The library and the workbench are one site on purpose. The planner at /build doesn't read these entries yet. Today it works from its own short list of what each tool can do; the entries are what it learns from next. An entry nobody uses is a museum label. An entry the bench reads is a tool back in someone's hands.
Hand tools and machines, woodworking first. Each entry long enough to be worth reading, short enough to be read at the bench.
A plan is re-engineered for your shop: your tools, your stock, your skill. The tool entries are where it will learn what your tools can and cannot do.
No entry is published until an independent reviewer has read it. Their corrections are listed on the page, not filed away.
Woodworking first. Tools that came through the shop door but belong to another trade sit on the last shelf, written to the same standard and read by the same reviewer.
Nothing by that name yet. The library grows most weeks.
Tools that came through the shop door but are not woodworking tools. They are written to the same standard and read by the same reviewer; the label on each says where it really belongs.
What's true about an entry today. 27 of the 244 entries carry corrections the reviewer asked for that are not yet applied to the text. Each of those pages says so at the top and lists the corrections at the end, so you read the entry with them in hand. Nothing here is published without the review attached, and nothing is quietly fixed: when a correction is applied, the page keeps the record of what changed.