Hacksaw Frame
A hand tool designed to hold and tension a metal-cutting blade for slicing through metal, plastic, PVC, and wood.
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Micro Chisel Set
Includes miniature, fine-edged hand tools designed for intricate carving, detailed woodworking, modeling, and tight-space cleanup.
View details →Pliers
Hand-operated mechanical tools used for gripping, bending, cutting, and twisting objects like wires, metal sheets, and fasteners.
View details →Combination Side Cutting Pliers
Multi-purpose hand tools designed to grip, bend, twist, and cut wires, cables, and small hardware parts.
View details →Snipe (Needle) Nose Pliers
Feature elongated, tapered jaws designed for precision gripping, bending, and cutting in tight or confined spaces.
View details →Round Nose Pliers
Specialized hand tools featuring smooth, conical, or circular-tapered jaws used to bend, shape, and form clean loops, curves, and rings in wire.
View details →External Circlip Pliers
Specialized hand tools designed to install and remove retaining rings fitted around the outside of shafts, axles, or guide rods.
View details →Internal Circlip Pliers
Specialized tools used to install or remove internal retaining rings (snap rings) seated inside a bore, hole, or cylindrical housing.
View details →Cordless Drilling Machine
A portable power tool that uses rechargeable batteries (typically lithium-ion) to rotate a drill bit or screw-driving bit.
View details →Jigsaw Machines
A handheld power tool with a vertically reciprocating (up-and-down) blade used to cut curves, irregular shapes, and straight lines in wood, metal, plastic, and tile.
View details →Power Circular Saw
A power-driven cutting tool that uses a toothed or abrasive round disc to slice through materials like wood, metal, plastic, masonry, and composites.
View details →Needle Files
A very small, hardened steel hand tool with fine teeth used for delicate shaping, smoothing, and deburring.
View details →Pipe Vice
A specialized mechanical clamp used to hold cylindrical objects—such as metal pipes, tubing, rods, or conduits—firmly in place during operations like cutting, threading, reaming, and welding.
View details →Ball Peen Hammer
A metalworking hand tool featuring a dual-faced head with one flat striking face and one rounded, hemispherical peen face.
View details →Steel Shaft Claw Hammer
A hand tool used primarily in carpentry and general construction to drive nails into wood or pull them back out.
View details →Nylon Mallet
A soft-faced striking tool with a durable nylon head mounted on a handle.
View details →Rubber Mallet
A soft-faced striking tool designed to deliver firm force to an object without scratching, denting, or breaking the surface.
View details →Allen Key Set
A collection of L-shaped or folding tools used to drive bolts and screws with internal hexagonal sockets.
View details →Double Ended Spanner Set
A collection of hand tools used to loosen or tighten nuts and bolts.
View details →12 Piece Open Ended Spanner Set
A collection of twelve individual hand tools (commonly called wrenches in North America) designed to tighten or loosen nuts and bolts.
View details →Belt and Disc Sanding Machine
A two-in-one power tool that combines an abrasive sanding belt and a spinning sanding disc on a single motor-driven machine.
View details →Scroll Saw Machine
A small, electric reciprocating tool designed for making intricate curves, detailed patterns, and internal pierce cuts in wood, plastic, or thin non-ferrous metals.
View details →Power Return Measuring Tape
A self-retracting tape measure that automatically pulls the steel blade back into the casing via an internal spring mechanism when you release the lock or button.
View details →Try Square 8"
A hand tool used in woodworking and metalworking to check, measure, and mark true 90-degree (right) angles.
View details →Digital Vernier Caliper
A precision measuring instrument that uses an electronic sensor to display measurements on an LCD screen.
View details →Stainless Steel Rule
A durable, corrosion-resistant measuring and layout tool used in engineering, woodworking, drafting, and general construction.
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