I received the latest newsletter from Lie-Nielsen last night and they have a couple new tools that just came out.  They aren’t new flashy planes but a couple of tools that are hard if not impossible to find these days.

The first is a set Drawer Lock Chisels.  These are very specialized chisels that I haven’t seen for sale, except for antique ones.  There is a nice video on YouTube that shows how they are used.  Now I just need a project to justify buy this new tool!

The other new tool is a pair of Drawbore Pins.  Again an almost impossible tool to find these days.  I have used the Drawbore technique on a couple of my projects.  This technique makes an incredibly tight and strong joint.  Because I couldn’t buy any Drawbore Pins at the time, except for expensive antiques, I had to make mine.  I followed an article Christopher Schwarz wrote on the subject.  You can see the blog I wrote on making my pins over on Lumber Jocks.