Featured Products

At Shelter Tools, we've been building and teaching with tools that we love for over 50 years. Here you'll find tools we want to highlight: our long-time favorites, new additions to our tool box, or innovative updates to classics we know and love.

Diagram of The Mailbox Post: Timber Frame Plan & Cut Sheet Package by Shelter Institute, showing full-dimension timbers, classic joinery, vertical post, angled support, and horizontal arm. "Shelter Courses: Building Competence" appears above the illustration.

The Mailbox Post: Timber Frame Plan & Cut Sheet Package 

$19.99
A one-gallon can of HNF Heritage Natural Finishes Oil Select Interior & Exterior displays a purple and white label with detailed product information, emphasizing its water resistance. Additionally, it includes a metal handle at the top.

Heritage Natural Finishes Oil Select Interior OR Exterior

From $30.99 USD
The MHG Messerschmidt Timber Framing Chisels, featuring metal blades and wooden handles for superior edge retention, are perfectly aligned horizontally on a white background—ideal for professional woodworkers pursuing precision.

MHG Messerschmidt Timber Framing Chisel

From $48.99 USD
Three Barr Timber Framing Chisels from the renowned brand BAR, featuring hand-forged wooden handles and durable metal blades reminiscent of traditional woodworking tools, are arranged side by side.

Barr Timber Framing Chisel

From $25.99 USD
The Maru Japanese Timber Framing Slick features a flat laminated steel blade and smooth wooden handle, highlighting Japanese craftsmanship, and is displayed against a plain white background.

Japanese Timber Framing Slick 

$275.99
Two MARU Japanese Timber Saw Temagari Nokogiri with wooden handles and long, serrated blades are placed parallel on a white background—perfect for efficient woodworking or cutting large timbers.

Japanese Timber Saw Temagari Nokogiri 

$140.99
Three wood chisels, including the SOR Robert Sorby Bevelled Framing Chisel made from premium Sheffield Steel, have metal blades and wooden handles. They are displayed parallel on a white background, ideal for discerning timber framers seeking quality tools.

Robert Sorby Bevelled Framing Chisel

From $135.99 USD
Four Gyokucho Ryoba Japanese Handsaws, featuring thin rectangular steel blades and beige wrapped handles, stand upright in a row against a white background, highlighting these essential woodworking tools.

Ryoba Japanese Handsaws

From $25.99 USD
Four MID Wood Is Good Mallets, with ergonomic hardwood handles and urethane heads, stand upright on a white background.

Wood Is Good Mallet

From $44.99 USD
A CHV Skilsaw Circular Saw 16-5/16-in Worm Drive with a silver body, black handle, and visible serrated blade features red and white graphics and SKILSAW prominently displayed on the blade guard.

Skilsaw Circular Saw 16-5/16-in Worm Drive

From $129.99 USD
Three Robert Sorby Timber Framing Slick chisels by SOR, featuring Sheffield Steel blades and rounded wooden handles, are aligned horizontally against a white background, reflecting precision and quality.

Robert Sorby Timber Framing Slick

From $40.99 USD
The Shelter Institutes Shelter Sharpening Kit includes the Veritas MKII Honing Guide, angle guide, glass plate, sanding block, compound jar, and textured cloth—ideal for all your woodworking needs.

Shelter Sharpening Kit

From $10.99 USD
The SHWA Shinwa Japanese Framing Square is a durable stainless steel carpenters tool with clear markings on both arms, forming a right angle, shown against a white background.

Shinwa Japanese Framing Square 

$87.99
Three MARU Japanese Timber Framing Chisels with wooden handles and White Steel blades are aligned horizontally on a white background.

Japanese Timber Framing Chisel

From $210.99 USD
The MHG Timber Framing Slick, featuring a high-alloy metal blade and a sturdy wooden handle, rests elegantly on a timber surface.

MHG Timber Framing Slick

From $25.99 USD
The Makita 12-1/4-in Planer by Makita is a silver and black electric handheld tool with two handles, a blue motor housing, and a power cord. It features a powerful 15 AMP motor and is shown on a white background.

Makita 12-1/4-in Planer

From $54.99 USD
Label for HNF Heritage Natural Finishes Wax and End Grain Sealer, ideal for woodworking. It’s non-staining, low VOC, non-toxic without petroleum, and enhances durability when buffed. Perfect for sealing end grain with illustrations of natural ingredients.

Heritage Natural Finishes Wax and End Grain Sealer

From $40.99 USD
The Weekender: A Timber Frame Tool Kit by Shelter Institute includes a chisel, mallet, saw, two measuring squares, tape measure, pencils, and drill bits—perfectly arranged on a white background for your woodworking needs.

The Weekender: A Timber Frame Tool Kit 

$252.99
A set of 17 OWL Wood Owl Ultra Smooth Tri-Cut Auger Bits, made from high-carbon steel, is displayed in ascending size order from left to right.

Wood Owl Ultra Smooth Tri-Cut Auger Bit 18-in

From $55.99 USD
A CHV Skilsaw Beam Saw 16-in Worm Drive with a red handle, black blade guard, and power cord is shown standing vertically against a plain white background.

Skilsaw Beam Saw 16-in Worm Drive 

$735.99
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