Why use a Swann Morton marking knife for woodwork?
If you're tired of your joinery being just a hair off, switching to a swann morton marking knife is probably the easiest upgrade you can make to your workshop. It's one of those tools that seems almost too simple to be revolutionary, but once you stop using a carpenter's pencil for fine layout work, there's really no going back. I remember the first time I tried to fit a tenon using a line I'd drawn with a standard HB pencil; the line itself was nearly a millimeter wide. In the world of precision woodworking, a millimeter might as well be a mile. ...