Why we stock what we stock

The tools here are picked to hold an edge, and the clamps to hold a glue-up. Orders leave Coral Gables within 2 business days. If something isn't right, you have 30 days to send it back.

A tight range, always on the shelf

We carry 13 tools across 5 categories, between $28.00 and $99.00. A short list is what lets us keep every tool in stock and answer a question about it properly. A wall of near-identical hammers is a catalogue nobody can pick from, and it usually means the shop has never used one.

What earns a place here

A tool that can be sharpened, tightened or re-handled instead of binned. Forged heads rather than cast, hardened blades that keep an edge, hickory and hornbeam handles that take a mallet, and screws that advance under load. Nothing here is disposable, and nothing here is a collector's piece either.

Edges and setup

Chisels and plane irons arrive factory-ground, not honed. That is normal and it is not a fault: the final edge depends on the work, and a shop-honed bevel is sharper than anything that survives a shipping box. Every listing says whether a tool needs honing before its first cut.

Where we are

Best Labor Contractors, LLC is registered in FL, with its workshop and shipping desk at 3211 Ponce De Leon Blvd Ste 301, Coral Gables, FL 33134. Orders leave from there.