What Tool Find Lab Is
Tool Find Lab is a workshop-focused publication covering power tools, hand tools, measuring and layout, sanding and finishing, safety gear, and workshop setup — plus a plain-English crypto basics section for readers who want the concepts explained without the hype. Every guide here exists to answer one specific question a real person typed into a search engine, and to answer it completely enough that they do not need a second tab.
Who Writes It
The site is written and edited by Greg Palmer, who has spent years around home workshops, garage builds, and the kind of repair jobs that never go the way the manual promised. Greg’s background is practical rather than ceremonial: the guides are built from hands-on use, manufacturer specifications, and the accumulated wisdom of tradespeople who publish their methods openly — and they are written the way he would explain the job to a neighbour standing in the driveway.
How Our Guides Are Researched and Checked
Each guide starts with the question itself: what is the reader actually trying to do, and what would go wrong if they followed bad advice? We then work from primary sources wherever they exist — manufacturer manuals and spec sheets, standards bodies, and established reference works for technique. Measurements, torque figures, grit sequences, and safety temperatures are checked against at least two sources before publication. Where guides include worked examples — a power budget, a grit progression for a refinishing job — the arithmetic is done from real product data, not rounded guesses.
We also update older guides. Tools change, prices drift, and better methods surface; when we learn something that makes an existing guide wrong or incomplete, we revise the guide rather than leaving the old version to rank on its own.
Our Editorial Standards
Guides are original and written for readers, not for algorithms: no keyword stuffing, no padded word counts, no copied competitor text. Comparisons state the trade-offs honestly, including when the cheaper tool is the right buy or when a fashionable product is not worth its price. If we have not used a tool ourselves, the guide says what it is based on instead of pretending otherwise. Readers can read our full editorial policy for the details.
Get in Touch
Spotted an error, disagree with a recommendation, or want a guide on something we have not covered? We read every message — reach us through the contact page. Corrections from readers who know a job better than we do are the most valuable email we get, and they genuinely shape what gets updated next.