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Tooling Around: Rounding Up the Best Tools from Holz-Handwerk 2016

Held every two years in Germany, Holz-Handwerk is a massive European trade show for woodworking and wood processing. Focusing on all kinds of tools, technology and techniques related to wood crafts, you’ll find everything there from the most primitive hand tool all the way to the NASA-level CNC machines. Here is a glimpse of what was on show. 

More from Core77’s coverage of this year’s Holz-Handwerk Show!

Each day of Holz-Handwerk, I tried to get there early enough to beat the crowds.

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But there really is no beating the crowds, because…

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…by the end of the show some 110,000 people will have walked these halls.

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Speaking of crowds, in the power tool pavilion Festool’s massive booth was routinely mobbed. Impossible to shoot in there unless I came back during lulls.

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Here’s their newest work lamp, the Duo, which offers a 180-degree field of 5000K daylight.

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It’s not yet available in the ‘States. If you’re an American fan of Festool, get used to this acronym: NAINA. (Not Availabe In North America)

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Here’s their demo area, which was usually blocked from view by camera crews and German folks too big for me to see over.

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Speaking of things to big to see over, check out this jobsite radio.

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I thought it was just a gag, but it’s actually in production.

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It’s called the Sys-Rock and it’ll take any of their cordless batteries.

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