ESSDEE BASIC BENCH HOOK, MODEL BH1

This simple tool can save fingers from injury and tables from ugly gouges. It's a bench hook, with a bottom lip that hooks over the edge of your work table and a top lip that holds your linoleum or wood block firmly in place for carving. Made in England from simple MDF, this inexpensive tool will help keep your hands behind the blade, where they belong.

Work area measures 7.8" x 11.8" (200 x 300 mm).

ABOUT ESSDEE

The Essdee brand started during World War II, when British designer Stanley Dixon (that's S.D.) couldn't find any scraperboard for his studio. The only manufacturer was in Austria, so it hadn't been imported since before the war, and supplies had run out. Dixon created his own scraperboard formulation and branded it with his initials, and the name has stuck around for more than 75 years.

Today's Essdee brand is equally well-known for printmaking supplies, because the scraperboard company merged with a lino cutter company in the 1980s. (Scraper tools and lino cutters are made with the same industrial equipment.)

Essdee products are proudly made in the United Kingdom.