Consumables

The loose-tenon stock a Festool Domino joiner is built around -- not the tool itself, the little beech tablets that actually become the joint.

A round wooden peg, plain as it gets, and still one of the oldest reinforcement and alignment methods in the joinery toolbox.

The actual abrasive that does the work while your random orbital sander gets all the credit -- and the consumable most people underspend on relative to how much it affects results.

A metal insert that gives soft, grain-inconsistent wood a real machine-thread socket -- so a bolt can be removed and reinstalled dozens of times without chewing up the hole.

A properly glued joint, done right, is often stronger than the wood around it -- the wood fails before the glue line does. That's a genuinely high bar, and most glue failures are technique, not the glue.