About Me!
Atif Shehzad
I test power tools so you don't waste money on the wrong one.
Hi, I’m Atif — a hobbyist woodworker and power tool obsessive based in Pakistan.
I started building things at home a few years ago, and what I quickly discovered is that the hardest part isn’t the woodworking — it’s figuring out which tools are actually worth buying. Every comparison article I found either parroted the spec sheet or recommended whatever paid the highest commission. Nobody was asking the questions I actually had: does the brushless motor on the DCD801 really run that much cooler? Is the extra $80 for the DWS780 actually worth it over the DWS779? Why do professional carpenters on Reddit keep recommending the “worse” spec’d drill?
So I started ChiselandCraft to answer those questions properly.
My shop runs on a mix of DeWalt and Makita tools — drills, angle grinders, sanders, routers, and a circular saw. I personally test every tool I write about before a single word gets published. Not bench testing for five minutes — actual use on real projects, where the limitations show up that never appear in a spec sheet.
That perspective is exactly what I bring to every article on this site. I write for the hobbyist who wants to buy right the first time — not upgrade again in six months because they trusted a review that didn’t tell them the whole story.
How every article on this site gets written?
Every tool comparison on this site starts the same way: I use both tools. On the same material, on the same project, back to back. That’s the only way to know whether the spec difference between two models actually matters in the real world — or whether it’s a marketing number that disappears the moment you pick the tool up.
Then I go deeper. I dig through hundreds of verified owner reviews on Amazon, Reddit threads on r/Tools and r/woodworking, and YouTube teardown videos to find the real-world complaints that never appear in spec sheets. Things like: the DCS334B’s battery drain on dense hardwood. The Bosch router’s table mounting incompatibility that nobody mentions in any review. The reason experienced woodworkers pick a heavier drill over a lighter one for overhead work.
Where I’ve personally used a tool or a similar class of tool, I say so. Where I haven’t, I say that too. You deserve to know the difference.