Benson Phelp

Staff Writer

With over a decade of hands-on experience in woodworking and power tool testing, Benson leads the editorial team at Craftsman Toolkit. He started out as a finish carpenter in residential construction before moving into editorial work, and still keeps a fully-loaded shop in his garage where he beats up review samples until something breaks. He is particularly fixated on tools that promise too much — cordless saws marketed as corded replacements, multi-tools sold as table-saw substitutes — and writes the kind of reviews that hold them honest. Every buying guide on the site runs past him before it publishes.