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hello everyone, still figuring out this site , so i hope i am posting things in the proper place.
on my last post, someone commented on my having a decent set of hand tools, so i thought it was a good place to start posting, with the tools that make the projects. these pictures show a few of my hand tools. anyone reading this and is considering using hand tools more exclusively for their work should take this as a warning. nearly every tool pictured is priced about the same as a box store power tool. which adds up pretty quick. but presistance builds your tools collection.
one bit of advice is to buy the quaility tool right away. i have given away or junked at least two sets of chisels and countless planes before finally springing for the quality ones i should have bought at the start. it is frustrating to have to “make do” with a barely functioning tool. and as a beginner it caused me to seriously doubt my abilities.
I included a picture of the beach near my house, the snow is a rareity here.
one thing i will try to include in the future is of my collection of local woods. if the antiques roadshow proves anything to us woodworkers, it is that the woods we choose for our projects is just as important as the style or period for classifying them.
i now have a healthy stockpile of western maple, yellow cedar, pacific yew, arbutus, carraghanus,port orford cedar and a few others that are local , rare, and unspellable.
one story of note is how i came into some port orford cedar. i smelled someone burning it in their woodstove when i was walking my dog. i found them and arranged a trade for some seasoned wood better suited to creating BTU’s.
-- Junior -Quality is never an accident-it is the reward for the effort involved.
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Scott Bryan
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posted 330 days ago
JJ, You do have a wonderful set of hand tools. I am just now beginning to appreciate their value and the skill it takes to “operate” these tools. I have restored a couple of planes that belonged to my father and find them very satisfying to use. I agree with you about getting quality tools to start with. I am a firm believer in getting the most tool your budget will allow and have said many times that “it is better to cry once when you buy a tool rather than the many times that you use it”.
It is nice to see a “traditional” workshop. Sadly, a lot of us, myself included, have simply not developed our hand skills. While I don’t think I could ever give up my tablesaw, planer, etc. completely I am working on honing my hand skills and really appreciate the effort and skills that have been developed by woodworking, such as yourself, who follow the traditional route.
Nice shop. Thanks for the post.
-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.
JuniorJoiner
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posted 330 days ago
thanks for the post scott, i do have power tools in my shop now, they are a realitively new addition, most have been aquired in the past year. i just did not start with them.
as a matter of fact, i can blame them all on my wife. she gets impatient waiting for the things on her list, so she has bought me some power tools to speed up the process. the latest was a 13” planer for xmas. just haven’t taken it out of the box yet.
with my shop being so small, power tools do not make most jobs easier.making the room to use them and getting the power cords run(my shop has no outlet heheh). So the hand tools are still front and center for use.
But now i have them for big jobs. i have not yet had a large enough job to need power for dimensioning my lumber. but i hope to tackle some this summer. we will see
-- Junior -Quality is never an accident-it is the reward for the effort involved.
Jarrod Zion Murphree
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posted 327 days ago
Very nice tool collection; impressive. And that beach makes me wanna cry. Beautiful.
Regards, JM
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Beginningwoodworker
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posted 323 days ago
Nice workshop, I see you is a hand tool guy.
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JohnnyVee
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posted 290 days ago
Yes indeed, a very nice collection of both tools and wood…nice to see another Islander on this site.
Are you in the Vancouver Island Woodworkers Guild (http://viwg.ca) by chance?
-- John ..."Measure twice, cut once and always do a finger count right after that..."
Justin
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posted 171 days ago
Very nice collection of hand tools. I’d really like to learn to use the few I have, but books just don’t do the techniques justice. Also really like your bench. Did you make that yourself?
-- Justin
John Gray
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posted 171 days ago
VERY NICE!!!! Thanks for the post looking forward to your next.
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a1Jim
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posted 170 days ago
Hey Junior
Impressive shop and tools.
-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon
JuniorJoiner
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posted 160 days ago
thanks for the kind words. yes the bench is my own creation, as is the mess that’s usually on it.
the hand tools stemmed from my disability and heavy painkiller use, i didn’t trust myself with power tools.
I do use power more now(I still need an extension cord to do it, as my shops not wired) but i try to limit it to dimensioning stock.
-- Junior -Quality is never an accident-it is the reward for the effort involved.