1. You’ve gone from almost no hand tools to knowing the differences between Type 8 and Type 9 Stanley hand planes in less than a year.
2. You find yourself making excuses like: Well the number 5 I have now doesn’t have a corrugated bottom.
3. You make a dedicated plane shelf in your shop.
4. You find yourself spending a spare 15 minutes honing anything sharp to ensure it’s ready for the next use.
5. You find yourself using a plane on things that probably don’t need it…like window sills.
6. You find yourself trying to teach your parents which chisels can be used with hammers and which ones can’t….
-- Scott, Austin-Texas...
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rjack
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posted 726 days ago
7) You use a hand tool for a job that a power tool that you already own could do faster and with more precision.
Uh oh! Sounds like somebody is out of control with hand tools. I think power tool junkies have a similar problem.
-- Roger - Havertown, Pennsylvania
Blake
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posted 726 days ago
8) You make a Movie to tell the world about card scrapers.
-- Check out my new website! http://www.blakeweberwoodworking.com
Mike Lingenfelter
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posted 726 days ago
9) You are considering posting your power tools on Craig’s List. :)
I’m really considering what I really need and don’t use anymore.
-- http://theinquisitivewoodworker.com/
Thos. Angle
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posted 726 days ago
10. you buy another #3 because it looks like a good one even though you seldom use the three you already have.
-- Thos. Angle
speakerscott
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posted 726 days ago
10. you buy another #3 because it looks like a good one even though you seldom use the three you already have.
HA! Caught me! You saw that eh? See it’s perfectly reasonable. One is set up with a back bevel ground into the blade…and the other is not. COMPLETELY necessary.
-- Scott, Austin-Texas...
speakerscott
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posted 726 days ago
Blake,
Good movie btw…I had watched it the other day!
-- Scott, Austin-Texas...
YorkshireStewart
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posted 726 days ago
11) you constantly search eBay for a #1 that might sneak through without anyone else noticing even though they’re probably unusable and impractical, just so you can complete the set.
-- Res severa verum gaudium - True pleasure is a serious business. http://www.folksy.com/shops/TreeGems
Harold
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posted 725 days ago
#12 you spend 2 hours explaining in detail to your wife that you actually need one more #4 for spare parts for the other 3 #4’s that work perfectly.
-- If knowledge is not shared, it is forgotten.