Hand tools play an important part in my woodworking and share equal status in my shop with my power tools. I am not a purist; I love the efficiency of powertools, but there are many things which you just can’t do easily/safely with powertools and occasionally it is quicker to use hand tools than to fiddle around with jigs/test pieces/machine setup with powertools.
First pics are of my handtool cabinet; as my collection is growing this cabinet seems to be shrinking…Chisels are a mix of Japanese and Western, the Western style saws on the left get very little use anymore since I discovered Japanese saws; I know everyone is different but I love the speed and accuracy of a pullsaw…
Small collection of block planes; left to right; Miller Falls no. 16 (which gets almost no use, the mouth doesn’t close up tight enough), LN, Veritas skew (awesome for tenon shoulders); a couple shoulder planes and a cabinet scraper.
Hand planes; a couple Stanley no. 4’s that I refurbed and the workhorse of my shop the Veritas bevel up jointer plane, which gets 95% of the use in my shop for everything from rough flattening to smoothing.
A completely useless plane functionally but beautiful to look at, Miller Falls no 709 “Buck Rogers”
Last is a brace I’m in the process of refurbing; a Miller Falls 772
-- Rob, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
-- Rob, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
-- woodworking classes, custom furniture maker
-- Rob, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
-- CHRIS, Charlottetown PEI Canada. Anytime you can repurpose, reuse, or recycle, everyone wins!
So nice to see you guys here.
My problem is I posted so much on LJ and it have links all over the web so to change spot is like I have to spend a month or so doing it…
But yes we miss Martin and his way of running it, a lot.
Perhaps one day a site of my own will be the change that makes me do it.
Hmmmm perhaps a LJ veterans site, lol.
-- MaFe vintage architect and fanatical rhykenologist.