His_apprentice

After spending the last 17 years in the Army and never living anywhere for more than three years, I have come to appreciate having a small collection of well-maintained (thanks to my WorkSharp), quality hand tools. My current project is a greenland style kayak paddle. Nearly all of the work has been done in my present transient quarters (apologies to housekeeping). Working in reverse from a classical apprenticeship, I started out with almost nothing but power tools and graduated to hand tools as I often have very limited work space.
For me its not as much about large scale production as it is about taking pleasure in working with my hands to transform lumber into useful, attractive items.
BTW, I really liked the recent article on shaping wood with hand tools. SDG
MAJ Charles Fisher, ILE class 09-003, Ft. Belvoir, VA