planeforfun15

At my first woodworking class the instructor talked about how with power tools the main concern was safety. He then took out a handsaw and quickly and quietly made a cut I would have thought impossible without a power tool. As he did so, he remarked that the saw was guaranteed to stop before it hit bone. I have a table saw in my garage, but I don't use it and will be getting rid of it. My woodworking bench is in what used to be our formal dining room. I am reluctantly buying a bandsaw for resawing and may also purchase a thickness planer, but otherwise I find handtools far more pleasant to work with, and for one-off projects they are often faster.

I've got a long wish list of hand tools, from places like LN, LV, Tools for Working Wood, and so on. Hoping to whittle it down a bit over Christmas.