Using Hand Tools

Israel Martin likes machines but prefers to work with hand tools. To avoid the tedium that can accompany working with hand tools, he simplifies his designs, using mostly straight lines and square corners.

A simple clamping aid guarantees straight cuts.

Chris makes chairmaking approachable with a set of basic tools.

Hand-tool woodworking helped Giuseppe Deepak Benti control a deep form of anxiety called anginophobia.

Having created the frame in Part 1, Bill Pavlak now focuses on making the raised panel.

Bill Pavlak demonstrates how to make the frame: chopping the mortises, fitting the tenons, and cutting the haunch.

The wood that makes you feel superhuman

Kenneth and Angela Kortemeier offer hand-tool woodworking classes modeled after the Country Workshops of Drew Langsner.

Improve your hand skills with a chest sized for travel and the shop

Part 1: Seat and undercarriage. Curtis Buchanan gets to the basics of chairmaking with this Windsor made exclusively with a few basic hand tools.