Originally Posted by
John C Cox
Bill, I love my hand tools for small jobs, finish work, and work where the power tools are simply ill suited.... I dearly love my power tools for stock prep and hogging off material... So for example - I would use the power planer to straight line stock - then use my hand planes to make the joint. Or the band saw to whack the end off a thick board - then square it up with my block plane and square... Same for the drum sander.... Drum sanders are fantastic for cleaning up stock and thicknessing it uniformly... I dearly love my drum sander - and you will have to pry it out of my cold dead hands.... You can then go from there with hand tools... Thanks