I’m new to the forum and wanted to introduce myself. I’ve been woodworking as a hobby for just over a year now when I discovered how cool hand tool woodworking was. I went from not even knowing what a plane was to being able to make some usable stuff in large part by searching this forum so I decided to join (so I can ask questions!!). The amount of good hand tool info on here is amazing!
I’ve had the typical homeowner power tools (cheap tablesaw, chop saw, various corded tools) since we bought our house 8 years ago, but I could just never get into woodworking. I didn’t like the noise (ear muffs all the time), dust (mask all the time and sawdust ALL OVER the basement), spending more time adjusting settings than actually cutting, and quite frankly many of these tools scare the crap out of me (particularly the router). So I just never really did anything other than fixing stuff around the house or utilitarian things. Then I bought a smoothing plane and it was like a runaway train!
Here’s a couple of projects I’ve made – a folding table for my wife and a chest to organize small toys for my son. The table did use a table saw for some cuts because I didn’t have a rip hand saw yet at the time and a power drill for the large holes for the nuts because I only had an egg beater and no brace at the time (both problems now rectified thanks to ebay!). The chest was all done by hand.
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