Last night after work was my first time trying a project with just hand tools. Recently sold my Felder saw, Laguna lathe and other items to simplify my Small shop and open up floor space but I still have a workable solution with jointer/planer, bandsaw, CNC, etc. so working with just hand tools is not necessity in my case and is just something I wanted to try my hand at. After the first 2 hours I am totally humbled.
Everything from how to hold the wood in place, to how to setup my number 7 plane was a big learning curve. I’ve really only used my block plane on occasion thus far. For a first project I picked a simple shelf that I needed to make. Spent my first hour trying to joint flat a piece of mahagony with the #7 followed by a lot of smoothing with the #4. Broke out into a pure dripping sweaty mess and I have an air conditioned shop. Just didn’t expect how much effort would be expended.
Anyway I stopped with only the initial work on this one board. Have the faces pretty flat but it has a diagonal twist across its length. Not sure how I’ll get rid of the twist yet but I’m fairly certain that I’ll go back to using the J/P machine to joint a big board like this. LOL
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