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24 December 2015 at 8:18 am #133396
hi all
this is Andy can anyone point me in the right direction to perches very good wood working tools .what wood be the first thing you get first thanksIn my opinion, the first thing you should purchase would be a good, accurate square, then a good marking knife like the one Paul uses. I have found working with hand tools that patience and accuracy are the foundation. No sense having a great saw or plane if the line you are working to is not where it should be.
Pauls blog post essential tools should get you started.
The most important thing is to make sure whatever square you get is actually square.
25 December 2015 at 12:01 am #133407There are so many ways to answer this question. I can’t disagree with Frank’s input above – accuracy is so important to hand tool woodwork. Whatever you do, try to get decent tools. You can get good tools relatively cheap, but that takes a LOT of patience and a fair amount of luck. Garage / estate sales and eBay are two ways to start (maybe also craigslist), but if you’ve got the funds, you can also buy some great stuff new.
Paul is a proponent of the Stanley #4 plane. It can be a real workhorse. I recently got an old #4 1/2 and I think if I got a higher quality #4 1/2 then that would be my “go to” plane. Now be careful about when Paul says “You can do everything you need with a #4” – Paul can do everything, but we mere mortals might need some other planes to help us out.
Good luck, Andy. Let us know how you progress.
26 December 2015 at 11:45 am #133425thanks for all the reply’s going to have a look at some tools sites today to get me started.in the new year
26 December 2015 at 8:26 pm #133434if I could go back and tell myself what to buy first it would be a #4 Stanley plane but whatever you buy make sure its sharp and accurate, if not when you buy it but defiantly when you come to use it.
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