Thanks for sharing your tool "arsenal". I love your minimalist approach. Lately I've decided it's time to start using the tools I've acquired over the years and selling the ones I won't use. Ultimately, my goal is to make all my own hand planes and sell the majority of my metal bodied planes and thin my tools down to what I use/need and let the rest go. I've been more of a hand tool collector than user for the last 15 years. I'm a sucker for inexpensive vintage tools. I don't buy a lot of tools but I'll admit I find it difficult to pass up a good deal on a quality hand saw priced at $3-$5, a cheap brace for $3, or even a cheap Stanley plane for $5. I enjoy buying them and bringing them back to life.
Thanks. I have a few I found and could not resist myself, lol. A good friend gave me a W. Butcher iron and chip breaker along with the wooden wedge from an old wooden bodied plane. I've been hanging onto it for years, but have not found enough hardwood to build a body for the 2.5" blade as of yet. Hopefully one day I will. Happy woodworkin!
@@HandToolWoodGuy I understand about finding quality woods for projects. Most of what I can find around here is pine and what Lowe's and HD have to offer. There is a Rockler about 55 miles away but at their prices I just avoid them. I bought a vintage blade off of eBay a few months ago to make a Krenov style plane with. A plane body popped up on eBay, a coffin smoother with an enclosed handle, and I bid on it and won the bidding. I think it was under $15 delivered. I didn't plan to use them together but the blade fits, width wise. I'll need to make a wedge for it to be able to use it.
You have a lot of woodworking skill to be able to make all those great guitar using just hand tools! Probably you can make more with a few hand tools then many can with expensive power tools.
Thank you. The power tools take skill to use properly as well but it is a different kind of skill. To each their own. I like the simplicity, the quiet, and a Hands-On that I get with hand tool. And that's why I use them
Thank you. Neck joint will be a dovetail. The cleats are something I got from Cumpiano/Natelson. They reinforce the top seam. I decided to try them as sort of an added insurance, since my "shop" has no humidity controls.
You've got a lot of good tools. Better than anything I have. I just have whatever I can find at yard sales and flea markets. I never run onto good stuff those places.
If you look in my back catalog you'll see that except for the Veritas my saws are all flea market finds. The tenon saw was an old 50s Disston I bought for $1. I rehabbed it and made a nice handle for it. It looks really nice because I put a ton of work into it. th-cam.com/video/IO9lEWP3SmU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=G7agsXLfM8k42Iaw You will get there; it took me years to get what I have, and some of it I would still not have they had not been gifted me by a close friend who knows I love hand tools. Thanks for subbing and watching! Much appreciated.
@@HandToolWoodGuy Hey you never know. Two weeks ago I found a Witherby chisel at a yard sale. A nice and long paring chisel. She's a beaut. Well it was a little rough when I picked it up. But it cleaned up real good. When I got it I didn't know what it was. It was too dirty to see any markings on it. But they never make cheap long chisels. That's just not a thing. At least I've never seen one.
Yeah, that was a nice score. The problem with flea markets is you sort through a lot of junk, and you can't really choose what you will run up on. If you need a tenon saw, for example, but all you keep running into are panel saws....you just gotta buy it when you see it. Only other recourse might be ebay, if a person has the budget. I did not. I started out with Harbor Freight chisels and one Marples blue handled one inch chisel I found. And a 70s era Nicholson rip panel saw. Did not even know how to sharpen it, just used it how I found it. The good news is that you don't have to have new or really high quality tools to make; you just need ones that work for what you are doing. Hand tools are more about technique, IMHO.
Thanks, that bench has served me well. As for the toolbox, I got it out there for that video, but taking it back in I realized it was not very wise to try it again; it's very heavy. I am building a wooden one that I hope I'll be able to get out there regularly. Good luck on your bench build!
Thanks for the tool tour!
Thanks, Lewis!
Thanks for sharing your tool "arsenal". I love your minimalist approach. Lately I've decided it's time to start using the tools I've acquired over the years and selling the ones I won't use. Ultimately, my goal is to make all my own hand planes and sell the majority of my metal bodied planes and thin my tools down to what I use/need and let the rest go.
I've been more of a hand tool collector than user for the last 15 years. I'm a sucker for inexpensive vintage tools. I don't buy a lot of tools but I'll admit I find it difficult to pass up a good deal on a quality hand saw priced at $3-$5, a cheap brace for $3, or even a cheap Stanley plane for $5. I enjoy buying them and bringing them back to life.
Thanks. I have a few I found and could not resist myself, lol.
A good friend gave me a W. Butcher iron and chip breaker along with the wooden wedge from an old wooden bodied plane. I've been hanging onto it for years, but have not found enough hardwood to build a body for the 2.5" blade as of yet. Hopefully one day I will.
Happy woodworkin!
@@HandToolWoodGuy I understand about finding quality woods for projects. Most of what I can find around here is pine and what Lowe's and HD have to offer. There is a Rockler about 55 miles away but at their prices I just avoid them.
I bought a vintage blade off of eBay a few months ago to make a Krenov style plane with. A plane body popped up on eBay, a coffin smoother with an enclosed handle, and I bid on it and won the bidding. I think it was under $15 delivered. I didn't plan to use them together but the blade fits, width wise. I'll need to make a wedge for it to be able to use it.
Yeah, unless I'm building a guitar I generally either use Big Box store wood, or reclaimed if I can find it.
Congrats on the plane coming together!
You have a lot of woodworking skill to be able to make all those great guitar using just hand tools! Probably you can make more with a few hand tools then many can with expensive power tools.
Thank you. The power tools take skill to use properly as well but it is a different kind of skill. To each their own. I like the simplicity, the quiet, and a Hands-On that I get with hand tool. And that's why I use them
Great tools… great going… will like to ask you 1) why have you put cleats at the lower bout and 2) what kind of neck joint you’re planning to use ?
Thank you.
Neck joint will be a dovetail.
The cleats are something I got from Cumpiano/Natelson. They reinforce the top seam. I decided to try them as sort of an added insurance, since my "shop" has no humidity controls.
You've got a lot of good tools. Better than anything I have. I just have whatever I can find at yard sales and flea markets. I never run onto good stuff those places.
If you look in my back catalog you'll see that except for the Veritas my saws are all flea market finds. The tenon saw was an old 50s Disston I bought for $1. I rehabbed it and made a nice handle for it. It looks really nice because I put a ton of work into it. th-cam.com/video/IO9lEWP3SmU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=G7agsXLfM8k42Iaw
You will get there; it took me years to get what I have, and some of it I would still not have they had not been gifted me by a close friend who knows I love hand tools.
Thanks for subbing and watching! Much appreciated.
@@HandToolWoodGuy you found Narex chisels at a flea market? That's a great find. I made a dollar saw too.
No, the Narex was not a flea market find
@@HandToolWoodGuy Hey you never know. Two weeks ago I found a Witherby chisel at a yard sale. A nice and long paring chisel. She's a beaut. Well it was a little rough when I picked it up. But it cleaned up real good. When I got it I didn't know what it was. It was too dirty to see any markings on it. But they never make cheap long chisels. That's just not a thing. At least I've never seen one.
Yeah, that was a nice score. The problem with flea markets is you sort through a lot of junk, and you can't really choose what you will run up on. If you need a tenon saw, for example, but all you keep running into are panel saws....you just gotta buy it when you see it.
Only other recourse might be ebay, if a person has the budget. I did not.
I started out with Harbor Freight chisels and one Marples blue handled one inch chisel I found. And a 70s era Nicholson rip panel saw. Did not even know how to sharpen it, just used it how I found it.
The good news is that you don't have to have new or really high quality tools to make; you just need ones that work for what you are doing. Hand tools are more about technique, IMHO.
How do you load that toolbox out into your yard? Love the outdoor bench. Been working on mine.
Thanks, that bench has served me well.
As for the toolbox, I got it out there for that video, but taking it back in I realized it was not very wise to try it again; it's very heavy.
I am building a wooden one that I hope I'll be able to get out there regularly.
Good luck on your bench build!