Comments on: The Path to Hand Tool Use http://toolmakingart.com/2009/01/07/the-path-to-hand-tool-use/ Timeless Tools Mon, 24 May 2010 20:49:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Skip J. http://toolmakingart.com/2009/01/07/the-path-to-hand-tool-use/comment-page-1/#comment-322 Skip J. Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:33:56 +0000 http://toolmakingart.com/?p=666#comment-322 Mercy Bob; Sorry to hear that! Actually, it seems you are in with some pretty good company on that particular tool. It might enable you to increase production while maintaining quality or improving it. Thereby "enabling" the rest of your woodworking products program. Maybe you can consider it to be like your lathe, and so is such an essential to your work that it transcends the question of "handmade or not". Hang in there Bob! Skip Mercy Bob;

Sorry to hear that! Actually, it seems you are in with some pretty good company on that particular tool. It might enable you to increase production while maintaining quality or improving it. Thereby “enabling” the rest of your woodworking products program.

Maybe you can consider it to be like your lathe, and so is such an essential to your work that it transcends the question of “handmade or not”.

Hang in there Bob!

Skip

]]> By: BobStrawn http://toolmakingart.com/2009/01/07/the-path-to-hand-tool-use/comment-page-1/#comment-321 BobStrawn Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:40:06 +0000 http://toolmakingart.com/?p=666#comment-321 While my path into tools was one of creation, the justification for tool acquisition was part of the urge of creation. I just saw a tool in person that I don't think I can resist. I also don't think I could make it for less that the price it is being sold for. As it is beyond my immediate means, I am afraid that I am going to have to go a bit commercial on my craftsmanship. The tool, the dream tool, the tool I must have, is the JM-P Jointmaker Pro by www.bridgecitytools.com Sad that my tool purity only took $1295 plus $59 shipping to break. So now I have to decide where to sell out. I do have a few requests out there, I like to honor them to keep my hand in the ring at times, but quick cash is the question. Mesquite Gun stocks are pretty easy. Hexagonal tool boxes are fun and I have a tentative request for one. I have a few chisel orders, but I don't charge enough for them to match up. I think the low hanging fruit will be an easy infill kit. I have been looking at hand router planes and plow planes. I think an easy infill plow with a range of 'teeth' might be the answer. Alas for my days of innocence before the Bridge City Tool Works Demo at the Lie-Nelson Toll Event corrupted my pure woodworking soul. Yes, Skip, I have been seduced by a tool made by someone else. Bob While my path into tools was one of creation, the justification for tool acquisition was part of the urge of creation.

I just saw a tool in person that I don’t think I can resist. I also don’t think I could make it for less that the price it is being sold for. As it is beyond my immediate means, I am afraid that I am going to have to go a bit commercial on my craftsmanship.

The tool, the dream tool, the tool I must have, is the JM-P Jointmaker Pro by http://www.bridgecitytools.com

Sad that my tool purity only took $1295 plus $59 shipping to break.

So now I have to decide where to sell out.

I do have a few requests out there, I like to honor them to keep my hand in the ring at times, but quick cash is the question. Mesquite Gun stocks are pretty easy. Hexagonal tool boxes are fun and I have a tentative request for one. I have a few chisel orders, but I don’t charge enough for them to match up. I think the low hanging fruit will be an easy infill kit. I have been looking at hand router planes and plow planes. I think an easy infill plow with a range of ‘teeth’ might be the answer.

Alas for my days of innocence before the Bridge City Tool Works Demo at the Lie-Nelson Toll Event corrupted my pure woodworking soul.

Yes, Skip, I have been seduced by a tool made by someone else.

Bob

]]> By: Skip J. http://toolmakingart.com/2009/01/07/the-path-to-hand-tool-use/comment-page-1/#comment-320 Skip J. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:53:28 +0000 http://toolmakingart.com/?p=666#comment-320 Bob; I am one of those few (?) who were attracted to handtools first, and the practical application of them to wood is/was secondary. For 3 decades then (now 4 decades)I had primarily done (weekend chore) DIY projects with portable power tools (PPT). I had/have almost every PPT known to man (humans) in either Makita or Bosch quality. Additional blades'n bits are also of good to better quality. The purpose then was to knock out chore projects as fast as possible, but with lasting quality. So a dissatisfaction was setting in - and also I was looking for something else than my previous one off-time interest - fishing. About 12 years ago I wound up with my FIL's Stanley #4 ('50's era)smooth plane after he passed away. At that time my only handtools were a couple of moderately priced handsaws. That launched me on a book/magazine reading research phase to tune it up and learn how to use it. After working on it several years a little at a time - I took my first wispy shaving. The crowning moment came when I realized I was improving it beyond it's "new" condition to a level that my FIL never experienced himself when he used it. It's been all downhill since then.... Skip Bob;

I am one of those few (?) who were attracted to handtools first, and the practical application of them to wood is/was secondary. For 3 decades then (now 4 decades)I had primarily done (weekend chore) DIY projects with portable power tools (PPT). I had/have almost every PPT known to man (humans) in either Makita or Bosch quality. Additional blades’n bits are also of good to better quality. The purpose then was to knock out chore projects as fast as possible, but with lasting quality.

So a dissatisfaction was setting in – and also I was looking for something else than my previous one off-time interest – fishing. About 12 years ago I wound up with my FIL’s Stanley #4 (’50’s era)smooth plane after he passed away. At that time my only handtools were a couple of moderately priced handsaws. That launched me on a book/magazine reading research phase to tune it up and learn how to use it. After working on it several years a little at a time – I took my first wispy shaving. The crowning moment came when I realized I was improving it beyond it’s “new” condition to a level that my FIL never experienced himself when he used it.

It’s been all downhill since then….
Skip

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