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woodworking-projects-using-only-hand-tools-windows Many thanks, beautifully written. The top will teach you how to plane and join boards into a wider panel which is probably one of the most fundamental of processes in furniture making. Very interesting stuff Larry, I always enjoy creative ways. I seek methods that are the most efficient and productive for the individual maker. Smaller than I would care to measure.

In any case they made some lovely simple furniture that made its mark on traditional American woodworking. The stool is sort of the cornerstone project for shaker furniture, and a good place to start. This is a fairly straightforward project. It requires some design and planning. It can be made in different sizes depending on how much space you have.

Shaker stools make a perfect gift for friends and family. Has a classic American feel. You want a simple project with a satisfying result.

Shaker stools are a great beginning project. This could be project two or even a first project. A simple project with a lot to offer for a learning hand tool woodworker. A frame is basic in construction, but demands exact measurements and perfect executions in order to fit together and look high quality. You can never have too many frames around the house and they make great gifts. A frame makes for a very good beginning project. Perfect your technique and grip. Very little required.

Just patience, careful measuring, and planning. There are many ways to make a frame with many different tools. Some woodworkers complete the job only with different hand planes. So, pick and choose what works best for you based on what you have.

These are some of the helpful videos and project write-ups that I found. This project is cheap, easy, and fun. It requires a decent amount of space to make.

Maybe make it outside! Small budget, weekend project. This project looks like a lot of fun. I think it would make a cool addition to any indoor space, but it makes a great outdoor chair as well. The two guys in the linked video do a very quick sticks job, and it looks like a lot of fun! Maybe find a friend to work with. A simple shelf, perfect for practicing your hand tool skills. Should take under an hour. Maybe make a few things for your house. None required.

This is a great first or second project. Only a few tools needed. You clearly own a few chisels—and you need a place to store them! Build yourself a present for your shop! If you already bought some chisel racks, then make it for a woodworker friend. Either way, this is a good project for you!

Probably not a first project since you seem, to have a few chisels laying around that need storing, but maybe project three or four. You have a decent amount of space to work with and a little collection of tools—and you need a place to put them! You have some time to dedicate to learning dovetail joinery. Maybe this is a gift, it can be used to hold garden tools or toys. Either way, this is a good simple project to undertake. Reclaimed and pallet wood is popular today but I urge you to avoid it on this first project.

You are adding a variable that could be avoided and could just lead to frustration. Challenge is good and it will improve your skills, but stock quality if not a challenge that I think the beginner should have to face when the cost per board is not that much different from Pine to Cherry or Walnut. That stuff is dirt cheap for a reason. Skip a couple trips to Starbucks and I bet you could easily cover the cost difference.

When choosing the wood for your project, choose it for the color you want to end up with. Make your life easier and plan to use a clear coat finish. Finishing is a skill unto itself and it is one more variable that can sour your experience.

These above concessions will severely limit what you build in your first trip out but that is the point. At the same time there are infinite variations that can come from this kind of blank slate project that allow for creative license.

If not during this first build, perhaps on the second or third build where you opt to add in some complexity. With these in mind I suggest the following projects. The top will teach you how to plane and join boards into a wider panel which is probably one of the most fundamental of processes in furniture making. Everybody could use a bookshelf. Focus on one that is but no more than 4 shelves. Anything taller and you add in complexity with working with longer stock.

You will get a bunch of experience gluing up panels and I would urge you to buy stock that is specifically narrower than your shelves to get this experience. You can choose to build the entire thing using dados or you could build it all with mortise and tenon joinery. Fix at least one shelf in the middle and make the rest adjustable or make them all fixed and increase the number of joints you have to cut thereby increasing the learning experience.

A bookshelf is really the perfect blank slate project and there are hundreds of directions you could go to embellish it from the basic carcass. This could be as simple as a dovetailed box that hangs on the wall or something that uses through tenons, miters, or even just dados and rabbets.

It will teach you to plane stock flat and square and possibly to glue up panels. It will teach you to make a box that is square and again will allow you to focus on single joint, repeated at least 4 times. A stool can be build with square joinery much like a box but often times these forms require angles off square and usually compound angles.

What you will find with hand tool work is that compound angles cuts are made exactly the same as square cuts. Layout the line and saw or plane to it. A stool can be built using nothing but mortise and tenons, or you could choose to make round tenons with wedges. You will also invariably need to glue up a panel for the seat and therefore get experience with another essential skill.

Or consider the iconic Shaker step stool which just comes down to dovetail work and making panels. This is the Woodworking Projects Using Only Hand Tools beauty of woodworking in that we can choose to build whatever we want and customize it however we want.

It is this freedom that excites so many of use about this craft and will keep pulling you back in. Once you have a project in mind and have scribbled out your napkin drawing and decided on a joint to use and dimensions to match where you will put it or on it, then and only then should you think about tools.

This is all. For example if I was making a bookcase using dados then I would seriously consider getting a router plane or if nothing else a cranked neck chisel to make things easier. If I choose a project that will be built with mortise and tenons then I would add a mortising gauge to make my layout repeatable. This is why worrying about tools is useless until you have a plan of attack ready to go.

In the end woodworking all comes down to a simple series a steps that add up to a finished project. Or you might be asking, do you need a bandsaw?

As a professional hand tool woodworker, Richard found hand tools to be the far more efficient solution for a one man workshop. Richard runs 'The English Woodworker' as an online resource and video education for those looking for a fuss free approach to building fine furniture by hand. Great post, Richard. Thicknessing is the most intimidating part for me and you just eased my mind considerably. Thanks Ilya, Yes, hand preparing can seem like a bit of a dark art.

I have a set of calipers in my shop. I think measurements are a crutch, a crutch that many of us rely on too much. But it takes a determined effort to throw away that crutch and walk on your own, without the yard stick or tape measure or calipers.

Many thanks, beautifully written. The need to seek perfection is a human condition and overcoming it is naturally difficult. Why not measure your bits once and engrave the dimension on it? It seems that in the USA you like to make things complicated with your gauge systems, screw numbers, bit numbers and dimensional lumber where the real dimensions are different, etc. Why not indicate the real dimension of things in imperial if you like it?

Truer words were never spoken sir. Had to look up nadgers to be sure I got the reference right. You know us colonials…. I recently made the switch from sighting horizontally down the length of the board with sticks or with naked eyeballs to sighting vertically down to the surface of the board.

I use a torpedo level first at one end of the board…. You can use two torpedo levels if you suffer from short term memory loss. Very interesting stuff Larry, I always enjoy creative ways. Two levels would work if the board is horizontal and the levels are accurate.

With one level, you just have to verify that the slope is the same and in the same direction. You must also take care that if extremity A of your level was pointing in one direction for the first measurement your shop door for instance , it points to the same direction for the measurement on the other end of the board.

With a single level, the only necessary quality of the level is Woodworking Projects Using Only Hand Tools University giving repeatable indications. I recently watched an online woodworker — who will remain nameless — measure a joint to what to me seemed like a insane degree of accuracy.

I have just finished making several pieces and the only measuring I did was to dimension the original stock. Mortise and tenon widths were taken from the width of the chisel and the size of the stock. As you say Richard — this woodworking not engineering.

A lot of sense spoken there Michael. Richard, Spot on truth with your post. I never saw him use any winding sticks because he did not own any, and his wood working projects still had very tight, uniform tolerances..

Everything woodworking he did was by standard measuring rulers,squares etc, and by eye and feel just as you do.

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