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Hand tools produce little dust and noise, which makes them perfectly suited for

small, in-home spaces or for people who don’t want the constant din of motors

running. After spending 14 years in the Canadian Artillery, the last thing I want is

more noise.

Many worry about the learning curve associated with hand tools. But believe

me: If you can set up a router to cut a mortise you can use hand tools. What you

do need to do, however, is practice using them. But once you produce your first

gossamer-thin shaving with a well-tuned hand plane, you’ll find the time to make

more. And then you’ll no longer have to sand machine marks out of your projects.

I wonder if anyone thinks fondly about the next time they have to sand something?

I doubt it. Your family will miss you but they will know where to find you.

PROJECTS FOR THE SHOP

The projects in this book were selected to help you get into using hand tools.

There are jigs and fixtures, shop furniture, and storage projects that will help you

get started. Each project has its own set of skills that will add to your repertoire and

each skill is transferable to almost any other project you can dream up. The mortise

and tenon joint you cut for the saw bench and bent is the same joints you will use

time and time again to make furniture.

The other advantage to starting with shop projects is if they don’t turn out with

perfect-looking joinery, no one will see it but you. A small gap in a joint reveal or a

bit of planing tear-out can be tolerated in a shop project. The key is to learn from

those oopsies and do a better job next time.

Please note that this is not the only way to woodwork. This is the way I woodwork.

But I feel that my techniques will get you good results. The techniques and projects

in this book come right out of my own shop. These techniques are not new; in fact,

many of them are thousands of years old, though we all but abandoned them a

century ago when machines became all the rage.

Over years of practice I separated the wheat from chaff and have come up with

a way to woodwork that makes it easy and enjoyable. So let’s stop talking about

woodworking and head into the shop to make something.

In order to understand, you must do.