Comments on: How Hand Tools Made Me a Better Power-tool Woodworker http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/how-hand-tools-made-me-a-better-power-tool-woodworker Woodworking advice, woodworking plans, woodworking projects and woodworking blogs Sat, 25 May 2013 03:30:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: B.Rosshttp://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/how-hand-tools-made-me-a-better-power-tool-woodworker/comment-page-1#comment-18948 B.Ross Tue, 03 May 2011 15:34:40 +0000 http://www.popularwoodworking.com/?p=104754#comment-18948 Amen to that brother. I have long ago figured out that in order to move forward in wood working, some times you have to move backwards (in time). Hand tools allow you to do more woodWORKING, rather than setting up a jig for an hour to do two minutes of actual woodwork.

]]> By: BLZeebubhttp://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/how-hand-tools-made-me-a-better-power-tool-woodworker/comment-page-1#comment-18947 BLZeebub Tue, 03 May 2011 10:20:55 +0000 http://www.popularwoodworking.com/?p=104754#comment-18947 Yours is exactly the notion I peruse. If I can do it by hand within a given time frame then there I go. I only make a jig if: 1) if there are safety concerns, 2) if there are going to be multiples, 3) if I really need to “machine” the part exactimundo to save time. Otherwise, I’d rather do it by hand while “Kind of Blue” wafts through the rafters of my shop.

As always,
BL

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