Hobbyman2 wrote:They should teach these things in shop class again,,even if it just reading about it . JMO
What shop class???
You are right, they should be taught in shop class but they will have to bring back shop classes first to do it.
I was taught old school. You were not allowed to touch a power tool until you had worked your way through a series of basic hand tools first. At the time I thought that was terrible.
But it was the right way.Near the end of the depression my father had apprenticed with a carpenter uncle of his (one of my favorite great uncles) and had just started up a small contracting business when his father's heart went south so he took over the farm and the construction work became secondary work. Then WW-II started and he spent the next 4 or 5 years testing aircraft engines 12-7 and farming. He didn't really have all that many tools but his most closely guarded hand tool was his smooth-plane. I still have it along with his block plane. They were the only planes he had.
A basic set of carpentry tools was pretty simple in those days. He did always insist on buying high quality tools for that work. A good cross-cut hand saw and a good rip-saw, a backsaw and a couple of keyhole saws. Those two planes, a bit brace and bits, a good framing square, a good hammer and a hatchet. A handful of other stuff and a carpenter's tool box to carry them in. He spent most of the rest of his life buying tools when he could. I have all of them and I have bought tools at a near fetish level from the time I was about 21.
I have a (rubber padded) shelf of planes but not as many as some tools. It's harder to catch a great bargain on good planes. While some tools draw little interest, collectors will almost fight over planes.
With all of the tools I have acquired over my 75 years I still do not own a full sized router plane. I only have a tiny brass one. I need to remedy that shortage very soon... It seems like every time I come across one they want 3 prices for it. Yeah, I could just go buy a new one but where's the fun in that.
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