Introduction to Hand Tools - Welcome!

Host Steve Branam gives an overview on the materials covered in this six-part series and provides insight into the tools themselves. If you're interested in learning to work with hand tools, this video series is for you! Learn to use all the basic woodworking tools you'll need to build any sort of project. This series will go into detail about chisels, saws, hand planes, braces, spokeshaves, workbenches and workholding. You'll learn to sharpen the tools and turn lumber into precisely dimensioned and shaped parts, then join them with simple and fine joints such as rabbets, dadoes, mortise and tenons, and dovetails. To view all the parts of the series, follow this link: bit.ly/Intro_To_Hand_Tools_6part

[@StuartOverton]

The section on tool safety is one of the things I love about hand tools. They call them "hand tools" because you get to keep your hands! :D

[@ozzstars_cars]

This video is an excellent tutorial for anyone interested in woodworking. Nice job

[@johnlord8337]

My goodness! If events go south, I want you near me doing all the woodwork. Fantastic inventory of woodworking tools. Now if you have all the turning machines, you are a 1 man band. Most excellent!

[@kendehaas668]

Good basic information. I look forward to seeing more. Thanks

[@watermain48]

Great video Steve, thanks for sharing it.

[@MarceloFreitas70]

Thanks for the precious and important informations.

[@patricklenz5857]

I thought this is fantastic to lean from thank you very much. I am old but just going to be getting into detailed wood working Have along way to go will watch more to learn more Great video

[@colinfarrier3668]

Hi Steve, great video about starting with hand tools. I am a starting wood worker and I use both plywood and particle board for my projects. I have acquired several pallets and I recycle the wood for projects. I am unskilled in choosing 'real' wood but I don't fret about that. Colin in Northern Ireland.

[@BDM_PT]

Hi there from Portugal,
Nice Intro :D
Obrigado(Thanks)

[@linmccoy3814]

Good video, very helpfull😊

[@ruim53]

Well done

[@lad208]

I build mine just having a 18mm chisel a wood mallet that i make and a saw i don't have any tools to use bu't it's done actually i'm happy after my first workbench building, i love woodworking i'm 17y thanks for helpfull videos

[@bradschak]

The link to the series doesn't work. Has it been taken down?

[@acolon4617]

Great information but annoying excessive camera angle changes.

[@mailaloomy4219]

I have checked many woodworking plan sites. I think the instructions from Woodprix are the best.

[@zachmeyer2718]

500-1000 dollars? I’m sorry but I’ve spent maybe 300 dollars and have way more tools than I’ll ever need. I hit up garage sales, estate sales, and eBay

[@antonvierthaler]

Maybe the second question people might have: why the hell would you abuse hand tools by putting (cheap) yellow and green paint on it.

[@stochasmvid]

That's how I mark my tools so I can tell mine apart from someone else's when they get set down on a bench when I'm teaching or taking a class. I started doing that when I took a carving class, and everyone had identical tools. The most extreme version of that I ever saw was a lovely wooden spokeshave, completed spray painted pink. The other question I get is why I mark my tools with John Deere colors (which I hadn't realized). Because they stand out at a distance!

[@acrscott]

Over edited to the point of motion sickness. Remember when slide show software came out with all the sickening wipes, fades etc.....
One camera, one view and one take, do it like a skilled craftsmen would, warts and all.

[@fathimohammed6767]

why some woodworker love using hand tools than electric power tools that make work easy and fast?

[@christopherhill1685]

I think the answer to that generally differs from person to person. For me, I do love using hand tools. In many ways the are more efficient in certain aspects of woodworking. As an example. When I finish planing a surface, it's much smoother than anyone could hope for with sand paper. To the point where it becomes reflective in certain wood. Like a mirror. I also hand cut all of my joinery. Right there at the bench. It allows me to get the perfect fit each and every time. Many power tool woodworkers I know use their jigs and power equipment to cut their joinery but to me that gives too much uniformity and requires little to no skill or knowledge of wood. Instead it requires. Knowledge of the machine. I do actually us both hand tools and power equipment. Though I pretty much only use a jointer and a band saw to square stock and dimension stock before ultimately migrating to my bench and using only hand tools to complete the project. I suppose for me I dont want it to be easy. I want it to take skill. I dont want to throw a board on a table saw and let the machine do the work. I want to look at the finished table and know that I did that work. I cut those joints. In order to use hand tools you have to have a basic understanding of the tool but a relatively in depth understanding of the wood. You have to know material. Understand the grain patterns. A common thought for me is how successful of a woodworker could I be without electricity. Do I have to depend on a machine to RIP an 8 foot board to size down its length? Not I simply reach for my 5 ppi rip saw and cut a straight line where I need it. That's just my own two cents though. Different strokes for different folks as they say. There is nothing wrong with using power tools, though I do think they are making it easier for people to always take the easier route. People using pocket holes as "joinery" instead of a mortise and tenon. I do think it's more common for a production shop to use power tools and it's more understandable. I make custom furniture to order no two things I make are the same. If I sell a chair design to an individual then I wont sell the same design to someone else. I'm never reproducing the same exact thing.