Mastering Hand Tools

Mastering Hand Tools will introduce you to the basic hand tool skills to turn you into a woodworker equally comfortable in either the powered or hand tool world - and offer the best results from each world.

Host Christopher Schwarz starts off the video by asking the question, "Why use Hand Tools?" A fair question that he quickly answers by extolling the benefits of traditional woodworking tools - blended with some of the niceties of power tools.

Those benefits include a healthier work environment, fewer jigs and test cuts, and accuracy to within .001 in.

Watch along as Chris offers advice on selecting hand tools, shares tips for set-up and puts the tools to work.

Learn About: * Choosing and using marking knives and gauges and cutting gauges * Sharpening and using Jack planes and Smoothing planes * Selecting and using Handsaws and Rasps * The benefits of Braces and Hand Drills * and more about Chisels, Mallets, Scrapers and Router Planes