Recent content by togster

As others have said, it depends on what kind of finish you want/use but some evening of the surface texture i generally required. On the 'hot thumbs' problem, in addition to the Stanley 80, L-N and Veritas offer full size bench scrapers. But a cheaper alternative for using your existing scraper...

One other thing to consider is how the chisel blades feel in the hand when you are using them for paring and vertical cuts. Some of the modern chisels with very thin dovetail sides can actually slice your fingers. The great Alan Peters had a solution to this which was to round over the 'front'...

Wow! What a fantastic bunch of replies - thank you very much indeed. These suggestions will come in very helpful, thank you. Mike has suggested that I should give an idea of my preferred styles and it struck me that it might be helpful to specify a bit more of "where I'm coming from" as it were...

This is my first ever post, so please be gentle with me! I wonder if anyone has recommendations for books on quality furniture projects to build using hand tools? I can find plenty of books on hand tools themselves and a few books on basic projects (using PAR pine and the like) using hand tools...