What are your favorite hand tools?

[Lord Nibbo]

My Clifton #3, #6 and #7 and my Wenzloff dovetail and matching cross-cut saw.

Cheers :wink:

Paul

Not the Veritas scraper plane then Paul? :shock:

Well I've gone the route of many just starting with a scraper blade, then on to one of these

then progressing to the stanley design but still a veritas

Finally ending up with total perfection with

It just amazes me how good it does the job, no burnt or aching thumbs, pure joy to use.
:lol:

 

[frugal]

For me the tools I really enjoy using when I pick them up are the LN block plane, Veritas dovetail saw and a relatively cheap japanese saw from Tilgear.

 

[ByronBlack]

My 4" engineers square and japanese marking knife - helps me have very accurate layout.

Yes, but do they make your heart sing when you pick them up to use.:wink:

I also use engineering tools for measuring and marking but they are just tools.

Actually, the marking knife does. I've had so many ill-fitting ones, or ones that are not suitable, that I reach for it anytime I need an accurate line.

It used to be AI chisels, buy they broke so I'm not super-happy with them now.

 

[yetloh]

Any of my planes but especially the new LV NX60 block, japanese chisels and the tiny Japanese chamfer plane I got from Dick - magic.

I know what Grinding One meant about the Festool sander with extraction; it's amazing but nothing that noisy can be a true joy.

Jim

 

[Paul Chapman]

My Clifton #3, #6 and #7 and my Wenzloff dovetail and matching cross-cut saw.

Cheers :wink:

Paul

Not the Veritas scraper plane then Paul? :shock:

That would come next, together with the #80 style Veritas scraper

Cheers :wink:

Paul