Originally Posted by
Winton Applegate
I was going to just post my first comment as a light hearted nonsense for the fun of it.
I feel now, since I am going to post a second dead serious comment that may offend I need to clarify from the start. I hope I am not being too BAD. And keep in mind your time fixing up these (fixer uppers) and the price of buying several of the maybe / maybe not inferior tools especially hand planes searching for something that does the job.
comment #1
You can’t do woodworking with an iPhone no matter what app you have or your sharpening techniques.
Kidding, kidding
I have made some nice wood projects with my iPhone.
but
I still prefer my rock.
Comment #2
Woodworking is EXPENSIVE (though cheeper than keeping a Ferrari). Real tools, in my experience, cost serious bank (though since I didn't waste that four thousand dollars on a REAL electric powered cabinet saw that I didn't need (though I still admire them and dream) I feel I am ahead by that much so hand tools are practically free especially when spread out over the years.
I make very little in comparison to most people and I buy some of the higher end stuff. I would in all seriousness implore you to reevaluate your stand on "expensive" "out of reach" hand tools.
A case in point I see all the time when it comes to an automobile repair people will pay three hundred dollars for an emergency brake cable (park brake cable actually) for one of many examples and not bat an eye not to mention the hundred dollar charge to install it etc.
And yet, and yet and yet . . .
when it comes to a two or three hundred dollar handsaw that they will have after the car with the park brake cable is gone and forgotten and will be a key tool in most projects (projects that could very well replace months or years of counseling and therapy (we all know what that costs)(well I don't but any way) . . .
or at least save their sanity until the shrink can get the net on them . .
they bridle. Too expensive they say.
Unless some poor little guy in flip flops in a third world country who is getting beat with a stick and forced to make the tools in twelve hour shifts is getting paid zip the tool cost too much . . .
is that it ? . . .
. . . OK . . . I'm done . . . I feel better . . .