Post a picture of work made using Hand Tools.

[Bob Glenn]

Here's few of mine, with the hand tool proof.

[William Fretwell]

Built this 33 year' ago when I had NO tools! Scammed an old plane, brace drill and saw from a dead guy. Wedged the wood (Bludy Heavy Piranha Pine) onto Cotswold stone wall t' plane it, across t' wall t' saw it. Fitted the dowels wi m'e teeth. Inside rails ripped b'hand while beer drink'in folk sat'on wall and board!
Walk int' t' frame, it hurts, nere a shimmy! Crazy eavy, bootiful grain and patna.
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[John C Cox]

Does mostly made with hand tools count?
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[steven c newman]

Mainly hand tools.....could have been done 100%...COPD doesn't enough some things...
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Walnut table...Christmas present for the Boss's Pastor...

[Jason Dean]

This is the first thing I made with hand tools only (did some ripping with a bandsaw).

Osage/Walnut joiners mallet made from firewood.

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[Oskar Sedell]

Thanks Brian!

Jim: I agree, it's very obvious. Working on it

[John Schtrumpf]

A box for my crystolon stone.

[Ed Frie]

About a year ago I've made a large cutting board all with hand tools. Let me tell you that only a retired person (or someone with lot of free time) can do something like that because it takes a large amount of time. I've made one but it's the last one.

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I don't care how long that took you, it is drop-dead gorgeous. I always think about setting up a shop with no electricity allowed, not even lights or heating. I would use lanterns and wood stove. Then my wife says, "you'd never get anything done," and I quit thinking about it.

[allen long]

I don't care how long that took you, it is drop-dead gorgeous. I always think about setting up a shop with no electricity allowed, not even lights or heating. I would use lanterns and wood stove. Then my wife says, "you'd never get anything done," and I quit thinking about it.

You're right it is gorgeous. That bad boy is huge. Was it meant as a counter top? Or so Normand could carve up a whole side of beef on it?!!

[Normand Leblanc]

Thanks Ed and Allan. Here is some installed pictures.
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That's at my sister house.

[Derek Cohen]

Norman's, that is a really brilliant design. How did you arrange the pieces?

Regards from Perth

Derek

[Normand Leblanc]

I'm not in your category Derek, so thanks for the nice words.

I've assemble many strips, like 3 or 4 blocks x 2 ft long or so making sure that none of them were the same pattern. Then I cut them to the required length (the thickness of this cutting board).

Next step was to assemble those strips to achieve one complete row.

I've documented the process on my blog.
http://ancienscopeaux.ca/en/a-huge-cutting-board/

[Stew Hagerty]

I posted these in a thread of their own, but I figured I put them up here too. This is a Hall/Sofa Table that I made for a charity auction. It's made from Ash with a Pommele Makore Veneered center section, breadboard ends, floating top, and curved legs. I used the table saw to rough out the lumber and the band saw to cut the basic shape of the legs from a square blank. Everything else was done with hand tools.

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[steven c newman]

Table looks great! As for the Dungeon Shop..
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Pine, 5 drawer Chest of Drawers for shop storage. The box on top?
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Is a Poplar box I made to house the Stanley No. 45 that made a lot of the joints for both of these.
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To replace a OEM box that the USPS used as a soccer ball..box joints were by hand, as well.

[Kris Cook]

Last year I was working out of town, and the place I was staying had a small garage. I asked my local purveyor of WW tools for some ideas for a project I could build using hand tools. He suggested a tool chest. I used Mike Pekovich's design from FWW.

I bought milled lumber for the project, and the only power tool I took with me was a skill saw for cutting to rough length. I did have to thickness plane a couple of pieces by hand.

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The chest is back home now and most of the tools that fit in it went back into my wall-hanging chest. I do keep my mortising chisels in one of the drawers and well, my tool collection does seem to keep growing...

-Kris-