6/ For the list of WHICH hand tools, Christopher Schwartz is the go-to guy / small publisher. His list is here http://www.talkfestool.com/vb/woodworkers-cafe/4645-anarchists-tool-chest.html … taken from one of his excellent books, I think this one https://lostartpress.com/products/the-anarchists-tool-chest … Spend some time flipping through Lost Art Press book list >
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7/ There are a few (I forget exact titles) that are exercises that an apprentice / student would have done in the early 20th century. Work through those like a guitar student practicing chords, and you'll be 100x better at basic hand tool woodworking than almost anyone around.
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8/ Yes, power tools at HD are fine. We were discussing hand tools tho. Handplanes, mallets, chisels, marking gauges, etc.https://lostartpress.com/products/the-anarchists-tool-chest …
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9/ Read Fine Woodworking magazine for inspiration (though all of those techniques and results are years away from intro level). FWW is published by Taunton Press. I recommend pretty much all Taunton Press books.
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10/ One of the very very first things you'll need to build is a workbench to build everything else on. The Workbench Book provides tons to drool over. https://www.amazon.com/Workbench-Book-Craftsmans-Guide-Publishers/dp/0918804760/ …
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11/ But you'll want something simpler. Popular Woodworking (which Chris Schwartz edited before he left to do Lost Art Press mentioned earlier) has had several articles. Use the search feature.https://www.popularwoodworking.com
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12/ Do read up about benches IN GENERAL before you pick one. My biggest mistake was building a utility / handman bench with a machinist's vise mounted on one corner, like dad had, and then I ...couldn't figure out how to do woodworking. Later I realized I needed
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13/ a cabinetmaker's bench. This is what the Workbench Book mostly covers, and those are all ridiculously awesome and lasciviously beautiful, and each probably consume $700 of hardwood. I made mine out of cheap lumber for maybe $120 + vises.pic.twitter.com/utoxR8J8Zj
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14/ For tool storage, someday you'll want to build something beautiful. ...and until then, Harbor Freight toolchests are very good and pretty darned cheap. ...and until THEN milk crates and 5 gallon buckets are even cheaper.
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15/ that's enough for now ask me more questions later, if desired
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16/ Every person's first work bench is either (a) built while kneeling on the concrete floor, or (b) build using someone else's bench ...and 'b' is cheating! :Phttps://twitter.com/GregM410/status/1224781849093783552 …
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I have long wondered what the first blacksmith did without tools that have to be made by a blacksmith.
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I did (a) in grad school, and then had to abandon the bench when I moved to CA. It was cheap, but way better than the crappy not-at-all-woodworking benches my house’s prior owner built into the garage.
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