OH What pleasure

Welcome to the club Derek, its a great feeling isnt..........just make sure you dont over do things...........its possible to get so excited that you end up planing the bench!!

Marc

Derek

 

Too much like hard work, Planing up the tapered legs was more than enough hand planing for me, mind you it was with a little bullnose plane, dont have many hand tools left.

 

As to what gives me pleasure, Anything thats fun !  particularly when i finally work out how to do something.

 

Ralph

Sparky

Still got a whole bench   



Ralph

 

So you went that route with the legs just posted my side table base in my gallery (must stop calling it that ALBUMS now)

Did the taper on the outside only, next is the drawer so better brush up on dovetails ? havnt cut any for ??????  cant remember when the last time was

Ralph.

For me it's using a plough/rebate/combination plane.

Yes routers are quick and make easy work of multiple items, but they are noisy, require extraction and you spend 90% of your time cutting, shaping and preparing jigs, then trialing it on a scrap piece - and even then they wander off course!

A few quick measurements on a plough plane and with a good sharp blade you have a perfect groove in no time, and lots of satisfying shavings on the floor.

 

Oh, and vertically paring end-grain with a very very sharp chisel. Cruuuuuuuuuuunch thunk, cruuuuuuuuunch thunk, cruuuuuuuunch thunk. 

 

Lovely.

 

Conor (need to lay off the coffee in the morning) 

My favourites are pushing together a decent hand-made joint..........or belting a seasoned oak peg into a green oak joint and watching it pull up tight. Sharpening my pencil first thing in the morning with a razor-sharp chisel.........or free-hand chiselling a stop detail on the end of a chamfer. Paring a tenon with a big chisel. Its quite a long list!!!

 

Mind you, there is also quite a long list of tasks that are nothing more than tedious chores!! Cleaning-up work the day after a glue-up, re-setting the plane after sharpening the blade, trying to retrieve the router cutter that falls through one of the dog-holes and ends up behind the bench.........

 

Mike

 

My fave moments involve handtools and sharp blades. I just love the feeling of a well honed and used tool doing what it's best at. Planing a nice straight grained bit of timber has to be one of the nicest experiences. I like to listen to the wood as it's cut too, which kind of rules powertools out. 

There is one noisy exception though; and that's the moment a book-matched cut is finished on the bandsaw. I'm usually too excited at that point to switch the bandsaw off before checking out the mirrored grain pattern! 

What a great idea for a thread – nice one Derek.

I love hand sawing myself....nothing better than ripping down a 1" thick plank of oak with a freshly sharpened rip saw. I have to agree with mike for the second... whacking a peg into a draw bored mortice and tenon. Scrub planing is pretty satisfying as well, plus you get a good work out too

 

Richard

My favourite is planing a straight grained plank with a finely set SHARP plane and listening to the sound of the miron thick shavings coming off.

 

BTW How good is a 0.15 mm shaving? some are thinner but I cant measure them!

 

Toothy

Nice to see so many responses but then that is why we all enjoy woodworking so much

 

Thomas the table is complete that is the colour to match other furniture in my step daughters house

I find all woodworking a pleasure otherwise I wouldn't do it!

 

The best though is the first application of a newly sharpened tool - especially sawsfor me.  Chisels and gouges are sharpened routinely during use so are always sharp, or at least sharpish.  Saws are different - for me anyway.  The deterioration in cutting with a saw is gradual and hardley noticed until you eventually realise that it you doing the work and not the saw!  The differenece when you sharpen it is wonderful!!!!

 

It is also a great pleasure to see any project completed.

 

Richard

I'm a mechanical fitter by trade and usually work in metal. 
But woodwork is my hobby and I like to buy the best quality wood possible for a job then
"go into production" with home-made jigs for my  table saw and router - spending ages setting them up for the highest  precision job.
Using power tools as much as possible.
The only snag is my missus dropped her vacuum cleaner down the stairs and until we buy another I'm doing all the cleaning with my Makita dust extractor [it's too heavy for the old girl!]
Shoggy