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Interesting to hear opinions of "old" tools being next to worthless and slow , inefficient and inaccurate. I'm a professional woodworker with a shop full of equipment and I find properly set and proper use of hand tools to be way faster and more precision than lots of machine work. I have big equipment too. My son is wrapping up school and works with me now, he has been making commissioned pieces of his own since he was 15, started at 12-13, and he prefers almost all hand tools. He has just started to accept using one of the larger bandsaws to help rough out lumber especially resaw quicker. We can knock out dovetail boxes in less time it takes to set something up. If we're comparing that to commercial work which I've done for decades then ya you cant do that, but for quality heirloom pieces almost nothing can compare. McDonalds vs homemade!
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