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you've decided that you want to try woodworking as a hobby that's great it's a lot of fun and you can make furniture for your house maybe down the road you can even make money at it I love it it's a great hobby so how do you get started well you could go down to the store and buy a bunch of power tools and that's a totally legitimate way to get going with woodworking that's how I got started but if I were going to start over again from scratch I'd probably go a different direction I'd get a handful of good hand tools and start that way hand tools are small and they're clean and they're pretty safe you're unlikely to cut off one of your fingers while you're still figuring things out so what should we start with chisels saws how about a plane planes are good why don't we get a hand plane okay so I went on the internet and I searched for hand planes and this is what I found look at that it it's beautiful it's Precision engineered it's beautifully machined it's got really nice wood yeah I think that's the one I think I'm going to go ahead and buy that as my first plane how much is it Jesus Christ really oh um I I just don't have that kind of money sitting around especially to spend on one hand tool I just can't do it just got to got to be a better kicking around and a lot of us don't there's really only one way to get started by old vintage tools and fix them up I've been doing it for years and I've got a big collection of tools that work well and are reliable now you're probably thinking okay I don't have to spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars on each tool but how much money do I need to spend I don't think you need to spend very much in fact I think we can put together a really solid Kit full of hand tools for $100 I know that doesn't sound like a lot of money and I'm not even totally sure we can do it but I think we can here let me show you an example so this is the first hand plane that I ever bought I paid $5 for it it's a jack a number five the exact same size as that fancy plane I showed you in the beginning of the video now it's old it's probably about 100 years old it's a little bit beat up it's got some rust on it some dings things like that and when I first bought it it was in bad shape and I had to restore it pretty carefully but again it was only five bucks now plane like this even after I've restored it is it as good as that super fancy Precision engineered plane no it's not but it is a really good tool how's it [Music] work it works really well now this was five bucks and you might think oh that's just a fluke you can't get planes for $5 every day well this is the next Jack plane that I bought that I also paid $5 for and this is the next one that I bought and I paid $2 for this one seriously two bucks so with deals like this $5 Jack plane sitting around getting together a whole set of woodworking tools for $100 seems doable now there are a couple things I should say about this first if you're going to go this route you need to really enjoy going to places like tag sales estate sales flea markets and antique stores because you're going to be rumaging around in Old boxes full of junk and then haggling over it trying to get a good price now for me that part's easy I really like junk and I enjoy negotiating the other thing is that this is an approach for people who have more time than money you can buy every single woodworking tool you need used for cheap but it's not going to happen quickly it probably took me a year or a year and a half to get a whole set of hand tools together the good news is you don't need very many tools to start doing your first project get a couple of chisels a plane and a couple of saws and you can build your own bench a stool small table boxes all sorts of fun stuff and you can leave the more specialized tools for later you also are going to have to learn about restoring tools now a lot of Woodworkers say things like oh I don't want to mess around with tools I just want to get to The Woodworking well I don't really agree with that theory for one thing I think working on tools is fun I just enjoy it another thing is you get to learn a ton of useful skills like metal working getting parts to fit together finding replacement parts all of that stuff it's really useful and on top of that once you've restored a tool from the ground up there's nothing about that that tool that's going to be a mystery to you you'll know every single part and so if something goes wrong it'll be easy to fix when you buy a fancy new tool you might be afraid to even adjust it or change something about it if you've only spent a couple of bucks on something why not modify it or try to make it work better you've got nothing to lose the last thing I want to mention is buying used tools can be easier or harder depending on where you live some parts of the country just don't have a ton of old used tools around but that being said I've bought really good tools at good prices in Connecticut Florida California Ohio and Pennsylvania so a lot of parts of America are filled with good old tools that you can pick up for a reasonable price now I really want to talk more about hand planes because they're one of my favorite tools but they're a complicated topic and I'm probably going to have to do a few videos on that in the interest of getting started right away let's talk about the spoke shave if you've never used one before the spoke shave is a versatile and simple tool it PLS curves it does chamfers on straight work or curved work and it also lets you shave square or rectangular pieces of wood down to round so you can make tool handles or chair legs without even having a lathe all you need is your spoke shave when you're first getting started you really only need one spoke shave me I've got one two three four of them because honestly I'm kind of a hoarder but these were also really inexpensive they cost me $5 $3 $8 and a dollar and frankly for a buck I'll take it now there's two models that you're going to find most of the time and that's the Stanley 51 and the Stanley 151 this is the 51 right here and you can see it's very very basic it's a blade a cap iron and a cast iron set of handles and sole you can find these everywhere they're really inexpensive and they work fine I like mine a lot the other one that you're going to find a lot is the 151 now it's exactly the same as the 51 except that it's got these two height adjustment screws that let you fine-tune the blade especially without loosening the lever cap too much this is the one that I prefer and I bought this one in a crate at a flea market for three bucks it served me really well especially at that price lots of companies made spoke shaves so for instance there's this one over here I have no idea who made it because there's no Makers Mark anywhere on it but it's the exact same thing blade lever cap cast iron handles and a sole now you might want some advice on buying these but honestly with so few parts there's not much to know if it's got a blade a cap handles and there are no empty screw holes or anything like that you're probably good you should check to make sure it's not super Rusty although most of them are going to be a bit Rusty and that's not really a big deal so I think you could probably go out to your local antique mall poke around find one of these I think around $5 is probably a good amount of money and then you've got your first tool so that's everything you need to know to get started hand tools are out there they're cheap and there's a lot of them so take $5 and go get yourself a Spoke shave next time we'll talk about hand planes thanks for watching