Changing Course
In another blog I was starting, it was focused on building a boat. I have been interested in that for some time. In 2017, I got a old canoe and began to modify that. I had a few power tools like a skill saw, jig saw, drill, and I purchased a random-orbital sander to do the modifications I was working on. I had very few traditional hand tools. At one point I decided to make some oars. I used a rasp, spoke shave, and very cheap block plane to make some oars. I am proud of my 7' oars! :) Not long after that, I experienced a career change that took me to Europe and I left behind many of the "power hand tools" I had acquired. Really, there wasn't that many! They also were not very good! In the summer of 2020, as COVID measures were starting to lift, I got the hankering to build a boat. Of course, I needed tools. I was still very much in the mind-set of power tools. I really wanted a table saw, band saw, etc... but ...