The best approach to woodworking for beginners, is to keep your tools to a minimum.
Before diving in to your first project, you’ll want to build up confidence at some basic skills with your hand tools. Keeping your kit minimal means you’ll have better focus, and learn more quickly as a result.
The posts on this page are from Helen, written from a beginners perspective.
This is her journey as she gets started in woodworking with hand tools.
Over the past couple of weeks I've had to remind myself that's it's January. A few bright and mild days and a little chipping up in the trees had put that unmistakable hint of Spring in the air around here so I was almost pleased to see a thick blanket of frost...
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When I decided to start woodworking I chose do it with wooden planes. Perhaps this was heavily influenced by what Richard felt would be a good route to take, but also because I've always felt a great attraction towards them. Setting up a wooden hand plane is...
Yesterday I made my first hand cut dovetails. I've watched Richard cut dovetail joints over and over, and I've practiced cutting to my saw lines over even more. But I knew if I was left on my own, with just a few pointers, then I would still be about to make a mess of...
Spider-Man Senses Learning to woodwork with hand tools brings you a whole new awareness of your own senses. I feel like I'm a fairly co-ordinated person, used to doing tasks which require good control over your hands. But whenever I learn something new in woodworking...