Hand tool virus. Is it terminal or do people recover?

**DomAU** · 1st April 2017, 09:23 AM

Originally Posted by Wigwood

Hand tools are only the beginning �� You have a lot of "viruses" to catch yet my friend. For example the "lets collect lots of nice wood and never dare use it for a project" virus or the "build the perfect work bench" virus or the "jig building" virus or the sad but never happy "perfect sharpening system" virus, then you can't get past the "I need a lathe" virus and then the worst virus of all (expensive) the "Festool" virus.......sorry to say my fellow woody, the hand tool virus has just the begging! P.s. Have you caught the " I can by cheap hand plans on eBay an fix them up" virus! You are not alone, every single one of us have caught many " viruses"

Haha. All very true! I have definitely had symptoms of most of these already! The Festool virus has come and gone already for me along with the initial power-tool sickness, leaving a few financial scars, although I think I still need to get a Kapex to be rid of it completely! I literally just went through another bout of the "sharpening" virus and built a portable sharpening station & put away my jigs to sharpen freehand (really liking it so far and much much quicker with just as good results!).
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The wood hoarding virus I've really tried to fight by just getting stuck-in and making stuff without worrying about ruining good timber although I certainly had a reluctance to use any of my good-stuff initially (and I still haven't touched my Huon Pine stash!) And it's funny you mention the lathe virus, because that has also been on my mind recently when I wanted to make some nicer handles etc for my rasps... (using a metal working lathe occasionally for this - not ideal).

It's also funny that Robson Valley mentions it, because I am planning on buying a Pfeil 12 piece carving set to give wood carving a go in the very near future; didn't realise that was a virus all of it's own!

Then a HNT Gordon moving fillister... side rebbate planes... moulding planes... OMG I'm in trouble.

**Christos** · 7th April 2017, 11:39 PM

Originally Posted by DomAU

..... And it's funny you mention the lathe virus, because that has also been on my mind recently when I wanted to make some nicer handles etc for my rasps....

This is not so bad as you can pretty much make things round using hand planes, spoke shave and files.

I say this as the lathe that I had was not long enough and my wife wanted to make a few hat stands. We did not have a spoke shave so files were used in the final shaping. She made three.

**ian** · 8th April 2017, 04:34 AM

what size / grade of file did she use?

**Robson Valley** · 8th April 2017, 06:23 AM

Wood supply
By some odd twist of fate, I carve only what I see in the wood. I might walk past a block for years then see what's in it.
Other times, it's just a matter of minutes. The result is that I need to have a lot of wood to look at.
There are 3 piles of significance in my shop (posts, beams and 15kg blocks). Two such piles in another room.
Out the back but out of the weather are 2 more piles.
I'm thinking that the split and roughed stuff of started carvings is another pile.

**Sawdust Maker** · 9th April 2017, 10:31 AM

Originally Posted by Christos

This is not so bad as you can pretty much make things round using hand planes, spoke shave and files.

I say this as the lathe that I had was not long enough and my wife wanted to make a few hat stands. We did not have a spoke shave so files were used in the final shaping. She made three.

you need an extension bed or two!

**ian** · 9th April 2017, 01:43 PM

Originally Posted by DomAU

I suspected I had a problem when this all arrived within about a fortnight...
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Now that is an impressive "starter" set

**DomAU** · 9th April 2017, 02:01 PM

Reminds me of those TV shows I watched as a kid that would give away a large prize-pack of toys. Always dreamed of winning one of those haha.

**Christos** · 12th April 2017, 06:53 AM

Originally Posted by ian

what size / grade of file did she use?

At the time I had a couple of those $2 files and a couple of those mircoplanes that are used to zest a lemon skin. These were picked up from Aldi when they had them.

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