The essential getting started hand tools your bench plane.
Woodworking with hand tools only. Setup your workshop tool storage. Buying hand tools for woodworking 1. I think working with hand tools can be a great place and a terrible place to start. I d say get a set of three chisels.
A no 5 jack with a couple of irons one iron s for coarse shavings and the other for smooth. To walk this fine line and land on the happy side of it one needs to be very specific about what they are building and have a clear plan in mind. It interested me when i read a bit of moxon s observations on planing. Buy a jack pla ne a jack handplane is a middle size bench plane i e.
What is a traditional woodworker. Understand buy the right hand tools learn which traditional woodworking hand tools you need to get started. Your set of chisels. Buy a block plane block.
Woodworking with hand tools only woodworking by hand is not engineering. Planes that are used so often that they are. Aim for too tight a tolerance with your thicknessing and you ll only be dismayed to see it has moved after you ve polished off your pot of tea.