I started drawing my first flower box with a pen, paper, and an old notebook I had left over from college that wasn’t entirely filled with notes about ancient Greece. A few hundred dollars lighter, I had my tools and set to working up my first project plan. Since I really wanted to get started, but I wasn’t fully committed to woodworking, I started with the list of 5 tools. A quick search returned a seemingly endless list of videos with titles like 5 Woodworking Tools for Beginners, 6 Essential Woodworking Tools for Beginners, 26 Basic Woodworking Tools for Beginners and so on. Livin’ On a PrayerĬompletely lost as to what tools I really needed, I looked to YouTube for help.

Before too long, you begin to feel like Bubba in Forest Gump rattling off shrimp recipes. Your options are a handsaw, bandsaw, circular saw, table saw, chainsaw, chop saw, miter saw… The cheapest option to start with is the handsaw, but then you get to decide if you need a back saw, fret saw, coping saw, jab saw, frame saw, hack saw, etc. Everywhere I look, I find a tool for this and a tool for that with multiple types of tools for this and that. Over the past year I have learned that the world of woodcraft is populated with more tools than there are trees in Georgia.

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