Post #248401 by tikigap on Fri, Aug 11, 2006 12:34 PM

On 2006-08-10 14:19, 4WDtiki wrote:
While the Arbortech looks great, and I want one, I think I will start with a single V-tool chisel, and see how much I can do with it. Then, maybe get a gouge or two, and eventually, go for the powertools!

That's the way I started too, and I use the hand tools lots more than the power tools. It's good to have all tools ever made, if you can a ford em (get it? A foredom? :wink:).

Benzart said (in a previous post somewhere) that power tools are fair game because anything you can use to remove lots of wood (when necessary) is good. Purists disagree somewhat, but someone else said in another post that if the ancients had power tools, they would be using them. Today's carvers in NZ and HI use power tools too.

It's all good in my book, but my book doesn't count. Use whatever whenever.