First published: 11 August 2021 @ 6:00 pm
So you’ve got a project that requires a bunch of intricate work. You are torn between buying new, expensive, but easy to operate machine tools or stick with you cheap hand tools that require more hard work.
The answer is easy: Use both!
In the world of woodworking, there are machine tools and hand tools. There are machines that will cut you wood and hand tools that will help you build it.
Both are important and should be used together. Here are several reasons on why you should use both tools when working on a woodwork project.
More Options
Machine tools and hand tools are not the same. You can’t just use a hand tool to cut a hole in your wood. They are designed for different purposes.
In fact, they are made differently as well. Hand tools have a variety of types and shapes for different tasks and tasks only. For example, a hacksaw is used to cut wood with a straight edge or curve on it while a table saw is used to cut through larger pieces of wood with an accurate line.
There are also many sizes of each tool to accommodate different jobs, depending on the size of the job that needs to be done.
So why use both? It’s because using both will give you more options when it comes to working on your project. If you have two different sizes of cutting tools, you can cut more than one size of wood at once or switch between them depending on what you need at the time.
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