Just curious: Does anyone work the whole way through using only hand tools? Meaning: felling the tree, turning it into lumber, milling, cutting, etc. etc. etc. to finished product without using any power tools?
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Some of the traditional woodcrafts do, like hurdle making or chair bodging. They mainly use coppiced sweet chestnut.
IanDG
These folks do. In fact, some of them even make their own flint tools for felling, roughing, and finishing,
http://www.primitivearcher.com/pages/aboutmag.html
Tom
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