Maybe this topic has been discussed a lot, but I'm not sure of a key word to use in searching.
I am reading Sobon's "Build a Classic Timber-Framed House". On p. 78 ff. he discusses hand vs. power tools. I think his book is oriented toward a less-expensive and a simpler way of building these structures, and not toward an industrialized way.
So, he makes the point that hand tools are not necessarily harder work. "Once you are accustomed...you will find that they work well and that the work is not hard." Good. Glad to hear it. Now, my question:
He writes: "There are many new power tools for timber framing, but too often the joinery is redesigned to enable the joints to be cut with those tools, and then these power tools are not doing traditional joinery." So, what do you think? Is the field changing? Are power tools displacing hand tools at the workshops, and among the companies that do timber framing for a living?
