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r/handtools is a subreddit with 165k members. Its distinguishing qualities are that the community is huge in size, and has high activity.
A community for people interested in tools powered by naught but elbow grease.
Popular Themes in r/handtools
#1
Advice Requests
: "Bought at a thrift store. I think it's a putty knife, my dad thinks it's an ink spatula. What is it?"
5 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "First time restoring a hand plane"
3 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Ever go in to the workshop to work on a project… then just spend hours organizing & sharpening tools instead? 😂"
1 post
#4
Ideas
: "A chisel box I made... for my chisels. I inlaid neodymium magnets using a forstner bit and then cut thin pieces of the same size oak dowel. I didn't want the magnets to directly make contact with the chisels."
1 post
Popular Topics in r/handtools
#1
Plane
: "Stanley Plane Family Get Together: 1 to 10 1/2"
59 posts
#2
Restoration
: "Just finished one of my smaller tool Restorations: a vintage Henry Boker 3" long hand / jewelers vise (before and after pics)"
28 posts
#3
Saw
: "Saw this at a patternmaker’s house"
23 posts
#4
Hand
: "First time restoring a Hand plane"
21 posts
#5
Tool
: "What’s a Tool you considered a gimmick that turned out to be really useful?"
17 posts
#6
Sharpening
: "Ever go in to the workshop to work on a project… then just spend hours organizing & Sharpening tools instead? 😂"
13 posts
#7
Tools
: "Ever go in to the workshop to work on a project… then just spend hours organizing & sharpening Tools instead? 😂"
11 posts
#8
Dovetail
: "Been doing a bit of Dovetailing…"
8 posts
#9
Woodworking
: "Just restored and sharpened my grandad’s record routing plane. He’s given it to me"
8 posts
#10
Handle
: "I’m slowly working my way towards a full set of refurbed heads for a tool set, all Handled in ash made by me."
8 posts
Member Growth in r/handtools
Yearly
+19k members(13.0%)
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