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I pretty much only use hand tools and I construct things using traditional joinary. It is challenging on a lot of levels. Finding a design that works, the joints you choose, the order you alter each piece of wood and the skill in which you weild your tools.

It's hard. There are so many ways to get it wrong and it's obvious when you have. It's usually a fixable when you or cheap enough to do again, so it there is low pressure except from yourself to be good.

The basic skills are highly transferable so it makes sense to invest in yourself.

I find this combination suites my personality. I've been doing it for 7 years and love it just as much as when I started. Probably more.