Little details that make the big difference. 👍

Great tips as a new woodworker I thank you for sharing your knowledge

Wow, this is amazing.

The great Paul Sellers will tell you that you absolutely should be storing your block plane with the blade down, just as you are doing. And his word is gold.

I have one of those old Stanley smoothing planes, but it may as well be just for show. In 40 years I've never managed to ever get it adjusted right and several years ago I got an electric hand plane or jointer and just use it instead. I always thought the "block" plane was the smallest one...often they look like they use an old razor blade inside them and you could cup them in one hand. Then going up ya had bench, smoothing, jack and jointer planes. And yes, we used them in shop in school but I've never seen any of the rest of them since. I also prefer the Robertson type screwdriver and screws as they don't tend to cam out like phillips and slotted screws do. I grew up with crosscut and rip saws and always despised both of them and as soon as I was able to I got a skilsaw, jigsaw, etc. With handsaws I always invariably managed to jump out of the groove and scar up the board, or, even with a new saw I could bend the blade on the push stroke. I could always use a coping saw well though. And if I had had one, I bet I could have even bent a back saw, lol. I regularly blow out my outlets with compressed air from a 60 gallon compressor, especially since 90% of the outlets in my garage have the face horizontal instead of vertical. My air hose is on a self winding wheel as well mounted high up on my wall. The shop floor was finished with a push broom instead of a trowel. Yeah, it makes it hard to sweep but it also makes it very unlikely that you'll ever slip on it.