I don't totally eschew power tool, I've got a shop full of expensive INCA power tools from my furniture days, I just prefer the handwork more now, especially since I'm not under production pressures, or in a race to finish by some arbitrary time limit I've set. I use my trusty band saw to rough out a blank, mostly because it wastes very little of an expensive 9 or 10/4 slab, and I save those cutoff wastes for other projects. Roughing out a blank with chisels, an adz, or even rough straight cuts with a hand saw just leaves chip$$. And, of course, I use a drill press or my toolroom lathe for drilling both wood and metal, and making/forming metal parts. But for me at least, using hand tools for most of the wood work is very relaxing and does wonders to de-stress. If I were building for other folks, I might have to do things differently, but then I don't think it would be "fun" anymore. My hat's off to Mike, Rich, and the rest of you guys that do this for a living, or as at least a major contributor to your income and may have several (dozen?) projects going at any time. Gotta also give kudos to the old-time smiths that were pupming out many front stuffers a year to make a living, and doing it with all hand-tools. I'm pretty sure had routers, tablesaws, profilers been available back then, they would have certainly been using them.