Working wood and woodworking

Anyone a wood-worker with 'traditional' hand planing skills?

I'm interested in learning how to plain (plane?) naturally felled lumber by hand but I'm not too sure what tools I would need to hunt for in an antique store, what they would be called, their purpose or what they look like. If I knew this information, I could sure youtube it! I would like to be able to make use of all the felled lumber I can find in stands around here, most of which is beautiful birch and ash. Most of it will be cured from sitting over the years and what's rotted will make a great firewood stack.

Does anyone know any of the information on tools/type/names/appearence/purpose?

Thanks!

There are some beautiful woods that grow on their own property. I like to start with rough cut lumber from local forests, but I'm too impatient to use entirely hand tools. You don't need to go searching for an antique store for tools because "Lee Valley" supplies a lot of the classic tools. You may want to order their catalogue, but they have a great website at [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.].

That would be called a Hand Plane , but to do rough wood you would be looking for a large one nd would need a scraper to remove the bark if it's still attached .Are you just removeing the aged wood to reveil the natural wood ? or are you actually planning on making it flat ?? Then you should look under "' Log Cabins "" they used all sorts of hand tools that I don't know the names to .From making it round to cutting and planeing .Hope that gives you a few ideas

Thanks guys! I looked up log cabin building and that did help a lot.

I want to be able to make my own rough lumber for aesthetic reasons, as well as being able to have that knowledge if it was ever needed in times of crisis

Great!