Lots of interesting responses. Files, hammers, punches, chisels and hacksaws are tools, not machines. I'd probably even include drill presses as tools. After all, they were powered by hand long before electric motors came along. Using milling machines(that's why they're called machines), lathes and other obvious machines for the major part of the work make calling an item "hand made" simply B.S., IMO.
Thank you for your thoughts,

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