  The lattice QCD field is currently undergoing a revolution in the manner in
which improvements of the approach are being implemented. We are examining the
utility of order-a^2-improved tadpole-improved actions for the light fermion
sector. The masses of the low-lying hadrons are calculated using the
order-a^2-improved gluon action and the order-a^2-improved 2-link fermion
action of Hamber and Wu with further tadpole improvement. Initial results on a
6^3 x 12 lattice at beta = 6.25 and a 10^3 x 16 lattice at beta = 7.0 are
presented. The corresponding lattice spacings are approximately 0.40 fm and
0.24 fm respectively. These lattices provide a constant volume in which the
scaling of observables is assessed.
