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September 5, 2023

A Tool Nerd’s Dream – Lee Valley & Veritas Manufacturing Plant Tour

Filed under: Business, Cancon, Tools, Woodworking — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

Bat Cave Creations
Published 29 Apr 2023

In this video we tour the Lee Valley & Veritas Manufacturing Plant. We get to see how Planes, Chisels, Tenon Cutters, and Drill Bits are made. This tour made me appreciate these amazing tools and hand planes even more!
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August 30, 2023

Making A Quick Rebate | Paul Sellers

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Paul Sellers
Published 21 Apr 2023

Life can be simple with a few hand skills and a handful of very ordinary woodworking hand tools. Watch me and see if you couldn’t do this yourself. We try to make everything as simple as we can, and I don’t think this could be simpler.

Enjoy, and start making for a better life!
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August 4, 2023

What Does A Smoothing Plane Do? | Paul Sellers

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Paul Sellers
Published 7 Apr 2023

We live in an age when fewer and fewer people will ever use a hand plane and may never even see one in use. This super-short video shows how and why we woodworkers still use and rely on hand planes today. They are fast and effective and they reduce the need for sandpaper too because the wood comes out super-smooth and level.
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July 27, 2023

“Harvesting” Green Wood from the Side of the Road

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Rex Krueger
Published 26 Jul 2023

It’s just cutting up wood. Right?
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July 13, 2023

This “simple” bench made me humble when I tried to build it

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Rex Krueger
Published 12 Jul 2023

It’s just nails and pine, but this piece was full of tricks.
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Praise for the #151 Flat-Bottomed Spokeshave | Paul Sellers

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Paul Sellers
Published 10 Feb 2023

It’s easy to underestimate the value of the #151 spokeshave, no matter the maker. But these simple tools work amazingly for a wide range of woodworking tasks, and you only need the flat-bottomed version as it will work equally well for both convex and concave surfaces.

With this video, see just how versatile the flat-bottomed spokeshave is and why you should own one for your woodworking tasks that need shaping.
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June 22, 2023

How & When to Hammer Tap a Plane | Paul Sellers

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Paul Sellers
Published 10 Mar 2023

We tend to think that modern makers of metal and wooden planes have given us planes that are better adjusted with fine adjusters and therefore dismiss hammer-tapping for setting the plane.

In reality, hammer tapping is non-detrimental and, at the same time, simplifies the setting on many planes.

I use this even on planes that have adjusters. Just because hammer tapping is so effective and immediate. Watch me and you will see what I mean.
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June 16, 2023

This simple piece of steel is BETTER than a tail-vise. Installs in seconds

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Rex Krueger
Published 15 Jun 2023

The Compass Rose Ready-Set Planing Stop is fast, easy, and affordable.
Get Yours Today! https://www.compassrosetools.com/stor…
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June 12, 2023

How to make a Wall Shelf | Episode 3

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Paul Sellers
Published 27 Jan 2023

This is truly an action-packed episode, with so much teaching on various techniques passed down through the years but mostly lost to upcoming generations. From saw stop-cuts to planing and shaping with spokeshaves, planes, rasps, and files, we include many strategies for you to learn from.

From these final fitting and shaping stages, we walk you through the glue-up phase so that every joint seats perfectly, because there is more to clamping a project than just tightening the screw thread and hoping for the best. We want the project to be dead square when the glue is dry, and clamps can indeed clamp a project out of square.

Our way is the proven way used by centuries of crafting artisans.
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June 9, 2023

This BEAUTIFUL vintage plane was a DIY Kit??? | Tool Stories

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Rex Krueger
Published 8 Jun 2023

How was this infill plane made? And who made it? And why!?
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June 1, 2023

How to Make a Wall Shelf | Episode 2

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Paul Sellers
Published 20 Jan 2023

With all the housing dadoes completed and the main body together, we must cut the middle shelf to length and determine the shoulder lines for the stepped part of the stepped housing dado joint.

The practicalities ensure that all of the shoulder lines close up perfectly. The patterns we use are important to a wide range of other projects, so learning them now aids us in establishing patterns of construction.

These joints are used in a wide range of shelving units, ranging from bookshelves to toy storage and many other projects. The unit we build here has three types of commonly used housing dado, and the joints we consider mostly as the bookshelf joints.

That said, it can be used for toy boxes and firewood boxes, but we also use it in drawer making too.
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May 25, 2023

Fix Your Hand Plane Problems by “Reading” Your Shavings

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Rex Krueger
Published 24 May 2023

Bad cut? No cut? Tracks? Tearout? Your shavings can tell you what’s wrong.
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May 19, 2023

I Built Three Moravian Stools to Find the Best Design

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Rex Krueger
Published 18 May 2023

I can’t stop making these stools … but I’ve found the best ways to make one.
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May 11, 2023

This 100 Year Old Bench Should Have Fallen Apart

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Rex Krueger
Published 10 May 2023

This old bench changes everything I thought I knew about building furniture.
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May 10, 2023

How to Make a Wall Shelf | Episode 1

Filed under: Tools, Woodworking — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

Paul Sellers
Published 13 Jan 2023

This was one of Paul’s first teaching and training projects he developed specifically for his hands-on classes for early woodworkers to start on. That was in the early 1990s, so 30 years ago, and many a thousand students have made it to learn about shelf making.

The goal is the mastery of accuracy using sharp tools to develop two types of housing dadoes, the stopped and the stepped.

This video gives the first woodworking joint most woodworkers start with and shows how to get a snug fit every time.
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