It’s time to take our plane out of the clamps, true the sole, and shape the body. While the plane dries, we’ll select our cross-pin and make an easy screw-cap that will go in place of the wedge. We’ll also spend a good bit of time fine-tuning the plane by working on the throat and smoothing out the screw-cap. We’ll also run the plane through its paces on both the edges and faces of boards to see how well it cuts. (Spoiler alert: it cuts really well.)
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In this lesson, I show you how to accurately prepare and carry out a glue up of a fine dovetail box. We cover pre-sanding, making glue blocks, and squaring up a skewed box in the clamps. There are a lot of valuable woodworking skills in this one so don’t miss it!
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My name is Matt Estlea, I’m a 23 year old Woodworker from Basingstoke in England and my aim is to make your woodworking less s***.
I come from 5 years tuition at Rycotewood Furniture Centre with a further 1 year working as an Artist in Residence at the Sylva Foundation. I now teach City and Guilds Furniture Making at Rycotewood as of September 2018.
I also had 5 years of experience working at Axminster Tools and Machinery where I helped customers with purchasing tools, demonstrated in stores and events, and gained extensive knowledge about a variety of tools and brands.
During the week, I film woodworking projects, tutorials, reviews and a viewer favourite ‘Tool Duel’ where I compare two competitive manufacturers tools against one another to find out which is best.
I like to have a laugh and my videos are quite fast paced BUT you will learn a lot, I assure you.
Lets go make a mess.
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In part 2 of our easy smoothing plane series, we shape the body, make the screw cap, place the cross-pin, and then shape the body all over again. Good times.
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Lots of people have trouble finding good handtools. Luckily, many quality tools can be made in the home shop. In this video, I’ll start showing you how to make a quality smoothing plane out of readily-available materials. We’ll cover the types of wooden plane and which one is best for the home woodworker. We’ll also make an excellent, hardened steel blade in about a half hour for less than $20. In my next video, I’ll build and shape the body and get the plane cutting.
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Matt Estlea Published on 22 Aug 2019
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In this video, I will show you how to adjust the fit of dovetails if you cannot fully assemble them. There are a few issues that can cause this, all of which I will cover in this video.
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My name is Matt Estlea, I’m a 23 year old Woodworker from Basingstoke in England and my aim is to make your woodworking less s***.
I come from 5 years tuition at Rycotewood Furniture Centre with a further 1 year working as an Artist in Residence at the Sylva Foundation. I now teach City and Guilds Furniture Making at Rycotewood as of September 2018.
I also had 5 years of experience working at Axminster Tools and Machinery where I helped customers with purchasing tools, demonstrated in stores and events, and gained extensive knowledge about a variety of tools and brands.
During the week, I film woodworking projects, tutorials, reviews and a viewer favourite ‘Tool Duel’ where I compare two competitive manufacturers tools against one another to find out which is best.
I like to have a laugh and my videos are quite fast paced BUT you will learn a lot, I assure you.
Lets go make a mess.
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The Bullnose plane is not a tool which would be classed as an “essential”, but it is certainly one which is worthy of an honourable mention. Though its best use is as a refining plane for rebates, Paul often reaches for it for a variety of tasks, such as removing internal arrises on drawers and box-type parts. In this video Paul demonstrates the plane’s adaptable functionality. Once set up, the plane can be a joy to use when perfecting work and would be a great addition to any tool collection.
You might need a transparent component in your next project, or you might need a material that slides or bends better than wood. May I suggest acrylic? It’s clearer than glass, is impervious to humidity, and it’s flexible. It’s also cheap, so it might make a good addition to your next project. Now, you can buy a bunch of fancy new tools for working with acrylic, or you can learn how to use standard woodworking tools to cut and shape acrylic sheet. In this video, I’ll show you how to do just that.
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In this video, I show you exactly how to cut out the sockets all the way from saw placement on the initial cuts. to refining the internal walls for a precise fit.
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My name is Matt Estlea, I’m a 23 year old Woodworker from Basingstoke in England and my aim is to make your woodworking less s***.
I come from 5 years tuition at Rycotewood Furniture Centre with a further 1 year working as an Artist in Residence at the Sylva Foundation. I now teach City and Guilds Furniture Making at Rycotewood as of September 2018.
I also had 5 years of experience working at Axminster Tools and Machinery where I helped customers with purchasing tools, demonstrated in stores and events, and gained extensive knowledge about a variety of tools and brands.
During the week, I film woodworking projects, tutorials, reviews and a viewer favourite ‘Tool Duel’ where I compare two competitive manufacturers tools against one another to find out which is best.
I like to have a laugh and my videos are quite fast paced BUT you will learn a lot, I assure you.
Lets go make a mess.
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It takes a master woodworker to teach the basics. Watch Paul’s every move in this video. He shows every single detail of cutting this essential woodworking joint. This is one of the three joints that Paul talks about in his woodworking curriculum.
The housing dado is the essential shelving joint. It is the strongest way to suspend a wide horizontal board by passing it into a vertical piece such as a bookshelf. It has many other uses, such as the back of a drawer. Although there are many variations on a theme with this joint mastering the most simple form is the most difficult and important step.
Bowl-gouges cost a lot of money, but you can make a fantastic gouge out of some simple materials and a few hours time in the shop. Lots of turners have made the famous “Oland tool”, but this video presents an easy, cheap, and nearly idiot-proof method for making an Oland-style tool that can handle large turnings and hard, challenging woods.
If you like this video, you can see other projects and follow my progress on instagram: @rexkrueger
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We might easily be disaffectionate to the forebears of woodworking, who so enriched our lives with the most wonderful woodworking ever created, using only their bare hands and tools they made to work with. For a short run of moulded stock, moulding planes can be immediate and quite inexpensive. Many “old-timers” kept them around to replicate old moulds and also to develop modern alternatives with their own proven technology. In this video Paul touches the very tip of the iceberg of what lies beneath the surface that we have just barely scraped.
