Woodworking mallets can be flimsy or too light. The good ones are expensive and vintage ones can be hard to find. But if you have a dollar and a few hours, you can make TWO excellent woodworking mallets out of a common rolling pin. In this video, I’ll show you how to make a chisel mallet and a carver’s mallet from thrift-store materials using common tools. The mallets I make are ergonomic, durable, and will last for years. Stop hitting your chisels with a hammer and make two great mallets today.
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In this video, I show you how to accurately cut the tails of a dovetail joint all the way from wielding the saw through to refining the component with the chisel.
For the best experience, please view this video on my website where you will get access to a variety of supporting resources to help you with this project.
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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 drawbore is an ancient and intriguing method of holding joints together without the need for glue. However, it is hard to make this right if you don’t understand how it works. Paul has put together and then sawed in half a drawbored mortise and tenon to show how the peg works and what is needed to achieve the strength and unity of this type of joinery.
In this video, I show you the various ways to mark out a dovetail joint for superior accuracy. As well as what to avoid, the consequences of certain decisions, and addressing the evergreen topic of dovetail ratios.
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Want to get access to more supporting resources? View this on my website for the best educational experience:
Download the FREE Tool List for this project here: https://mailchi.mp/c7ac30e21fed/boxre…
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Support what I do by becoming a Patron! This will help fund new tools, equipment and cover my overheads. Meaning I can continue to bring you regular, high quality, free content. Thank you so much for your support! https://www.patreon.com/mattestlea
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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Chiselling is one of those things that looks easy at first glance, yet as soon as you have a go with one your work looks like roadkill.
In this video, I’ll be sharing certain tricks, tips and techniques to help make your chiselling more accurate, cleaner and enjoyable.
Best of luck and feel free to share any of your own tips in the comment section below!
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My name is Matt Estlea, I’m a 22 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 and 4 years experience working at Axminster Tools and Machinery where I still currently work on weekends. During the week, I film woodworking projects, tutorials, reviews and a viewer favourite ‘Tool Duel’ where I compare two cometitive 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.
From the comments:
Matt Estlea 1 year ago
UPDATE
Watch your fingers on the sides of the chisel if you’re going for the pencil grip, they can sometimes be sharp. Firstly, this isn’t a bad thing; in fact its quite useful! Watch this video to see why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9S6r104pQk
But if you do find you are cutting yourself, try one of these three things:
1: Loosen your grip. No need for a death grip here. Hold it with the same pressure as you would with a pencil.
2: Run a bit of 400 grit sandpaper up the edge of the chisel ONCE. Don’t go back and forth with it, one stroke will be enough to take the edge off.
3: Keep in mind that every time you cut yourself the skin toughens up. So if all else fails, keep battling through it!
In this woodworking project, I’m building a hand tool tote using hand-cut dovetails. This project was built so that I could bring a few hand tools with me to my week-long course at the John C. Campbell Folk School (http://bit.ly/folkschool). Enjoy!
Ever wondered how to saw straight? Paul shows in detail how to cut an accurate and straight saw cut. This provides some skills you will need to challenge yourselves to bigger and better projects. Using a handsaw may prove harder than you think but with these tips and tricks, you will be able to saw straight and accurately.
More and more woodworkers now refer to the term Paul coined as knifewall years ago. When Paul first introduced it to his students in the late 1980s the term did not exist. Paul set out to create a single word that not only referred to marking the wood surface, but one that described severing the surface fibres and the creation of a physical knife-cut wall. Knifewall as a term became something woodworkers would saw, plane and chisel their wood to.
In this video Paul critiques a dovetail sent in by Jenny, one of our beginners from Common Woodworking. Not everyone will run into the same problems, however if we can get a sample of the issues people are facing with their first experiences of joinery then we will be able to advise you on how to avoid these problems in the future.
If you are new to joinery and would like feedback from Paul on your dovetails, you can send them in using the link below: https://commonwoodworking.com/send-us…
If you are yet to make your first dovetail joint, visit our beginner friendly step-by-step guide on Common Woodworking: https://commonwoodworking.com/courses…
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My trick for buying good tools at super-low prices is really simple: go to antique car and antique tractor flea markets. These places are mostly filled with car parts, but when a vendor does have woodworking tools, he’s usually looking to unload them as fast as possible. Often, car guys don’t even know what they have, so woodworkers can score loads of useful or collectible tools for pocket-change. These flea markets are also a great source of consumables like glue, thinners, brushes, and sand-paper. You can stock up on the most expensive stuff for cheap.
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Do you need a low bench height to bear down on your work when planing? Or should a sharp plane pull itself to task? See what Paul Sellers thinks.
We posted this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8FLl…) video the day before this one but we had a comment saying that the same would not be possible with the board level. Hopefully this will show that that is not the case.
To find out more about Paul Sellers and the projects he is involved with go to http://paulsellers.com
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