Matt Estlea
Published on 18 Oct 2017Getting your saw started in the cut, square across the width, and tracking along a line is a common difficulty for beginners. In this video I’ll show you techniques that I used myself in order to make my cuts as accurate as possible.
If you want more information on what saws to use, consider watching my video ‘What saws do you NEED’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pigcI…
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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 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.
December 4, 2018
How to saw CORRECTLY
December 2, 2018
Turning a Handle | Paul Sellers
Paul Sellers
Published on 9 Nov 2018How do you make a handle or knob for a cabinet or other project? Paul takes you step by step through his process for turning a handle on the lathe. These make great handmade additions to many projects.
For more information on these topics, see https://paulsellers.com or https://woodworkingmasterclasses.com
December 1, 2018
How to Set Up a Bandsaw | Paul Sellers
Paul Sellers
Published on 30 Nov 2018These instructions on setting up a bandsaw should get you going with your machine. Paul swaps the blade in his machine and then goes through the process of aligning the blade and bearings as well as adjusting the tension for a pristine cut.
For more information on these topics, see https://paulsellers.com or https://woodworkingmasterclasses.com
November 21, 2018
Testing The Worst Tools On AMAZON
Wranglerstar
Published on 24 Aug 2017Testing The Worst and Most Ridiculous Tools On AMAZON.
November 17, 2018
Introducing the Bandsaw | Paul Sellers
Paul Sellers
Published on 16 Nov 2018Paul introduces the bandsaw as an extra tool to free up time and energy to focus on hand tool woodworking. He goes over the uses of a bandsaw and the features that he looks for when acquiring one.
For more information on these topics, see https://paulsellers.com or https://woodworkingmasterclasses.com
From the YouTube comments section for this video:
csandlund1
2 hours ago
It’s like watching the Pope do a video on the joys of sex. Fascinating, but completely unexpected.
November 14, 2018
Scrub Plane – a Historical Perspective – | Paul Sellers
Paul Sellers
Published on 7 Aug 2014In times past, before Stanley Rule and Level cast their first all-metal scrub plane, well used and worn-down wooden smoothing planes were kept as roughing planes for scrubbing off rough surfaces in preparation for more refined work. Longer planes such as jack planes and jointer planes followed to further level and straighten the work before the smoothing plane smoothed out the final surfaces.
The roughing plane had many names including Hunter plane, Scud or Scudding plane; Scurf or Scurfing plane; Cow plane and I am sure others I haven’t heard of and was the forerunner to the original Stanley scrub plane we know today. The wooden roughing plane worked well for centuries but with Stanley’s new fangled all-metal planes came the necessity of metal scrub planes too. In this video I explain a little of the important history behind the development of the scrub plane and the transition from wooden planes to the all metal versions.To find out more about Paul Sellers and the projects he is involved with visit http://paulsellers.com
October 20, 2018
Making a marking knife and using a mortising chisel -Stumpy Nubs Old Timey Woodworking #1
Stumpy Nubs
Published on 10 Jun 2013STUMPY’S WEBSITE►http://www.stumpynubs.com
The first episode of a whole new show! Stumpy takes you back to a time of simple woodworking pleasures! This time he shows you how to make your own marking knife and how to use it for a lot more than marking! Then he demonstrates how to use a traditional mortising chisel. All this and everything else that has made Stumpy Nubs videos among the most watched in woodworking!
October 18, 2018
How to Plane CORRECTLY
Matt Estlea
Published on 17 Oct 2018In this video, I explain the best techniques to employ when using a plane in order to get a smooth surface, a controlled cut, and above all a more enjoyable experience!
This is an addition to my ‘Woodworking Basics’ series where I also covered the topics of sawing and chiselling.
Sawing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5OzZ…
Chiselling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efxgv…
_________________________________________________________________Videos referenced:
How to Sharpen a Plane Blade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtCAb…
How to Set up a Plane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0ZV8…
How to reduce Tearout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fGqh…
Making a Bass Guitar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz7dt…
Making a Roubo Workbench: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXKYw…
How to make a Protrusion Stop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I417V…
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My Website: www.mattestlea.com
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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.
October 13, 2018
QotD: Evolution
Look… Just because H. habilis was several branches back on the family bush doesn’t mean we’re supposed to stop being handy.
I get not carrying a pistol. It’s not for everybody and, if done with any level of seriousness, demands certain commitments and obligations that not everyone wants to undertake, and that’s cool. It’s still (mostly) a free country.
But how do you go through life without a flashlight and some kind of knife? Our most primitive ancestors carried sharp rocks around with them. Hell, carrying a sharpened rock around in case of future need is basically how we tell where the apes stop and the people start in our fossil family album. If they could have carried a light around without it burning their fingers or going out all the time, you bet they would have.
They make flashlights and knives small enough to accommodate any code, dress or legal, up with which you have to put.
Tamara Keel, “Look…”, View from the Porch, 2016-05-26.
October 8, 2018
How to flatten the sole of a plane | Paul Sellers
Paul Sellers
Published on 16 Feb 2012Paul Sellers shows how to flatten and shape the sole of a bench plane. This technique is the first step once you have bought a new bench plane or have acquired a used plane. Without this fairly simple step, woodworking planes may not function correctly and may even damage projects or surfaces that you are working on. Also check out this video on sharpening a plane: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvTcRe…
To find out more about Paul Sellers or the projects he is involved with visit http://paulsellers.com
October 7, 2018
Paul Sellers | How to sharpen a handplane
Paul Sellers
Published on 7 Feb 2012Paul Sellers demonstrates how to sharpen a plane on diamond stones using a convex bevel method. To find out more about Paul Sellers or the projects he is involved with visit http://paulsellers.com.
October 5, 2018
When the marketing department took over tool sales
Paul Sellers was standing in line at one of his local big box store (in my part of North America, it’d be a Home Depot or Lowes), and he happened to glance at some of the packaging for otherwise pretty ordinary tools:
I’m never sure when it started, a point where you could no longer determine what something is by its name. A form of sensationalism was somehow loosed and we lost sincerity to titles declaring ‘not ordinary’ that hid what was, when all said and done, intrinsically quite the ordinary. All the handsaw makers followed suit latterly with model names like piranha, sabretooth and barracuda. Then they backed up claims with reference terms such as, “Using a handsaw impacts on all the muscles and joints in your arm. The ERGO™ handle is designed with users, tasks and environments in mind to make the job…” blah, blah, blah! The truth is that saw makers of the 18th century put far more effort into the development of ergonomic design of saw handles than any modern maker and all modern makers either copied what existed or dumbed down the designs to come up with the most basic one-size fits all design.
Photo by Paul Sellers
In reality of course nothing’s really changed except that the handles are pre moulded plastic and the teeth cannot be sharpened any more. I was in my local builders merchants waiting to pay and stood staring at the signage of the two nearest products facing me. Whereas these stab saws and jab saws convey a sense of brutalising aggression, it’s the marketer that suggests that this is what the buyer needs. Aggressive marketers think that that is indeed what the user wants, a kind of macho-man aggression to his work. The packaging has changed to use brighter hi-viz lines, letters and numbers with rip tares and wild hogs with tusks as the marketers way of connecting the would-be user to a sale of his products. Imagine, even a common degreasing agent remains the same as it was ten years ago is packed and wrapped with a punchy headline header, “Cleans like crazy!”, too, but why the wild ‘Mad Hog’ title replete with tusks? Reminds me of the Arkansas Razorback football team. What they don’t probably realise is that they would have sold as well without it. I guess they thought that they had that insider knowledge of what the trades people needed, right?
My suspicion is that there are really two distinct markets for tools and tool-related products like these. The first, and more stable market is the trades, where the demand is probably pretty steady and unlikely to shift much no matter what the marketers put on the packages. Tradespeople generally like to use known brands that they can depend on for consistent value at a given price point. These folks aren’t the target for all the marketing flash and bumf — they’ll keep buying the “Old Reliable™” brand until/unless they sell the brand to a cheaper manufacturer and the quality of the end product starts to slip. The target instead is … you. You, the non-regular user of “jab saws” or “stab saws” or even degreasing agents. You probably don’t have much recent experience with any of the current brands of tools, so you’re significantly more likely to be swayed by how the tools and materials are marketed. You’re the sucker who (they hope) will fall for the bright colours, eye-catching packaging, and mucho-macho descriptions.
And they wouldn’t keep doing it if it didn’t work.
October 1, 2018
Quick Clamp Rack 036
Tyler G
Published on 28 Aug 2015For those of us that have a few clamps laying around the shop it can be a real pain in the neck to dig through a pile to get to to the clamp you want while performing a glue up. Today I built a super simple, easy clamp rack that holds all of my parallel clamps, f-style clamps and quick clamps all it one low profile location. I used lots of wood glue, the drill press, table saw and some hand drills to build this quick wood clamp rack.
September 27, 2018
How to Setup, Use and Sharpen a Plough Plane | Paul Sellers
Paul Sellers
Published on 7 Sep 2018Need to run some grooves and not sure where to start? Paul shows how to sharpen and prepare the plough plane for use, before showing the basics of how to cut a groove.
For more information on these topics, see https://paulsellers.com or https://woodworkingmasterclasses.com
September 24, 2018
How To Make Clamp Racks & Organize the Shop
Jon Peters Art & Home
Published on 11 Jul 2014Check out our new website: http://jonpeters.com/
Here’s a video on building a rack system for storing your clamps in your work space or shop.
