Christopher Schwarz
Published 8 Dec 2012Christopher Schwarz of Lost Art Press demonstrates the steps he takes to set up a new premium handplane.
November 18, 2019
Set Up a Handplane
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November 14, 2019
Low Angle Plane Shootout! What’s the best value?
Rex Krueger
Published 13 Nov 2019Which low-angle jack plane is the best value? I check out planes by Stanley, Veritas, and Tay.
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November 7, 2019
The instant shave-horse
Rex Krueger
Published 6 Nov 2019More video and exclusive content: http://www.patreon.com/rexkrueger
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November 5, 2019
Speed square basics – How to use one
Make Build Modify
Published 6 Nov 2016MORE PROJECT AND TIPS: http://makebuildmodify.com/
Maker Math #2
How to use a speed square. I discuss a couple of tricks and some practical uses of the Swanson speed square. I cover most of the uses that a hobbyist would need and a few other roof framing features too.
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November 2, 2019
How to make a Planter out of Pallet Wood | Paul Sellers
Paul Sellers
Published 31 Oct 2019Paul takes a break from his day to day of furniture making to show you how to create this very straightforward planter — which is made entirely out of pallet wood!
Paul hopped into a skip (with permission of course) grabbed some pallets and got creating. Using only a few simple hand tools and following alongside Paul with these easy steps, you can create a planter too!
Paul is now ready to start growing some vegetables in his garden when the growing seasons arrive. Why don’t you get ready for Spring this Autumn and create yourself a simple planter for your garden!
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October 31, 2019
Should you build or buy a low-angle plane?
Rex Krueger
Published 30 Oct 2019More video and exclusive content: http://www.patreon.com/rexkrueger
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A mathematical revolution in late medieval English ship design and construction
In the latest installment of Anton Howes’ newsletter on the Age of Invention, he discusses how geometry and mathematics helped transform late Medieval English shipbuilding:
An English ship of a slightly later period: this is a replica of the Susan Constant at the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia. The original ship was built sometime before 1607 and rented by the Virginia Company of London to transport the original settlers to Jamestown.
Photo by Nicholas Russon, March 2004.
Since about 1500, an Italian and Portuguese method of making ships had come into ever wider use in northern Europe. This was to construct the ship’s skeleton first, and then lay the planking around it. This contrasted with the older “clinker” method, by which the planks were laid from the keel upwards, with each plank slightly overlapping the one below – the rest of the skeleton was filled in later to strengthen it. The new “carvel” method, instead of having overlapping planks, allowed for a smooth hull. But it also required more planning.
The master shipwright had to first design full-sized templates, or frames, which were placed along the keel to determine the width and height of the hull, like cross-sections up and down the length of the ship. To the edges of these frames were then fixed ribbands — long, pliable boards running down the ship’s length. Altogether, the frames and ribbands formed a temporary, basket-like structure, to guide the moulding of the ship’s permanent hull around it.
But calculating the size of the frames at each point was tricky. After the placement of the first few, which might be pre-specified in size, the next ones along were typically determined according to the curve of the ribbands. Calculation was certainly involved, but it took place in the form or marking and adjusting the wood itself. Design and construction both took place in the shipyard, and through the medium of wood.
What Matthew Baker did in the 1570s was to take the design process out of the shipyard, and onto paper. He drew his ships, to scale. And by using pen and paper, with geometry to make such drawings possible, he opened up grand new possibilities for design. His process allowed him to jot down the latest innovations from the Mediterranean, to speculate about the designs of Noah’s ark and the ships of the ancient world, and to cheaply conduct his own experiments. He drew out new designs for frames, using geometry to work out how any variation would affect the overall shape of the hull, as well as its weight and carrying capacity – all at the cost of only time, ink, and paper, and avoiding the huge potential waste of conducting experiments at full scale in wood. His process allowed him to innovate more easily, and even to design new measuring instruments.
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October 28, 2019
Finishing the Box | Dovetail Box Series #19 | Free Online Woodworking School
Matt Estlea
Published 26 Oct 2019In this video, I show you how I would go about finishing the box and guide you in choosing your perfect finish. If you want to know more about how I apply OSMO, watch 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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October 27, 2019
Did You Know These 7 BASICS ABOUT MAPLE LUMBER?
Woodworkers Source
Published on 26 Dec 2018Wait, what? Hard maple, soft maple, what the heck is country maple and while we’re at it PLEASE EXPLAIN curly maple, bird’s eye maple, quilted maple, ambrosia maple.
Seriously folks, we get this question a lot. LIKE, A LOT. First of all, sorry about the confusion. Second, it even confounds us from time to time. But we’re gonna fix that today.
Let’s do this! This video demonstrates the 7 maples that you might encounter at your lumber supplier, and distills it all down the essential differences that might help you out.
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October 24, 2019
Hand-cut curves in wood. NO BANDSAW
Rex Krueger
Published 23 Oct 2019More video and exclusive content: http://www.patreon.com/rexkrueger
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October 23, 2019
How to Accurately Sand the Box | Dovetail Box Project #18 | Free Online Woodworking School
Matt Estlea
Published 21 Oct 2019In this video, I share with you a previously oversimplified and rushed subject to ensure your box is finished as spectacularly as it deserves.
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My Website: http://www.mattestlea.com
____________________________________________________________________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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October 20, 2019
Chamfering the Plinth | Dovetail Box Project #17 | Free Online Woodworking School
Matt Estlea
Published 16 Oct 2019In this video, I show you how to chamfer the plinth safely and accurately.
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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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October 19, 2019
Wood is Like Straws | Paul Sellers
Paul Sellers
Published on 19 Sep 2019Paul has been explaining grain and structure to thousands of students through the years and the best way he found was to show wood as straws.
It brings tremendous clarity to your work and the working of wood when you imagine your material firstly, as unidirectional straws reaching up from the earth to the light and warmth of the sun and then with a twist, dip and bend to encompass its branches and the influences of prevailing winds. This video takes you on such a journey to clarify what we rely on as our material.
Want to learn more about woodworking? See https://woodworkingmasterclasses.com or https://commonwoodworking.com for step-by-step videos, guides and tutorials. You can also follow Paul’s latest ventures on his woodworking blog at https://paulsellers.com/
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October 17, 2019
Pro Tips for Tool Hunting at Flea Markets
Rex Krueger
Published 16 Oct 2019More video and exclusive content: http://www.patreon.com/rexkrueger
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October 16, 2019
Making a Scrub Plane – Convert your Stanley | Paul Sellers
Paul Sellers
Published 25 Jul 2014Scrub planes are not exclusively used to mill wood to the required dimensions; they are also ideal for hogging off large amounts of wood in everyday woodworking situations.
In this video, Paul Sellers walks you through the steps to customise a basic No.4 Bailey pattern plane into a versatile and fully functional scrub plane, which will probably become one of your favourite plane additions. One great advantage about using a smoothing plane as a scrub plane is that it’s not irreversible; you can simply load it with a regular, un-fettled cutting iron again, and you can continue using the same plane as a smoothing plane.
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