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I appreciate your explanations for the various parts of the jig. It seems to be an excellent system and I am now convinced I would like to try it. You are the first woodworker on YT I have seen that uses Hide Glue. My dad always used Hide glue when making furniture but that was a long time ago and I haven’t seen anyone else talk about it since. You reminded me that I should give that a try as well.

I hope you had Blackened by Metallica on the sound system when blueing the metals. I've enjoyed this series and get about 10 tips from each.

Thanks for the video. My deformed left thumb can attest to the importance of clamping and putting a stop on the right side of the workpiece when using large forstner bits (especially)- the bit acts as a power feeder, the fence is directing that force to the right, and pulls the left hand right into it. But... it did keep the workpiece from spinning...

RC, enjoying the series and the long form format. Thanks for sharing!

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Just saw this. Fantastic design that maximizes functionality and is good looking to boot. Thank you for sharing. One question - do the angled bench legs have any impact on the efficiency and positive feedback you get when using a chisel and mallet to chop out mortises, dovetails, etc. ? I like to chop out stuff in a position directly over the bench leg (not angled) because of the solid feel of each blow with the mallet. I’m wondering if the splayed legs still provide that feeling. Thanks again!

After watching a number of videos on stock prep and dovetails I figured that all I needed to do is practice. Since your videos are chock full of guidance while being entertaining, I knew this series wouldn't disappoint. It's like being an apprentice working under the coolest master craftsman one could imagine. I know these videos are a lot of work to plan and produce. Thank you for helping up my game!

This was so useful! Thank you. Can you use beeswax polish as the finish? I prefer that to other finishes, but I was worried it would mess up the ebonizing.

Nice and different take on an old idea. Wonder how it would work if it were T shaped just thinking work from either side without wobbling, push saw or pull saw.

It looks great, I just watched all five episodes, did you make the tool cabinet, using only hand tools? Just wondering

can I ask you what video edting software you found that works well?

What blades do you use for the fret saw.

I finally pulled the trigger and got mine last week. What a well made and beautiful tool.

Thanks mate. Great video.

My goodness, that special sauce of ignorance, anonymiity and snobbery! LOL. You got it. Great info and I will watch more, already subscribed. I liked the demo of how to install shelf using cherry piece clamped to side of casework.

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Another great video - I definitely always learn something, plus I always love hearing you pre-empt the "haters" 🤣 A "long" time ago I picked up a 20 oz 'Wood Is Good' mallet for my first 'refined' (relative to a claw hammer) woodworking bashing tool. Since then I've tried a few others, and probably need ("need" 🤣) to make a classic joiners mallet just to say I did... but I kept finding myself gravitating back to the WiG mallet. Little too heavy for a lot of stuff. I'd *really* like a Blue Spruce mallet, but there's (quite) a few other things on the 'want' list ahead of that, so I ended up adding the 12 oz WiG mallet to an order recently. I still need to Cosman-ize the handle, but I'm loving it so far, and I've never understood the people who think it's 'too soft 🤷‍♂️

That's one of the clearest, most thorough explanations of the tails first dovetail joint I've seen. So many tips where you just go, "ah ha" that's brilliant. Thanks for the video RC

I have the same Veritas clamps you use for the bench-on-bench but I’ve stopped using them because they don’t release from a hard clamp. Did you ever have the same problem and if so how did you make them usable?

Great video and fantastic detail teaching of dovetail construction. Also nice tip about the Razor saw. I did not know about those even though I have several Japanese saws. Thank you!

Nice. I'm hoping that people recognise this mini series as a tutorial covering a very large chunk of basic joinery with many nuanced insights. I don't want to make a wine caddy but I have learned and been reminded of some really useful stuff for joinery in general. Thanks.

Great video, nice, calm pace.

Hi Ryan, viewing in stages, cause your videos are pretty informations dense, so only up to 13 mins at this point, but I wonted to second the comment about using a stop when marking. Darn good suggestion, IMO.

First time on your channel, but man deaaaaam beautiful bench u have. It looks like you put a bunch of love and a pat of you on it. Congrats and thanks for the content

Do you worry at all about which side of the line the bevel of the marking knife is on? eg bevel to the 'waste' side of the cut?

I recently watched a video on TH-cam which showcased beautiful tool cabinets and benches. Sure enough your hanging wall cabinet was featured in that video. So as far as skill and craftsmanship goes you are certainly getting recognized. Keep up the good work.

I was hoping you’d get to a tool I saw on your shelf in the opening-the concave scraper set. Do you use them much? If so, with or without a burr? (I’ve heard differing answers.) If doing a big (like half inch) radius, would you start small and work your way up or just do it all with the target radius?

Love the edge trim plane for squaring up edges as you demonstrated.

Does shooting so much hardwood endgrain with your shooting plane dulls the blade very quickly in a narrow spot that do the cutting? What would be the solution if that is the case?

I have been an avid follower of your channel since its inception, and while you occasionally utilize power tools, your primary focus appears to be on traditional "modern" hand tools. In this video, however, I noticed that you still seem to adhere to a more contemporary interpretation of the requirements for wood before it can be worked. On your Instagram page you have an image of a vernacular folk-style Swiss chest from a museum you visited that is clearly a riven and green woodworking example. Are there any plans for you to explore traditional woodworking techniques that utilize "green wood," as understood in today's context, rather than only the modern approach of using "dry wood"? It appears that many people today mistakenly believe that "cooked wood" is essential, operating under the notion that wood must be kiln-dried before it can be utilized. Thank you for your outstanding channel and the remarkable work you produce...

Thanks for the tip on butting up the stock against a stop when using a larger combination square. Super simple solution.

Realizing this is an older video, I am curious if you would provide a little more detail on your floating floor. More detail on materials used including thicknesses and overall thickness of floor, how it holds up, etc. I am working on a detached workshop with an uneven slab concrete floor. Thanks in advance.

Your tool cabinet is extremely beautiful!

If you have a back like mine, the forehead on the handle trick would not be possible. I found the Bosch 12V Max Brushless Drill and Impact driver kit is absolutely amazing. The control you can get with those triggers is better than anything I have used by a good margin. Do yourself a favor and try that drill. It will fit in your pocket too: it's tiny.

Excellent video. I have had so much frustration with this plane’s nicker. Surprisingly, I think the skew rabbet plane by veritas does a better job with end grain rabbets. I had no trouble aligning it and it has a couple of pros over this plane. -3 set screws instead of 2 -adjustable mouth -depth stop accessory, so it actually gets all of the same features that this one does.

Pretty much equipped like my old Stanley skew rabbit plane. It will clean up a nibble dado way better than a 78. Hoping to run across a how to video making a new wedge for a wood skew plane I picked up. It’s a tapered parallelogram section.

That was worth the price of admission!!

Best piece of advice I’ve heard on hand tools..there’s no shame in having something done by hand look like it’s been done by hand

And that tip is "Money"!

Damn. I just about had myself talked out of the Dowelmax and into the Jessem Stainles THEN I watched your darn video. Thanks. You just cost me mucho beer money.

Hi, fantastic bench and chop! Quick question, if you had a single bottom leg brace and mounted the parallel guide such that the top of the parallel guide bar was riding the bottom of the leg brace and the top of parallel guide bar could not move past the bottom of the leg brace, thereby keeping everything in parallel, couldn't that work and possibly avoid buying another expensive (albeit ingenious part in the chain guide) component? I am a new woodworker and I don't know nothing, so please excuse my ignorance. Your channel is now on the watch list!

Do you feel any difference in the cutting action along the grain between the low angle jointer and the standard angle jack plane? Which one leaves a better surface?

As a newbie I appreciate the extra time and effort you take in explaining. Thank you

Good video!

I did this exact task last Friday, being some mahogany work pieces from 12mm to 8mm. My process was similar except I used a scrub plane and came down to my gauge line with a jack plane. As you said, your shop, your rules. But I like watching your work habits and process.

Good instruction, good tips!

I also have a thing for my jointer plane. (Stanley no. 7)

Tolpin’s book (I forget which one) shows roubo style winding sticks that sit in saddles. Then it suggests using rabbet planes on both sides of the board, which those saddles rest on, such that once the sticks show the wind it gone, then all you have to do is remove the center portion of the board to meet the two rabbets. Probably for more rough boards than you’re showing here, but I’ve often wanted to see someone do it that way.

Great video. Thanks for taking the time to offer commentary during the dimensioning as there's a lot of good information there. I love the quips in the text too.

Thank you for in-depth and very detailed information 👍