Many woodworking videos are spoiled by fastmotion, skipping or unnecessary music. This video is an example on how to make an instructional video on woodworking.
While I probably won't be a purely traditional woodworker, I'm limited in funds, so buying a jointer and planer is out of the question right now, so by hand is probably a good thing to learn.
It's a pretty great feeling to realize that you'll never run out of things to learn. I thought I knew a good bit about woodworking with power tools, but this video showed me that there is an entirely new dimension of the craft to explore. Thanks!
I've just started wood working and wanted to do it in the traditional style because I figured it would cost less money and allow me to invest alot of time into a single project rather than making alot of not as important projects. I've been doing alot of work by just using a jack plane and then hand sanding but not getting nearly the accuracy I want. This video helps me alot, thanks.
I have huge respect for your patients. I honestly just can't imagine spending this amount of effort, on one board, before power tools came along. I suppose before the invention of TV and other forms of entertainment people had nothing better to do than spend whole days planing down boards. Great job on keeping this art alive.
"nothing better to do"? This is how every finished board in history was made. You make it seem like it's just something to fiddle with. They needed boards. How have you mastered Godot if you think this is too meh.
Last week one of my sons asked me if I knew any one else who used hand planes. I tried to show the accuracy that can be achieved with a hand plane the sound of a hand plane compared to a jointer and the meaning of a hand made thing. My hand made things are not perfect; some are better than others but as time passes they get better (or my eye sight is fading). We know so much in this modern industrial and technical world I some times wonder when we will reach the point at which we have forgotten more than we know. A sincere thank you
Having dived into woodworking a year ago, I realise I've never learned how to make a square. This should be the #1 instruction to watch for every hand tool beginner.
I've just come across this video and totally agree. I just can't understand the negative comments about traditional hand tool woodworking. I have subscribed.
This is the best and most informative woodwork video i have ever seen for straightening scrap wood. I should like to see more of your work. Thanks for an enjoyable 30min tuition.
Eight years ago, and I'm only finding it now! Great video. I have been frustrated with getting my mitre saw to cut true and thinking that I should dimension even store bought wood properly by hand. Now I am convinced! Thank you for posting this video; brilliant approach and full concentration on the job-in-hand, rather than talking about peripheral topics that are not relevant.
The end of the video says everything: if you are doing it for the money, do it with power tools; if you are doing for the satisfaction, nothing beats the hand tools
You're a real woodworker because a real woodworker can does job in any condition and environment! just with a couple traditional tools in his/ her hand ! but it would not be easy for anybody else unfortunately 90 percent of the new woodworkers even are not able to make a rough lumber or a board flat and nice smooth like you. Thanks for sharing that with us.
I love this video. This is the way it was done before all the power tools were invented. A hobby furniture builder does not need to spend lots of money to have perfect boards, just lots of elbow grease, patience and skill. I ruined quite a few boards myself while learning, but now thanks to you I am very good at getting them nice and square and parallel. Thank you and hello from Medellín, Colombia.
thank you so much...as a beginning woodworker i have been struggling with this for many many years and i have been forced to use power tools to accomplish this task... i prefer using hand tools but i just could never get the hang of it... i have taken so many classes and watched even more youtube videos trying to find out where i was screwing up... now i know... thanks again
at this moment we have 248 jerks of woodworking (meaning dislikes) , guys this is old school, this is traditional woodworking , i respect people who respects the wood and traditions. everyone can work and create using technologies, but this man creates without any electrical equipment and that`s he repects wood. THanks for your great video, i can say only that this was the best 30 minutes on youtube. Thank You
Thank you for the time, effort and quality of the video. I used machines over 3+ decades as a furniture maker but, I actually learned a couple of things watching. People that do not or will not understand "traditional woodworking" should be thankful for the art of hand-tooling material. People pay money for courses that in many cases are not as detailed and instructive as this is. I have a shop in rural MO. City/suburban dwellers are not going to put up with the noise so here is you solutions free of charge! Thanks to Joshua ! Very nice in all respect sir.
What's particularly valuable about this video is nothing is assumed on behalf the viewer, you take your time to ensure the basics are communicated clearly and you keep re-iterating the checking. Nice and slow and comprehensive - exactly what's needed and your enthusiasm for using hand tools has clearly impacted your pace in presentation and probably life in general . Living in the UK we always suffer 'workshop envy' as most of us don't have the space of our American friends and now I also have a bad bout of plane jealousy. I sometimes wonder what God would have chosen as a occupation if he'd needed to - oh yeah - a hand tool carpenter...
Watching your video from France.... I understood everything. Your explanations are very easy to understand because you show everything in the same time. It's very educative. Thank you.
Great video Joshua! I am a complete novice to traditional woodworking and modern woodworking. I have always wanted to make fine furniture but the opportunity to learn never presented itself. But now it looks like with youtube I can learn from gracious people like yourself willing to make these videos and teach the process. This video, it seems to me, covers the most essential step in producing accurate and tight projects. I had been hoping to find just what you did in this video. Thank you for your time and effort in sharing your love for the craft!
Really nice video. Well produced and I actually appreciate you leaving the "oops, not like that" moments in the video. It's good to see what can go wrong and observe what happened so that we can learn. Thank you for documenting things like this and keeping this art alive.
New found appreciation for traditional woodworking skills. I am a beginner but I find a great deal of satisfaction in doing the hard work myself. This is how I imagine myself passing the time :) thank you for the inspiring words and sharing your knowledge. I haven't commented in a vid in the past couple of years, thats how awesome this video was for me. Thanks again :)
This is gold! No wonder I have trouble flattening boards. I always kept all the downward force on the plane's knob, throughout the entire stroke. Thanks for all the great tips!
I can certainly appreciate both. I love quietly working with hand planes, but I also like the speed of power tools that speed up the dimensioning process....so I can move quickly onto the more skilled joinery with hand tools.
I am a beginner as well. It just started with recycling my old furniture, then I started using pallet scraps to enjoy building little things, without turning my flat to a garbage of several power tools, for which actually one needs to spend several thousand euros to get good, accurate and stable ones. For so long I suffered with this not square stuff, desperately trying to match ends. Everything I cut, I built was just not in good shape. First I thought all begins with cutting it straight, then I thought all begins with measuring and marking it straight, but hey without a really flat reference whatever you measure and mark is also inaccurate. I think now I am down to the very fundamental starting point. Thank you very much. This was eye opening for a beginner without experience.
Thank you! A lot of us beginners or those of us that have been doing it for a while, but wrong, find this very helpful for making a foundation of skills for rewarding woodworking.
I've just got started with woodworking, and I'm finding that the extra attention spent on getting wood square and true is worth the effort and saves 2x time down the road. I can see using a hybrid method in this process, first getting 2 sides flat and square by hand planing, then using power planer and jointer on the other 2 sides in just a few seconds.
Thanks for teaching us these classic wood working techniques. This fall, I'm about to make some small boxes out of walnut and pine and your lesson is worth its weight in gold.
Thank you so much, I finally understand! You explained how to square up a board by hand better than anyone I have ever heard explain it before. Most people have listened to just gloss over while doing it without taking the extra time to actually explain in detail what they are doing while they are doing it.
First rate video buddy. Don’t let the haters down here discourage you, but judging from the satisfaction on your face while making this video, I don’t think they bother you much.
This Is An Awesome Video. That's What I Got From The Vocatioanl School. The Very First Thing To Learn In The Class Is How To Flatten The Boards And Get Familiar With The Hand Tools. Now I Dont Do Woodwork For A Very Long Time And Almost Forget Everything, This Tut Brush Up The Essential Technique. Making A 90 Degree Equally Parallel Board Isnt An Easy Task As It Look Like, It Requires A Lot Of Practice To Make It Perfect. Hope There Will Be A Series So That We Can Learn To Make Stuffs Simply By Using Hand Tools, Just Like Our Ancestor Do, The Time Without Modern Machine. Thank You
Excellent video, and well presented. It took me back to my first woodshop days when I was a lad of 13. in 1944. We used this method to make a shaker stool. Preparing lumber to make boards by hand is very satisfying.
Everybody has his or her own preference . I use both hand tools and machines . I own a beautiful dovetail jig but won't use it until I can cut them precisely by hand. I feel you can teach anyone to use a machine but to understand the process and really get an appreciation for wood-and woodworking I like to master the hand tools as well. Just what I prefer. Nice vid. Thank you .
loved wood all my life, but too tied up in holding down a job. Now, I can learn, thanks to you and the Internet. Many thanks for sharing this with the likes of us, Regards, Cy
It is definitely more work doing things by hand than with a machine but I find working by hand lets me enjoy the process AND get a work out in at the same time. Both decreasing my stress and improving my health. Lots of people just want to get to the end result quickly. Maybe banging out product is their income and the quicker a machine can do the job the better, I get that. There are a lot of us that enjoy the process of working with our hands to form a piece of wood into the image in our mind and don't need to bang out product fast. But, if we do sell it it usually goes for more money because it was created by our hands and not a machine. :)
Its my hobby, only get x amount of days off between work and family I respect the handwork and wish I was retired and could do this full-time. But unfortunately I can't
Working by hand can be a lot quicker than people realize. I can get a finish when doing it by hand that I could never get on a machine. When you have wood with grain going in different directions I can read the wood and change direction with each pass that a machine can never do.
@@DavidJones-ie1qp time is life and how you spend your time forms who you are and what is important to you. I guess money is all that is important to you.
I am beginning to get into guitar building. I have a fairly decent knowledge of what makes a guitar tick, but i am lacking in basic woodworking fundamentals like this. This was a very informative video which I will definitely be coming back to!
While I'm nowhere near this level of craftsmanship (yet) I'm doing the same thing for the same reason. At this day and age apparently being an idiot is a valuable skill but the day will come when actual skills are valuable once again. 👍
I really learned a lot from this video. Being as I am, my first woodworking project ever is going to be a very beautiful 2.5m long by 2m high mid-century style open bookcase/room divider that I have designed myself. I have been learning jointing and the hand tools I'll need to use elsewhere on TH-cam and this video is right up there with the best of them. Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge.
Here we are almost 4 years later....Yes a jointer and planer is easier but,,,,There's a certain joy in making shavings. :) Still even if electric machines are used hand planes are a necessity for many reasons...I don't do woodworking for money nor am I in a rush. Satisfaction is the name of the game for me. It's the design,the layout,the work around figuring, the nervous moments that count for me. The biggest let down is when it's done and the polish is whipped for the last time..Besides all that I love my hand tools and my jointer,planer,routers ect. I like knowing how to do things and why I do them... Love the videos and that everything I know hasn't had to be learned the hard way!
Love the blog post "Why did you get into woodworking in the first place, to hurry and make a bunch of stuff?" The state of technology always offers us this choice - blast through to the final product - or just simply enjoy a long journey.
This is a very good point. To me, its really about the joy of working with the wood in the shop than having "a bunch of stuff" in the end. This is going to be even more of an issue in the future with computer-guided lasers, 3D printing, etc., which will eventually take all of the skill out of the process.
Thank you, this is so valuable to those of us who are not equipped with an electric jointer and planer, or those who simply prefer more organic methods (such as myself). Subscribed.
That was rough! I watched this for pointers on getting boards smooth with hand planes, and it was great for that! I can't imagine spending that much time on a single board that started off in that kind of condition. I can salvage hardwood from pallets in less time, that are in far worse shape using a planer, miter saw, and table saw. Good on you though! Glad you enjoyed it, you did a great job on the video with lots of nice pointers! I won't be throwing out my power tools though, especially seeing the prices on these planers. I am going to get one 4.5 though and use it to remove waves. I got my power planer for cheaper than any new joint hand planer I have found.
I've been looking for a tutorial on using hand planers for quite some time now. For some reason, this style interests me me more than power tools. Thank you very much for creating this video!
Thanks a lot for this video. I live in an apartment, but I love woodworking. Owning a planer or a jointer is a no no, so it's mostly hand tools for me. I'm still learning how to square up a board and this video is my reference.
Very informative and detailed tutorial. Much appreciated. Especially the part on using a saw for squaring the end grain instead of relying on a block plane. Also found it interesting that you used a straight edge again and again to verify progress. It goes to show that quality results take time.
8 years late but I appreciate this video…. I’ve watched 5 or 6 videos and they are all very similar. Same process…. But each one is different and it helps me to see different folks operate through the same process and hear their commentary throughout! 👍
I can see this being the job of the new hires who had little experience back in the day. Im new to fine wood working and looking for a power joiner , this vid has given me the idea just to learn hand planing first to understand the wood better....than get a power joiner. :D
great video. I have all the power tools but doing it this way is much more about the therapy side of why I do woodworking. Thank you for sharing how you do it.
This is a great video and resource, thanks for posting it. This sort of traditional woodworking with handtools is surprisingly difficult to learn about - for free anyway - these days. Lots of people assume woodworking to be inaccessible when the reality is quite different, with some good hand tools, a bench and - crucially - time anyone can give it a go. The learning curve is high but it's also very rewarding. Sure you could run a board through a jointer and achieve hours of work in seconds but if you don't have that option - or don't mind spending time - then you can still achieve the same end result.
This isn't even that much work, and so much more rewarding than running machines. Plus, it helps the electric bill. I love the independence of the traditional English carpenter. Great video, subbed.
Thank you. Excellent video with much information. It's particularly useful that you emphasised that it's not just about getting surfaces flat but also parallel to the opposite edge/surface.
I used a hand plane the first time today. Can't believe I waited this long to use one. Way more fun than power tool, and mug more rewarding. You actually feel like you're the one doing the work. But to each their own. I'll never replace my table saw or jigsaw for a hand saw. Must be a special case where either isn't applicable.
Great video. I have all the power tools to do it more loudly, but I prefer the hand tools more and more. This video makes the quieter process clear and accessible. Thanks.
Thank you so much(from Normandy.) After playing around with wood working, owning electric machines, etc, I'd really like to begin to learn basic handcrafted wood working. Something very exciting the other day just using a jackplane...Might be old age. Thanks again for the time and energy(and monetary investment,) it takes to share these skills over the net...rr
Thank you for this video. I live in an apartment so power tools is out of the question because of noise. I always wanted into this world and I'm finally doing it. Edit: I came into the most dumbest problem; securing wood to my table to plane. I gave up and bought a cheap harbor freight woodworking table.
Wow...I just came across your series and I must say, this is better than a lot of "professional" productions I've seen. Wonderful instruction and a friendly presentation. I've always loved traditional woodworking and this is a great place to learn the basics. You've done a great job here!
awesome video, of all the vids talking about flatting boards without jointer, then they use 2or3other machines, this guy video is awesome ...saying exactly how it’s done, nice one mister
After watching various videos covering the same subject, your training technique made that little light bulb above my head turn on. Thanks for your effort and concern for the rookies. Ray
Great video, I was wondering what this process entailed. I feel like getting into all hand tool style woodworking as it would require so much less space . Also no sawdust and noise. Seems fun
I use hand planes por flattening and squaring because I don’t have any better (easier) way to do it. But until now I did it quite chaotically, until I got something decent. This video is going to make my life a lot easier, thank you very much!
Hello, Thank you very much for posting this excellent video on how to flatten and square rough lumber. I have been doing this for years using jointer and planner but it is time now to learn this. I have invested in top notch hand planes as i consider these planes as life time investment. This is by far the best instructional video that I was able to find on TH-cam. Tomorrow, i planned to practice what i learned here. I am not setting my hopes up to get perfectly flat and squared pieces as i know this is going to take lots of practice and trials and errors. I subscribed to your channel already and look forward to warch other videos and learn Thank you again AJ
28 minutes of my life on this... TOTALLY WORTH IT, and so much better than all that meningless crap on media og netflix :-) LOVE learning something new every day :-)
Nice work! My grandfather kept a marble slab in his shop from his days as a machinist, he'd just rub the soon-to-be-flat wood surface on the marble slab an the shiny rubbed spots are the high points.
You are a master craftsman! I always wondered how it is possible to get such flat and parallel edges an faces with hand planing. Thanx for a very informative video.
Hand plane will producer a superior finish to that of a machine because you can adjust your direction that a machine cannot do. DO not get me wrong a machine can produce a nice quality finish but will not be as good as when done by hand.
Thanks for your knowledge and skills, power tools really did open up the woodworking space I don't know if it was such a great thing as people have lost these incredible skills, sad state of affairs these days.
Many woodworking videos are spoiled by fastmotion, skipping or unnecessary music. This video is an example on how to make an instructional video on woodworking.
Couldn’t agree more, clear explanations are a necessity and it’s very well done here.
I'm totally agree with you!
What a brilliant point, and so necessary.
While I probably won't be a purely traditional woodworker, I'm limited in funds, so buying a jointer and planer is out of the question right now, so by hand is probably a good thing to learn.
It's a pretty great feeling to realize that you'll never run out of things to learn. I thought I knew a good bit about woodworking with power tools, but this video showed me that there is an entirely new dimension of the craft to explore. Thanks!
noiserock Glad you liked the video!
I've just started wood working and wanted to do it in the traditional style because I figured it would cost less money and allow me to invest alot of time into a single project rather than making alot of not as important projects. I've been doing alot of work by just using a jack plane and then hand sanding but not getting nearly the accuracy I want. This video helps me alot, thanks.
Finally someone showed the full process! Great video, thank you very much
I have huge respect for your patients. I honestly just can't imagine spending this amount of effort, on one board, before power tools came along. I suppose before the invention of TV and other forms of entertainment people had nothing better to do than spend whole days planing down boards. Great job on keeping this art alive.
"nothing better to do"? This is how every finished board in history was made. You make it seem like it's just something to fiddle with. They needed boards. How have you mastered Godot if you think this is too meh.
Last week one of my sons asked me if I knew any one else who used hand planes. I tried to show the accuracy that can be achieved with a hand plane the sound of a hand plane compared to a jointer and the meaning of a hand made thing. My hand made things are not perfect; some are better than others but as time passes they get better (or my eye sight is fading). We know so much in this modern industrial and technical world I some times wonder when we will reach the point at which we have forgotten more than we know.
A sincere thank you
Having dived into woodworking a year ago, I realise I've never learned how to make a square. This should be the #1 instruction to watch for every hand tool beginner.
Some of the best 30 minutes I've ever spent on you tube
wow, thanks for the compliment! f you enjoued this, you'll enjoy my forum.
Wood and Shop I totally agree! Great 30mins, my wife also appreciated it so thank you.
And some of the worst 30 minutes you could waste on a single board since the invention of power tools
Wow I only realized it was that long after reading your comment
I've just come across this video and totally agree. I just can't understand the negative comments about traditional hand tool woodworking. I have subscribed.
This is the best and most informative woodwork video i have ever seen for straightening scrap wood. I should like to see more of your work. Thanks for an enjoyable 30min tuition.
Eight years ago, and I'm only finding it now! Great video. I have been frustrated with getting my mitre saw to cut true and thinking that I should dimension even store bought wood properly by hand. Now I am convinced! Thank you for posting this video; brilliant approach and full concentration on the job-in-hand, rather than talking about peripheral topics that are not relevant.
The end of the video says everything: if you are doing it for the money, do it with power tools; if you are doing for the satisfaction, nothing beats the hand tools
You're a real woodworker because a real woodworker can does job in any condition and environment! just with a couple traditional tools in his/ her hand ! but it would not be easy for anybody else unfortunately 90 percent of the new woodworkers even are not able to make a rough lumber or a board flat and nice smooth like you. Thanks for sharing that with us.
You're most welcome!
I love this video. This is the way it was done before all the power tools were invented. A hobby furniture builder does not need to spend lots of money to have perfect boards, just lots of elbow grease, patience and skill. I ruined quite a few boards myself while learning, but now thanks to you I am very good at getting them nice and square and parallel. Thank you and hello from Medellín, Colombia.
Glad you enjoyed it!
thank you so much...as a beginning woodworker i have been struggling with this for many many years and i have been forced to use power tools to accomplish this task... i prefer using hand tools but i just could never get the hang of it... i have taken so many classes and watched even more youtube videos trying to find out where i was screwing up... now i know... thanks again
at this moment we have 248 jerks of woodworking (meaning dislikes) , guys this is old school, this is traditional woodworking , i respect people who respects the wood and traditions. everyone can work and create using technologies, but this man creates without any electrical equipment and that`s he repects wood. THanks for your great video, i can say only that this was the best 30 minutes on youtube. Thank You
For me, this is the most informative video on squaring wood with hand plane. Thank you very much for this excellent guide!
Thanks!
Thank you for the time, effort and quality of the video. I used machines over 3+ decades as a furniture maker but, I actually learned a couple of things watching. People that do not or will not understand "traditional woodworking" should be thankful for the art of hand-tooling material. People pay money for courses that in many cases are not as detailed and instructive as this is. I have a shop in rural MO. City/suburban dwellers are not going to put up with the noise so here is you solutions free of charge! Thanks to Joshua ! Very nice in all respect sir.
What's particularly valuable about this video is nothing is assumed on behalf the viewer, you take your time to ensure the basics are communicated clearly and you keep re-iterating the checking. Nice and slow and comprehensive - exactly what's needed and your enthusiasm for using hand tools has clearly impacted your pace in presentation and probably life in general . Living in the UK we always suffer 'workshop envy' as most of us don't have the space of our American friends and now I also have a bad bout of plane jealousy. I sometimes wonder what God would have chosen as a occupation if he'd needed to - oh yeah - a hand tool carpenter...
A thorough introduction to the woodworking hand tools used in dimensional planing and jointing. Thank you. Excellent.
Watching your video from France.... I understood everything.
Your explanations are very easy to understand because you show everything in the same time.
It's very educative.
Thank you.
Je vous en prie!
Great video Joshua! I am a complete novice to traditional woodworking and modern woodworking. I have always wanted to make fine furniture but the opportunity to learn never presented itself. But now it looks like with youtube I can learn from gracious people like yourself willing to make these videos and teach the process. This video, it seems to me, covers the most essential step in producing accurate and tight projects. I had been hoping to find just what you did in this video. Thank you for your time and effort in sharing your love for the craft!
Really nice video. Well produced and I actually appreciate you leaving the "oops, not like that" moments in the video. It's good to see what can go wrong and observe what happened so that we can learn. Thank you for documenting things like this and keeping this art alive.
New found appreciation for traditional woodworking skills. I am a beginner but I find a great deal of satisfaction in doing the hard work myself. This is how I imagine myself passing the time :) thank you for the inspiring words and sharing your knowledge.
I haven't commented in a vid in the past couple of years, thats how awesome this video was for me. Thanks again :)
This is gold! No wonder I have trouble flattening boards. I always kept all the downward force on the plane's knob, throughout the entire stroke. Thanks for all the great tips!
This video just convinced me that a jointer is worth the money lol
BowHunter77 i was thinking the same thing
BowHunter77 its just a little work! lol
I know right! I admire the effort but even he was out of breath at the end of the video.
What's wrong with being out of breath? :)
I can certainly appreciate both. I love quietly working with hand planes, but I also like the speed of power tools that speed up the dimensioning process....so I can move quickly onto the more skilled joinery with hand tools.
I am a beginner as well. It just started with recycling my old furniture, then I started using pallet scraps to enjoy building little things, without turning my flat to a garbage of several power tools, for which actually one needs to spend several thousand euros to get good, accurate and stable ones. For so long I suffered with this not square stuff, desperately trying to match ends. Everything I cut, I built was just not in good shape. First I thought all begins with cutting it straight, then I thought all begins with measuring and marking it straight, but hey without a really flat reference whatever you measure and mark is also inaccurate. I think now I am down to the very fundamental starting point. Thank you very much. This was eye opening for a beginner without experience.
This video is by far the most comprehensive lesson on planing that i have seen on TH-cam ... and i have seen a lot! Thank you!
Thank you! A lot of us beginners or those of us that have been doing it for a while, but wrong, find this very helpful for making a foundation of skills for rewarding woodworking.
I've just got started with woodworking, and I'm finding that the extra attention spent on getting wood square and true is worth the effort and saves 2x time down the road. I can see using a hybrid method in this process, first getting 2 sides flat and square by hand planing, then using power planer and jointer on the other 2 sides in just a few seconds.
Thanks for teaching us these classic wood working techniques. This fall, I'm about to make some small boxes out of walnut and pine and your lesson is worth its weight in gold.
Wow, this guy has a talent for explaining in simple terms that nonwood worker can easily understand.
Great Video
Great teacher...
Thank you so much, I finally understand! You explained how to square up a board by hand better than anyone I have ever heard explain it before. Most people have listened to just gloss over while doing it without taking the extra time to actually explain in detail what they are doing while they are doing it.
This has been the best tutorial for flattening a board yet. Thank you.
First rate video buddy. Don’t let the haters down here discourage you, but judging from the satisfaction on your face while making this video, I don’t think they bother you much.
Ha, ha, haters will hate, but most people are kind.
it has always amazed me that anyone can hand plane a board edge to a perfect 90°.
This Is An Awesome Video. That's What I Got From The Vocatioanl School. The Very First Thing To Learn In The Class Is How To Flatten The Boards And Get Familiar With The Hand Tools. Now I Dont Do Woodwork For A Very Long Time And Almost Forget Everything, This Tut Brush Up The Essential Technique. Making A 90 Degree Equally Parallel Board Isnt An Easy Task As It Look Like, It Requires A Lot Of Practice To Make It Perfect. Hope There Will Be A Series So That We Can Learn To Make Stuffs Simply By Using Hand Tools, Just Like Our Ancestor Do, The Time Without Modern Machine. Thank You
Excellent video, and well presented. It took me back to my first woodshop days when I was a lad of 13. in 1944. We used this method to make a shaker stool. Preparing lumber to make boards by hand is very satisfying.
Glad you liked it!
Everybody has his or her own preference . I use both hand tools and machines . I own a beautiful dovetail jig but won't use it until I can cut them precisely by hand. I feel you can teach anyone to use a machine but to understand the process and really get an appreciation for wood-and woodworking I like to master the hand tools as well. Just what I prefer. Nice vid. Thank you .
Yes, I also mill most of my boards with power tools, and do much of my joinery with hand tools.
loved wood all my life, but too tied up in holding down a job. Now, I can learn, thanks to you and the Internet. Many thanks for sharing this with the likes of us,
Regards,
Cy
Outstanding and considerate of several things I wonder as learner. Much gratitude.
+John Maksim Glad you liked it John!
You are right, there are so other ways to do this and even faster, but the quality and the satisfaction is the best! Great video!
Very helpful and instructional to rookies like me...Definitely gives me a profound admiration for the early woodworkers!
Watching traditional woodworking REALLY MAKES ME APPRECIATE MY POWER TOOLS!
Ha, ha, me too!
It is definitely more work doing things by hand than with a machine but I find working by hand lets me enjoy the process AND get a work out in at the same time. Both decreasing my stress and improving my health. Lots of people just want to get to the end result quickly. Maybe banging out product is their income and the quicker a machine can do the job the better, I get that. There are a lot of us that enjoy the process of working with our hands to form a piece of wood into the image in our mind and don't need to bang out product fast. But, if we do sell it it usually goes for more money because it was created by our hands and not a machine. :)
Time is money.
Its my hobby, only get x amount of days off between work and family I respect the handwork and wish I was retired and could do this full-time. But unfortunately I can't
David Jones Actually the idea of time equaling money is only about 350 years old.
Working by hand can be a lot quicker than people realize. I can get a finish when doing it by hand that I could never get on a machine.
When you have wood with grain going in different directions I can read the wood and change direction with each pass that a machine can never do.
@@DavidJones-ie1qp time is life and how you spend your time forms who you are and what is important to you. I guess money is all that is important to you.
I am beginning to get into guitar building. I have a fairly decent knowledge of what makes a guitar tick, but i am lacking in basic woodworking fundamentals like this.
This was a very informative video which I will definitely be coming back to!
I am learning all of these by hand techniques while I can just in case we ever lose public utilities permanently. Thank you for the video.
While I'm nowhere near this level of craftsmanship (yet) I'm doing the same thing for the same reason. At this day and age apparently being an idiot is a valuable skill but the day will come when actual skills are valuable once again. 👍
I really learned a lot from this video. Being as I am, my first woodworking project ever is going to be a very beautiful 2.5m long by 2m high mid-century style open bookcase/room divider that I have designed myself. I have been learning jointing and the hand tools I'll need to use elsewhere on TH-cam and this video is right up there with the best of them. Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge.
You're welcome, and there are more videos to come!
Great woodworking teacher, great teacher. Of the many out there, you stand out at on top!
Here we are almost 4 years later....Yes a jointer and planer is easier but,,,,There's a certain joy in making shavings. :) Still even if electric machines are used hand planes are a necessity for many reasons...I don't do woodworking for money nor am I in a rush. Satisfaction is the name of the game for me. It's the design,the layout,the work around figuring, the nervous moments that count for me. The biggest let down is when it's done and the polish is whipped for the last time..Besides all that I love my hand tools and my jointer,planer,routers ect. I like knowing how to do things and why I do them... Love the videos and that everything I know hasn't had to be learned the hard way!
Lovely traditional use of tools, thank for making this video
Love the blog post "Why did you get into woodworking in the first place, to hurry and make a bunch of stuff?" The state of technology always offers us this choice - blast through to the final product - or just simply enjoy a long journey.
This is a very good point. To me, its really about the joy of working with the wood in the shop than having "a bunch of stuff" in the end. This is going to be even more of an issue in the future with computer-guided lasers, 3D printing, etc., which will eventually take all of the skill out of the process.
Thank you, this is so valuable to those of us who are not equipped with an electric jointer and planer, or those who simply prefer more organic methods (such as myself). Subscribed.
This video is so satisfying. Since woodworking is just side hobby and a way to get some quieter me-time, hand-work is the way to go..
That was rough! I watched this for pointers on getting boards smooth with hand planes, and it was great for that! I can't imagine spending that much time on a single board that started off in that kind of condition. I can salvage hardwood from pallets in less time, that are in far worse shape using a planer, miter saw, and table saw. Good on you though! Glad you enjoyed it, you did a great job on the video with lots of nice pointers! I won't be throwing out my power tools though, especially seeing the prices on these planers. I am going to get one 4.5 though and use it to remove waves. I got my power planer for cheaper than any new joint hand planer I have found.
Very helpful! I'm going to buy my first plane and this video help me a lot
I've been looking for a tutorial on using hand planers for quite some time now. For some reason, this style interests me me more than power tools. Thank you very much for creating this video!
Glad you liked it! And we have a great intro class at our school that teaches this, and how to use many other hand tools: woodandshop.com/school
Thanks a lot for this video. I live in an apartment, but I love woodworking. Owning a planer or a jointer is a no no, so it's mostly hand tools for me. I'm still learning how to square up a board and this video is my reference.
Very informative and detailed tutorial. Much appreciated. Especially the part on using a saw for squaring the end grain instead of relying on a block plane. Also found it interesting that you used a straight edge again and again to verify progress. It goes to show that quality results take time.
I don't think I have the patience to do hand planing. But your video was really clear, well produced, and included all the necessary detail it seems.
8 years late but I appreciate this video…. I’ve watched 5 or 6 videos and they are all very similar. Same process…. But each one is different and it helps me to see different folks operate through the same process and hear their commentary throughout! 👍
I can see this being the job of the new hires who had little experience back in the day. Im new to fine wood working and looking for a power joiner , this vid has given me the idea just to learn hand planing first to understand the wood better....than get a power joiner. :D
great video. I have all the power tools but doing it this way is much more about the therapy side of why I do woodworking. Thank you for sharing how you do it.
Glad it helped!
This is a great video and resource, thanks for posting it.
This sort of traditional woodworking with handtools is surprisingly difficult to learn about - for free anyway - these days. Lots of people assume woodworking to be inaccessible when the reality is quite different, with some good hand tools, a bench and - crucially - time anyone can give it a go.
The learning curve is high but it's also very rewarding. Sure you could run a board through a jointer and achieve hours of work in seconds but if you don't have that option - or don't mind spending time - then you can still achieve the same end result.
This is an excellent video and this guy is so generous with his time thank you
This isn't even that much work, and so much more rewarding than running machines. Plus, it helps the electric bill. I love the independence of the traditional English carpenter. Great video, subbed.
Thank you. Excellent video with much information. It's particularly useful that you emphasised that it's not just about getting surfaces flat but also parallel to the opposite edge/surface.
suckers0 I'm so glad you enjoyed the video! Yup, you've gotta have square edges.
I used a hand plane the first time today. Can't believe I waited this long to use one. Way more fun than power tool, and mug more rewarding. You actually feel like you're the one doing the work. But to each their own. I'll never replace my table saw or jigsaw for a hand saw. Must be a special case where either isn't applicable.
Does that not teach you the value of power tools. Total respect, seriously hard work. Good job.
This was great. If a kid wanted to get extra credit for shop class this would do it.
Great video. I have all the power tools to do it more loudly, but I prefer the hand tools more and more.
This video makes the quieter process clear and accessible. Thanks.
Thank you so much(from Normandy.) After playing around with wood working, owning electric machines, etc, I'd really like to begin to learn basic handcrafted wood working. Something very exciting the other day just using a jackplane...Might be old age. Thanks again for the time and energy(and monetary investment,) it takes to share these skills over the net...rr
Fantastic instruction. I'm a novice hobbyist and was instantly jealous of your bench. Great video. Keep it up!!
Excellent guide, thank you
Excellent tutorial, consistently reinforcing the basic details.
Thank you for this video. I live in an apartment so power tools is out of the question because of noise. I always wanted into this world and I'm finally doing it.
Edit: I came into the most dumbest problem; securing wood to my table to plane. I gave up and bought a cheap harbor freight woodworking table.
How well is your Harbor Freight table working for you? Do you recomend making your own instead like Rex Kruger's jointer bench?
Thanks for the info very very useful... free education thanks! Im glad this world has people like you.
I have always used machines and having watched this excellent video I am now going to try and learn these skills. Thank you for posting the vid.
You're welcome 😊
Wow...I just came across your series and I must say, this is better than a lot of "professional" productions I've seen. Wonderful instruction and a friendly presentation. I've always loved traditional woodworking and this is a great place to learn the basics. You've done a great job here!
+James Henry Thanks a lot James! Have you gotten involved on my hand tool woodworking forum? I'm sure you'd love it.
awesome video, of all the vids talking about flatting boards without jointer, then they use 2or3other machines, this guy video is awesome ...saying exactly how it’s done, nice one mister
Thank you so much for the detailed explanation. It is really useful, please go on doing this, there is so much value in these tools and techniques.
After watching various videos covering the same subject, your training technique made that little light bulb above my head turn on.
Thanks for your effort and concern for the rookies.
Ray
Ray Bohn Awesome Ray, that's exactly what I try to accomplish.
THANKS FOR THE HONESTY AND TEACHING.
Great video, I was wondering what this process entailed.
I feel like getting into all hand tool style woodworking as it would require so much less space . Also no sawdust and noise. Seems fun
It could be fun, once you get used to how much physical labor is involved.
I use hand planes por flattening and squaring because I don’t have any better (easier) way to do it. But until now I did it quite chaotically, until I got something decent. This video is going to make my life a lot easier, thank you very much!
Hello,
Thank you very much for posting this excellent video on how to flatten and square rough lumber. I have been doing this for years using jointer and planner but it is time now to learn this. I have invested in top notch hand planes as i consider these planes as life time investment.
This is by far the best instructional video that I was able to find on TH-cam. Tomorrow, i planned to practice what i learned here. I am not setting my hopes up to get perfectly flat and squared pieces as i know this is going to take lots of practice and trials and errors.
I subscribed to your channel already and look forward to warch other videos and learn
Thank you again
AJ
This is a very good video and the best I have seen on youtube about flattening and squaring rough timber. Thank you.
This is craftsmanship, classic and rewarding I love it.
Lots of useful information, quietly delivered. Thank you.
28 minutes of my life on this... TOTALLY WORTH IT, and so much better than all that meningless crap on media og netflix :-)
LOVE learning something new every day :-)
No bullsht... straight to the point... Very skilled👍🏻
Excellent video!! Very informative. Thanks for filming and posting.
That was one of the best videos i’ve ever seen, learned a lot, a Masterclass! Thank you
Nice work! My grandfather kept a marble slab in his shop from his days as a machinist, he'd just rub the soon-to-be-flat wood surface on the marble slab an the shiny rubbed spots are the high points.
You are a master craftsman! I always wondered how it is possible to get such flat and parallel edges an faces with hand planing. Thanx for a very informative video.
Hi master carpenters don’t use both hands on a saw
with school being out I cant use the shops planner, so I really want to get my project done, and i might just have to give a hand plane a try at home
Woo hoo!
Hand plane will producer a superior finish to that of a machine because you can adjust your direction that a machine cannot do.
DO not get me wrong a machine can produce a nice quality finish but will not be as good as when done by hand.
Thanks for your knowledge and skills, power tools really did open up the woodworking space I don't know if it was such a great thing as people have lost these incredible skills, sad state of affairs these days.
what I like is the detailed systematic approach. Nicely presented thanks.
Thanks so much William!
Great video. Very much appreciated. I only have planes so far - a jack plane and a block plane. Guess I should get a few more
Joshua, this is a real good Video. One of your best. Thanks. All the best Mike
Glad you enjoyed it Mike!