Woodworking Tips & Tricks | 10 Tips for Straight, Flat and Square
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- 10 Tips for Straight, Flat and Square. Rob Cosman shows you his top 10 tips for making sure you have straight, falt and square components which add up to a great piece of fine furniture
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I just wanted to say from a fellow vet and woodworker, thank you for your service to country and now to the TH-cam community
Thanks again
I always find some trick or tidbit in every video. Thanks Rob, your awesome! YOU are good just like wood!
Thanks for the tip on rubbing the high spots on a board! Made the piece I flattened last night go a lot quicker and more efficiently! Simple but effective!
Rob, you are a meaningful teacher and what you share is so practical and useful. While my unheated 2 car garage (which has two cars in it as well) doesn’t have a granite reference block in it, the concepts you show give such applicable examples of what we are trying to achieve! Thank you sir for your professional and simple approach!
Thanks you for taking the time to watch and comment
Excellent! #11, sight enhancement tool. I am amazed how much I need my magnifiers anymore. I do envy your big square. I still use my father’s aluminum framing square.
Dang I missed that one !
Great camera work showing how the workpiece looks with the measurements. Even on my phone screen I could see what you were talking about!
Jake the camera man is a magicican!
Good stuff as always. I just have to comment on #5, winding sticks (13:07), about a thing that made me smile and nod my head when I first heard it, because it so obvious when you think about it. The edges of the sticks do not need to be parallel. You can just put them together in the vise, the same way you will be using them, not letting them slide against each other, and plane the edges straight without bothering checking for parallelity. You always use them in the same direction if you have inlays, or just ink dots and markings. It might not be a very useful tip in practice, but is worth having in mind if you need to make some winding sticks quick for example.
Yup that would work
If your sticks aren't parallel then I believe that would require you to have them absolutely square on the stock or parallel in relation to each other viewed from above, otherwise you will get an inaccurate reading.
I think this is a good idea if you don't have sticks already and you need to make some with only hand tools, because you need sticks to make sticks.
Accuracy is a pre requisite not an optional extra
Thanks for demonstrating the need for and methods of achieving accuracy
Thanks also for no wasted words, no nonsense, no background music and outstanding quality of the videos
Finally thanks for sharing so much with so many
Great video, i think i watch all of your TH-cam videos , thanks
Rob👍👍
Keep watching and I will keep making them
Many thanks for sharing this valuable insight into fine woodworking.
you bet
Thanks👌🌹
anytime
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Nice job, glad to see you are using the David Charlesworth method. He is great and you are furthering the "gospel." Thanks!!
Been using and preaching the charlesworth trick for many many years
Nice video Rob, really helped me out today getting a better fit on my tool chest dovetails. Always learn so much from your teaching. Thanks for the phone call yesterday just sorry I missed it.
Glad it was helpful
Nice camera angles
Jake is a great camera man
I really appreciate all the information that you pass on. I have used the information you have given me through the years, to create an operate a very nice woodshop!!
Therefore, I am now enjoying, what I do as a retired engineer, working with wood!! Also, making a profit at it.. Once again, thank you, Rob Cosman.
I will continue to watch your programs on TH-cam and suck it up like a dry sponge!!!!
That's the dream, isn't it. To have a hobby that can pay for its own upgrades?
So glad I was able to help take your hobby to th enext level
One of the things I love about woodworking is the fact that it gives you some leeway: tolerances that would give a machinist sleepless nights are perfectly alright in woodworking. Feels very human.
This is an outstanding video on how to up your game in a very easy way. It helped me to think about the ways those tools you mentioned can be used beyond their basic purpose. Thanks for your expertise. Take care and be safe.
Glad it was helpful!
How do you keep rust off of your squares? I've tried 3 in 1 and paste wax but little bits of rust keep coming back
My shop id humidity and temp controlled so I dont have that issue. I would wipe my metal tools down with oil
I live 100 yards from the sea and I use 3 in 1 oil, but the hardest part is remembering to put them away after use! For me, the most important rust prevention tool is having a place for each tool. Somewhere you can quickly take out a tool and put away again, and last thing when you're finished you're able to close the drawer, door, lid or whatever to encase the tool. I find foam (like Kaizam or equivalent) helps too, which is how I store my planes. Anything I have that doesn't have a place, usually ends up getting left out on my bench or other surface and quickly rusts. I still have a long way to go to get everything setup well in this regard, but I'm careful to at least put things in drawers these days where I might not have previously. I now have a rule that I won't buy a new tool unless I have a place to store it, which is a great money saver!
@@ricos1497 I really appreciate this comment! I neglect to store my tools so I'm going to look into making little boxes with foam inserts for my squares and planes
This is an excellent video subject. it is more technique oriented with less emphasis on cutting a particular joint or building a complete project. These are the skills that, In my opinion and experience, will make me, and others as well, improve and progress with furniture building. Thxs RC.
Glad it was helpful!
Would you put some more light around your shop at workbench height to give a bright source for looking at gaps under the straight edges?
Paint the wall / shelves in a contrasting color?
I never thought about that. I think the light at that level might be more of a nusance than a help. Try it and let us know
Thank you for all your experience and your knowledge!!
It takes me 10X longer to do something only half as good as you do it, but I'm working on it!
Square and flat is much harder than it would first appear.
Could we get a list or table of contents for future quick reference? Thanks!
I add the list when approproate , but then that cuts down on watch tiem
I really got a lot out of this video. I was working on a cabinet yesterday, and while dry-fitting parts, realized my square was not square. I know I’ve struggled with fit recently because of that square. I think it was in your first tip - verify your tools! Thanks Rob.
Good catch....You need a really good square
Great tips as always. Learned a couple new ones here that I will be using next time.
Great to hear!
Very helpful video. #6 is the biggie for me.
Glad it was helpful!
Nice review of important concepts! Thanks
Thanks for watching and commenting
Very nice. That's one good sized chunk of granite.
I know right. And thats only 1/2 of the original one.
What you don't see in the video is that when you turn it over, you can see the inscription "In loving memory of...." the rest is missing where it snapped off!
As always Rob, very helpful and spots on!
Thanks for the comment
I want to see more videos like this with tips and tricks.
I wanted to drop a comment for two reasons. The first is to say I appreciate the excellent and thorough content. I am probably on the third time watching each video. There a lot of videos that show you how to do things in the shop on youtube, but I know can count on yours to show how to do it right. Much appreciated!
The second reason is to ask a question unrelated to this video but maybe I missed it I. The past. On that beautiful cherry and holly desk with the vanishing drawers… you have an ingenious little drawer catch that appears to be spring loaded or floating that you reach into the underside of the desk top and push in to allow you to slide the drawer out. Have you detailed that before? Did I overlook it? Would you be interested in revealing how that is made? Thanks so much. Heading to your website to make a contribution.
-John Quigley, Michigan
Well I have talked about it but I have not doen a specific video on just how to make that. Its just a bit of thin wood with a knob on th eend that stick through a hole. The this wood acts like a spring so I can push it up
18:45 What does that monster weigh?
Its heavy, I would say 50-60 pounds
How do you like the IBC plane iron compared to the stock Woodriver? I have your sharpening system but still get a tiny spec in the blade, after going over a pine knot.
WoodRiver blades arevery good and all 90% of hobby woodworkers need. If you want to go for a 10-15% better blade and are willing to pay for it go for a A2 cryo blade such as an IBC
Thanks for the tips!
you bet
Great tips for getting to the next level of precision. I'm still working on that so really appreciate these finer points. Thanks Mr C for another exceptional presentation on topics not often seen
Very welcome!
He’s not kidding! That 12 square is $800.00 usd.
Yes it is...used!
Brill, thankyou Rob
Thank you for watching
Great series of tips. Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
Good tips.
Glad it was helpful!
HEY ROB! ANY COMMENT ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE EMERGENCY ORDER IN YOUR COUNTRY? HOW YOU LIKE THE POLICE AND MILITARY TREATMENT OF PROTESTERS?
No comment on the matter. But we stand for freedom everywhere.
Military is not involved.