Nice work Matthias. I think it should be noted that part of the brilliance of your work is that with simple tools you can rapidly and inexpensively create functional pieces. What people forget in this technology laden world that any more precision than what is needed for the task is wasted.
Matthias, I remember seeing your webpage in the 90s with various contraptions, including the old wasp trap. Great to see you're still inventing and teaching.
I was able to find and order the Shopnotes magazine 115 showing how to build a router lathe. As I look at the picture on the cover, I would never have guessed making the gears on the side could be within my capabilities. And then your video comes along! Wow! This is very cool. This one is a keeper!
You are ridiculously intelligent. The things you build are just beyond my wood working talents. This gear project however, was explained so simply with such perfect step by step instructions, if I ever had a wooded box joint jig and needed a wooden gear, I feel pretty confident I could make one.
How smart you are scares me a bit. Your demeanor is calm and quiet yet beneath that is a power I cannot comprehend. People we traditionally view as smart - loud, outspoken, good at polishing a perfect image, etc. - are usually in positions of power and are completely different than you. It scares me because the general public, and myself, might overlook your incredible intelligence when meeting you for the first time. What is mentally required to assemble what you assemble from start to finish, film it, edit it, and complete everything all the way is absolutely astonishing. It requires enormous emotional stability, inner confidence, love for the craft, focus, clarity, creativity and technical skill. Thank you for the videos.
@@MINECRRAFTERKILL Well I wish other TH-cam videos were this well done. Most just ramble on, unscripted. Some even end up in failure, yet they were posted. It almost seems TH-cam posters get paid by the minute. Lately, many videos have titles that are outright lies, clickbait. I look at comments during the first minute. If there is a negative, I drop out.
I've seen on other tutorials (specifically on using scroll saws) to use clear packing tape to help lubricate and prolong blade life (and it makes removing the pattern easier). You can also use a heat gun to make removing the pattern much easier! Thanks for the brilliant idea to use a drill for the inside part of the teeth! You just made my life soooo much easier!
probably do already but in case you didnt know this video inadvertently created an amazing music machine, song and music video made by wintergratan, i just watched his how it was made video and he referenced this as where he learned to create the gears and then decided to make the machine. i instantly recognized the name mattias wandel as i was already subscribed :)
Thank you Matthias for your videos & website! I'm first year carpenter student from Finland and I find your stuff really inspiring. I'm gonna build something with gears as soon as i finish my chair project :D
Oh wow... Wow, seriously wow. I am half a minute in and you've already shown me not only everything I wanted but a lot of stuff I didn't know I needed thank you very much for sharing!
I just slapped myself in the forehead when I saw you use a drill press to clean up the little spaces between the teeth "ahead of time". Lol I was making it WAY to difficult with all the twisting and turning I was doing on my band saw. My dad and I both really appreciated this video and I'm going to be buying the full version of your gear program as well. Great work. :-)
These videos are ridiculously AWESOME! So glad you're sharing. The videos are VERY well made too! clear sound, clear shots, close-ups of the important parts... VERY good job.
Love it. Watching it with my visiting 23 y.o. daughter. Building a shop in next year or so, as this hobby has become an obsession! Great vids, thank you!
man you just took my vision of carpentry to a hole new world, thanks for these vids. just ignore my awful english. thanks for your time for sharing that knowledge. excellent! congrats!
@Matthiaswandel Hey thanks I found it and also see that you have the option to evaluate the program which I think is great. The planetary gears look incredible. This looks like a must have program, looking forward to trying it out.
I made your box joint tool and found everything working perfectly... The gear cutting files worked perfectly. I took the hpgl file into corel and exported as a .dxf to convert it. I then took it to VcarvePro and made the gears on my CNC. I used a tapered ball end bit to finish the inside taper... Love your stuff...
Good afternoon matthias My name is Augusto'm from Brazil want to congratulate him for the projects accompany most of your videos like you to build a homemade cnc cutting wood and manufacture of handicrafts Thank you
Smart and simple. I was wondering how you got those gears so perfect. But after you showing how it's broken down into steps, it all clear and good. Thanks.
I've never made wooden gears but back when I was an industrial Maintenance Technician, I made metal gears by the paper template and bandsaw method. Sometimes a piece of machinery would break a gear tooth and it could take days to get a replacement. If it wasn't a really high speed or precision gear, or a helical or bevel, I could put it on a xerox machine and make a copy, (actually two copies so I could cut and paste around the broken teeth). Then I cut the teeth on a band saw and hand filed them so they ran smooth. We didn't have a milling machine or the cutters to mill them. The gears were nowhere near precise as the manufactured ones, but they only took a couple of hours to make and would last until replaceements arrived.
i have a project i am working on...it is related to a tricycle....as it stands..there are two chains on it. one from the pedal crank to a middle hub that has 3 internal gears....from this hub,there is another chain that goes to the final drive sprocket on the drive wheel.....i would like to replace the 1st chain with a drive shaft of sorts....i think this is possible because the sprocket on the pedal crank is basicly a big gear..... what do you think ? a drive shaft from the pedal crank to the internal gear hub ...feasible ?
I always thought that gear making is a tedious task until I watched this video of your. You make it look simple and easy! I really enjoyed the video and thank a lot for sharing it. :-)
It is people like you why I changed my major to engineering. This video is great, but not just this one all your videos are great thanks for the videos!
Thanks for sharing these videos. I have a project that would involve gears and a flywheel but it isn't my expertise. Your video shows that I could make the gears myself! Drilling a hole for each tooth to have a smooth and consistent notch was awesome to see!
Absolutely fantastic instruction and visuals! I wanted to make a setup of gears for a playhouse feature, but this is far better than I was even hoping for!
What a fantastic resource. I've often fancied trying this after watching your videos, but getting accurate gears made up sounded off-putting. Thank-you!
Matthias, thank you for your excellent instructions. This video (and many others of yours) greatly helped me in realizing my "micro workshop". Schöne Grüße aus Berlin!
Thanks for testing that out. Printing is pretty key though. It was the ease of doing antialiased graphics to the screen and printer that made me pick c#
Thank you for this online gear designer ! Exactly what I was looking for since some time ago (+ your English is easy to understand for my French ears...)
Hi Matthias love your work been watching you for a couple yrs now. I purchased your gear program a yr or 2 ago and was wondering if you had records of it reason i ask is that i have a teenage son that took my flash drive with the program and he deleted all my stuff with out saving it and the computer i installed it on got damaged on me. i didnt have cloud or anything to save all my downloads. Keep up the wonderful work.
I purchased your Gear Generator program. Thank you I love it. Especially the protractor option. When you do an upgrade could you add the option to print numbers with the protractor as well with the following options of 0 -22 or 1 - 23 on a 23 point protractor or the degrees around for each point. Just a thought thank you for sharing.
That would be ring gears. Yes, the program can do that. Click on the link in the description to go to the page, and from there you can find links to the program.
Amazing video! Just a small tip. Before gluing the template, you can use blue (or transparent) tape over the wood and then glue the template to the tape. To remove the template, just remove the tape. Clean and easy! And use a scroll saw, if you can. Those can be tilted by design ;)
@Matthiaswandel You got some great video's... One of these days I may just have to build my own bandsaw! For a lot of nonsensical parts for jigs, I will lightly use a spray mount glue to attach a paper template to an object (spray the paper, not the object!). Then dissolve the bond with a petrolium based cleaner when finished. Just another option.
Awesome work, i love watching the videos... its my fun time, watching ur all work videos. especially this gear making and all ur handmade tools are superb.
Your video is so right on something that's difficult you are making it easier to do and simplifying the process thank you for the time and I thought you put into it to make it as straightforward as possible appreciate it thank you I have liked and subscribed to your Channel
You have so many tools! Can you make a tutorial guide on which set of instruments shall be of must in every woodworks shop? If you make it, certainly, a lot of people will be grateful to you. Thanks in advance!
Hi Matthias, great work! Quick question, I don't have a bandsaw and was wondering if it would be possible to make the bevel in the gears with a dovetail bit for the router - or would the angle be too steep?
I thought about casting these in aluminum and was wondering if it was possible for them to work with a slight angle on the teeth. So after watching this I'm going to have to try it sometime this winter. Thanks! And as always, great videos and info. Keep up the great work.
Thank you, I like your site and the videos on youtube. I hope to learn more from you, i need a lot of training but I enjoy working with wood to create useful things.
Tip for drilling the holes: up the speed on your drill press! Initially I was using the lowest speed and it was tearing up the paper template and causing a lot of tearout on the backside. Using a higher speed dramatically improved my results.
Hey Matthias! i have noticed you dont upload as often as you used to, I am a big fan and i just wanted to make sure you are okay. I always love your videos and i am looking forward to the next one. It doesn´t even matter what kind of video it is...mouse trap, ball bearing track or work shop improvments. I love them all. I hope you get your weekly motivation back (winkwink). All the best from Sweden
First of all I love your videos and hope to eventually get around to making some of your machines. I have used your Gear Generator program to create plans for some gears that I cut out. I noticed that the gears generated are very slightly elliptical and therefore are prone to jamming. At first I thought this was my cutting or my printer but when I export the gears to .DXF and take them into illustrator for laser cutting, on larger gears the height can be 0.5 mm out from the width. Any Ideas?
Ah... Nothing better than finding a little unwatched back catalog. Thanks for sharing a decade ago! You’ve come a long way. Cheers! 🍻👍🏻😊
I use your gear template generator often, use gears on alot of my jigs and contraptions.. Huge Thankyou! You have saved me many hours of work..
Do you think it will work with MDF?
Matthias Wandel I like that your videos are all showing everyone how to make machines and how do they work.
Hi, I just finished cutting some gears using the your gear generator for templates. Thank you so much. The gears are amazing. Keep up the good work!
Nice work Matthias. I think it should be noted that part of the brilliance of your work is that with simple tools you can rapidly and inexpensively create functional pieces. What people forget in this technology laden world that any more precision than what is needed for the task is wasted.
Matthias, I remember seeing your webpage in the 90s with various contraptions, including the old wasp trap. Great to see you're still inventing and teaching.
I was able to find and order the Shopnotes magazine 115 showing how to build a router lathe. As I look at the picture on the cover, I would never have guessed making the gears on the side could be within my capabilities. And then your video comes along! Wow! This is very cool. This one is a keeper!
Why is it so simple when experts do it… thanks for all the technique tips
Greeting from South Africa, I am recently retired and have found your channel to be very inspiring 👍
you are a wonderful demonstator, precise, clear, quick... one of the best demonstrators I have heard... nice.
You are ridiculously intelligent. The things you build are just beyond my wood working talents. This gear project however, was explained so simply with such perfect step by step instructions, if I ever had a wooded box joint jig and needed a wooden gear, I feel pretty confident I could make one.
How smart you are scares me a bit. Your demeanor is calm and quiet yet beneath that is a power I cannot comprehend. People we traditionally view as smart - loud, outspoken, good at polishing a perfect image, etc. - are usually in positions of power and are completely different than you. It scares me because the general public, and myself, might overlook your incredible intelligence when meeting you for the first time.
What is mentally required to assemble what you assemble from start to finish, film it, edit it, and complete everything all the way is absolutely astonishing. It requires enormous emotional stability, inner confidence, love for the craft, focus, clarity, creativity and technical skill.
Thank you for the videos.
One of the best demos I've ever seen on TH-cam! Clear and concise. Great job, Matthias!
is it still the best demo in the past 10 years ?
@@MINECRRAFTERKILL Well I wish other TH-cam videos were this well done. Most just ramble on, unscripted. Some even end up in failure, yet they were posted. It almost seems TH-cam posters get paid by the minute. Lately, many videos have titles that are outright lies, clickbait. I look at comments during the first minute. If there is a negative, I drop out.
matthias, you are very inventive, smart and generous enough to share your work! thank you.
I've seen on other tutorials (specifically on using scroll saws) to use clear packing tape to help lubricate and prolong blade life (and it makes removing the pattern easier). You can also use a heat gun to make removing the pattern much easier!
Thanks for the brilliant idea to use a drill for the inside part of the teeth! You just made my life soooo much easier!
Смотрю Ваши Видео. И задумка и мысль и воплощение в материале всё превосходно! Да ещё и к тому же, прекрасный монтаж видео!
probably do already but in case you didnt know this video inadvertently created an amazing music machine, song and music video made by wintergratan, i just watched his how it was made video and he referenced this as where he learned to create the gears and then decided to make the machine. i instantly recognized the name mattias wandel as i was already subscribed :)
Matthias might have known, but I didn't. Amazing things these Europeans do.
Thank you Matthias for your videos & website! I'm first year carpenter student from Finland and I find your stuff really inspiring. I'm gonna build something with gears as soon as i finish my chair project :D
Oh wow... Wow, seriously wow. I am half a minute in and you've already shown me not only everything I wanted but a lot of stuff I didn't know I needed thank you very much for sharing!
I just slapped myself in the forehead when I saw you use a drill press to clean up the little spaces between the teeth "ahead of time". Lol I was making it WAY to difficult with all the twisting and turning I was doing on my band saw. My dad and I both really appreciated this video and I'm going to be buying the full version of your gear program as well. Great work. :-)
These videos are ridiculously AWESOME! So glad you're sharing. The videos are VERY well made too! clear sound, clear shots, close-ups of the important parts... VERY good job.
Love it. Watching it with my visiting 23 y.o. daughter. Building a shop in next year or so, as this hobby has become an obsession! Great vids, thank you!
Incredible work Matthias... Thanks for sharing!
man you just took my vision of carpentry to a hole new world, thanks for these vids. just ignore my awful english. thanks for your time for sharing that knowledge. excellent! congrats!
@Matthiaswandel Hey thanks I found it and also see that you have the option to evaluate the program which I think is great. The planetary gears look incredible. This looks like a must have program, looking forward to trying it out.
I own an 8000 ft shop, I have been working with wood , building cabinets for 24 years. You are very talented, I am impressed/ depressed ;)
I made your box joint tool and found everything working perfectly... The gear cutting files worked perfectly. I took the hpgl file into corel and exported as a .dxf to convert it. I then took it to VcarvePro and made the gears on my CNC. I used a tapered ball end bit to finish the inside taper... Love your stuff...
Good afternoon matthias
My name is Augusto'm from Brazil want to congratulate him for the projects accompany most of your videos like you to build a homemade cnc cutting wood and manufacture of handicrafts
Thank you
Smart and simple. I was wondering how you got those gears so perfect. But after you showing how it's broken down into steps, it all clear and good. Thanks.
I've never made wooden gears but back when I was an industrial Maintenance Technician, I made metal gears by the paper template and bandsaw method. Sometimes a piece of machinery would break a gear tooth and it could take days to get a replacement. If it wasn't a really high speed or precision gear, or a helical or bevel, I could put it on a xerox machine and make a copy, (actually two copies so I could cut and paste around the broken teeth). Then I cut the teeth on a band saw and hand filed them so they ran smooth. We didn't have a milling machine or the cutters to mill them. The gears were nowhere near precise as the manufactured ones, but they only took a couple of hours to make and would last until replaceements arrived.
i have a project i am working on...it is related to a tricycle....as it stands..there are two chains on it. one from the pedal crank to a middle hub that has 3 internal gears....from this hub,there is another chain that goes to the final drive sprocket on the drive wheel.....i would like to replace the 1st chain with a drive shaft of sorts....i think this is possible because the sprocket on the pedal crank is basicly a big gear.....
what do you think ? a drive shaft from the pedal crank to the internal gear hub ...feasible ?
Engenius idea...I'm using a co2 laser cutter (Boss Laser) but amazed at how well your jig came out.
I would like to thank you for the wonderful program.
Already purchased it :)
Vegoil guy said you were the gear guru. Glad I watched .it helped alot and will watch more. A big fan!
I always thought that gear making is a tedious task until I watched this video of your. You make it look simple and easy! I really enjoyed the video and thank a lot for sharing it. :-)
It is people like you why I changed my major to engineering. This video is great, but not just this one all your videos are great thanks for the videos!
My goodness. I can (and will) watch your videos all day.
WOW, Thank you very much for teaching how to - I want to make a router table just like yours
do you have setup plans etc?
I'm a programmer and but videos like these keep me up at night.
Thank you!! I couldn't find any bevel gears and was kind of lost until I watched your video.
Thanks for sharing these videos. I have a project that would involve gears and a flywheel but it isn't my expertise. Your video shows that I could make the gears myself! Drilling a hole for each tooth to have a smooth and consistent notch was awesome to see!
Great job making wooden gears that work. Thanks for sharing
Absolutely fantastic instruction and visuals! I wanted to make a setup of gears for a playhouse feature, but this is far better than I was even hoping for!
Man , you really know what you are doing, my respect for you and your work.
Amazing job in all aspects. Thank u very much for sharing all these info and tools! Congratulations
Very informative video! Thank you.
Any chance your purchased program will draw the odd shaped gear templates like the Leonardo drawing?
What a fantastic resource. I've often fancied trying this after watching your videos, but getting accurate gears made up sounded off-putting. Thank-you!
Crazy to be paid for your hard work and clever innovations.
Matthias, thank you for your excellent instructions. This video (and many others of yours) greatly helped me in realizing my "micro workshop". Schöne Grüße aus Berlin!
Your stuff is awesome! I am always amazed at what you show us how do in such a simple way with such simple tools!
Thanks for testing that out.
Printing is pretty key though. It was the ease of doing antialiased graphics to the screen and printer that made me pick c#
Who are you talking to you can use the reply for it
Beautiful work...this guy loves what he does
enjoy!
Hi Matt, you are a great guy, very much generous...
Greetings from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Thank you for this online gear designer ! Exactly what I was looking for since some time ago (+ your English is easy to understand for my French ears...)
Muy bueno el video y las explicaciones. Gracias..!! Saludos desde las sierras de Córdoba Argentina...!! 👍👌💪🇦🇷
What an insanely awesome jig!
I bought this software yesterday. Very happy
Hi Matthias love your work been watching you for a couple yrs now. I purchased your gear program a yr or 2 ago and was wondering if you had records of it reason i ask is that i have a teenage son that took my flash drive with the program and he deleted all my stuff with out saving it and the computer i installed it on got damaged on me. i didnt have cloud or anything to save all my downloads. Keep up the wonderful work.
Thank you Mathias for posting your videos, I've learned a lot from you.
All the best to you.
I purchased your Gear Generator program. Thank you I love it. Especially the protractor option. When you do an upgrade could you add the option to print numbers with the protractor as well with the following options of 0 -22 or 1 - 23 on a 23 point protractor or the degrees around for each point.
Just a thought thank you for sharing.
Fantastic video, thanks.
Super jig !!!
Nice tutorial Matthias!
I'm seriously so grateful for your youtube channel and website! such great work!
That would be ring gears. Yes, the program can do that. Click on the link in the description to go to the page, and from there you can find links to the program.
Wow, that was very impressive. Thanks so much for taking the time to share that with us. Great video and awesome creation.
Would the 5 degree angled cuts be a good method to use for clock gears? Great video, thanks.
Nicely done! I may try to use your templates for 3-D printing gears.
Amazing video! Just a small tip. Before gluing the template, you can use blue (or transparent) tape over the wood and then glue the template to the tape. To remove the template, just remove the tape. Clean and easy!
And use a scroll saw, if you can. Those can be tilted by design ;)
Meh. Band saw is much faster IMO.
@Matthiaswandel You got some great video's... One of these days I may just have to build my own bandsaw!
For a lot of nonsensical parts for jigs, I will lightly use a spray mount glue to attach a paper template to an object (spray the paper, not the object!). Then dissolve the bond with a petrolium based cleaner when finished. Just another option.
Awesome work, i love watching the videos... its my fun time, watching ur all work videos. especially this gear making and all ur handmade tools are superb.
Your video is so right on something that's difficult you are making it easier to do and simplifying the process thank you for the time and I thought you put into it to make it as straightforward as possible appreciate it thank you I have liked and subscribed to your Channel
You have so many tools! Can you make a tutorial guide on which set of instruments shall be of must in every woodworks shop? If you make it, certainly, a lot of people will be grateful to you. Thanks in advance!
I wondered why you never used gloves; then I saw your working ability and I wondered if you really need them. Good video, thank you!
Thank you SO much! This is really an incredible thing you've done and it is VERY much appreciated!
I've been sitting here for about an hour and a half just letting the video's go. Amazing stuff.
Hi Matthias, great work! Quick question, I don't have a bandsaw and was wondering if it would be possible to make the bevel in the gears with a dovetail bit for the router - or would the angle be too steep?
Lo maximo Matthias mereces muchos premios,te felicito por el invento.
I thought about casting these in aluminum and was wondering if it was possible for them to work with a slight angle on the teeth. So after watching this I'm going to have to try it sometime this winter. Thanks! And as always, great videos and info. Keep up the great work.
I think this is awesome and opens up a whole new world of making diy tools. Well worth the money and Im buying into it!
Incredible work Matthias!
Thank you, I like your site and the videos on youtube. I hope to learn more from you, i need a lot of training but I enjoy working with wood to create useful things.
You sir, are a genius! :)
Will make use of your gear templates for a home made CNC machine.
Thanks!
you are the responsible of woodengears.ca??? man you save me with my college projects! THANK YOU
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Cheers from Paris.
Tip for drilling the holes: up the speed on your drill press!
Initially I was using the lowest speed and it was tearing up the paper template and causing a lot of tearout on the backside. Using a higher speed dramatically improved my results.
Very impressive skill set Mr. Wandel.
super video I just would not of thought of making gears out of wood like this. Great stuff.
Your videos make me want to own a bandsaw.
Oh, and a lot of plywood too.
Great tutorial, Matthias! Thanks for sharing.
My hat is is off to you, man! Your work is unbelievable!!!
Hey Matthias! i have noticed you dont upload as often as you used to, I am a big fan and i just wanted to make sure you are okay. I always love your videos and i am looking forward to the next one. It doesn´t even matter what kind of video it is...mouse trap, ball bearing track or work shop improvments. I love them all. I hope you get your weekly motivation back (winkwink). All the best from Sweden
Que lindo , porque ya esta traducido, gracias por el subtitulo en Español
I've heard of gearheads before, but this is first for a wooden gearhead..........Great Video!
gracias por publicar tus videos, son muy útiles e ingeniosos para realizarlos y aplicarlos en la elaboración de un proyecto en casa o taller
I purchased this software and it is perfect !!!! Thanks this is the best!!
T shirtwetter sir can you share me this software ...bcs I dnt buy this one ....
Ateeque Mughal I'll buy a copy for you
Matthias, I was wondering two questions. 1. what kind of varnish do you use? and 2. do you like linseed oil?
First of all I love your videos and hope to eventually get around to making some of your machines. I have used your Gear Generator program to create plans for some gears that I cut out. I noticed that the gears generated are very slightly elliptical and therefore are prone to jamming. At first I thought this was my cutting or my printer but when I export the gears to .DXF and take them into illustrator for laser cutting, on larger gears the height can be 0.5 mm out from the width. Any Ideas?
You can use a scrollsaw too. Just that it cuts a bit slower.
Or you could look up my bandsaw plans and build your own bandsaw!
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Awesome video. Well narrated. Well filmed. Well edited.
What kind of plywood and thickness do you recommend for making gears?
Very informative, mr. Wandel! Thank you for posting!