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Great video! Question, does the grain orientation also transfer over to other tools? For example, a dovetail saw handle.

I have some of these. I am restoring some up to 24 inches long. I am going to have some major repairs on handles. Also do recommend a blade/chip breaker to use when i don't have one? My purchase was a set of 25 in various conditions. Thanks for the information and this video.

I’ve just stumbled on your Chanel, fantastic. I’m just about to build a new slightly larger bench to the one I currently have, so had a quick look on CZcams to be greeted by some hugely pointless and extremely expensive material and time wasting projects. So refreshing to see someone explain it how it is and should be done . I started my training as a furniture maker aged 16 in the UK in the early 1990’s at Rycotewood college. When I set up my own business, making furniture and windows and doors for listed buildings I only used hand tools because that was all I had. And I loved it until I’d earned enough to expand . The first thing I made for that first workshop was a bench a bit smaller than this one, only shorter because I could only afford to rent a tiny workshop. Now I own a massive workshop with massive machines, and operate in a different country , and it all started out with a bench like that. Most of the work I’ve done has been on a 4m long English Joiners bench similar to the one on this video still, only it has a 1960s record 53e vice on it and the shelf is the floor! My current one is getting a bit tired kw so I’m going to make another only a little larger this time. In my opinion, for 99 % of traditional and contemporary woodwork any more features just become a hindrance, and less the same also. Never underestimate the power of the old school!

Missed this one on 4/1/23. I hope every viewer noted the date. Hilarious!

Great video

Where is video 1 to this please

Best chisel is all the sizes. Once your able too get them all.

It is difficult to find a good wood plane in a reasonable condition for restoration. I seem most are firewood. If not, the seller wants too much for them.

Did you ever think about adding a recessed tool tray for the back half of your bench? Like a blend between a Nicholson and Moravian bench top.

I think your approach and philosophy is aligned with historic wood workers. Modern woodworkers romanticize about wood working. Workbenches were tools to get work done fast. They didn’t have time to be precious about them. And materials were very expensive back then, so they used the minimal amount of material to get the job done.

Is there a way to use hand tools to cut a groove that follows a curve? I’m sure this is a limited use tool but just curious if it exists?

Sir can you send me a stone I can make into a honing stone ? I of course pay for it ??

It's always refreshing to hear the truth and unfortunately I don't think anyone gives a damn. The newbies continue posting on instagram how they are taking a shaving and producing nothing. Magazines have photos to make an experienced craftsman look like a layman. Yes, woodworking online isn't real at all. I got to ask why has six months passed and you haven't produced a single video since? Why is there only 21.2k subscribers when someone ele who's only worked wood in a school for a year has 200k. Bceause they paid for false subscribers and you didn't. Welcome to the real world of fakery.

I like your finger fine tuning method. I too struggle with sighting an iron. Thanks for this informative video.

I love the knowledge of old tools from you guys but I can't agree with wood squares over metal 😅

I don't mean to undermine your knowledge. I have been working in this trade from a child and have much experience with the tools of the trade. Woodworkers and blacksmiths go back generations. A blacksmith or Machinist is not going to put a wood square up in comparison to a metal one! If you want a tool that will move far less and stay straight it's not made of wood. We all know as woodworkers that wood moves far more as it expands and contracts with changes in the environment. This is why we allow for movement as we build with wood more than metal!

Wy have you not mentioned anything about grains in wood or species of stable woods and the differences. This is important information when making wooden tools! I have metal squares and I don't have any problems using them you just have to be more careful with them on soft woods. A combination square is a great tool. Allows you to gage the depth an height of things and make more accurate markings, cuts and check how even a rabbit or groove even ceek the corner's of your tenants for square. I use the combination square just as much as my large framing square also use a verity of machine squares for projects and tool maintenance. I find metal squares and straight edges more accurate but you can get by with wood for woodworking. You should still have a machine squares for tool maintenance.

Good video and to the point. One polite remark though, at about 16:35 you are saying that the more you go to the toe of the saw, you would reduce the rake to ease the starting of the cut. I think you meant it correctly but using the term reducing the rake it will generate a more aggressive cut. Right? The opposite is true. Increasing the rake at the toe of the saw will indeed ease the starting of the cut. Best regards, Pantelis

I used to have a 1" and a butt stamp for hanging doors when I was younger. Now I need to do some fine chiseling on a Tanto handle for a knife I forged. After several failed attempts I found your video. I went back in my shop and successfully chiseled the halves out on my first attempt. Thank you so much!!! Forge On!!! ps Ill probably forge some custom chisels as my love for Japanese edged weapons seems to know no end.

I learned a shi*ton from this. Thank you!

I have been watching bench building videos for a spell. It is intimidating thinking about how much work and material goes into a proper woodworking fixture as shown in many of them. You guys have made me think more about what is really needed to get started than any other woodworker i have watched. Good job.

Brilliant!!

lol, Ive been doing it all wrong...gonna sell my benches and start working on the floor.

none of the other youtube channels gave the fore plane any importance wasted time with jack planes

I like being able to work on all 4 sides of the bench . Jr.

Dude these videos are priceless! I am a long time carpenter new to woodworking. House building to furniture. I spent thr last year working with a natural building straw bale timbre frame crew. Still all mordern and power tools but the style of building got ke obsessed with learning the old ways. Recently i have build my own shop and am in the process of selling off my power tools and going all hand tools. So freeing!!

Locust is cheap and pretty darn heavy😆

It is better because it is mobile, thus I can locate in best daylight conditions too etc

It is better because I don’t need a vice and all my body is SYMMETRICally located along axis of work piece.

Agree with all of it. However, if I have a Roman heavy duty half log bench that I sit on and have direct view from above the work bench, parallaxed vision, then that is better.

This was great😂

thank you

I have an old rusty 4tpi saw in my shop that I acquired found when I moved in. Never touched it, but you’ve given me inspiration to get clean, sharpened and back in service. Never tried using such a coarse saw. Should be interesting!

How about a saw getting stuck mid cut

I so want to do this!

As an alternative to toothing the surface of your bench, try scrub planing it at 45 degrees. It does 2 jobs in one: flattening the bench, and roughening the surface.

You didn't put tobacco down. Now. You hurt the tree white man

Are the shavings by the door acting as a draft excluder? :)

We inherited several wood planes with different lengths. But when we tried them they didn't seem to work very well so they became shelf ornaments. But this video really showed how well they can work when properly adjusted and most importantly how to adjust with a hammer. We will now be taking them down off the shelf and giving them a second chance after a nice honing.

Well Done!! I have never giggled, laughed and chuckled so much in a short four minutes. That was hilarious! Thank you. I needed that. I am very much an amateur/newbie and I have been practicing my sawing skills, chisel skills and hand routing skills - so far they are much less than spectacular, but hey, there's always more scrap lumber upon which to practice. Then I watch some woodworking channels and am awed by the "perfectness" of their joinery. Now I know why. (LOL) Again, Thank you.

How does one remove “smile” on a saw? I have a 100+ year-old backsaw that has been poorly sharpened over the years and would like to put it back in service.

When these planes were built and used, there was no indoor plumbing. People did not wash their hands very often and when they did, the water was already dirty from previous washes (they did not fetch a new pitcher of water every time). Toilet paper was not available yet. Hopefully there was something more than leaves in the outhouse. Let's not get too carried away with that patina.

Thats alot of wood! How do you prevent from termites?

You explain things so clearly and cover aspects others ignore or gloss over. Thank you.

I live in Maine too and I just picked up a Stanley 28 at the relic today for $20 and it's in beautiful shape

love the simple part of it all.

Just seen this video. ‘Opposite Corn Exchange’ is a location in the City of York. Located in Yorkshire in the north of England, York in times gone by used to be one of Englands major Cities. Just found your channel recently and find it both informative and interesting. Thank you. (I used to live near to York)

Interesting

Can you please leave descriptions of your sources please.