Hand Planing Wood - Square an Edge (2020)
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- In this Hand Planing Wood video Rob teaches you how to true and square the edge of a board to the reference face with a hand plane. He goes over body mechanics, plane positioning, blade control, and how to correct the three common error conditions. As a bonus, Rob shows you a great trick for truing and squaring long boards.
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Thank you Mr. Cosman. You are a true teacher. Gold!!!
once again a great video with a ton of great tips to help us up our woodworking skills. PHP can do so much for the vets who might be struggling with depression and a lack self respect. as a disabled person myself i can attest to how quiet woodworking can can create an atmosphere of peace. taking pride in your work and focusing on the process itself rather than rushing to completion will drag me out of a depression and replace it with a sense of tranquility and self worth. what you do for disabled vets from any country is amazing and a life changing experience without even mentioning the time you take to help the rest of us improve our woodworking skills. i believe in the PHP project more than i could ever express. i am making a $100 donation to PHP today and i seriously urge everyone watching this video to also do what you can to help Rob and his team continue giving this amazing gift of peace , serenity and the opportunity to regain their self respect to the people who need it the most. thank you for giving us the opportunity to help as well.
Wow! Thanks you so much Aaron. PHP is my calling and our mission. We are so proud to do it and iI think it helps us more than the Vets. Thank you for helping us do it. That makes you part owner of the PHP program
@@RobCosmanWoodworking thank you for that. i almost feel like i am cheating because it really feels like giving a gift to myself.
It’s a tricky sucker. I know you aren’t getting the best number of views and whatnot, but your information is definitely correct.
Well we will keep trying....I figure that if we keep improving our content quality, thumbnails and the other key stuff, slowly we will see more views, and it is working
RobCosman.com The videos are perfect.
Always learning from these videos … The quality of teaching is very good , well explained and executed and fills me with confidence to know I’m on the right track 👍
Excellent instructions. Since watching your videos, I have used my handplanes more in the past 3 months than I have in the past 3 years. Thank you.
Great to hear! How are you doing at sharpening now? you have to love the surface a plane leaves on the wood
@@RobCosmanWoodworking Sharpening is doing well and when my budget recovers from the dovetail saw and wood hinge kit, I plan on getting one of those 16000 grit stones. I have been using Shapton pro series up to 8000 grit. Some woods (Khaya) have given me a little trouble but maple, pine, walnut & cherry have been fantastic.
I've got a whole house full of doors that the previous owner used a DA sander to fit the doors with. They horribly screwed them all up. The perpendicularity is nonexistent and the surfaces are wobbling all over. I tried with an electric planer, but it rolled with the junk edges. So here I am. There isn't enough material left to have any kind of professional looking fit, but I'll be buying some planes to try and even these out. The even bigger problem is that I don't have a big enough workbench with which to stabilize everything. I look forward to watching the rest of your content.
I am building a stool out of a rough sawn board. Planing, sawing, jointing... all of that just using hand tools. This is the information which I need now!
Thanks.
Sounds great! good for you. You can learn so much by building a project just with hand tools, even if you go back to being a hybrid (power & hand) tool woodworker
I know you like to get feed back on the videos, so I was going to give some long critique, but really, you are nailing it as far as the way I was taught to teach vocational training. Every one has their own persona / style they bring to teaching. The way you presented that lesson was spot on for what you need to get over to the viewers. You told them what you were going to be covering and why it was important to the viewer. You covered the full range of topics required. You demonstrated step by step, detailing all the intricacies they needed to watch for. You provided reference material for "catch up" learning. And most importantly, you were able to keep it simple. The conclusion was a bit different to what the text book says, but then you are a tool manufacturing and sales company. That's your gig. Great job. I hear your dad was a shop teacher too. I think he'd be very happy with what you are doing.
Thanks for the comment. I REALLY appreciate it. We are trying to improve with every video and reach a wider and wider audience
Another excellent video, lots of great information and advice. I used to suffer the dreaded twist, high on right at start, low of right at end, but after watching a lot of your videos and using my legs to move instead of my hands, along with setting up my plane better, it seems that I'm on the way to square. Thanks for all your shared knowledge.
One of the criticisms I have on these type of handplaning videos (from various youtubers) is they always show short boards. Flatteniing and squaring/jointing a 7' to 8' board is different, and techniques on short boards don't always transfer to longer stock. For those that build case-goods such lengths are encountered daily.
Meant with much respect to you Rob- enjoy your vids, and as an old as dirt retired furnituremaker it's eye- opening to me to see things from a/your teaching perspective. Thanks
Hi dave. Good point. I will do a video on longer boards. My intent was this is just a basic how to video for beginners, not a comprehensive video. Great comment
Rob- tabletops are a good example. Usually a 3-4 board glue- up in 7' + range- and planing both for square/glue-up but also finish planing after the top has been shaped, which doesn't quite fit as conveniently on the typical bench. Not to mention round tables have unique challenges too.
Hope people appreciate the quality of these (amazingly) free vids you post- must shave 10 years off of the learning curve for a hobbyist woodworker.
I'll shut up now!
Great demonstration Rob, thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.
i started woodworking just a couple months.... this channel is so helpfull to me.... thanks Mr.Cosman
Thanks Ronny.....what video subject should we tackle next?
Fantastic instruction. Like other comments this has always been hard for me. Great teaching style. Thank you Rob and the team.
Thanks for watching. What video should we tackle next?
AWESOME video, LOVE the last part. Lots of gratitude for this content 🙏🏻
Fantastic~!!!! If I didn't know already that Marc Spagnuolo held the name "The Wood Whisperer", then that title would belong to you, Rob....hands down~!! I'm always looking forward to your videos to see what I learn next.
BTW, I missed out on commenting during the live show about your videos being long (2hrs). I'm sure that my 2 cents worth echoes the majority by saying "Yes, the longer, the better~!"
Thank you for the awesome instruction~!
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Great video. Thanks Rob. Now I have to go look at the rest in the series.
Thanks Rob. I've recently gotten into hand planing, and your videos have helped every step of the way, both in preventing issues from happening in the first place and in identifying how to fix issues I've run into.
This has always been a bugaboo in my shop....thanks for the instruction. I'm going down now to practice...
Glad to hrlp
Excellent video. This goes right to the heart of what I have been working on, namely making some replacement cabinets for our kitchen. Clear, concise and right to the point. I really appreciate you explaining in detail what you are doing as you do it. I also really appreciate that you try and anticipate questions the viewer (newbie) might have. Great camera work and comments/suggestions by Jake too. I learn stuff just listening to you two talk through a problem.
I really appreciate it being showed as a good long process n talked through as much as you do rob! Tks!
Thnaks for watching and commenting. we keep trying to improve our videos. Glad you liked it
Thanks Rob. That was cool.
I love this series, planing is the basics, we must make sure we got the right method and techniques to move on. Thank you Cosmen!
You are so welcome! That is COL Luther's idea behind this series. We are going to do a couple of differnet videos then we will come back and try to finish this series off in about 3 more videos.
I remember Luther’s sister: did she recover from the virus at the end?
I've been wanting to get into woodworking as a hobby but the price of equipment was prohibitive. This just changed that. Thank you. I know I'm late to the game, but if you put a light on a flex neck on the end of your bunch, you can adjust it to sight down your board with your square.
Thanks so much for sharing such great info.
Last tip was the best by far. Never thought of that. Thanks for all you do. I have done all the other techniques, but without the ink marking. That too would make correcting a problem easier.
Glad to help! yea try the "Bench shooting board technique, you will love it
Great video, my skills are improving from watching these videos.
Watching the first few minutes I’m like...can’t you just shoot it? Glad I watched until the end. As a teacher myself, I really like how you saved that for the end though. The technique that works 90% of the time is great most of the time, but the 10% of the time it doesn’t, you’re left in the dark, and you need to know the harder methods because they’ll save you when you need them. And it makes you appreciate the easy method that much more :). Wonderful teacher sir
Thanks. COL Luther is really trying to improve the format and style of our videos to make them more appealing to a bigger audinece
Thanks Rob, this was really helpful, as were the previous flattening videos on the pine and this piece of oak. Tomorrow I will be checking my bench top for flatness. A couple of years ago I watched your video on flattening the bench top right after sanding it to what I hoped would be flat. What a disaster! I corrected the problem and planed it flat per your instructions after watching your video. It was a great three hour workout, but I hope I don’t have to repeat it in the morning.
Nice camera work Jake on the closeups of the square
Thanks but lets not tell him....he will ask for a raise!!!!!!
Another good lesson. The shooting board tip is one I have to try. Thanks so much. I hope this series covers board thickness, always have trouble with that.
Hi Tony, yup board thicknessing will be the last video in this series....about 3 videos away
Great video!
love your content. I like the manual woodworking techniques that are way more available from a work space perspective compared to modern industrial processes requiring machinery. The craftsmanship aspect of your techniques are skills rarely discussed elsewhere. It's a dying art from a commercial point of view, but you are making these concepts accessible to the home gamer which keeps the craft alive. Thanks again for documenting your knowledge for consumption by current and future woodworkers!
Thanks Jeremiah. Yes, ever since they took industrial arts out of high school we have been losing the skills typically passed from father to son. I hope that in some little way I am helping to keep the traditional skills alive and well
Great videos. I have to say I get a smile from every video. The 'auto translate version' of your last name flashes on the screen before I hit play. Today it was 'Quasim.' Thanks for upping my hand tool game.
Really!!! Guess the auto translate has problems with my Canadian accent!!!!!!!!
Yep, if he'd started with the bench as a shooting board, I may have stopped 3 minutes in. That was brilliant 😁
Hey Rob,
I have an invention that’s so easy it’s stupid. I’ve been a carpenter for 45 years. Like you. I developed a bump on my finger from rip with my figure as a guide using my power saw. Then one day I picked up a piece of 3/4” plastic pipe. About an inch and a half long. I slipped in onto my finger to use instead of the side of my finger for ripping. That had to be 20 years ago. It’s so stupid I thought I could never patent the idea. I am so used to using it I reach into my apron and my finger slips right in to it. So using it as a guide for hand planing would be the same. Try it. You’ll be using it and showing it to every one. Like charlesworth trick you even calling it the Jimmy guide. Ide show you mine but it’s just a hunk of pvc pipe. It help stop getting splinters try it
Great idea! I will try it
The BEST!
I wish I had these videos back when I was learning to hand plane. Anyone trying to learn this skill would benefit from watching this, trying it out, and then coming back and re-watching.
Rob, on an unrelated note, what is your preferred method for mortising when you have a lot to do? Benchtop mortiser? Plunge router with an edge guide?
Bench-top mortiser. I once got a commission to build tables and chairs for a high school lunch room. That was 200 chairs each with 6 mortise and tenon joints. I started doing everyone by hand. After 20 of them I got smart and bout a mortiser. I still have it and use it. When I shoot the next shop tour video look for it.
Another great video.
Glad you enjoyed it. We are working on a really fun one for our next video: top woodworking gadgets! Stay tuned.
Good demo.
I suggest more elaboration in reading grain direction, including comparisons & demonstrations of planing with/against the grain of SEVERAL different hardwoods.
I now much more appreciate exactness, thanks for sharing your knowledge, presentation is excellent.
Very nice informative video. Some would try to sort cut on planing but it takes a long time to do the job right.
Appreciate the comment Stewart. Thanks for watching
Nice Shop!! 😮
In addition to method you demonstrate perseverance to get things right. ( envy. I rush it and get less than perfect results. )
wish you could see the mountain of shavings i have in the garage!!! learning from you is very easy with great results. side note; super excited to be receiving my dovetail kit + through dovetail kit!!! wife's not gonna see me for awhile.... lol thanks rob and crew
When you get in trouble with her don't blame me!!!!!!
In using the 5 1/2 Wood River plane with a shooting board, I discovered that the right hand side is slightly out of square to the soul, not by much, but enough to throw the edge of the board out slightly after a couple of passes. A small adjustment to the lateral position of the plane blade helped with this issue.
Yup, that is what i was going to suggest.
If it was so efficient and fast, no one would invent a board straightening machine.
Really love that last technique! Now I need to make sure my bench is truly flat, it's an 8 foot Ulmia bench so that might take me awhile :-)
Greg, my bench is an 8 foot Ulmia too. Took me 3 hours to plane it flat using the technique Rob uses in his video on flattening a bench top. I had been spot cleaning it with a random orbit sander, which had completely taken the bench out of flat.
How did you decide to plane in the direction that you did? "Reading" the grain from my computer chair 1000 miles away, I would have planed the other way. What were you feeling that was not coming across visually?
When I ran my fibger across the edge it was rough when I went in the direction that appeared to be the correct planing direction and when I felt the other way it was obviously smoother
I learned a lot from this, thanks! Great content as always...
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Very useful information. Thanks again.
Thanks for watching
I've watched a couple of your videos now about planing boards to get them true and square, but one thing I'm wondering... I know each pass with the plane only removes a thin sliver of wood, but with pass after pass, it has to add up to a measurable amount removed from the board. How do you deal with getting precise lengths/widths/thicknesses to make the finished product fit together?
I needed this video it helped, I had this issue and struggled to fix it. I don't have the room or space for a jointer or planer so by hand is my only option. Greatly appreciated. I also like your tools, they have made a difference in my work.
Thanks
Thank you!💜
Thank you for watching
Thank you so much!
You're welcome! Thanks for watching.....
Great vid. How do you account for squaring the edge this way when trying to get two boards the exact same width? I worry about by the time you've got it square it's thinner than you wanted etc
Great video, as always. When you use your bench as a shooting board , you can also put some “magic” wax on the side of your plane, ríght ?. My Best regards for you !
Absolutely....
Awesome! Thanks
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Do you think a Stanley 95 Edge Plane is better for this operation than a jointer plane?
What I am not fully understand is when using the bench as a shooting board what exactly you are doing with the hand off the plane on the opposite edge of the board? Is it applying downward pressure, pressure towards the plane, etc.? Great work and thanks for all you do!!! Second question, do you offer any handles for your saws other than the composite?
I am applying a equal amount of force opposite of the plane so to prevent to plane from pushing and moving the board. Even though the board is held between two dogs, my right hand with the plane can dislodge the board messing up my edge. So my left had prevents that.
Yes we have tons of wood handles. Look under the “limited edition saws” section of my website
RobCosman.com Awesome!! Thank you so much for replying to my comments. I can’t imagine how busy you must be and it really means a lot that you take the time to reply to messages like this. It really shows great character.
I will get onto your website under the limited edition saws and get one ordered.
You are the best Rob! Thanks!!
Very helpful, thanks. About how much width/side will you typically allow for this process using this type of lumber?
I am not 100% sure what you are asking, can you give me some more detail?
RobCosman.com I have a 5.5 “ wide Red Oak S4S from a big box store, would I expect to loose maybe 1/16” in width for each side to bring it into plane? Thanks!
What are you using as the "plane wax"?
I learned from your tutorial ,now when I trying to true the edge, I can make whisper full width shavings, but when I test the flat with my aluminum level, it shows a gap in the middle area. So I make some more pass on both ends to try fix this , then I end up with another full width shaving. After that I test it again but still I got a gap in the middle. Is there any advice on this problem?
Rob, I have a question and would love your opinion/advice. Last Christmas my wonderful wife bought me the Rob Cosman dovetail saw that I have wanted for a couple of years. When I opened the carboard box the saw was packaged in I noticed the brass looked to be a little tarnished and the saw blade had markings that indicated to me it had been used. I brushed this off and could not wait to put it to use. When I used it to cut dovetails it doesn't seem to work as smooth as I had expected. Now I will admit at this point I have had no experience with a good quality saw such as yours so I really don't have any past experience to judge by. I have watched many of your videos and have tried my best to employ the techniques you teach when cutting dovetails (light grip, let the saw and the saws weight do the cutting, proper stance, etc.). I have used it on pine, maple, walnut, popular, birch, etc. and I still get the same result which is what I call chatter and vibration on the cut. Not the smooth looking cut I see you do. My cuts are straight and I am able to follow my marking lines fairly well. I am starting to think that it might be the saw was a demo and had been used. My wife purchased the saw from Woodcraft in Spokane Washington. Unfortunately that store shut down soon after she ordered it so I can not go back to them with my concerns. After this long windy explanation my question to you is, could it be possible the blade is dull from use at the store? Should I send it to you for inspection and sharpening if needed? I am in no way expecting any thing for free!!! I would be happy to pay any shipping cost and sharpening fee if you feel that is the best way to go. I look forward to your advice. Thanks
Hi John, unfortunately I dont know what may have happened to the saw from the time I supplied it to them till you received it. I do test cut each saw before it leaves and the oil on the blade usually holds the sawdust from that cut. The oxidation of the brass is a natural process, you can polish it but it will continue to oxidize. You are welcome to send it to me to check and if needed I would sharpen it for you. Lightly run you hand across the teeth from the tip to the handle, if it really grabs then the saw is sharp and you wont get very far without it feeling like you're going to cut your hand off! I have had this query before, the solution is to practice on soft wood like basswood or pine till your sawing becomes smooth and natural feeling. As you train the stabilizing muscles used when sawing, you will become steady and deliberate, the grabbing will dissipate and it will feel smooth. Move on to hardwoods from here and voila you are a sawyer!
@@RobCosmanWoodworking Thanks Rob, will try your suggestion and go from there.
another educational video, wouldn't it have been easier to just switch to the number 7 after you notice there are so many changes between right and left? before you actuall did? or to start with the 7 all together?
Yea I probably should have, the #7 is my second favorite plane
I have a large maple bench similar to yours, quite old. Would you please make a video on how to make the top flat and true?
JIM
Actually I already have its buried in CZcams somewhere. You need a #8 or # 7 handplane and some winding sticks. But you flatten it just like I showed on the small board, its just that you have a big board. Go to my CZcams channel homepage and look at the hand tool basics playlist. There is a video there called "planing wide boards....which is actually my workbench top before its attached to my workbench and I flatten it by hand.
@@RobCosmanWoodworking Thanks, JIM
Rob what is your opinion on Festool products?
Joey, I really don't have one. I do not use any Festool products. Just never found the need. Sorry I don't have a better answer for you
The routers are amazing with superior dust collection and base attachments. The Kaypex dust collection is also great and the cut quality is wonderful, but the cost is nuts. Track saw is also good but not worth the money. You can use a regular circular saw and a homemade jig to do the same thing. There are other track saws on the market too. I don't own but would never purchase their drills or jig saw - no matter how good they are you just can't justify the cost.
How would you suggest a wheelchair bound paraplegic woodworker with no strength or voluntarily movement below the rib cage efficiently use a hand plane?
Hello Thomas, I know this was directed at Rob, but what I would suggest is that you use the back of your wheelchair as a base to push from and get as far forward in the direction you need to plane while still being able to hold the plane blade off the starting edge of the board, lock the wheels of your chair, and use your arms to push through the board. For boards that can’t be pushed in one stroke leave the plane setting at the end of your stroke, reposition your wheel chair same as when you started but at the new position of the plane and continue your cut wby pushing through the wood further with your arms and shoulders using your chair as your base.
Christopher has some great suggestions. Obviously you need a low bench and you will need to use your arms for planing. Do like Chris suggested and search for any body position where you can gain leverage . Sharp blade, wax, small blade projection , and softer woods will help make things easier for you
Christopher Tinsley Hello. Thank you very much. ‘I do have some tendency to fall forward so I’ll have to be careful.
RobCosman.com Thanks very much. I am getting a relatively low work bench assembled. I do mostly work with soft woods but I do have some projects that use red oak and a few with purpleheart and maple
How fast past the time seen these videos.
I have a question. I bought a jointer no.7 some days ago(it does not arrive yet)
Consider you a big difference between a jointer no.7 and a jointer no.8 in the sense of flatness?
What kind of wood is made your workbench?
My personal workbench is made primarily of Eastern Hard Maple, but has mahogany and cedar for highlights. I have veneered much of the maple with birdseye maple
Do you sale workbenches?
getting ready to, a few months away still.
RobCosman.com ok I will way to get one thank you
I like it quiet too. So I can hear my stereo. Lol
Rob, you are definitely planing against the grain. You only get away with it because the blade is sharp.
Faster? Maybe when you have years of experience
Watch tips from a shipwright is you really wanna learn how to true an edge.This isn't the way!
Please post a link to a CZcams of this shipwright procedure, I'm intrigued!
@@RobCosmanWoodworking czcams.com/video/p9ovavLefz0/video.html
well?
@@RobCosmanWoodworking well?
The arrogance and ignorance of this post is unbelievable. Rob’s going for absolute precision. Lou’s going for close enough, knowing the wood will get wet and expand.
Thank you!💜
No problem Jason, glad you enjoyed.