This guy could make an artificial hip out of wood for grandma....if he so desired. I swear..the things this guy does are remarkable. I wish I had just 1/100th of his creativity/ability in the shop.
It's gone so far with what he made that I did, for a short moment, expect him to have figured out a way to make the jointer rotary blade from wood too : /
True Carpenter! Watching you reminds me of my dad (also a true carpenter). He didn't get to teach me all that he knew of carpentry. Watching your videos feels like spending time with him. Thank you for sharing the process as well as your handiwork with the world!
Matthias, you crazy Canadian.... I don't know ANYONE else that would make their own power tools. Except maybe me. Thanks for putting your instructions all online!
Planers don't make a whole lot of dust, but the chips take up a lot of volume. And the jointer is usually used maybe ten seconds at a time, so not worth spinning up a dust collector every time.
I would have gladly bought one of your cutter heads a year ago. But I don't think that many people build their own jointers, so there probably isn't much of a market for them.
There's a few people I'd love to meet on CZcams. Your one of them, your work is amazing, you attention to detail is way up there. Your just incredible, keep it up
Paste wax applied with a rag is what we used in our cabinet shop to lubricate and protect metal surfaces such as table saws and jointers. It really makes a difference in reducing friction and prevents rust. Should your table get rust on it, the green Scotch bright pads are awesome for polishing it back up quickly.
Outstanding reply Matthias! You know, I can appreciate a subwoofer in its design and, in fact, its ordinary use which is to enhance the low end frequencies in audio. That said, I don't appreciate when others play their music with so much power that I am forced to actually FEEL it from an adjacent vehicle or dwelling let alone hear it when I am not interested. Keep designing incredibly useful tooling Sir...you are a master!
Egg-crate foam for sound dampening springs to mind. It seems as though there is room in the motor's housing. Even carpet or craft-felt should tone it down some. Right now it is essentially a sounding board aimed at your face.
I just bought your plans and will shortly start this project, hopefully before the winter hits. Just wanted to say you did a lot of good work writing everything down with such fine detail. I wish I had that ability. lol anyway I really like your videos and thank you for helping me.
Initially I thought, "that can't be a flat top" (using plywood). Then, after you showed everything else and it looked so excellent, I couldn't imagine you'd not have the top flat. lol.
That is quite some ingenuity. When you are working with wood buzzing down materials, and find out the bottom gets clogged. To think of something like you have must take a lot of thought and to actually build and design something like you did makes you a working genius. You have engineering abilities. I have a jointer and thicknesser. I bought the basic model buzzer. But wish I had gone for the next model up.
Matthias : I just subscribed to your channel after watching a couple of your videos and must say I am VERY impressed. I'm a professional furnituremaker myself and looking forward to checking out the rest of your uploads. Keep up the good work, thanks for sharing - it's very inspirational !
In China, Lu Ban Jing was a carpenter, engineer, and architect in 5th century BC China. He was deified as the god of carpenters after his death. You are doing a good job of becoming the modern equivalent.
Whenever I see a a blip of a clip containing that green paint and wood, I think Matthias. It's almost like your trademark thing. Your projects are incredible, painted? well, I would rather buy yours then a mass produced one, and i would happily pay the same price or more knowing it could be repaired FOREVER.
Innovative thinking and outstanding craftsmanship as always! You are a modern-day master my friend. In the days of old, you would have a very long line of apprentices from far and wide wanting to learn from you directly.
@@MercifulArchitect youre getting confused dude, it was the machines, he built machines to make the machines to make the machines, then hes used those machine to make machines, and marble games
I couldn't help but notice the inside plywood has Trinity Unity Church written upon it. I think it's great that you recycle as many materials as you can find. Now, when ever I'm driving around town I catch myself looking for items that I can salvage as well. You have some great products, glad you make plans available for purchase.
That colour green could well be your trade colours in the future, like Coca Cola red. I have followed your makings over these past 12 months - you are very gifted as are your siblings. Great work
I followed and watched all his works are very useful, showing great knowledge of both working with wood, as the machine to work. I have taken some of his ideas as the meeting amateur carpenter and copies of these ideas on the web whether modified or not, which is generally known source. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge.
I covered that in the article. I figured left to right was just an accident waiting to happen. It would be better to just put the rabbeting ledge on the right side, with a fence that mounts both ways.
Matthias you have an amazing gift! Thank you for sharing another one of your wonderful projects. I enjoy your color schemes, At the very beginning of the video I thought you were a big Grizzly Fan. lol Excellent Job! Thanks so much!
Nice job. Every 12" jointer that I have seen has a three knife cutter head. How do you feel the two knives perform; smooth cut? Not a bad way to recycle a planer.
Matthias wandel eh visto la mayoría de tus vídeos y la verdad me gusta mucho los trabajos que haces felicitaciones para ti amigo, saludos desde Guatemala.
Matt, yet again you raise the bar for me like me wanting to do this kind of work differently. I will be building this one way or another. Oh hell yes. :D
A really great job, you are certainly are an inspiration. If I were to copy your design, I might support the main bearings with something a little stronger just in case something overloads the head. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent endeavor! That's very simple and unique. I think you can mak it complicated by adding a auto-push to the plank and pressure system! Love from Assam.
Regardless that it have been done before, i beautifully done! Way to go Matthias!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I build industrial machines myself, all of them in steel. It take a much more lot of ingenuity to build working machines out of wood!!!!!
Nice craftsmanship; you have natural engineering skills and a wonderful ability to think outside the box as well. The only things I might do differently is to add dowels to the bearing retainers to take any stress and maybe phenolic table surfaces.
This is really neat. I love seeing the DIY people do. This one though. It just seems like it would take as long to build as it would take to simply save up the money and by a larger jointer. Well at least it would for me anyway. I get maybe 3 days a week to work on my projects and out of those 3 days I only get a few hours each day. Building something like this would probably take me months. Hell it took me a month just to finish my new nightstands lol. Anyway. I still think its a great DIY. Always fun to see the things people come up with. Thanks for the video.
Hi Matthias greetings from Malaysia. Fan of yours love your work :D. Hoping you could make a jointer/planer combo someday Wishing you more success and prosperity in years to come
I'm in the planning stages to build one of these with your plans, Matthias. I'm looking forward to it. Though I think I'll have to one-up you...my donor planer will be a *gasp* 13" Ridgid planer. There are two mods that I think I'll perform--I'll lengthen the in/out feed tables by about 8" and move the motor closer to the cutter to shorten the belt, but I'll add a 4" dust port on the backside to suck shavings out and cooling air into the motor. I can't wait to get rid of my 6" jointer!
Just had a "duh" moment! I had been trying to think of a solution when I read this comment. Simple and effective. I also enjoy your series Matthias. The biggest thing I get from vids of this type is the theory behind it. You can tuck a theory away in your head and most likely find a fit in an idea of your own. Thanks for showing them.
Awesome! I love your stuff, just great! Inspirational. Why are there any thumbs down??? Saw the finger joints on the inside of your dust cover....that is attention to detail!
Your woodworking skills implemented into machinery designs is extraordinaire,should We start calling You Professor Wandel ?lol , just kidding Mathias .Your skills are great,and I love how You display them in Your videos,I am still waiting to see if You come up with a all wood 3-axis mill/lathe??? I believe It would take a project that You are interested in before You make the tool that makes it easier? thanks again for the video,Tim
There is no masking devide. The enclosure is structural. As for painting, when I built my first bandsaw, I realized it needed painting becauase it just didn't look very good without paint.
Nicely done, and quite clever. I worked for a guy that had an old Delta cast iron jointer and it was NO fun to move, having to load it in the back of his pickup truck equipped with a topper...
Part 2 of 2 Planer vs. Jointer Additional reference A jointer (also known in the UK and Australia as a planer or surface planer), is a machine used to produce a flat surface along a board's length. The jointer derives its name from its primary function of producing flat edges on boards prior to joining them edge-to-edge to produce wider boards. The use of this term probably arises from the name of a type of hand plane, the jointer plane, which is also used primarily for this purpose.
I admire your designs. Quite clever, and inspiring, not "crazy". I'm wondering if the beds may warp in time if both sides aren't laminated equally. It may with the temperture of the different materials. Thanks for sharing your designs!
+Spencer Thayer Yeah, I try to avoid saying those kinds of things.. actually considering the people I work with, there's not much call for it.. But I have to agree with you, Matthias is pretty much a genius.
Im interested in your depth of cut device... do you think it could be used to adjust a hand held planer so it could be used as an mini thickness planer? It may seem silly to want to plane peices less than four inches wide, but i find myself making small moldings in the field. This seems like it would do the trick. I'll have to try it out. Any recomondations on ratios? I'd like to have a range from 1/4" to 1-1/2". Thanks for the idea.
hi Matthias... you build the most awesome things and I have no idea how you come up with your ideas... so im not being a smartarse when I ask this. im just curious as to why you couldn't have made the infeed table on the left side so that the drive belt was situated to the back of the table which would allow you to have the rabbet cutter you spoke of. once again im not having a stab at you im just not aware of any reason why it couldn't be fed through from the opposite side?
It looks good, Matthias, and seems to work well. What's the heaviest, widest cut you've tried with it so far? Any kind of depth gauge or a table setting lock in the future?
There’s DIY projects... and then there’s Wandel DIY projects. Genius. 🙌🏼
This guy could make an artificial hip out of wood for grandma....if he so desired. I swear..the things this guy does are remarkable. I wish I had just 1/100th of his creativity/ability in the shop.
It's gone so far with what he made that I did, for a short moment, expect him to have figured out a way to make the jointer rotary blade from wood too : /
my thoughts exactly... what a legend
You can write some pretty good praises to other woodworkers in the youtube comment section, so at least you have that going for you.
Immense respect to you for your many custom designed, engineer'd, and fabricated tools. So well thought out.
Amazed
True Carpenter! Watching you reminds me of my dad (also a true carpenter). He didn't get to teach me all that he knew of carpentry. Watching your videos feels like spending time with him. Thank you for sharing the process as well as your handiwork with the world!
Matthias, you crazy Canadian.... I don't know ANYONE else that would make their own power tools. Except maybe me. Thanks for putting your instructions all online!
Planers don't make a whole lot of dust, but the chips take up a lot of volume. And the jointer is usually used maybe ten seconds at a time, so not worth spinning up a dust collector every time.
DO YOU HAVE PLANS for this?
Still use it from time to time.
I would have gladly bought one of your cutter heads a year ago. But I don't think that many people build their own jointers, so there probably isn't much of a market for them.
There's a few people I'd love to meet on CZcams. Your one of them, your work is amazing, you attention to detail is way up there. Your just incredible, keep it up
Paste wax applied with a rag is what we used in our cabinet shop to lubricate and protect metal surfaces such as table saws and jointers. It really makes a difference in reducing friction and prevents rust. Should your table get rust on it, the green Scotch bright pads are awesome for polishing it back up quickly.
Outstanding reply Matthias! You know, I can appreciate a subwoofer in its design and, in fact, its ordinary use which is to enhance the low end frequencies in audio. That said, I don't appreciate when others play their music with so much power that I am forced to actually FEEL it from an adjacent vehicle or dwelling let alone hear it when I am not interested. Keep designing incredibly useful tooling Sir...you are a master!
The shavings are not that dusty, and also fill up a dust collector REALLY fast
Egg-crate foam for sound dampening springs to mind. It seems as though there is room in the motor's housing. Even carpet or craft-felt should tone it down some. Right now it is essentially a sounding board aimed at your face.
I just bought your plans and will shortly start this project, hopefully before the winter hits. Just wanted to say you did a lot of good work writing everything down with such fine detail. I wish I had that ability. lol anyway I really like your videos and thank you for helping me.
Initially I thought, "that can't be a flat top" (using plywood). Then, after you showed everything else and it looked so excellent, I couldn't imagine you'd not have the top flat. lol.
That is quite some ingenuity. When you are working with wood buzzing down materials, and find out the bottom gets clogged. To think of something like you have must take a lot of thought and to actually build and design something like you did makes you a working genius. You have engineering abilities. I have a jointer and thicknesser. I bought the basic model buzzer. But wish I had gone for the next model up.
Matthias : I just subscribed to your channel after watching a couple of your videos and must say I am VERY impressed. I'm a professional furnituremaker myself and looking forward to checking out the rest of your uploads. Keep up the good work, thanks for sharing - it's very inspirational !
In China, Lu Ban Jing was a carpenter, engineer, and architect in 5th century BC China. He was deified as the god of carpenters after his death. You are doing a good job of becoming the modern equivalent.
Lu Ban is that guy’s name, Lu Ban Jing is the book he wrote. Actually his name is just Ban, Lu is the province where he is from.
I would so make one of these if I had a spare planer, I do the same thing cutting from logs and this would make jointing sooo much easier!
Alex
Amazing. Seems like a fairly involved and daunting project, but very well-thought-out and well-crafted.
Whenever I see a a blip of a clip containing that green paint and wood, I think Matthias. It's almost like your trademark thing. Your projects are incredible, painted? well, I would rather buy yours then a mass produced one, and i would happily pay the same price or more knowing it could be repaired FOREVER.
You always inspire me to have a go at some daft stuff in my small workshop here in England. Great stuff as usual!
Innovative thinking and outstanding craftsmanship as always! You are a modern-day master my friend. In the days of old, you would have a very long line of apprentices from far and wide wanting to learn from you directly.
He makes his own machines. What does he make with the machines? Machines.
More specifically, more of his machines that he's made.
Johnny Dutch
how could he have started from point zero? I mean he needs his home made machines to make machines, but where did he get the machines to start with?
@@MercifulArchitect youre getting confused dude, it was the machines, he built machines to make the machines to make the machines, then hes used those machine to make machines, and marble games
@@71Splinter you're right, I'm soo confused O_o
Wow! Just Wow! Your videos are great and our builds impressive! Keep Them Coming...
I couldn't help but notice the inside plywood has Trinity Unity Church written upon it. I think it's great that you recycle as many materials as you can find. Now, when ever I'm driving around town I catch myself looking for items that I can salvage as well. You have some great products, glad you make plans available for purchase.
Blown away! extremely talented! beautiful design! :)
Very impressed with your design and building skills. Keep up the great work!
Beautifully done, Your ingenuity is pretty astonishing.
I am DEEPLY impressed, and I love your work... Keep it up!
You are a very smart man and I enjoy your videos very much. Looking forwarded to more. Thank you.
That colour green could well be your trade colours in the future, like Coca Cola red. I have followed your makings over these past 12 months - you are very gifted as are your siblings. Great work
I love your home made tools. You have an engineers mind.
I followed and watched all his works are very useful, showing great knowledge of both working with wood, as the machine to work. I have taken some of his ideas as the meeting amateur carpenter and copies of these ideas on the web whether modified or not, which is generally known source. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge.
From Ecuador. my sincere congratulations ... you are a genius
I covered that in the article. I figured left to right was just an accident waiting to happen. It would be better to just put the rabbeting ledge on the right side, with a fence that mounts both ways.
Waving the magic Wandel! Great Job, as usual
Man give me a list of things you can't make. I mean this stuff that you do is off the charts.
Thanks for the reply. Love the videos and your work. Look forward to more!
Amazing what creative minds can do, awesome videos!
Matthias you have an amazing gift! Thank you for sharing another one of your wonderful projects. I enjoy your color schemes, At the very beginning of the video I thought you were a big Grizzly Fan. lol Excellent Job! Thanks so much!
Hi Matthias! Thank you. Hug from Brazil!😊
Nice job. Every 12" jointer that I have seen has a three knife cutter head. How do you feel the two knives perform; smooth cut? Not a bad way to recycle a planer.
Brilliant--you and your machine. Thanks for sharing!
Matthias wandel eh visto la mayoría de tus vídeos y la verdad me gusta mucho los trabajos que haces felicitaciones para ti amigo, saludos desde Guatemala.
Matt, yet again you raise the bar for me like me wanting to do this kind of work differently. I will be building this one way or another. Oh hell yes. :D
A really great job, you are certainly are an inspiration. If I were to copy your design, I might support the main bearings with something a little stronger just in case something overloads the head.
Thanks for sharing.
Well done and I agree with Klaus about your craftsmanship and Engineering skills.
Excellent endeavor! That's very simple and unique. I think you can mak it complicated by adding a auto-push to the plank and pressure system! Love from Assam.
Excellent video and project, thanks for sharing .
Regardless that it have been done before, i beautifully done!
Way to go Matthias!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I build industrial machines myself, all of them in steel. It take a much more lot of ingenuity to build working machines out of wood!!!!!
Man... You amaze me every time....
dude, you have mad skills when it come to wood
Wonderful work and explanation. Thank you for sharing.
Nice craftsmanship; you have natural engineering skills and a wonderful ability to think outside the box as well. The only things I might do differently is to add dowels to the bearing retainers to take any stress and maybe phenolic table surfaces.
I am very impressed. Your machines look great. There is no reason that the machines should look crude because they are home made.
This is really neat. I love seeing the DIY people do. This one though. It just seems like it would take as long to build as it would take to simply save up the money and by a larger jointer. Well at least it would for me anyway. I get maybe 3 days a week to work on my projects and out of those 3 days I only get a few hours each day. Building something like this would probably take me months. Hell it took me a month just to finish my new nightstands lol. Anyway. I still think its a great DIY. Always fun to see the things people come up with. Thanks for the video.
Impressive job Matthias!
Haven't looked in a while. But the motor pulls in outside air all the same.
i like the green on your homemade equipment
Mathias Wandel This is great video. Thanks a lots!
Great stuff. absolutely great job.
Since when is craftsmanship anything nerdy? It's a amazing hobby, something most people can't show off.
That's awesome. Well done sir.
Really great, thanks for the idea mate! I'm going to build one of my own:)
Hi Matthias greetings from Malaysia. Fan of yours love your work :D. Hoping you could make a jointer/planer combo someday
Wishing you more success and prosperity in years to come
Because I bought 1 quart of green, and it lasted for three bandsaws, a jointer and a dust collector. Not sure what colour I'll get next.
The next Nobel Prize should go to Matthias!
Because I don't want to have to turn on the dust collector every time I use the jointer. I usually use the jointer for just 10 seconds at a time.
awesome DIY stuff... Make it instead of buying it! thanks for sharing your videos!
Ingenious! you are a true inspiration !
Excellent, Matt. Even color coordinated with your home-made bandsaw. it looks great! What's next? I'm sure it will be something amazing!
Larry
Sei troppo bravo. Complimenti!!
You are a very impressive person. Thanks.
Wow. That's really badass!!!
I'm in the planning stages to build one of these with your plans, Matthias. I'm looking forward to it. Though I think I'll have to one-up you...my donor planer will be a *gasp* 13" Ridgid planer. There are two mods that I think I'll perform--I'll lengthen the in/out feed tables by about 8" and move the motor closer to the cutter to shorten the belt, but I'll add a 4" dust port on the backside to suck shavings out and cooling air into the motor. I can't wait to get rid of my 6" jointer!
You are the best master, I like all your videos
Read the linked article for the answer.
Just had a "duh" moment! I had been trying to think of a solution when I read this comment. Simple and effective.
I also enjoy your series Matthias. The biggest thing I get from vids of this type is the theory behind it. You can tuck a theory away in your head and most likely find a fit in an idea of your own. Thanks for showing them.
Math boy you are amazin as always !!!
Awesome! I love your stuff, just great! Inspirational. Why are there any thumbs down???
Saw the finger joints on the inside of your dust cover....that is attention to detail!
Your woodworking skills implemented into machinery designs is extraordinaire,should We start calling You Professor Wandel ?lol , just kidding Mathias .Your skills are great,and I love how You display them in Your videos,I am still waiting to see if You come up with a all wood 3-axis mill/lathe??? I believe It would take a project that You are interested in before You make the tool that makes it easier? thanks again for the video,Tim
There is no masking devide. The enclosure is structural. As for painting, when I built my first bandsaw, I realized it needed painting becauase it just didn't look very good without paint.
Wow, great vid's, keep them coming.
Nicely done, and quite clever. I worked for a guy that had an old Delta cast iron jointer and it was NO fun to move, having to load it in the back of his pickup truck equipped with a topper...
It would require a 1 hp motor (not easy to find), and redesigning / rebuilding the jointer to make room for it. Not an easy change!
Part 2 of 2 Planer vs. Jointer
Additional reference
A jointer (also known in the UK and Australia as a planer or surface planer), is a machine used to produce a flat surface along a board's length.
The jointer derives its name from its primary function of producing flat edges on boards prior to joining them edge-to-edge to produce wider boards. The use of this term probably arises from the name of a type of hand plane, the jointer plane, which is also used primarily for this purpose.
you were lucky to have such a father....
Amazing, as usual!
I admire your designs. Quite clever, and inspiring, not "crazy".
I'm wondering if the beds may warp in time if both sides aren't laminated equally. It may with the temperture of the different materials.
Thanks for sharing your designs!
awsome build!
You're pretty much a genius.
+Spencer Thayer pretty much!
+Spencer Thayer Yeah, I try to avoid saying those kinds of things.. actually considering the people I work with, there's not much call for it.. But I have to agree with you, Matthias is pretty much a genius.
hi Mattias Wandel, do you have a video of your blades sharpening tools, like that jointer, planer etc.? thanks
Im interested in your depth of cut device... do you think it could be used to adjust a hand held planer so it could be used as an mini thickness planer? It may seem silly to want to plane peices less than four inches wide, but i find myself making small moldings in the field. This seems like it would do the trick. I'll have to try it out. Any recomondations on ratios? I'd like to have a range from 1/4" to 1-1/2". Thanks for the idea.
Its amazing you made that! Where is good place to find a belt?
Read the linked article, and you'll understand better.
hi Matthias... you build the most awesome things and I have no idea how you come up with your ideas... so im not being a smartarse when I ask this. im just curious as to why you couldn't have made the infeed table on the left side so that the drive belt was situated to the back of the table which would allow you to have the rabbet cutter you spoke of. once again im not having a stab at you im just not aware of any reason why it couldn't be fed through from the opposite side?
You are a GENIUS!!!
It looks good, Matthias, and seems to work well. What's the heaviest, widest cut you've tried with it so far? Any kind of depth gauge or a table setting lock in the future?
hi~ i made a safety guide after watching your video. thank you for inspiring me.. ^^