Reg's wooden 8" jointer, from 1981 fine woodworking plans
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- čas přidán 10. 07. 2021
- Checking out my neighbour's homemade 8" jointer, which he built in the early 80's, based on Galen Winchip's jointer, published in Fine Woodworking magazine in 1981.
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The odds of neighbours both having homemade wooden jointers is quite low i imagine lol.
Not in Canada.
Imagine if Reg's was painted green... 😁
@@rebbel67 Wendel Green:)
@@boots7859 I was going to say that!
it's actually a prerequisite of the HOA they're in
I have built a 13” one based on your plans. What happened was I got a good deal on 13” Shelix spiral cutter heads for my Rigid jointer. Then purchased your plans, used the jointer’s original cutter head and a brand new 1hp motor from princess auto to build the jointer. Had to widen the plans a bit on SketchUp but it is working like a dream. Thank you. Don’t know about these old plans but I am impressed and very happy with you design.
Matthias’ wife: “Why are you spending so much time at the neighbour’s?”
Matthias: “BECAUSE HE UNDERSTANDS ME!”
LOL!
I felt that.
Matthias' wife is a bit into woodworking herself.
I imagine Reg one day thinking "I think I'll get back into woodworking. Hey here are some CZcams videos on the topic. Hey... isn't that my neighbor?"
Oh to be lucky to have cool neighbors like that.
Yeah Reg is a lucky dude. 😁
Increíble!!: precioso,
That is a beautiful machine, he clearly took his time and did it right. And after all these years, for it to still be just as good as when he built, it, that shows some real craftsmanship. Must be tough to have such neighbors! Oh, crap, I just realized, *I* AM that neighbor!
That's what i was thinking when they converted it to "todays money" and say you should buy a new one. Yeah, try starting a chinese one 35 years later. It will probably self-destruct. Home made tools are a whole new level, since once you build them, you can repair it forever.
When I heard this was your neighbor I was immediately overcome with jealousy. Lol. So cool to have a fellow woodworking neighbor. And that jointer sounds like a million bucks doesn’t it. Very cool!
That is one heck of a jointer. Wood on wood feels great just like using a wooden plane.
A woodworking friend across the street, how fun for you ! It would be interesting to hear how you found out about each other.
isn't that statement self evident?
@@matthiaswandel hey be nice. lol
I'd assume that they heard the sound of each other's shop work, but that's just a guess.
I know I hear one of my neighbors using a saw occasionally, but nothing beyond that, so more likely some construction than any fine woodworking.
I said for wandel to be nice. And you reply to my comment with that. Oh boy.
@@matthiaswandel In contemporary America, people never meet their neighbors. So naturally many of your viewers are astonished that you apparently met one of yours.
I’m a vintage 1981 model as well.
... and can you jointing?
:-)
Your parents subscribed to Fine Baby Making
@@gregmize01,🤣
🍻🍻Yes, me too. That means you either just turned 40 or will soon. How's the lower back feeling?
@@ddt0889 Not great. If I sleep wrong I’m pissed off all day.
Lesson learned form machine shop, and surveying: Always loosen too far, and go back against the direction things will vibrate to when adjusting machines. Use gravity, or the tension built into the device to help you keep them adjusted. tighten uphill, or into the spring.
And, you can buy old jointers fairly inexpensively, and use them as the basis for a build. You could start with a 6 or 8-inch jointer with short, rusty beds, and build one with very long beds. And, if you used some cutoffs from LVL to make the beds they would be very dimensionally stable.
Reg, Excellent craftsmanship on both the jointer AND the making of the cutter at the school machine shop, especially for a young high schooler! We don’t have shop class any very many of the high schools anymore! I wish we did because it made many a craftsmen like you Reg! Thanks for sharing. Reg, I have a Mark V Shopsmith that I still use in my garage.
Matthias got his OJT wood craftsmanship in his Dad’s shop!
" especially for a young high schooler" what do you mean ? 0:15 He was working there. Maybe a teacher, maybe not.
@@12345NoNamesLeft Thought one of them said “When Reg was in High School”. I reviewed it again and found I was mistaken. He said, when he was working at a High School.
An enjoyable look at others homemade machinery. I really enjoy these videos. I hope others do as well, young folk don't seem to do things like this as much these days, which is a shame.
I'd like to see more content like this Matthias, but of course I do appreciate that home made machines are scarcely found!
Very cool! I appreciate the blurb at the end about building machines to save money. Either build a big one or just buy a smaller one if that's all you need.
I think that it's so neat that you can make your own tools like this. Great job Mathias.
I love that you and your neighbor share very similar hobbies. Unlike my neighbors I'm sure he doesn't complain about your reasonable woodworking hobby.
Nice to see some Shopsmith tools too. Thanks for sharing. Scott
Ditto!
@@woodshopnerdery Hey Thomas! It's good to see you are keeping good company.
I remember that plan. And I wanted to make that plan. I have milling machines and lathes today, but they weren't available to me then. I got a General 8" instead. Fantastic to see the FWW tool in action.
FWW had great plans for a bandsaw, table saw, and many other tools. The Bandsaw plan was by a Canadian, from Ontario, seems to be a thing up here with our higher prices. (Appeared in the same issue that had the first Roubo bench article, and still my favourite).
FWW had some DIY Roger Heitzman tools in a few of their issues. Solid looking tools that had welded frames. A lot faster to make, but Wood is Real.
FWW did an article on the articles in issue 251.
que máquina tan fabulosa!!!!, gracias Matías, eres un gran ingeniero de la madera, gracias por los planos!!!
saludos desde Colombia...
I like his full on Shopsmith in the back ground.
I was wondering how many other people spotted that!
Mr, Matthias Wandel and Mr, John Heisz you both are doing very good , wood working is not a easy work and mistake Cost you a lot . i have seen most of your project video and i love it people must learn from your work ,i learned a lot in last four years ,i wanted to do something and i did some work in my home everyone liked it ,canada need more teacher like you both ,thank you to both of you,God Bless you.
What a delightful video. I think maybe there are thousands of homemade machines hidden away in shops and garages across North America.
I have a third hand 18" band saw in mine. It is made of Gilbilt parts, but the guy who made it apparently didn't think wood was strong enough, so he built this thing out of steel. Weighs about 600 lbs, but the table is HUGE. You could eat dinner on it. I got the actual factory information on the design and stuff after I had put in a 1.5 HP motor in it, which it seems quite happy with. The factory info said not to do more than a 3/4 HP. I don't have a smaller motor, so this will have to do. But I swear, you can cut through ANYTHING with this beast.
Wow! Pretty amazing tool! 😃
I've never seen something like that, Matthias! Thanks!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
What makes this story especially timely is that purchases of Byrd helical insert cutter heads have freed up all sorts of conventional cutter heads and their knives. For still greater stability, make your infeed and outfeed tables of MDF. Laminate the wear surfaces with Formica. Chamfer the edges to protect them.
My table saw outfeed extension is made just like that, with mdf and formica. Slick surface and easy glue cleanup with a razor.
Awesome neighbor to have. Great job Reg..
Awesome! How satisfying to make your own machines.
Super cool piece of kit
Nice Shop Smith set up, a neat if not quirky machine
Wood is one of the best material for building stuff.
Knowing what wood to use for what parts, is an art form that comes with experience working with wood.
They made acrobatic aircraft out of wood and fabric!
Super cool jointer!!!
Dein Nachbar hat sehr viel Glück. Du bist da!
Nice piece of kit.👍👍
I spy a ShopSmith in the background there! I’d love to hear your or his thoughts on it!
Impressive how long it last and it’s still accurate enough to “plug and play “ 👍
It is awesome, Reg!
That is one sweet tool.
Thanks Reg!
What a magnificent project. 👌🏽😉
super cool! homemade machines arent youtube era... they are far far way things! greetings from brazil!
Very nice!
A real beauty.
More videos like that, please!
That thing is beautiful
Well I'm glad I could keep my streak going of daily drooling over jointers I want
That straight edge is just amazing! Does anyone know where It’s from?
Technically, its a safety ruler, not a straight edge. Try "Sooper Edge Safety Ruler" or "Sicherheits(schneide)lineal". The purple one is currently out of stock at Amazon.
@@wernerviehhauser94 awesome
very very creative
hello carpenter
Jeeze, the best thing I made in high school shop class was a crappy clock.
I made a box with a lid.
all I did in shop class was fettle planes, and sharpen and set saws. We were supposed to make a cube. The shared plane at my work station was a mess. So, I started tuning it up. The teacher saw me, and asked if I knew what I was doing, and I told him I wasn’t as good at it as Grandpa, but I doubted I could make it any worse. So, he let me continue. And the hand saws were all dull like folks were cutting tin cans with them, ;so I pointed, sharpened and set them. Teacher came up one day, and offered to give me an A for just working in the tool room. I spent all three years of Junior High shop classes fixing tools.
Good job
His other neighbor has 7 homemade bandsaws I reckon.
His seven other neighbors have one homemade bandsaw each
Don't know why one person would have seven bandsaws
Interesting. My equipment sat in my garage for 10 years before I got back into woodworking. Lots of rust needed to be removed because it's Florida here.
Okay need a shop tour video of your neighbor's shop. : )
i'm cracking up first 30 seconds matthias text of whats left from his highschool purchase of 3000 red oak feet hahahahahah
Reg needs a channel.
I loved the shot of the huge pile of lumber which said "whats leftover from 3000 bdft purchased in the 80s'. I recently got 110 bdft of walnut and its taking up a lot of space. 3000 bdft would leave me no space in my garage. Wonder how much those 3000 bdft of red oak cost back then...its around $3.25 /bdft today.
About a $1.70/bd ft if I remember right. Used to get it from a guy who started out selling out of his garage.70 70
sO SUPER COOL!
Holy smokes that head is huge, with home much momentum that would have I imagine it just cleaves through wood.
Have to lock up that wood in a safe now a days
That wood is worth so much now it’s unreal. When I retire I want to buy a huge piece of land with a ton of trees. Some people say too much forest is worth less than empty fields but I’m going to use some of that wood to build a medium sized cabin. Then replant with fruit trees.
There’s a project I would love to see you tackle. A router molding fixture that attaches to your shop planer that with two routers, would enable you to do three sided molding.
Wood Master Tools out of Kansas City Missouri sells one, but it is pretty spendy.
Nice!
Impressive.
Obviously I am not there, but over CZcams is does have a really nice sound.
One advantage to building your own is making the tables longer than what can be had commercially. A 6 or 8" cutterhead can be bought as a replacement for a commercially produced machine for about $150-200. *IF* one has a source for salvaged lumber and a good used electric motor, then I'm thinking a jointer similar to the one in the FWW book could be built for less than $300.
I agree, however I would rather weld one up from some decent angle iron or such to prevent potential warping. Good excuse to buy a small 120v welder and learn another useful skill.
as long as the out feed is true you can get a perfect joint. it comes down to knowing how to use the jointer in the first place. to many people on youtube make video's on setting up and using a jointer when they have no idea. they carry all the weight on the in feed with the out feed set incorrectly and then wonder why they get snipe etc. yes bad jointer advice is my pet peeve on you tube lol. this video goes to show what you can achieve if you do it right.
impressive
Matthias, You should sell him one of your bandsaws.
Matthias this far superior!
I wonder how the tannin in the oak goes with the steel/iron. On this side of the atlantic it is more humid (I think). Oak and Iron don't get along here. But I guess after 40 years it works!
Hey Mattias great video where do we get the purple straight edge?
👍👍👍👍👍👍
What kind of straight edge was that? Looks really nice!
Nice👌
It wood [sic.] be fun to see more of these sorts of "roving reporter" videos from CZcams's favourite would elf.
3000 board feet of oak...whoa...a treasure
Yeah. I wonder if old growth wood bought years ago has kept up with inflation.
That’s extremely impressive! How long did it take your neighbor to complete that?
Are you going to build one?
The odds of having a neighbor who’s at the same level as Mathias
👍👍👍
1981 the year I was born
Envidia sana de querer una igual jjj
the only thing missing was the green paint!
REG!
Canadian neighbors are a cut above.
So if you are going to build a jointer, you should build a bigger one to make it worthwhile. Is this also part of the reason your bandsaws are getting bigger?
A generic 10 inch Shelix helical cutterhead is $745. Might as well go nuts.
Matthias has a play mate. Play nicely now.
My buddy and I are slower than you guys we are doing the six steps to a Better Birdhouse. Nice jointer don't quite now.
A H.S. that has a wood shop and a machine shop... Back when H.S.'s actually educated kids...
Very nice! I wouldn't trust a home-made spindle though. I just imagine it flinging blades at you someday...
Must be something in the water up there.
sawdust probably :)
cool , be great if you had the extra wood laying around, but today i am sure the wood would out cost the head and motor , hahaha,
should have painted it green
Mind you kids. Subscription this gentleman is talking about was for a periodical. Deliverd by a postman.
Jointers have some interesting mathematical applications. For instance, thanks to a moment of inattention while running one, my brother can now only count to 9 and 11/12ths.
The cost comparison is fine if you consider your time as worth zero.
Dont use gloves on a maschine with rotating parts. That is very dangerous. The Jointer is amazing abd beautifull. Thank you for showing
Interesting article
Typos
"The cutter head was milled from a solid piece of steel in the shool's machine shop. "
Shool=school
"The infeed and outfeed tables are glued together out of smaller pieces of oak go give them more stability. They each adjust on inclines, one on each corner of each table. "
go=to
The motor is in a box that sticks out the back. it's a 1 hp 1750 PRM
motor with a big pulley on it.
it's = It's
PRM=RPM
"its interesting how the economics of hobby woodworking machines have changed in the 40 years since the ..."
Its=It's
"Add 6 months to write up and get published in Fine Woodworkin,g and that dates the jointer to 1979.
" Woodworkin,g" = Woodworking
get a life.
Gloves off, please!!!
He's fine, get your head out of your rear end.
I was thinking the same thing. I saw recently a guy lost most of his dominant hand to a planer bc he was wearing gloves. Really sad and completely avoidable.
With legalization becoming more common, the cost of a joint should come down a lot more.
Wow, Don't nick that blade with a nail !
Wrong color, 2/10.