Awesome video! You're a skilled man. Please, where can I find that hand drill. It looks like it does a fine job. In fact, would it be too much to request a break down of each tool used? I'll bet there is a story behind each.
I am currently building wooden handplanes in the traditional style and I have seen a lot of sources talk about finishes on handplanes. But almost nobody talks about whether you should finish your sole and bed. It appears that you put finish on your sole, do you also put some on the bed and wedge?
Mr. Chickadee, would you have a guess you would be willing to share with me how much thicker the frame for this floor ought to minimally be than the floor pieces that slide into the frame if I build a floor like this for a very small cabin out of tulip-poplar and have floor pieces under 3' long? I want my floor to be as thick as possible in order to provide a little bit of insulation value, but I have limited total space to work with, so the closer the floor pieces can be to the size of the frame the thicker they can be, but I obviously don't want to leave so little wood supporting the floor pieces that the supporting ledge breaks out. It looks like you had more, but do you think just one inch would be enough? Or even 3/4"? Thank you for the inspiring and helpful video!
Traditionally it was normally done with timbers being close to a 6x6" beam and the boards closer to 2" thick. These sizes can be smaller depending on the weight the floor is holding and the spans for the beams. Wood is not great insulation, unless very thick, only R1.5 per inch of thickness. You can easily add insulation such as mineral wool on the bottom side of these floorboards to help with that.
Why should anyone do anything above the bare minimum? What you call meaningless, is the most highly advanced wooden architecture the world has known, and the most long lasting, in a country having the most difficult weather and most earthquakes than anywhere.
poehh........truly beautifull. Thank you for sharing your work. wonderfull rythm....also on the frame's. Thank you, sincerely yours, Ernst from Amsterdam. It is inspiiring and helps me remember carpentry the way I want to learn. Thank you
Chiseling toward your femoral artery? Japanese carpenters tend to put both legs to the side so the outside of the leg is facing the edge of the chisel.
I found one of these over the weekend and noticed that the blade angle wasnt quite what i was expecting for what i had in mind. Glad to see theres actually a reason for that!
Thats some hard work must be why theres not one hewn timber in my 100 year old barn they didn't even take the bark off most logs..i believe the work to gain ratio is very low here
Really enjoyed this. I recently lost my little grey cat Tink who is a carbon copy of your cat. Watching yours help unpack the wooden chisels brought back wonderful memories of her. I played the beginning several times.
very cool, it must be a lot of work to make several, especially since iron was used to be. that's why there are so many buildings that barely had nails. it's a lot of work to acquire and purify the metal, and forging also seems to take a long time, but especially mining and refining, it must be difficult to make small nails by forging
