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The hardening part always stops me from this type of work, but I see I can do it in my backyard with my grill! Thanks, awesome diy I’ve come to expect.
Hand planing reduces the usual need for sanding by 95% as there are none of the common and usual machine marks associated with power planers and all of the other machines, you see. Two strokes on the end grain each end of the top piece and straight to 320-grit to 'roughen' the surface, so the finish can gain the necessary adhesion. That single last and continuous stroke of face grain is glass smooth. In other words, most often we hand tool woodworkers don't so much sand wood smooth but sand rough. That takes some accepting but the reality of is crystal clear. Don't you just love that?
This will definitely keep me going until I buy a router plane and save money for wood. A bunch of expensive tools don't do much if I don't have any wood to work.
Both. I didn't really want to have to go out and locate a decorative veneer because the veneer is often so thin you need to stain the veneer with walnut stain to get a consistent colour. Also, that thin veneer, often a 100th of one inch thick, is so thin it cannot possibly guarantee the longevity I get with Birch plywood which usually is thick enough to plane if needed. I think too that this is a bookcase and the bulk of the back will not be seen when filled with books. Lastly, yes, I did want contrast.
Hi again, Paul. Just like to say that, although your words of wisdom, tips, explanations etc are invaluable, I also like the reinforcement of the follow-up parts where we see you just getting on with it at full throttle. Been following you since your North Wales workshop and your standards haven’t wavered.👍
It's really not at all. It's a basic 16" non-industrial machine. I spend my time setting the bandsaw up correctly and by the premium blades. Nothing more.
Fantastic video as always, I love watching these longer ones, the only problem is I want to stop watching and get out in my shed! One question, why did you use your saw to establish the lines of the grooves but not the dados? Presumably as easier to get a square line on the dados with a chisel due to their length, while the grooves were short enough to saw straight?
?! A)If you must sharpen your knife 2 or 3 times a day, then the steel is trash. B) If this is all you do to sharpen, no wonder it needs so much sharpening....you're cutting with the burr only.
I’ve been struggling with this for a week. It finally dawned on me that string under tension (I’m using dental floss) was the ideal reference, but it was interacting with the surface when I held it close for comparison. Using three spacers and suspending it never entered my mind. Thank you!
This title of the project says it all--How to make a SIMPLE bookcase. I think we're inviting problems and fifty times more work to do it--hand cut, sliding dovetails take a lot of skill and time to make and if you are suggesting eight of them you just took the total simplicity of something that will still last 200 to make it last 300, but yes, a sliding dovetail pulls the sides in and retains them. I hasten to add, though, it is a good question and consideration.
Wonderful woodworker, wonderful project and wonderful human being. A true inspiration. Loads of respect and love. BTW, can you please mention the finish you were using?
I am 2 years late but can you please make a video going over. Wood finishing: filling the grain, oil stains, water stains, oil finish, poly finish, spar, boiled linseed
Stepping drawer bottoms in the same way you have shown us with the dados, is my favorite way to make drawer bottoms. No more questioning the thickness of the plywood. Instead, stepping in down to fit my plow plane.
Good evening, Paul. In your long form videos where you do multiple identical cuts (like the 8 dados in this shelf), could you do the follow-on segments (the ones after you show us how to do the first dados) like how you would actually do it for “your” ease of making, and not for “our” viewing ease? I just want to have an idea how you would do it without taking our viewing angle into account. And you can maybe do a voiceover explaining it. Thanks again!
You right sneaky woodworker you! You changed some things from your first video! I think your new methods are better! I sourced all the materials to make a plane, but the steel was already hardened. Local machine shop said it would have to use EDM and estimated $100 US to make one blade! I then decided to purchase your kit Paul. Then, being the stubborn git that I am, I used diamond wheels of various sizes, a dremel and a cordless drill and a lot of water to form my blade. It's pretty good, but only has one slot, not two. Then your kit arrived. So I will be building two planes! I'll let you know how they come out.
