So glad someone who knows what they are talking about is out there showing the meticulous way to do basic joinery. So often we run across these kinds of videos and someone just says "this is easy, watch how quick and easy I do this" and they get it done but it's obviously top quality. Thanks for doing these.
Just a suggestion but japanese joinery uses a round head hammer and lightly tap the joint area to aid in assembly then rehydrate the wood to return it to its proper size. Almost doesn't need glue. I love using that technique if my joint is a little tight. But as always a great video thanks for sharing.
Just popping through your videos and saw this one, which was similar to what I did last night. Thanks to your enthusiasm, you’ve encouraged me to start a City & Guilds class in Carpentry and Joinery (with a view to do Bench Joinery). It’s a lot harder than you make it look! Thanks for all your great videos, Matt... you have a wealth of knowledge and great presentation skills.
Great video. New subscriber. Handy tip to work off face sides to cancel out any inaccuracy in the measure. Learning from scratch via youtube so i rely on good videos like this. 👍
You are just incredible, methinks :) I really like your speed and your style. Always a good combination of entertainment and first class information, thank you!
Thanks Matt, I appreciate these instructional videos and the tool duels and the rest. Do you teach woodwork as well? Between watching you, Paul Sellers, and James wright I continue to be inspired with confidence to do more and more woodworking. Thank you
I have always tried to use a machine to aid joint cutting in most circumstances but your videos have kind of made me realise for a couple of one off joints it’s less messing about just to hit the hand tools , and way more satisfying! Thanks!
Nice video, lots of useful and helpful information. What is the best way to go about getting workworking (vs building) tools? I am a carpenter and I thought I would get more exposure to some of this, but sort of realizing building trade and tools are totally different. For example, I can't recall seeing marking gauges at the big box stores nor dovetail saws, but pull saw would work as well, right?
Probably my favourite joint mate but on my mitre Saw, I know that that goes against the grain of hand tool Woodworkers however it’s maximised surface space for Glue up 👍👍👍
Great video. Can a sliding mitre saw be used to cut out the same mortise ? You can set a depth gauge on these saws to limit the cross cut depth, just make a series of close parallel cross cuts and then hammer the remaining wood strips to get to a trench. Base of trench must be flat, thus saw arm must be stable. What do you say ? Super sharp Diablo blade needed too. Hitachi 12 inch.Sliding saw ?
would it make the cutline move in a tiny bit to make it too tight in the end? referencing from the square on one side gave the amount of wood remaining to enable the compression fit right?
Of course, through the magic of non-linear editing it's also very easy to film whacking the joint together, film whacking it apart again, then whack it together with glue and film the closeup. Not that I don't believe you, just that I don't understand what your point about whacking it apart was ;)
