Milling Lumber: 101 

I don’t watch tv I watch RU-vid videos to learn about wood working. I’ve seen thousands. This is the best video I’ve ever seen. You taught me so much. Thank you. I’m sharing, subscribing and setting notifications. Completely impressed with the detail. Thank you.

The jointer is my biggest frustration in my shop. You did the best job explaining the problems the outfeed can cause. I wish I found this video a year ago..it would have saved me so much frustration and F bombs 🤣❤

I wish all videos were this informative, pragmatic, and cogent. Excellent, and much appreciated.

Hi Philip - I think I'm reasonably competent at using the planer/thicknesser but I learned quite a lot from your video. The introduction covering diagnosis and correction of a misaligned outfeed table was excellent. The following section covering milling was also well explained and the different approaches to getting to S4S were contrasted well and you explained why you preferred the method you used. This is the best explanation/demonstration I have seen so thank you for creating this video. Cheers

By far the most accurate video on how to square a board on youtube i am a professional hobbyist woodworker and have known how to square a board for years now thanks for teaching others how to square a board properly. Great video.

There may not be a "right way" to mill lumber, but I know from bitter experience the are numerous wrong ways! Thanks for sharing your expertise.

I've never heard a Hackney Texan accent before, lovely. Just got a jointer and this is full of useful tips. Thanks so much man.

This video is the definition of how to use a jointer. Very great video.

I tried your method to setup my jointer outfeed table and I completely got rid of snipe. Thank you so much for the tip.

ive seen many youtube big names pressing hard down on the outfeed table. i couldnt find a single article or video explaining why i was getting bows on my piece, now thanks to you i know my outfeed table is too high, thank you

The Philip Morley Table is the best kitchen table iv ever put my eyes on 😍

I spent over two hours watching videos about milling rough lumber without much gleaned from them. However after watching your video I was very impressed in the first few minutes and realized I had found the video that completely described the process in a very easy to understand fashion. Thank you very much for your knowledge! I subscribed as well!

I recently started milling my own stock and was growing increasingly frustrated with the results. Your video inspired me to take a step back and spend some time getting my jointer really dialed in. Took some time but using your process of flattening both faces first rather than a face then an edge, my milling and squaring of stock is better than ever. Thanks for a really great tutorial.

With so many tools and concepts required, I can completely understand why people either opt for hand tools, or 3rd party prep.

Just came across this video having watched 10+ others and finally someone who explains why the h.... I was getting a bow in my boards! Outfeed table just slightly too high! Thank you!!!

By far the best video I have ever watched on milling. Thank you, sir! 🙌

Great job..Newly retired and now a hobby woodworker. Just bought a jointer and with your teaching, I now have a good understanding of how to use it. Watching your 20-minute video takes months and maybe years off my learning curve. The output table adjustment was simply brilliant.

I have been looking for this information for a year! Thank you for posting this.

Brilliant!!!!! You’re such a great instructor man! You were born to get people engaged. Kudos!

This makes more sense! Thanks Philip

This guy is awesome. Learned a ton.

Thank you for making this video. Great info!

Nice outfeed table tips! Thanks!

love the tip on setting the outfeed table on the jointer. Such a simple solution

Great tips and explanations! Thank you!

Philip - Great Video lots of detail.

You saved me from taking my jointer apart. I'm an amateur at best! and could not figure out way my boards were coming out tapered. Thanks for taking the time explaining how it works!

By far the best tutorial on this on RU-vid. Thanks for taking the time to walk through this process and the rational behind why!

Thank you so much for your guidance on planing. After watching numerous RU-vid videos I still remained confused and frustrated in my inability to get my boards to turn out to my satisfaction. After watching your tutorial I have a much better idea of my mistakes.

Excellent video!

Hi Philip. I just discovered your channel today. I want to say thanks for this particular video. I just bought a new Grizzly 8" jointer, and I've been having a hard time getting it adjusted to get rid of the snipe. After watching this video, my problem is solved, and I feel like an idiot for not being able to figure it out on my own! Thanks again for the video. It's very informative, and your way of explaining things is easy to understand. Keep up the good work! Thanks again, Bill Garrett-Seguin, TX

Solid video Philip. I'm rethinking my milling process....solid.

Best milling explanation and jointer set up on you tube, thumbs up.

Great Video! I just finished up putting new blades and aligning the infeed outfeed table on my G1018 Joiner. After watching your video I will go back and recheck the outfeed table.

Now those are great tips. First time I've come across that way to joint and plane a bit of lumbar, and I must say, it's the best way I've seen. Thanks so much.

This video was great! I watched tons of other ones before finding this but this was by far the most helpful and easy to understand for me. Thank you!

Best instruction hands down!

Very helpful. Thank you.

Great video Philip. Thank you

Fantastic!

great tips, thank you

As a beginning woodworker, I've learned a lot from this video. Thanks for posting it!

Hi Philip, I like your vids! Especially the little details where you go a bit beyond the obvious like setting the joiner out feed properly. That is the finesse a lot of video's don't have and make it great to watch. Keep em coming!

Thank you for taking the time the show how to properly setup your jointer as well as demonstrate the issues that arise when it is not setup properly. Very helpful. So many start demoing after everything is already setup properly which leaves out a key step in getting the anticipated results. Excellent video!

I really enjoyed that very clean and concise and I learned a lot

wish I watched this a few years ago, awesome tips in this video

Such a great video. I really like the advice regarding jointing one face, followed by planning the opposite face, then moving on to jointing an edge. I always hear and see jointing a face, followed by an edge, but I much prefer the way you’ve shown. Thanks so much.

Great content! Concise, detailed description for your method with equally “clean” editing. Well done! Thanks

Excellent video. Detailed & well explained. I found it very informative. Thank you.

This was an excellent presentation. Your students are lucky to have you. Thanks.

Thanks...very informative.

Nice explanation!! Very clear too thanks!!

appreciate your sharing your experience. i learned a lot from you

Excellent and thorough explanation. I learned quite a bit from this video. I just got my jointer today and my planer arrives tomorrow. I am looking forward to using them and now that I have seen this I feel I will be using them correctly. Thank you very much. Liked and subbed.

Oh my hell... thank you for this! You answered so many questions I haven’t even had yet and earned a subscribe. Fantastic teacher. 💕👏🏼

New to woodworking and you have a great way of explaining things. Thanks! Subbed!! 😎

Very clear and precise directions.Thank you. New woodworker and I appreciate the expert advice.

Had to subscribe, will be watching the rest of your videos, thanks for sharing

Thank you! Excellent explanation that gives me confidence now! Appreciate your sharing!

Thanks! You taught me a lot!

Lots of great info!

Great video, very informative, I show this video to my high school woodshop students

Very informative . Thanks for sharing. WELL DONE !

Hi Philip! Thanks for this clear and thorough explanation of milling. I am taking my first woodworking course at local community college with a fine woodworking program, and just had my first in person class which went over milling. In particular, your explanation of jointing one edge, and then going to the thickness planer to avoid any issue with grain direction before leveling the second edge was a great takeaway which was not covered in my live class, unless I missed it, which was possible! I've been a hobbyist on and off for a long time, and finally am taking the plunge to get some formal education, and seeing where it goes from there. Blessings to you and thanks again! Cheers! -- Philip D

Hey Philip, thanks for your video! I actually understand the steps I'm supposed to take with my Jointer/Planer now. It was a little confusing before this video and I was doing the planer first... Now I know better, take care.

Hi Philip. I, just today, attempted to square up a piece of birch, using the technique you, in the past, followed. Your upgraded technique would have saved me some chip out and it makes so much sense to copy your system. Thank you for your time and expertise.

Thanks philip

Excellent tips! Thanks very much... bought the exact same planer and now a lot more confident in using it.

Hey Philip ad you can tell by the comments below and all the info that you covered on this video it's clear that you've got quite a talent young man. I'm very pleased and grateful that you've decided to share it on this platform. Blessings to you and yours. Cheers from Chicago!

Very helpful, learned several things I will use today about adjusting and order or using. Thanks!

Great video mate

Great explanation...very informative...thanks Philip for your work

Brilliant tut. Logically explained as im a systems person. I learnt heaps. Thnx

Ty for the very educational video. I am new to finish carpentry and have a jointer on order but have never really been shown how to use one. This was very helpful to me and has given me the confidence to be able to set up my jointer correctly. I hit that subscribe button and am looking forward to watching more of your videos.

It's hard to believe we can get this great level of instruction for free! Excellent tutorial. Thanks for taking the time to do this. Cheers!

i just purchased a thickness planer and a jointer and your video is very helpful. i was milling differently than you are and i will now use your method. thanks.

I have the Canadian version of that jointer (craftex) and I was going crazy trying to flatten a board and this video totally helped me. Thanks so much for posting this. Total novice with solid wood.

Good video Phillip.

Dear Philip, occasionally a supreme expert in a field comes along to make what has been difficult and frustrating seem easy and a pleasure. This is one such occasion. Well done. I am intrigued that people use an expensive surface planer and an inexpensive thicknesser to do the job. I would have thought everyone would have aspired to own a big heavy thicknesser as well. Obviously the dinky toy machines like the Dewalt are acceptable.

Wow, this is helpful but I had a really tough time finding this video. No one is talking about the convex bowing problem you explained PERFECTLY that is caused by the outfeed table being just slightly too high. It has been driving me crazy. I'm going to adjust that in the morning. Thanks!

Excelent video Philip, thanks a lot. I have never milled anything but I just bought a used Crafstman jointer and a new Dewalt planer, so this video comes just in time, with very very valuable content. Greetings from Mexico City. Subscribed!

Great teacher!!

very instructional video

Great vid thx

Hi Philip, great instructional video, some great tips there, hopefully i can get the same results you achieve now that i have a better idea of how to use this piece of machinery. Thanks from Yorkshire

Very informative. Thanks from Georgetown TX. Just heard your interview on Green Woodworker; great podcast.

This video is really great. Thank you for sharing your professional tips. Adjusting the joiner is really a hassle if the outfeed table doesn't move. Anyway, this video was really useful for me.Thank you so much.

Like these video's! Thanks

very good thanks

Great video Philip! The jointer part saved me in the install of my new byrd shelix head on my 8" Grizzly jointer. It's all dialed in thanks to your help! Also something clicked in for me when trying to follow the grain direction review on the jointer/planer. I fly airplanes so I'm going to think of it like this...Jointer you want the wood going up like a plane taking off from an airport while the planer you want it to be like a plane landing....Good stuff buddy!

Love your stuff Philip - your are a generous man with your practical knowledge. I am over-thinking things as usual. You had me this time up until the step beyond the last width cut on tablesaw. I've come to stop there, as a rule, and then rely on finish sanding to manage the TS marks. You propose adding yet another run on the planer, on edge, to handle this element. And, this relates to what I've realizing as a novice woodworker - it seems that as one graduates along the pathway of becoming a "woodworker" you work with dimensions of wood dictated by your milling methods rather than a prescribed (manufactured) dimension, obviously. For example a furniture guy would be quite satisfied working with material he milled to 7/8" thickness knowing he perfectly milled it to that thickness and didn't have to rely on the stated dimensions of manu wood. I am still at the place where I work from plans that dictate the final dimensions so, if I need a final thickness of 1", for instance, then where I stop milling is after that last tablesaw cut relying on the TS (fence rail) gauge at 1". I realize every piece should be finally measured with a caliper but this technique has served me well as long as I make sure that all pieces are cut at exactly that same width on TS and the finish sanding techniques also remain consistent. With the added step at the planer you would be relying on the planer's gauge to tell you you're at 1" but you would have a cleaner edge needing less finish sanding I suppose. Further it would be impossible to perform that last step on the planer with any wood that was under 4/4 unless sent through with sister boards. You are using 6/4-8/4 in your vid I presume. I apologize for blubbering on but I'm a slow learner and just trying to get it right. Again, thanks for all your content.

You tip for aligning the outfeed table of the jointer just blew my mind. My process has always been super frustrating and time consuming. Thanks for that!

Thank you!

Greats video. Your instruction is very easy to follow and understand. Thanks for doing an instructional type of video!!

Awesome thanx

Well done..... and I'm a 40 year professional.

Thank you

So glad I watched this. First I'm thinking... DUH! Why did I not figure this out? But now I know why my last boards weren't coming out right. I manage a Maker Space. So the settings aren't always the same when I use the equipment. The outfeed on the jointer is set too high. I have a lot of lumber to mill for some cutting boards. Happy I saw this first. Now I'm confident my boards will be milled right.

extremely helpful - was doing it all wrong! Thanks for the tips - looking forward to putting it into action

good job guys