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0:00 Intro
3:08 Getting the grain
6:49 Draw knives
16:38 What comes next?
22:03 Outro

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@mercoid 4 месяца назад

A great advancement in your channel having a guest on. You did a good job interacting him and guiding the conversation. I assume it had to be somewhat uncomfortable new ground for you and I appreciate it. Looking forward to future episodes.

@Vikingwerk 4 месяца назад

Rex, you need to dress the top of that red wedge, it looks pretty mushroomed, and at that stage, pieces can for sure break off and shoot into your favorite eye. 15 minutes with a grinder is worth it.

@harpintn 4 месяца назад

Under rated comment. If you can't do it safely, then you don't need to do it.

@jeffspaulding9834 4 месяца назад

To be fair, they have an equal chance of shooting into your least favorite eye as well.

@MemphisCorollaS 4 месяца назад

Curious noobie question. When you dress a mushroomed wedge, sledge head, etc, are you trying just to remove the bend metal to get back to hardened steel, or are you also trying to shape the striking surface either slightly curved, waffled, or flat? Honestly would like to know.

@MemphisCorollaS 4 месяца назад

@@jeffspaulding9834if you’ve grown up legally blind with different levels of astigmatism in each eye making life difficult, it can be a love/hate thing with the eyes and contacts and glasses. I’ll get irrationally defensive when someone wants to mess with my eyes or glasses though despite the disdain I have for them. It does give a person a great motivation to wear safety equipment tho. Gonna need all the sight and hearing I got left

@Vikingwerk 4 месяца назад

@@MemphisCorollaS foremost is to remove the work-hardened, mushroomed metal. Most people will also shape the striking face back a bit, leaving a chamfer around it, which helps extend the work time before dressing must be done again. I would not ‘waffle’ the striking face, that would just produce hundreds of sharp corners that will roll, harden, and break off, a smooth striking face is preferred. I prefer slightly crowned, vs flat, as that also seems to help reduce mushrooming.

@jons2447 4 месяца назад

*THANK YOU!* so much!, Mr. Krueger! I'm 68, when I was a youngster there were these old chairs around. I always heard them called 'ladder back' chairs. And I've wanted to try making one for years. So I'm glad to see you making a chair & I'm glad I'm on your Patreon, too. Have a GREAT day, Neighbor!

@harpintn 4 месяца назад

We have a few of them that are very old, I don't know exactly how old but they belonged to my wife's grandparents.

@ehisey 4 месяца назад

Check out Lost Art Press. They just released a book that is both a history and a how to on traditional ladder backs.

@mattparker8304 4 месяца назад

Rob is a natural on camera and seems like a great teacher. Looking forward to the rest of this series.

@MCsCreations 4 месяца назад

Awesome! Thanks a bunch, guys! 😃 Stay safe there with your families! 🖖😊

@harpintn 4 месяца назад

I have been waiting for you to start this series.

@dumpster_witch8960 4 месяца назад

Never been interested in chairmaking specifically before i saw this, but these old techniques are so cool! I definitely am gonna be trying some of this out in the future

@RobertWallhead 4 месяца назад

I loved the relaxed conversational pacing, this turned out really well and was full of genuinely useful info!

@jakelilevjen9766 4 месяца назад

Really makes you appreciate the amount of work that used to go into the simple things most people don’t even think about.

@ian7819 4 месяца назад

Brilliant video Rex. You covered a lot of ground quickly but you answered a lot of questions that a beginner like me needs to know but experts take for granted and don't explain. Especially liked the sequence on different draw knife styles.

@klifwommack8804 11 дней назад

Excited for this series of videos! Great stuff!

@pleappleappleap Месяц назад

Rob has a really pleasant voice.

@sampickett3843 4 месяца назад

This is a great start. I believe this is going to be my favorite series! I have almost none of the tools or wood needed. Time for me to get started.

@newcenobium8872 4 месяца назад

Great video. I'm looking forward to watching the rest of this series!

@SandyMasquith 4 месяца назад

This is such great content. Thank you both for taking the time to record this. The information you provide is invaluable. Now I know what to do with those dogwood pieces!!! I can make a couple gluts and maybe a beetle. How fun! :)

@jakubmakalowski6428 4 месяца назад

I actually enjoyed the rougher more casual video style as a change.

@johnbart3746 4 месяца назад

This is a really interesting series already. Thank you!

@Arboreal_Fungi 4 месяца назад

Great summary of techniques!

@user-qg6fy4yp8t 4 месяца назад

Thanks, good video!! Looking forward for the next episode.

@RobWalsh 4 месяца назад

Great video! I really need to buy a froe and get off my butt; I have most of the rest. Also, I love seeing the rest of the shop in the background! You have some of the best hand tool / simple tools content out there, but it makes me smile to see all the "normal" woodworking shop tools too. No pretense. 🙂 Thanks!

@tom314 4 месяца назад

interesting series! I might be making myself a shave horse when I get a chance :)

@odieblock481 4 месяца назад

While watching I was thing about Jason Lonon since a good friend of mine worked for him in his shop. The man can make some wild and amazing tools.

@yotamgosh 4 месяца назад

I'm excited for this project! I'm also excited that Rex is excited 😁

@dannyhale7645 4 месяца назад

Great advice about striking hardened steel with hardened steel being dangerous. When I was in paramedic school, I had the opportunity to sit in and listen to an interesting case review. A guy was splitting wood in his backyard in a suburb. He suddenly felt like crap. He said he felt something similar to a bee sting on his chest. EMS arrived to find him showing the signs of hypovolemic shock (Bleeding to death), but there was no external bleeding or any sign of an injury to explain his condition. They bypassed the nearest ER, and transported him to a major trauma center. He was taken straight into surgery. They opened him up to find the source of the internal bleeding. A tiny piece of shrapnel had flown off the wedge or the maul, penetrated the skin on his chest, just under his sternum. It continued through his aorta (the biggest artery in the body), tearing it open and causing massive internal bleeding. Had EMS transported him to the nearest, but less capable hospital, he would certainly have died. Had the trauma center delayed sending him to surgery, her would certainly have died. The system worked perfectly to save this man's life, against incredible odds. It was a really amazing story to hear. I guess the moral of the story is, listen to Rex and don't hit hardened steel with hardened steel.

@DocTheElder 4 месяца назад

Rex may wish to consider a shaving horse with the legs located ~18" further back under the rider.

@pleappleappleap Месяц назад

The kind of pipe you need for your brake can often be found for almost no money at your local scrap metal dealer.

@graydanerasmussen4071 4 месяца назад

I agree that -horse needs a redesign. I've never used one, but a little knowledge of lever physics tells me the whole locking hump, treadle and all, needs to go forward at least 6-8''. Luckily, there might just be enough space on the bench to do that.Also, I seem to remember seeing someone had cut a notch on top of the treadle/locking mechanism, to rest their knife on when not in use...

@GabrielHarper 4 месяца назад

Quest with a guest! Can’t wait for you to crack that log open!

@dpmeyer4867 4 месяца назад

thanks

@andrewkrahn2629 4 месяца назад

Buckthorn might be perfect for gluts in the US if you can get a big enough branch. It's considered hyper-invasive trash, but it's hard like apple. Also, the mid-sized heartwood is carrot orange and iridescent! Just note that it's prone to cracking as it dries, so seal that thing with wood glue then forget it for a few months

@janmalan471 4 месяца назад

I use concrete chisels to split wood, they are a bit narrow, but they are cheep so I generally have 3 in the split that I keep on recycling to the front.

@mattpage9826 4 месяца назад

You may want to take the big red metal wedge you have, and grind away the mushroomed expansion on the striking end. Worked metal hardens, and the lip that forms around old wedges become deadly as bullets. So just take an angle grinder, or corse file and get rid of that.

@darodes 4 месяца назад

Let the sophomores be funny it boosts the algorithm!!

@HandcraftedByMPD 4 месяца назад

For people new to chairmaking, you can also use kiln dried lumber. Not with the same techniques here, but you can achieve similar forms. Check out Lost Art Press and specifically the Anarchist’s Design Book and The Stick Chair Book by Chris Schwarz

@ehisey 4 месяца назад

Or the lastest on Ladder back chairs.

@HandcraftedByMPD 4 месяца назад

@@ehisey yeah. Lol didn’t know what type of chair they were building towards the end. I think the book to the ladder back is in the description

@Some1special 4 месяца назад

Great video, really well done. Also if your looking to split a large piece of wood up but you don't have that strength to do it by hand. I'd recommend buying a cheap electric chainsaw. The only time I'd say it's worth it to buy a gas powered chainsaw is if your going to use it frequently because as they sit around for long periods of time, the engine will seize and you will regret throwing a ton of money at a quality gas powered chainsaw when you use it again a few years down the line only to find it seized and in need of a ton of work.

@dylankertis4170 4 месяца назад

One time I split a Shellbark Hickory log it was like 20in in diameter and 10ft long it had interlocking grain it looked perfectly straight from the outside but when I sent a wedge in it well long story short it took me 2 hours to make one split that should’ve taken me 20 minutes. The first split is the most work everything else is way easier. I split it for bow making and I left it long so I could cut out the imperfections. I’m guilty for hitting axe heads with sledgehammers and my favorite draw knife is a DR Barton.

@dylankertis4170 4 месяца назад

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@Sawyer_sam 2 месяца назад

"anything in that family would work for your wood work "

@oshimia6746 4 месяца назад

Guest presenter: Am I on camera? Rex Krueger, professional RU-vidr: Yeah you're on camera! Camera: what does focus mean again? Also, this guy's boots are great. **this is a joke. The video was great and both Rex and Rob did a fantastic job.

@WalterRiggs 4 месяца назад

If you use a steel wedge, be sure you hit it square every time. My dad didn’t, and it flew out and knocked him TF out.

@serumk 4 месяца назад

😳

@Paulo-Bunzo 4 месяца назад

He used the Deebo wedge.

@petrsidlo7614 4 месяца назад

@@Paulo-Bunzo there are times I know a joke is great just by when and how it is said, even if I am not familiar with the references required for it to work. Wish I knew this one because your delivery reads well.

@darylthomas4522 4 месяца назад

The big wooden mallet has a bigger sweet spot,it turns a bad hit into a good one ,doing concrete formwork and driving pegs the big mallet eliminates broken pegs,reduces bad strikes causing accidents and is so much lighter ,the best tool nobody knows about

@Benjiroyoface 4 месяца назад

@@petrsidlo7614you judged well, friend. it's a reference to Friday(1995)

@321mogul 4 месяца назад

running a profile correction for your wide angle lens would help get rid of the distortion that's happening in the sitting talking in the garage portion. you look a bit stretched. Thanks for the video interesting as always.

@ShawnBean 4 месяца назад

So, THAT'S why my drawknife sucks! I bought the dang thing new for $30. Time to go hit the flea markets...

@borjesvensson8661 3 месяца назад

Felling wedges for forestry have about the right angle for splitting if you dont want to make a wooden one

@zaphodbeeblebrox8751 4 месяца назад

May I be the first to comment for no other reason than to be the first! Cool. Ok Ill finish watching the video now!! Cheers from the other side of the earth.

@Xfd960 3 месяца назад

Curious, could that chair leg be flatened with a plane instead of a draw knife

@camerongaul261 4 месяца назад

Wood on wood jokes, how sophomoric. It's basically a wood on wood crime.

@Aminuts2009 4 месяца назад

I only have birch available here in Alaska as a hardwood i can get actual logs. Would that work?

@hunters36forgingwoodworkin73 4 месяца назад

Likely.

@SoakintheSchadenfreude 4 месяца назад

Yes

@harpintn 4 месяца назад

The early settlers used what wood they could get locally, much of what they made lasted a lifetime or more.

@RexKrueger 4 месяца назад

For this chair, you need a ring-porous wood and i don't think birch qualifies, BUT this is just one kind of chair. That birch will make one of the many, many others.

@russstaples6125 4 месяца назад

Is that piece of oak dry? If it was green, shavings would fly off so much easier.

@lelandallen 4 месяца назад

Dang it, Rex, you beat me to the joke

@steveshapland8846 4 месяца назад

How do you tell bevel up vs. bevel down when looking at a draw knife?

@dixiewrecked4372 4 месяца назад

Angle of the handles relative to the flat of the blade. If the handles are in line with the flat, they can be used either way. If handles drop down, the draw knife is meant for bevel-up. this counteracts the tendency of the flat to dig into the wood, but makes it more difficult to use bevel-down. -Roy Underhill

@ColineRusselle 4 месяца назад

So many say do not hold the handles and they are just tapped on a tang.

@1pcfred 4 месяца назад

A proper drawknife the tang goes through the handle and holds the button.

@rohrertech8882 4 месяца назад

What could be done to improve a new draw knife that doesn't perform well? I bought an inexpensive one a few years back, and found it to be not great. Not having experience with a quality draw knife, I don't really know what's wrong. I'm capable and willing to do the work to fix it, but don't really know where i should be aiming.

@1pcfred 4 месяца назад

You're aiming at making the blade wicked sharp. But I've never found sharpening draw knives particularly easy to do. They're large cumbersome and unwieldy to sharpen. So expect to have to work at it. If the steel is any good and you get a good edge on it then it should work OK. Expect to spend an unreasonable amount of time profiling the blade. If you're gutsy you might even want to attack it with a grinder to rough the profile. But doing that right is going to be trick to do. There is risk involved there. By hand is slower but you have less chance messing up.

@borjesvensson8661 3 месяца назад

Would not the physics behind the curved drawknife cutting easier being the same as the physics behind a cambered plane iron cutting easier

@michaelallen5505 4 месяца назад

Another excellent video! Just one thing, the voice audio is too low. The woodworking sounds are loud and clear.

@DonnaWerdahl Месяц назад

Stopno thanks

@johnfreiler6017 4 месяца назад

Love the content: the sound, not so much. Did you have Graham Blackburn in to do this (he has great content, but lousy sound too).

@dannewton7873 4 месяца назад

Oak is in the Beech family, Ash is in the Olive family, Hickory is in the Walnut family.....

@su-mu 4 месяца назад

23:25

@stufarnham 4 месяца назад

Look at all the machines gathered aroud wonering what the heck is goin on!

@kornelmoleda 4 месяца назад

Ehm

@daveengstrom9250 4 месяца назад

Do you think those early chair makers sat down on the job?

@DonnaWerdahl Месяц назад

Not intetested

@DonnaWerdahl Месяц назад

Stop

@derekstouder7423 4 месяца назад

If you want to try to minimize the shave horse movement during use, try clamping your No-mod Planing Stop to your bench leg with the teeth pointing down. Just wedge the far end of the shave horse under the teeth, and you get to use all the leverage of your bench and whatever is on it to keep it in place.