LIVE Q&A - Listening to the tools | Paul Sellers

well hire me I hope you're there somebody let me know if you're there because I'm pretty sure we are but we had a cable that I had to keep disconnecting and reconnecting and finally we got some power to you so more power to you that's what this is about today more power for everybody hopefully I'm going to kick off by covering something that you may not know I thought maybe before I took it too many questions I wanted to show you something because this involves sound and it involves harmonics and I thought the best way for me to describe what happens when I'm working with my would I do certain things that I may not even have ever written down or expressed but I want to show you with a living example so here I've got some wood it's pine and I put this in the vise and I start planing watch what happens now I can use any plane you can have bevel ups bevel down block planes little block planes like this one here you push this into the wood like this and it doesn't make a sound I go with my little smoothing plane oh that was so terrible so that's one thing that happens so I think I'll go with a bigger plane and I get the the same but not quite as bad so then I go with a really heavy plane here and I still get it oh this is so painful amazing what's happening we don't generally talk about harmonics in our in our woodworking we we talk more about vibration chatter and things like that but we don't relate it to the harmonics so I want to show you a couple of things that I might do in a day in reality this plane too will squeal when I get it wrong whatever I do so that way what about this one here is it big old Oh so why is this happening why is this happening let's take another look it's another piece of wood I think this is interesting enough for us to cover a little bit let's take this piece of wood let me see this one might work so here's a piece of oak and we'll take the same plain visit it's still doing it it's still doing a bevel down plane here's my big old number five Jack and it doesn't do it do it with the number four and number Oh with a heavy heavy not intended and it doesn't do it and so what's going on what is going on and I think the important thing to realize is that we can change things here's that same first piece of wood I put it in the vise on this side I'm going to use the same plane I'm going to use this plane on this side and plane into the piece of wood here so I am I'm setting up there's a harmonic setting up in there and if I go to this side let's see what happens see there is no harmonic the one that harmonized or the worse was this one so did you notice that watch what happens I push forward take your shaving pull back listen you see the difference push forward pull backwards what I've got no matter which plane when I pull back so what we're really dealing with here we're really dealing with friction that's what causes this harmonic so when we take the plane forward when there's an thing we've got to deal with that is would if I fix this end of the board in the vise and I push this way this wood is compressing itself into itself as the plane moves forward this is released and as this is released that's causing a harmonic let me do it again this way I'll use my Jack playing take your shaving what's happening is these fibers are all moving in that direction and then all of a sudden they're springing back and that's when you get those chatter marks in the surface but they're not chatter because the plane ion is flexing which is what chatter is really we're getting this washboard effect because the fibers are springing back after the blade is cut so all the way back now watch happens on this side what I'm doing here on this side the fibers were compressing and springing back on this side all the fibers a spring they're pulling away so we're stretching the fibers no compression harmonics is all about the compression of sound and so that this sound way so we're compressing the sound waves on one side and we're stretching it on the other side so in the physics of stretching this wood on this side okay so what's causing that is it the cutter or is it the pure friction watch what happens now so I take your shaving here and I get that harmonic sound watch what happens here this is my ragging account oiler all it is is a stuffed rag in a can and I fill it with three in one oil so I wipe the sole of this and I've got zero harmonics no matter which plane I go with let's see if I'm right a little bit of oil on there let's look no harmonics in either direction if I go on this side no harmonics on this side so what's the difference now then here again no harmonics so we've changed it by putting a little bit of oil on there what was the difference between this board and this board we did get a little harmonic with the various plane the weight of the plane things like that the difference between this and this is the amount of resin in the wood itself the resin causes friction it increases friction the oil works as a barrier between the two and that's why we didn't get any harmonics is this interesting or what so this is I think fascinating for me so I wanted to preface this passage with just the reality that we face these things in the everyday of life and this is where physics plays a very important part in what we do in the everyday of life okay so that's the plane what about the chisel honey saw the plane in another sphere let me just do this just bear with me give me one second just a one inch chisel on the surface of the wood here I'm just taking a couple of little scallops out of here like this I used to do this with children when they used to come to my workshop I would take a plane and push it across the surface this is how we tell whether a board is straight flat or whatever a lot of time we rely on sound again listen across the surface like this well listen okay now I'm getting a continuous sound but listen when I get to this end I'm tearing the grain this is telling me that the grain is rising up into the plane and that's the worst thing I want so I either have to flip my plane around Oh flip my wood around I work with the wood the whole time I'm listening for those sounds those sounds are telling me I'm planing against the grain or with the grain those sounds are telling me that I've got the low points I've taken the high points down to the very lowest point and now I've got a straight one so watch this now to get this straight take a couple of shavings in the middle and now that's straight I know it's straight because my plane is straight let's use me so there you are we work with the wood the whole time if we're sawing like this if we took a saw and we start sawing here I got all this vibration going down to the bench the bench is becoming my amplifier it amplifies the reality that I'm not doing something in the right way watch if I take the same piece of wood and place it this way it's very different than going the other way so these are the kind of things these are the signals the whole time that we have when we're cutting our wood when we're making dovetails whatever I go in here and I've got a dovetail to cut I take a saw stroke I take my hand off the wood is flexing back and forth listen to the difference in sound I drop down here so I'm listening I'm feeling and all of those things are going through the atmosphere my all of my course senses everything right down to my gut senses the ones you can't see and nobody talks about they're all receiving this information and what's that information for it's purely so we can make adjustments to the tools and to the wood and we can work with the wood and with the tools to optimize their performance and thereby optimize our perform so there is my introduction to today I hope you enjoyed that because these are the things you learn as you go and this is what makes you a craftsperson you are engaged with the materials you're engaged with the tools and it's critical so let's take a look where are we alright thank you so much I've learned so much from watching your videos I wouldn't call myself a good work woodworker yet but I am much better because of your your experience and advice okay now then hmm I know there must be a button I'm supposed to press here but I don't see any questions and I showed you thank you and I like the bow on the violin string yeah it's exactly like that John exactly I probably meant to say that because we rose in the bowl with resin from resin that comes mostly from Pines or from soft woods so that's what we do something likes the show ji-hye from South Wales hi everybody thank you Paul for all you do you're the bob ross of woodworking I don't see any questions coming in that sound is so familiar for me yeah I know thanks Claudia and I know that's true I know we all face it from time to time it's wonderful that we can get round it but you see by moving it from one side of the Vice to the other I eliminated it and I didn't get the surface vibration we've got to be guarded against calling surface vibration chatter because chatter is a very very rare phenomenon that happens when a blade flexes and it sets up an utterance action in the blade itself like that but with skidding and things and vibration it's very different to that this is where the wood is vibrating or the plane is vibrating but not the blade it's a huge huge different okay can you show us on sawing yeah yeah what what was it you wanted to know Claudia hi Paul how are you I'm good then stunt and I'm really very good I'm really really very very good can you hear things like sharpness and plain sorcerer yes yes that's a really good one that I think because sometimes we don't realize how the material is speaking back to us when we start using the saw the first stroke tells me I need to sharpen up and the problem with the saw is a saw will keep sharpen it will keep cutting for a long long time after it needs sharpening so when I'm using my saw what they don't rely on tree lies with the Western saw the Western saw relies on a sheer cut and so when you are doing something fine you want to work on really fine dovetails just take your saw file set this in your vise and take one very light pass through each of the tooth bullets and that will set the sharp of chart myself and what it does it sharpens the outer corners of the opposite teeth so that when you actually saw it gives you that crisp clean edge right up to the corner the his porn on any saw is going to be the corner that cut the corner on the extreme outside those get rounded every time you use the saw so you're better going in I shall I would sharpen the saw if I was if I was cutting ten drawers I would probably sharp mice this little saw to cut those dovetails I would probably sharpen it three or four times because I want the crispness from the corners of those teeth every teeth has to be pristinely cut so I just that's how I work with my tools okay do you prefer a Ghent saw over a dovetail saw for any reason it's a really really great question I rarely see using the dovetail saw I recently modified a pax gents with a dovetail style handle I definitely feel I maybe I'm the only person in the world but let me show you the position of my hung when I'm cutting when I'm cutting with this I feel the in line from my elbow right down the very center this is a bit like the center of percussion it there's something about this that gives you the most direct cuts and that's why I like this on it's not hard to use you just put the ball of the handle in the in the inner hollow of your hand and point that finger and it just goes now then with these these do have their place but not all the time I found my hand is some people call this the hang of the saw and I think sometimes is the most ridiculous term but here this saw still curve but my hand is now over hand it's over the top of the saw as if I want the saw to be pressed down into the cup and actually you don't need to press a saw down into the cut it will cook automatically you only need to move it forward and it will still continue cutting so it's the weight of your hand it's the weight of the saw I do I love this saw tenon same the same size as this one it just doesn't have the dead of this one so I might need this one for a deeper cut so I'm deeper dovetails that's what I would go with hi Paul sometimes when I flatten rough sawn boards my larger plane just don't take any shavings only the smaller ones number three or block plane what do you think is causing this well mostly that's caused by the board being slightly hard if it's ever so slightly Hollow if the big planes won't hit it all aide me all you need to do is take off hug off the top part and that's what those planes were for mostly and then you refine the final cuts with you smoothing planes so you take them down with your long plane that's getting everything level or near a two level and then you go in with your smaller planes just to smooth up and trim off just that hair that onion skin thickness to get all the undulations down boy I recently had issues with cutting dovetails every time I cut the pins and was cleaning out the waste it would snap off mmm is it the pin that would snap off I was using a one-in-eight ratio in walnut any tips I don't know why it would be snapping off that's where it becomes difficult for me to try to fix something like that because like this question because I don't have the size of your pins if they're those super super thin ones you know the 1/8 thick then those do pop off even when you put the dovetail together I've had perfect dovetails where it slipped together perfectly and when I pulled it apart one of the pins came with it it's so soul-destroying it's so sad but it does happen ok this is similar with the Japanese saws position is similar but is on a port I think yeah yeah that's exactly right sometimes when I play in a plank my low angle Jack plane would not take off any shavings in one direction but bite huge chunks from the other this is where the bevel of the plane iron is more connect commensurate to the maybe she got rising grain going with a bevel plain 90% of the time just totally destroys the wood it can do I'm not saying it does every time but it's a big percentage when you're planing into grain where the grain has decided to change course is playing perfectly smooth and then the grain rises up and you hit that spot and it's probably a similar angle to the bed of the cutting iron plus the bevel and suddenly boy does it tear it up it's just a sad thing and it does happen which I think I prefer I don't really use the bevel up planes very much at all where would you recommend buying source very difficult because it depends on what your expert experiences with them with your sharpening technique if you're good at sharpening and you've practiced it and you feel like you're able I would just go on on eBay these swords are great so this is the spear in Jackson I doubt whether you need to pay more than 10 pounds for these these are all spear and Jax's that I've accumulated and probably I bought them on eBay and then these need sharpening because I buy them because I do the research and find out those were some of the best swords that spear and Jackson made after the decline the decline the decline came during the war years when they made these dumb down versions with the ugly handles but they still have good steel good brass back and they are fairly comfortable they're not uncomfortable at all so 410 pounds 12 pounds that's where I would go for sure how would you go about fixing a hole in a steel leg if the drill bit he walks while drilling at an angle making the hole oblong I don't know whether I would I think sometimes you you have to make a decision when it's wobbling you might be using the wrong bit if it starts to walk away from the cut line it may be because it's on a curve it's very difficult and that's why they have these special bit spoon bits were designed so you could get the point in and then you could actually alter the angle and even move the bit off-center if you knew what you were doing okay hi Paul thank you so much for your advice and guidance can you advise best cut for a small best how best to cut a small rebate by hand without a rebate plain okay that's probably one of the easier ones I think this is what I would do I would just run my pencil line with my finger like this I would take a deft L saw I mean a big saw like this along here once I've gone down I've got the hole cut this the hole saw in there like that go from this face and I'm going into a knot there if whatever depth you need to go to in quote thing I've gone about an eighth of an inch by an eighth of an inch but you can go half an inch or more just run the saw down this face and you solve two problems so there I've got a very nice rebate take a ball now explain if you've got one and just run it down the edges just to crisp it up the edge if you need to like that and then the other thing I made a shish kebab stick so I can keep those you want other job making shish kabob sticks no no okay that's a great question thank you Oh what poem would you recommend for a suiting board and what plane do you think is necessary for flattening the board number seven just seems very large you don't need anything more than a number for what you do need to do is to make sure it's sharp and if you have the luxury of a bevel up plane and you're cutting miters then I think the bevel up plane definitely high so as long as the angle is low twelve degrees or something like that you will have a good cutting strategy if you've got a lot to do I just use my number four on my number five or a five-and-a-half I like having a five and a half and the five because sometimes I just like the extra quarter inch width did I get with them my longsword cutting not in the straight direction but cutting into a curve usually a burr Akbar usually that's caused by the teeth being either one side is not as sharp as the other side you know when you've got your teeth going like this sometimes one side problem may not have got right to the corner or something like that that will cause the curve and also the other thing is where you have a miss set where one side has more tooth out than the other side and then of course - there is the grain of the wood and there is bad sewing technique but when you're sawing with a handsaw let your armor rest and let the saw flow without you putting too much pressure on the see if it curves when you are not putting prep when you're not trying to keep it straight see if it naturally curves in the cut if that's the case just hammer the set out and reset the soil so you take two hammers put one in the vise tap it - all the teeth down one side flip over tap the other side try the soil see if that works first and if it does you don't have to do anything else if it doesn't and it starts binding in the cut just reset the saw and and then that will correct it how would you start out today going into a business as a furniture maker it's a very very difficult one it depends on your experience you're starting out so I assume what you're talking about is that you've just qualified you've just gone through an apprenticeship you went to college or university got a degree whatever it was and starting out on your own is a tricky tricky one because you need to make money you need to make your income so what I would what I did when I well when our fence went to America nobody knew who I was I made product that was low-cost I made birdhouses I made walking canes I mean walking sticks I made bandsaw boxes I made anything that would sell small things and probably what we might call trinkets compared to what I would make today so and I used to go to craft shows that weekend so I had a jar I would have a job where I was earning some kind of money and then I would work at weekends and evenings and make product and then I would go out of the weekend and it was hard work having two jobs I would work in the evenings and I started out that way and then I started selling more and more and more then I added in my pieces of furniture people liked my rocking chairs so they started buying the rocking chairs I'd take a bed I'd take some bigger pieces and gradually I transitioned from the small pieces my reputation grew it's a three or four year program to get to that place and but it does work and now your course you've got Etsy and other places the important thing is your designs how you design your pieces and what you make and it's a tricky one for young entrepreneurial woodworkers these days but it guy it can be done and you just have to persevere when everybody tells you you can't do it I had a university professor once with all his students come in and he said you can't make a living from working with woodworking with hand tools and I said well I there's something wrong with that philosophy because I've been doing it for 55 years 50 years I Paul from Guernsey what are your thoughts of Rubel benches this gets me into one of those tricky things I think those massive benches are probably a hard place for any new woodworker to start out and especially the volume of wood D I don't know whether I wouldn't change I've got I've got a 5 foot long by 2 foot deep workbench 38 inches high I've worked at it all my life it never moves across the floor it stays exactly where it's put and it does the job it's perfect for me so getting into the arguments of the roubo I think some people just like the prestige of having something that is like the ultimate bench or whatever but I don't think I need it so that's my thought greetings from Argentina how do you cut a groove without a plough plane is almost impossible not really I just did the rebei and it's not a dissimilar thing if you run two parallel lines let's say you want a quarter-inch groove in there run two parallel lines like this at the quarter-inch so that is cautery in the middle take that saw yet again I don't think I'll have time to do the whole of this but I'll do a little bit and then you can see what you think there so that's one now if you've got a router plane so I would go all the way along there then take a quarter inch chisel and you can just use scalloping uh you've got a straight grained wood you can just use a scalloping action like this and I'm working in Pine here but you know people often accuse me of using pine because it looks great and it does look good but if I did this in oak it would work fine so there you have it there's my groove if you've got a plow plane you can just plow out the middle to the final depth if you don't have one you take the same chisel drive it through a block of wood you what you do is you cut a hole slightly under the sides of the chisel slide it in when it comes out the other side set your depth and run that with the chisel in go on that groove you've got the poor man's router and if you want to know how to make one just google it or go on them on to my YouTube channel and find it whoa for what jokes do you recommend for shoulder stock mounted crank or all the sorry Pacific Coast Python I can't answer that one because I've never used one so can you explain the correcting techniques for correcting a path when sawing the board okay yeah that's a great question I'm not choosing the easy ones I'm choosing the ones that will help most people when you've got your line on your piece of wood if you're ripping down the board in your a bench worker like I am this is what I would do I would take a rip saw and I would start out at the angle like this if you if you're working from sawhorses then it's an overhand cut the knee comes up presses down on the board and you're sawing like this so when we put it in the vise this way we're actually replicating what we would do if it was on two sawhorses so we start like this okay now that I'm going off-track so what I do is I go back up the cut to where I went off cut off track and I just use the side of the teeth to correct up here by flexing the saw into the path that would on to the where I needed to go and so I'm changing the direction of my cut I'm widening the cut but as long as I'm on the waist side of the world now I've corrected it so that's as simple as that and the other thing is always if you can work from both sides so that you've got lines on both sides you can work from both sides and that will help you to stay on track - hi Paul whenever I drill a hole Fidel's and use the same size dowel as the drill bit size it becomes loose any suggestions I think this is a technique that I have never really been involved with I've used dowels very very very rarely because I don't really like them so the ideal is to use a dowel guide and that will keep the DES bit steady and you can I think that's the only way I have known to do it I think I have in the past felt like the bits were too big slightly too big and I've let the the drill bit rung and I've taken some abrasive paper on the side and then I fouled a ground a little bit off the side of the tooth to make the size of the hole just I just have paid not even a paper thinness undersized and that's worked can you fight them with it with a number a can you flatten the board with a number four yes you can I think this is important I've done a lot of my work 99% of my flattening a large surface is with a number four or four and a half then possibly a number five as well I think what the number five adds is a little bit of weight and a little bit of extra length and that is great for flattening number six number seven number eight I never used them I've got them I bought them and I've never really found them to be of any vests that's a benefit and number five or a five and a half the morning Paula's router this is regarding the poor man's router I've tried it and with time it came loose I was able to fix it by screwing a screw right through okay that's a good idea I just drill a fresh hole okay hi Paul do you have a tool passed down to you that every time you use it you remember the person who bequeathed it I do I have a mallet that that is that came to me it wasn't really passed down but it meant a lot to me and it's the one that I base all my mallets on when I make mallets could you demonstrate how to saw right side of the pencil line as opposed to the left side of the line mine always come out crooked I understand this and what what we want to do is bring you more cameras because it's very difficult for you to see from this distance exactly where I would be straying from the line so that's one we might put on hold and be able to do better at some other point and when you were using making hunter furniture in America did you use only hand tools this is Abdullah I'm sorry I've not been mentioning your names and I should I forgot um so forgive me when I didn't know I didn't I didn't just use I did use machines I had a full machine set up at that time because I was making a living but what I never did or very very really didn't do is I didn't I would never cut a dovetail joint for instance or plow the bottom of a groove for a drawer something like that I did ninety percent of my joinery work came off the hand saws I didn't even like to use a mortise and now a few years ago I bought up 10th 11 years ago I bought a mortise her here in Britain and I may have cut six mortise holes with it before I just scrapped it and got rid of it because I just didn't enjoy it it just seemed actually it seemed primitive to me okay our planes usually categorized by lengths would a 16 inch wooden plane considered a four or a jointer plane well anything bigger than a sixteen these these planes that I've got here on my bed to yield about fourteen that's 115 inches and the various one is fourteen and a half or something like that those are plenty long enough and they do go up in numbers for planes and jet planes yeah yeah you know how they call a for plan is because it was before the next plane down hi Paul I have a question how do you get the motivation to makes to Lou that's a great one I wake up every morning full of motivation I wake up it's hard to money 55 years of waking up for all of the days six days a week for all throughout my life two weeks holiday a year and I wake up every morning full of full of ideas that I'm what I want to make it's just it's a gift it's something I've always loved so how do you motivate yourself so if you don't feel motivated why don't you that would be the good starting place why don't I feel motivated huh somebody's asking me a difference between a black bear and a brown bear could you please tell the dimension of the backs or brass back the thickness the height and how deep the blade is this are we talking about the gents or the gents always a 10-inch and it shows one and a half inches of blade depth whatever whenever you joining edges I always seem to have a slight level like five or one degree on the edge I feel the plane is flat could this be the blade isn't cutting evenly can be if you were miss set the blade even a micro amount out of parallel then you're going to have an issue with plan because every stroke we take is taking maybe one degree more off one side than the other so what you have to do and I've done this I've shown this before when you're setting your plane and this gets back to what we were talking about before about listening so when I had students this is how it all developed my interest in harmonics and everything and the the sounds I realize that I set my plane by sound I didn't set it by sight so I don't usually flip my plane over and look down here to see which side is out the most I might do that initially just after I sharpened up and loaded it but then when I go to here I put my plane on the wood and I listen to that side and then I go to the other side of my blade and now I know that this side is now set less so I tweak it over and now listen again those are the same so then I back my iron off a little bit lessen the depth of thought and I'll listen again those are exactly the same this is a bit like tweaking a violin when you use the so each time I come out and now I'm down to less than an onion skin this is where now I'm not a thousandth of an inch and I'm at a thousandth of the mean so a thousandth on one side a thousandth on the other means the middle is set exactly the same that's how you set your playing and guarantee your setting of your plane where do you get high-quality planes cheap aid ebay you can get a really rugged plane on ebay and fix it up and it will cost you anywhere between 10 and 20 pounds probably maybe a bit more in America I don't know why can you say router planes aren't good so the price can come to hurt on eBay well you know I used to buy them for 10 pounds on eBay and that's only about seven years ago I used to buy them on eBay and then I started doing articles on it writing for magazines and started put them in my book and then I started doing the videos and when people saw I never saw anybody in my life use a router to trim the face of their tenants to get them so perfected and when I started showing that technique because I developed it 20 30 years ago for my own life and everybody's doing it now everybody and I'm glad I'm it didn't matter whether I developed it doesn't whether I was the first one it doesn't make any difference I don't care as long as the word gets out that's all that matters to me hey Paul do you plan to make any courses face to face in the UK mmm this is a very difficult one the reason I went in this direction is because when I had face to face classes I could only have 16 to 20 students in the class and they did drain me but I saw I had to have a build up time to the class and then I build up a build down time after the class so a week-long class would cost me two and a half to three weeks and that was why and then I found I was just not reaching the audience now you see the important thing for me isn't how much money I make isn't whether I commute to work or not the important thing for me now at 70 is that I reach as many woodworkers around the world as I possibly can and show them these methods because most of you did not want to get involved in commercial methods of working with wood you didn't want to get it done and get it done yesterday you wanted to stop and smell the roses and that's all I've done is take the the machine companies off their pedestal and show an alternative way that really works so I made this Shoji screen this takes me about eight or ten hours to make a Shoji screen you can't do it much faster by machine I'm sure people will say I'm wrong but hmm I'm sorry I don't read Spanish my friend how do you stop a lateral just and moving by itself while planning Abdullah how do you stop the lateral adjuster moving by itself he shouldn't be moving by itself I've never had one that moved by itself so I thought I can't answer your question oh is it a little from Claudio he says okay another one and can we visit you well we will do an open house we do do an open house now and again and I probably will do something in America once at one of these days then go and do a visit and maybe do a tour I'd love to do another tour for a few days in America that would be great mm okay I'm looking for an interesting my Stanley number 80 gives me a lot of resistance when pushing sorry without having it in my hand I can't really answer that her son how do you stop call okay oh how can I know if my saw isn't working how can I know if it's sharpening this is yuca Tamura saw saw set teeth angle very difficult but what you do is when you when you find the size isn't working I would probably say that number one you start with sharpening number two you look at the set and then once you have those two done you look at over set you you can only really over set a saw or under set it through use so how do you store your scrap wood how do you decide what to keep and what to put in the firewood then it's a difficult one I do burn my would organize yeah I don't burn it myself I do burn it myself but I usually try and find somebody that relies on kiln dried wood to start their fires I've got neighbors that I give my wood to and Friends Izzy's mama uses wood as well so I she takes the bag home with her it's very difficult I've got lots and lots of little pieces it depends on the value of the wood I'm looking at doing a rocking chair build from your master classes only tool I need is a spokeshave any recommendation for which one not really I do still prefer the the stanley malleable that's the one that's painted gray because when you drop them they don't break and I find it perfectly adequate people I remember one guru of woodworking on in one of the magazines saying there's something terrible about all the Stanley and all the number 150 ones how badly they worked and they should get a various one and that was absolute balderdash that was and what he was really saying this expert was that probably three or four thousand woodworkers over the last century didn't know what they were doing so they bought those spoke shades and ended up throwing them away and that was far from true you do get idiots people do you recommend the very - scraping plain I don't really like scraper planes I've never found them of any real value sorry very sis I don't mean to give you if you if you want to get the scraper plane just go get one and enjoy it it's a great plane but all their tools are great I have any problem these high premium plane makers do you have any experience inside the Japanese tools particularly planes and saws no I don't Raven I think people that start out with them stay with them so I think that's fine that's a good testimony I'm not interested in changing now because all my tools work so well and I am there living with them and I owe it to them and of course Western planes do work remarkably well whether they wouldn't all metal oh this one is my lockdown project was to build your plywood work that it's a joy to use and the extra height gives me a feel of being in control planning on a solid bench no planning on a side bench is such a joy it is this is boom this is so rock-solid I would recommend it to anybody how old were you when he started woodworking where would you and where would you practice when you were young I didn't need to practice because I practiced the very day I started work they gave me a chisel a plane and a saw and they told me what to do and I had to do it and I was fifteen years old and that was in 1965 so you can guess my age now I always tell people my age because I think it's neat to get to 70 and fine you're still able to work I love it a life comes with knots in it you know it just like would hey Paul do you have any tips on planning across knots the thing about knots and the grain surrounding not says it is wild grain and most often if like this little piece with a knot in it often when you get a piece of wood with a knot in it you have to orient your plane very differently you can't always go with the grain you might even be better going across the grain the same with wiry grain often you're better going with a cross the growing with wirig red and then going with a number 80 scraper and and then scraping it down to the final level how we do at the time we've gone nearly an hour well we were late though hello Paul I have seen your video straight chisels but how do you sharpen gouges we've got a video on it on the YouTube I believe or certainly on woodworking master classes you take a gouge like this one here you get your stones out and what you do go on your coarse medium and superfine in just the same way you go in a figure of 8 and you rotate the chisel just like this get the abate a bevel established then you go on the next one the same again exactly the same next one it's this figure of 8 or you can just rotate it this way I find I don't like that I like to go the way I just showed you with the figure of 8 would a + or sorry do you need to be careful disposing of rugs with furniture rugs with furniture wax I've never had a concern about it no that's a good question I think we would need to do some research on it really could you please tell me what diamond sharpening stones you use and the cost please this is Pete battle and well I use easy lap and I found that they're really good and they last a long time I've got some that I've had for 10 years and they've been very good but I have used some of the Chinese ones and they are proving to be very good at the moment but I haven't got them in long enough I've only been using them for two months so far those cost about 3 or 4 pounds each as opposed to 50 or 60 pounds each there's a big difference in price you just have to decide what you want I would suggest using technique reducing the 12-point prints or but the problem using the same technique we choosing a 17 PPI saw suggestion well I've found is you can find a hacksaw blade that will have 17 or 18 teeth per inch you might not get the exact size you want and what you do is you just use that hacksaw - so if you've taken all the teeth off and you're starting from scratch you clamp the two together and you take the saw file and just put the corner against the face of the tooth you're going to ruin a saw file doing this but that gives you the position of the front of each tooth then you take the saw file off and you file down to the bottom of the gullet when it meets the adjacent white line that you got from the the previous cut you'll find that you have got the right tooth size greeting from chile according to your experience what is the most difficult task to do right for a beginner in woodworking I think there's so many it's difficult because what you really need is sharp tools and you're a brand new woodworker and nobody's really showing you how to do it they probably will send you to some gadget or gizmo or buy some disposable thing that's not what you want you want to get right in the saddle and start sharpening straightaway I've written a book on the called my essential woodworking heart essential woodworking hand tools and I wrote it primarily for any novice woodwork or anybody that's a woodworker that's new to hand tools and we cover all the sharpening in that and I think that's been so it was a missing book if you like because so many books said all the same things I came at it with a very different perspective because I came at it from what we do in real life hi Paul this is kg how do you reduce grain blower in fir pan yeah this is a difficult one oftentimes when you are cutting the bottom of inside of a dovetail what the different the difficulty is I don't know if this will show it I don't think you can see it you've got hard and soft growth rings it's really one growth ring but growth spurts take place in the spring so early spring the saps rising there's a massive growth and it's not like oak it's not like the other words that are all slower growing this is putting on this massive growth all at once so you get more spongy growth next to the hard growth that takes place in the winter so when you push you chisel in the is compress you press hard it no matter how hard sharp your chisel is it starts to tear the bottom of that recess and you're disappointed I'm disappointed often by that reality no matter how much I shout my chisel you still have that compression in the wood and it tears the grain best thing maybe is to is to saw as much of it out as you can so you could use a coping saw a jeweler's saw or something Oh opening this is Stefan very hider opening much opening do you have from the blade to the opening this is on the plane I assume I like an open throat on this I don't have any problem with it you can adjust the Frog but I very rarely would ever with your close off the mouth it's really really not necessary you just need this sharp plane oh no matter how hard I try I get I cannot get a shape as shaving from a scraper and I've watched several videos do you have any tips hey you know one day it just happens for you it's one of those magical things that you just get everything right you get it set right and it's just as perseverance and then one day happens and you see what you did and it stays with you mmm I don't know why your sherlocky staying sticky there Daniel I don't know why someday if it's old it can do that it just doesn't cure mmm oh my Stanley 42 blade recedes into the body as I not tight enough on your lever cap probably with the ham split boards what should have come next to flatten I'm a scrub or a jack I would go with a scrub plane because the scrub will hog off any deeper the high areas of course but then you get down much quicker with the scrub plane than you will with a jack but then a jack takes over chip break on the blade okay the the distance the opening from the blade to opening Paul and the chipbreaker on okay the chipbreaker I would say 1/32 of an inch maybe close somewhere around the millimeter but you can go as much as 1/8 of an inch which is probably three millimeters and then you'll still take good shavings it just depends on what you're doing and then and also it depends on the wood if it's a soft wood you can go a little bit further off and you can take more material off but again I just usually go for about a millimeter 1/32 of an inch closer than that does e100 Thank You Chloe I got a feeling that this is time for me to close I could go on for another hour probably hi Paul when building a new bench with limited room what is the best vice to fit and I think I still go for the vintage record vices if you can buy the 52 and a half them the big ones the nine-inch vices I also am hesitant to tell you what vice I use here because I want to buy another one and I'll push the price up but Walden this is the Walden Walden Walden 8 9 8 / 3 it's the best bench in the world Ben suffice in the world for a quick release hi Paul question about cleaning technique when I plain a longer board I have a tendency to have a comb by the middle of the board comb how do I avoid that hmm I don't want a comb in is how do you set a saw without a saucer use a nail just use a nail set and a hammer go all the way from one side the teeth going down away from you you put your saw on the surface you take a hammer a nail set nail punch pop-pop-pop-pop same pressure just just get that rhythm going all the way flip over and do the ones you just missed from the other side and that will give you it and if it's try it in the wood and if it cuts nicely like mine do just go with it that's it you set but if it's if it's over set and it's got too big of a kerf in there and it's wobbling just take two hammers up set one in the vise and then go along the surface with another Hammond pop-pop-pop-pop turnover not to her [ __ ] and we've done a video on that so it's on YouTube somewhere I believe or I'm on woodworking master classes and especially you know if you go to I should give a recommendation for common woodworking that's our sister site for woodworking master classes and that's where we have all the information for beginner woodworkers so an amazing site has got exercises in there it's got projects in there and they're all free so enjoy that okay yeah I think we're enjoying this when will we have a series of videos on marquetry it's preparation its hammer plating yeah it's great but I'm not sure I really don't know how popular it would be let's think about it though I'm not throwing that out I will buy a record he's going to buy a record vise that somebody just came back in thank you that's the power and if somebody told me the other day that I was an influencer I didn't know what it was okay but I did know what it was which tenon saw you recommend for beginners I would go first of all this would be my first saw because this gent saw 10-inch Ghent saw will do everything you want for the beginner and then you can build up and add more tenon saws as you grow like you need a bigger one for your big Tenon's and things like that you get a 14 inch and it's nice to have a 12-inch in between I would love marketing videos hi giant as I'm sorry yeah I'm sure we I'm not dislike I said I'm not going to dismiss it are you writing a new book I am always writing but what I did was when I started doing the blog I felt like I kind of replaced my writing of books but no I'm not finished with it I want to do a book about life as a woodworker but with the philosophy of my life thrown in because I am absolutely the most fortunate man in the world 14 years old in school told I could never be educated parents sat on either side looking for long and the headmaster said Paul can never be educated he's a nerdy Keable and I left school and I started my apprenticeship and my friend who was my mentor at the time taught me algebra he taught me maths he taught me English language he taught me social studies and I came out the other side of that five year period with him and Here I am I picked my career and I've loved it and that's what every parent might want to do with their kids instead of saying uni uni uni you got to go to university you got to get a good job find something that secure find something that's safe find out what your kids want first find out what they love what is it that rings their bell is it blacksmithing is it woodworking is it computer programming and photographer find out what your kids want and then tailor their education to that my parents I love my parents for the simple reality that they said well if you want to be a woodworker go and be a woodworker fifty-five years in the saddle and never a complaint when will essential woodworking handles be back on Amazon as soon as we pull it together to get a new print session done we're out almost we just have a few left Paul the blade and shipbreaker how we don't call it a chip breaker we call it a cation but I'll still answer your question how far do you lay the chip breaker on the blade well a millimeter and you can go up to two millimeters or three millimeters but one to two millimeter is perfect can you explain more about metal screws and which brands you recommend not really I wouldn't get into that because there's so many wonderful inventions with the just as the common woodworking screw now but I'll tell you what there's something about that a slot head screwdriver that Mouse manufacturers hate but we woodworkers that set that hinge with a screwdriver head screwdriver and we get those brass grooves in the top all line up when we step back from there we go oh this is really nice mentorship for boys is sadly lacking in contemporary British society Jennifer gent as you are so right yeah absolutely and I think it's the same for girls as well so I think this nails versus screws when to use them that's a good question yeah I think I'm like I did a video a few few weeks ago about nailing a seed tray together we just nails and screwing them together the screws will always last longer but there's something about a well set nail when you drive that nail and you you set it just right there's something about it guys I think this is it because I'm getting dry throated here okay is it worth we're placing a corrugated plan with an encore egaita plane yeah I think it is I wouldn't use a corrugated sole any they just they get hung up when you reach at least want them to and so do the shavings thank you so much for joining me I hope you enjoyed it if you've got ideas for others we'll we'll do more we want to do these every week or two two weeks probably and so we do want to keep on doing them because they are popular and they're very good for me to get this kind of information out there in a heartbeat so we've answered probably 50 questions I have no idea in an hour so it's been good because there's not just you listening to it these thousands will listen to it thank you for joining me I hope you did enjoy if you did and you're not subscribed please subscribe because it makes a big difference bye-bye now near we go bye

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