That last one with a hole drilled from the side to form both an edge and two nickers was really clever!

I used to think I knew something about woodwork. Then I came across you some months ago. I highly suspect you have forgotten more than I know. I appreciate you taking your precious time and sharing with us. I especially enjoyed this episode. Having made a few spokeshaves, I like what you have shown us today. Thank you very, very much.

I am currently attempting to make my own "hand" router. Cross your fingers!

I love my 71 and my 71 1/2, use them often for so many tasks. I agree with you sir, I can have my hand router out and be done with the task in way less time than setting up my router table. A must for delicate box work. Your videos are so interesting and fun, you bring something to KZfaq that was missing. Please keep em coming, I and it looks like a lot of others really enjoy your style. Thank you.

Every time a hand tool expert extols the virtues of a Stanley 71 an Angel gets its wings. Thank you Mr Blackburn, now I will need to wait another year to afford a new router.😢

Thank's for this one, I'm lucky to have many of the tools you describe.

Hilarious digs at those darn electronic rooters

🎄🌲🍀🐾🦉A lot of great information was shared here🦉🐾🍀🌲🎄.

I love old the school tool and knowledge

I think it is nice that you give a brief history of the tool, how it got it's name, besides just how and what it is used for. This gives the tool more character than simply some old relic.

All good stuff here! As a woodworker I’ve managed to avoid purchasing an electric router to save my ears, eyes and lungs. My modest hand tool collection has served me well and saved me the cost of electric router bit$$. Thank you Graham for this tool review.

Thanks for the history lesson on routers. I have acquired many of the examples you mentioned and now I have a better understanding of what their intended purposes were. I look forward to your videos and I hope you produce many more.

Every episode has at least one unique gem - good work, very educational.

Loving these videos. Thank you for sharing.

Excellent video. Love the history you add as well

Thanks. Always learn something.

Graham , every time I watch one of your wonderful videos I learn something new . Consequently , every time I also add another tool you use to my wish list . Blessings to you sir .

Fascinating! Love learning about these traditional hand tools as I have recently started doing hand tool woodworking.

I appreciate this x

My hand router is my favorite tool to use by far, it's very satisfying.

Nice. Learned something

I really love these videos! I've said it before and I'm probably going to say it again! So thank you very much! I'm looking forward to buying your books; they are in the budget but I just have to get a few tools out of the way first. It makes me giddy like a schoolgirl to think about this already fairly extensive library available from you and how much better it becomes video by video. This is an amazing resource!

Hi Graham, great video. I am looking forward to seeing these tools in action... Steven

I have really been enjoying your videos. I've learned a lot. Thank you so much for producing these videos, and for mentioning that you've written books, too. I bought a copy of Traditional Woodworking Handtools, An Illustrated Reference Guide for the Woodworker. I'll probably buy more of your books, as well.

That was very interesting!

Thank you! RWB ❤🎉

I'm looking forward to the projects you've mentioned. I hope you will keep any mistakes that you make in the video, so we can learn how to fix things.

I made my own router plane out of oak it has a bit more character than even the metal ones and works just as well.

Thank You Graham... Always a pleasure...(now I need to "router" up some coffee & breakfast!!!... )...until next time... TM

Regards to you Graham and the photographer. Your videos are very instructive and even thought i have some experience on amateur wood working there is so much to learn from you ... Furthermore, your english language is perfectly understandable (I am Frenchy). Thanks ...

thank you

These videos are a treasure. You mentioned spokeshaves being an example of the metal version being superior to the traditional one. I'd love to hear your take on pros and cons of wooden or metal bench planes. I'm on the continent where horned wooden planes are king. I also got myself some record planes from the UK (so easy to adjust!), but I'm warming up too wooden planes as I'm getting better at adjusting them. They're so light and handy, that you don't need a block plane. However, to replace a single No 4 plane, I like having two or three wooden planes: one set for a deeper cut, and another one or two for a fine cut or smoothing.

Hi I have Stanley and record Router there like yours but where end of blade sits there’s opening and the base arches up and over other exactly the same with 3 blades a small flat edge a large flat edge and one like yours with point at end.thank you for showing us the right of using these great old tools.

Really fantastic lesson, Graham! Thanks a bunch! 😃 I'm a poor guy from Brazil, but I'm definitely going to get one of those routers from China. Spokeshaves I already got some. Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

It's very likely that one of the reasons we no longer have a lot of furniture with a lot of curves is because of the complexity of making them with modern electric tools. You can get metal furniture that has a lot of the curves and swirly designs, but it's rare to find wooden furniture like that these days. Though you do see a little bit more since the introduction of CNC machines, but even those have limitations on what they can do.

I've been a carpenter/joiner in UK for well over 40 years and I was taught to use mainly hand tools back in the day (along with the occasional electric drill as well as a brace and bits). I now do some work for someone who owns a lot of rental properties and he wants me to fit fire strips in two of his doors. I said "Ok, I have a hand router plane" and he laughed and said no, he will buy an electric router for me to use. The time wasted to buy an electric router and correct bits - along with the cost and set-up time is silly. I could have done both doors in no time by hand. The same goes when something needs planing, I reach for a bench plane and I'm expected to use an electric plane, which I find far too aggressive - in a split second, a mistake with an electric plane can ruin a job, whereas in a split a mistake with a hand plane can leave it repairable. One customer even burst out laughing when I got out my smoothing plane and said "Are you joking? Nobody ever uses them anymore".

I’d love to see making a round window with glazing bars made with the router at 16:00

Another top vid Graham, thanks again! I gave myself tinnitus about 10 years ago using an electric router without hearing protection (stupid I know), routing grooves for cupboard doors. Promptly returned it to my brother in law and started investing in my ever-growing hand tool collection. Totally agree having the right tool for the job (moulding planes, spokeshaves, ‘hand’ routers etc) seems to produce much nicer results, and though often exhausting, is also satisfying knowing that it was just you and some wood and metal that produced the end product, not some screaming electric thing! That said, I’ve sometimes wished I did have an electric router (like when I recently took it upon myself to make 30m of moulding for skirting boards, took me days and I was so tired each evening I could barely lift a beer to my lips), but the feeling usually passes :) What was the name of the glazing bar router you showed at the end by the way?

In Danish a router is called a grundhøvl ("base plane/r" could be a direct translation) and an electric router is called an overfræser ("over milling machine" is a very weird sounding but fairly direct and precise translation). A spoke shave is called a bugthøvl in Danish ("curve plane/r").

Great videos! I’ve seen them all and I have been watching from the very beginning. I haven’t left a comment yet because there are so many that I’m sure you don’t get to read every single one. Over all of your videos I appreciate your knowledge and the information that you bring to those in need of this style of traditional woodworking. If I were to have one creative critique of something that we’ve recognized since the beginning it would be, maybe try to be less condescending to those who don’t completely subscribe to your way of thinking and style of woodworking. There is more than one way to skin our woodworking cat. Try not to stereotype the viewers by saying things like “Your electric router…” has “…stolen the name of the original tool.” 19:34, 12:43, 1:07, 0:37 It may feel as if you’re saying that we’ve stolen something. Try not to be prejudiced against the viewer because it may not help to bring those who are looking for different ways of working wood, to the traditional ways. Just try not to assume that we all are one of those “other people” that have electric routers “…or what people now call ‘routers’” 19:36 because that puts you in a different and opposing category, against the viewer, rather than working with us. By being cognizant of what may be seen as simple semantics, it will hopefully keep viewers returning, who would otherwise be turned off by what some have called a “Cavalier style of Woodcraft.” Everyone has their own style, as you well know, and as we’ve seen in your 4th episode with the cool Fedora hat and even in your Navy blue Marc Adams School of Woodworking apron. 😉 Also, please tell whoever is recording you, that they’re doing a great job. Ever since the video quality changed in Episode #3 or the addition of the Lav mic in #8, we can definitely tell that you guys put a lot of thought, effort, passion, money and energy into this endeavor. Not only that, we definitely recognize how much you both put into theme development, shot composition, scene framing, stage setting, lighting/shadowing, perspective and even run throughs of the material before recording. It’s also impressive that you guys can get a whole episode done in a 1-shot! But, if they (your videographer/editor/director/producer) have cut or edited an episode recently, it was very difficult to tell, that takes skill and talent! Hopefully it’s someone like your son or grandson because it would’ve been a dream come true to record something like this with my grandfather’s skills for future generations to come. Keep up the good work!! 😊👏🏼👍🏼

Today I saw routers that I did not know existed.

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root route root route. thank you sir 1978.

Graham, thank you for these videos, I truly enjoy them. I recently received a Stanley 68 Rabbet/Rebate Spokeshave. Do you have any knowledge or experience with this tool? I’m thinking carriage makers may have used them, but probably could work in curves, too?

With these routers I was interested in finding one that does an ogee cut? Is there such a one?

Got a link for that modern tool you show around 19:00?

How do you sharpen any of those blades that are profiled

Another interesting video but a couple of questions firstly if it's not rude of me to ask, were are you in the world and have you always lived there,as I cannot place your accent. I'm about to build myself a workshop and was wondering what the approximate size of yours, many thanks.

Are those "glazing bars," muntins or mullions?

You wouldn't know anyone wanting to buy some old hand planes would you? ;-) lol

Awaiting for a Quick sentence about thé différence between a granny tooth and a router 😀 i am not english but i Would bé interested to know thé différence 😅

What can the hand router do that cannot be done with an electric router tough?

What's wrong with calling it by its correct name a( hags tooth plane) all this woke stuff is soon ridiculous 🙄

I have made a wooden router and I also own an electric one. I've used the electric one on one project ;)