This video is 10 years old and I'm still going to thank you

it's great to see that someone can still do this, at a rather brisk pace, without the aid of modern tooling. Pleasure to watch.

The tip about grain pulling toward vs away at 4:40 was worth the subscription alone. Thanks!

Brilliant as usual. The simplicity you bring to woodworking is refreshing. The Lie Nielsens and Veritas people will probably not like you.

I love the simple approach and the ability to adapt fundamental skills to do a fine job, without the latest, specialised gadgets or gizmos. Of course the secret to such simplicity is consummate skill! Thanks for your ongoing instruction and inspiration Richard.

I love traditional woodworking and stay away from power tools, thanks for these videos.

"There is always one more after your one more" Ain't that the truth.

Not many skilled wood workers anymore, all chop saws,routers etc etc.... You got skills.

I've found the perfect video. I've been searching for ages trying to find a simple video with hand method of doing these rebates. Internet overloaded with power tool videos always using the word 'easy' Well done, and thanks from OZ🇦🇺!

Great video for begginers or for people who doesnt have too many or expensive tools like me. Thank you much

Great video, as much as watching and learning is the biggest part to the video, I must admit, hearing the sound of sharp chisels and plane blades is also rewarding.

nice finally a video that show the average person how to start wood projects simply hand tools and practice to achieve the same look great for someone that wants to try out carpenter work or just the average diy guy that wants to do a simply project without having to buy all kinds of expensive machines great video thanks and think you should make more of these kind of videos thanks again

Happiness is another "The English Woodworker" Video. Thank You

Hi Laurence, Thanks for your suggestions. At the moment we're getting a feel for making the videos and I must say we're really enjoying it. It's very encouraging to know that there could be some interest in a kind of online school; we've had similar suggestions from others. We will be giving thought to a various options and would love to proceed with something like this down the line.

Hey Cousin. I have been a woodworker in a commercial shop for over 30 years and I have NEVER heard the word "Rebate"used as a woodworking term. Learn something everyday.

Hello. I really enjoy your videos - I watch them two or three times. As superficial as it sounds, I like your accent. I have an iron fillester plane and I actually prefer a wooden shoulder plane like yours. At least I seem to get better results with it.

Richard, I just finished watching all of your videos. I'm just starting to get in to hand tools and am eagerly awaiting your next video. Thanks for sharing! Jim

I love the space saving scaled-down Roubo style bench!

Thanks for the great video. Always enjoy your presentations.

Great video. I'm just starting out and found it very helpful!

This was very good. Thanks for sharing this with us.

Absolutely fantastic. Always back to basics for off grid reality. Many thanks.

Thanks, always good to see a different way of doing something.

Thank you for making these videos. I wanted to know how to make a rabbet with just a chisel and you showed me exactly that. Simple and effective and your videos go straight to the point.

Thank you very much for this. New to woodworking and I was trying to figure out the best way to do this without the fancy tools. Very good info, thanks

This is the first time I have watched any of your videos. That was great!

Thanks again! Watched this one again!

Fantastic video. I love the simplicity of it. Thanks for posting.

Thanks for sharing Your videos are fantastic

thanks, i have been looking exactly for this

Great tips - thanks for sharing !

Good lord, you made that look easy... and I'm going to have to try it. Thanks.

Thanks for sharing and posting, I have learned something new today.

These are good skills for working away from the shop. I do a lot of work for family/friends and the "road box" can only hold so many tools. Being able to make rebates with just a chisel (and a router plane in my case) was a worth the time it took to learn that skill. Great video. Looking forward to more.

I had to make a deep rebate along a two meter piece of wood, and it seems that learning from several very good and dedicated woodworkers such as yourself pays off. I changed my softwood chisels' bevel angle from 25 to 17.5 degrees, as I learned from Rob Cosman, and it goes deeper and faster with each mallet hit. I clamped to the piece I needed to make a rebate on another piece of straight wood, as a fence, as I learned from Paul Sellers, but only to cut a vertical kerf along the entire length. And after that I used your technique for making rebates along the grain, and I'm glad I did. Instead using the hundred dollar combination plane, which couldn't plough deep enough in the wood due to it's construction limitations, I only used an Azebiki saw for kerfing, my firewood heavy mallet, a five dollar chisel made in Czechoslovakia and an adjustable mouth wooden rebate plane from Germany that I was lucky enough to find at a flea market for another seven or so dollars - it was the first and the only adjustable mouth wooden rabbet plane I ever saw. So thank you for sharing this with us, it's always a pleasure to watch you working and explaining useful things to us.

Thanks Deezynar, I've always found guides for this type of use very awkward to fix down accurately. If I could sacrifice the surface and screw a guide down then that might be ok but I do find it quicker and more consistent to get used to doing it without.

Great video. Please keep them coming. Thanks Mate.

Thanks, you did that task as fast as I could set up my table saw for the same task.

First video of yours I have watched. Great camera work and hand tool skills.

Richard Have you given it a thought to start up a on line school and teach your skills using projects such as the small wallcupboard using the basic tool set to begin with then gradually work up to a larger tool set and more advanced projects? Your techniques are very good and are easy to follow and comprehend. Thanks for the excellent videos.I like the options of using varied techniques to acheive the same end results. Laurence

Thanks! Very informative and well explained.

this is awesome. gonna make more time to improve my woodworking skills

Thanks your video's are very helpful and give me a plan to make some stuff with only hand tools. Thanks Aaron US Minnesota very cold right now

thanks for your video - I'm about to make some picture frames out of an old pallet, got a set of chisels but this is exactly what I need to know how to use them. Thanks!

This is the most "english" video i have seen in a long time

I really enjoyed your video. I really think people should learn the basics with hand tools. they are missing out on the feel of woodworking. and the pride of doing it by hand. I also subscribed.

good stuff bro. Thank you for sharing

Great video, thanks.

GREAT VIDEO!!!

Great craftsmanship!! Credit where it's due

Great vid, thanks! And of course I saw it after I made a mess of my own :) thank you!

thank you for this video.

awesome video! Now for me to practice

Excellent, thanks!

Yeah...really nice work!

Something similar to this that I'd like to see is the raised panel like on cabinet doors. I know there's many ways to get them done like using the fillister or combo. They can be made with routers and even table saws but I'd like to see them made with basic woodworking hand tools.

Brilliant job mate.Not a power tool in sight.

thanks for the inspiration bro!

Nice work.

Brilliant!

Incredible. Video simplicity is everythingThank you

I like your style man

Thank you! I have not seen anything from you for a while now! I hope all is well with you.

Great stuff.

great video I think I can follow that

very nice job and nice technique. I was looking for how to do this but i have very few tools and I'm using a leftover packed chip piece of wood. I'm afraid it would not take it but i must deal with what I've got.

Thanks for these videos, I like your quirky approach! I absolutely love those wooden shoulder planes, great to see someone else apreciating them! I just used one yesterday to cut rebates for the back of a small shelf unit with drawers, so quick, simpler than a router, I used a simple tempory fence clamped alongside the boards I love the feel and sound they make. Mine has a brass sole so its quite hefty. Any chance of a video showing how to fettle a wood shoulder plane? cheers Jonathan

Hi bro.. Just subscribed your video.. i watched 3 of them already, very nice video and very informative.. Anyways i really love your small workbench that was beautiful man.. Greet from Bali, Indonesia

Very informative

I really enjoyed this video. Stanley is making their No 78 again -- you can get it for $60 in the US. Even though it is modern Stanley, it is actually pretty good quality.

Excellent good job

Love your work and I second the notion of an online school. Check out Shannon Rogers' curriculum approach. I like your heavy mallet. Seems easy to control. What is the weight?

Thanks mate.

Bloody ell I wouldn't trust my hand free scoring a chisel line like that🤪.Nice precise work mate.its OCD Heaven.

Thanks,

Great video! Thanks alot! New sub here :)

Hi Wilf, I make the videos and work alongside my partner Helen. You can learn more about what we get up to on our blog, perhaps make a start at our 'About' page and then have a little browse around.

Advice for the seasonal DIY-er, apart from hands, best tool you need is a damn good table to clamp your wood to. Chisel and the hammer are secondary.

Cool I did learn one thing from your video, you English call it a rebate joint, and we here in north america call it a rabbet joint.

You got chipout because you pared above the depth of your vertical chop-- early on in video. Learned that from Paul Sellers!

You make that look easier than it is lol

Q: If you do not have a shoulder plane, how do you recommend finishing off (and flattening) the rebate? Thanks for the good video.

Damn I missed the sharpener truck yesterday. This would be a lot easier with professionally sharpened tools. That's what I get for being a lazy or maybe not wanting to look like a dog running down the street after a truck😂

Make a fence w/ adjustable hooks that index to the edge of the bench & put the work at the edge of the bench. Hold it all w/ holdfasts.

I'm really enjoying your videos, Richard. How do you keep your chisels so sharp? Perhaps that's something you'll cover in a future video.

"with just a hammer and chisel" and a shoulder plane, and a marking gauge, and a bench, bench dogs, vice. Chisel, 10 bucks, hammer 3 bucks, marking gauge 15 bucks, shoulder plane 40 bucks, bench ~200 bucks, vice ~100 bucks. That's almost 400 USD in gear to cut a rebate. I know that's not really the point, but I get frustrated, as a starting woodworker, how much is presumed, and how expensive things like a bench are, up front costs that you need to eat. You might forget how hard it is to do everything without anything really holding your work piece. I DID enjoy this video (uh, from like 10 years ago).

if you don't have a shoulder plane you can slide a piece of the same thickness up to the side of the wood and use a router plane, worked well for me.

its helpful.. but can you try it on coco lumber?

What a good way to clean up the second joint you did without a shoulder plane?

What qualities should a person new to woodworking look for in a chisel? How do you keep them so sharp??

excellent video! Where did you get that cool looking marking gauge?

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Where are the shoulder blades sold? Do u have a video of how to make your beautiful work table?

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Great stuff! In 9:30 how do you make sure to not chisel deeper than the line?

Could you tell the names off all the tools you used in this video as I am new to woodwork

on the opposite spectrum of nails in the chalkboard is plaining smooth wood

for long grain sometimes i just hold fast a straight board on top of the one i'm rabbeting and use the rabbet plane and take it down to my gauge line. you have to make sure the board is over the gauge line on top for hogging out and then remove the board and just make a pass with the plane on it's side. but my woodworking is terrible so i'm just letting you know that you can just shake the cat to get the skin off.

Do you have asbergers by any chance? I’m not trying to be rude it’s just you have a very clear articulate unemotional voice which can be common in the Asperger community. You’re a natural teacher either way, keep up the good work.

Are you English and in England, or elsewhere? Great video, very good quality and what a fine set of tools you have behind you!