How to cut a CORNER HALVING JOINT by HAND.

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6 жыл бұрын

In this video, I show you how to precisely mark out, cut, and fine tune a corner halving joint to get a seamless fit between the two components.
This video gives you an overview of the importance of face sides and edges, different approaches to cutting out the joint, different methods of cleaning it up at the end and troubleshooting the final fit.
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Пікірлер: 125

@MattEstlea 5 жыл бұрын

Like the workbench? Watch me make it here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fL57jNp-lcyZh4k.html&t

@dibley1973 6 жыл бұрын

Amazing clear explanation of why each technique is used and the advantages of using it. In looking forward to watching the rest of the jointing series. Learned so much already. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience.

@PPMOCRG 4 жыл бұрын

Another great tutorial, thank you! I’m retired, love wood working, and determined to master hand-cut dovetails/joints. You have given so many great pieces of advice. I feel ready to try it now. Also, I need that router plane!

@soberlivingwithbrianfrankl8254 3 жыл бұрын

I'm going way back and rewatching some of the old ones! Love it.

@davidclark9086 6 жыл бұрын

Really good advice from start to finish.

@andrebeaudette6545 6 жыл бұрын

Hi Matt, Loving how you are structuring the videos; talking through the best tools to do the job, how to get them to achieve their maximum potential, and finally putting them to work doing joinery. Also, the detail in this video was fantastic. I picked up a lot of great tips! You are inspiring me to up my hand tool game!

@MattEstlea 6 жыл бұрын

I'm really glad to see it is working! There was a lot of planning involved!

@vosifle 2 жыл бұрын

Best tutorials on KZfaq! Thank you!

@giorgiochiappini1931 10 ай бұрын

Incredible craftmanship Matt.

@willcampbell8829 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent explanation and demonstration throughout!

@garyknight8616 6 жыл бұрын

Worth repeating what a lot of the other comments say, brilliant instructional video! Lots of detail that is usually overlooked but that makes the difference. Thanks Matt. Looking forward to seeing the next video.

@MattEstlea 6 жыл бұрын

Cheers Gary! The fussiness pays off!

@user-kz4vq4wh3e 3 ай бұрын

Best video I've ever watched on this joint - the fact that you explain the reasons for the shadows and the high points was exactly what is missing for me when learning from other videos. Amazing, gonna go ahead and watch more of your videos 👏

@MatthewWright001 Жыл бұрын

THANK YOU! Just did my first couple of joints today and this MASSIVELY clarified a lot of questions other vids didn't answer!

@kgarrett67 6 жыл бұрын

You da man!!! You skill and patience is remarkably awesome.

@rebeccat.3836 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! Your videos are so well structured and detailed. I really appreciate you walking us through and explaining the whys of what you're doing.

@bradenglenar7006 6 жыл бұрын

Just wanted to say matt that I'm going to school for fine woodworking. This video, and mainly the information in your chiseling is great inspiration, and provides many examples of what to look out for in this sort of process.

@LessTalkMoreDelicious 8 ай бұрын

These are the absolute best tuts and tips I’ve ever watched on YT! 👏

@freezerburn04 4 жыл бұрын

Outstanding work young fella. A++ thanks for the tutorial

@scud69er 4 жыл бұрын

This was a brilliant tutorial! Subscribed!

@johnschillo4452 3 жыл бұрын

love it! thanks Matt - great lesson

@Mikhandmaker 6 жыл бұрын

Nice video Matt!

@ianbeckett2427 6 жыл бұрын

I really liked that. Lots of great tips, especially closing it up at the end.

@MattEstlea 6 жыл бұрын

The most important bit! (Other than the glue of course)

@joshuarogers2931 6 жыл бұрын

Loved the long format video. Great tutorial!

@MattEstlea 6 жыл бұрын

That's great to hear, cheers Joshua! The next few halving joint videos will be a tad shorter at 15 minutes, but you will still learn some helpful tips.

@onepairofhands 2 жыл бұрын

your videos and presentation is top drawer

@jeffkerr4249 6 жыл бұрын

Good Video MATT.

@totobill22 6 жыл бұрын

SUPER Matt :) Merci pour ce partage car vous voir revenir sur du travail technique est un pur bonheur ! Merci de France !

@MattEstlea 6 жыл бұрын

Merci beaucoup mon ami!

@VIDEOEPPO 6 жыл бұрын

I am beginning to watch at least one video of your everyday. Watched the whole video. What patience and precision you have, awesome !

@MattEstlea 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Really like your channel too. I think the editing and videography is on point! Really enjoyable to watch

@VIDEOEPPO 6 жыл бұрын

Matt Estlea - Furniture wow, that's so nice of you to say. I do need to learn a lot. What really makes me sit and watch your videos is the care you take on the details. The patience to achieve the finnese. Nice getting to see your channel. Where do I post any questions?. Here or on your website?

@theYeti1000 6 жыл бұрын

Hi Matt, there are a lot of instructional woodworking videos on youtube but seriously I find yours to be the most helpful. Keep up the good mate.

@MattEstlea 6 жыл бұрын

Legend, cheers Sam!

@athenaautumnforest8800 6 жыл бұрын

I am using this joint to make window frames and doing it all with hand tools . I find there is something very satisfying about using a chisel! It is my first attempt so thank you for your video, it is very useful.

@athenaautumnforest8800 6 жыл бұрын

I have just noticed you also live quite close to me..I am near Andover!

@gmanp3028 6 жыл бұрын

Great video, getting lots of good tips from them all

@MattEstlea 6 жыл бұрын

Cheers mate, glad to hear they’re useful!

@dvdallison 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for another great vid. I do like when people show you warts and all, by that I mean you've shown the shadow gaps you had, and more importantly what you did to get the joint perfect. Cheers David

@FANG1950 6 жыл бұрын

holy crap....another god of wood...only he can save everyone from errors....

@l1verm0m 6 жыл бұрын

Great video Matt... Shavings whoopeeeeee

@samgriffiths1017 2 жыл бұрын

Hi mate great video Ty very clear and helpful

@MinHongJiwoodstudio 2 жыл бұрын

hi...I made a watching your video. Thank you for being an inspiration to me.

@Thom4123 6 жыл бұрын

Awesome video full of tips and tricks great job closing up the joint this is where I need to spend more time on especially knowing what to do.

@MattEstlea 6 жыл бұрын

It's the most important bit!

@Thom4123 6 жыл бұрын

Matt Estlea - Furniture Thank You Matt I really appreciate all your help and inspiration

@anaphylaxis2548 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Matt. I love any excuse to use my router plane.

@ionut5316 6 жыл бұрын

Well structured channel, probably one of the best from youtube so far. I have a different technique for cleaning the half lap joints. Instead of using the shoulder plane or the router plane, I clamp the piece in the vice along with a sacrificial piece and then I use a skew rabbet plane (Veritas) to clean the joint.

@MattEstlea 6 жыл бұрын

Oh man I need a reason to own one of those things!

@ionut5316 6 жыл бұрын

Oh yes, It's better than a Stanley 78 or Record 778. The skewed bevel down iron works great on end grain and it allows you clean the whole lap, without skewing the body.

@TheEveryMaker 6 жыл бұрын

I actually cut my first halving joint in my first video that I recently posted (though not by hand). Not as precise as yours, but for my needs, it worked perfectly and I'm pretty happy with how it came out. This video does make me want to try to do it all by hand though, still need to get a good cross-cut saw and rip saw.

@MattEstlea 6 жыл бұрын

Cheers Nick! You're channels caught my attention, love how you've come onto the scene. Keep it up!

@TheEveryMaker 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I've got a couple of other projects in the works, but time has gotten away from me.

@marc.woodrevolution 6 жыл бұрын

The Every Maker

@ibrhemahmed170 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@MultiWarrior63 6 жыл бұрын

Cheers Matt

@einzigkeit7216 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Matt , can you make the lap joint the other way around.. Thanks for the great videos

@royr327 6 жыл бұрын

Well, nothing to disagree about! May I suggest Starrett NIST certified squares and layout tools, pricey yep, but well worth it because EVERYTHING depends on the accuracy of the measuring and marking tools just as you rightly pointed out. Great job!

@Lemev 3 жыл бұрын

Everybody loves to use high quality tools..... Canadians and Americans are lucky, if you know what I mean....

@rosshollinger8097 5 жыл бұрын

Matt, what about using a card scraper in place of the shoulder or router planes?

@LJDIGITAL 6 жыл бұрын

Great vid. Just thought of something. If you dont like cutting on the 'actual' shoulder line, is there anything stopping you from using your marking guage to cut a second 'temporary' shoulder line close to the 'actual' shoulder line. You could then create a V-groove in that one and use that to saw? This would leave a couple of mm of wood to the actual shoulder line that you could clean up with a chisel?

@ryanabens6302 6 жыл бұрын

Matt, what brand of Jesus pen do you recommend? I definitely need one!

@pippaknuckle 2 жыл бұрын

Amish brand is good for hand tool work.

@EduardGabrielMunteanu 5 жыл бұрын

Can you sand off the inner joint surfaces with a sanding block instead of using a plane? Would it be worse or slower?

@unspeakableqwerty81 Жыл бұрын

wow cooollllll

@donny_bahama 3 жыл бұрын

While this is a brilliant tutorial, and certainly the only tutorial one would ever need to watch for cutting a half lap joint by hand, I’d love to see a video where you make one half lap joint by hand (working at full speed - without the hindrance of explaining in detail everything you’re doing) vs making the same joint on a table saw with a jig (again, at full speed). Kind of a “John Henry vs The Machine” video. I would think the latter would be faster and more accurate while the former would be more satisfying. If the table saw proves to be less accurate (or detrimental in any way) you could do a hybrid method where the table saw cuts to within a millimeter (or half millimeter?) of the line, then finish it up with a shoulder or router plane. Of course, this presupposes that you’re doing this professionally - and “time is money”. If you’re making an heirloom piece for yourself or a loved one, doing everything by hand obviously makes it more special and shows off your craftsmanship.

@SeaShrimp 5 жыл бұрын

my left ear LOVED this video. My right, not so much...

@amilcarberrios641 3 жыл бұрын

Everything by Hand Without power tools !💪👍

@limin3453 3 жыл бұрын

You should seriously teach a wedged mortise and tenon joint and a tusked mortise and tenon joint and all the joints that you can think of because even though there are many who teach such stuff, your viewers enjoy your teaching style.

@SirBenJamin_ 6 жыл бұрын

I tried this today and it came out perfectly! exactly like yours. No gaps AT ALL. ..... wait ... why is my nose lookinhg bigger than normal?

@iatomici2860 2 жыл бұрын

What brand of knife is that

@SirBenJamin_ 6 жыл бұрын

He uses the marking gauge to reference off the face side of each piece. But the marking gauge wheel has a bevel on one side of the blade. So you end up with one board being nice and clean, and the other board with a big beveled dent where the cut line should be?

@davidn7945 6 жыл бұрын

I tend to prefer using the shoulder plane first to get down close to the line against the shoulder. Once I get that flat and to the depth it needs to be, I use that surface as reference face for the router plane to plow out and flatten the rest of that lap.

@user-vd6wb5ef8v 2 жыл бұрын

That chisel technique at 12:40 - it is prone to errors. Why not to perforn the exact saw cut unstead? Similar question about chisel at 14:50 - is it not easier to make a flat surface with a saw, especially if there are knots in the wood and grain is not streight?

@Chrisbuildsstuff247 6 жыл бұрын

My brother snuck up on me while I was doing the finishing touches on a wooden carving I was making for my mom I got blood on it and I took a cut to far dow how can I fix that

@fuchiaimperfect2093 5 жыл бұрын

at the start, marking the shoulder - how about standing one piece vertically next to the other so as to assure they're level - instead of tapping them together ? ...well, that's what I do, anyway. Thanks for the fast-paced tutorial.

@Jotexican 6 жыл бұрын

From a general standpoint, do you prefer Veritas or Lie Nielsen chisels and why?

@MattEstlea 6 жыл бұрын

You may enjoy this series: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kJ-DadVilZrUgZ8.html

@Arbyofuchprawnage 6 жыл бұрын

hahaha Jesus pen is awesome. Interesting to see you are a lefty, do you use a specific left handed marking knife?

@MattEstlea 6 жыл бұрын

It’s great isn’t it? I have a scalpel blade in that knife so it has two bevels on it

@juniorpink1021 Жыл бұрын

what's your hurry?

@AndyPutt1 5 жыл бұрын

Really good video for a newb carpenter like me, enough to get me by without these specialised lovely tools like "shoulder planes" and marking guages" ... I hope

@JeremyB8419 4 жыл бұрын

You could just make two knife lines. Your primary knife line and then one a millimeter in. V groove the one millimeter in one for sawing, then you have your primary for when you’re chiseling.

@happytimes9937 4 жыл бұрын

Have you tried it that way

@gungfoomon7729 6 жыл бұрын

"If you're working with a shovel, you are not going to get the same results."

@courseychristopher_art 3 жыл бұрын

talk about precise

@jadavbora3970 Жыл бұрын

I am looking easy way

@jimz748 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for including Jesus in your very helpful presentation.

@MattEstlea 6 жыл бұрын

I used 'holy water' based glue to stick the joint together too.

@Jotexican 6 жыл бұрын

Preferably with Jesus on it...hahaha! Good stuff man

@fututum 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting you have a Jesus pencil. When you going to have a Mohammed chisel? How about a Buddha speed square?

@drekowski 6 жыл бұрын

Why don't you start your saw cut on the end grain for a millimetre or so to establish the line and then drop your cut to the line facing you? Reduces the lines you have to watch at a time to one.

@danielpittman889 6 ай бұрын

6:35 It's ok. It will be gone for a while but then it will come back.

@effyou128 6 жыл бұрын

table saw +dado blade = Done in 3 min! lol

@MattEstlea 6 жыл бұрын

Haha yea alright!

@MattEstlea 6 жыл бұрын

+ illegal in the UK :(:(::(

@DrAsimov 6 жыл бұрын

Matt Estlea - Furniture Wait... What? Dado blades are illegal in the UK? Why tho? I mean who would write a law like THAT?

@shannabolser9428 6 жыл бұрын

From what I have learned the blade of a saw has to stop within a specific amount of time. With the extra mass that a dado adds it cannot stop within that time frame so therefore, illegal.

@andrewschannel3635 2 жыл бұрын

@@DrAsimov you can achieve the same with a router, but that’s not the point of this video, which is traditional hand tool skills. Also there are handheld circular saws that have the equivalent of a dado blade, which are available in the uk.

@2YLITE22 6 жыл бұрын

+1 for the Jesus pen!

@AndreaArzensek 6 жыл бұрын

Jesus approves this joint.

@gingerpox_makes8025 6 жыл бұрын

Lost my Jesus pen. It’s been missing for almost three days. I hope it shows up soon.

@DrAsimov 6 жыл бұрын

Steve Does Stuff Awesome

@thebigshedart 5 жыл бұрын

Very helpful stuff in here but please, slow down! You're like a magician hiding the marble - "...it's under this cup, that cup, move that one, this one..!". Maybe try decaff on filming day?

@FunoXXX 6 жыл бұрын

#JesusPen ... omg you so have to make it a thing xD

@MattEstlea 6 жыл бұрын

He will be featuring a lot in this series!

@farrazaljauzi8734 4 жыл бұрын

loba huntu ah

@CHRISTISKING209 2 жыл бұрын

Jesus pen....oh ya!

@chrissweet391 6 жыл бұрын

Christ man, figure out the moire issue! Great woodworking videos but holy hell that's distracting.

@MattEstlea 6 жыл бұрын

Its so annoying isn't it! I have my eyes set on the Canon 80d as an upgrade but cant afford it at the moment!

@chrissweet391 6 жыл бұрын

Matt Estlea - Furniture Try experimenting with a different distance between the camera and the bench. Essentially it is caused by the frequency of the grain matching up with the frequency of the pixels on the sensor. Look up fashion moire or fabric moire. Fashion photography has to deal with this all the time and it is often solved by moving closer or further away thereby offsetting the two frequencies.

@martinschulman1751 Жыл бұрын

Great video, skills and description. But Matt- you speak to fast and on top of that sink deep into your English accent. Very hard for me to understand.

@mehranfreeman6192 3 жыл бұрын

Too much details , board 😐

@larrylyon1122 5 жыл бұрын

8 1/2 min of video before making first cut?

@jkelectrical 3 жыл бұрын

Bad lighting

@st.vladimir2020 2 жыл бұрын

you talk way too fast mate(:

@edthompson9337 Ай бұрын

What a faff, way too much time spent on that, if you can't accurately cut to the line with the saw just make a series of cuts to the required depth and then use a chisel to remove the waste, simple when you know how!

@wallpropher 6 жыл бұрын

Dude you need to take a big breath and slow down please. You refer to things, but you do not show or tell how to find them. What Wednesday video on a "Shooting Board"? You are putting out a lot of information very fast without any graphical reference tools. Put a logical white board behind you to refer to (not a physical one). You keep apologizing for the Woodworking noise in the background, but you can hardly hear it. The noise actually proves that you are working in a wood shop and not a staged studio for Hollywood productions. Get a tool wall up quickly of your favorite hand tools that you use so we can relate to you as a actual woodworker and not a student with million dollar tools that no one has please. Your audience lives and works in wood caves of many forms around the world. I enjoy all of your videos very much, but you need to make some changes so you can continue to grow your channel. Presenting tool challenges can be done enthusiastically in a staged environment , but your Woodworking content needs to change to a slower output speed so we can adsorb your knowledge while you use tools we can relate to duplicating in a environment we can relate to. I really want you to be successful so we have the opportunity to learn from your technology knowledge in wood craft and film producer. Be C👀L. 🤠

@mickleblade 6 жыл бұрын

I know what you're saying about million dollar tools, re Norm Abram?, but he doesn't often show those tools. He's developing his own style of presentation and it pretty good.

@wolfa5151 6 жыл бұрын

wallpropher - We’ll said, needed to be said.

@ibanezrg320fm 5 жыл бұрын

I agree. I'm new to the channel and new to woodworking with hand tools. Sometimes explaining too much takes away from the point. I got a little lost when he kept saying the face side facing this side but not the face side on this side. Like what??? 🤯 He needs to slow down and maybe think about what he's trying to say without sounding confusing. Nothing wrong with reshooting 5 seconds over a few times to get it right. Otherwise, excellent videos and I really appreciate it.