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Watched again to refresh my memory.

Nice to see a KZfaqr responding to comments made on a video he posted two years ago. Too many KZfaqrs only respond to comments made as soon as the video is posted then forget they ever posted the video in the first place.

Super simple to set up but if you don’t know how to do it than you’re just lost. Had no idea that screw was a pivot point… great video, many thanks!

I have watched dozens of videos on setting up a spokeshave, and yours, sir, is by far the best one. Thank you so much for taking the time for doing this video.

Thank you, sir. I definitely needed this.

Excellent video, thank you.

Most useful video I've seen on spokeshaves. Like one of the guys below, I was ready to throw it away. Now it's making beautiful translucent ribbons. So much fun I've almost shaved all my scrap wood.

Thank you, Chris. Now I'll give it another try with the spoke shave. Very good explained as always.

Thanks!

Thanks for the great video. I also watched the rag in a can video. I have had an unused spoke shave for years.

One of the best/complete explanations on how to properly set up and use the spokeshave

Make sure the chipbreaker/capiron is flat against the plane iron (another Paul Sellers tip). I had to work quite a bit on mine to make it work correctly.

Thank You good sir! It isn't me with the screw loose but my spoke shave!! I was excited to have picked up my first spoke shave from an antique store earlier this year. I cleaned it up well, sharpened the blade, but still it bit and bucked. I figured I wasn't tuning it properly. Here you are telling me right away that I'm missing a piece! The cap leaver no less. Judging by the state of the threads, the cap leaver screw has been missing for a long time.

Very helpful - thanks!

Fantastic.

Outstanding demo!… just what I needed… takes all the mystery out of setting that blade! Thanks!

I bought a spokeshave some time ago and used it as a dust collector in my shop because I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong. Now I know. Thank you for making this video.

Thank you and God bless

brilliant

Thanks for the great demo😊

Very helpful…..nice work, thanks

Really great, I was really struggling with spoke shave but after your video I’m shaving like professional. Thank you so much 🙏.

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I am doing a lot better since I turned the blade round the right way !

This video was incredibly helpful. Thank you for the fine detail.

Great video, thank you for the clear instruction. I could not find my way in using the spokeshave, but now i have seen your video i will try again. Setting up the shave properly seems to be the key to succes, but you have to know how, and now i do. Regards Sander from the Netherlands

Very easy to understand 👍🏻 many thanks 😊🍻

Very useful presentation. Thanks.

Amazingly helpful vid!

Many thanks for a great explanation and tutorial.

A very helpful video, thanks!

Drop a like if you found any of this helpful, done. Literally ALL of it was helpful

thanks for the advice!

Very informative and useful. Thank you 😊

Very informative and useful video. I am one the those users who mainly uses the tool on the pull.

Very nice video. Subscribed.

Thank you! That was super helpful 😊

Thank you useful instructions 🙂

Greetings from Canada. Thanks man. Clear, concise. I'm assuming the rag in the can has nothing sprayed onto it-just a rag in a can! Thanks again.

I love spokeshaves, made a few of my own out of hock blade kits, I have several of them, blades must be very sharp.

Superb

Great info

Thank you so much! I just got a spokeshave and wasn’t sure how do use it or set it. Now I do.

i learned so much, and before this bideo i thought i new i all, thanks

Brilliant! Best spokeshave setup video I've seen. I had been struggling with my spokeshave on notoriously-cranky Australian hardwoods, and it was chattery as hell, and to be honest I had pretty much given up with my shave. My blade was sharp, but everything else was wrong, I can't wait to try your method to see how much difference it makes!

Good video - much more direct than the american ones that take twenty minutes to take the thing out of the box. I am from Middlesbrough but have lived in Aotearoa/ New Zealand for over 30 years. I am trying to place your accent which is not a lot different to mine.

Thanks, mate

Thank you

Great video, well explained.

Great video. Think I've been overtightening my chamfer. Should you be able to adjust the blade depth while the chamfer is tightened down, or did you just loosen the top screw of the plate for the sake of illustrating the blade depth adjustment?

Nice video

Thanks Chris, this was a good one. I have a cheap Amazon spoke shave and I have yet to really figure it out. I wonder if the curved bottom makes much of a difference over the flat bottom.

I don’t think I’ve seen you do it with a guitar build (and I think I’ve watched ‘em all…): can you get good results using a spokeshave as the main tool for a guitar body roundover? I’m thinking of a pretty fat radiused roundover like a Jazzmaster. I’m terrified of routers. - Paul

never used one, but now I know how to If I do in the future, cheers Chris

Didn’t like it; didn’t use it. Sounds like me. Thank you. Now I understand my set up was wrong. Time to practice.

The presentation starts with a tool that is basically setup and needs a turn of a screw to be shaving a fine cut. if the thumb screws are way out of whack it is a different story. Need to show how to set them up "for pushing" when they are screwed up. Also the mention that the center screw is a fulcrum is good, but how to position the blade on this screw and how to adjust its height is again just assumed to be clear.

I have one in the shed which came out of my dad's shed, but never used it. Time to give it a go. Also what's in the can? Thanks Chris.

I've started out with a tap adjusted spoke shave and originally, I thought it was invented by Satan himself but recently I have revisited it and it was in part thanks to your video. I've done some work on it including flattening the sole, flattening the lever cap and reviving the ancient Chinese plane blade that came with it so now it's lovely and sharp and polished as it was rusted all over. I've not got it perfect yet as I am still getting shavings jam up the spokeshave. In the first instance, I figured that it was where I had the lever cap too far forward towards the tip of the plane blade and moving it back has stopped a majority of the jamming but still getting a fair bit of jamming on certain passes so my thinking is that either I haven't got the lever cap flat enough or in the ideal position. Other than that, it's a nifty tool that leaves a silky smooth finish and I don't want to fork out £20 for a model with the wheel adjusters partly because I am a tight fisted git but mostly because I like to revive "near dead" tools. Is there an ideal seated position for the lever cap or something you can suggest off the top of your head? By the by, it was thanks to this vid that set me on to the Sellers Rag in a Can which is a blindingly obvious "workshop hack" that makes me look thicker than a certain substance on a stick but then elegance is found in beautifully simplistic design principles and can't get simpler than a rag in a can.

Is that a scary sharp system? If it is, do you thing the sheets last long enough. Is it worth the investment?

What is a rag can ?? Thanks

and the liquid in your rag bin is ??? i guess its not 5 o clock tea LOL

It doesnt matter how much I,m dealing with this devil of plans, spokshave, it,s not going to work at all. It just hugging and it just as going on a tuff road, up and down. I,v done exactly as Your recomendations. Will it work? Certainly not. Could it be that mine is black and Yours is read???Thinking to trow it away. Hate this invention.

Oh...your supposed to push not pull.

Your accent makes me feel so homesick / Especially when you drop your H’s /