Thanks man! I like to calm things down a bit.

Yup. The shop is full of love.

Thanks Cody.

Thanks Ben. It was a fun project for sure.

thanks !that means a lot!

The Videos are both informative and realy beautiful filmed, i watced lot of them multiple times.

Thanks man!

thanks Thomas!

Thanks!

Thanks again Richard!

yes. actually some of the old wooden molding planes were made that way. works slick!

Lol thanks Bill!

LOL nice David!

LOL yup. all of my tools are flesh sensing!

thanks again Richard!

Intrestign. that would require going all the way through the plane but if you were to modify sa stanley that would be fun to try.

yes it can be challenging and tools have to be setup with in an inch of their life, but I find the challenge to be fun and the end product is so worth it.

not as much for timbers I just use this when I have a ton of it to do. on the table I need to do around 300-350' of 1/4" chamfers and having the fences makes it easier to be consistent.

That is a lot of chamfers! I bet that does help.

I agree with you on most points there except the last bit... that's really kind of a modern myth. I learned this from someone else: Back then you had all these heavy castings which are basically indestructible unless dropped from a great height or onto a very hard surface, and land at the wrong angle. Not really out of a desire to make things built like tanks, but out of a necessity due to the manufacturing methods available. The result is that even with things that were relatively cheap and roughly cast you have enough material to DIY a fix or improvement without sacrificing structural integrity or functionality. And, after 50-100+ years, most everything that survived is the stuff that _could_, which gives the impression that there were only good items made when in reality there was loads of crap that you only ever see crop up in nearly unused condition. Check some old Popular Mechanics magazine ads and you'll see things that will never come up again - AMT Tablesaws for a few dollars, as one example. I read some old timer on a forum who bought one when he was young and it was essentially a big, bolt-together stamped sheet metal table saw shaped object, like a giant adult erector set. Made in USA to boot. Nowadays you have things that are "high end" which die due to plastic degredation, non-replaceable battery failure, etc., but they aren't really "high end" in the same sense as back then as the amount of scraping and saving you'd have to do to afford something that good was way way higher. Things like Veritas, Lie Nielsen, etc. are closer in relative price today to what Stanley used to cost a household in their main product lines. A woodworker in the 20s or earlier would have killed for the shop James here has. Or even what I have, and I have less than a tenth (maybe less than 5%) of what James does! Sorry for the ramble :P

That's true, thank you for your post, when it come to wooden tools i think about half of them was made by local craftsmen and the quality was in equivalent to the skill of the person who made the particular tool (i know some bigger manufactures also made very large series of wood planes, hacksaws, etc and tons of blacksmithing equpiment for the military here, i think tey sometimes are pretty sheap because they was made in such large numbers (i think those tolls beside reparing also was used to scool the men in how to use tools at least in my country the army had a big part in education, both from books but also practical things like blacksmithing, carpentry, leatherwork, stonework, etc). Iron tools where until the early 1900, at elast where i live, often manufactured in local shops connected to local foundries but loosly inspired by foregin tools. The old military tools are usualy built to last but are pretty crude and in very narrow specifications, but it will do it's job, no less, no more, i think that's another reason why they sometime come pretty sheap here. (in many European countries property of the army are out of the list onse it's removed from the list and sould out in large batches, after that nobody care what's happen to it as long as it's not weapon classified (some items must be destroyed and can not be re selled for the civilian market, like the weapon storage bunkers, automatic firearms, etc) but for most things there are no export or import restrictions for that stuff in Europe for "non harmful items".)

Thanks. Lol well it is on Instagram too.

ya. great use!

sure. this is basically a #4 with a bunch of bells and whistles. I have one with holes drilled in the side and tapped. that is a video I would like to make. the problem with low angled planes is if the grain is not flat and perfict they will make a mess of the wood so I only use it on long flat items. Most of the time I am reaching for a higher angle plane.

Thanks man. Yes it does kinda look like that

My pleasure!

It is a Nicholson File Holder. I have a float in it. there is a link to it in the description if you want to see the exact one.

thanks!

I use this one on miters and end grain I just take less of a bite and make sure the blade was freshly sharpened.

@@WoodByWright Thanks.

I generally prefer the end vice as it allows more flexibility working around the end of the bench rather then only one side. just a personal preference.

Wood By Wright thanks!

LOL got to appease the woodworking gods with a blood sacrifice!

Just a scratch. You can see it on my left pointer finger later. thought I would leave that in the edit just to show it happens to everyone!

it is a Nicholson file holder. amzn.to/2D5MO8S great way for cleaning shoulders taking off tiny amounts at a time.

LOL yup. got to make a blood donation on every project!

Sweet! I may take you up on that.

That is a file holder. If you want to see one there is a link in the Description.

well they do not need to be that long. those were just what I had on hand. they only need to be about 1/4" longer than the outside nuts.

A yellow zinc or "brass tone" rod or bolt would probably fit the look best, if he can find one long enough.

well each to their own. for big projects like the table I am working on it is perfect. for most projects I just grab the block plane and go to town. The bolts do not need to be that long. those were just what I had on hand. they only need to be about 1/4" longer than the outside nuts. when i get better ones it will be quick to replace them.

it is a very basic skill. And usually I just use a block plane and run down a board. But in this case I have to do six or seven hundred feet of it and it all needs to be identical from end-to-end and very large for an average chamfer. So having a chamfer plane will end up saving me an hour or more and make it easier to keep all of them identical. And then there are other people out there who want to jig for every step and in this case they could make this and have a jig for making champers every time. But that's not me.

I was not saying that making a chamfer plane is useless, I was just wondering why they are so popular if we don't really need them.In this case I understand, but please don't buy it do it. A subscriber from France

it is honestly a power tool mindset. when it comes to power tools you are only as good as your jig. and if you bring that mindset to hand tools you make a jig for everything you to to make up for skill. in history they were only used on rare occasions.