That's me: hand-tool researcher!

Thanks for noticing! I'm always working on being a better film-maker.

Rex Krueger and a comedian through visual comedy

Gringoros “Transitions?!”

If you can get vintage Stanleys, then start there. Otherwise, you could do a lot worse than this thing.

No money wasted here.

Stanley has forgotten so much over the years. At least they still take care of the customers.

I love my 4.5!

All kidding aside, I hate to brag.

Rex Krueger Steve Ramsey even laughed at that trope

I'm delighted to hear that!!!

Goes live tomorrow!

The vintage ones often break. They cast them too thin. Drag.

I'm glad!

Built it; bought it. The verdict: buy it.

Thank you!

Enjoy it!

That's really nice to hear. Thank you!

Maybe, but thicker planes are also easier to manufacture. If weight helped so much with chatter, then you'd expect a lot more of if from wooden planes.

I think you could make one. I own a toothing plane but I rarely use it.

I would just grab a second iron and do the high bevel yourself. It takes mere minutes.

@@RexKrueger But where can I get another blade, I have looked to no avail. Primary reason not to pull trigger on this make.

@@RexKrueger Where can you get spare blade? I have looked around ,no luck. T

Premiers help me get about 5x views in the first 24 hours. What would you do if you were me?

@@RexKrueger Most likely Yes. If I was doing it for a living and it was helping to meet my goals. In your case it is, so the answer is clear. People get annoyed by advertising everyday but yet they buy. It's effective. i don't hold it against you.

You're still here and I appreciate that.

I honestly love mine and I was VERY skeptical.

Pretty interested in that next video you talked about as well. You've got me curious about this mystery plane.

Good question. I need to test that.

Plain old oil. Any kind.

I think they make a LOT of them. Probably need to tighten up the QC.

I think this is pretty much it. Honestly, I cannot imagine someone making a good one for less money. These things are not easy to make.

The other contender is the Axminster Rider

If you can afford a woodriver, then i would buy the veritas low angle jack. Great plane, great shooter, reasonably priced for what you get.

DUDE!!! That's why God invented these things called "earbuds"!!! ;oP

Well, you'll just have to turn your woodwork into a business. Now, my wife is not a part of tool purchases and doesn't care what I buy. Well, she'd care if I bought something really big.

@@gnarthdarkanen7464 thanks for the tip, but I can't find any that fit my (I guess smaller than average) ear holes. They all pop out after as little as a minute. Plus, due to some subdermal chemical burning while in Desert Storm my ears are really sensitive to pressure, so muff style headphones are painful to wear for more than about five minutes. I appreciate the suggestion though.

@@RexKrueger thanks for the response. Turning it in to a business is not an option, unfortunately. I don't have the time to produce product for others when my body is up to the work. I have several disabilities that make working in the shop for more than a couple hours at a time quite difficult for me. I can't even stand for more than 20 minutes on average, in or out of the shop. It's a great suggestion for many, but it just wouldn't work for me. If I had a commission I would stay out there until I collapsed and be good for nothing for at least a week. Chronic pain with joints the doctors think I should live in a bed with, if I had the average pain tolerance, is no fun, but I just can't stop completely. Heck, I'm still working on a bedside table I started 9 months ago and haven't really done anything but college, sleep, and yard work for the last 6. I likely have plenty of rust to remediate when I get back in the shop.

@@RexKrueger sorry, couldn't remember your whole comme t and had to go re-read it. Even a replacement table saw blade is really big on our budget, soooo... ($771/mo. SSI) I could use a second income, but can't physically keep up with the demand required to make it a feasable business. Maybe a side item or two after graduation and a new job to get off this SSI check, if that job allows me any energy and time to follow this woodworking dream. Heck, I have to take a break after sharpening a plane iron or chisel.

Maybe...did you subscribe?

@@RexKrueger a long time ago :)

Maybe. Wooden planes shoot fine. It's the low angle on this one that makes it so great, although the weight doesn't hurt.

@@RexKrueger Thanks Rex for answering my question. I'm a fellow Clevelander and love your channel. I wish I could help you now, but will in the future.

In plane irons, it's a rounded cutting edge. If you get back to that part of the video, where he describes "sharpening to a slight camber", it shows the iron in his hands against the grinder wheel making an arc so it rounds off the blade as it sharpens. In aggressive material removal, this helps to scoop out thicker chips without getting "jammed" in the mouth and around the chip breaker, AND avoids "digging" with corners of the iron, so you can set it deeper and get forceful and aggressive with the work without worry about gouging at the edges of strokes or ripping out long valleys in the wood. You can set up your own "slight camber" by finding something round and more than six inches across (in my experience anyway)... usually 7-10 inches is "safe territory" for about anyone to play. Lay it over your iron like a guide and use a sharpie to draw a line so you have a visual aid to follow. Then grind (carefully, and with water to cool it) to shape and sharpen more or less as normal. I personally leave the line (or about half of it) from a regular sharpie as I grind, to be as precise as I need... BUT you can experiment as you find most sensible until you get a feel for it. In keeping irons cool, a smallish tub of cold water near the grinder is mandatory. While you grind in short bursts, touch the iron near the edge to see if it's getting hot. If it's hot enough to be uncomfortable (or worse) dip it in the water for a few seconds to cool it down. That avoids ruining the temper. You can (of course) also stir the water around while dipping, as long as the tub's large enough... Mainly, since you want to avoid any temperature above 400 F, keeping it less than "hot to the touch" is safe enough, and you don't have to buy anything expensive. ;o)

Hold your iron up the to the light with a straight piece of wood across the edge. You should so no light across most of the middle of the edge and just a little light peaking out towards the ends. You want a VERY slight curvature across the edge.

@@RexKrueger Thank you very much.

Maybe, but lots of people say it is, so I thought it was important to discuss.

@@RexKrueger when you listen to Katz-Mose and some of the others it was made special for end grain and cutting boards, but I know some will try to use it for a smooth plane not its intended use

I just wrote a detailed article about it on Patreon. Become a Patron and you'll get immediate access!

I asked you first. So either tell me the name or I’m out

Man, it's so tough to figure out the Premire feature. On the one hand, it boosts views out of the gate, but then there's the issue you raised. I just don't know!

That getting bumped of thing happens with everything, premier or not. There seem to be a tendency for the dull stuff to stick around, but the stuff I really want to catch flashes past like a speeding rocket. I do notice it more with premier though because I see the notice ahead of time, then wonder down the line what happened to that show I was waiting for.

At least part of "videos getting bumped off the feed" has to do with the "back-end" (between YT and Creators) and part of it's also the "front end" (between YT and Users)... Whenever you click on videos, and especially when you "like" them, the algorithm adjusts what you're being shown "as available" on the feed. I don't keep too many subscriptions at a time, so I play at the algorithms to see what I CAN manipulate in my own feed... I've been about three years, now, but that's the conclusion I've got "so far". Just hope it helps. The easy version, is that you can probably "steer your feed" back toward Rex, by clicking and liking a couple woodworking and hand-tool oriented videos... He's likely to pop right back up. I'm pointing this out because some folks have phones and tablets with less than stellar "keyboard access"... so it's kind of a short-cut. ;o)

Videos missing from feed seems to be a widespread problem lately. I was just reading a PC tech youtuber mention that an older relative of theirs is subscribed to *only* their channel and *still* doesnt reliably get notifications / videos in feed.