I too am a fan of socks with sandals

This is still so enjoyable even after all these years! Never gets old lol

I think you were born 100 years too late. You are a true Craftsman.

Interesting video. Just a couple of tips using O1 tool steel. O1 is very forgiving but easy to overheat especially if you are only watching for a particular color. A red color in a brightly lit room will usually result in overheated steel. Overheating the steel tends to reduce the carbon content making for a less than optimal cutting edge. You can use a magnet to aid in reaching the proper temperature. Pre-warm your quench oil. I usually heat a chunk of mild steel and then plunge into the oil a couple of times which will warm the oil... Optimal temperature for the oil is around 140 degrees. Heat the steel to the "non-magnetic" point and then hold it at that temperature for around an 30 seconds to a minute before quenching the steel in oil. Another tip is to not bring the cutting edge to final thickness before heat treating. Leave the edge to the approximate thickness of a dime, harden and then temper the blade, and then do the final shaping of the edge thickness. If you use a power grinder for the final edge profiling, be sure to not overheat the edge.

Amazing

.......haaaa....love how you start with wood from the pile, I do the same....what a great show, will watch this several times, the work was well shown, music nice, not to loud, your voice was loud and clear!... Some more details on cutting the mouth and getting it cutting for the 1st time would be a nice....I love T&G panels for back of cabinets,and sides, looks great in the back of a jelly cabinet or hutch...again..what a great show!

Wow. That turned out great. Also like the simple old style shape of the rounded ends. Very very great job. 👍

You were good back then, too!

Awesome, James keep uploading these great howtos. I'm taking notes.

Tremendously fun and enjoyable to watch! Way to go! Great project, great video!

Simple

Great video. Thank you!

Nice boots!

I know this is an old video but still very enjoyable and informative for me to make my first grooving plane. The A2 tool steel is air harden. Thanks for the videos. This looks like it would be perfect for a drawer bottoms.

Beautiful plane! I don't plan to make one, but very fun to watch.

Axe and planes are so nice and complementary. Great job waht you did with the wedge, and fine results. This set will be in a future projet at mi shop. Thanks for sharing !

That is so nice. In a couple of years you will have a shelve with a full set of molding planes. I recently brought an old molding plane back to life. Its so much fun to work with these things. I might need to have a crack at this too. I just need more time.

To proper heat treatment simpliest way is to use magnet. Once steel loos it's magnetism it's ready for quench

Excellent work Mr Wright. Greetings from Argentina.

I love your router plane.

Very impressive, great video.

that is awesome James. I wonder if I'd ever be able to make hand planes like that. I really need a workbench. So cool.

I see glimpses of the two hand planes you are building...looking forward to the finished plane. You are so close to 1000 subs.

Great video. Also you always have sweet music for your videos.

Very nice! Thanks Jimbo

Great Woork👍😍

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who sometimes wears sandals in the shop.

Very nice James !

excellent...! cheers...

Sehr schön gemacht

I like the slippers

I don't understand how you don't have more subscribers!

Hi there from Portugal, Nice Plane(s)

Nice

good video james you can always make me a set lol

Very much a novice here. If I wanted a half inch tongue and grove am I using the same procedure just replacing 1/4 numbers with 1/2? I'm trying to make table rails for an extension piece. Love the video. Look forward to viewing the rest

I strongly advise against using olive oil on wood, as it dries at most to a gummy sticky state. I once oiled my kitchen table with olive oil. Well...I had to scrape this goo off manually. I initially tried sanding, but even with the most corse paper, it clogs up immediately. Also, if you put linseed oil on top of the olive oil, initially the linseed oil dries, but the olive oil inhibits full drying and seems to seep up through the linseed layer eventually...and then I had to scrape again to really get all the olive oil removed. Yeah...learned a lot there :)

who would dislike this video?

I like your dedication to hand tools but wow lol you should have used the hand saw to get your 90 degree then plane it true. Save a lot of work lol and time needing to sharpen those blades again after. Great video again very detailed instructions

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To make a groove plane you'll need a groove plane

Totally amazing. Where can i get plans to make all the wooden planes?

Okay, James, you just tossed that firewood in there, and started with the plane (scrub)? No need to get out a froe and split it down etc?

Almost think I could do it after watching this video. Probably a step beyond my skills right now, though. Also, a joking sidenote: everything fits in your videos except the plastic sandals. We need to get you a pair of hand-made leather shoes or something (although, I'm guessing comfort trumps all here). Keep up the great work.

Do you go through alot of vices? I recently did some hand tool work... Found myself on the wrong side of the shop infront of the moxon most the day! Awesome project James. Now i must see "how to make a hand router" didnt even know that was a thing!

Do you have to heat up the steel in order for it to cut wood properly ?

Groovy plane man... Just had to do that. I noticed pointing the end of the wedge was a bit tricky. Would it be easier to clamp a plane in the vice upside down and use it as a cheese grater? Might just be more setup time for just one piece... Cool plane looking forward to the Tongue. Will you be making profile planes or do you use the scratch stock for that?

very nice james...a little bit of hand tool making and your nice and calm. ;) i think i have a groove plane..i found it in the garage of my house when we 1st moved in.no iron for it. but the opening/mouth has an engraving that says 5/8"..so does that mean i need a 5/8"iron amd it cuts a groove 5/8" deep and away??i posted a pic on my Instagram of it a while back...happy easter to you and yours man!

Could you post where you bought your blade stock. Also, what's the reason/ exp behind your choice of O1 over A2?

I've maybe missed it but where is the link to the tongue plane that was mentioned?

Hello. I have a veritas plow plane, bit being honest is not my favorite it tears out a lot and in some times the tear out ruins the groove. Consider that a 60 degrees plow plane( with a wooden body will make a better job? Like an old molding plane) And my second question is where can i adquire a blade that i dont have to make the "torch job" ?

Can you just take all my money and make me a set of planes? These things are awesome!

nice work! have you made a low angle jack? so far i've made a jointer and a high angle smoother with the veritas kit. I think next up is a low angle jack. young je has a video of making one, but he uses a steel sole and i just can't get into it. My smoother is of hard maple, looks great, very durable, burnishes as it cuts. i'd use that. anyway, you should make one so i can copy yours! cheers

This would be perfect for cutting the truss rod channel in a guitar neck. How hard would it be to make and add a movable fence to this instead of having a set 1/4"?

Do you happen to sell any hand made planes? Or have any recommendations of any craftsman that make wonderful planes?

Nice. Who did you order the tool steel from?

Some like it hardcore

Nice video, would like to have it on paper how can Iget it

I feel like I need to a lot of hand tools, to build a hand tool. 🤣

what is the inner grove for? Surely its just a rebate plane?

How much does the O1 iron cost? And how long to manually file it to approximately 30 degrees?

I think A-2 is air quenched

what brand of planes are you using? Irving?

Just to verify, the grooving plane is 1-1/4" thick, and the tongue plane is 1-1/2" thick...?

SOCKS WITH SANDALS!!!! :PI see lots of clamps behind you on the wall. I have only been watching your channel for a month or so, and don't remember you using them. Did you make them? Can you share that process?

O1 stands for oil , A in A2 stands for air, dunno how they do it

Tongue*

Why olive oil?

Great work W, thank you, but you forgot one of the main rules of shop: wear shoes, you hippie - joke!

Laminating with thinner pieces of wood works if you don’t have a fancy plane.

Pretty frustrating to find a video on how to make a grooving plane and find that it requires the use of a grooving plane. Right up there with scissors sold in packaging that requires scissors to open. Normally love this channel though.

sock and sandals seem like a poor choice for a work shop

Perhaps you mean tongue

it looks like your time don´t had any value, with two or three power tools you can make that's in a few minutes, i don't understand the people like you, you are abourred by electricity payments?