Hand Crafted Woodworking
Intro This video will show beginners how to plane a board smooth. This board would be flat from milling on the jointer and thickness planer. The video will show the process of using a “jack” plane and a “smoother” plane. The Video Products, Tools and Supplies Lie Neilsen LN 62 Jack Plane Lee Vallery, Veritas […]
Woodworkers Guild of Georgia, monthly meeting. We had five benches each with a master craftsman showing members hand planes and what the plane should feel like. Great Evening. Just the bunch of pictures I took at the meeting last night. The guild members learning how a sharp, well set up hand plane should work. […]
Sewing Cutting Table Summary I have created a project page for the Cutting Sewing Table. Click on the link in the heading above. Base Assembly In this shop session, I assembled the two shelf units and the drawer unit with clamps. From this I was able to get the dimensions of the base that […]
Intro The Sewing Cutting Table project continues. The cabinets are assembled and need some trim pieces. The video will show how I created and attached the trim to the cabinet pieces. The plywood trim pieces are attached using at Grex P635 pin nailer. The Video Tool Links Lie-Nielsen 5 1/2 Jack Plane […]
The plane and saw till was part 4 of a six part process. A new set of shelves. This cleared space so I could move my 8 organizer boxes to the right side of the cutoff saw table. Moving 10 organizer boxes from one side of the back wall to the other. A new Chisel […]
Objective for today is completing the Four Square of the top. This included the two ends and the front and back faces of the workbench top. I stared by doing some cleaning and de-cluttering some work surfaces. A clean shop is a safer shop and makes me happy. I had previously trimmed the tail […]
Objective for today is four square the workbench top. Really !! This all started when I had completed the flattening of the bottom of the workbench and all the milling and mortise work on the legs. At that point I realized I could start positioning the legs and maybe connect the short rails into […]
The objective for today was to finish the mortises in the leg. There are 12 to do. So I selected tools, Veritas PMV11 Chisels, 1″, 5/8″ and 1/2″. Mallets, Starrett 6″ square and of course my well used calipers. I started with the large 1″ wide drilled out holes. This was a very big […]
The objective for today is flattening the bottom and milling the 6 rails. Lot of hand work with my planes. Been out of the shop for a few days. It was good to get back to the workbench build. The first task was to get the top out of the clamps. I had to lift […]
The task for Day 4 is to complete the milling process for the bench top boards. I learned a lot from completing the first section. The process would be much more efficient to mill all the boards at one time. I did not accomplish all of the processing today. I got the […]
