I'm starting to believe that there's absolutely nothing that you could ramble on about that won't hold my interest to the very end. Your immense knowledge paired with your spot on delivery method sets the stage for intriguing content, regardless of the topic. Keep on doing what you do. You're a master in your field.
I’m new to this craft but in 11 minutes and 13 seconds of “Ahh!” my entire perspective of your back wall shifted from “why?” to “what a fascinating story”.
Stumpy, based on your love of the craft and your love for those tools, I'm willing to say that you don't see yourself as the owner per se but the curator protecting them and preserving until the move on to their next curator to love and preserve.
I’ve been following you for years James but this video really caught my attention. I’ve been a carpenter since 1979. I started my apprenticeship at 16 years of age, but my love of woodworking started in school 4 years before that. I was taught to use a wooden jack plane in woodwork class and this video brought me all the way back there. If you take a quick look at my channel you’ll see how those early lessons helped me to become the woodworker I am today. Keep on doing what you do. It’s invaluable.
@@StumpyNubs I'm just old enough to recall our milk and bread being delivered by horse and cart. The iceman had a big old draft horse that kept our dairy cold. Yet young enough to know the ins and outs of my smartphone, can set my own remotes etc :)
That was fun for us wood nerds! Thanks James! I have a Stanley blade and cap iron in a 5½ grooved sole Bailey bedrock that's got to be a hundred years old if it's a day. My brother found it rusted up in a garage sale, so Dad (a fitter and machinist by trade) restored it for me one Christmas. It's much loved and much used. Now it's my turn, as I've inherited Dad's number 4 smoother, which needs some tuning up. (All in good time...)
I love to see old tools maintained and used by people like you. I have some very old tools that I use but no one else without supervision. They are much more valuable to me than the new ones.
I, too, love and am fascinated by the old wooden planes and other older hand tools. The skill and knowledge of these workmen is so awe inspiring. I had an uncle who was just such a man. I loved and have retained a few of his tools and made items. They are priceless to me. i am constantly searching for others to add to my collection. Thanks for showing these and for pointing out some of the stories and skills possibly behind the tools and the craftsmen who used them.
I have to agree with so many of the comments here. This has given me a new appreciation of planes and their makers and users. I'm looking forward to more.
It's really interesting that ornate details and profiles were so common back when they were such a pain in the arse to make. Even common furniture and molding had these profiles which took a number of custom planes, sharpening techniques, and quite a bit of skill to put everything together. Nowadays with industrial shapers and auto-feeds, ornate profiles are easy to make, but people just want simple, clean-looking furniture and molding. I admit I even like the clean modern look myself, even though I can appreciate how much work went into making things beautiful in the past.
Very few people have the gift to pass on their knowledge of their craft with such ease, passion and precision. It bears repeating: I love your videos, James. Keep up the good work 🌞
Hard to believe someone would give you heck for having those great planes. I guess haters are just gonna hate. You have no obligation to explain to them but I love planes so really enjoy hearing about them. Thanks!
I have been watching your videos for a while now ever since my woodworking teacher in school gave us an assignment to watch your table saw safety video. I love them so much especially the cool tools series, I also loved your videos about hand planes so much I made my teacher get a few because he didn't have any, I used the ones he got on my drawer project I just finished. Thanks for consistently providing woodworking content that can help learners like me. Keep it up!
Knowing and passing on the knowledge of our craft is terribly important. Thank you for helping keep the knowledge and skill of the original users alive, long after they are gone. You're doing important work with videos like this.
Thanks for giving us this tour! I am a power tools guy that has become much more interested in hand tools. At times I find it quicker, but in general I get more satisfaction or of a great hand made joint.
8:34 These planes are called "Schiff(s)hobel" (boat/ship plane) in Germany and are used for planing concave surfaces in shipbuilding or, as you mentioned, barrel making. The currently available iron version (remake of a Stanley from 1879) has a flexible sole so that concave and convex surfaces can be planed.
I remember watching Roy Underhill talking about and using many of the planes you are showing. He could so easily create any mold you wanted just by grabbing the right plane.
I'm just a beginning dabbler of diy projects & probably won't have time to really get into the craft for another 12+ yrs. Love these historical videos in addition to tools & tips.
I have always wondered why you had so many planes behind you. I assumed it was simply for collection value or for making an interesting background for videos. This has taught me quite a bit.
Thank you for making this video. I used to work as an employee with two German cabinet makers and they told me that in Germany wooden 'continental' planes are still preferred over iron planes. This was in the early 21st century. They are also available in the U.K. where I am ans usually have a body of beech with something harder I know not what on the sole. Personally I love wooden planes and have a jack which tying in with your video about harder steel has a trojan of an iron that rarely needs sharpening though when it does it takes a while. About three years ago I had to supply and fit a number of sashes and the lead time from my regular joiner was such that I made some sashes myself. The sashes were of an unusual thickness ( I think they were 35mm) not the usual stock 32, 38 or 45 that I could still obtain from timber merchants at the time so I had to make my own. Having recently read 'The Village Carpenter' by Walter Rose and visited the Weald And Downland Museum at Singleton in Sussex (U.K.) I had discovered sash bar sticking boards and made one. A produced the rebates with a router and table but the ovolos were all made with a wooden moulding plane. This is so much quieter, cleaner and more satisfying than machine working. Wooden planes when well honed and adjusted really are a joy to use. It was a rare pleasure when making the sash stock to actually be able on that occassion to make such old tech' pay.
We all have that something we like to collect. Seeing them close in was really special. I think I'd heard about moulding planes in the past but actually seeing them up close was a delight. Thanks for sharing!
I'm a learning junkie. I really like videos like this that make learning fun. This one also got me thinking that our ancestors had to work pretty hard to make really fine things out of wood. And it took them many years to learn how to use the tools -- how to make and maintain the tools -- and how to intimately connect to the material to create things far finer than I will ever be able to.
I very much enjoyed this presentation about antique planes. It was both informative and fascinating. You are obviously a student of history and have an in-depth appreciation for your craft. People who criticize such collections and stuff apparently can’t see past the end of their own nose. We most everybody saves or collects something or another. Almost everybody has hobbies. No one has to justify their hobby, they do it because they have a passion. I feel sad for those who don’t see or understand this. In the meantime, do more presentations about the history of wood working.
As a young woodworker (I’m 27 now) working with my dad framing houses for years. Not really knowing the finer side of woodwork being a framer I never really took stock into tools like these older planers. But now I have gone to cabinets and trim, and even making my own furniture, these videos are amazing, I love the history and education you provide in them!! I love your videos, thank you so much for educating this once naïve boy who didn’t care about quality tools for the craft. And P.S. I for one am completely envious of all those planers, and hope to have a workshop like that one day my self!
Great video!! Ignore the ill informed comments you referenced in the beginning! I have a few examples that I really should pull out and examine/try some time!!
Hi James. First things first, thank you for gathering up so many of these priceless examples of our collective woodworking history! Very enjoyable video, thank you for sharing!
Fun fact: those old molding planes are called in Portuguese «guilhermes» which literally translates as «wiliams». I had seen many, and of several shapes, but never that many and in so many different shapes. This channel is AMAZING!!!
So after watching this video last week I found myself in an antique store in VT just this past weekend. I was stopped in my tracks when I saw an antique molding plane. Needless to say I have now started my collection. The name stamped in the wood reads "J. Wells" and a city name "New Bedford" (MA). Was he a carpenter working in the sailing ship industry? One can only wonder. It's in good hands now. Thank you for planting the seed.
Hi in our joiners shop here in the uk we had 100s of planes youre collection is a drop in the ocean you enjoy your planes ignore the silly comments .love your planes
My Grt Grandad was a Shipwright & probably used many of those old wooden planes. Glad you have managed to build your collection & don’t be listening to those who knock your good luck. 🍻🇦🇺🐨
I loved this video. While I do hobby woodworking, I love collecting and restoring old hand tools much more. I love the history behind old tools, and thinking about the people who used them, and the projects they created with them. Thanks for sharing.
Yup... This video just reminded me of some of the reasons I've taken up metal crafts like smothing and welding (Stick and MIG, mostly, if anyone cares) along with wood-working... Love the antique tools... AND while I don't mind building my own when I have to, I also enjoy refurbishing or completely re-fabricating parts or tools for the purpose... or as a replacement. I also end up (budget-wise) stuck dealing with a lot of "junk"... BUT with a little bit of craft, a touch of skill, and some sweat, it's surprising how much other people toss out as "junk" that I can make a few bucks on as "recycled" and still hand the next guy or gal a Bargain. Nice to see some examples (workable) of some of the planes I've got stacked up while I figure out what to do next for them, too... helpful... THANKS James!!! ;o)
I still have my fathers and grandfathers smoothing planes and rabbit planes with their stamped names on them. I had the stamps too. Also other tools with their names stamped on. These were used to to build and also to repair at the Railway Carriage Works in York UK
A great peek into the history of wood planes. I also liked how you aimed at connecting to the original maker on the obviously shop made tools. It makes me hope that some future wood worker will enjoy the wood body planes that I've made for myself. As someone that tripped over a box with a slightly rusty Stanley No.55 with the whole cutter set a few years ago I'll also be looking forward to seeing your iron body plane video. You and your team is one of the best. Kudos to all of you.
I have a box of wooden planes I bought a couple of months ago. I need to restore them, but haven't gotten around to it just yet. I live in Denmark where wooden planes are very easy to come by. That's what we use in school as well!
James, this is fascinating. Please keep up this historical series. I'm not sure what was more interesting - the basic content of antique wooden planes, or the fact that people actually get bent over your collection. You should do a video that claims water is wet to see how many irate people challenge that.
So neat!! I love that you take the negativity of internet denizens and funnel it into something really interesting and educational. Your passion for this hobby is evident. Thanks for doing what you do!
Well, that was a long time coming! I'm not sure, but I may have even posted a comment about those planes, myself. Thanks for addressing them. Very interesting.
Wow! I’ve often wondered if the plane wall was even real (as opposed to a background for a green screen). Thanks for all the history and detail. Just one of many reasons you’re among my favorite content creators.
Though your channel has steadily grown, I can’t imagine why you don’t have millions of subscribers. You have the gift of gab that holds the attention and really makes for memorable content. I don’t think anyone has better ways of explaining things and cutting through all the nonsense out there.
Awesome Video! There is nothing like using an old tool that is 100 to 200 years old - I can not stop thinking of who owned this tool and what was built with it? Its one of the coolest things ever!
Got one which is pretty old. I find it very impressive how they can take so much beatings. I mean, to get the knife out you need to slam on it. That’s done so many times but it’s still one piece of wood!
First and foremost, thank you for sharing your collection. I'm glad it's in good hands with someone that is a steward taking care of these items for our time. Someone else will step forward in future years to take over their care hopefully. Anyone want to wager if a hundred and fifty years from now someone will be waxing poetic about a Festool router or whatever survives from this era into the hands of some "Stumpy Nubs" in the future...
enjoyed this video stumpy reminded me of growing up being in the shed with my dad and his hand planes some he was using when he was a 14 year old till he was in his 80 s he did not own many power tools .all the best from England
Great video. I love old woodworking tools ( I was apprenticed as a cabinet maker at the famous G plan factory in High Wycombe, UK). Nothing beats working with your hands
Thank you I really enjoyed your video , I have well over two hundred plane's myself actually I have so many I don't even know how many I have lol , but you are right each one is for different uses , best wishes from England.
Great info Stumpy! I have always passed on plough planes in the wild because I was never sure how they worked or if they were complete. Your explanation was so easy to understand. Now I’m on the hunt! Thanks!
The problem with plough planes is they usually only come with a single iron and you really need a set of irons for them to be useful. Wood plough irons are out there, but harder to find than cutters for Stanley iron combo planes like the #45.
Oh wow...I am just a hobby woodworker and drool over you collection every time. I genuinely agree with you that working with old planes is very satisfying. Of course I am just talking about it as hobby. I look forward to the next video, I recently got 3 stanley 45 planes in various stages of disrepair. I have been able to get all 3 in more or less working order except the cutters/blades. They are kinda expensive on Ebay right, so I am working with my friend(tool&die maker) to make my own cutter out of tool steel. Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge.
Thanks for such an informative explanation of your plane collection! I bought a box of old planes at a garage sale and I'm trying to learn more about them. This helps!
I inherited a carpenter's toolbox with tools from my father, but he was given that by a friend who had no children to pass it on to. Among the tools are several wooden planes stamped, as described at about 11:10 with the initials and last name of the owner. From that stamp I know that my father's friend inherited them from his father; the first initials are different from the first name of my father's friend.
so very pleased to see these beauties cherished and appreciated.. I only have a few but love the history and respect paid to the owners.. I have some that made a boat that was used on one of our major lakes here in BC Canada.... so love your vids James... cheers..
The people that come down on you for having tools is mind blowing to me. Some people just don't have enough to do in their life. Maybe they should take up wood working ;P.
An 11 minute video just on your planes. Wait... These are just your wooden planes!!!
I love it. 👍
I'm starting to believe that there's absolutely nothing that you could ramble on about that won't hold my interest to the very end.
Your immense knowledge paired with your spot on delivery method sets the stage for intriguing content, regardless of the topic.
Keep on doing what you do. You're a master in your field.
I’m new to this craft but in 11 minutes and 13 seconds of “Ahh!” my entire perspective of your back wall shifted from “why?” to “what a fascinating story”.
Another day at Stumpy Nubs University. You never fail to teach me something - usually lots of things. Thank you. 👍
Sounds like some folks need to spend more time learning about the history of their craft. Starting with watching videos like this. Thanks James.
Stumpy, based on your love of the craft and your love for those tools, I'm willing to say that you don't see yourself as the owner per se but the curator protecting them and preserving until the move on to their next curator to love and preserve.
I’ve been following you for years James but this video really caught my attention. I’ve been a carpenter since 1979. I started my apprenticeship at 16 years of age, but my love of woodworking started in school 4 years before that. I was taught to use a wooden jack plane in woodwork class and this video brought me all the way back there. If you take a quick look at my channel you’ll see how those early lessons helped me to become the woodworker I am today. Keep on doing what you do. It’s invaluable.
I can't think of anyone better, to take care of an antique collection like that, than you. Collect on!
It's difficult to comprehend that for the number of years man has been on this planet, how much change there's been in the last hundred years.
Or just in our lifetimes :)
@@StumpyNubs I'm just old enough to recall our milk and bread being delivered by horse and cart. The iceman had a big old draft horse that kept our dairy cold.
Yet young enough to know the ins and outs of my smartphone, can set my own remotes etc :)
This was the best video ever. I welcome more of these videos explaining the tools of old! Cheers man!
That was fun for us wood nerds! Thanks James! I have a Stanley blade and cap iron in a 5½ grooved sole Bailey bedrock that's got to be a hundred years old if it's a day. My brother found it rusted up in a garage sale, so Dad (a fitter and machinist by trade) restored it for me one Christmas. It's much loved and much used.
Now it's my turn, as I've inherited Dad's number 4 smoother, which needs some tuning up. (All in good time...)
I love to see old tools maintained and used by people like you. I have some very old tools that I use but no one else without supervision. They are much more valuable to me than the new ones.
I, too, love and am fascinated by the old wooden planes and other older hand tools. The skill and knowledge of these workmen is so awe inspiring. I had an uncle who was just such a man. I loved and have retained a few of his tools and made items. They are priceless to me. i am constantly searching for others to add to my collection. Thanks for showing these and for pointing out some of the stories and skills possibly behind the tools and the craftsmen who used them.
I have to agree with so many of the comments here. This has given me a new appreciation of planes and their makers and users. I'm looking forward to more.
It's really interesting that ornate details and profiles were so common back when they were such a pain in the arse to make. Even common furniture and molding had these profiles which took a number of custom planes, sharpening techniques, and quite a bit of skill to put everything together.
Nowadays with industrial shapers and auto-feeds, ornate profiles are easy to make, but people just want simple, clean-looking furniture and molding. I admit I even like the clean modern look myself, even though I can appreciate how much work went into making things beautiful in the past.
Very few people have the gift to pass on their knowledge of their craft with such ease, passion and precision. It bears repeating: I love your videos, James. Keep up the good work 🌞
Hard to believe someone would give you heck for having those great planes. I guess haters are just gonna hate. You have no obligation to explain to them but I love planes so really enjoy hearing about them. Thanks!
I have been watching your videos for a while now ever since my woodworking teacher in school gave us an assignment to watch your table saw safety video. I love them so much especially the cool tools series, I also loved your videos about hand planes so much I made my teacher get a few because he didn't have any, I used the ones he got on my drawer project I just finished. Thanks for consistently providing woodworking content that can help learners like me. Keep it up!
Knowing and passing on the knowledge of our craft is terribly important. Thank you for helping keep the knowledge and skill of the original users alive, long after they are gone. You're doing important work with videos like this.
Wow, so much history sitting on that shelf behind you.
I love old planes. Thanks for showing us part of your collection.
As a history buff, I REALLY appreciate the lesson. Concise, engaging, detailed and specific. Bravo!
Thanks for giving us this tour! I am a power tools guy that has become much more interested in hand tools. At times I find it quicker, but in general I get more satisfaction or of a great hand made joint.
8:34 These planes are called "Schiff(s)hobel" (boat/ship plane) in Germany and are used for planing concave surfaces in shipbuilding or, as you mentioned, barrel making. The currently available iron version (remake of a Stanley from 1879) has a flexible sole so that concave and convex surfaces can be planed.
Hands down, this is one of your most interesting videos so far.
I love your history videos. I am not even a wood worker, I work with metal mostly, but I love to learn how people used to do things. Thanks!
I remember watching Roy Underhill talking about and using many of the planes you are showing. He could so easily create any mold you wanted just by grabbing the right plane.
We'd all have that many planes if we could. Thanks James.
I'm just a beginning dabbler of diy projects & probably won't have time to really get into the craft for another 12+ yrs. Love these historical videos in addition to tools & tips.
This type of video is among your best IMO. More historical videos please.
I got a few of these from my Great Grandfather who had a furniture business but never really knew what they were for. I enjoyed this video.
I have always wondered why you had so many planes behind you. I assumed it was simply for collection value or for making an interesting background for videos. This has taught me quite a bit.
You don't see this kind of video very often on UA-cam. Thanks for the history lesson.
Pay no attention to the critics, James! Everybody knows (or should know) that he who dies with the most hand planes, wins.
Thank you for making this video.
I used to work as an employee with two German cabinet makers and they told me that in Germany wooden 'continental' planes are still preferred over iron planes. This was in the early 21st century. They are also available in the U.K. where I am ans usually have a body of beech with something harder I know not what on the sole.
Personally I love wooden planes and have a jack which tying in with your video about harder steel has a trojan of an iron that rarely needs sharpening though when it does it takes a while.
About three years ago I had to supply and fit a number of sashes and the lead time from my regular joiner was such that I made some sashes myself. The sashes were of an unusual thickness ( I think they were 35mm) not the usual stock 32, 38 or 45 that I could still obtain from timber merchants at the time so I had to make my own. Having recently read 'The Village Carpenter' by Walter Rose and visited the Weald And Downland Museum at Singleton in Sussex (U.K.) I had discovered sash bar sticking boards and made one. A produced the rebates with a router and table but the ovolos were all made with a wooden moulding plane. This is so much quieter, cleaner and more satisfying than machine working.
Wooden planes when well honed and adjusted really are a joy to use. It was a rare pleasure when making the sash stock to actually be able on that occassion to make such old tech' pay.
We all have that something we like to collect. Seeing them close in was really special. I think I'd heard about moulding planes in the past but actually seeing them up close was a delight. Thanks for sharing!
I'm a learning junkie. I really like videos like this that make learning fun. This one also got me thinking that our ancestors had to work pretty hard to make really fine things out of wood. And it took them many years to learn how to use the tools -- how to make and maintain the tools -- and how to intimately connect to the material to create things far finer than I will ever be able to.
I very much enjoyed this presentation about antique planes. It was both informative and fascinating. You are obviously a student of history and have an in-depth appreciation for your craft. People who criticize such collections and stuff apparently can’t see past the end of their own nose. We most everybody saves or collects something or another. Almost everybody has hobbies. No one has to justify their hobby, they do it because they have a passion. I feel sad for those who don’t see or understand this. In the meantime, do more presentations about the history of wood working.
As a young woodworker (I’m 27 now) working with my dad framing houses for years. Not really knowing the finer side of woodwork being a framer I never really took stock into tools like these older planers. But now I have gone to cabinets and trim, and even making my own furniture, these videos are amazing, I love the history and education you provide in them!! I love your videos, thank you so much for educating this once naïve boy who didn’t care about quality tools for the craft.
And P.S. I for one am completely envious of all those planers, and hope to have a workshop like that one day my self!
I’m intrigued with old planes. That was a good lesson. I only have one wooden plane around my shop somewhere.
Great video!! Ignore the ill informed comments you referenced in the beginning! I have a few examples that I really should pull out and examine/try some time!!
Hi James. First things first, thank you for gathering up so many of these priceless examples of our collective woodworking history! Very enjoyable video, thank you for sharing!
A fascinating look at the history of woodworking and tools.
Enjoyed the video about your plane collection. I'm glad your preserving them and your appreciation for vintage tools.You take care and God bless.
Fun fact: those old molding planes are called in Portuguese «guilhermes» which literally translates as «wiliams». I had seen many, and of several shapes, but never that many and in so many different shapes. This channel is AMAZING!!!
So after watching this video last week I found myself in an antique store in VT just this past weekend. I was stopped in my tracks when I saw an antique molding plane. Needless to say I have now started my collection. The name stamped in the wood reads "J. Wells" and a city name "New Bedford" (MA). Was he a carpenter working in the sailing ship industry? One can only wonder. It's in good hands now. Thank you for planting the seed.
Thank you! Half the reason i first started watching your videos was to admire the plane collection. Thank you for diving into it
Amazes me how much workmanship went into making the tools to do fine woodworking.
Adds perspective to the adage that 80% (feel free to substitute your own %) of a job is preparation (or “a job well begun is half done”).
this kind of stories make me appreciate even more the old school masters of the craft
Hi in our joiners shop here in the uk we had 100s of planes youre collection is a drop in the ocean you enjoy your planes ignore the silly comments .love your planes
my dad would have loved your videos , he was an amateur tool historian , now hes passed,. I enjoy your videos myself ,
My Grt Grandad was a Shipwright & probably used many of those old wooden planes. Glad you have managed to build your collection & don’t be listening to those who knock your good luck. 🍻🇦🇺🐨
I loved this video. While I do hobby woodworking, I love collecting and restoring old hand tools much more. I love the history behind old tools, and thinking about the people who used them, and the projects they created with them. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing with us James. 🙏🏻🙏🏻👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👋👋
James, another 5 star video. Please do another one on planes soon!!!
Yup... This video just reminded me of some of the reasons I've taken up metal crafts like smothing and welding (Stick and MIG, mostly, if anyone cares) along with wood-working...
Love the antique tools... AND while I don't mind building my own when I have to, I also enjoy refurbishing or completely re-fabricating parts or tools for the purpose... or as a replacement. I also end up (budget-wise) stuck dealing with a lot of "junk"... BUT with a little bit of craft, a touch of skill, and some sweat, it's surprising how much other people toss out as "junk" that I can make a few bucks on as "recycled" and still hand the next guy or gal a Bargain.
Nice to see some examples (workable) of some of the planes I've got stacked up while I figure out what to do next for them, too... helpful... THANKS James!!! ;o)
I still have my fathers and grandfathers smoothing planes and rabbit planes with their stamped names on them. I had the stamps too. Also other tools with their names stamped on. These were used to to build and also to repair at the Railway Carriage Works in York UK
Hey. Lars from Denmark here. I love your collections of tools. Am a carpenter myself👍. PS in Denmark we mostly use planers with horns😁.
A great peek into the history of wood planes. I also liked how you aimed at connecting to the original maker on the obviously shop made tools. It makes me hope that some future wood worker will enjoy the wood body planes that I've made for myself.
As someone that tripped over a box with a slightly rusty Stanley No.55 with the whole cutter set a few years ago I'll also be looking forward to seeing your iron body plane video.
You and your team is one of the best. Kudos to all of you.
Thanks James, great tour. Scott
I have a box of wooden planes I bought a couple of months ago. I need to restore them, but haven't gotten around to it just yet. I live in Denmark where wooden planes are very easy to come by. That's what we use in school as well!
Thankyou 'Stumpy' wondered for years about your planes. Very informative and shows the heart involved over centuries. Cheers.
Let's see a video with you using some of those cool molding planes.
James, this is fascinating. Please keep up this historical series. I'm not sure what was more interesting - the basic content of antique wooden planes, or the fact that people actually get bent over your collection. You should do a video that claims water is wet to see how many irate people challenge that.
So neat!! I love that you take the negativity of internet denizens and funnel it into something really interesting and educational. Your passion for this hobby is evident. Thanks for doing what you do!
For one off pieces I usually grab my hollows and rounds instead of the router. It's faster, quieter, and just more enjoyable.
I totally enjoyed watching this. Thanks James.
My dad knew a lot about planes too. He worked at Boeing for 40 years!
Well, that was a long time coming! I'm not sure, but I may have even posted a comment about those planes, myself. Thanks for addressing them. Very interesting.
Wow! I’ve often wondered if the plane wall was even real (as opposed to a background for a green screen). Thanks for all the history and detail. Just one of many reasons you’re among my favorite content creators.
Would love many more of these antique tool and technique videos!
Thank you sir. Makes me appreciate woodworking all the more. Keep up the great content.
Though your channel has steadily grown, I can’t imagine why you don’t have millions of subscribers. You have the gift of gab that holds the attention and really makes for memorable content. I don’t think anyone has better ways of explaining things and cutting through all the nonsense out there.
Awesome Video! There is nothing like using an old tool that is 100 to 200 years old - I can not stop thinking of who owned this tool and what was built with it? Its one of the coolest things ever!
Got one which is pretty old. I find it very impressive how they can take so much beatings. I mean, to get the knife out you need to slam on it. That’s done so many times but it’s still one piece of wood!
Thanks for the tour, I have a cheap block plane, a Stanley #4 and a Record #7. $0.02 Cheers Stumpy .... er ... Mr Nubs.
Love it love it love it!
Please do more on the hand planes!
Thanks for the great video!
First and foremost, thank you for sharing your collection. I'm glad it's in good hands with someone that is a steward taking care of these items for our time. Someone else will step forward in future years to take over their care hopefully.
Anyone want to wager if a hundred and fifty years from now someone will be waxing poetic about a Festool router or whatever survives from this era into the hands of some "Stumpy Nubs" in the future...
There can easily be 10 more videos expanding on this one. Great one
Everyone should hoard those planes at least they will last one more generation cheers Mark.
You did it again stumpy .I have a small collection of wood planes and love them.
Thanks' again Julien Lamarche
Thank you for persevering history.
Thank you very much. 👌👍👍
enjoyed this video stumpy reminded me of growing up being in the shed with my dad
and his hand planes some he was using when he was a 14 year old till he was in his 80 s
he did not own many power tools .all the best from England
One of the most informative videos on old tools I have ever enjoyed! Thank you James!
Great video. I love old woodworking tools ( I was apprenticed as a cabinet maker at the famous G plan factory in High Wycombe, UK). Nothing beats working with your hands
Thank you I really enjoyed your video , I have well over two hundred plane's myself actually I have so many I don't even know how many I have lol , but you are right each one is for different uses , best wishes from England.
Wow, that was great.
Thanks, James
Great info Stumpy! I have always passed on plough planes in the wild because I was never sure how they worked or if they were complete. Your explanation was so easy to understand. Now I’m on the hunt! Thanks!
The problem with plough planes is they usually only come with a single iron and you really need a set of irons for them to be useful. Wood plough irons are out there, but harder to find than cutters for Stanley iron combo planes like the #45.
I can honestly say I have been waiting for this video from you for a long time. Thank you for sharing the history of some of these.
I always think I know a few things and especially like older tools, but I just was totally schooled. I so enjoyed this video. Thank you for doing it.
Thank you for the inspiration from a fellow Michigander.
Oh wow...I am just a hobby woodworker and drool over you collection every time. I genuinely agree with you that working with old planes is very satisfying. Of course I am just talking about it as hobby. I look forward to the next video, I recently got 3 stanley 45 planes in various stages of disrepair. I have been able to get all 3 in more or less working order except the cutters/blades. They are kinda expensive on Ebay right, so I am working with my friend(tool&die maker) to make my own cutter out of tool steel. Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge.
Thanks for such an informative explanation of your plane collection! I bought a box of old planes at a garage sale and I'm trying to learn more about them. This helps!
It's obvious you respect the tools and their history and it's great that you are preserving them or following generations to look at and enjoy using.
I recently finished reading a couple books on hand planes and moulding planes which made me appreciate this video a whole lot.
I inherited a carpenter's toolbox with tools from my father, but he was given that by a friend who had no children to pass it on to. Among the tools are several wooden planes stamped, as described at about 11:10 with the initials and last name of the owner. From that stamp I know that my father's friend inherited them from his father; the first initials are different from the first name of my father's friend.
so very pleased to see these beauties cherished and appreciated.. I only have a few but love the history and respect paid to the owners.. I have some that made a boat that was used on one of our major lakes here in BC Canada.... so love your vids James... cheers..
The people that come down on you for having tools is mind blowing to me. Some people just don't have enough to do in their life. Maybe they should take up wood working ;P.
Excelente video, muchas gracias, i follow you from Córdoba Argentina