Making Rabbets with Planes

Steve Branam shows how to create the handy rabbet joint using a selection of different hand planes. Check out Steve's new book at bit.ly/HandTool..., and learn more about joinery at www.popwood.com/techniques/joinery

[@ericrichter7933]

Best video I’ve see on rabbet planes! It’s been hard to find good resources on those

[@bobt2522]

Thanks for making the rabbets with a variety of planes. It shows that we don't need the bright shiny expensive tools to get good results.

[@55gargoyle]

Thank you for making this all make sense to me. Excellent video. I'll watch this several times in the future.

[@pantelisnikolaou6956]

Thank you so much!

[@pinkiewerewolf]

Great stuff Steve.
You have a clear and concise method of showing the steps taken. I think the first video of your’s that I watched (over & over again) was the shooting board.

[@ginosmovies]

very sharp blade!

[@-killemquietly]

That’s the coolest little plane.

[@wlial]

Wonderful lesson! I learned a lot! Thanks!

[@robinalexander5772]

Nice work.

[@Swarm509]

Just picked up a Rabbet plane similar to that Stanley you used (in my case an Anchor brand, still vintage) that was missing the depth stop and guide. The guy who restored it made replacements out of wood, and did the best job one could, but I like your method of using it and will probably do the same. I wonder if your finger guide method would work with it as well.
I had also been thinking that a dado plow plane may also work if adjusted to the edge, but of course the width of cut may be an issue. Maybe have to do multiple rows to make a wider rabbet?

[@TheWoodYogi]

Thank you Steve. Nicely demonstrated :) ॐ

[@martinwolf5957]

👍👍👍Top video

[@andyvan5692]

what an introduction, PS, you can't make a Rabbit (the thing with ears- in England or America you call this a 'hare'; but in Australia we call it a Rabbit!! ), so you have to call it something else, so what can you call it, a groove?, or what else?

[@corwind3888]

In England it's called a rebate. Here in America it is a rabbet, and is spelled differently from a rabbit.

[@ryanpatton263]

I'm from the American West and my experience is that we say rabbit much more than we say hare. Most folks out here will see a hare and call it a "jackrabbit", even if the species might have "hare" in the name. Anyway, rabbet comes from a French word, "rabbat", so you can blame them for the confusing word that we're stuck with.

[@androidgameplays4every13]

If you only could select one plane for this task, which one would it be? I need to make some rebates and I can only afford one plane, thank you.

[@xXSCARECROW19Xx]

What is the small block plane he used

[@Ibizaespania]

Genial tu trabajo, amigo cómo se llama el artefacto con el que prensas la madera al banco, saludos

[@stochasmvid]

Holdfasts.

[@daverukavina985]

Don't you usually do the cross-grain cuts before the long-grain ones to avoid tearout problems?

[@stochasmvid]

The nicker on the rabbet plane or moving fillister should be cutting the cross-grain fibers before the iron peels them up. One common usage is to drag the plane backwards across the end to run the nicker across the entire width before then using it in a forward cut. Either way, that should avoid tearout on the cross-grain. Doing the cross grain first certainly wouldn't hurt, but there will also be situations where you only do the cross-grain rabbet, with no long-grain rabbet meeting up with it.

[@TheWoodYogi]

What is the stand with the cross installed used for in the background? It is in view while you demonstrate the Moving Fillister Plane. Thank you ॐ

[@stochasmvid]

I believe you're referring to the Krenov-style saw bent. I added a removable cross-piece with a half-lap notch to it so that it could catch an off-cut and keep it supported. I use it under the end of a board I'm crosscutting on my sawbench, oriented with the long top piece down the length of the board, and the cross-piece under the board's width.

[@TheWoodYogi]

Got it :) Thank you for the reply Steve. That looks very handy. Merry Christmas :)

[@stochasmvid]

You're welcome and Merry Christmas to you!

[@mytube2013]

Finger on bottom scared me A LOT.

[@carbonitegamorrean8368]

I thought rabbets made rabbets,,,,, oh wait, I spelled that wrong.... ;-)

[@Lonewulfz]

What are those metal bench clamps called?

[@popularwoodworking]

They're called holdfasts and they are very traditional in woodworking. Follow this link and you can read a fair amount about their history and their resurgence with hand tool woodworkers:
www.popularwoodworking.com/?s=holdfasts&submit=

[@stochasmvid]

Those are called holdfasts. These particular ones are made by Gramercy Tools; I really like them.

[@Lonewulfz]

Thank you

[@TheSMEAC]

Calls is a molding plane and a rabbet plane in same sentence 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@thesohnly]

There's gotta be another word we can use instead of "knicker"

[@ginosmovies]

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