I was privilege to have been taught by him as my apprentice master back in 1980. He worked at the Royal aircraft establishment (RAE) in farnborough Hampshire. It was craftsman like him as well as others at the RAE that made me the craftsman that l am today 45 years later. Its sad to say but the apprenticeship that we were given isnt around anymore and hasn't been for a few decades now. Unless you can plug it in or put a battery in it means that the hand skills are fading. There are some fantastic tradesmen out there, but its all done with machines. The likes of jim are of a bygone era.
Very true, and knowing these basics makes allows you to solve problems when using power tools. Your remarks also apply to other trades as well, not just carpentry.
I have all his books and am thrilled to find these videos of the man himself. Simply brilliant. Thank you so much for posting these of the late genius of wood. His relaxed delivery is a revelation!
My name is Mauro Silva, I am writing from the city of Fortaleza, in the state of Ceará (Brazil), and I would like to share my comment. I started learning about woodworking in 2017, where I started some jobs and improved my knowledge thanks to these wonderful people who are willing to share a little of what they know with us. In 2021, as a result of the pandemic, I stopped. I am returning to work soon (in three months I will be 50 years old) and as always, I am looking to learn more and more; and now I am very impressed because, in a video of just over an hour, I was able to learn more than dozens of hours of videos that I have already watched on other woodworking channels here in Brazil. I am happy to have access to so much valuable information and at the same time I am sad to know that this master, whom I just met, passed away in 2002. It would be an immense honor for me to be able to tell him personally how sincerely grateful I am to him for this legacy that I will carry with me for the rest of my life. So, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Mr. Jim for his immense contribution and his wonderful legacy to carpentry. Rest in peace, Master Jim Kingshott.
A priceless video by a Master Craftsman who can explain how to work with wood so brilliantly, precisely and in such a quiet, measured and sympathetic manner. Brilliant.
A true legend in wood working he reminds me of my teacher when I was doing my city & guild's in the early 80s you don't get cabinet makers like him any more thank you for sharing made my day and week
What an excellent explanation,I knew how to set up a plane ,I knew how to adjust each step to overcome tear out.But I never knew the reason why I needed to adjust or if I did I had forgotten the important bit so thank you for re-educating me ,much appreciated.
Watching a great master crafstman always will be something priceless, this master lives in his videos, tips and explanations. Thank you for sharing this!!
This is a wonderful video: the invaluable information, the pace, the visuals, no music. I thought the wood-iron/paper illustration was brilliant in its simplicity. Thank you for passing on this education.
This is awesome I have been hoping to find the Kingshot videos on youtube for years as my vhs tapes from 25 years ago no longer have a vhs player. I actually made an infill smoothing plane based on the instructions in his book. Not sure if that stuff was ever put into vhs. Thank you for posting !
I don't have anything worth posting as a new video. But for what it is worth I will give you the good bad and ugly.... First of all Jim recommends 1/8 inch steel. I figured if 1/8 is good then 1/4 is better, right? Not really. I made the sole of 1/4 steel and the sides of 1/4 brass and did get really nice 3 dimensional dovetails after about 8 hours of peening. I bought a morris adjuster kit and made a blade out of o2 steel that I took to a machine shop to harden to about rockwell 62. I used rosewood for the infill and carved handles. The mouth is about 1/64 max. It is unfortunately too heavy to use as a smoothing plane on a regular basis except if you have to deal with the most gnarly grain on a very limited run, but I use it with a miter shooting board jig, and get half a thousandth shavings. The whole thing was done without power tools just ball peen hammer hack saw and some nice nicholson files and rasps....one of which I ground off the edge to file flat surfaces without making any edge cut. Well except I used an electric drill to remove the bulk of the material for the tails and initial mouth opening. I picked up a Ray Isles smoothing plane around 2001 and that thing has had a real workout over the years and done great. Welded sole. I learned to weld recently so may try my hand at something like that....tbd @@Dovetailtim
@midnighttutor This is so wonderful to read, i really appreciate you writing this all out, this is making me wish to get my infill plane out and give it some love.. thank you so much..
You definitely should! Always something very satisfying about slicing off a thinner than paper shaving..the sound, the result... One thing I should add to my overview. If you are going to make one of these infill planes follow the traditional side pattern. I took some liberties in order to come up with something artistic but if I did not have the quarter inch steel base it would have been structurally weak. Even so I did get some cracking in the weak points in the brass sides. @@Dovetailtim
Finally, here is a man who knows, not just how; but why. The true understanding is in the tiny details. The mark of a master is demonstrated in his ability to make a 3rd grader understand!!😢
That was an excellent video, I stumbled on it quite by accident there and was absolutely blown away with the intro the filming + lighting was very very nostalgic in all the best ways. Iv sat and watched the full video there and know a LOT more about planes now than I did this morning. My dad is a plumber to trade ( 80 now ) and he has a small Stanley plane which iv saw him use all my life from my earliest memories fitting doors around the house / repairing sash windows etc Iv rarely used it myself as I’m an engineer of sorts ( started off as mechanic then went into welding then into general engineering + machining ) I’m 40 now and you’ve really encouraged me to talk planes with dad and have a go at a bit of plaining iv missed out on this vus far in life and hope to catch up. Your work shop looks absolutely fantastic and your attention to detail / craftsmanship look to me to be second to none , I take my hat off to you and thank you very much for this video 🏴🇬🇧👍🏻
I wondered if I would make it through the entire video. I'm disappointed it ended so soon. I've been studying hand tools and handtool woodworking for a few years and thought I knew a bit about setting up planes. I picked up things only taught by a master. Thank you.
When the architect heard I had edge glued the teak skirt board - had to make it wider - he was livid! On a Saturday I was commanded to go to the jobsite - to get yelled at, I guess. He was already there when I walked in. His first words, "Well, you didn't say it was indiscernible." I had used a flattened, well tuned 16" Record. One long thin shaving from each glue surface for an invisible glue joint.
@@Dovetailtim Yeah, the board was 12 - 3/8ths x 20 feet (!) and cost about $1600. Skirt board to be mitered to the risers, 13 of them. The boss bought two boards for the job, knowing how difficult the job would be. Got 'er done one the first try, for "the teak house" in Key West, FL.
1:00:24 omg, that’s why they had to invent sprung joints! Sprung joints are said to guarantee the outer edges touch before the middle, but why would you need that? Because if you accidentally take more off at the start or the end of the boards, as he says the ends will not touch (and the solution then becomes to plane the center hollow). Amazing, Jim has done it again, bringing clarity to a muddied situation where generations have merely parroted technique without explaining the origins
My first time seeing any of his work and he does a fairly good job of explaining everything so that even an English [mis]speaker from the other side of "The Pond" is able to follow along. The only "Nit" I might have to pick, so to speak, is a safety tip; His use of linseed oil to lubricate the soles of the planes without giving a warning to be absolutely certain to not let it dry out and tightly cover it when one's not in the shop causes me some concern. Linseed oil (at least the 'boiled" kind) soaked rags tend to spontaneously combust as they dry out which has me worried that someone might not know that and suffer unfortunate, avoidable results. (With Paul Sellers "Rag-In-A-Can" method, he uses 3-in-One Oil, which is a light machine oil and says he never has any problems with it affecting the finishes he uses.)
Modern boiled linseed oil has a cobalt "drying" compound in it (actually a polymerisation catalyst) and it is this that causes spontaneous combustion. He's almost certainly using regular linseed oil (aka flaxseed oil) in order to lubricate his plane. The boiled stuff would become polymerised and sticky within a few days - even if there's only a small amount of it left on the plane - quite the opposite of what you want! With flaxseed oil there's little to no chance of combustion! For really picky woodworkers you don't really want to use a petroleum based product (like 3-in-1 oil, or sewing machine oil etc) because it can screw up certain finishes. French polish in particular, I believe, which is an ethanol based finish (although not many people do a proper French polish anymore).
A corrugated sole does notcreduce friction. Cut the surfacd area in half a the pressure per unit surface area doubles. Corrugations break the suction created when you lift the plane at the end of a stroke.
I was privilege to have been taught by him as my apprentice master back in 1980. He worked at the Royal aircraft establishment (RAE) in farnborough Hampshire. It was craftsman like him as well as others at the RAE that made me the craftsman that l am today 45 years later. Its sad to say but the apprenticeship that we were given isnt around anymore and hasn't been for a few decades now. Unless you can plug it in or put a battery in it means that the hand skills are fading. There are some fantastic tradesmen out there, but its all done with machines. The likes of jim are of a bygone era.
Wow, thank you for sharing this.
Very true, and knowing these basics makes allows you to solve problems when using power tools. Your remarks also apply to other trades as well, not just carpentry.
Yes, your time has gone. Now your children are choosing genders in a kindergarten.
Great video. Thank you for 50 years of your contribution to woodworking. RIP Mr Kingshott (1931 - 2002)
Jim Kingshott died on February 25, 2002
Fingers off in a twinkle had my attention for the next hour!
Same!
True. I stayed for the "a line as straight as a donkey piddlin' in the snow on a windy night", though!
It is a privilege to see a craftsman a work and even down to his dress he embodies a craftsman being proud of his skill and trade
The best explanation of how a bench plane works ever. Excellent.
Agree
I fully agree.
I have all his books and am thrilled to find these videos of the man himself.
Simply brilliant.
Thank you so much for posting these of the late genius of wood.
His relaxed delivery is a revelation!
A true professional at top of his game , RIP J. Kingshott.
Straight as as donkey piddling in the snow on a windy night !. Wonderful.
A true expert on plane,not just a you tuber. Excellent!👍🏾😁
Great video!Thanks
47:00 He has done this before! The plane is simply an extension of his own self from hands to heels; guided by eyes and feel! A true craftsman!!
I've watched woodworking videos for about 5 years now, and this is the first time that I've seen this chap, and what a teacher. I'll be back.
It’s a privilege to learn from such a fine craftsman. Terrific class
What a great craftsman! Thanks for sharing!
Excelente el apoyó de los cepillos para que no se estropee el filo !!👌🤝🤝
Thank you for a fascinating video, chock full of great information delivered in a very relaxing style. I look forward to seeing more.
My name is Mauro Silva, I am writing from the city of Fortaleza, in the state of Ceará (Brazil), and I would like to share my comment.
I started learning about woodworking in 2017, where I started some jobs and improved my knowledge thanks to these wonderful people who are willing to share a little of what they know with us. In 2021, as a result of the pandemic, I stopped. I am returning to work soon (in three months I will be 50 years old) and as always, I am looking to learn more and more; and now I am very impressed because, in a video of just over an hour, I was able to learn more than dozens of hours of videos that I have already watched on other woodworking channels here in Brazil. I am happy to have access to so much valuable information and at the same time I am sad to know that this master, whom I just met, passed away in 2002. It would be an immense honor for me to be able to tell him personally how sincerely grateful I am to him for this legacy that I will carry with me for the rest of my life. So, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Mr. Jim for his immense contribution and his wonderful legacy to carpentry.
Rest in peace, Master Jim Kingshott.
Excellent, thank you.
A priceless video by a Master Craftsman who can explain how to work with wood so brilliantly, precisely and in such a quiet, measured and sympathetic manner. Brilliant.
Thanks.Great Video !
This is priceless....
Thank you.
A true legend in wood working he reminds me of my teacher when I was doing my city & guild's in the early 80s you don't get cabinet makers like him any more thank you for sharing made my day and week
What a nice and likable person, the perfect teacher.
Fabulous. Plus, I had to pause it for a moment to recover after his line about the donkey! Priceless!
What an excellent explanation,I knew how to set up a plane ,I knew how to adjust each step to overcome tear out.But I never knew the reason why I needed to adjust or if I did I had forgotten the important bit so thank you for re-educating me ,much appreciated.
Outstanding video
A great series of videos, thank you for showing these.
The intimidating thing is not just his skills and knowledge … it’s his immaculate shirt and vest!
Watching a great master crafstman always will be something priceless, this master lives in his videos, tips and explanations. Thank you for sharing this!!
Very welcome!
Thanks for this. Really nice video.
Mr kingshot is a proper OG just found these vids of him defo gonna look into him more
Love these vids sort of asmr like watching a pro at work
This is a wonderful video: the invaluable information, the pace, the visuals, no music. I thought the wood-iron/paper illustration was brilliant in its simplicity.
Thank you for passing on this education.
Pleasure!
His woodworking is poetic.
My new idol! Just love this guy.
This is awesome I have been hoping to find the Kingshot videos on youtube for years as my vhs tapes from 25 years ago no longer have a vhs player. I actually made an infill smoothing plane based on the instructions in his book. Not sure if that stuff was ever put into vhs. Thank you for posting !
Thank you for sharing this, I’d love to see this infill plane if you had photos..!
I don't have anything worth posting as a new video. But for what it is worth I will give you the good bad and ugly.... First of all Jim recommends 1/8 inch steel. I figured if 1/8 is good then 1/4 is better, right? Not really. I made the sole of 1/4 steel and the sides of 1/4 brass and did get really nice 3 dimensional dovetails after about 8 hours of peening. I bought a morris adjuster kit and made a blade out of o2 steel that I took to a machine shop to harden to about rockwell 62. I used rosewood for the infill and carved handles. The mouth is about 1/64 max. It is unfortunately too heavy to use as a smoothing plane on a regular basis except if you have to deal with the most gnarly grain on a very limited run, but I use it with a miter shooting board jig, and get half a thousandth shavings. The whole thing was done without power tools just ball peen hammer hack saw and some nice nicholson files and rasps....one of which I ground off the edge to file flat surfaces without making any edge cut. Well except I used an electric drill to remove the bulk of the material for the tails and initial mouth opening. I picked up a Ray Isles smoothing plane around 2001 and that thing has had a real workout over the years and done great. Welded sole. I learned to weld recently so may try my hand at something like that....tbd @@Dovetailtim
@midnighttutor This is so wonderful to read, i really appreciate you writing this all out, this is making me wish to get my infill plane out and give it some love.. thank you so much..
You definitely should! Always something very satisfying about slicing off a thinner than paper shaving..the sound, the result... One thing I should add to my overview. If you are going to make one of these infill planes follow the traditional side pattern. I took some liberties in order to come up with something artistic but if I did not have the quarter inch steel base it would have been structurally weak. Even so I did get some cracking in the weak points in the brass sides. @@Dovetailtim
A natural teacher
Finally, here is a man who knows, not just how; but why. The true understanding is in the tiny details.
The mark of a master is demonstrated in his ability to make a 3rd grader understand!!😢
That was an excellent video, I stumbled on it quite by accident there and was absolutely blown away with the intro the filming + lighting was very very nostalgic in all the best ways.
Iv sat and watched the full video there and know a LOT more about planes now than I did this morning.
My dad is a plumber to trade ( 80 now ) and he has a small Stanley plane which iv saw him use all my life from my earliest memories fitting doors around the house / repairing sash windows etc
Iv rarely used it myself as I’m an engineer of sorts ( started off as mechanic then went into welding then into general engineering + machining ) I’m 40 now and you’ve really encouraged me to talk planes with dad and have a go at a bit of plaining iv missed out on this vus far in life and hope to catch up.
Your work shop looks absolutely fantastic and your attention to detail / craftsmanship look to me to be second to none , I take my hat off to you and thank you very much for this video
🏴🇬🇧👍🏻
Thank you for watching..! Let me know what your dad says.. all the best
Bl@@dy marvellous. Thanks so much.
Pearls. And presented in a beautiful and friendly manner. Master craftsman & teacher.
I wondered if I would make it through the entire video. I'm disappointed it ended so soon. I've been studying hand tools and handtool woodworking for a few years and thought I knew a bit about setting up planes. I picked up things only taught by a master. Thank you.
That was a real lesson.
When the architect heard I had edge glued the teak skirt board - had to make it wider - he was livid! On a Saturday I was commanded to go to the jobsite - to get yelled at, I guess. He was already there when I walked in. His first words, "Well, you didn't say it was indiscernible." I had used a flattened, well tuned 16" Record. One long thin shaving from each glue surface for an invisible glue joint.
Great to read this
@@Dovetailtim Yeah, the board was 12 - 3/8ths x 20 feet (!) and cost about $1600. Skirt board to be mitered to the risers, 13 of them. The boss bought two boards for the job, knowing how difficult the job would be. Got 'er done one the first try, for "the teak house" in Key West, FL.
Such lovley videos to spend my time on.
“Corrugated Soul” was the name of a hit by The Cardboards. 10:50
I need to lift my dress code. Waist coat now to be compulsory! What a great Video. Thanks for sharing
How am I just now finding this! Amazing! Wish I would have found him before he passed. Great video!
sub, i love your detailed explanations , great teacher
00:25:00 The Thomas Norris adjuster
00:26:00 a very precise and accurate adjuster
Complimenti per il video come sempre interessante
La seguo con molto piacere
La pialla Britannica sembra che affetti del salume
È un altro pianeta
a master craftsman…and teacher
1:16:11
A pleasure to watch. Thanks for the upload
1:00:24 omg, that’s why they had to invent sprung joints! Sprung joints are said to guarantee the outer edges touch before the middle, but why would you need that? Because if you accidentally take more off at the start or the end of the boards, as he says the ends will not touch (and the solution then becomes to plane the center hollow). Amazing, Jim has done it again, bringing clarity to a muddied situation where generations have merely parroted technique without explaining the origins
Jim was such a ledge!
Such excellence
very intresting from the republic of ierland
Top bloke
Made my liver quiver when he rubbed his hand over that plane lol
Because you wouldn't know how to do that as you are not as experienced as he was a true legend in wood working he's probably forgot more than you know
My first time seeing any of his work and he does a fairly good job of explaining everything so that even an English [mis]speaker from the other side of "The Pond" is able to follow along. The only "Nit" I might have to pick, so to speak, is a safety tip; His use of linseed oil to lubricate the soles of the planes without giving a warning to be absolutely certain to not let it dry out and tightly cover it when one's not in the shop causes me some concern. Linseed oil (at least the 'boiled" kind) soaked rags tend to spontaneously combust as they dry out which has me worried that someone might not know that and suffer unfortunate, avoidable results. (With Paul Sellers "Rag-In-A-Can" method, he uses 3-in-One Oil, which is a light machine oil and says he never has any problems with it affecting the finishes he uses.)
Modern boiled linseed oil has a cobalt "drying" compound in it (actually a polymerisation catalyst) and it is this that causes spontaneous combustion. He's almost certainly using regular linseed oil (aka flaxseed oil) in order to lubricate his plane. The boiled stuff would become polymerised and sticky within a few days - even if there's only a small amount of it left on the plane - quite the opposite of what you want! With flaxseed oil there's little to no chance of combustion! For really picky woodworkers you don't really want to use a petroleum based product (like 3-in-1 oil, or sewing machine oil etc) because it can screw up certain finishes. French polish in particular, I believe, which is an ethanol based finish (although not many people do a proper French polish anymore).
Excellent!
Are the new stanley planes as good as the old ones? I love your videos!!
No way near as a good!
You can still modify the new planes to do a job.
A corrugated sole does notcreduce friction. Cut the surfacd area in half a the pressure per unit surface area doubles. Corrugations break the suction created when you lift the plane at the end of a stroke.
“Straight as a donkey piddling in the wind on a windy night.”
Does anyone know what brand plane he's using at around 26 minutes in? He only ever says British Patent Plane but that could be a number of them.
I believe it’s an infill plane that he made for himself, there’s patterns and drawings in his book “making and modifying woodworking tools”
@shadda That is a Norris plane. He actually says it is a Thomas Norris adjuster at 25:40 minutes.
I am no specialist but think it is an A1.
@@ntuinlisbon Indeed, and a mint example at that. The A1 later on (17.5 inch) is even more beautiful.
Does anybody have any idea when these programmes were recorded. Thanks
Around 1995 I believe
It would be fun to know that he and Paul Sellers might have known each other as lads.
Huh, it makes perfect sense now. Infills are not superior because they were filled-in, but because they are made from plate steel and not cast iron
Buongiorno
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