Hand Tools Only: Dovetail Pencil Holder
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Ever wondered what it's like to build something with zero electricity? I designed and built this dovetailed pencil holder out of some scrap cherry wood using only hand tools.
I first determined the best size for the pencil holder by studying some other cup-like objects from my home.
Once I had finished designing the pencil holder, I started the build by dimensioning the rough (very warped) cherry lumber with hand planes, winding sticks, and a marking gauge to get the wood perfectly flat and square on all six sides. Then I re-sawed the wood (sliced through the middle) to yield two thinner pieces. These pieces were used to make the four sides of the pencil holder, plus the bottom panel.
The sides of the pencil holder are joined with hand cut through dovetails. The bottom panel is floating in a stopped groove, to allow room for it to expand and contract (though expansion wouldn't be an issue with such a small panel). I chose to bevel the edges of the bottom panel both for aesthetic reasons, and because it allows for the groove to be thinner than the bottom panel itself.
I don't think a woodworker is defined by whether they use only hand tools, some power tools, or even a CNC to build their projects, but I do think that every woodworker should have at least some hand tool experience. It's a little slower, but if done properly it's more precise, and the satisfaction you get from building something the same way it would have been built hundreds of years ago is immense.
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I love how patient and detail - oriented you are. Also when the vise's handle slid down your reaction was hilarious. I say that because it's exactly something I would do (and have done.)
Lol glad you can relate Jennessa! I appreciate the kind words. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Haha... 9:35. Gotta love those random noises that scare the crap out of you. Great build.
Seriously! I get startled SO easily... I think it's because hand tool woodworking is almost like meditation for me :) Thanks for watching!
@@dkbuilds I totally agree with the meditation comment. We just bought a new house with a big garage. Can't wait to get set back up!
This is both the genre of music and the genre of movie I like
Excellent, thank you Mikael!! Glad you liked it
Your workshop looks so good
Thanks so much! I'm proud of it :)
I love overly complicated or fancy things to accomplish simple jobs.
Nice work!
I totally agree. Thanks for watching! :)
Lucky me, I just won the Saw, Marking gauge and Dove tail marking Knife from Rob Cosman so now I can try this out. YAHOO
What?! Awesome, congrats! I always enter too. Have fun building stuff!
Now You need 5 1/2 plane. It was a real game changer for me. Now my number 4 is just resting on the shelf.
@@szymonz.7542 Agreed. My 5 1/2 is the plane I use easily 95% of the time.
Your videos are so relaxing and satisfying to watch. Please keep up the great work!
Aw thanks mlellis! I'll be sure to make more videos like this!
I wanna see your plane and marking gauge sharpening process, awesome build!
Thank you Jakub! Maybe I'll make a sharpening video next. I use Rob Cosman's method to sharpen my planes :)
The funny thing is, that I made the exact same thing yesterday. But it looked like a it had been dropped from the top of a roof. Horrible 😂
This is amazing as all your handtool work.
😂 Practice makes perfect, keep making more! Thanks for watching and commenting :)
amazing job!
Thanks Vadim!
You got a lot of things right with this video. Sounds great, looks great, the storytelling is clear and concise, and the hand tool feel is articulated well.
Thank you for the kind words, Calvin! Glad you enjoyed it!
Talk about over-engineered lol. Beautiful work as always
Lol 😇 Thank you Gavin!
....and love the wall hung tool cabinet.
Thank you so much! That cabinet is the nicest thing I've ever built 😇
First rate workmanship; I love your attention to detail. It may only be a pencil holder, but you have turned retrieving a pencil from something one seldom thinks about into a pleasurable experience. Thanks for sharing your talent and obvious skills. I'll be back for more videos. Best wishes
Thank you for the kind words, Mark! I feel satisfied every time I grab a pencil now :)
Awesome work! Makes me wanna head out to the garage and practice some more.
Thanks for sharing that!
Thanks for watching and commenting, Cowboy! Practice makes perfect!
Sweet ! Beautiful handtool work. Great little piece. Keep up the great content.
Thanks so much Mark! I will!
ьолодец отлично работаешь.приятно смотреть.удачи тебе.
Большое спасибо!
Dude, at 9:46 when you get scared from that vise handle sliding....I can relate so hard to that. I’m a lot less organized than you and usually have tools everywhere (still building my bench) and they roll or fall sometimes and it scares the crap out of me.
Excellent work, I just started following your channel and love the angles and how you just use the sounds of the tools. I’m learning a lot and would love for you to do a quick video about your favorite tools and especially a little something about different work holdings you use as well and that nest little multi-use shooting board/mitre box!
I felt that too! You know he left that in his edit because we’ve all been there and I’m sure he had a good laugh at himself! 😂
Haha thanks Anthony! I spook really easily! I'll consider making a video about my favorite tools... the most important ones are the workbench, the shooting board, and the cross cut saw jig... All three are designed by Rob Cosman and I built them following his videos!
Haha that's exactly right Patrick!
Even a simple box is a work of art in your hands
Thank you for the kind words John!
You're doing great work ! Very delicate. I love this !
Thanks so much Soni, glad you liked it!
Great job!
Thanks FAMA!
Very nice work 👌 I’ll have to learn how to do dovetails they are a really nice joint
Thanks so much JD! Yes, give them a shot. They are very rewarding when you get them right!
Nice project made with some great skills. - Chris
Thank you so much for the kind words Chris, and for watching! Take care!
Beautiful work, dude! Nicely done!!! 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Thank you so much MC! I always love seeing your comments. Thank you for watching, and stay safe yourself!
I like it. Thanks
Thanks Neil!
Красавец! Работа ручным инструментом дорогого стоит.
Большое спасибо!
Awesome as usually dude. Loving this style of video.
Thanks RLL! I'll keep making more like this!
Una cajita para los bolígrafos, lápices,etc, divina de la muerte,un saludo cordial y por supuesto un gran like desde Narón , Galicia ( España)
¡Muchas gracias desde Chicago USA!
Excellent !
Many thanks Family!
man you must obsessive compulsive to have such a clean well organized workshop. of you know I'm just jealous! fun video.
Hahah maybe I have a little OCD :) Thanks for watching!
Perfect job!
Thank you for the encouragement, VORON!
Truly fascinating! Thank you for sharing! You give us hope!
Thanks so much Thomas! You can do anything you set your mind to!
@@dkbuilds You bet, thanks again!
Really nice one!
Thanks Peter!
Very nice, I love the style of your vids!
Thanks Felix! I'll be sure to make more like this one!
Super 👍🏻
Thank you!
very nice
and was it ghost?
Thanks!
Haha I think so! 👻
Sorry. Had to laugh. The vice handle has done this to me as well. Hahah
Just, wow.
Thank you Marick! 😇
Really nice pencil holder!
I like your workbench too! Is that Rob Cosmans wb? It would be cool if you did review of it and maybe build video if you filmed the build processes?
Thanks so much! Yup it is RC's workbench. Unfortunately I didn't film building it, but it only took a weekend and I absolutely love it for hand tool work. Highly recommend!
that is awesome !
Thanks Dawid!!
nice
Thanks dp!
Very nice
Thanks so much Kaine!
Your content is so fucking solid
Hell yeah thanks Scott! Glad you like it!
That ghost at 9:39 tho :p
Haha exactly. Spooked the hell out of me!
I have yet to see someone bevel wood with a 90 degree shooting board and no attachment, where the heck did you learn to do that?
Haha I think I just made it up at that moment! Felt like it should work, and it did :)
Cool!!!
Thank you Roland!
DK, really nice work. Did you get to attend one of Rob's workshops? You can really see his influence on your attention to detail and techniques.
Thanks so much James! I have not attended his workshops but he definitely has a huge influence on me. I watch all his videos :)
9:38 Workbench ghost!
👻😂
9:02 you got jump scared haha
LOL totally
Rob Cosman has about 7 of my paychecks 😂
Lol you and me both James!
Your craftsmen skills for someone your age is awesome, you kind of give some of old farts a complex.😃 Killer job, love your attention to detail, that's the difference between a hack and a craftsman. Two questions for you, where did you get your router plain and brand? What was it that spooked you?
Thanks so much for the kind words, Will! My router plane is this one: www.lie-nielsen.com/products/small-router-plane
What spooked me was the handle of my bench vice sliding on its own 😂
@@dkbuilds LOL you jumped like it was haunted!😃 Thanks for the link. I like the size, perfect for my needs. I only wish I knew at 10 what I know now, I would have taken all of Pappy's(grandfather) tools. Do you have an email address? He use to do a hidden mortise and tendon with a wedge in the end that required no glue. Nobody else seems to be interested, but with your skills you could easily figure out the details. I remember how it's done but not the small details. I can send you drawings of what I remember.
Nice build DK. Do you use Rob’a method for transferring the tails (saw kerf scribe before clearing tail waste)?
Thanks Tranq! I'd say 80% of the time I use Rob's method, unless I'm making some construction-grade drawers when I don't care about being so precise; then I just mark with a pencil because it's a good bit faster.
@@dkbuilds Cool good to know! Where I’ve been struggling is setting my marking gauge to the exact kerf of the blade. How do you do this step accurately/repeatably?
@@TheTranq I lay the dovetail saw along the side of my plane and let the marking gauge drop onto the metal of the plane, which is what Rob does. It works pretty well for me but I agree it's finicky. One point is that when you are shifting the tail board left or right, you should reference off of the same surface of the tail board (to shift the tail board left you press the marking gauge knife on the pin board below and shift the tail board until it hits the shoulder of the marking gauge, to shift right you press the marking gauge shoulder on the pin board and shift the tail board until it hits the marking gauge knife). Hope that made some sense. But, I agree, that's the hardest part. You can also try skipping the marking gauge all together here and just use the kerf-width marking knife to shift the tail board left or right (using your fingertips to gauge flush). Do you use a skew block plane to cut a shoulder on the tail board to help hold it firmly against the pin board while you transfer the lines? I don't and that's where I struggle the most (need to buy a skew block plane with a fence).
@@dkbuilds Yup and the tough thing with that is getting the marking gauge shoulder to balance on the “set” of the teeth to make sure you’re actually measuring the full width of the blade. I saw some people saying to try using feeler gauges to get the kerf thickness and use that to set the gauge which is what I’ll try next. It’s funny you mention that because I just ordered and received my Veritas skew rabbet plane for doing exactly that! I was using the table saw to put the slight rabbet but wanted to be able to just take a few shavings with the plane. I have still been getting used to setting it up and using it
I am glad I came across your channel. Really enjoyed watching and I can see how making things (even a pencil holder) can be so relaxing. Hopefully, I well be selected for the PHP.
By the way.....What was that noise?
Thanks so much! Good luck with the PHP selection, I will be jealous if you get to have Rob teach you in person. The noise was the handle on my vice sliding unexpectedly down on its own 😂
@@dkbuilds Because I recognize the Cosman brand, I assumed you might have gone through the PHP. So disregard my email I sent you. I enjoy watching Rob Cosman, he and you make it look so easy. He also has what he calls the "Cosman Bench". For the Veterans which have gone through the classes, will be receiving a "Cosman Bench" built by the "Bench Brigade". I do think it is awesome what he does for veterans. If I do get selected, it will be on a scholarship, and get to go to Rob's workshop.
I do wish you the best and I look forward to seeing more of your awesome videos. God Bless.
I just realized your bench is the Cosman Bench.....AWESOME!!!!
Beautiful, I'm planning to make something similar in a couple weeks, though without the hand flattening steps!
With your joints, you clearly marked the entire length of the wood, but in the final piece I don't see marks between the pins/tails, I guess you sand them all out?
Do you take that into consideration when deciding the wood thickness at the start? For context - I'm practicing a #dailydovetail, but I don't like seeing the layout line on the final result, so I've been trying to use a knife to only mark the sections which will be removed - should I just be marking the whole joint in one shot and then sanding/planing smooth?
I'm sure that question makes no sense sorry 😆, good job, looks great!
In general, if you are cutting tails first (like I do), you use a pencil or pen to mark the tails to help guide your sawing. Then once the tails are cut, to transfer the shape of the tails onto the pinboard you can use a knife (to be the most precise) or a sharp pencil. Almost always once the joint is fully assembled and the glue is dried, you use a hand plane to take a very thin shaving off of the outside of all surfaces, which will "erase" any pencil marks. You don't need to take this into account for the thickness when making the joint at all. After you take a few thin plane shavings off of the assembled joint it will technically make the boards slightly thinner, but in general this doesn't matter and will be such a small change that it would be difficult to even measure :)
Hope that helps, and good luck!
@@dkbuilds cheers, tomorrow I won't bother worrying with marking how I have been, will do the whole shebang to save some time. 👍 many thanks!
Nifty and thrifty little gem….
Thanks Fred!
Hi. Is that a Rob Cosman mallet you are using?
Yes, it is! :)
Hello, amazing video!!
I am hoping to do a independant activity booklet to make a pencil holder for the university students in the lab. How long did this take you? / How long do you reckon it would take a novice?
Thank you
Hey Ellen, that sounds like a great idea! Honestly how long it takes depends a LOT on how high quality you want to make it, and the level of expertise of the craftsperson. This (without filming) would probably take me 3-4 hours. If I were a novice it would take me maybe 8 hours because I would probably make some mistakes and have to start fresh. If I used a simpler joint other than hand cut dovetails I could do it much faster, and if I used power tools, faster still. Hope that helps!
@@dkbuilds Ahh brilliant! If you don't mind i may follow your format of the video? I can send you whatever i produce, if you are interested :)
@@ellengingell8291 Hey Ellen, if it is for educational purposes and you aren't monetizing whatever you're producing, please use my video in any way you'd like! I'm all about education in any form :)
What auger bit sizes should I get?
Hmm that's a tough question, it depends what kinds of things you are building. If possible I would recommend buying each bit when you need it, and slowly your collection will grow :)
What kind of finish we’re using when you prayed the box at the end of the video?
I used spray on lacquer (semi gloss) for this.
@@dkbuilds thx for the quick reply. This project is perfect for an old timer looking to use some of his old hand tools without having or wanting the many extensive woodworking tools at his disposal. I hope to make a couple for each of my daughters.
@@gerryfelix5948 Excellent! I bet they will make great gifts. Thanks for watching!
Hello ! I am Mathieu. I m living in Paris. It s beautiful and i watch your videos. can you make a video to present your plane and materials ? please
thank you and if you want to come in France call me ! 😄
Hi Mathieu! Thanks for commenting! My hand plane is a #5 1/2 by a company named WoodRiver. Maybe I will make a video soon about it 🙃
Which router plane do you use? I am looking for a new one and the Veritas planes are constantly sold out.
I use the Lie Nielsen small router plane, I really like it. Here I am using a different narrower blade than the one it comes with. www.lie-nielsen.com/products/small-router-plane
Thanks a lot!
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