I am a beginner to woodwork, the main test I have with this bundle ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxTNB_zFBSnTo_O1PqfVUwgi7ityw0JlKt is that I think that its hard to settle on a choice of the plan and outline to use as there are a large portion of them there. Nonetheless, I like the simple stride to step directions laid out there.
That’s Rex’s super power. He lures you in with gadgets and ensnares you with knowledge tinged with nostalgia. He’s used the same trick to hornswaggle me out of dozens of hours of my life. That’s not counting the vice I made out of a scaffold jack, or the myriad other projects he Pied Piper’d me into undertaking. I blame him for most of the polished aspects on my woodworking projects [Kerfuffles?]. I look forward to continuing to blame him for a good long while. Cheers!
Anyone who has ever restored old tools, furniture, or houses has employed the same deductive process (with varying degrees of success, of course), and I think most of us would enjoy seeing more videos such as this one.
Absolutely second that assessment. In every house and piece of furniture You also can find where they bodged to make it look good/OK or straight without it actually being straight. It helps to try it with hand-tools only to understand what they did to get the thing outta the workshop asap and still be paid full price for it. That is what makes Rex' videos so special - he knows it because he not only tried once but finished his various hand-tool-projects.
I'd love a "tools stories" series! Toolmaking is lots of fun! I'd love it even more if you kept on coming at us with life lessons to learn from the tools we use!
Yes, continue with Tool Stories. At the end, I started to think I knew Joey the timber framer. I do this every time I pick up one of my Dad or Grandfather's old tools with all the scrapes, bangs, sharpening scratches and modifications. Seem I go to them more often than my shiny newer tools. When I pick them up, channel my inner Dad and Grandfather into my work. If anything I think of them and appreciate everything they passed on to me. 3/7/2024
Tool stories is a great idea. It is what many of us do when we pick up old tools and can't for reasons, put them to work right away. Enjoyed this immensely!
Yes...I love the history of tools and the historical methods of craftsman. A tool stories series sounds great. Also I truly appreciate your channel. It's thought provoking, entertaining, and inspiring without being pretentious, condescending, or elitist. You have the soul of a true craftsman. Cheers!
I will also say this. Your joiners mallet and Paul Sellers mallet combined is awesome. The first project I did 100% hand tools only, saw, rasp, file, planer and chisel. My buddy calls it Thor's Hammer
Tool stories - HECK YEA! This was the most interesting woodworking UA-cam I’ve seen in months++++. Novel, fun, insightful. Pat yourself on the back. Oooorrrrr, another crosscut sled build. No, tool stories please.
Rex, as a reproducer of historic objects, I spend a lot of time following the tool marks of the originals, and I am loving this forensics video. It really shows how much you can learn about someone by studying the objects they leave behind. I would be super thrilled to see this become a regular channel contribution. Keep up the good work!
My personal favourite piece of furniture is a slightly crooked, pretty rural cupboard an apprentice built all alone as his final exam shortly after WW I here in my hometown in Alpine Bavaria - an exam which he failed, and quite completely so, having made about every mistake in the book. He made a second cupboard half a year later when he was allowed to apply for the exam next time and got full approval from every master in the guild in 1919, plus was awarded best apprentice finishing that summer, then immediately took off to open his own furniture business which ended up as an eighthundred employees fabrication at the time of his death in 1984. I was lucky to hear and being showed every single mistake he made with his first cupboard, and how he fixed what was fixable. Apprentices had to buy back their own work would they have wanted to keep it back then, because usually the master sold it off to get back the costs for materials - no one was interested in my grandad's first faulty fail of a cupboard, so he was given the dreadful thing and thus could hone his mistake-correcting abilities on it. He never threw it out and lastly gave it to me because I always was the one interested in the crooked thing and its obvious mistakes.
Yes, I would love to see more tool stories. My grandfather was an on-again, off-again lumberjack in Idaho. As a result he ended up with timber to mill and work in his barn. Many of his, and his father's tools are still around and I have been known to spend time with them sussing out how they did the work and used them. Imagining the work and the workers I descend from.
Definitely more Tool Stories, handmade tools have been a godsend for the broke hobbiest like me. So amazing what someone can make with just a little time and the right know how
I need tool stories in my life. It combines so much I love. History, creativity, engineering, and just seeing how people got sh done. The artifacts are beautiful, practical, and yeah, tell a story.
Absolutely!! I think you provide a comfortable level of insight making it impossible to disagree with your profound observation and reasoning. A series? I see the evolution of a show. I'm not British, so I won't say simply brilliant. The intricacies and complexities disallow me. So bravo sir.
YES YES YES! Please do more tool stories! This is fantastic! I love finding the story in my own tools. I go on to imagine what my tools did, on a day to day basis!
More Tool Stories? YES PLEASE! Really enjoyed your examination and explanation of the tool, its history and usage. Always a big fan of "rest of the story" stories. Tools are neat, but understanding the tool from user and usage perspective helps me learn more about the tool and ways I should/could be using it. Great job!
I love this tool story. I am facinated by history. In the past I have concentrated on military history. Since taking up woodwork as a hobby, I've become more and more interested in the history of woodwork. It is facinating just how long certain tools have been around, and how old many techniques are. I also studied geology, so am used to reading the history of an object from small clues in an item's morphology. And by studying the history of woodworking I'm learning how people built things, instead of how they killed each other. That's so much more rewarding. So please more of this!
Yes, more tool stories! I have an antique tool box full of my grandfather's and great grandfather's tools. I have learned a lot about maintaining and using them, but more I'd always better.
Absolutely yes! Please make this a series. I love watching you work and I love how you work, but just as much as the quality of your skills, I also enjoy the stories that you share while you’re doing your bills. So yes, I would be totally into a series about old tools like the one you just did here
Yes.....More tool stories please. Thank you. Gonna dig out my great grandfathers marking guage in a little while and rewatch this video to see what I can find. Very well done man.
I am absolutely OBSESSED with this style of video!! As a beginner in woodworking, hearing you explain how to intuitively deduce this tool's uses is teaching me a lot about woodworking in general!
If you had told me this morning that, before the day was over, I was going to watch a 14-minute video about a wooden marking gauge I would have told you to get bent. Having said that, I just finished watching a 14-minute video about a wooden marking gauge. Well done, Rex. The tool stories series sounds like a good idea to me.
Rex I greatly appreciated this video and found myself watching it intently! I learned woodworking and a love for fine craftsmanship from my father like he learned from his father. He also enjoyed collecting antique planes & other tools. It wasn't an extensive collection but was pretty cool and included several of his father's tools. This video reminded me of some fond memories of us having great father/son time as he explained how different tools were used and or why they were created. I remember being amazed by the simple and ingenious ways people solved problems prior to the industrial & modern age. Your work holding & workbench videos are an excellent example of that. Thank you for bringing me back to those times with my father and I can genuinely say that he would have loved your channel!
Thank you Rex. 100 % interested and you’re entirely correct. It’s easy to get into the weeds about whether what you’re spending money on is the best but at the end of the day it’s the project that matters. Thank you for the reminder.
Hi Rex. I would love to see a Tool Stories series. Really enjoyed this video. It's got me looking more closely at my old tools, trying to work out their histories.
Yes! I would love more of these Tool Stories. I love your Furniture Forensics as well. All of your videos are great to be honest, I put your channel on auto play at least once per month and just binge the whole thing while I do mindless tasks.
Love the way your passion for these tools and their stories shines through - I would absolutely look forward to a series like this! You definitely knocked it out of the park with this one!
I love old tools. I have a Stanley Bailey No.4 plane that I restored that was made in the 1930's that I found in an old barn in a bucket with a bunch of old steel and rusty nails that someone was going to scrap. It was rusted and looked about ready for that scrap heap. I followed your tool restoration video and the results were a good working plane that is the best I have ever used. It's not perfect but I love it. Yes bring on the tool stories.
I would love to see more of your forensic analysis of old tools. Your marking gauge analysis was most interesting and enjoyable. Keep up your great work on UA-cam.
I love old tools and using old tools. You can learn a lot by rehabbing old tools and how they were used. I think it would be great learning about the tools you use. Great channel!
Dude, what a killer idea for a video. Like furniture forensics, but for tools. I love it. The best part of owning vintage hand tools is the mystery and wonder of who their previous steward was, what they did, and how cool it is that you get to add to the history of the tool. This series will tap into that experience, and it's something no other channel would dare try. As I watched, I held and inspected the gauges I've made for myself, enjoying the marks I've put into them. I realized that maybe a hundred years from now, someone might look over my tools and appreciate the same things you pointed out on Timberframer Joey's gauge. It made me proud to be a maker. Thanks for this great video and that nice moment, man.
Great video. I am brand new to woodworking, about 3 months, I learned quickly that I wanted to work with hand tools pretty much exclusively. UA-cam has been both extremely helpful and unbelievable detrimental. I tend to over think and so many YT woodworkers made that much worse and complicated. I recently decided to step back a little, simplify everything and go at this from a different angle and that simplification has improved my skills and made me happier in the shop. I would definitely tune into a tool talk series.
I miss furniture forensics, i think its such an interesting and informative series. It got me thinking about furniture and wood in a whole new way. This is definitely interesting in the same way, it just shows another side of the craft!
Really fascinating deep dive, Rex! Thank you for showing new ways to look at old tools, and different ways of reading all those marks. This was a real eye-opener. I certainly hope that you do more tool stories!
Rex, you hit the nail right on the head! Pun intended. I would love to see all the videos that you can share on old hand tools. I use and restore them for my personal use, a d to donate to those that are I interested. 😊
I’m glad I saw your video on this. I am a preservation carpentry student and got an old Stanley marking gauge to use in class, but my teacher kept insisting that the Japanese gauges were better because of their cutters. He didn’t like the pins on mine, so I filed them to a shape closer to the blades I saw on my classmate’s Japanese gauge. It has been working great since then, but I was a bit worried I did something wrong since there weren’t any file marks on it or changes to the pins before I came along. The fact that the pin now looks as similar as possible to the one on your gauge is definitely a relief lol
I love history, not so much the dates and politics of time gone by, but the more down to earth parts, how did they live in olden times from day to day, how have they worked and what have our ancestors used to get things done. So l simply LOVE 'Furniture Forensics' and a series of 'Tools Stories' would be right up my alley! Thanks Rex for this fascinating first entry and keep up the good work.
This is a great video. Sounds like "Joey" was just like a lot of woodworkers today - broke but hard working. I enjoy learning about how craftsman of the past worked and how they overcame obstacles in the craft. I couldn't agree more when it comes to all the needless discussions about doing things this way or that way. I'm going to get the job done while those guys stand around and talk about perfect sole flatness, restoring tools to factory perfection, and a whole bunch of other stuff that doesn't add up to a hill of beans! Keep em' coming Rex.
This was very entertaining. I too have a lot of old tools that I love thinking about and exploring the history. Please make more, you’re very good at it.
This was great, and I'm all for more of these tool stories. I have tons of old tools, including a couple old marking gauges, and this gave me a new perspective. I'm traveling for work at the moment, but as soon as I get home, I'm pulling out some of my old favorites and just hanging out with them.
I think it would be a Great Idea. There are so many Great tools that have been disappearing and their users that know how to use and maintain them are disappearing quickly too. I love to watch someone who knows tools and how to read them. The stories that they tell and how they have changed. Not too many years ago it was all done by hand, and now most people if you can't plug it in you can't do it. I love your videos and Thanks for the time and knowledge that you share in each one.
Hi Rex! I always loved the furniture forensics, and this is great, too. Looking at what the old craftsmen did is kinda reviving the mindset of past centuries. Most people (those who wanna discuss alloys) are unable to imagine, how it is if you can't go to the next store and get what ever you want, or even that it is not normal to throw things away, just because they are dull or worn out. Once fixing things was normal, and I love to look at those old tools, which tell exactly that story. Greetings from Germany, Marcus
More Tool Stories please! I would also love more videos of you recreating old tools like this gauge or the Kebiki you made a while ago. Keep up the awesome work Rex!
More tool stories? Yes please! Loved this video. The majority of my tools belonged to my great-grandfather, grandfather, and father. Shiny new tools are nice but they haven't developed a soul.
Rex, please continue with tool stories. I really enjoyed it and didn't think I would get sucked into watching 14 minutes on a marking gauge. Can't wait for the next installment.
you totally hit the nail by saying "just buy a quality tool" as a professional you know how to use and maintain it. As a wooden boat builder I inherited the handplane of my preceptor and it is still the plane I use to grab first. It is not a fancy plane but it is so good because it is tuned in perfectly after decades of use.
I suspect even if I wasn’t a fumbling hobbyist woodworker I’d still have found that interesting. You really have developed an eye for spotting what would be hidden to most. Can’t wait for the series.
Another Grand slam of a video. I would look forward to the series with great anticipation. You always make great teaching and informative videos, Rex. The effort and research shows. As always, Thank you!
I'm always intrigued by the history behind the vintage and antique tools I purchase. When buying someone's fathers or grandfather's tools its nice to get a bit of background from the seller, but this is a whole nother level. I enjoy furniture forensics and this is a hit with me 👍👊
Rex, you should definitely continue Tool stories. It's entertaining and informative. Very enjoyable. Just a thought, but it would be cool if you were able to incorporate a basic build of the tool within the Tool stories video. I don't know if that would be feasible for you, but it would be cool.
I bought a Japanese marking gauge made from white oak in 1978 and used it for many years as my main marking guage. Then when the wheel gauges came in I bought one and used it as my main guage, and they are very good for making fine adjustments easily. But for jobs where you need to establish a strong line the Japanese gauge is unbeatable, the blade is an angled cutter that works on the pull stroke and can cut thin material if you need to. Plus you can resharpen that cutter for a lifetime and not have to worryt about a replacement wheel. Tool stories is a great idea!
I absolutely LOVE the idea of telling the stories of old tools, great idea! I've learned a lot watching your videos and am looking forward to many more. I currently have, and still use, my grandfather's 1937 Craftsman jointer, 1936 Companion drill press, 1935 Craftsman table saw, and a bunch of hand tools. My favorites are his father's late 1890's Siegley planes, many of which still have the original irons. All of these old tools still work just as well as they day they were made ... and learning about the history of them is just as much fun as using them.
I am a beginner to woodwork, the main test I have with this bundle ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxTNB_zFBSnTo_O1PqfVUwgi7ityw0JlKt is that I think that its hard to settle on a choice of the plan and outline to use as there are a large portion of them there. Nonetheless, I like the simple stride to step directions laid out there.
Who knew I'd be glued to a 14-minute video about a wooden marking gauge. Tool Stories would be a very worthy series for your channel Rex!
@@kyronnewbury i agree too!!
Ditto
I agree. It's pretty interesting to watch and learn
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That’s Rex’s super power. He lures you in with gadgets and ensnares you with knowledge tinged with nostalgia.
He’s used the same trick to hornswaggle me out of dozens of hours of my life. That’s not counting the vice I made out of a scaffold jack, or the myriad other projects he Pied Piper’d me into undertaking.
I blame him for most of the polished aspects on my woodworking projects [Kerfuffles?].
I look forward to continuing to blame him for a good long while.
Cheers!
Anyone who has ever restored old tools, furniture, or houses has employed the same deductive process (with varying degrees of success, of course), and I think most of us would enjoy seeing more videos such as this one.
Absolutely second that assessment. In every house and piece of furniture You also can find where they bodged to make it look good/OK or straight without it actually being straight. It helps to try it with hand-tools only to understand what they did to get the thing outta the workshop asap and still be paid full price for it.
That is what makes Rex' videos so special - he knows it because he not only tried once but finished his various hand-tool-projects.
I'd love a "tools stories" series! Toolmaking is lots of fun!
I'd love it even more if you kept on coming at us with life lessons to learn from the tools we use!
Rex was even able to determine the name of the carpenter who owned this 100 year old tool. Now that is forensic skill!😀
Yes, continue with Tool Stories. At the end, I started to think I knew Joey the timber framer. I do this every time I pick up one of my Dad or Grandfather's old tools with all the scrapes, bangs, sharpening scratches and modifications. Seem I go to them more often than my shiny newer tools. When I pick them up, channel my inner Dad and Grandfather into my work. If anything I think of them and appreciate everything they passed on to me. 3/7/2024
Tool stories is a great idea. It is what many of us do when we pick up old tools and can't for reasons, put them to work right away. Enjoyed this immensely!
I am so here for more tool stories!!!
More content featuring your furniture forensics and possibly tool stories would be much appreciated! Greetings from a woodworker to another!
Dear Rex, I would love to see a series of tool stories by you/! Very inspiring and fascinating to learn to understand tools better this way.
Yes...I love the history of tools and the historical methods of craftsman. A tool stories series sounds great. Also I truly appreciate your channel. It's thought provoking, entertaining, and inspiring without being pretentious, condescending, or elitist. You have the soul of a true craftsman. Cheers!
Yes, I would love to see more tools stories! Keep up the great work man!
I will also say this. Your joiners mallet and Paul Sellers mallet combined is awesome. The first project I did 100% hand tools only, saw, rasp, file, planer and chisel. My buddy calls it Thor's Hammer
Tool stories - HECK YEA! This was the most interesting woodworking UA-cam I’ve seen in months++++. Novel, fun, insightful. Pat yourself on the back. Oooorrrrr, another crosscut sled build. No, tool stories please.
Love the concept of Tool Stories. Your revelation of the 'secrets' of this marking gauge was extremely enjoyable!
I really like videos of people making jigs and tools today. You do a fascinating job of providing info from past tools. Keep the stories coming.
Rex, as a reproducer of historic objects, I spend a lot of time following the tool marks of the originals, and I am loving this forensics video. It really shows how much you can learn about someone by studying the objects they leave behind. I would be super thrilled to see this become a regular channel contribution. Keep up the good work!
My personal favourite piece of furniture is a slightly crooked, pretty rural cupboard an apprentice built all alone as his final exam shortly after WW I here in my hometown in Alpine Bavaria - an exam which he failed, and quite completely so, having made about every mistake in the book. He made a second cupboard half a year later when he was allowed to apply for the exam next time and got full approval from every master in the guild in 1919, plus was awarded best apprentice finishing that summer, then immediately took off to open his own furniture business which ended up as an eighthundred employees fabrication at the time of his death in 1984. I was lucky to hear and being showed every single mistake he made with his first cupboard, and how he fixed what was fixable. Apprentices had to buy back their own work would they have wanted to keep it back then, because usually the master sold it off to get back the costs for materials - no one was interested in my grandad's first faulty fail of a cupboard, so he was given the dreadful thing and thus could hone his mistake-correcting abilities on it. He never threw it out and lastly gave it to me because I always was the one interested in the crooked thing and its obvious mistakes.
Please do more tool stories! I love learning about the lost simplicity and ingenuity of the past!
Yes, I would love to see more tool stories. My grandfather was an on-again, off-again lumberjack in Idaho. As a result he ended up with timber to mill and work in his barn. Many of his, and his father's tools are still around and I have been known to spend time with them sussing out how they did the work and used them. Imagining the work and the workers I descend from.
Definitely more Tool Stories, handmade tools have been a godsend for the broke hobbiest like me. So amazing what someone can make with just a little time and the right know how
REX,
I now know WAY More about the marking gauge than I did. Thanks for the technical/ tactile history lesson.
Pls continue the series.
I need tool stories in my life. It combines so much I love. History, creativity, engineering, and just seeing how people got sh done. The artifacts are beautiful, practical, and yeah, tell a story.
Absolutely!! I think you provide a comfortable level of insight making it impossible to disagree with your profound observation and reasoning. A series? I see the evolution of a show. I'm not British, so I won't say simply brilliant. The intricacies and complexities disallow me. So bravo sir.
Yes. More Tool Stories, Rex! The stories that these tools tell us are the "why" of things working.
YES YES YES! Please do more tool stories! This is fantastic! I love finding the story in my own tools. I go on to imagine what my tools did, on a day to day basis!
More Tool Stories? YES PLEASE! Really enjoyed your examination and explanation of the tool, its history and usage. Always a big fan of "rest of the story" stories. Tools are neat, but understanding the tool from user and usage perspective helps me learn more about the tool and ways I should/could be using it. Great job!
Yes for tool stories. Also loved it when you talked about how older furniture was made.
Yes please! More tool stories! Seeing how tools are used throughout time and understanding how they wear is really interesting.
I’d love to see a series breaking down antique tools. I’m a historian and it’s something I to do whenever I pick up an antique tool anyway.
I love this tool story. I am facinated by history. In the past I have concentrated on military history. Since taking up woodwork as a hobby, I've become more and more interested in the history of woodwork. It is facinating just how long certain tools have been around, and how old many techniques are. I also studied geology, so am used to reading the history of an object from small clues in an item's morphology. And by studying the history of woodworking I'm learning how people built things, instead of how they killed each other. That's so much more rewarding. So please more of this!
Yes, more tool stories!
I have an antique tool box full of my grandfather's and great grandfather's tools.
I have learned a lot about maintaining and using them, but more I'd always better.
Would love more tool stories, even more on the history of how a tool came to be used. Thanks for the great content.
I would love to see this become a series! The details you gleaned from such a “simple” tool are fascinating.
Tool stories sounds like a wonderful idea for a series and you definitely have a great start in place!
More tool stories! I enjoyed this as well as the analysis of workbenches/worksurfaces, and designs of old furniture. Bring it all on!
Tool Stories, Furniture Forensics and anything else historical about tools and trades, ABSOLUTELY!
Tool stories would be an incredible series. It really plays to your unique strengths as a youtuber and woodworking historian! Please do it !
Absolutely yes! Please make this a series. I love watching you work and I love how you work, but just as much as the quality of your skills, I also enjoy the stories that you share while you’re doing your bills. So yes, I would be totally into a series about old tools like the one you just did here
Yes.....More tool stories please. Thank you. Gonna dig out my great grandfathers marking guage in a little while and rewatch this video to see what I can find. Very well done man.
This is perhaps the most fascinating and wonderful woodworking video I’ve seen, and I’ve watched a LOT of videos here on UA-cam. Thank you, Rex
Never thought I would find an old marking gauge so cool. Loved it.
Definitely would like more tool stories!
I am absolutely OBSESSED with this style of video!! As a beginner in woodworking, hearing you explain how to intuitively deduce this tool's uses is teaching me a lot about woodworking in general!
Love your analysis of historic use of tools. Keep doing it, we all enjoy them.
YES! I like the idea of tool stories. I like your take on the importance of craft and preserving the knowledge and spirit of the working craftspeople.
If you had told me this morning that, before the day was over, I was going to watch a 14-minute video about a wooden marking gauge I would have told you to get bent. Having said that, I just finished watching a 14-minute video about a wooden marking gauge. Well done, Rex. The tool stories series sounds like a good idea to me.
Love to hear that series on tool stories!
This tool& furniture forsenics series becoming my favourite. So much insight to be gained!
Rex
I greatly appreciated this video and found myself watching it intently! I learned woodworking and a love for fine craftsmanship from my father like he learned from his father. He also enjoyed collecting antique planes & other tools. It wasn't an extensive collection but was pretty cool and included several of his father's tools. This video reminded me of some fond memories of us having great father/son time as he explained how different tools were used and or why they were created. I remember being amazed by the simple and ingenious ways people solved problems prior to the industrial & modern age. Your work holding & workbench videos are an excellent example of that. Thank you for bringing me back to those times with my father and I can genuinely say that he would have loved your channel!
Yes make more! Even better if they're old obsolete tools and you end up teaching us how to use them.
Yes, more tool stories
Thank you Rex. 100 % interested and you’re entirely correct. It’s easy to get into the weeds about whether what you’re spending money on is the best but at the end of the day it’s the project that matters. Thank you for the reminder.
Hi Rex. I would love to see a Tool Stories series. Really enjoyed this video. It's got me looking more closely at my old tools, trying to work out their histories.
I loved seeing how "wear-n-tear" told a story, once you know what you're looking at. More!
Yes to the tool series! I love how you called us out and paid tribute to woodworkers of the past and how they get work done. 🤘
I am
Impressed by the ease of your links/website for buying your products . Brilliant . As easy as Amazon.
Yes! I would love more of these Tool Stories. I love your Furniture Forensics as well. All of your videos are great to be honest, I put your channel on auto play at least once per month and just binge the whole thing while I do mindless tasks.
Yes! Please do a tool stories series.
I love learning the history behind them.
Love the way your passion for these tools and their stories shines through - I would absolutely look forward to a series like this!
You definitely knocked it out of the park with this one!
Rex, you need to make a tv show out of this. Really. It’s awesome.
I love old tools. I have a Stanley Bailey No.4 plane that I restored that was made in the 1930's that I found in an old barn in a bucket with a bunch of old steel and rusty nails that someone was going to scrap. It was rusted and looked about ready for that scrap heap. I followed your tool restoration video and the results were a good working plane that is the best I have ever used. It's not perfect but I love it. Yes bring on the tool stories.
I could watch this kind of stuff every day. Please do more of these.
I would love to see more of your forensic analysis of old tools. Your marking gauge analysis was most interesting and enjoyable. Keep up your great work on UA-cam.
I love old tools and using old tools. You can learn a lot by rehabbing old tools and how they were used. I think it would be great learning about the tools you use. Great channel!
I would appreciate more content like this. Thanks
Dude, what a killer idea for a video. Like furniture forensics, but for tools. I love it. The best part of owning vintage hand tools is the mystery and wonder of who their previous steward was, what they did, and how cool it is that you get to add to the history of the tool. This series will tap into that experience, and it's something no other channel would dare try.
As I watched, I held and inspected the gauges I've made for myself, enjoying the marks I've put into them. I realized that maybe a hundred years from now, someone might look over my tools and appreciate the same things you pointed out on Timberframer Joey's gauge. It made me proud to be a maker. Thanks for this great video and that nice moment, man.
Great video. I am brand new to woodworking, about 3 months, I learned quickly that I wanted to work with hand tools pretty much exclusively.
UA-cam has been both extremely helpful and unbelievable detrimental. I tend to over think and so many YT woodworkers made that much worse and complicated.
I recently decided to step back a little, simplify everything and go at this from a different angle and that simplification has improved my skills and made me happier in the shop.
I would definitely tune into a tool talk series.
I miss furniture forensics, i think its such an interesting and informative series. It got me thinking about furniture and wood in a whole new way. This is definitely interesting in the same way, it just shows another side of the craft!
I'll do more forensics. It's just finding pieces that's the roadblock. I mostly use stuff in the trash, so it's sheer luck when I find something.
Yes please. Keep videos like this coming. I love tools, I love history, and I love all the little itty bitty details that offer clues.
Yes please, a tool stories would be excellent. We shouldn’t lose this information!
Tool Stories! Absolutely YES! I love old tools and the history.
Really fascinating deep dive, Rex!
Thank you for showing new ways to look at old tools, and different ways of reading all those marks.
This was a real eye-opener. I certainly hope that you do more tool stories!
absolutely please a tool series! It's fascinating.
Rex, you hit the nail right on the head! Pun intended. I would love to see all the videos that you can share on old hand tools. I use and restore them for my personal use, a d to donate to those that are I interested. 😊
I’m glad I saw your video on this. I am a preservation carpentry student and got an old Stanley marking gauge to use in class, but my teacher kept insisting that the Japanese gauges were better because of their cutters. He didn’t like the pins on mine, so I filed them to a shape closer to the blades I saw on my classmate’s Japanese gauge. It has been working great since then, but I was a bit worried I did something wrong since there weren’t any file marks on it or changes to the pins before I came along. The fact that the pin now looks as similar as possible to the one on your gauge is definitely a relief lol
I love history, not so much the dates and politics of time gone by, but the more down to earth parts, how did they live in olden times from day to day, how have they worked and what have our ancestors used to get things done.
So l simply LOVE 'Furniture Forensics' and a series of 'Tools Stories' would be right up my alley!
Thanks Rex for this fascinating first entry and keep up the good work.
This is a great video. Sounds like "Joey" was just like a lot of woodworkers today - broke but hard working. I enjoy learning about how craftsman of the past worked and how they overcame obstacles in the craft. I couldn't agree more when it comes to all the needless discussions about doing things this way or that way. I'm going to get the job done while those guys stand around and talk about perfect sole flatness, restoring tools to factory perfection, and a whole bunch of other stuff that doesn't add up to a hill of beans! Keep em' coming Rex.
This was very entertaining. I too have a lot of old tools that I love thinking about and exploring the history. Please make more, you’re very good at it.
Tool stories is a must have
Yes on tool stories. I enjoy tools, especially old tools. Our imagination is limitless. Thanks.
This was great, and I'm all for more of these tool stories. I have tons of old tools, including a couple old marking gauges, and this gave me a new perspective. I'm traveling for work at the moment, but as soon as I get home, I'm pulling out some of my old favorites and just hanging out with them.
Tool stories is a great idea. I love the way you read the tool and introduce me to craftsmen long gone. DO IT!
Absolutely, more of these tools stories videos would be fantastic.
I think it would be a Great Idea. There are so many Great tools that have been disappearing and their users that know how to use and maintain them are disappearing quickly too. I love to watch someone who knows tools and how to read them. The stories that they tell and how they have changed. Not too many years ago it was all done by hand, and now most people if you can't plug it in you can't do it. I love your videos and Thanks for the time and knowledge that you share in each one.
Hi Rex! I always loved the furniture forensics, and this is great, too. Looking at what the old craftsmen did is kinda reviving the mindset of past centuries. Most people (those who wanna discuss alloys) are unable to imagine, how it is if you can't go to the next store and get what ever you want, or even that it is not normal to throw things away, just because they are dull or worn out. Once fixing things was normal, and I love to look at those old tools, which tell exactly that story.
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Marcus
Defiantly would enjoy more tool stories, it helps me understand how tools evolved.
Now this is what I call quality content.
Fascinating.
More Tool Stories please!
I would also love more videos of you recreating old tools like this gauge or the Kebiki you made a while ago.
Keep up the awesome work Rex!
More tool stories? Yes please! Loved this video. The majority of my tools belonged to my great-grandfather, grandfather, and father. Shiny new tools are nice but they haven't developed a soul.
Rex, please continue with tool stories. I really enjoyed it and didn't think I would get sucked into watching 14 minutes on a marking gauge. Can't wait for the next installment.
I fully support more Tool Stories and Furniture Forensics videos! Thanks for the history lesson!
Yes Rex, I also,love to work,out how an old tool was used. Please continue this series.
Cheers
Definitely enjoy the "tool stories"!
History needs to be told so its not forgotten
you totally hit the nail by saying "just buy a quality tool" as a professional you know how to use and maintain it. As a wooden boat builder I inherited the handplane of my preceptor and it is still the plane I use to grab first. It is not a fancy plane but it is so good because it is tuned in perfectly after decades of use.
I suspect even if I wasn’t a fumbling hobbyist woodworker I’d still have found that interesting. You really have developed an eye for spotting what would be hidden to most.
Can’t wait for the series.
Another Grand slam of a video. I would look forward to the series with great anticipation. You always make great teaching and informative videos, Rex. The effort and research shows. As always, Thank you!
I'm always intrigued by the history behind the vintage and antique tools I purchase.
When buying someone's fathers or grandfather's tools its nice to get a bit of background from the seller, but this is a whole nother level. I enjoy furniture forensics and this is a hit with me 👍👊
Rex, you should definitely continue Tool stories. It's entertaining and informative. Very enjoyable. Just a thought, but it would be cool if you were able to incorporate a basic build of the tool within the Tool stories video. I don't know if that would be feasible for you, but it would be cool.
Hell I wouldn't be heart broken if he split it into 2 vids for the youtube side of things
I bought a Japanese marking gauge made from white oak in 1978 and used it for many years as my main marking guage. Then when the wheel gauges came in I bought one and used it as my main guage, and they are very good for making fine adjustments easily. But for jobs where you need to establish a strong line the Japanese gauge is unbeatable, the blade is an angled cutter that works on the pull stroke and can cut thin material if you need to. Plus you can resharpen that cutter for a lifetime and not have to worryt about a replacement wheel. Tool stories is a great idea!
I absolutely LOVE the idea of telling the stories of old tools, great idea! I've learned a lot watching your videos and am looking forward to many more. I currently have, and still use, my grandfather's 1937 Craftsman jointer, 1936 Companion drill press, 1935 Craftsman table saw, and a bunch of hand tools. My favorites are his father's late 1890's Siegley planes, many of which still have the original irons. All of these old tools still work just as well as they day they were made ... and learning about the history of them is just as much fun as using them.