Thanks Paul, for all the fantastic videos and sharing of techniques and knowledge. I have reduced my machines to just a bandsaw as hand tool woodworking is so enjoyable.
Mr. Sellers - how are you not knighted yet? Your love for woodworking, and the great detail in teaching has made woodworking such an important part of my own life. I appreciate everything you do for us.
I think this will change the way I do mortise tenons from here on, could I respectfully ask if I could make the tenon length say 9/16th longer, then cut it off to finish size after the router work, rather than route the last 1/2 inch ?
I have been using guides for a while now for perpendicular cuts. I learned it from Charles Neil. He showed how he drilled and parried Mortise before he was able to afford a mortise machine. I have done it that way too. I now own a bench top mortise machine but I will definitely try this method because sometimes the setup time might just be longer than the actual time used to cut a mortise by hand.
Yes, that is fine, but in my work, and in an upcoming project on masterclasses.com I add enough to the tenon length of the first tenon top make my gauge from. I also always cut two tenons at once so the length of tenons at say 1 1/2" becomes three inches between shoulder lines plus a kerf width and `i get two tenons at once.
The idea of doing 2 two tenons as a single piece and then cutting it in half just blew my mind... :) Thanks for all the amazing work you and your team do on this channel; you're an amazing teacher!
The sign of a master craftsman like Paul Sellers is that when you watch a master craftsman, he makes the job looks so easy when in reality it makes a lot of practice to achieve this level of craftsmanship. Thank you Mr. Sellers for showing us the right way for doing mortise and tenon joint. I plan on practicing this till I become good at it.
Great tutorial as usual, Paul. I like to make the tenon half an inch longer than finished size. That way you can just cut off the end router support rather than muck about getting down to thickness.
Very good work. I am at an age where the noise of industry can be left at the job site. The quiet chisel and plane brings back the joy in woodworking classic style.
"and it's all yours, go ahead and practice it, and you will have tenon making down for the rest of your life" this is what i love about these videos. There is a tradition of master craftsmen being closemouthed and secretive, but here one of the best just wishes to pass on the craft to those who care to learn. Thank . you.
I never got the chance to spend time with my grandpas before they passed away. I wish I could have learned from them the same way I'm learning from you. Thanks gramps!
Paul If I could give you a thousand thumbs up, I would. This is probably the best ever method for a tenon and mortise fitting that I've ever seen. Thanks for this video, I'll treasure it in my mind.
What a delight to see someone call the correct tool a ‘router’! I’m a lifelong collector and user of routers and chisels dating back to 16th C. My current project is a farm house, 6 out buildings and a 60,000 sq’ dairy barn built in 1904. They’ve been horribly abused and scavenged so I bought a turn of C lumber mill, wood lot acreage and brought all my tools to restore it all asking only tools that existed when the buildings were built. 😁
When I started wood working as a kid, my dad told me wood working is using common sense to work things out, this method proves he was right, Great video. And I've been woodworking for 20 years and still learning from videos like this, it's what it's all about.👍
wow Paul your so very very generous to the hand tool woodworkers may I on behalf of all of us say a very very big thank you . you inspire me to get in the workshop and its fantastic for being disabled it get me exercise and mental stimulation . pete
That is a great tip to use a tenon as a guide for the mortise! The idea that practice is needed is not intuitive. Often we take initial failure as inability instead of enjoying the journey to becoming adequate and then eventually consider ourselves adept. Bravo!
Did anyone else spit out there coffee when a 3x3x5" through tenon just dropped perfectly into place along all 7 facets of the joint on the first test fit? I know I did! I love this channel LOL :)
Mr. Sellers, you are a genius! You have opened the door for me to a world of working wood "unplugged". I have two of your great books ( "Essential Woodworking Hand Tools" and "Working Wood") and the DVD set "Using and Sharpening Essential Woodworking Hand Tools". I cannot thank you enough.
Mr. Sellers, thank you very much for this and all the other teaching videos you have in your channel. They are amazing. Although I have power tools, I reaIy enjoy working with hand tools. Take longer but the joy is incredible. I have always love woodworking and now that I´m retired I builded a shop in my farm to enjoy what I love more; Family, life in the farm and woodworking. My best regards to you from Panamá Sir.
Nothing against other contributors, but I have learned so much more from you. Thank you so much for offering these videos to everyone. Thank you again for you time and expertise.
I used to own a boat which had been built in Devon. The steps into the cabin were angled, probably 60 degrees or so. The joiner had made through tenons for each step and they were perfect, immaculate, flawless. If I can manage the same before my time is up I'll be happy. Excellent instruction as always Paul. Thank you.
Wild enthusiastic applause. This is why I need to upgrade from my poor man’s router. Come to think of it though, my poor man’s router does hold its adjustment very very well (I was very forceful getting it in there…) so if you don’t have two routers a poor man’s router can be useful for the finishing depth, and a more adjustable router to the roughing work.
Love your work Paul . I recently used a similar method to do a 25 Inch scarf joint on a sailing mast and it was something I learnt from you a wile back I just applied it to a different application . I have recently finished another Christmas star in another table top this time in teak wood and spotted gum and spruce similar to the one in the photo I sent you some time back You must of liked it as you have placed it in your photo section on your web site . This last table was for a client on a 7 Million dollar yacht the owner was ecstatic and said it was a work of art so I thank you for what you have achieved in being able to come up with simple but effective ways of teaching people all over the globe the fine art of Joinery I'm looking forward to re-joining your paid section once financers allow me to do so .
so refreshing that you took your time and didn't do the fast forward high speed when you did the other side of the mortise. that is so important to show the true rhythm of hand tool work.
I think you Sir are Amazing****** I was a carpenter for 30yrs useing power tools for everything, Iam now just getting into hand tools because I lost alot of my eyesight from glaucoma. I learn so much from you. Thank you..Paul.
Brilliant! I wish I'd learned this in wood shop so many years ago. Amazingly, we were not provided with hand routers like Paul is using. I'd never seen these until recently. Trying to saw the tenons with a back-saw was the best we learned. The keys to this method: 1. proper millwork of the stock 2. NOT adjusting the finish router 3. Keeping chisels very, very sharp
A suggestion - butt up againt another piece of wood levelled with the top of the workpiece. That way you can plane away the entire tenon in one operation with support on both sides. If you clamp both pieces to a support below you can be confident they will not move relative to each other in the vise. Lovely to watch you work - you make it look effortless. It's only when one tries it oneself that one realizes what an artist you are: how much of what you do is directed at making everything you do exactly what you are trying to do.
Bloody brilliant, reminds me of one of my lecturers who was another master of his craft, I felt like I was back at college learning brickwork for a while. thanks Paul.
I had created a tenon and then watched this video, tenon scrapped and redone, I even purchased a small had router as my mortise and tenon is for a hand mirror. Guess what one perfect tenon, your videos are brilliant and this method is the total opposite of what I was taught at school nearly 50 years ago. Hope you are going to do a dovetail version.
Focused thought on how to make the blades go where we want is what makes this craft so fascinating. Using two router planes so the setting of the finish work makes so much sense. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and being so inspiring.
Thank you Paul, that was unquestionably the most valuable and impressive example of ingenuity and skill that I have ever seen . The longest video I have ever watched , and shall watch again. You have given all of us out 'ere something priceless
I've tried it, and I love it! I've struggled with mortise and tenons, and this method made them so much better. Still not perfect, but with some practice I think I'll have it. Thanks for sharing!
Your instructional videos are inspiring, hopefully the younger generation will begin taking the trade up and have a lifelong occupation with their hands in lieu of college. We need more craftsman. Thanks Paul for you Lifetime of excellence.
Dear Paul even so we don´t know each other, it feels like i know you well through all the work I've seen from you i realy like to thank you for all your content and especially for this unike technic that i have never seen bevor anywhere and you give it away so generous !! sincerely Hubert
This is a superb method for the people like me I can never make tenon or mortise straight ever I will definitely try this method thanks for sharing this video
Paul, I have been watching your videos for some time now and have learned much from watching your work patterns. Thank you for what you do! I just completed a desk for my daughter designed to fit her apartment. Completely electricity-free! From sizing the raw lumber to the dovetailed cabinet to the mortices and tenons...all hand done! Thanks, Paul!
He makes it look so easy, eh? One of these days I'll start making stuff after watching these. It helps that the tools used are top notch and sharper than anything I could get. I plan on starting with the tool bench series.
Elegant, seemingly bulletproof method - this is really exciting stuff, great job! It's a special case (equal work-piece thicknesses) but one that comes up very often. I almost didn't watch it, but am very glad I did, as it's truly different from anything I've yet seen. Thank you.
Beautifully done. SO much more pride in workmanship than I attain with my electrical toys. I wish I wasn't under such a time crunch to get so much done so I could slow it down and feel the shaping of the wood under my own power. I will make my living room furniture this way, no excuses.
Your tutorials are so great. I think you explain and demonstrate whatever method you are teaching better than anyone else. I have yet to make a mortise and tenon joint and I will definitely use your method. You, sir, are brilliant!
The first time I used a guide to parry something perpendicular my woodworking became 100% better. It's really hard to do free handed and the walls are so much crisper. I think if I would have learned or thought of this technique I wouldn't have even bothered to have bought a mortising machine. Just saying keep up the good work I love how youtube can bring you into a person's workshop and see just how other people do things and keeping an open mind to it.
Brilliant~! Both you and Rob Cosman have completely changed my outlook on hand-tool woodworking. For years, my thoughts were that the hand-tool side was for doing the fine-tuning part of the job, not the "heavy work". I've learned that I was wrong, wrong, wrong. Thank you for the instructional video~!
Dagnabbit, Mr. Sellers, because of you I have a router plane; now it looks like I'll have to get another and, while I'm at it, a set of a few mortise chisels (or at least firmer) to keep the pair of planes company. (Yes it truly is impossible to have enough tools, space to keep them in, and/or, especially, enough money to afford it all. But at least the work keeps us out of trouble. and it looks like this time I'll be making a router plane instead of buying one, as well as adding a wider wooden base to the one I have.)
Absolutely amazing, what a simple but effective way to make a joint that is thousands of years old. Who could have thought it could be improved over all that time, but it just has been. I tip my hat to you Sir. Thank you for sharing this wonderful method. Why couldn’t you have been my wood working teacher
Thanks Paul, for all the fantastic videos and sharing of techniques and knowledge. I have reduced my machines to just a bandsaw as hand tool woodworking is so enjoyable.
Thank you for the tip and for your kind comment!
Mr. Sellers - how are you not knighted yet? Your love for woodworking, and the great detail in teaching has made woodworking such an important part of my own life. I appreciate everything you do for us.
knighted? what being a knight has anything to do with it? Paul is a great woodworker, a master at his craft.
But a Knight?
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@@mynameisman1254 knights ride horses and swing swords, stop knighting everything Brits! ;)
Avi Hillel I’m American 🤦♂️
@@mynameisman1254 Hi American, I'm joking, nice to meet you
Thank You !
This is such an innovative method for making a beautiful mortise and tenon joint.
I'm just starting out. The end of this video is why I can't get enough of Paul Sellers. "And it's all yours. You go ahead."
4 years later. How is it going now?
The idea in this presentation everyone is to kick start thinking differently and then working differently.
I think this will change the way I do mortise tenons from here on, could I respectfully ask if I could make the tenon length say 9/16th longer, then cut it off to finish size after the router work, rather than route the last 1/2 inch ?
McAVIT Yourway good idea !
I have been using guides for a while now for perpendicular cuts. I learned it from Charles Neil. He showed how he drilled and parried Mortise before he was able to afford a mortise machine. I have done it that way too.
I now own a bench top mortise machine but I will definitely try this method because sometimes the setup time might just be longer than the actual time used to cut a mortise by hand.
Yes, that is fine, but in my work, and in an upcoming project on masterclasses.com I add enough to the tenon length of the first tenon top make my gauge from. I also always cut two tenons at once so the length of tenons at say 1 1/2" becomes three inches between shoulder lines plus a kerf width and `i get two tenons at once.
The idea of doing 2 two tenons as a single piece and then cutting it in half just blew my mind... :) Thanks for all the amazing work you and your team do on this channel; you're an amazing teacher!
The sign of a master craftsman like Paul Sellers is that when you watch a master craftsman, he makes the job looks so easy when in reality it makes a lot of practice to achieve this level of craftsmanship.
Thank you Mr. Sellers for showing us the right way for doing mortise and tenon joint. I plan on practicing this till I become good at it.
every damn time I watch one of your instructional videos I learn 100 new things. Blown away, again.
as a retired furniture maker who just loves youtube for different new ideas, i can honestly say using the the router to mark the edges is brilliance.
I have only recently discovered these posts by Paul Sellers. Just an absolute pleasure to watch and learn.
Great tutorial as usual, Paul. I like to make the tenon half an inch longer than finished size. That way you can just cut off the end router support rather than muck about getting down to thickness.
The right tools for the job and the right attitude all combined with the skill of a master. A joy to watch. Thanks a lot.
You're such a legend for sharing these techniques, Paul.
It's not what you earn that makes a man, it's what you give. Super generous. Merci.
The joinery is amazing, Paul. Thank you for making it less scary for we mere mortals! 😊
Very good work. I am at an age where the noise of industry can be left at the job site. The quiet chisel and plane brings back the joy in woodworking classic style.
If ever a woodworking tutorial deserved a billion views, this is the one.
"and it's all yours, go ahead and practice it, and you will have tenon making down for the rest of your life" this is what i love about these videos. There is a tradition of master craftsmen being closemouthed and secretive, but here one of the best just wishes to pass on the craft to those who care to learn. Thank . you.
You sir, are a world heritage treasure! Thanks for all you do! And thanks to your son and team of videographers for the outstanding footage!
I've watched this several times and it is solid gold. Thanks Paul.
this is the best practical demonstration i have ever watched it makes me feel like you dont need wood glue after this whaal well done
I never got the chance to spend time with my grandpas before they passed away. I wish I could have learned from them the same way I'm learning from you. Thanks gramps!
MR. Sellers.....you are the man! Thanks for all you do for use weekend woodworkers.
Thank you Paul for sharing your method of precise mortise and tenon joinery - well done.
Paul
If I could give you a thousand thumbs up, I would.
This is probably the best ever method for a tenon and mortise fitting that I've ever seen.
Thanks for this video, I'll treasure it in my mind.
What a delight to see someone call the correct tool a ‘router’! I’m a lifelong collector and user of routers and chisels dating back to 16th C. My current project is a farm house, 6 out buildings and a 60,000 sq’ dairy barn built in 1904. They’ve been horribly abused and scavenged so I bought a turn of C lumber mill, wood lot acreage and brought all my tools to restore it all asking only tools that existed when the buildings were built. 😁
When I started wood working as a kid, my dad told me wood working is using common sense to work things out, this method proves he was right,
Great video. And I've been woodworking for 20 years and still learning from videos like this, it's what it's all about.👍
wow Paul your so very very generous to the hand tool woodworkers may I on behalf of all of us say a very very big thank you .
you inspire me to get in the workshop and its fantastic for being disabled it get me exercise and mental stimulation .
pete
Paul??? The Dude!!! That was simply The Best!!!!!
That’s brilliant how simple and self-ensuring the method is.
I have lost count of how many times I have watched this video, and still it is always a pleasure. Thank's again Paul.
That is a great tip to use a tenon as a guide for the mortise! The idea that practice is needed is not intuitive. Often we take initial failure as inability instead of enjoying the journey to becoming adequate and then eventually consider ourselves adept. Bravo!
“I’ll do this one while I’m in the zone”. Legend.
When I grow up... I'll still want to be like you... Making perfection look easy! Thanks a lot from very confined northern Lower Canada
Exquisite craftmanship. A wonderful lesson in joinery.
A really intelligent way to make sure the mortise is at the perfect position and has the right dimensions. Thank you Paul!
Paul, what a gift you have given woodworkers with this technique! THANK YOU.
Did anyone else spit out there coffee when a 3x3x5" through tenon just dropped perfectly into place along all 7 facets of the joint on the first test fit? I know I did! I love this channel LOL :)
Mr. Sellers, you are a genius! You have opened the door for me to a world of working wood "unplugged". I have two of your great books ( "Essential Woodworking Hand Tools" and "Working Wood") and the DVD set "Using and Sharpening Essential Woodworking Hand Tools". I cannot thank you enough.
Mr. Sellers, thank you very much for this and all the other teaching videos you have in your channel. They are amazing. Although I have power tools, I reaIy enjoy working with hand tools. Take longer but the joy is incredible. I have always love woodworking and now that I´m retired I builded a shop in my farm to enjoy what I love more; Family, life in the farm and woodworking. My best regards to you from Panamá Sir.
This is great, fantastic method for those us that don't get enough woodworking practise to learn this joint through and through. Many thanks Paul
Wonderful stuff. Never ever tire of watching Paul..
Nothing against other contributors, but I have learned so much more from you. Thank you so much for offering these videos to everyone. Thank you again for you time and expertise.
Agreed that is the best way I have seen to make a mortise & tenon joint by hand! It would result in better quality hardwood doors.
I used to own a boat which had been built in Devon. The steps into the cabin were angled, probably 60 degrees or so. The joiner had made through tenons for each step and they were perfect, immaculate, flawless. If I can manage the same before my time is up I'll be happy. Excellent instruction as always Paul. Thank you.
It's hypnotic to watch Paul work the wood. Thank you for sharing.
Wild enthusiastic applause. This is why I need to upgrade from my poor man’s router. Come to think of it though, my poor man’s router does hold its adjustment very very well (I was very forceful getting it in there…) so if you don’t have two routers a poor man’s router can be useful for the finishing depth, and a more adjustable router to the roughing work.
Love your work Paul . I recently used a similar method to do a 25 Inch scarf joint on a sailing mast and it was something I learnt from you a wile back I just applied it to a different application . I have recently finished another Christmas star in another table top this time in teak wood and spotted gum and spruce similar to the one in the photo I sent you some time back You must of liked it as you have placed it in your photo section on your web site . This last table was for a client on a 7 Million dollar yacht the owner was ecstatic and said it was a work of art so I thank you for what you have achieved in being able to come up with simple but effective ways of teaching people all over the globe the fine art of Joinery I'm looking forward to re-joining your paid section once financers allow me to do so .
I love this idea of retaining a planing guide/reference, feel like it would be really useful for longer joints
so refreshing that you took your time and didn't do the fast forward high speed when you did the other side of the mortise. that is so important to show the true rhythm of hand tool work.
I think you Sir are Amazing****** I was a carpenter for 30yrs useing power tools for everything, Iam now just getting into hand tools because I lost alot of my eyesight from glaucoma. I learn so much from you. Thank you..Paul.
Thank you Paul for your generous heart, sharing your wisdom with the new generations. God bless you.
You are the best! I am learning a lot with you. Thanks from Brazil.
And that's why I need another router plane. Brilliant idea with the jig by the way.
It’s very impressive that you can show a new method in 2017 for a very old joinery technique. Your craft is superb, keep up the good work.
Brilliant! I wish I'd learned this in wood shop so many years ago. Amazingly, we were not provided with hand routers like Paul is using. I'd never seen these until recently. Trying to saw the tenons with a back-saw was the best we learned. The keys to this method:
1. proper millwork of the stock
2. NOT adjusting the finish router
3. Keeping chisels very, very sharp
+Bill Crowell
Saw and chisel skills are more important. The exact same skills can then be applied to using Planes and mortice sets.
A suggestion - butt up againt another piece of wood levelled with the top of the workpiece. That way you can plane away the entire tenon in one operation with support on both sides. If you clamp both pieces to a support below you can be confident they will not move relative to each other in the vise.
Lovely to watch you work - you make it look effortless. It's only when one tries it oneself that one realizes what an artist you are: how much of what you do is directed at making everything you do exactly what you are trying to do.
It's like poetry! Beautiful.
Bloody brilliant, reminds me of one of my lecturers who was another master of his craft, I felt like I was back at college learning brickwork for a while. thanks Paul.
Wow! You have made thee seemingly Impossible, Simple!! Wonderful video, thanks very much.
I had created a tenon and then watched this video, tenon scrapped and redone, I even purchased a small had router as my mortise and tenon is for a hand mirror. Guess what one perfect tenon, your videos are brilliant and this method is the total opposite of what I was taught at school nearly 50 years ago. Hope you are going to do a dovetail version.
Focused thought on how to make the blades go where we want is what makes this craft so fascinating. Using two router planes so the setting of the finish work makes so much sense. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and being so inspiring.
Beautifully planed & executed. Elegant in its simplicity! A bow to thank the Master.
Thank you Paul, that was unquestionably the most valuable and impressive example of ingenuity and skill that I have ever seen . The longest video I have ever watched , and shall watch again.
You have given all of us out 'ere something priceless
I've tried it, and I love it! I've struggled with mortise and tenons, and this method made them so much better. Still not perfect, but with some practice I think I'll have it. Thanks for sharing!
Your instructional videos are inspiring, hopefully the younger generation will begin taking the trade up and have a lifelong occupation with their hands in lieu of college. We need more craftsman. Thanks Paul for you Lifetime of excellence.
Dear Paul
even so we don´t know each other, it feels like i know you well through all the work I've seen from you
i realy like to thank you for all your content and especially for this unike technic that i have never seen bevor anywhere
and you give it away so generous !! sincerely Hubert
Thanks very much. I will use it for the rest of my woodworking life, as I have many things you have taught. Thanks for sharing your talents.
Paul, you've improved my woodworking abilities 100%! Thanks for all your instructions and keep up the good work.
This man is the definition of master craftsman.
Mr Seller is the best online teacher i ever seen.. So patient, gentle and very clever 👍👍 thankyou verymuch Sir 🙏
Велике спасибі за таку чудову ідею! Міцного Вам здоров'я!
This is a superb method for the people like me I can never make tenon or mortise straight ever I will definitely try this method thanks for sharing this video
A true master woodworker and a master teacher!
Paul, I have been watching your videos for some time now and have learned much from watching your work patterns. Thank you for what you do! I just completed a desk for my daughter designed to fit her apartment. Completely electricity-free! From sizing the raw lumber to the dovetailed cabinet to the mortices and tenons...all hand done! Thanks, Paul!
Amazing as always, Paul!
Thank you for passing on techniques such as this with such dedication to simplicity and quality.
Cheers from Brazil.
Awesome work. There is a lot of things that i learn after watch your vedio.
thanks Paul . absolutely wonderful way to get it right first time
He makes it look so easy, eh? One of these days I'll start making stuff after watching these. It helps that the tools used are top notch and sharper than anything I could get. I plan on starting with the tool bench series.
You really work very efficiently!!! Very nice
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge. Relaxing to watch as well as educational.
Thank you for sharing this. You have a true teacher's approach. Finding a way to make your students more successful; what a great way to teach!
That’s perfect , Greatness over Great , God bless you , we are grateful for you sharing with us your knowledge
Elegant, seemingly bulletproof method - this is really exciting stuff, great job! It's a special case (equal work-piece thicknesses) but one that comes up very often. I almost didn't watch it, but am very glad I did, as it's truly different from anything I've yet seen. Thank you.
Outstanding Paul, clear and concise, many thanks.
Beautifully done. SO much more pride in workmanship than I attain with my electrical toys. I wish I wasn't under such a time crunch to get so much done so I could slow it down and feel the shaping of the wood under my own power. I will make my living room furniture this way, no excuses.
Brilliant! The most accurate work is done without a single measurement.
Your tutorials are so great. I think you explain and demonstrate whatever method you are teaching better than anyone else. I have yet to make a mortise and tenon joint and I will definitely use your method. You, sir, are brilliant!
what a great technique, thanks for the demonstration
Tis a thing of beauty! Sat here programming for a living, with this on in the background... I love it!!
The first time I used a guide to parry something perpendicular my woodworking became 100% better. It's really hard to do free handed and the walls are so much crisper. I think if I would have learned or thought of this technique I wouldn't have even bothered to have bought a mortising machine.
Just saying keep up the good work I love how youtube can bring you into a person's workshop and see just how other people do things and keeping an open mind to it.
Great tutorial Paul, thanks mate.
Paul you are a magician! I enjoy your videos immensely. Thank you so much.
Brilliant~! Both you and Rob Cosman have completely changed my outlook on hand-tool woodworking. For years, my thoughts were that the hand-tool side was for doing the fine-tuning part of the job, not the "heavy work". I've learned that I was wrong, wrong, wrong. Thank you for the instructional video~!
I really enjoy your videos. You are a true craftsman and a wonderful teacher
I love your method. This is so good. Yes it is time to practice. Thank you Paul.
Brilliant - Awesome and Simple but oh so Effective! Makes a novice / wannabe woodworker believe he or she can really do this.
@weh375xen ... AMEN to THAT!!! :-D
You can do this! Practice and practice until it's perfect!
Simple and effective. It works, which is the most important thing. If it offends a "purist". Tough luck.
Dagnabbit, Mr. Sellers, because of you I have a router plane; now it looks like I'll have to get another and, while I'm at it, a set of a few mortise chisels (or at least firmer) to keep the pair of planes company. (Yes it truly is impossible to have enough tools, space to keep them in, and/or, especially, enough money to afford it all. But at least the work keeps us out of trouble. and it looks like this time I'll be making a router plane instead of buying one, as well as adding a wider wooden base to the one I have.)
Thank you Paul for another wonderfully instructive technique and presentation!
Absolutely amazing, what a simple but effective way to make a joint that is thousands of years old. Who could have thought it could be improved over all that time, but it just has been.
I tip my hat to you Sir.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful method.
Why couldn’t you have been my wood working teacher
Eureka! What a brilliant observational method.
Great video Paul, love your simple and precise method.