Take Round-overs and Chamfers to the NEXT LEVEL with Hand Tools
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- The judicious application of edge treatments like round-overs and chamfers can add a lot to a furniture design, but when they vary in width, angle, or radii, or follow curves, doing them with a router becomes difficult, if not impossible.
Here's how to do them by hand.
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Best piece of advice I’ve heard on hand tools..there’s no shame in having something done by hand look like it’s been done by hand
Your tool cabinet is extremely beautiful!
Thanks for sharing your skills and teaching without a payment due. You are truly an awesome person for sharing!!!
So much more satisfying doing it by hand
Thanks for sharing. I don't own a router either. I find myself uncomfortable when I use one so I've decided to do without. As such, I chamfer like you. It's a really quick process. For most projects, it's a matter of minutes.
I do love the look of those sweeping chamfers, I've must incorporate one or more into something soon!
+10 for the point about handmade pieces looking like they're handmade. I'm quite guilty of trying to make my stuff (99% done with hand tools) look 'perfect' but part of that is just a learner striving for higher standards in shaping and surface prep, not that I think it's a necessity. I will stick with a zero-tolerance policy for tearout though 😎
Absolutely love your skills and videos. I must say you drive me crazy with Chame-fer vs. Cham-fer.
Thank you for sharing your experience with us. This video has opened up a lot possibilities for me and my work. Thank you!
Excellent sculpting and exhibition of tool use.Thanks.
Thank you for showing what flexibility can be achieved using hand tools instead of a power router fixed profile. You collection of hand tools is such a beauty, I’d love to put my hands onto a Stanley 113 one day, but so rare to find one
Owning a Stanley (or Record copy) compass plane is a dream of many of us, but rare like you say and can be prohibitively expensive for a seldom-used tool. As a workable alternative I think it's worth considering having a couple of compassed wooden planes, or if necessary converting a standard coffin smoother, which isn't too difficult to do and they're very abundant and cheap in many locations.
Thanks for sharing. I enjoy your videos and how at ease you make the viewers feel. Subscribed and looking forward to new content.
I love the demonstrations. They are very helpful.
Very informative - thanks for sharing your knowledge. I had been keeping an eye out for a compass plane but didn’t see anything. I’ll start looking again!
Great demonstration! Thank you!
One of the most useful and instructive woodworking vids I’ve ever seen, definitely interested in your other content now and excited to see what other great knowledge you share! This video was incredibly inspiring too, beautiful beautiful work!
thanks for the tips
love these videos. super helpful to a beginner like me :)
Well that was pretty good thanks
Good stuff, useful for a beginner like me 👍
Great demonstrations. I really need to get some better rasps.
The round with a rasp/file..... I find it's more consistent and easier if you start the stroke on the far side with the handle "flat", then drop your hand as you stroke; instead of starting with the handle low and raising it as you stroke. This is the way file work is taught here in Europe anyways, and I do find it gives a more consistent finish and cuts smoother too (smoother as felt through the handle of the tool) 😁
I tried to do it that way quite a bit at first, because I'd seen others do it that way, and never liked the way it felt nor the results I got, which is how I ended up doing it the way I do it now. To each their own, and all that.
@@themountaintopjoinersshop8422 it does feel quite "strange" at first, it seems like a counter motion to what is "normal" to the hand, but for me it does give results. As you said; to each their own an all that 😁
Dont take any of my comments as a "critique" of the way you work, or like I'm sayin its "wrong"...... theres no such thing as wrong if ya get results. Think of my comments as "bouncing ideas" among friends, theres no harm in my words...... I respect you quite a bit lad, and my future "magnum opus" will be based off your tool cabinet in a way, I have taken an inspiration from you 😁
Very informative. Thank you.
Slotted screws are used almost exclusively in traditional boatbuilding and are superior to phillips and other types. The problem for most people unused to them is that they do not use the correct flat screwdriver. The screwdriver needs to fit the slot very closely, requiring that you have multiple screwdrivers or a multiple tip tool, ask any gunsmith. The fact is you can impart more torque to a slotted screw than you can a phillips with the appropriate tip. I grant you, most people do not have nor want multiple screwdrivers, and for the most part, the quality of metal nowadays leaves much to be desired. I have been working in wood and metal for more than fifty years and have learned from many older experts. Use the right tool for the job, counterbore your holes, and rub some beeswax over the threads😁
I despise Phillips screws almost more than flathead. Flathead look nice, but to my experience that's the *only* good quality they have. I know I'm not alone in pointing out that the traditional flathead woodscrew is shaped like a wedge, which is a terrible design. If aesthetics were no concern, I'd be perfectly happy to use Torx (or even Robertson) for everything the rest of my life. They may be ugly, but functionally they are superior to everything preceding them.
I was hoping you’d get to a tool I saw on your shelf in the opening-the concave scraper set. Do you use them much? If so, with or without a burr? (I’ve heard differing answers.) If doing a big (like half inch) radius, would you start small and work your way up or just do it all with the target radius?
I don't use them very often, but when I do, it's with a slight burr, and the target radius from the get go.
Great video. Thank you for sharing. Can I ask, were did you get your apron? It looks pretty comfortable.
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Cool! Love the idea of making my own. You've inspired me, thank you sir! 👍
Hey, man (what's your name again?), amazing tips.
May I ask if you had formal education in cabinetry? I know you look foward to the old classics in design matters, but your handwork is top notch. Well above other youtubers.
My name is Ryan but I typically go by R.C. and I'm self taught from books, magazines, videos, etc., and of course, trying to figure things out.
@@themountaintopjoinersshop8422 "RC" sounds good to me. RC, your techniques are great! You're really a virtuoso of sorts. Your style really stands out and I hope your youtube will grow exponentially (:
Me too!
Except most of your hand tools are worth more than a router table LOL.
A high end router table with a lift, router, and bits to go with it would easily rival the cost of all my hand tools put together.