Import Tool Madness: $6 Spokeshave
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Is this the worst tool ever made? I'm not sure, but it's got to be in the running. Join me as I review the most useless spokeshave I have ever seen in my life. It's light-duty, small, poorly made and impossible to adjust. It's the perfect-storm of bad manufacturing. But it does make for a fun 8 minutes.
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I have that exact spokeshave. To fix the adjuster problem you have to loosen the top screw that pinches the blade or just use a pair of pliers. It also helps if you oil the threads. I use them every day with no issues. Sure they're not great but there cheap and that is what really matters when you are on a budget like I am.
I had ordered one of these before I saw the video. It is really cheaply made, however mine does work. The screws adjust the iron, nice long thin curls, and for my kids little hands it fits.
Well at least you've warned 22k+ people potentially saving $132k dollars of wasted money. So it wasn't a total waste.
Suburban Yute real question is... did anyone tell allieexpress?
132 000 dollars lol
no the biggest question is 6 dollars worth the iron?
@@bigkirbyhj666 Got 6 stanley spokeshave irons for 7 euros from a decent hardware dealer, accounting for the materials+work on the body, seems to check out
I'm kind of surprised you didn't make a spokeshave with the blade, I hadn't anticipated a small plane build. As always, enjoyed the video.
You just threw out a potentially great boat cleat....😂😂😂😂😂😂😩.... just sayin. Another great video!
exactly my thought
Door prop... ;o)
He always makes great videos
If it were made of popcorn at least you could eat it.
Ha!
:D ever tried chinese popcorn ?
@@BloodyClash Nope! And I don't plan to.
@@RexKrueger:D i once did...and even metall would taste better
That’s what I was thinking. I won’t snuggle up on the couch nibbling a spokeshave. But put on a John Hughes movie and I’ll eat the stalest popcorn you’ve got.
this is just the 3 am video I´ve been looking for all day.
Nice!
That's me right now!!!
Great optimism Rex. It's been probably 35 years ago when I was a young just outta high school kid building pole barns for a living that I have a 30+ dollar hammer a trip into the weeds, trees, and briars. I was running metal on the roof of a large pole barn that had a 4 sheet lap on the roof at every run of metal. After I had hit my thumb and index finger for the 10 thousandth time my young man temper got the best of me and a good 20oz Stanley framing hammer flew from the roof and deep into the hollow, next to the newly constructed building. It totally wasn't the hammers fault but still I felt better, briefly. A friend and I searched during lunch to no avail. Once I realized the hammer was gone and that I would to replace it with no money to do so, I no longer felt vindicated. I learned very early to not do that again. I had to use an old wooden handled 20oz framing hammer with the waffle pattern on it for a few weeks while I saved for a new hammer. Needless to say that thing was a REAL killer on the thumb and finger, prot made me more accurate though. 🤦🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
Your intro almost made me spit out my coffee! I have been waiting for a true pos tool to get in your hands. You are my kind of guy and I love the honest review. I hope that iron was worth the $6!
Thanks so much! I had fun making the video. The iron was NOT worth $6, but I got a video out of it and the profit from this will more than make up for the cost.
I put all metal junk in a bin, once a year it gets sorted and sent to the scrap yard. $180/ton, coffee money.
Thanks for taking the time to share your pain and entertain us along the way.
You're right. The spokeshave from India is a piece of crap but believe it or not it does have its good points. I messed with mine for about an hour and couldn't get it to work worth a damn so, I looked at it, and have "catch all" draws in my shop and wondered if any of the parts could be used. I assumed the screws were metric, but not so. I removed them and found the brass ones were 8-32, and 12-24. American. I then found I could take out the long allen screws which were 5/64 all wrench American/8-32 threads. I put these in the screw box along with the brass knurled knobs which would come handy for other projects. I found the blade could be sharpened and so I mounted it in two slabs of oak 5"L X 1 1/2" W X 3/8" thick. I put two machine screws with locking bolts on each end, tightened them, and found I had the makings of a pretty fair scraper blade with a nice handle. All that was left was the black handle which went into the trash. For $6 plus shipping I feel I got my money's worth. I'm reminded of the John Hartford song: I Can't Stand To Throw Anything Away. When I go into my neighborhood hardware store of automotive store they ask, "What musical instrument parts do you need today"? Where I live here in the Ozark mountains, it's called, "Hillbilly Engineering". If you can't find it, make it if possible.
I've been on a bit of a traditional wood tool making kick lately, and I decided to tackle a wooden spokeshave. Turns out it was cheaper to buy one of these junkers for the blade than buying a blade by itself. So I did, in part to see if it really was as bad as all that, and if I could use it to avoid the "need a spokeshave to shape a spokeshave" scenario Rex ran into in his wooden spokeshave build.
I have to concur with Rex. This thing is vile, and I went back to my rasps ten minutes into trying to use it.
I have two of these, and the screw threads on mine weren't even set parallel and straight! I am a beginner, so I thought I wasn't adjusting them right. I watched a ton of tutorials. Now I know those spokshaves are just crappy tools, thanks
This is funny. I literally just bought one of those to shave down a mallet handle. $7 on Amazon. Arrived today and I made quick work of the handle. I was kicking myself for not owning one sooner!!!! I loved it. That being said, I've never used another other spokeshave, so I have nothing to compare it to, but I was pretty pleased with how easy it was to use.
I think I got a bad one. Some people say these work fine.
I bought something similar off of Amazon recently, knowing full well I was going to toss most of it. But it came with 5 irons, so I figured that was worth the $12. Maybe. We'll see.
How did it turn out?
@@johnhemby8631 They're crap. Machine marks like you wouldn't believe, and the handle is just absolute garbage. I built a jig for my belt sander to take the deep grooves out of the iron, then spent about 5 minutes per iron honing and got them shaving really nice. They actually hold a decent edge...nothing to marvel at, but they can shave. If nothing else, they're a cheap learning tool to perfect your sharpening technique. If you can learn to hone these, you can hone anything, and you don't have to worry about messing up a nice iron.
I bought one of these and it does work. It took a little finagling to have it work properly, like smoothing out the grooves in the blade and shaping the sole to fit my needs because the casting is god awful. I might machine a better lever cap out of mild steel, but this far I haven't any problems.
I got basically the same one from Amazon for $9 except that the adjustment screws work. Still manage to make it uselful, though probably because I haven't used a good one before
Hey Rex, longtime viewer first time commenting on one of your vids. Big fan of your dry humour.
Anyway on to the POS you bought lol. I got one of those a few years ago, I say "one of those" but actually mine looks the same at a distance but isn't anything like as crappy as the one you were saddled with! The adjustment wheels work, not well but they engage the slots in the iron at least, and while the mouth is a bit wide it's not completely unreasonable. I've knocked it to the floor numerous times and it hasn't broken yet so the cast iron can't be too bad (thank God, I'm a bit of a klutz). And the iron holds an edge pretty well, which may be the most surprising thing about it.
I find the size quite handy for work at a smaller scale, but I must do something about the cap's skinny screw if I plan on doing more spokeshave work.
Glad you like my videos! Please share your thoughts more often! I'm glad your shave is better than mine...couldn't be worse.
I bought one of those cheap smoke shaves a while ago. I haven't used them in a while but I had tried to change it into a round bottom spokeshave. In the first place I searched for a round bottom spokeshave and guess what? The webpage said round bottom spokeshave, so I ordered it and it wasn't. I used my stationary belt sander to make the bottom round, but had difficulty using it and after seeing your presentation tonight (yes that spokeshave had the same stamped Steel cap iron) I threw mine away too.
I love your shows. You tell it just the way it is and that's rare in this world. Like getting a product that looks too good to be true. And I like to reman scraps too.
I purchased one similar to this on eBay. The model worked very well. Glad I didn't get that one. It looks like you got a good blade.
Thank god! I thought I was driving the short bus. I bought one of these months ago. My first spoke shave! I was stoked! It arrived. I sharpened the blade. I rewatched a P. Seller’s episode. I foraged a piece of scrap wood and got busy. It bounced. It gauged. It sunk. It ripped and shredded. WTF. I watched another episode. I made adjustments. WTF! It bounced higher, dug deeper. Was it me? Or the spoke?
Thank god!
I’ll be getting a proper tool. And watching another episode and getting back on that pony.
Sincere thanks!
Yeah, it's not you. That tool is an embarrassment. Get a good one and you'll never put it down.
I have the same spokeshaver and I used it a lot for raw curving stuff . And I love it . It's not such a piece of junk in my opinion.
Same, after receiving the spokeshaver the first thing to do it's to make it flat the paint it's a problem for me when I draw the paint sticks to the wood so I sanded on a flat surface and it's working great I don't own a expensive spokeshaver to do a comparison but for what I used it's good stuf and it only cost 3.63 $ with no Vamal TAXES
I cut a door hinge and epoxied it onto the bed where the blade sits. the mouth opening was reduced by more than half and then made the tool usable to my surprise.
Well... I'm from Brazil and here we don't have options, only China. 😬
What I learned from buying stuff from there is: 1, don't believe in small prices; 2, carefully look through the comments and reviews; 3, don't decide fast.
Doing that I had enough luck I would say... But it's not easy. 😕
You are correct my friend. Often with chinese stuff, don't buy the cheapest but look for the next one that looks slightly different, and look through pics/comments carefully.
I always tune in when you have a new video to maybe save some money. I have found many great buys by watching you. I, for one, would have left it in the garbage. Thanks for the heads up! I truly appreciate what you do. Many blessings to you and your Channel.
What a nice thing to say! Thanks so much!
Hey Rex. I have the same POS spokeshave. I decided to keep spokeshave for the blade as well. DIdn't know what to do with it, but thanks to your video, now I know. Mine adjusts and works like a normal 151, but it is a nightmare to use. I need to buy some 5 minute epoxy and give making a scraper plane out of the blade a try.
You can even just do it with wood glue. I only had one day to get this video knocked out, so I had to improvise!
I was going to defend he spokeshave, as i have the same one. But then when you remved the cap, it was totally different from mine which was cast iron. Mine cost $4, but that thing you got makes mine look like a premium tool. I still had to tweak mine to get it to work perfectly. That thing you got truly belongs in the trash.
Yeah, mine was not savable.
Thanks for this- saved me wasting money on an Amazon twin spokeshave offer. I could see by the photos that the throat was way too wide- another version of what you got.
I salvaged one el cheapo spokeshave with a big irregular mouth by filling out the bed with Sugru then reassembling it. I greased the blade first so that the Sugru wouldn't stick to it. It works! And the bright yellow Sugru looks really cool against the blue (fashion statement).
Never would have occurred to me!
@@RexKrueger I hope you never need it! ;)
@@RexKrueger BTW, the spokeshave was a supposedly a Record. Nowadays it's hard to know what's counterfeit and what is simply a good old name that's been bought up and slapped onto cheap Asian stuff.
I just bought the exact same one (before viewing your video). It came in a blister pack with a (spokeshave) form fitting clear plastic cover and a piece of cardboard that said "Needle Nose Pliers". ;-)
My logic was 'my grandfather had a spokeshave that was nothing more than a stick with a piece of metal stuck in it. So, I had all the same complaints you had but sharpened the blade anyway. That wasn't easy as it was a little too small to put in my Vertas guide. After sharpening, it was difficult to adjust but it works ok for the price.
Thanks for the heads up Rex 👍
I wholeheartedly share your opinion of junk tools, and shamefully admit that I also ordered this piece of junk from Aliexpress. The screw cap was a disaster so I devised a new one from a piece of sheet metal, properly sharpened the iron, smoothed the adjusting screws a bit and came up with a working tool. am still feeling bad about buying it in the first place.
You can always tell you're in deep financial trouble when you walk into the hardware store, and set the new tool on the counter and the sales guy looks at it and immediately says, "I'm so sorry..." ;o)
Yeah I agree, mine likes to come loose, & the adjusters work when they want to.($10 Amazon) So I am da-- if I do & da-- if I don't!!! Thank You Sir!!!! 👍😎
I just received that crappy spokeshave. I took it a part spent all of 2 minutes sharpen the blade cleaned up the base used the functioning adjustment screws. Cut like a champ.
I believe Aliexpress and wish are kinda like eBay, multiple sellers and multiple sources so it's really a crap shoot.
Yup. I took a shot and I got crap.
He took a crap and got shot
Interestingly, enough, I have been using two of these Chinese planes for a few years now. I’m SURE they’re not the same maker as yours though. The quality is better. There are going to be many makers for this same design of spokeshave from China but they don’t tell you where the tools came from. A tool of the dice.
I converted one into a concave profile and it works awesome. Think I paid $10 for the pair.
If these are serviceable, the Kunz versions must be great. I have a $50 kunz plane that WONT CUT. Have never used it.
I bought a lie Nielsen Boggs spokeshave. It is like a cheat code for woodworking. A literal joy to use.
Happy I started out cheap and then got good enough to justify a nice tool. If I started with that Kunz I don’t know where I’d be
Well done, I really enjoyed the scraper plane. I was kind of expecting a "let's punish this thing with an angle grinder" ending at that point, which would have been pretty wasteful indeed.
I'm totally willing to destroy a tool, but it has to be for a greater goal like making another tool. Go ahead and make you own scraper plane. It's easy.
I saw your diy spokeshave video so I went in to buy a set of 5 blades from aliexpress. Then I was freaking out when I saw you roasting the Crap out of this. But then you salvaged the blade... AT LEAST...
I went out and bought a spokeshave because of one of your other videos, it looked like an awesome tool.
I bought a imported spokeshave for £8 which was also a Stanley copy and I've had some trouble with it (came totally blunt being the main issue) but it looks waaaaay nicer than that Chinese one you have there, it's a total disaster 😅
Btw, the one I have is made by silverline, it's cast iron (or maybe cast mild steel) and the bottom is milled flat.
It's very hefty and solid feeling in the hand. The blade is advertised as being high carbon steel, but I'd doesn't say what kind.
I've sharpened it a bit and now it kinda works, but I'll need to get it much sharper for it to work properly.
Out of the box, it didn't even cut. While it's certainly not the finest quality tool, it's definitely not total junk, just isn't supplied sharpened - which is uncommon but I've definitely came across tools supplied blunt before, especially garden/agricultural tools.
I bought a cheap spokeshave, though not this bad as it does work, but every time I try to use the adjustment screws the iron cap pops off. .
Well, time to buy a better spokeshave!
Spokeshave be like Igt imma head out 😂
Got that abomination too. Main flaw on mine is actually posts, that are at wrong angle. Blade is not resting on back but on posts. I bent posts, now blades is moving better and mouth is lot smaller. Still that tool is garbage, but at least become usable. I plan to curve sole on it, probably should make new chip breaker/cap too.
Good luck to you!
That's weird. I have this same one and the adjustment knobs work fine
I think you should of mounted it on to a nice piece of board, hanged it on the wall to remind yourself of not every thing that is cheap is a bargain. This is what I would have done if I had brought it. To put this in to context, I brought a wood chipper $550 plus $300 shipping. A Michigan Raptor 900, it sits in the living room looking at me everyday, cheers
Rex, Rex, Rex.... lmfao! You don’t know how many times I almost bought that very spoke shave! Thanks for saving me a few dollars...and thanks for the laugh!
Hey Rex, I also have an ali express spoke shave. I did notice that mine seemed to be smaller than it should be but I didn't have an original to compare, so that's good to confirm my suspicions. I did however spend a whole $9 to get mine and it doesn't seem tho have the other issues that yours had with a cast cap and the blade adjustments do work. I guess these things can be real hit and miss.
VERY hit and miss. With all the moving parts, I guess that shouldn't surprise us.
When you kept the blade. The first thing that popped into my head was "Card Scraper". Then, after seeing your little palm plane. I realized that scraper idea was a bust. It's too narrow.
Still a good idea!
I love how so many woodworking youtubers reference to Sellars...he is the Gandalf of woodworking 🤣 such a nice community:)
I've bought the same spokeshave for even less, like 3 Euros or so and mine is just fine. I can fine tune it and all the part works ok.
I guess I was just unlucky.
@@RexKrueger sadly it happens
Yes I recently bought some Chinese F clamps. Total rubbish! Only place they hold is fully extended. They grip nowhere on the shank at all. I use blocks to take up the slack.
I was saying the two up …looks like I’m getting the Stanley!
I have never owned a real spokeshave. Unfortunately, I bought one of these things and I looked at the castings and thought I only needed to clean the thing up. I suppose there is something salvagable... I'm writing as I'm watching you dismantle and toss away all but the blade. I guess I'll be making a scraper as I don't have one of those either.
The scraper works, so that's a good idea. I'll keep my eye open for a cheap spokeshave that ISN'T total crap and try to review it.
looks like it would be a good paper weight / gag gift.
Yeah, that's a good one!
Personally, I'd just give it to my brother-in-law for Christmas. At least I'd get something out of it. If only a chuckle....
Gifting tools the suck, classic!
I'm also in Ottawa. Ont.
If you hate him, this is a perfect gift
Whaaaaat...? That magical appearing spokeshave shot is cool as shhh..spokeshaves!!
I had a little quick thought,... could you cut out a small notch just in front of or behind the iron in the Krenov shaving plane and use the handle from the turdshave, kind of like the dowel that makes little handles that stick out the sides of the Chinese plane that you show earlier in the video...?
I have no idea, but you could certainly give it a try.
@@RexKrueger for six bucks, it's worth a shot! Might get the side walls chamfer'd down enough at the bottom to get double duty out of it. As a plane and spoke... smoothingshave... thing...lol
Lol I had been looking at that thing for months on amazon. Glad i never pulled the trigger. I did get a $2.50 wooden plane off eBay though. I’m sure it will be shit but for less than $3, I’m like you, I just want to see it HA!
Get back to me on that plane. You know I'm curious!
Of course. Probably show it on my channel. Come swing by. I’m mainly Tool Reviews but a touch of tool restorations and a tiny bit of rookie woodworking
Just ordered one of those piece of .... - knew it was crap when I ordered it but thought it would make a good intro to a spoke shave and some fun trying to clean it up and make it work. Maybe it will just hold some rope ;)
Save the blade!
Great video! At least you got a scraper out of it.
I'm honestly not disappointed in the whole thing.
I got one of those in the mail today, and feel oddly compelled to polish that turd, cause I think I can turn it into something half-useful. Will the extra effort be worth it? It better be. Where I live, you just can't get decent tools, that don't happen to cost an arm and a leg.
If you'd made your own spokeshave with the iron instead, that would've been especially beautiful
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Touche
Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the water........ Great video.....kept me from even looking at that POS.
My work is done!
I have two of those pieces of crap. They don't even look good hanging on a floor joist in the basement.
Maybe I'll make something from the irons.
I ordered this just before watching your video!! It arrived today. I reckon mine is just about ok. I can adjust it and the blade as is. is sharp enough. It’s small and would be uncomfortable for prolonged use. I shall save up and buy a Qiangsheng. Buy cheap, buy twice. Interestingly, my 10 dollar block plane with an enormous throat I use more than my top of the range Stanley. It made me think about tools to buy if I were a poor newcomer. There could be nothing worse than something like this cheapo specimen. I reckon beginners need the best and sharpest tools and top quality wood to work on. So here goes. Maple or mahogany type timber, second hand older Stanley 4 or 5. plane. Aldi chisels. Hard point smallish panel saw, cheap diamond sharpening plate, cork sanding block, titebond glue, second hand rosewood square, pencils and sharpener, craft knife for marking out., tape measure, straight edge/ruler, plastic mitre block, marking gauge.I estimate less than 200$. The top end hand tools could come after buying the table saw, thicknesser ,lathe and edge sander, after they have become addicted.
That's a good list! I might borrow that.
Love your presentation. Curious if you’ve ever taught at a school or thought about it? I think many could learn so much from your delivery.
Taught English at Universities for 11 years. Does that count? Seriously, I love to teach and I do woodworking classes sometimes. I'd like to do more, but promoting the classes is really hard and I have so little time. Thanks for the compliment!
Ahhh... have you been watching his videos...?!?
Rex *IS* Teaching...!!!
*MANY People* ...
While He Sleeps...
Via *ONE* Lesson...
(at a time, viewed whenever someone chances upon them or specifically seeks such a lesson...)
I had no problem spending the $18 for a Stanley spokeshave from Home Depot. When the price of a good tool is low enough, I'll buy that over an import any day.
Arizona you realize you've totally missed the point of this video, right? Its not about sensible tool buying. It has the word "madness" in the title.
Well my only spokeshave is one I bought on the street. And it was the same one. I thought i did not like spokeshaves because how terrible it worked. And boy I spent time polishing that turd. Well seems i'll soon have a scraper plane.
I also got a strange feeling about those "brass" knobs
Well mine is a little different, it does adjust, but the adjustment is as delicate as a sledgehammer
I guess we do what we can with what we have. Glad yours works at all!
For $6, a high carbon iron is not that bad. If nothing else it's worth buying for the iron if you dont have the means to work steel.
I'm a little surprised you didn't make a new spokeshave using that blade, but I guess you have plenty.
Yeah, I'm good on spokeshaves. I've been fortunate to find many of them very cheaply. On the other hand, I've never used a wooden one and I'm very curious about them.
Rex Krueger lee valley tools has a kit so you could make your own.they supply the plans and the parts you supply the wood and effort
Very Cool Rex and l never by tools at Ollies.
Maybe I should stop.
I am absolutely going to steal that last insult :-D And it certainly seemed a fitting one... Clyde
i made the same mistake..
but on my spokeshave it was kinda worse..
the adjustment-screws were loose, even rattling in the blade, the blade was shifting around.
and the "cast-iron"-handle broke when i pulled to hard...
was thinking about trashing it.
but i just learned 1 video ago, from a funny bald guy how to make my own spokeshave.
or maybe i just buy one.... :D
Rex I have to disagree on the adjustment Wheels those are silly! By the Stanley with the adjustable throat
Sigh.. I bought that too. At least now I can stop telling myself it's not the tool's fault. It's the guy holding the tool.
There was of course a learning curve for my other hand planners! At least now I can move on.
I bought 2 for 15 on amazon I had to sand the bottom and they work perfect
To be fair, in a few years you're probably going to be embarrassed at the fake-out walk away shot in this one >)
I baught one just like that on wish, its adjustable, works good, made with good metal, only 3$!
Crazy. I guess I just go one of the bod ones. Thanks for sharing!
me too. Mine works okay... not great, but okay. then again, when I buy a good one one day (hard to get them here in europe) I'll probably just hang it on the wall and not ever touch it again. The screws are poorly machined and don't fit very well and the blade gets dull relatively fast. But oh well... for quick shaping it works okay. :) Thx though for an idea what do make of some other junk tools I got... blades tend to be decent. :) thx. Keep up the good work up here :) Blessings from Slovenia
I own two of them and both of them work extremely well, no tear out, easy to adjust, just simply a fairly decent little spokeshave is it fabulous nope, does it work yep,
@@maticjelovcan Could you not replace the screws??
@@dstblj5222 they are imperial instead of metric on this particular one, so it would be more trouble than it's worth to buy imperial set of threading tools just to make it work perfectly. Though as I said, it works, just not great. Furthermore I don't use it a ton anyways, so no big deal. Besides, mere shipping here would cost more than the entire item would if bougt and shipped here in Europe...
😂 I had a spoke shave that looked just like yours. But it didn't work. But after watching you just now! I tried to do what you did. Thanks my spoke shave works. Id send you a picture if I could but I'm a grandmother and a technophobe. P.S. also dyslexic. 🤓I've learned so much from you. You can teach an old dog new tricks. If the teacher is good.👏👍
Pure decoration, good save though turning it into a scrapper plane.
You're very kind!
There is a market for such things as decorations. Did the advertisement actually say it was a practical working device?
It's terrible, but I manage to get it to work okay. Mine came with 5 blades so it was a two-fer for me. I'm probably gonna take your (audio/visual) advice and build my own. As an aside, I also bought one of the cheap indian jack planes and I gotta' say...it's terrible. I get it to work right about 3 in 10 times. Absolutely everything on it is bad. Bad foot (grand canyon), bad frog (flat, otherwise askew in every way, bad lateral adjuster (adjuster was bent 3 different ways), bad handles (front handle comes off occasionally), horrible chipbreaker (wider than the blade by ~1/8th of an inch) and the mouth is enormous (tear outs a constant threat). It gets so out of whack I actually reach for the cheap stanley #4 I got from the hardware store years ago. Bad as it is, the stanley #4 spokeplanething still performs its function reliably. I'm not going down that road again, I'll tell you that much. I've spent innumerous hours just messing with that plane to get it to work thinking it would somehow help educate me...maybe so but its agonizing for the noob woodworker who has absolutely no idea what he's doing . And lets be fair, when it's working well, it is a glorious ten minutes or so.
Shoot, I thought YOU WHERE going to make a real spock shave with the iron.
Oh well still a great video.
Interesting. I have the same one and it adjusts fine. You must have gotten a bad one. The screws turn and adjust the blade. I agree, the mouth is huge on it. I may end up harvesting the blade for something else in the future.
Joshua Luther So, even though yours adjusts, it's still not a good tool?
@@RexKrueger I wouldn't know the differences between this and a high quality one. I've been able to get some shavings using it. I'm quite sure that one that costs twice or three times as much would be easier to use and adjust. But, I'm not a professional that relies on a spoke shave on a daily basis. For me as a hobbyist, I usually give some of these cheaper tools at least a small chance at having a place on my tool wall.
I, unfortunately, bought two of these off eBay. One way worse than the other. So asked for 50% back on my order So looks like I got two blades for 6 bucks. Not too bad I guess. I'll have to look into making a wooden spokeshave.
I bought one of those on amazon for about $8. It was pretty cheaply made, but the adjustment wheels did actually work. Probably a different producer, but you can still find a decent one for cheap.
I guess I just got unlucky on this one.
Lol, I just bought it before watching this. I got so frustrated I chucked it across my yard and broke it.
I'm sure this _is_ a terrible tool, but I don't see why the blade adjustment didn't work on it? I mean, the knobs did turn when you removed them. Was there something else stopping the blade from moving?
Or did you just really want to make a scraper plane from the blade?
I think I would also have held on to those "brass" knobs if it was me, but then I'm a bit of a _"this might come in handy someday"_ type of person. I think half my brain is clogged up with the locations around my house where all these random bits and bobs are, so that I can find them when I need to..
Very curious about the screwdriver shaft technique at 6:41 ?
I purchased one like that but not from aliexpress. Mine was at least usable after some tuning. Does not work perfect but it at least was not as bad as the one you got. The cheap tools seem to be a crap shoot. Sometimes you get a good one and other times they are garbage.
Amen!
Good helpful video. I think you should have kept the spoke shave. You could have mounted it on a nice base like a trophy and kept it in a prominent place as a reminder for the next time you see a cheap tool that looks good to pass up.
I hope you left some feedback on AliExpress to warn others.
I find the feedback on AliExpress press hard to navigate, so I don't usually bother. I also think that you're kind of rolling the dice with a tool this cheap. Most of what I've gotten has been pretty good (or at least fun to play around with). Glad you liked it!
Rex Krueger, I use the IPad app and find it quite easy to leave feedback. I usually only leave stars and save written comments for really good or bad products/service. You’re right, it is a crap shoot but isn’t that half the fun. I love to tinker and playing around with cheap crap trying to make it work can be quite enjoyable, I enjoy a challenge
Thumbs up just for the opening!!!! Lol
Dear Rex, the chinese hand plane is supposed to be used on a pull stroke not a push stroke.
Watch my video on the plane. Than all will make sense.
you're an eternal optimist and i like it :-)
Thanks!
Can anyone explain what he was doing with the screwdriver to the iron after he sharpened it?
I was burnishing a burr. Look up scrapers. Lots of informaiton.
I kind of want to buy one just for the blade now. In other news... Rex, I love your videos. I look forward to them. And I typically watch, thumbs up, and move along without comment. But bro, can I send you a microfiber cloth to clean your lens?
Man you are very cool to offer. I've tried and tried to clean that lens. God knows what brew of chemicals I got on that thing. They ain't coming off. In other news, what I really need is a new camera.
Rex Krueger right on. If you like a bargain buy used! check KEH.com.
+Daniel Dunlap
There are far better sources of cheap blades than that!
What is a decent mouth opening for a spokeshave? Is 1.9mm ok?
Geez, and I thought the Trojan block plane I have was nasty. You win (kinda).
We all win when we don't buy crappy tools!
Too true :D
Thank you for that. I just snorted my ramen. The waitress is giving me the “thats gross” look and now I can’t come back to my favorite noodle spot.
Ha ha! I bought one too. I laughed when I got it. Everything you described that was wrong with it was exactly like mine. Lol! I complained and they said we’ll refund you and don’t bother returning. Lol! So I gave to my grandson to play with. Although I did not think of the blade. Great video! You are hilarious. Keep them coming.
Thanks! It's easy to be hilarious when the tool is this bad.