How To Do a Perfect Bowtie Inlay By Hand - NO ROUTER - Mallet and Chisel only
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- In this video, I show how I inlay Bowties, butterflies, dutchmen, or whatever you want to call them, using only a mallet and chisel... for the final clean, I use a hand plane and a sander. Yes, a sander, I'm not a savage, after all.
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After 20 some years as a earth mover mechanic, I hate dirt in my crack but I hat glue in my crack even more! Your chisel straightening hint is genius, I’ve noticed that you have a lot of great hints and ideas to make the job better and easier. I only wish you had more time make more videos, but I’m being selfish & greedy. Thanks for what you’re doing man.
Thanks, keep watching, the more people that watch directly impacts the amount of time I can dedicate to making more videos.
This is what i am looking for. I don't want to use router because i want to feel how ancient people do things accurately without electric tools. I want to be more passionate on what i am doing.
By the way, i am just starting on woodworking and I've had a lot of failures now. Still trying to learn more in youtube.
Thanks for this video...
Brilliant work! I love how you creatively turned the natural split in the wood into a nice aesthetic feature while simultaneously reinforcing it.
Subscribed. I'm blown away by your craftsmanship and artistry.
Thank you!
You have done the most detailed video of bowtie technique I have ever seen. Lots of good tips!
Thanks!
These can be super functional in places where the humidity changes a lot. I have found in my region, the humidity of a dry board varies a decent amount depending on time of year, so these really do help with checked and cracked boards to keep it from splitting further.
Good vid. I don't have a router and was looking for something like this. Thanks for the work
Thanks for the educational insights. Great job my friend. You are a great teacher.
Like a glove👍 Great explanation and walk through 😁
Hand tools : the pure lovely way .
It looks really good.
Great stuff Brian. Nice fit!
Thanks!
Nice work Brian
Hi Brian - Really liked the Video. Im a fan. I'm also a friend of Gardner Scott who referred you. Looking forward to more videos.
Thanks for checking out my channel! Gardener Scott is a good due, I've learned a ton from him.
Beautiful work as always.
Excellent overall important tricks . Thank you !
Perfect! Thanks for sharing
Great demo and tips, Brian. You make a difficult process look easy.
Thanks!
Excellent instructional video; detailed step by step, helped me enormously with all the nuance of self made bowties. Thank you. Which chisels do you use?
I keep meaning to look every time I go out in the shop but keep forgetting. The ones I used in the video, I've had for 20+ years. Lately I've been using the chisels from woodcraft they start with a ph. They are fantastic.
Hello Brian,
I'm a carpenter and craftsman to but i will always lay my chisels upside down because then they will stay longer sharp.
I don't really worry about how I lay my chisels down. When I'm using them, driving them into the wood is going to dull it much more than the tip resting on the bench. So as I work with my chisels I am constantly touching them up on the stone to maintain a sharp edge. An edge that is dulled from use more than dulled from resting on the tip.
Nice!
Excelente proyecto muy bien desarrollado y mejor ejecutado , no hablo inglés , me quedo con lo que veo , pero me pierdo todas sus explicaciones , porfavor subtítulos en español , gracias por compartir , un saludo cordial y por supuesto un gran like desde Narón , Galicia ( España) 🤓 😜
Intentaré averiguar si puedo subtitular en español. ¡gracias por ver!
@@Benham_Design gracias a usted por intentarlo
Curious why you do the bevel before marking out. Seems if the sides are square when marking, it might eliminate some of that extra paring after the first test fit. But I might be missing something, I have only done a few of these.
If you have a slight bevel, as you drive it in the fit will get tighter ensuring a tight fit. However, too much of a bevel it could split it out, that's why I stressed a very shallow bevel.
Are there any guiding pricinples for Bow Tie Dimesions. These are particularly pleasing.
I just sketch out a few proportions and pick the one I like.
@@Benham_Design Never tried a significant wood working project. Have hand cut (pull Saw) three large bow ties. (Largest 5.5 inches x 2 in x 1-1/4 deep) Squared them up with chisels and have created the mortise with the method in your video 1 inch. Plan to remove excess with pull saw and card scraper. Going to set the bow tie tomorrow. Any last minute thoughts?
@@bruce9108 let her rip!
@@Benham_Design Update…. Radical SUCCESS! Thanks for the great tutorial!
Beauty! What about adding one to the end grain?
My design eye, tells me odd numbers look better than even, so I think to add a 4th would make it look off. Also, end grain inlays aren't as clean looking
@@Benham_Design Sorry I should have been more specific. I agree with what you're saying on this piece, it's perfect.
What I meant was in an instance where the checking is occurring on the end grain only and the split hasn't reached the face of the board yet- Can I 'dig' into the end grain to insert a bowtie? Any issues there? (It's pine i'm working with)
The only issue I see would be risk splitting the wood. Chopping into end grain with a chisel would be similar to splitting wood with an ax.
@@Benham_Design That's excellent-Thanks. I've seen pics before in lumber yards where they've these large pieces of lumber and they hammer in what look like a large ring you'd wear on your hand into the end grain- Have you any idea what they are called?
great video! What brand of marking knife is that? I couldn't find it in your tool links....
I got it at woodcraft, I think it's their house brand.
@@Benham_Design thank you, and thank you for the tips!
I like a lot about this video but tell me, why not drill out some of the center wood? Are you opposed to using a power tool?
Ohh, I love power tools and use them all the time.
3 reasons why I did it this way
1. I enjoy using hand tools for detailed tasks like this.
2. The know it alls (hand tool only users) on RUclips will chastise you if you use a power tool, so I send them to this video to watch.
3. Clients like the fact that they are inland by hand, and each one is its own unique shape and not a router template sold to the masses.
How long did that take to do in real time? I'm curious so I can multiply by 3 to give myself a realistic timeframe!
If I'm not talking to the camera, I can typically inlay one start to finish in about about 20 minutes.
Your time may very on how hard the wood is and experience level.
What wood are the bowties made of? They are beautiful! Thanks a lot for the mini course also, was right on time, I recently got my chisel set and been planning to start practicing making bowties inlays(And getting the hand on working with good chisels the proper way).
...and not losing a finger in the process lol
Bowties look to be wenge
Yep, when gay bow ties in a mesquite shelf
Brian, question : can we put the butterflies even if not totally dried wood or should we wait ? Ok you just said it … but then.. why putting them ? Just for pleasing the eye ?
I would wait until the moisture level is around 10% or less. If it is wet and the wood shrinks, it can pull away from the butterfly leaving a gap. Or on the other end shrinks tighter around the butterfly creating another crack. All depends on the grain flow of the board
@@Benham_Design thank you Very much for answering !
@@Benham_Design do you know if it was done before to put some underneath and on the top , when not totally wet , limiting hence the warping effect of having only one at the top of not fully dried V
@@ikust007 I think you are over thinking it, working with wet wood and trying to tame it is fraught with problems. Why green wood turners often throw out cracked bowls.
You could put a bowtie on the other side, but would it help, maybe maybe not. It would totally depend on that piece of wood and how it want to move as it dries out.
@@Benham_Design ahahahah! Kind of my style indeed…:) ok ok. You are right .
15:33 agree . Not comfy …;)
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