How to Make the World's Best Router Plane | Paul Sellers | Episode 1
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- Опубликовано: 28 окт 2021
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Can a homemade wooden router plane give you what an all-metal one gives you? It absolutely can!
There are detailed drawings and parts list available here: paulsellers.com/router-plane-...
Paul has wanted to answer the need for a low-cost hand router plane that does not, in any way, take second place to any of the established ones made by Stanley and Record in the last century. Neither does it compromise on the utility offered by any of the high-end expensive ones.
This episode is Paul's answer to a worldwide problem of supply and demand and he guarantees that you will not only love making your own, fully adjustable router plane, but also owning one for a lifetime of work.
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If you would like a Router Plane kit to work with rather than building from scratch, you can purchase them here: rokesmith.com/product/router-plane-kit/
Paul is the only man on YT making videos being “almost” live, meaning recorded in one go. For those who already have made videos, they know how difficult it is. This is the reason why this man is my reference for everything relating to woodworking.
Yes - there's always a risk you might invent a new word when live. 'Fundlemental' - for example, within the first 10 seconds!
he should be bc he's a master woodworker spreading his vast knowledge to keep the trade he loves alive
@@thebrokenbone he is indeed a true Master. He has inspired so many people.
He’s keeping it simple. No fancy editing. It makes the slower nature of hand tool wood working realistic.
Yeah and I think there's a lot of careful planning, prototypes and work that goes in before ever shooting that makes it so high quality and well executed. The team behind the man is brilliant.
4:57 Paul finds the centre of his soul!
😂 I loved the look of utter contentment when he admires the drilled hole😊
I need some of that. I need to slow down 😅
My word, you can hear how sharp that handsaw is when Paul saws down the back part of the router plane! There's sharp and then there's Sellers sharp!
Mr Sellers,
I have done it! Whilst I have been handy all my life, I've never been a wood worker. After restoring a few old planes for a project, I saw this video and knew I'd need one, but can't afford them these days on ebay.
I sourced the hardest to work woods for a newbie: hard maple and mahogany.
I had to learn how to use my new planes to cut down the oversized stock I got.
I had to source, cut, grind, and bevel square steel stock and then learn how to heat treat it at home...I quenched with oil.
Then I made my very own BLO and shellac cuts, thanks to you.
If you'd like I can send you a link to the build with pictures and descriptions.
It took me well over 150 hours to put in all the work to make this project come together, but I've learned so much I'm thinking of looking into an apprenticeship at 50 years old.
You're a gift to us all.
"I'm going to find the center of my sole"
"Oooh"
I love these little puns and humor, as well as this exceptional video.
"Cooking with gas." Lol. The first shop teacher I had , in middle school, when he saw one of us students had finally get something figured out, he'd declare "Now your cooking with gas, dope". Lol. Mr. Neilson! That was 50 years ago. I remember it like it was yesterday.
I just received my router plane kit. I ordered it March 22, so just short of 5 weeks from when I placed my order. The packaging arrived in perfect condition (looks just like the kit in the picture) and I did not have to pay any customs charges.
Now to decide on the perfect wood to use for the plane - sounds like a trip to my local hardwood supplier is in order! :)
Hi Jim, I am from South Africa.Interested to know from which country you are?I am sure I will probably pay 100% import duty.Regards, Martin
For coming generations, these videos are absolutely critical knowledge. Mad respect for providing these videos, us youngsters need this kinda thing more than you could know.
"I'm gonna find the centre of my sole... oooh!" Time only makes you more charming, doesn't it?
This build is beautiful and useful! Fantastic work as always, maestro.
I made something like this but it didn’t work well with a chisel at an angle. Instead I have just made one using an Allen Key. I ground it and sharpened it. I drilled a hole for a tight fit in a 1.5” square hardwood. I angled the base side to tilt the cutter and screwed it to a base with a 2” hole. I adjust it by tapping with a hammer to the base of the rebate and then another tap. It works a treat. If it works loose I shall add a screw clamp. I might add handles but it works fine without. I might also buy a Veritas cutter if this blunts too easily.
Paul Sellers is a huge inspiration.
Paul has the highest ratio of thumbs up: thumbs down on RUclips. I still don't understand the thumbs down people.
Man this is going to be the longest hour I'm waiting for a glue-up in my whole life.
Paul that nail registration was awesome 👍
I always appreciate the little things I pick up from Paul’s videos, like the clamp in the vice.
I grew up with Norm Abrams and Roy Underhill convincing everyone you need $100k of tools to get started - Mr Sellers was the one who broke that spell for me and convinced me you only need a couple things to get working. Of course everyone's doing that on YT now but they're all following Paul's lead. :D
@@fisharmor I have always been a competent DIY carpenter, because my late father taught me the core skills and gave me a have-a-go mentality. Then I yielded to the New Yankee school of ‘if-a-job’s-worth-doing-then-there-has-to-be-a-dedicated-power-tool’.
While I still rough out on my table saw or bandsaw, in the last couple of years, Paul has completely changed where I go from there and now I love being a hand tool woodworker.
@@fisharmor
I can see that with Norm but never got that from Roy Underhill
@@davidhutchins3986 If you don't think Roy has showcased $100k of tools over the course of any five seasons then I think you haven't tried shopping for them! :D
I purchased the parts kit, and have been having more fun building this plane. I have made a few missteps, but that is a part of learning... The wisdom that Paul imparts is priceless! I love it!
Paul l am one of your fans, but in this video I think it was not you drilling the one and quarter hole, but it does happen, l so much appreciate your not editing it. Honest craftsman. I just came back from my little Workshop after drilling the same hole in one go, noticed that watching the video again for more details. Thanks Paul for your design, l have been wishing for a router, Stanleys are not found in my part of world, the environment is too harsh for them they are happy in cold places. Thank you again l am also 74 now, just few more years to enjoy wood working. Regards and best wishes for a happy and healthy life.
Paul Sellers was referenced to me by a colleague, I just watched a 1st video, and I must say I'm bluffed by the no nonsense approach and very very clear steps to building tools and/or furniture.. And as mentionned in a comment below (cf Woodful Projects) he is to my knowledge, the only person who does a video "almost live" and it really brings value to the teaching delivered. I will subscribe. Thank You Mr Sellers.
The timing of this video is perfect. Have been looking at both new and used router planes here in Australia and the prices are nonsense.
Same. Stumpy Nubs also has a video but, you know, it’s Paul. 🙂👍🏼
Same here… nonsense is right.
@@willemkossen thank you
I bought a router plane from eBay for just less than £100 UK pounds after two and a half years looking. Nightmare. In some ways I wish I’d waited and made one but I presume Paul is going to grind a bevel onto the tool steel. I have neither a grinder or the patience for that.
problem here in the uk is the wood makes it almost rediculous. if you dotn have it already the cost is ineffective you mgith as well get a new
I am a serious hobbyist and like many, was mad about sophisticated machine tools. So, I ended up buying quite a lot. After some router bits flying or failing and a close call with hand planer machine, I developed some kind of tools phobia for cutting/routing/planing machines...But after discovering some incredibly well made bench planes and other hand tools (manual), I feel refreshed again. This router hand plane is certainly another one that I will enjoy for years and you showing it in detail is a big blessing for me. Videos like this are true blessings and precious. Thank you. 🙏🙏🙏
Uncle Paul is so enthusiastic that he "might change his mind", "use metric but might stray" and calls 50 degrees 45 a few times. Splendid. This engagement is part of what makes a great teacher. And the project is stunningly good. Chapeau.
Thanks for teaching such gem for free! God bless
Love that accent. The sound of Sheffield steel.
Thank you so much for designing this plane and giving us the golden opportunity to make our own, and even providing the plans for free!
I grew up watching Roy Underhill, and now I can put your wonderful content on in the background while I am doing my normal job and you are showing me all about how to fix up some of the tools I bought years ago and how to build the ones I wasn't able to afford, like this one. I don't know why, but toolmaking always appealed to me far more then actually making furniture so this is the sort of thing I love to watch.
5:00
As an American, i really appreciate the conversions from the metric system to imperial. Big fan- really thought this was an awesome project, looks like it works incredibly well!
In the uk they switched from imperial to metric and it left us all with a mush of figures in our heads. Half the nation was rejecting metric and half rejecting imperial. By the time I was in junior school in the 80's they quite literally banned imperial figures, we we got in trouble for using them.
I still have the mush, depending on the size of the measurement I'll flip back and forth between the two formats, which is bad, because it's fitting the measure to the part. Hence the mush 😂
Tiny things are in mm, larger measures I do in inches with a conversion reference in my head to metric, and then large measures over say 40ft and I'm back to fully metric again.
Metric I find easier to see the sizes in my head, so many products in the middle that use inches so that stuck. And mm just make sense for tiny measures.
Apparently metric won the war as most parts on the global market are in mm, the big manufacturers are switching to it for compatibility and cost reasons.
I still prefer pints of milk to litres 😂
@@luminousfractal420 yeah I kinda wish the US had switched to metric.. I feel it's easier to be more accurate without having to think much, and is much easier to do the math in your head with metric... plus it really does seem much more widely used. Imperial seems like random numbers with how things break down- and metric just seems way more straight forward based on multiples of 10/100/1000...
I can totally see how it could cause some chaos and confusion having a country transition to using another measurement system though...
7:20 Such a great tip from the Master Himself
These videos are full of them
Danke, dass Sie nun auch die Millimeter-Maße mitteilen!
Man I'd buy my neighbor out and give the home to Paul if that's what it took to get such a cool gent like him living next door to me. What a wealth of information you provide and how you explain it all is ll s pot on. At 64 years young I'm just taking up working wood with nothing but hand tools, well maybe the occasional bandsaw and drill press, but my passion is with the other. Thanks for all the inspiration Paul, I view your videos almost nightly while practicing my mortise and tenons and then often work them more in my dreams while I rest.
Hey Paul. Really enjoy watching you work with hand tools and your "Easy" nature. I have gotten on notification list for the router plane kit. Hopefully you'll have more soon. I want to purchase one as a gift for my dad who is 83 this year, but enjoys hand tool wood working as well
Center of your soul. Deep
Ingenious engineering and the project is well thought out. My son bought a kit for my father's day gift. We will be making them together. Thanks so much!
This is wonderful, your excitement and enthusiasm are infectious too, great tonic in this era. Thank you from NZ🙏
bonjour Paul, having seen you offer us a new video, ( in fact 2 ) i just seat with a great pleasure to know i will watch you demonstrating your expertise for long minutes. It is such a pleasure the see and hear you, and learn from you as done since years. Thanks in advance Paul, ready for a delicious moment watching you. Lucky we are
I like the way of working and teaching of Paul Sellers, he is the best!!..
I love how Paul always puts measurement conversions on the screen from metric to imperial. As an American this is so extremely useful! You can argue the benefits of the metric system all day long and whether or not we should use it, but as someone who didn’t grow up with it, it’s extremely hard to visualize in everyday life. Ask me to guess how long something is in inches and feet and I’ll probably get pretty close. Now ask me to do the same in meters and centimeters and I wouldn’t even be close. I realize we’re like the last holdout in the world through our own doing, but Paul putting up both measures on screen makes his videos so much more practical and user friendly to those of us across the Atlantic.
Incidentally I personally think there’s more to be said for the Imperial system at least where woodworking and other trades are concerned…try quickly dividing anything metric into easily measurable halves, thirds, quarters, or sixths, and then do it with the imperial system, which is easier? If you need to break something into 3 pieces it’s easier to measure out in terms of 3x4 inch pieces than try to guess where 3.3334 cm is. And that’s just one example : )
In the science fields then metric is probably better. I think that both systems have their benefits in reality. Imperial for the everyday practical application of quickly dividing things into measurable fractions and metric for when when extreme precision is required.
Quick, order your bar of 10x10mm tool steel now before it triples in price, due to the Paul Sellers effect!
Soo true
@Old Man Henderson, the one with the Trousers Chester hobbie store
Wood by Wright caused all the Bench Dog router plane blades to sell out until next August! Thankfully, toolsteel should have a slightly better supply.
The ghosts I called… 👻
Totally! I ordered mine right 15 mins after the video dropped, and the price is 50% higher now.
love the clamp in vice hack - gonna remember that
The wisdom, experience, speed and craftsmanship is amazing!
Paul, thank you.
I want to make one of these just because it's gorgeous.
Helps that his voice is roughly smooth and easy to listen to!
Hey Paul. You probably won’t see this as this video is 4 months old, but when using a drill with a keyless chuck like that dewalt you used, you tighten the chuck to the bit and then loosen it by hand until it clicks once. That’s how you lock a keyless chuck so it won’t loosen on you during operation. I threw away a perfectly good ridgid hammer drill not knowing that little tip.
Excellent. Can’t wait to see the finished project. Love your videos.
Always a delight to watch Paul work!
Real life shop "stuff"! Love you Paul!
My favorite woodworking channel. Paul is the best!
I'm so glad that you have gone back to building videos, love these so much!
Thank you Paul for the amazing content!
Thank you Paul, Your experience shines through your amazing video. Subscribed!
Brilliant video! Thank you, Mr. Sellers!
Excellent as always - Straight forward simple steps as usual. Many thanks Paul
Good Evening Sir,,,It has been some time since i last wacthed a film by you,,Have missed you,,
Glad to see you back looking well,,
looking forward to wacthng a lot more of your Films,,(Reckon i have seen all you have made,)
but nice to have a quailty trade man showing work and why we do this,,and a method in the right order of operations,
Thank You Paul
Thank you Paul
Absolutely wonderful production, always glued to these superb presentations,
Thankyou so much for your expertise,
Paul, you are a cherished resource for us all.
This was a great build.
Thank you very much for share this master piece with us Sir. Best regrads from Argentina
This is my favorite video yet (and I've binge watched many of yours). Your enthusiasm is exceptionally contagious & encouraging!!! 👍😁😍
Beautiful heirloom tool, Mr. Sellers. I cannot wait to get started on making one. Thank you for sharing your amazing skill and breadth of knowledge. Cheers.
Its good to have you back sensei. I am hoping you've got more of these coming!
Looking forward to part two Paul, great project👍
My kit arrived, having some trouble sourcing the knobs but will start it over the holidays.
It is a pleasure for the senses to see Master Paul's teachings.
Thanks.
Excellent idea. Show people how to make their own hand tools. 👍
love the sound of your chisels and planes and saws cutting through timber, so crisp and clean ! :)
Wonderful project..masterfully built and a great teacher..this combination is beyond awesome..
Holy hell Paul it’s been years since I’ve seen you ! You sir taught me so much about working with older tools and I still love it , just getting back into woodworking more after a couple years of learning metal fabrication. Time to join the two and make some … hopefully good stuff lol .
Cheers from Canada and thanks again for your great teaching skills
Thank you! I am going to be working on making one of these this winter. Been enjoying all of your videos.
Great video! Built the poor man’s router plane years ago when I built the work bench. Now I have some winter projects.
Love watching a skilled craftsmen. And appreciate a gentle backing track. Well done.
I just sat and watched this with my 10 yo daughter. We thank you for the video, and hope to put what we saw into practice some day.
Amazing project. And fantastic videography as always, Paul & crew. So very glad you're here to provide us these videos. I continue my paid sub at WWMC and will continue to do so as long as you keep providing videos.
Thats amazing , I stumbledon this video tonight and I thought i saw all your video but this one is new or one i never saw before . It good to see you again stay safe and healthy
Love your style of teaching. You are a true educator; it’s obvious your passion for sharing the craft comes from the heart (not the pith)!
As always, Thank You
-CY Castor
Just finished my Paul Sellers router and loving it so far! I really enjoyed making it and the kit you provided was great. Made with Sapele and some beach cabinets handles to last me a lifetime 😊
I can't wait to get started working on my new plane. Thank you for sharing!
An outstanding video. There's nothing more satisfying than making a beautiful tool. Router planes are so expensive this is project I will definitely be undertaking.
Thank you Paul.
thank you Paul
Paul you are a master craftsman. and a fantastic educator too. tyvm.
Thank you so much for sharing your admireable techniques of fine handwork.
You are great. I love learning with you. A very natural way to teach so special techniques. Thank you indeed. Best regards from Brazil.
Another fantastic learning tutorial. Thank you. I believe I will be making another plane.
Love it Paul. Watching part 2 now. Thanks for sharing!
Where is part 2 ?
its so fun to watch you work. you inspire me
For sure!
This was fascinating and therapeutic.
God bless you Paul! Thank you!
I really enjoyed it. Looking forward to Episode 2.👍❤ liked and subscribed.
I'm gonna really enjoy this series!
That was the fastest and most enjoyable 43:55 video I have watched in months. Thank you so much Paul and crew. Looking forward to getting started on this project as soon as possible.
Yes, I didn't realise the video was that long, until i saw your comment. It really felt like 15 minutes or so :D
Thank you, really interesting and enjoyable with the added bonus of the calm atmosphere. NB as a retired sound supervisor I very much appreciated your comment re. the harmonic when filing !
Beautiful work. We shared this video on our homemade tools forum this week 😎
Paul is the coolest guy I know
Thank you for this. I've been thinking about making a router for months but never could settle on the right design or blade style. I thought about an Allen wrench as a blade but it really felt like a little too much grinding to get it set. This is perfect. SImple, readily available parts, inexpensive blade blank, what more could one ask? I love it and for me the timing is perfect.
Excellent quality
always a pleasure to watch
Great project!
Thank you.
Your the man Paul, loving the videos and picking up as much as I can.
Team Paul: Thank you Darren!
So hyped by this! Glad to see Paul and crew safe and sound and back at full speed! We missed you guys!
For folks in countries where it isn’t easy to come by tool steel stock in retail, like Brasil, you can use a (quite) large allen wrench, of maybe some masonry or metal chisels (talhadeiras), and shape them a little bit.
An old chisel would work too i think.
The global shipping costs went crazy. Like on ebay anything from the uk they add a $48 shipping charge, it could be a beer mat, it's $48 postage. Brexit perks 🔪
I'm actually ordering from Australia instead these days as it's about $4 And they have a lot of British goods.
Crazy world.