I can't understand the criticism. Clearly this guy is an expert, I learned a lot watching this video and eventually will do things my own way with the additional tips and tricks he was kind enough to teach. Thank you sir for sharing your skills - and good video too.
Yeah, I only learned stuff. This was useful to me. Screw the haters. I'm an amateur so this stuff is really valuable to me. If someone wants to brag about their better knowledge in the comments or be mean, whatever. I must say, I scrolled these comments and saw a lot of valuable additions. So ppl being jerks is one thing in the comments, but ppl being additive and helpful in the comments is great. I think this video mostly drew constructive comments.
Many thanks. My Grandfather was a old school master carpenter, they had to be cabinetmakers to become what they were. Now I see what those tools in his tool chest were for.
I love how he mentions the quality of the tool doesn't matter as he pulls out a Japanese chisel probably worth more than a full set of craftsman chisels.
chisels of that type are available used in japan for about $10 each, just as our older chisels are often cheap. I can't tell what the newer chisels are that he's using, but they could be from a fine maker, and the sky is the limit. The low end japanese stuff now isn't that great (squashed together in dies, sometimes from prelaminated material), but the vintage chisels bought in odd lots can be on par with current makers.
Someone reading the kanji below suggested tasai. If you look closely at at least one of them, you can tell they're cleanly made - but my comment below is still true - you can buy an odd lot of 10 or 20 chisels from japan on buyee or another proxy auction for $150-$200 and have 12 to 15 that are on par with tasai in terms of edge holding. The older chisels exist there in droves (and are on average harder in my experience) and don't have much value there. If they have to look brand new and be identical, you will pay, though. Tasai's chisels are expensive, but there are less expensive new chisels that are an equal match.
Now here’s an interesting strategy I hadn’t thought of. As friend recommended I googled Hyezmar’s book and found many plans, but none like this, thanks!
A few years back my wife and I had to replace a fairly complicated counter top on our boat. It had raised mahogany edges and had quite a few mahogany framed cubbys. Most all of it required hand cutting and chamferring. This is when I fell in love with woodworking and especially my chisels. This is a great video explaining many of the things I discovered. Thank you for sharing this with us all.
Mike this is the BEST most comprehensive video I've seen ever. As a new woodworker I thank you! I have MANY of your print magazines and have learned a great deal over the years. Have A Super Blessed Week!.....Gus
Excellent videography, clear, precise, presentation. Not to wordy, and an excellent tutorial. Just what I have come to expect from FWW. Long time subscriber, always learning new tricks. Thank you!
you are wrong. This video is not about chisels, but how to not have to use them properly. Maybe better stick to what grampa told ya, for when he learned what to do was when he had no alternatives.
I have been wood working for a few years now playing with chisels and this video opened my eye simple ways to improve my work! Excellent educational video!
Benches don't need to be perfect, just sturdy and accessible. Nice work!! BTW, like the video work you did, working and building simultaneously explaining what you were doing. Video production could be a second gig for you!
Benches don't need to be perfect, just sturdy and accessible. Nice work!! BTW, like the video work you did, working and building simultaneously explaining what you were doing. Video production could be a second gig for you!
I really like the nuances here. I'm a rough carpenter who does some precision stuff sometimes. I really appreciate these little lessons on the details. Thanks!
I share all the below (above?) comments. I would like to make a request, though, for future videos: Keep the camera trained on the work being done more, and the long-shots less. I really want to see and absorb what he is doing there at the tip of the tool. I am new-ish to this stuff, so the close-ups actually provide us nuance that the long-shots do not. Thank you for a great video!
Thanks for the excellent tips. Could you explain your preference in mallets as well? Is there any advantage to using dead blow mallets for this type of work?
Under cutting your doves, is that for extra glue ? fit check first fit and check again. if we were in a hurry we would use a router and jig not hand tools. under cutting eventually leads to loose joints
Thanks! That comment about not being able to feel the scribe line for the dove tails makes total sense to me: I never really understood why we scribe it rather just mark it, until now. I look forward to trying your techniques!
Hopefully, in the intervening half decade you've discovered Lee-Valley's Veritas brand. Usually available through a few name brand retailers and, of course, through them directly.
I see a major problem, I was starting at the scribe line and then wondering why I had so much tear-out. I suppose the idea is to work toward the scribe line taking as little as possible. Good to know.
What was used to make the first cut? A Dozuki? Honestly, that original cut is my only problem. I can get it vertically straight but not perpendicular to the plane of the wood. Removing waste is not problem for me.
I use thin cuts because I'm not confident enough yet, and prefer to creep up on my marking lines. It seems it’s a case of "carry on as you are" for me.
Nice. Know i know which saw i need to cut small wood in tight spaces. Im doing a 303 british stock and im redoing the entire rear end of the front stock. Using chisel work i got the main piece of wood shaped shaped close to the original. Next i need to cut some wood in a small space and i could use this saw. Good info.
that's not "Basics"!! LMAO. 1st. that needs Yasuki steel chisel. 2nd. has to learn the sharpening techniques and needs many stones. yeah that was wonderful chisel (maybe 正繋 or 大内 chisel) and wonderful craftsman you. Thank you I learned many.
There is an apparently still-working 22-580 planer in the background. I got one of those when I first started woodworking. It cracked in transit (which required replacement of some of the cast parts) and went downhill from there, quickly getting damage on the mild steel bar that's used as a blade retainer and chipbreaker. Guess what's NLA from delta. Or whoever owns delta now, and whatever they call it. I'm surprised to see one that hasn't broken something that isn't available. Those were good for delta, i'd bet, but not so good for anyone buying one.
My 22-540, bought in the mid-'90's, is still working just fine - after I built an extended one piece bed for it to eliminate shore bird [snipe] leavin's.
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I can't understand the criticism. Clearly this guy is an expert, I learned a lot watching this video and eventually will do things my own way with the additional tips and tricks he was kind enough to teach. Thank you sir for sharing your skills - and good video too.
Yeah, I only learned stuff. This was useful to me. Screw the haters. I'm an amateur so this stuff is really valuable to me. If someone wants to brag about their better knowledge in the comments or be mean, whatever. I must say, I scrolled these comments and saw a lot of valuable additions. So ppl being jerks is one thing in the comments, but ppl being additive and helpful in the comments is great. I think this video mostly drew constructive comments.
He won’t sleep with you, sorry
Thank you Mike. Another well thought out and executed video. Great tips.
Wonderful video, Mike! You seem to have known everything I do wrong with a chisel, and you have shown me how to correct my mistakes. Thank you!
Many thanks. My Grandfather was a old school master carpenter, they had to be cabinetmakers to become what they were. Now I see what those tools in his tool chest were for.
I love how he mentions the quality of the tool doesn't matter as he pulls out a Japanese chisel probably worth more than a full set of craftsman chisels.
Using and needing an expensive tool are very different things.
Actually his chisels aren't the top of the line expensive ones. These are middle of the road Japanese chisels. Best bang for buck actually.
chisels of that type are available used in japan for about $10 each, just as our older chisels are often cheap.
I can't tell what the newer chisels are that he's using, but they could be from a fine maker, and the sky is the limit. The low end japanese stuff now isn't that great (squashed together in dies, sometimes from prelaminated material), but the vintage chisels bought in odd lots can be on par with current makers.
Someone reading the kanji below suggested tasai. If you look closely at at least one of them, you can tell they're cleanly made - but my comment below is still true - you can buy an odd lot of 10 or 20 chisels from japan on buyee or another proxy auction for $150-$200 and have 12 to 15 that are on par with tasai in terms of edge holding. The older chisels exist there in droves (and are on average harder in my experience) and don't have much value there.
If they have to look brand new and be identical, you will pay, though. Tasai's chisels are expensive, but there are less expensive new chisels that are an equal match.
I thought Japan did not have any steel
Now here’s an interesting strategy I hadn’t thought of. As friend recommended I googled Hyezmar’s book and found many plans, but none like this, thanks!
that sharp chisel sound... so satisfying
This is one of the best tutorials for chiseling technique. Great and well done. Thanks for sharing. Mike from Europe.
Mike Bandte I fully agree. Lots of info and well presented.
A few years back my wife and I had to replace a fairly complicated counter top on our boat. It had raised mahogany edges and had quite a few mahogany framed cubbys. Most all of it required hand cutting and chamferring. This is when I fell in love with woodworking and especially my chisels. This is a great video explaining many of the things I discovered. Thank you for sharing this with us all.
Excellent tips - it all makes sense. Thank you.
Great tutorial, thanks Luis CK.
scrolled down and saw this comment, definitely added a layer of humor into this tutorial. LOL
Mike this is the BEST most comprehensive video I've seen ever. As a new woodworker I thank you! I have MANY of your print magazines and have learned a great deal over the years. Have A Super Blessed Week!.....Gus
this is awesome! I just back from a VERY frustrating result on a joint and this helps immensely. Thanks, Mike!
Thank you! Sharp chisels and thin cuts.
really great visual guide on how to use a chisel. much more of a finesse tool than we might think at first
Thank you! This is so helpful
Hi Thank you for your video & taking time out making these videos Regards Steve London UK
What a solid video. A master
Good tutorial. Thanks. I like your Japanese tool set too.
Excellent videography, clear, precise, presentation. Not to wordy, and an excellent tutorial. Just what I have come to expect from FWW. Long time subscriber, always learning new tricks. Thank you!
Great suggestions and great work, well explained. Thank you for posting.
I found this video very helpful, so many thanks for posting.
You really nailed it down for me! Lots of great tips here! Thank you!
"How to use chisels effectively" -use it very minimally
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I have used chisels wrong all my life. This video is gold - thanks.
you are wrong. This video is not about chisels, but how to not have to use them properly. Maybe better stick to what grampa told ya, for when he learned what to do was when he had no alternatives.
+1 the first thing you teach not to do is the first thing I always do. great video!
I have been wood working for a few years now playing with chisels and this video opened my eye simple ways to improve my work! Excellent educational video!
Benches don't need to be perfect, just sturdy and accessible. Nice work!! BTW, like the video work you did, working and building simultaneously explaining what you were doing. Video production could be a second gig for you!
Benches don't need to be perfect, just sturdy and accessible. Nice work!! BTW, like the video work you did, working and building simultaneously explaining what you were doing. Video production could be a second gig for you!
Mash PvP uh ok..
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Keep up the great work. I am a happy subscriber to the magazine, and love your podcasts and videos too!
man. ...that's a very clean workshop. almost... too clean...
+Kevin Raets yeah... Looks like its a stage... A workshop should be a bit messy and dirty
I think that's a photo outside the window. The perspective doesn't match up and everything seems to be studio lit.
Definitely a studio, you can hear it in the audio when he hits the chisel or speaks loudly.
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Great tutorial. I will incorporate your suggestions. Thank you FW & Mike.
A list of all tools that are focused on would be really helpful.
Excellent tutorial and presentation. Thanks for sharing this.
Hey, I didn't know Louis C. K. Did wood work! Learn new things every day.
A useful lesson on saws (fret v. coping) as well as chisels. Thank you :)
You did it great. Well Done. Thanks!!!
Thank you very much for this informative video!
Aw bless you, I now know where I've been going wrong, yet so simple.
Thank you.
GREAT SKILL AND A WONDERFUL ABILITY TO SHARE THE KNOWLEDGE IN A NO BS FORMAT.
THANKS
I really like the nuances here. I'm a rough carpenter who does some precision stuff sometimes. I really appreciate these little lessons on the details. Thanks!
This is priceless stuff people. Clearly I have been doing it all wrong! Fantastic advice. Thanks!
First class instruction and very useful information - Thankyou
Some great info here thanks. Makes for good work.
thank you
Thank you Mike, AKA "Pod God" :)
I like your joints and basslines!
I share all the below (above?) comments. I would like to make a request, though, for future videos: Keep the camera trained on the work being done more, and the long-shots less. I really want to see and absorb what he is doing there at the tip of the tool. I am new-ish to this stuff, so the close-ups actually provide us nuance that the long-shots do not. Thank you for a great video!
great vid man, thanks alot
Really helpful stuff. Thanks!
Thanks a lot, that was very useful!
White oak is sooo pretty :D
Excellent. I currently teach K-12 art and I am going to add this to my Jr High and HS students watch list.
I learnt things I was scared to try before but after watching this no longer feel as scared
Lovely.
Thanks for the tips!
very nice
Thanks for the excellent tips. Could you explain your preference in mallets as well? Is there any advantage to using dead blow mallets for this type of work?
Under cutting your doves, is that for extra glue ? fit check first fit and check again. if we were in a hurry we would use a router and jig not hand tools. under cutting eventually leads to loose joints
Thank you. The zen master of fine woodworking.
what type and weight hammer is he using.
great video, practising joint cutting now.
Thanks! That comment about not being able to feel the scribe line for the dove tails makes total sense to me: I never really understood why we scribe it rather just mark it, until now. I look forward to trying your techniques!
Good tip and like the closeup shots! May I ask where to get that one turning handle two screw vice?
Hopefully, in the intervening half decade you've discovered Lee-Valley's Veritas brand. Usually available through a few name brand retailers and, of course, through them directly.
With all due deference, it would be wonderful if you shared your tool list with a link to a source. Thanks ! Enjoy your video’s!
Excellent thank you so much A+
I see a major problem, I was starting at the scribe line and then wondering why I had so much tear-out. I suppose the idea is to work toward the scribe line taking as little as possible. Good to know.
Very informative video. I'm new to woodworking and was curious what brand of bench chisels is that that you're using?
Nice
great video
What was used to make the first cut? A Dozuki? Honestly, that original cut is my only problem. I can get it vertically straight but not perpendicular to the plane of the wood. Removing waste is not problem for me.
He, Paul Sellers and others have videos out on Dozuki Saws, although Paul doesn't use them all that much.
What kind of chisels are those? they look like japanese chisels
Fusetsu 風雪 (Tasai 田齋)
Great tutorial. What type of vice is that?
Man I like those Knew Concept fret saws, but I cringe at the $100+ price tage for one.
As long as your pins are not too small, a coping saw should work.
he sure likes all his shizzle
"Just isn't going to cut it". Nice.
Thank you and learned a lot...rr
You sir, are a maestro. Your orchestra? Wood.
I use thin cuts because I'm not confident enough yet, and prefer to creep up on my marking lines. It seems it’s a case of "carry on as you are" for me.
I need a vice... I keep trying to do stuff like this without it... I can't make it work. Hurray, I get to go shopping! :P
Great Thanks
what chisels is he using?
Usually I'll grip the handle to do massive removal and hold the end for fine trimming.
oh, so im not supposed to hit the chisel as hard as i can and break my wrist?
Ahh, no i know what i was doing wrong. Thanks for the this!!
You're welcome
wow 10/10 helpful
Nice. Know i know which saw i need to cut small wood in tight spaces. Im doing a 303 british stock and im redoing the entire rear end of the front stock. Using chisel work i got the main piece of wood shaped shaped close to the original. Next i need to cut some wood in a small space and i could use this saw. Good info.
Is that chisel a mortising chisel? I noticed it left a dent on the inside of your dovetail...
No, he intentionally undercuts a bit to ensure there's no material protruding to keep the joint from seating completely.
what would be the bevel angle on those chisels? would you be using the same angle to pare with?
wade saunders 30 degrees for general use and 25 degrees for pairing
that's not "Basics"!! LMAO. 1st. that needs Yasuki steel chisel. 2nd. has to learn the sharpening techniques and needs many stones. yeah that was wonderful chisel (maybe 正繋 or 大内 chisel) and wonderful craftsman you. Thank you I learned many.
detail and clean crafting
It’s all about understanding the path of least resistance. Even the basic design of a chisel lends itself to offset forces. Thanks
“Fret saw just isn’t going to cut it”
I see what you did there
There is an apparently still-working 22-580 planer in the background. I got one of those when I first started woodworking. It cracked in transit (which required replacement of some of the cast parts) and went downhill from there, quickly getting damage on the mild steel bar that's used as a blade retainer and chipbreaker.
Guess what's NLA from delta. Or whoever owns delta now, and whatever they call it. I'm surprised to see one that hasn't broken something that isn't available. Those were good for delta, i'd bet, but not so good for anyone buying one.
My 22-540, bought in the mid-'90's, is still working just fine - after I built an extended one piece bed for it to eliminate shore bird [snipe] leavin's.
Chisel for thin cuts, saw for waste, good lesson 👍
What more could yoh possibly teach me about a chissel? Turns out everything.
You can tell how sharp a chisel is by taste. A dull chisel tastes like steel, a sharp chisel tastes like blood ;)
I don't recommend you test the efficacy of your ammunition.
@@johnbesharian9965 Isn't that what friends are for?
What's the weight of your mallet?
What is that type of bench called?
never clamp down onto your bare wood you're working with. always use a block of sorts to take the pressure up so you dont get indents
Sure your using it right