I watched a number of other videos on removing a twist from a board. You put them to shame by a country mile!! You did it simple, easy and fast. THANK YOU!
This is the kind of video I was looking for. Some people said put a wet towel on the piece of wood and iron it out then clamp it for 24hrs. Well that didn’t work. So I am going to use your method! Thank you sir
I truly enjoyed that! I must have been a carpenter in another life because I almost feel tears swelling up watching this! I am a sculpture (stone)....but there is a yearning to use wood. If I may indulge in a little store : Once, years ago, my mother mentioned in passing that she would like a corner cupboard. I saw a simple photograph of one in a country living magazine and decided to give it a try. Pine boards , with three triangles shelves, glass piece for a window. That was the first time I realized there was stores that sold lumber 🤣. I used the wrong nails ( finishing nails 😂🤣) but the thing held together and I jig-sawed rough folk art type horses to cover my corners etc... I’m still very proud of that project. Someday, I’m going to make something beautiful, and we have most of these tools so there is no excuse. Thank you for the beginner’s inspiration. Your the best! Thanks Jordon for filming and bringing this wonderful teacher to us all. Have a great day boys! Keep them coming. What would be a good first project?
This definitely works. The problem with it is you have to waste so much of the board to plane it down and that can create more problems if you need the boards to be a certain thickness.
I really enjoyed watching this. Though I'm not likely to work with wood myself, I find the process fascinating! Thank you for demonstrating how it works so clearly and deftly, without a bunch of hype - simply watching you at your craft was so relaxing, and reminded me of watching my dad and grandpa fix things when I was little... I look forward to seeing more videos!
Even if its just hand tools, try it Working wood is relaxing. And you cant make a mistake. When your done its still wood and you worked it. When hand tools were all they had to work with what you could not see was still mostly rough. Buy a knife sharpen it find some soft woods and carve somthing keep in mind always push the blade away from you never tordes you you hands or body. Or anyone else a sharp knife is safe a dull knife can get you hurt. Look for wood carving. Yes at first your projects won't be perfect no ones is you build skill. Its fun relaxing and builds selfe esteem. Also looking at somthing you made with your own 2 hands will give you a warm felling you did that. Giving somthing you made shows who you gave it to you care and love them.
That was simply ingenious; by using hot glue for a hold down! I knew about using a planer jig but, I couldn't figure out a good way to secure the work piece to the jig. Thank you so much.
I was like there is no way he is going to get this straight and WOW! What patience, what skil and what great craftsmanship! Well done gents. I will definitely sub.
I used some large 25 lb weights and didn't have to shave anything off. I laid the warped board on some flat concrete and put some weights on it. Worked great.
@@newpatchincoming6574 a few days for me, I just take the weights off and check to see how straight the board is every morning, then put the weights back if the board is still warped. My boards also seemed straighter after priming and painting for some reason. I also let the boards dry on my flat driveway, of course with the painted side up so to not make a mess.
One of the clearest explanations I've seen about how to do this. Others have asked why not use a jointer planer to make one side true, then use the thickness planer for the other side, but this way means you only need to use one machine. And your jointer may not be big enough for a wide board - thicknessers commonly have much wider beds. You also have far more control with the wedges - with a warp that big it would be rocking all over your jointer bed, so much more difficult to use. Great video, thanks.
Thanks for a simple solution to a problem all of us woodworkers have from time to time. I've seen a couple of videos where a jointer is used to also remove twist, although you're a little more limited on the widths of boards you can use that method on. I have a few boards in the shop that have been aggravating me for some time due to the twist in them. I think it's time to fix them.
I really enjoy your county. I know county from Washington but I don't know county like ya'll. And I mean that in the most admiration and respect. I will forever be a watcher, consumer, subscriber and follower of this channel! Thank you for the knowledge.
enjoyed the lesson... good information. Unfortunately I'm trying to unwarp a table top from 1900. It was damaged in a fire in 1976 (water damage). It was out of a Law Firm in Dallas Texas in 1900. We acquired it from a good friend of ours in 1966 and it had belonged to her grandfather. I have removed the apron and legs and am now trying to straighten the top that is severely warped.
Oh, Man! I was so excited. I'm sitting here with a stack of twisted 2 x 8s. But I have a hot glue gun, so I figured I'm going to be rolling soon! Then I started pricing planers. I'm going to have to save up my money a bit before I can use those boards. But when I get that planer, I know EXACTLY what to do! Thank you!
Hi, David. You might check your area for a maker space ("fab labs" are the best). They may have wood working tools you can use. Also, you can take a wood working class at a local junior college and use their tools. Just my $0.02.
Great now you have one board that dimensionally different. That’s fine if you can use it in a project. Most projects you will need the same thickness. Like someone else said Wet it,weight it and wait 👍
Thanks for the great video. I have a twisted 4" x 8" section which I will be using as a pilaster to break up siding and board and batten cladding on my house build. This technique will fix this issue. Also, I will be laminating sections for railing rails and posts, so this will come in really handy. Cheers from Canada.
This is great. I'm actually about to flatten some boards with a planer sled but coudn't figure out how to secure it. I was just sitting there looking at my bench ,there was a hot glue gun right there but i didnt even think about using it. Glad i searched this up. Great channel by the way!!!
Carefully my best frinds either stair at me or try to lick me. My dogs too. My wife dosnt liked to be petted. Last thing I want is her starring at me, usually means I didnt put the lid down.
Wow! You reduced that board down to a toothpick! It's better to mill your stock as close to the finished size, leaving some excess for snipe, trimming, etc. That said, a better method is to split the wood down the center, mill the two pieces flat to the same thickness, joint the cut edges flat and then glue them back together. This leaves a lot more material with minimal loss.
Nice technique -- that's one way! I've used a hot glue gun and shims on a board through a thickness planer to save what can be saved for future use. Thanks for providing this video. Ignore the haters -- they were abused children. 😅 My .02
Great method! I would leave it a day and see if it remains flat, since removing wood can also change the internal stresses. It may take a few times for it to stabilize.
@@conradpaul6100 you can, but there’s no guarantee that it still won’t move. Cutting away wood releases internal stress, and the wood will always want to neutralize that stress. If you glue up immediately, you may end up with a wider glue-up going out of flat. If it’s wider than your planer at that point, you’ll have to hand plane it to get it flat.
I don't have a planer either. But it should be possible to use the same technique using a router as a planer (on a sled) I'm going to try this in the (near) future. On much smaller boards though.
My only issue is you lose sooo much thickness. Wouldn’t it be better to cut down the middle, plane individually and then re-glue it ? That way you lose very little in thickness ? I saw that done somewhere
There’s no guarantee that heating and wetting will result in the board staying flat once dried back to 7%. Milling it flat is more reliable for fine hardwood projects. Not every board needs to be 3/4” thick. There’s plenty of use for half inch and even quarter inch boards. And the thinner it is the less important warping is since you can often force it flat with screws or glue depending on What you’re making.
ha ha with hot glue.... and a great big machine! lol I did enjoy the video. I was looking for a way to fix a warped table myself and I don't have a workshop :) Loved the accent too. I'm an Aussie :)
So many people make sleds with stops on one or both ends to hold the wood in place. You don't, do you ever? Your method seems to work just fine. Please keep making videos.
My question is how thick was the piece of wood you used before it was flattened and how thick was it when it was completed. I would imagine that if you're going to be working with 3/4 inch wood, you would need a 1inch piece to start. If you start with a 3/4 inch piece then you might have to bring it down to 1/2 inch which is not good.
F#@king genius! I knew i would find my answer here. Doing it now and no you dont need a 600$+ planer. My 16" porter-cable rips shit up just fine. Thanks.
If you are going to rip this board for your project, better to rip it first and plane each piece, I believe. You potentially could end up with thicker pieces
You're right, of course. I'n not a pro at this but I was just working with some cupped boards wherein to plane them as whole planks would leave too little thickness. It colored my thinking as I was watching your fine video. Didn't mean to sound know-it-all, nothing could be further from the truth!!
You can also get a board soaking wet “let it set in water for 24 hours” then take it outside or in a place where it’s hot and lay it on a good flat surface and put something heavy on it and let it dry. I use concrete bags a whole lot for the weight because I build a lot of decks. I use this method on big boards and even posts like a 6x6x16. Had them delivered by Lowe’s and they put the posts on top of the wood bundles with a good 5-6ft hanging off each end and it bent them like a noodle. Instead of taking them back I soaked them very heavily then laid them on the concrete driveway with concrete bags on them where the bend was. It pushed them right back into place.
This is such a horrible idea I don't know where to start. Though this may be an acceptable method of correcting warpage for construction grade material, the average woodworker would suffer a lot of consequences after following your guidance, both in the short term and especially long....I cringed after reading this
Dammit, of all the workshop tools I'm trying to justify buying before I justify a planer; I need a planer for this *simple* fix 😁 Otherwise great tip !👍
Good solution if you don't need to worry about keeping the thickness of the board. I am looking to fix 1/4" baltic birch ply and can't afford to lose any thickness. Do you have suggestions for this?
If your planing thinner materials sometimes you can’t add enough shims to keep the planer from distorting the board. Here is an added strategy for complicated boards. ruclips.net/video/qPBD_AJsVCM/видео.html Shout out to Jonathan Katz Moses for putting this video together to demonstrate my method.
As a novice woodworker myself, i honestly was waiting for miracle.
Same. I guess a planner is essential to fix this kinda problem.
Likewise
I guess the title should mention the thicknesser too
Theres only a few miracles.. you got to discover them yourself
Being a father and or a grandfather teaching your kids stuff like this is so rewarding
I can’t wait to teach my children
I watched a number of other videos on removing a twist from a board. You put them to shame by a country mile!! You did it simple, easy and fast. THANK YOU!
Ok I'm a young person from Toronto who likes to sew and I enjoyed this 👌👌
This is the kind of video I was looking for. Some people said put a wet towel on the piece of wood and iron it out then clamp it for 24hrs. Well that didn’t work. So I am going to use your method! Thank you sir
I truly enjoyed that! I must have been a carpenter in another life because I almost feel tears swelling up watching this! I am a sculpture (stone)....but there is a yearning to use wood. If I may indulge in a little store : Once, years ago, my mother mentioned in passing that she would like a corner cupboard. I saw a simple photograph of one in a country living magazine and decided to give it a try. Pine boards , with three triangles shelves, glass piece for a window. That was the first time I realized there was stores that sold lumber 🤣. I used the wrong nails ( finishing nails 😂🤣) but the thing held together and I jig-sawed rough folk art type horses to cover my corners etc... I’m still very proud of that project. Someday, I’m going to make something beautiful, and we have most of these tools so there is no excuse. Thank you for the beginner’s inspiration. Your the best! Thanks Jordon for filming and bringing this wonderful teacher to us all. Have a great day boys! Keep them coming. What would be a good first project?
This definitely works. The problem with it is you have to waste so much of the board to plane it down and that can create more problems if you need the boards to be a certain thickness.
Can you think of another way though? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm so excited for this channel…
Love the background music as well as your demonstration!
I really enjoyed watching this. Though I'm not likely to work with wood myself, I find the process fascinating! Thank you for demonstrating how it works so clearly and deftly, without a bunch of hype - simply watching you at your craft was so relaxing, and reminded me of watching my dad and grandpa fix things when I was little... I look forward to seeing more videos!
Even if its just hand tools, try it
Working wood is relaxing. And you cant make a mistake. When your done its still wood and you worked it.
When hand tools were all they had to work with what you could not see was still mostly rough. Buy a knife sharpen it find some soft woods and carve somthing keep in mind always push the blade away from you never tordes you you hands or body. Or anyone else a sharp knife is safe a dull knife can get you hurt. Look for wood carving.
Yes at first your projects won't be perfect no ones is you build skill.
Its fun relaxing and builds selfe esteem.
Also looking at somthing you made with your own 2 hands will give you a warm felling you did that. Giving somthing you made shows who you gave it to you care and love them.
@@bobbg9041 I like that a lot. You can't make a mistake because in the end its wood, and you worked it hahaha
That was simply ingenious; by using hot glue for a hold down! I knew about using a planer jig but, I couldn't figure out a good way to secure the work piece to the jig. Thank you so much.
I'm so excited for this channel! I love your instagram, I'm stoked to see all of your wisdom and love for what you do on here as well!
Also love seeing your dog 🐶 we have a gsp puppy, we love spotted friends!
Awesome use of wedges and glue. Simple but ingenious. Love it!
I was like there is no way he is going to get this straight and WOW! What patience, what skil and what great craftsmanship! Well done gents. I will definitely sub.
I knew he'd do it. What got me was the simple soft spoken way he showed us.
I used some large 25 lb weights and didn't have to shave anything off. I laid the warped board on some flat concrete and put some weights on it. Worked great.
Doing the same
How long did you leave it for
@@newpatchincoming6574 a few days for me, I just take the weights off and check to see how straight the board is every morning, then put the weights back if the board is still warped. My boards also seemed straighter after priming and painting for some reason. I also let the boards dry on my flat driveway, of course with the painted side up so to not make a mess.
@@anonymoususer7663 thanks
One of the clearest explanations I've seen about how to do this. Others have asked why not use a jointer planer to make one side true, then use the thickness planer for the other side, but this way means you only need to use one machine. And your jointer may not be big enough for a wide board - thicknessers commonly have much wider beds. You also have far more control with the wedges - with a warp that big it would be rocking all over your jointer bed, so much more difficult to use. Great video, thanks.
Man has the perfect explaining voice. Such kindness.
Thanks for a simple solution to a problem all of us woodworkers have from time to time. I've seen a couple of videos where a jointer is used to also remove twist, although you're a little more limited on the widths of boards you can use that method on. I have a few boards in the shop that have been aggravating me for some time due to the twist in them. I think it's time to fix them.
I love how you did it. An easy, simple and effective way. Thank you too much! God bless you more!!!
Thanks for getting straight to the point. I hate videos that take 10 minutes to tell me about their life stories.
This is so relaxing! Thank you sir!
I really enjoy your county. I know county from Washington but I don't know county like ya'll. And I mean that in the most admiration and respect. I will forever be a watcher, consumer, subscriber and follower of this channel! Thank you for the knowledge.
This is great if you want to turn 100% of your board into 50% board and 50% wood chips
enjoyed the lesson... good information. Unfortunately I'm trying to unwarp a table top from 1900. It was damaged in a fire in 1976 (water damage). It was out of a Law Firm in Dallas Texas in 1900. We acquired it from a good friend of ours in 1966 and it had belonged to her grandfather. I have removed the apron and legs and am now trying to straighten the top that is severely warped.
Read my other comment.
Best video I’ve seen yet on how to fix a warped board
This is relaxing and wholesome. Thank you!
Cool video! I love working with wood. I want to set up my own woodshop someday.
You have the name for it!
Did you do it yet? Its been a yr
I just got a planer so I am excited to take any board and make it flat. Thank you for the great tip!
Making it flats no problem. Its making it bow that takes time.
Oh, Man! I was so excited. I'm sitting here with a stack of twisted 2 x 8s. But I have a hot glue gun, so I figured I'm going to be rolling soon! Then I started pricing planers. I'm going to have to save up my money a bit before I can use those boards. But when I get that planer, I know EXACTLY what to do! Thank you!
Hi, David. You might check your area for a maker space ("fab labs" are the best). They may have wood working tools you can use. Also, you can take a wood working class at a local junior college and use their tools. Just my $0.02.
great tip with the hot glue. And I just love your accent , I was born in the UK and a Londoner,
Great now you have one board that dimensionally different. That’s fine if you can use it in a project. Most projects you will need the same thickness.
Like someone else said Wet it,weight it and wait 👍
That was someone with a lot of life experience and woodworking knowledge that gifted that technique to all of us . Thanks .
Thanks for the great video. I have a twisted 4" x 8" section which I will be using as a pilaster to break up siding and board and batten cladding on my house build. This technique will fix this issue. Also, I will be laminating sections for railing rails and posts, so this will come in really handy. Cheers from Canada.
This is great. I'm actually about to flatten some boards with a planer sled but coudn't figure out how to secure it. I was just sitting there looking at my bench ,there was a hot glue gun right there but i didnt even think about using it. Glad i searched this up. Great channel by the way!!!
I've been doing this using superglue and painters tape but this looks WAY easier. Thank you!
Keepin' it simple and true. Spread some knowledge through experience, then go out and pet your best friend. A slice of the good life, 👏👏👏
Carefully my best frinds either stair at me or try to lick me.
My dogs too. My wife dosnt liked to be petted. Last thing I want is her starring at me, usually means I didnt put the lid down.
Wow! You reduced that board down to a toothpick! It's better to mill your stock as close to the finished size, leaving some excess for snipe, trimming, etc. That said, a better method is to split the wood down the center, mill the two pieces flat to the same thickness, joint the cut edges flat and then glue them back together. This leaves a lot more material with minimal loss.
Nice technique -- that's one way! I've used a hot glue gun and shims on a board through a thickness planer to save what can be saved for future use. Thanks for providing this video. Ignore the haters -- they were abused children. 😅 My .02
cool method. allthough I feel "hot glue" was not the main tool for the title :D
Great method! I would leave it a day and see if it remains flat, since removing wood can also change the internal stresses. It may take a few times for it to stabilize.
If you gluing up a few boards, then why can't you stick them all up together immediately once this is done and whilst the wood is all flat?
@@conradpaul6100 you can, but there’s no guarantee that it still won’t move. Cutting away wood releases internal stress, and the wood will always want to neutralize that stress. If you glue up immediately, you may end up with a wider glue-up going out of flat. If it’s wider than your planer at that point, you’ll have to hand plane it to get it flat.
@@Pauken11 ok Jim, thanks for that. Would be nice to learn the theory about Wood, sure it wood help with my woodworking efforts
ahhhhh great tip! i suspected as much but i am a bit of newbie. I was wondering why my board was slightly out after checking it 2 days before.
Thanks for sharing!! That was great.
I wish I had a planer, though! Haha
I don't have a planer either. But it should be possible to use the same technique using a router as a planer (on a sled)
I'm going to try this in the (near) future. On much smaller boards though.
@@hansdegroot8549
It works. But the finninsed job won't be as finished youll need to do a few more steps to it depending on its use.
Amazing video. So simple. Love the music, love the old boys twang. I'm gonna be watching alot of his videos.
My only issue is you lose sooo much thickness. Wouldn’t it be better to cut down the middle, plane individually and then re-glue it ? That way you lose very little in thickness ? I saw that done somewhere
A very well executed video! Professional camera work for sure!
Thank you. Cheers from Brazil!
Wow, amazing what you can do when you plane from 4/4 to 2/4!
now you got 1/2 a board. just use hot water clamps or weights put in the sun
Hmm, that's a bit of an exaggeration. It reduced it somewhat, but not by half.
Better to have a thinner flat board than a thicker unusable one.
Clamped to what?
There’s no guarantee that heating and wetting will result in the board staying flat once dried back to 7%. Milling it flat is more reliable for fine hardwood projects. Not every board needs to be 3/4” thick. There’s plenty of use for half inch and even quarter inch boards. And the thinner it is the less important warping is since you can often force it flat with screws or glue depending on What you’re making.
Thank you, short and straight to the point !
"how to cut the straight board out of the middle of a twisted board". Well done!
Need to add " and a kick ass planer " to the title. Great video!
ha ha with hot glue.... and a great big machine! lol I did enjoy the video. I was looking for a way to fix a warped table myself and I don't have a workshop :) Loved the accent too. I'm an Aussie :)
How the heck is his drawing hand so steady?!?!
He uses his finger to index the edge of the board.
That’s the smartest thing I’ve seen in a bit
So many people make sleds with stops on one or both ends to hold the wood in place. You don't, do you ever? Your method seems to work just fine. Please keep making videos.
a truly great idea,if one has a thicknesser/planer !
I'm more impressed with the pencil mark being perfectly flat at the end
My question is how thick was the piece of wood you used before it was flattened and how thick was it when it was completed. I would imagine that if you're going to be working with 3/4 inch wood, you would need a 1inch piece to start. If you start with a 3/4 inch piece then you might have to bring it down to 1/2 inch which is not good.
The pencil marking trick using your finger as a guide is cool
Exactly how I was shown when I was a 3rd year apprentice cabinetmaker in NZ no need for the planer first
That is clever mate, thanks so much!
Now I want a planer ... very satisfying.
I guess I could put my jointer in the trash now. Thank you!👍
Is this woodworking or a meditation video?! So calming! 😂
Great vid thanks! 😃
Excellent demonstration, thank you!
F#@king genius! I knew i would find my answer here. Doing it now and no you dont need a 600$+ planer. My 16" porter-cable rips shit up just fine. Thanks.
Thanks bro, l have a 15 ft black walnut that warp as heck. I needed some good tips how to get it flat.
Nice trick I needed this for a cutting board I just made that's got some cupping in it
Not the solution I was hoping for but still a good video.
I have to do this with a god damn plainer.No fancy machines.Thank God i am a hobbyist.
If you are going to rip this board for your project, better to rip it first and plane each piece, I believe. You potentially could end up with thicker pieces
Ripping board that twisted would not be fun either ....
You're right, of course. I'n not a pro at this but I was just working with some cupped boards wherein to plane them as whole planks would leave too little thickness. It colored my thinking as I was watching your fine video. Didn't mean to sound know-it-all, nothing could be further from the truth!!
Awesome just what I need. Thanks there mate.
New sub all the way from North Borneo 💪👍👍👍
Thank you! I have a few twisted boards and soon I will not.
That was Brilliant sir
Yes its simple but 40 percent of the wood was removed do you have any technique that the whole wood will be saved?
Weight and/or clamps
Have a 13’ thick cedar slab that has a bad twist, I think I just need to clamp down the opposite corners till it reshapes
Very interesting technique. Thanks for sharing.
You can also get a board soaking wet “let it set in water for 24 hours” then take it outside or in a place where it’s hot and lay it on a good flat surface and put something heavy on it and let it dry. I use concrete bags a whole lot for the weight because I build a lot of decks. I use this method on big boards and even posts like a 6x6x16. Had them delivered by Lowe’s and they put the posts on top of the wood bundles with a good 5-6ft hanging off each end and it bent them like a noodle. Instead of taking them back I soaked them very heavily then laid them on the concrete driveway with concrete bags on them where the bend was. It pushed them right back into place.
This is such a horrible idea I don't know where to start. Though this may be an acceptable method of correcting warpage for construction grade material, the average woodworker would suffer a lot of consequences after following your guidance, both in the short term and especially long....I cringed after reading this
Maravilloso trabajo amigo, no se a que precio venden esas maravillas de maquina pero aca en chile son muy caras
How to fix a warped board with hot glue........ and a $4000 plainer haha, I'm just kidding great video man and that is some really nice cherry.
Awesome. Just need a planer now
Great video.. Very valuable lesson. Thanks.
How much thickness was lost? . 1" down to 5/8"? ... or...
Well done fella , stay lucky, stay safe, 😉🇬🇧
And what if it’s a warped canvas board it’s already been painted with artwork? Is there any known fix for that?
Love your accent 🤗
Dammit, of all the workshop tools I'm trying to justify buying before I justify a planer; I need a planer for this *simple* fix 😁
Otherwise great tip !👍
How about wetting the board clamping it and let the sun straighten it? I do that all the time
This is great if you have access to a big planer machine.
Nice! I dig your shop as well
Good solution if you don't need to worry about keeping the thickness of the board. I am looking to fix 1/4" baltic birch ply and can't afford to lose any thickness. Do you have suggestions for this?
weight and/or clamping
What about slightly bowed boards going it hard to get it out using my thickness planer any suggestions?
If your planing thinner materials sometimes you can’t add enough shims to keep the planer from distorting the board. Here is an added strategy for complicated boards.
ruclips.net/video/qPBD_AJsVCM/видео.html
Shout out to Jonathan Katz Moses for putting this video together to demonstrate my method.
Awesome!! Got my hot glue ready annnnnnnd I need a planer 😑
Fantastic content! Any suggestion for doing this with a wider slab and no planer?
Research router flattening table
Thank you for the excellent tip!
Good method if you feel like losing a huge percentage of the board.
3:22 skilled one you can see here.💪
Very good idea but I not have big planner machine..
Nice but 🤔, how about heat treatment to bend that...
helpful to me. thanks.