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A clear presentation of hand planing basics focusing on four tools -- the No. 4 1/2 Smooth Plane, the No. 60 1/2 Low Angle Adjustable Mouth Block Plane, the No. 8 Jointer and the No. 60 1/2R Rabbet Block Plane. Includes a demonstration of reliable sharpening techniques.
(about 45 minutes)
In this video, Rob Cosman demonstrates how to prepare rough lumber with hand tools. He covers flattening, making the board square and true, and how to use a shooting board. Includes many useful tips on sharpening, planing, gauges, etc.
(about 47 minutes)
A beginner's guide to the through dovetail, this video clearly demonstrates reliable, easy-to-follow techniques for making accurate hand-cut dovetails.
(about 47 minutes)
Rob Cosman builds on the skills taught in his first dovetail video, demonstrating how to cut the more difficult half blind, houndstooth and mitered edge dovetails. Rob Cosman's first video, Hand-Cut Dovetails, takes the beginner through the techniques of making through dovetails.
(about 60 minutes)
Rob Cosman's mastery of dovetailing saw cut to saw cut joints with no chisel paring - starts with good sawing techniques. This video covers the basics of sawing, grip, stance and pressure. Selecting the right saw. Includes practice exercises to help you master your saw.
(about 45 minutes)
Bench-side instruction on hand cutting the mortise and tenon and the through wedged tenon. Rob guides you through the process of executing the joint with hand tools. Using a mortise chisel and mallet for the mortise and a tenon and a carcass saw for the tenon, Rob teaches the concept of being able to assemble the joint from these tools. He also covers using the bench hook, shooting board, layout tools and how to sharpen your tenon saw and chisels. Knowing how to cut this joint is essential.
Disc 1 of 2
(about 127 minutes)
Disc 2 of Hand-Cut Mortise and Tenon
(about 127 minutes)
This video was added to our catalog on May 31, 2006 in Woodworking::Furniture Making and Woodworking::Shop Tools.
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Rob does a good job demonstrating the art of handcut mortise and tenon joints. He also provides information on saw and mortise chisel sharpening. Worth watching as a brush up if you haven't cut these in a while.
Good job explaining mortise and tenon joint. Excellent for first timer as well as review. He also uses some techniques that are adaptable and well worth consideration for using in your own mortising technique.
I’ve seen several of Rob’s videos and all are very good. The only gripe I would have with them, and many others who put out a whole series, is that you have to sit through an hour or so of redundant, boring “this is how to sharpen a chisel/plane iron, how to prepare a sharpening stone…ect. I wish they would just put out one “beginner” video that covered all this so you didn’t have to sit through it every time you rented a video on a new skill. And, with all of Rob’s videos you have to listen to that guy who is placed there just to ask stupid questions like, “so can you get mortise chisels in different sizes”? The mortise and tenon videos could have been edited into one. If you know how to sharpen a saw, chisel, and your plane irons, just rent the mortise and tenon 2 video and save yourself $10 bucks, it’s very good. If you don’t know how to do these things, then the 1st video will show you how, although, if you want to learn how to sharpen you own hand saws, just go to the web site vintagesaws.com, click on the site map, then the link to “learn how to sharpen”. This site has the best how to sharpen a saw info that I’ve seen anywhere. I think Jim Kingshot’s videos on mortise and tenons are superior. Rob’s 2nd mortise video is very good at showing how to lay out and cut a wedged tenon, which Kingshot’s video doesn’t cover, so they compliment each other nicely in that respect. I like how Rob teaches how to sharpen a plane iron, which is the method that I use. IMO, Kingshot’s video on hand planes is superior to Rob’s From Rough To Ready, but I’m always entertained by a craftsman who uses hand tools, since that’s all I use. Rob’s Dovetail 1&2 videos are by far the best I’ve seen and I highly recommend them. I had a real eye opening experience when I saw how he uses a set of dividers to lay out his joints. Now, I use my dividers all the time. Hope this helps someone. Thanks.
I was really looking forward to these video, but overall felt a little disappointed. Cosman's info is excellent, but the video presentation leaves a lot to be desired. Often he'll be demonstrating some very precise line that needs to be made on a board (for example), and the video is a long shot! At one point, he's actually working out of sight, behind a big bench in the foreground.
I have had a class in dovetails and read a few books and many articles. Mostly I have spent some time practicing. I can't say that these videos alone would have me making dovetails--or that they would really even make sense to a complete novice. In my current, somewhat receptive frame of understanding, I got some good tips, but they are few and far between.
5 for Cosman himself; 1.5 for rotten visuals; average, about 3.
