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You’ll find our library of free woodworking videos listed below. We produce these alongside our blog, to provide insight in to the methods of woodworking entirely by hand.

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Plane Build Video Series

The Plane Build – Video

October 12, 2017 By Richard Maguire 13 Comments

https://youtu.be/8rlsL-e15d4 Watch The Full Video in our Members' Site.  It's available to all For FREE! Login Now if you already have an account. OR Create a Free Account Here So... Why Build Your Own Wooden Plane? When you can get a smashing Stanley No 5 for about thirty five quid, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Free Videos, Make Your Own Tools

The Hand Plane Build – Getting Prepped

September 2, 2015 By Richard Maguire 40 Comments

UPDATE - The Full Build Is Now Available! CLICK for details. What You'll Need If you plan to build along with us then here's what you'll need to follow the same Jack Plane design: Iron - I'm using a Hock blade complete with cap iron (chip breaker) made to fit the Stanley No. 4 and 5 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Free Videos, Make Your Own Tools, Woodworking Hand Tools

User Made Hand Planes Discussion – VIDEO

May 29, 2015 By Richard Maguire 49 Comments

User made wooden planes

UPDATE - The Full Build Is Now Available! CLICK for details. I've been making a few hand planes this week in preparation for an upcoming series we have planned all about getting in to wooden planes. I've trialled a couple of designs and here are my thoughts so far. To see a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Free Videos, Make Your Own Tools, Woodworking Hand Tools

Setting The Cap Iron / Chip Breaker – VIDEO

May 24, 2015 By Richard Maguire 37 Comments

Setting the cap iron / chip breaker on a hand plane

  This is the last (for now) of three videos about cap irons / chip breakers. If you haven't seen the others then you can find them here: Cap Irons & Tear Out Preparing The Cap Iron / Chip Breaker I find a well set up cap iron to be vital for preventing tear out. It allows me to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Free Videos, Hand Planing, Woodworking Hand Tools, Woodworking Techniques

Preparing The Cap Iron / Chip Breaker – VIDEO

May 22, 2015 By Richard Maguire 25 Comments

Using hand planes to smooth wood and avoid tearout

  Following from the last video, we're looking at setting up a cap iron. This one's in two parts and the second video can be found here. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Free Videos, Hand Planing, Woodworking Hand Tools, Woodworking Techniques

Cap Irons & Tear Out – VIDEO

May 8, 2015 By Richard Maguire

How to set the chip breaker on a smoothing plane

Stubborn tear out can be a huge frustration. Particularly when you're just getting everything smoothed off and it shows it's ugly face. I'm not one for faffing about with my tools, and whilst I expect my hand planes to give a perfect result, most of them look dog rough. But getting to know … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Free Videos, Hand Planing, Woodworking Hand Tools, Woodworking Techniques

Hand Plane Guide – With VIDEO

March 20, 2015 By Richard Maguire

Bench planes of various lengths

  In this video I take a look at the different types of bench planes, and discuss options such as whether to have wooden or metal hand planes, which lengths of plane I prefer for different tasks, and generally have a good rant on the subject. Choosing & Using Bench Planes. Bench planes … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Free Videos, Hand Planing, Woodworking Hand Tools, Woodworking Techniques

Housing Rant – VIDEO

March 13, 2015 By Richard Maguire 23 Comments

  This week I'm ranting on about housing joints and minimal tools. We did run in to some technical difficulties with the sound so it is a bit crackly in places and a bit choppy, so I hope you don't get lost and I'm sure you'll forgive us. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Free Videos, Woodworking Joints, Woodworking Techniques

Mallet Rant – VIDEO

March 6, 2015 By Richard Maguire 21 Comments

  Here's video blog number one. I'm starting out with a quick rant about 'lumpy' my mallet since this was one of our most repeated comments from the previous videos.   Put an end to tear out - Watch This Video Next … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Free Videos, Woodworking Hand Tools

Cliching and the Tool Chest – VIDEO

September 16, 2013 By Richard Maguire 39 Comments

  In this video I show my two favourite methods for clinching nails and then use the technique for building my tool chest. This was a quick Sunday afternoon project that was great fun to build and should do a nice job of housing my tools whenever I need to cart them about. If you've read … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Free Videos, Woodworking Projects

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