July 7, 2024 • 33 mins
In this podcast, I have a general discussion about the tools I like to use when making chairs, or any staked furniture construction.
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Hello everyone, Welcome back for anotherpodcast. So just a bit of housekeeping
for those of you that missed it. I did actually put out a video
on this little guy. Yeah,this is a beach mallet. Been putting
it through his paces the last coupleof days, so there's a video there
if you are interested in watching it. So about an hour ago, I
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did actually finish up these winding sticks. So ironically, I personally think anyone
with or all that's using hand toolsshould have a set of these. This
is the first set I've ever built. This is the first set I've ever
owned, very shamefully, so ittook us a very long time to make
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them, really really simple to make. I'm really happy with how they turned
out. I'm not only happy withthe with the double section there there was
a little bit of tear out,but I really like how the in lay
turned out, and I think it'sa lovely contrast. So these are walnuts
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and that's actually just spruce. Soit is a section of Tony Groove Cladden.
That's that's all it is, andI think it goes really well a
girl. I really like the contrast. So there will be a build video
for these. It should be releasedon Saturday, so if you're watching this
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on Sunday, it should have beenreleased yesterday, so if you are interested,
go check it out. So todayI'm going to talk about the top
tools what I use for making chairs. So everything you say on the workbench,
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I use to make chairs. Anychairs I'm made in the past,
all new Roman work benches. Soin between everything, because I'm bouncing around,
I'm trying to get some content producedand get it upload and whatnot,
I am actually building a set ofdining chairs. I see a set of
dining chairs. It's only two becauseI don't already have a bench, and
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I'm going to keep the bench fornow at least. So pretty much all
I've got done in between everything,got a seat done, tours agree.
Obviously still needs to be shaped correctlyand whatever else. But I have got
the four holes drilled, two ofthem are roomed out, and I have
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got three of the legs roughly shapedor all. I've got some of the
material away, basically the corners,so these are going to be turning to
a bulb like leg rather than yourtypical hexagonal Welsh stick chair. So I
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wanted to go through some of thetools that I use some of them I
use all of the time when I'mbuilding chairs or even me roam and work
benches. It's all the same typeof jewanry, steaked jeanry. So some
of them shine and I wouldn't bewithout them, and some of them I
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think they're a little bit over hypedmy personally, But some of them I
haven't used to the full potential.So I am going to go over them
a few a few obvious ones thatyou've probably seen online on Instagram and stuff
like that. So I'm going tostart off with Travisher. So this Travisha
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I got from winds That Workshop,so Gems is very accomplished and wins a
chair makeer. Obviously he does makeother styles of chairs and from time to
time, and from time to timeit does actually make a batch of these.
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I don't believe he's using some sortof other material now aller than would,
but at the time he was usingwood. So I bought myself one
of these. This This is absolutelyawesome. People people use scorpes. I
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don't have a scope. It's it'sI don't know where it is. I
think it might be around your mother'sBut I do have a scope. I've
never ever used it, never everhad the need to use it, simply
because I have this Travisher. Sofrom my understanding, I'm not a chair
maker, and you know, there'sa lot more people out there than that
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have got like more experience than myself. But from what I've gotta the scope
was used to roof out the chairseats, you know, to get there
whatever you may be done. Youmay be doing an arch or a full
on saddle and then you come alongand you finish up with one of these
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guys and then you may use likea cord scrape or something like that.
So what I found with this isthat you can hug a lot of material
off of this, like, youknow, a lot, like a silly
amount of material. So when I'veseen things online and people using scopes,
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comparing it to what I've actually donewith this, it's to me, at
least it seems that you're able tohug off more material with this than the
scope. So that makes my lifea little bit easier. So I'm sure
pretty much everybody wants to make lifeeasier. So, like I see,
I've never ever used to score.So this Travis shot is worth between and
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gold for me at least there is. However, there is, however,
a couple of things I'm not overlykeen on, and that's the way it's
sets. There is a couple ofAlan keys and yeah Alan kay screws,
and they're just tightening up the twochieth of you will I've come through,
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you know, you get it setup with a hammer and s and shits.
It's it's not the Bay Old endAll, but I'm not like overly
fond of it. And another thingI don't like is that this takes more
time to short one, and it'sharder to shorten because obviously it's around the
curve. I mean the same.Again, that's not the bay all end
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All, and it is personal preference. I just think for me, it
just takes me a little bit longerto do it. It's a little bit
more fu fun where I'm pretty sureJames at the wins Our Workshop can probably
shot in one of these just asquick as I can shop and Bailey's number
four. Next up is a Tannancutter, so this is veritous Tannon cutter.
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I actually have two of these.I have the three aphs and the
five Aphs. I actually thought thiswas a whole finch for some reason.
Anyway, these these have been usedon pretty much all of me builds,
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every single build I've ever done,I think pretty much they've been used.
They are really good. They canbe a little bit taxing on the hand,
and they can be a little bitoak like a shot. When and
set back up again, you're actuallyable to. It's just the the angle
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of the blade which will give youa different angle of the tenants basically the
same sort of thing. It's likean alan kaye. You know, you're
just loosen them off, put itthe whay you where you want it to,
since them up. You can actuallymake devils with these. It's not
just for tenant cutters. So ifI'm making a lot of devils, I
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probably will just end up using these, you know, the nice and quick.
So I did buy a used one. I think this is what's this.
This is a five aphs one,so it is the same size as
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this one. The reason I boughtthis was because it's got the two handles,
so you can't imagine that if youif you've got your chronical tenant roughly
shaved shaped roller, you've used maybea drawn ever spokeshave and you're getting quite
close now you just put this guyon and start twisting it. As I
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said before, can really be taxingon the hand depending on what type of
timber you're using as well. Thelast build I've done, the last table
build, I used beach for thelegs and it was absolutely you know it
was it was a pure mission toactually try and turn these because the beach
is so tough, it's so hard. So I did actually struggle with this.
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In hindsight, I probably should haveused this. I don't actually think
this is a matching angle, isit or isn't it? This is this
is slightly a different angle two tothe realm I have, and I've only
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got the one realma, so Icould possibly maybe have a little mess room
with the adjustments because this can beadjusted as well, and I might be
able to get like a decent,you know, sort of setting where it's
quite close to the angle of this. I don't even know the angle of
this. So while I've got therima in behind, this is a vertus
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rema. Before I bought this aVeritas reama, I did actually try to
get a wooden a wooden hand builtone. At the time. I don't
believe I had the money to basicallysplash out. You know, you got
a lot of these toolmakers on Instagramwho who I follow, and they made
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beautiful tools. But at a timeI just didn't have the money to to
pay, which is unfortunate because there'ssome beautiful tools out there. So instead
I went for this. I understandnow that this is pretty expensive. I
was talking to somebody was just overcomments. It might have been on YouTube
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or Instagram, I can't quite remember. Now, I'm sure somebody was saying,
these are like eighty books. Sothat's a lot of money for something
so small. So, you know, Veritous, you need to kind of
drop your prices. It's a greatbit of kid, but it's a bit
too expensive al thing. Personally,if it is eighty books, I've never
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actually fact checked that, so Imight be wrong. So all this does,
for those of you that don't know, it basically matches the angle of
the It matches the angle of thetenants like you, So a chronical tenants.
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Again, for those of you thatdon't know pretty much, that's a
chronical tenants. It's it's chnical,and the fact that it's it's it's pointing
similar to a triangle, but it'sbut it's chnical, so that basically matches
the angle of this, which meansthat if you use this to cut a
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conical tenant, when you read thehole out, the whole will will match
or all other Yeah, the holewill match the tenant and it will be
a nice good fit. But whileI'm discussing the chronical tenants and such,
this is what I have in myhands is a piece of oak. It's
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squared. I think it's maybe,I don't know, maybe forty met as
squared. So I use this allthe time. I don't know if you
could call it a tool or atemplets, but I use it all a
ten So basically, what this allowsus to do when I'm actually reading a
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hole, I'll the hole. I'lltry to get me angle. So when
I ream holes or or drill anyholes, I don't use any layers as,
which probably wouldn't be a bad idea, to be honest, maybe I
should like looking again in the someBut up to now, every single bench,
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every single chair I've made, I'venever used layers as. Not that
I'm against them, just it's justnever happened. So one of the issues
were using this for this REALMA isthat when it's in the when it's in
the bracing bit or the bracetroller,there's not a lot for us to reference,
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like on a straight on a straightedge, so that the front legs
these are going to be the frontlegs, what you can say on camera,
so they're actually tilted at fifteen degreesgoing back. So the issue that
I have is that when you're whenI am reaming this, I haven't really
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got a lot to gauge because obviouslyyou've got the shape of the of the
rima and then you've got the shapeof the nuts where it tightens up.
So that's all kind of all overthe place. There's not a lot of
straight edge where I can gauge it. I do believe you can buy an
extension that would fit this, butsame again, I've never bought what I'm
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no, I've never come across one. So what I'll do, I'll start
reaming and I'll just you know,every I don't know, every say ten
turns, if that's maybe maybe sevenfive seven turns, I'll just put this
in, give it a little tapand see where I am. So what
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I would be using, So whatI would be using is a sliding bevel.
So again the sliding bevel, it'snot really a chair maker's tool,
but I really like it. Iuse it again every single chair, every
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single anything I've done this sort ofconstruction, this bevel is being used,
this slid bevel. It's actually marbles. This was purchased on the flame market.
I think it was about a poundon the flame market. So as
I was saying, for the frontlegs, it was set at fifteen degrees.
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That's that's quite a common angle formy fifteen degrees. So I line
this up with with the site lines, so this is a sight line and
I basically put that on that's fifteendegrees. So so like I said,
I go backwards and forwards with arima and I can get it pretty close.
Like that's it's it's usually quite youknow, caught on if if I
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take me time with it. Butif you do rush it and you get
a little bit gung ho, yousometimes find you can take too much of
So you do have to be alittle bit careful with this method. But
as I said, this is thisis the kind of method that I've that
I've used for a very long time. So the axe, the humble axe.
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So this is a rare yeels.Yeah, I've got this a number
of years ago. I don't pretendI use it a great deal. I
do actually need to rework the handle. I don't like how wide the handle
is. It's way too wide.It's it needs to be slimmed right down
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quite a lot. But the theaxes, the ax can't come in handy
depending on what I'm doing. Inthe past, I have used it to
remove some material from legs, youknow, if I'm down some sort of
a tape or legs, you know, I might come in, you know,
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depending on the type of what itis. You know. These can
work pretty well with with oak.There is all the woods to work well
with, but the likes of beach. It ain't done a lot with beach.
Beach is so so hard. Anotherthing I find myself doing with with
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an axe. If I am splittingwood, for just saying, for legs,
I tend to use this rather thanthe throw. I just find I've
normally got it a hand anyway,so it is pretty good for that.
I mean, it's one of thosetools where I kind of I don't use
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it a great deal, but whenyou need it. You know, it's
it's good to have one sort ofthing. I don't think it's necessary per
se a game. It depends onhow you how you would work, and
it depends on if you're making chairsor your plant to make chairs. You
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know, you could get an axeand you could use that four splitting role
and going out to buy your frow, which I actually did. So when
we're talking about the frow, thisis a fro, so basically what a
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what a fraw does. For thoseof you that don't know, you would
actually put this onto the piece oftimber and have a have a mallet and
basically you hit this into the woodand it splits the wood for you.
This typically is used in green woodworking, which again for those of you that
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don't know, the trees being youknow, cut down, it's not fully
dried yet. It hasn't been puttinginto the killing or it hasn't been left
to air dry, you know,So using one of these is a lot
easier with green wood. So Ihave used this to split killing dried believe
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it or not, or depending onhow the grain is, will split reasonably
even though it has been killing dried. Obviously I have done it. With
this. So another thing that thisis you for that I've got no experience
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with and I hope to sometime inthe future, is actually splitting lembs of
wood. So I believe this wastypically used for splitting the likes of oak
and such for winds our chair.So if we've got a continuous winds our
chair arm, this would be thiswould be hitting and would basically tap it
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in, tap it in and keepworking the way down. And sometimes the
grain might run off one way orthe grain might run off the other way
as you're splitting the wood down.So when it's still not basically depending on
which way of the grains splitting,use the handle to minute you lay the
grain. So as you're going downyou might want to twist it, twist
it up, twist it up,or if the grain is running the other
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way, you might want to twistit down, twist it down again.
I've got no experience in this,but if you if you watch some chair
makers have like obviously got a lotof experience using one of these. It's
it's something to watch the way theycan't just manipulate that green and get all
the way down. It's a realeye opener when you watch them, watch
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them using this. I think probablyfor the average person like myself, you
probably don't need to go out andget one of these. Although it's one
of those things. Again, shouldyou ever need it and you've already got
it, you know it's it's it'sone of those, but I haven't really
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used it. A great deal tobe honest with you. Up next the
unsung hero. So this is abrace and I have the bits, I
don't have a I don't have amassive amounts of bits. I don't really
use a massive amount of bits.So so this was another framework refined.
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I think I paid like about apound for this as well. Can you
believe it a pound? It's crazy, isn't it. Ironically he's got a
lot of fluck. Well, Iwas going to see. I don't know
why they get a lot of fluck. Actually don't know why they get a
lot of fluck because people people getthe bits, and the bits are blunt
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and damaged, and then they tryto use them in the don't could very
well, and they think that's rubbish. Whereas the truth being known, if
you've got a bit that isn't damagedin a shop, it will go through
oak or even beach quite quickly.Even sometimes it'll go through better than a
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drill. Let's just say, youknow, like you average cord of the
drill with maybe a spade bit inso he's on the be shunned. I
wouldn't be without one. Don't getits wrong. I've got an elect of
drill. I do use it,But I think personally this is better for
doing the legs of chair building,simply because it's not as fast as a
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drill. So if you've got adrill, even if it's on a slower
setting, it will tend to gothrough the material quicker than what you can
control with with a brace and bit. Another thing I like about the brace
and bit is that when it's whenit's in the brace the bit, you're
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actually able to, you know,get a good eye. You're actually able
to get a good eye of kindof you know, the sort of angle
that you're drilling at, which obviouslyyou want when you're doing stuff like this,
and you can just go, youcan you know, you can maybe
give it half a turn, youcan give it a couple of turns and
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then you can stop. There's agreat amount of control with a brace and
bit when you're making benches or chairs, anything that's like chronical tanning construction,
even tables. I personally think you'rebetter off using a brace and bit if
you've got one a hand. It'sit's just going to allow you more control.
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Something else that I use a lotwhen I'm making chairs, I use
this speed square. So this speedsquare, I think it's pretty much seeing
nearly all of the builds I've done. Yeah, one of the good things
I like about this, or twogood things I like about this, or
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three, let's just see a freeThis one's made of aluminium. It's going
to take a lot for it tolose it. It's square, so this
can be dropped. Not not thatI'm telling you to throw it about or
anything, but it can be droppedand I don't have to worry about it.
Whereas if I dropped this little guy. This is a combination square,
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So if I dropped this little guy, there is a chance I can knock
grit out the square. So asmuch as I do like combination squares,
and I do like them a lot, I ain't got I ain't got that
to worry about with this one.Another thing I like about it is that
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it's free standing, and it isactually quite steady even when the wind's blown.
A lot of my buildings have beenoutside, and it does actually fare
quite well in the wind. Anotherthing I use this for is finding angles
or setting angles. So you probablycan't say on the chair or the bottom
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of the chair that is chair seat. There's a You've got all my sight
lines and everything. All the sightlines were drawn primarily with this, So
I use this. I use thisin two ways. Sometimes, if I'm
being lazy, I'll get me I'llget my angle, whatever that may be.
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You know, let's just say thirtydegrees and I'll put it straight edge
along and i'll strike me line.Second way I'll do this is I'll find
the angle, draw a line,and I use that as a reference to
set me sliding bevel. Again,it's it's not it's not intended for making
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chairs. I just think it's supersuper handy when you're all making chairs.
So going back to using this,guy, I don't particularly I don't particularly
you need to. I don't meanto sound cocky, but I don't need
to worry about going left and right. I've done it so many times that
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the left and right playing when I'mdrilling. It's it's never far wrong,
you know. I've just had somuch practice and doing it. So obviously
where I did where I do strugglebecause I can't of gauge it properly just
just the way my body my bodyposition is. It is going back and
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back and towards meself. So anyonethat is kind of like not confident in
doing this, you're obviously going tohave to use something like like this the
bevil. But another good thing isthat you can actually put the square there.
And because it's because it's it's gotthe white base for the stand up,
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it's actually quite good in that respectfor people. Next up is a
draw knife. I like to usea draw knife. Drawn ife will hog
off a lot of material very quicklyon chair legs, spindles, things like
that. I'm usually using this onthe Roman work bench. Me Roman work
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bench has a shave horse attachments.So as I said, these are really
really good to hug off a lotof material quickly. It can get you
pretty close. Once I still getclose with that, I still use me
spokeshave so see them again. Youknow, there's probably a lot of people
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that don't associate spokes shifts with chairbuilding or bench building, any sort of
chronical tannon building. But I alwaysalways always use Spokeshave when I'm building anything
like this. For me, theseit's just it's invaluable and get you into
a nice you know, nice nicetight corners, you know, uneven uneven
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services. Because the souls so little, it will still take a shaven.
They do take a bit of gettingused to if you never use a Spokeshave
or you don't use one that often. So a couple of tips while I'm
at it. If you are usingone of these, you can push with
it, you can also pull withit, so when you are using it,
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if you're getting tram lines like stuttering, make sure that the souls well
lubricated. I use frame one oiland actually have it on a scale so
you know, maybe about forty fivedegrees rather than having it like a straight
ninety degrees forty five degrees. Ifyou if you do the two of them,
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you should have very little problem.Depending on the type of wood and
how the grains behaving, you willhave to keep it lubricated. You know,
maybe every ten strokes, fifteen strokes, you may have to just swipe
it over the bailey rag and goagain. But as I said, definitely,
definitely this would be in me thetop five definitely, so last up,
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and they do deserve and mention cardscrape as there is a card scrape
I called a chair devil. I'venever made one, I've never owned one,
I probably won't. Simple reason isis that just a square or oblong
if you will rectangle cord scrape up. This is all I ever used to
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finish up with with legs and spindlesand stuff. It just takes a nice
fine shaven You get to a bitof a rhythm and you can, like
you know, finish up a chairleg really really quickly with one of these,
like a like a bulb, abulb type leg. I find this
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invaluable for things like that. Sowith the with the rounded cord scrape.
Ironically, it's actually got a bitof rust on it, this surface rust.
This only gets used and has onlybeen used on the seat saddle.
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That's the only time I've ever usedthis, you know. Same again,
It's one of those things where Idon't use a lot, but when I
need to use it, and I'vegot it, and it's a it's super
handy. Obviously if you go tothe full extent of putting the full saddle
in this. This is a it'sjust going to get into all those curves
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and it's good to give you areally nice finish here. So you know,
if you're able to get one ofthese and you're kind of going to
like build a chair, I woulddefinitely recommend doing that. So those only
tools that I use. Probably issome other stuff I use. Obviously,
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I do would like to use meRoman work bench when I'm building, even
though I've got the toall bench.If me back letters, I would hardly
be on the Roman work bench buildingthe chairs which I am in the middle
of shooting the video for it,and down little bits and bobs. But
you will see as outside on theRoman work bench simply because I just find
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it easier and better, especially whenI'm drilling. I'm able to cite everything
better. I get better results whenI'm kneeling on top of the work when
I'm drilling or reaming. So ithas got the ability to turn into a
shave horse, and I can usethis fella, you know, to to
remove a lot of material quickly,So I may as well mention it for
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those of you that are interested.There is actually a free a book with
the Room work Bench. There's nosign up, it doesn't cost your thing.
Click the link and then you readit or download it, and that's
it. As I said. AsI said, a room work bench,
at least for me, is avery handy piece of kit I have when
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you're all doing chairs and stuff.So that's it for the day. Guys.
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Hello everyone, Welcome back for anotherpodcast. So just a bit of housekeeping
for those of you that missed it. I did actually put out a video
on this little guy. Yeah,this is a beach mallet. Been putting
it through his paces the last coupleof days, so there's a video there
if you are interested in watching it. So about an hour ago, I
(00:23):
did actually finish up these winding sticks. So ironically, I personally think anyone
with or all that's using hand toolsshould have a set of these. This
is the first set I've ever built. This is the first set I've ever
owned, very shamefully, so ittook us a very long time to make
(00:46):
them, really really simple to make. I'm really happy with how they turned
out. I'm not only happy withthe with the double section there there was
a little bit of tear out,but I really like how the in lay
turned out, and I think it'sa lovely contrast. So these are walnuts
(01:10):
and that's actually just spruce. Soit is a section of Tony Groove Cladden.
That's that's all it is, andI think it goes really well a
girl. I really like the contrast. So there will be a build video
for these. It should be releasedon Saturday, so if you're watching this
(01:34):
on Sunday, it should have beenreleased yesterday, so if you are interested,
go check it out. So todayI'm going to talk about the top
tools what I use for making chairs. So everything you say on the workbench,
(01:57):
I use to make chairs. Anychairs I'm made in the past,
all new Roman work benches. Soin between everything, because I'm bouncing around,
I'm trying to get some content producedand get it upload and whatnot,
I am actually building a set ofdining chairs. I see a set of
dining chairs. It's only two becauseI don't already have a bench, and
(02:20):
I'm going to keep the bench fornow at least. So pretty much all
I've got done in between everything,got a seat done, tours agree.
Obviously still needs to be shaped correctlyand whatever else. But I have got
the four holes drilled, two ofthem are roomed out, and I have
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got three of the legs roughly shapedor all. I've got some of the
material away, basically the corners,so these are going to be turning to
a bulb like leg rather than yourtypical hexagonal Welsh stick chair. So I
(03:02):
wanted to go through some of thetools that I use some of them I
use all of the time when I'mbuilding chairs or even me roam and work
benches. It's all the same typeof jewanry, steaked jeanry. So some
of them shine and I wouldn't bewithout them, and some of them I
(03:25):
think they're a little bit over hypedmy personally, But some of them I
haven't used to the full potential.So I am going to go over them
a few a few obvious ones thatyou've probably seen online on Instagram and stuff
like that. So I'm going tostart off with Travisher. So this Travisha
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I got from winds That Workshop,so Gems is very accomplished and wins a
chair makeer. Obviously he does makeother styles of chairs and from time to
time, and from time to timeit does actually make a batch of these.
(04:15):
I don't believe he's using some sortof other material now aller than would,
but at the time he was usingwood. So I bought myself one
of these. This This is absolutelyawesome. People people use scorpes. I
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don't have a scope. It's it'sI don't know where it is. I
think it might be around your mother'sBut I do have a scope. I've
never ever used it, never everhad the need to use it, simply
because I have this Travisher. Sofrom my understanding, I'm not a chair
maker, and you know, there'sa lot more people out there than that
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have got like more experience than myself. But from what I've gotta the scope
was used to roof out the chairseats, you know, to get there
whatever you may be done. Youmay be doing an arch or a full
on saddle and then you come alongand you finish up with one of these
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guys and then you may use likea cord scrape or something like that.
So what I found with this isthat you can hug a lot of material
off of this, like, youknow, a lot, like a silly
amount of material. So when I'veseen things online and people using scopes,
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comparing it to what I've actually donewith this, it's to me, at
least it seems that you're able tohug off more material with this than the
scope. So that makes my lifea little bit easier. So I'm sure
pretty much everybody wants to make lifeeasier. So, like I see,
I've never ever used to score.So this Travis shot is worth between and
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gold for me at least there is. However, there is, however,
a couple of things I'm not overlykeen on, and that's the way it's
sets. There is a couple ofAlan keys and yeah Alan kay screws,
and they're just tightening up the twochieth of you will I've come through,
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you know, you get it setup with a hammer and s and shits.
It's it's not the Bay Old endAll, but I'm not like overly
fond of it. And another thingI don't like is that this takes more
time to short one, and it'sharder to shorten because obviously it's around the
curve. I mean the same.Again, that's not the bay all end
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All, and it is personal preference. I just think for me, it
just takes me a little bit longerto do it. It's a little bit
more fu fun where I'm pretty sureJames at the wins Our Workshop can probably
shot in one of these just asquick as I can shop and Bailey's number
four. Next up is a Tannancutter, so this is veritous Tannon cutter.
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I actually have two of these.I have the three aphs and the
five Aphs. I actually thought thiswas a whole finch for some reason.
Anyway, these these have been usedon pretty much all of me builds,
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every single build I've ever done,I think pretty much they've been used.
They are really good. They canbe a little bit taxing on the hand,
and they can be a little bitoak like a shot. When and
set back up again, you're actuallyable to. It's just the the angle
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of the blade which will give youa different angle of the tenants basically the
same sort of thing. It's likean alan kaye. You know, you're
just loosen them off, put itthe whay you where you want it to,
since them up. You can actuallymake devils with these. It's not
just for tenant cutters. So ifI'm making a lot of devils, I
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probably will just end up using these, you know, the nice and quick.
So I did buy a used one. I think this is what's this.
This is a five aphs one,so it is the same size as
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this one. The reason I boughtthis was because it's got the two handles,
so you can't imagine that if youif you've got your chronical tenant roughly
shaved shaped roller, you've used maybea drawn ever spokeshave and you're getting quite
close now you just put this guyon and start twisting it. As I
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said before, can really be taxingon the hand depending on what type of
timber you're using as well. Thelast build I've done, the last table
build, I used beach for thelegs and it was absolutely you know it
was it was a pure mission toactually try and turn these because the beach
is so tough, it's so hard. So I did actually struggle with this.
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In hindsight, I probably should haveused this. I don't actually think
this is a matching angle, isit or isn't it? This is this
is slightly a different angle two tothe realm I have, and I've only
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got the one realma, so Icould possibly maybe have a little mess room
with the adjustments because this can beadjusted as well, and I might be
able to get like a decent,you know, sort of setting where it's
quite close to the angle of this. I don't even know the angle of
this. So while I've got therima in behind, this is a vertus
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rema. Before I bought this aVeritas reama, I did actually try to
get a wooden a wooden hand builtone. At the time. I don't
believe I had the money to basicallysplash out. You know, you got
a lot of these toolmakers on Instagramwho who I follow, and they made
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beautiful tools. But at a timeI just didn't have the money to to
pay, which is unfortunate because there'ssome beautiful tools out there. So instead
I went for this. I understandnow that this is pretty expensive. I
was talking to somebody was just overcomments. It might have been on YouTube
(11:11):
or Instagram, I can't quite remember. Now, I'm sure somebody was saying,
these are like eighty books. Sothat's a lot of money for something
so small. So, you know, Veritous, you need to kind of
drop your prices. It's a greatbit of kid, but it's a bit
too expensive al thing. Personally,if it is eighty books, I've never
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actually fact checked that, so Imight be wrong. So all this does,
for those of you that don't know, it basically matches the angle of
the It matches the angle of thetenants like you, So a chronical tenants.
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Again, for those of you thatdon't know pretty much, that's a
chronical tenants. It's it's chnical,and the fact that it's it's it's pointing
similar to a triangle, but it'sbut it's chnical, so that basically matches
the angle of this, which meansthat if you use this to cut a
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conical tenant, when you read thehole out, the whole will will match
or all other Yeah, the holewill match the tenant and it will be
a nice good fit. But whileI'm discussing the chronical tenants and such,
this is what I have in myhands is a piece of oak. It's
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squared. I think it's maybe,I don't know, maybe forty met as
squared. So I use this allthe time. I don't know if you
could call it a tool or atemplets, but I use it all a
ten So basically, what this allowsus to do when I'm actually reading a
(13:05):
hole, I'll the hole. I'lltry to get me angle. So when
I ream holes or or drill anyholes, I don't use any layers as,
which probably wouldn't be a bad idea, to be honest, maybe I
should like looking again in the someBut up to now, every single bench,
(13:26):
every single chair I've made, I'venever used layers as. Not that
I'm against them, just it's justnever happened. So one of the issues
were using this for this REALMA isthat when it's in the when it's in
the bracing bit or the bracetroller,there's not a lot for us to reference,
(13:54):
like on a straight on a straightedge, so that the front legs
these are going to be the frontlegs, what you can say on camera,
so they're actually tilted at fifteen degreesgoing back. So the issue that
I have is that when you're whenI am reaming this, I haven't really
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got a lot to gauge because obviouslyyou've got the shape of the of the
rima and then you've got the shapeof the nuts where it tightens up.
So that's all kind of all overthe place. There's not a lot of
straight edge where I can gauge it. I do believe you can buy an
extension that would fit this, butsame again, I've never bought what I'm
(14:41):
no, I've never come across one. So what I'll do, I'll start
reaming and I'll just you know,every I don't know, every say ten
turns, if that's maybe maybe sevenfive seven turns, I'll just put this
in, give it a little tapand see where I am. So what
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I would be using, So whatI would be using is a sliding bevel.
So again the sliding bevel, it'snot really a chair maker's tool,
but I really like it. Iuse it again every single chair, every
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single anything I've done this sort ofconstruction, this bevel is being used,
this slid bevel. It's actually marbles. This was purchased on the flame market.
I think it was about a poundon the flame market. So as
I was saying, for the frontlegs, it was set at fifteen degrees.
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That's that's quite a common angle formy fifteen degrees. So I line
this up with with the site lines, so this is a sight line and
I basically put that on that's fifteendegrees. So so like I said,
I go backwards and forwards with arima and I can get it pretty close.
Like that's it's it's usually quite youknow, caught on if if I
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take me time with it. Butif you do rush it and you get
a little bit gung ho, yousometimes find you can take too much of
So you do have to be alittle bit careful with this method. But
as I said, this is thisis the kind of method that I've that
I've used for a very long time. So the axe, the humble axe.
(16:38):
So this is a rare yeels.Yeah, I've got this a number
of years ago. I don't pretendI use it a great deal. I
do actually need to rework the handle. I don't like how wide the handle
is. It's way too wide.It's it needs to be slimmed right down
(17:03):
quite a lot. But the theaxes, the ax can't come in handy
depending on what I'm doing. Inthe past, I have used it to
remove some material from legs, youknow, if I'm down some sort of
a tape or legs, you know, I might come in, you know,
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depending on the type of what itis. You know. These can
work pretty well with with oak.There is all the woods to work well
with, but the likes of beach. It ain't done a lot with beach.
Beach is so so hard. Anotherthing I find myself doing with with
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an axe. If I am splittingwood, for just saying, for legs,
I tend to use this rather thanthe throw. I just find I've
normally got it a hand anyway,so it is pretty good for that.
I mean, it's one of thosetools where I kind of I don't use
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it a great deal, but whenyou need it. You know, it's
it's good to have one sort ofthing. I don't think it's necessary per
se a game. It depends onhow you how you would work, and
it depends on if you're making chairsor your plant to make chairs. You
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know, you could get an axeand you could use that four splitting role
and going out to buy your frow, which I actually did. So when
we're talking about the frow, thisis a fro, so basically what a
(18:57):
what a fraw does. For thoseof you that don't know, you would
actually put this onto the piece oftimber and have a have a mallet and
basically you hit this into the woodand it splits the wood for you.
This typically is used in green woodworking, which again for those of you that
(19:18):
don't know, the trees being youknow, cut down, it's not fully
dried yet. It hasn't been puttinginto the killing or it hasn't been left
to air dry, you know,So using one of these is a lot
easier with green wood. So Ihave used this to split killing dried believe
(19:41):
it or not, or depending onhow the grain is, will split reasonably
even though it has been killing dried. Obviously I have done it. With
this. So another thing that thisis you for that I've got no experience
(20:03):
with and I hope to sometime inthe future, is actually splitting lembs of
wood. So I believe this wastypically used for splitting the likes of oak
and such for winds our chair.So if we've got a continuous winds our
chair arm, this would be thiswould be hitting and would basically tap it
(20:30):
in, tap it in and keepworking the way down. And sometimes the
grain might run off one way orthe grain might run off the other way
as you're splitting the wood down.So when it's still not basically depending on
which way of the grains splitting,use the handle to minute you lay the
grain. So as you're going downyou might want to twist it, twist
it up, twist it up,or if the grain is running the other
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way, you might want to twistit down, twist it down again.
I've got no experience in this,but if you if you watch some chair
makers have like obviously got a lotof experience using one of these. It's
it's something to watch the way theycan't just manipulate that green and get all
the way down. It's a realeye opener when you watch them, watch
(21:14):
them using this. I think probablyfor the average person like myself, you
probably don't need to go out andget one of these. Although it's one
of those things. Again, shouldyou ever need it and you've already got
it, you know it's it's it'sone of those, but I haven't really
(21:37):
used it. A great deal tobe honest with you. Up next the
unsung hero. So this is abrace and I have the bits, I
don't have a I don't have amassive amounts of bits. I don't really
use a massive amount of bits.So so this was another framework refined.
(22:03):
I think I paid like about apound for this as well. Can you
believe it a pound? It's crazy, isn't it. Ironically he's got a
lot of fluck. Well, Iwas going to see. I don't know
why they get a lot of fluck. Actually don't know why they get a
lot of fluck because people people getthe bits, and the bits are blunt
(22:25):
and damaged, and then they tryto use them in the don't could very
well, and they think that's rubbish. Whereas the truth being known, if
you've got a bit that isn't damagedin a shop, it will go through
oak or even beach quite quickly.Even sometimes it'll go through better than a
(22:48):
drill. Let's just say, youknow, like you average cord of the
drill with maybe a spade bit inso he's on the be shunned. I
wouldn't be without one. Don't getits wrong. I've got an elect of
drill. I do use it,But I think personally this is better for
doing the legs of chair building,simply because it's not as fast as a
(23:12):
drill. So if you've got adrill, even if it's on a slower
setting, it will tend to gothrough the material quicker than what you can
control with with a brace and bit. Another thing I like about the brace
and bit is that when it's whenit's in the brace the bit, you're
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actually able to, you know,get a good eye. You're actually able
to get a good eye of kindof you know, the sort of angle
that you're drilling at, which obviouslyyou want when you're doing stuff like this,
and you can just go, youcan you know, you can maybe
give it half a turn, youcan give it a couple of turns and
(24:00):
then you can stop. There's agreat amount of control with a brace and
bit when you're making benches or chairs, anything that's like chronical tanning construction,
even tables. I personally think you'rebetter off using a brace and bit if
you've got one a hand. It'sit's just going to allow you more control.
(24:25):
Something else that I use a lotwhen I'm making chairs, I use
this speed square. So this speedsquare, I think it's pretty much seeing
nearly all of the builds I've done. Yeah, one of the good things
I like about this, or twogood things I like about this, or
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three, let's just see a freeThis one's made of aluminium. It's going
to take a lot for it tolose it. It's square, so this
can be dropped. Not not thatI'm telling you to throw it about or
anything, but it can be droppedand I don't have to worry about it.
Whereas if I dropped this little guy. This is a combination square,
(25:11):
So if I dropped this little guy, there is a chance I can knock
grit out the square. So asmuch as I do like combination squares,
and I do like them a lot, I ain't got I ain't got that
to worry about with this one.Another thing I like about it is that
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it's free standing, and it isactually quite steady even when the wind's blown.
A lot of my buildings have beenoutside, and it does actually fare
quite well in the wind. Anotherthing I use this for is finding angles
or setting angles. So you probablycan't say on the chair or the bottom
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of the chair that is chair seat. There's a You've got all my sight
lines and everything. All the sightlines were drawn primarily with this, So
I use this. I use thisin two ways. Sometimes, if I'm
being lazy, I'll get me I'llget my angle, whatever that may be.
(26:18):
You know, let's just say thirtydegrees and I'll put it straight edge
along and i'll strike me line.Second way I'll do this is I'll find
the angle, draw a line,and I use that as a reference to
set me sliding bevel. Again,it's it's not it's not intended for making
(26:40):
chairs. I just think it's supersuper handy when you're all making chairs.
So going back to using this,guy, I don't particularly I don't particularly
you need to. I don't meanto sound cocky, but I don't need
to worry about going left and right. I've done it so many times that
(27:03):
the left and right playing when I'mdrilling. It's it's never far wrong,
you know. I've just had somuch practice and doing it. So obviously
where I did where I do strugglebecause I can't of gauge it properly just
just the way my body my bodyposition is. It is going back and
(27:26):
back and towards meself. So anyonethat is kind of like not confident in
doing this, you're obviously going tohave to use something like like this the
bevil. But another good thing isthat you can actually put the square there.
And because it's because it's it's gotthe white base for the stand up,
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it's actually quite good in that respectfor people. Next up is a
draw knife. I like to usea draw knife. Drawn ife will hog
off a lot of material very quicklyon chair legs, spindles, things like
that. I'm usually using this onthe Roman work bench. Me Roman work
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bench has a shave horse attachments.So as I said, these are really
really good to hug off a lotof material quickly. It can get you
pretty close. Once I still getclose with that, I still use me
spokeshave so see them again. Youknow, there's probably a lot of people
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that don't associate spokes shifts with chairbuilding or bench building, any sort of
chronical tannon building. But I alwaysalways always use Spokeshave when I'm building anything
like this. For me, theseit's just it's invaluable and get you into
a nice you know, nice nicetight corners, you know, uneven uneven
(29:10):
services. Because the souls so little, it will still take a shaven.
They do take a bit of gettingused to if you never use a Spokeshave
or you don't use one that often. So a couple of tips while I'm
at it. If you are usingone of these, you can push with
it, you can also pull withit, so when you are using it,
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if you're getting tram lines like stuttering, make sure that the souls well
lubricated. I use frame one oiland actually have it on a scale so
you know, maybe about forty fivedegrees rather than having it like a straight
ninety degrees forty five degrees. Ifyou if you do the two of them,
(29:56):
you should have very little problem.Depending on the type of wood and
how the grains behaving, you willhave to keep it lubricated. You know,
maybe every ten strokes, fifteen strokes, you may have to just swipe
it over the bailey rag and goagain. But as I said, definitely,
definitely this would be in me thetop five definitely, so last up,
(30:25):
and they do deserve and mention cardscrape as there is a card scrape
I called a chair devil. I'venever made one, I've never owned one,
I probably won't. Simple reason isis that just a square or oblong
if you will rectangle cord scrape up. This is all I ever used to
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finish up with with legs and spindlesand stuff. It just takes a nice
fine shaven You get to a bitof a rhythm and you can, like
you know, finish up a chairleg really really quickly with one of these,
like a like a bulb, abulb type leg. I find this
(31:11):
invaluable for things like that. Sowith the with the rounded cord scrape.
Ironically, it's actually got a bitof rust on it, this surface rust.
This only gets used and has onlybeen used on the seat saddle.
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That's the only time I've ever usedthis, you know. Same again,
It's one of those things where Idon't use a lot, but when I
need to use it, and I'vegot it, and it's a it's super
handy. Obviously if you go tothe full extent of putting the full saddle
in this. This is a it'sjust going to get into all those curves
(32:01):
and it's good to give you areally nice finish here. So you know,
if you're able to get one ofthese and you're kind of going to
like build a chair, I woulddefinitely recommend doing that. So those only
tools that I use. Probably issome other stuff I use. Obviously,
(32:23):
I do would like to use meRoman work bench when I'm building, even
though I've got the toall bench.If me back letters, I would hardly
be on the Roman work bench buildingthe chairs which I am in the middle
of shooting the video for it,and down little bits and bobs. But
you will see as outside on theRoman work bench simply because I just find
(32:45):
it easier and better, especially whenI'm drilling. I'm able to cite everything
better. I get better results whenI'm kneeling on top of the work when
I'm drilling or reaming. So ithas got the ability to turn into a
shave horse, and I can usethis fella, you know, to to
remove a lot of material quickly,So I may as well mention it for
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those of you that are interested.There is actually a free a book with
the Room work Bench. There's nosign up, it doesn't cost your thing.
Click the link and then you readit or download it, and that's
it. As I said. AsI said, a room work bench,
at least for me, is avery handy piece of kit I have when
(33:36):
you're all doing chairs and stuff.So that's it for the day. Guys.
If you made it this far,I really appreciate it. If you
want to help support the channel,give us a thumbs up, and if
you're not already subscribed, I reallyappreciate it. Does help us out.
If you could do that would beawesome. Until the next time, I
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