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(cheerful music) marc: well you know what? since kaleo is here he has a much stronger grasp of some hand-tooltechniques and things and i figured it's something that

woodworking essential tools, i tend to gloss over it a little bit. i don't really get a chanceto go over some details. none of this was planned ahead of time. we're just gonna kind ofgrab a few tools off the wall

and hopefully reviewsome real basic things dealing with hand-tools whether it's even chisel technique or sawing technique, block planes, very basic stuff. we're really just- we're not trying to make the dude work while he's here. he's only here for a couple hours, but we're just gonna have some fun with it

and see what we can do. i'll probably wind up mannning the camera because nicole is busy andwe'll just have some fun. kaleo: yeah-yeah. marc: all right. cool. all right, so kaleo is going to show us- i think we're going to start with a mortising for a hinge just chopping out a littlehinge spot there for you

so pretty simple, but i think this is one ofthose things that if you don't review these simple things you can kind of pass it up andthink it's easier than it is so it's nice to getthese foundation things under your belt. kaleo: yeah, you know, i think sometimes we get too caught upwith the big techniques, you know, you got to, you go to

know the milk before you can eat the meat. marc: amen to that, that's nice. i'm gonna have to use that. okay, so i'm gonna man the camera. kaleo: okay. marc: i'm gonna let kaleo do his thing. kaleo: yeah this is just- i'm not even doing this by measuring i'll just draw a little-

let's see a little mortise. marc: just a hypothetical mortise. kaleo: yeah. now i guess normally youuse a nice marking guage and a marking knife andall this good stuff. marc: so that if you did- well i have it here somewhere, but we probably don't want to search everything down,

but if you want normally you would use some sort of marking knife to- kaleo: yeah traditionally i do just to get that nice shoulder beginning shoulder line on each of the mortise for the hinge. marc: okay. kaleo: so traditionallyyou write that down. then you also do the depthof the hinge on the side so you have a shoulderto sit the chisel in.

so i always go in- with the marking knifeyou get that nice line so i always stay off thatline a little bit to start and you always put thebevel to the wayside and you just want to try and keep your chisel straight. give it a nice little tap and work around real quick. and i always use a chisel that's

appropriate for the job so, you know, if you have a nice longstretch you got to go use the biggest chisel you have. marc: there is a wider one there if you feel like using it. the one all the way on the right. the big daddy. kaleo: the big one. you just do that so youhave a nice straight line

the whole time and you don't even need to actually pound it. and this is how i cut dovetails, too, i come in and i pairoff that shoulder line right to that line you just created. so it just kind of givesyou a reference mark the whole way around. marc: so just that littletiny tapping you did went deep enough that now

you could just pare away. kaleo: you can pare away alittle bit of the material. kaleo: just so you can see- i don't know if you can get in there, but you can see there's anice little shoulder line there now around where that marking was. then you can go back and clean up. get a little bit closer to that line. ultimately you won't touch that line

until your very end and you'll know when you need to chop back down some more because the chips won't come off as nice as they, you know, youcome down here right now they just fall right off. marc: so your initial scoring cut you're pretty well insideyour line at that point. kaleo: yeah, at this pointi'm really inside the line. the other beautiful thing about-

you know, you want to keep- you spend all that timeflattening your chisel backs and this is why so youcan keep your chisel nice and flat as you're paring this away. marc: just a real basic review. kaleo: i'll go grab the saw. i think a lot of us have a saw, you know, that doesn't necessarily mean that we know how to use it,

so anything you could teach us and stuff that you learned, proper holding technique and- kaleo: this is my favorite saw. i have this one too. kaleo: and i like this saw. i like pistol grip saws personally because my hands are a little bit bigger some of them i can't getthem into the other saws.

i always check the set on my saws too. i usually mark a few lines on a board. so let's see let's take this board out. marc: just if you coulddescribe for anyone who might not know what set is. kaleo: the set is the teeth of the saws when they file thesesaws the set is the kerf. basically the distanceof the kerf of the saw so sometimes when you get a brand new saw

you track it so you- just like a bandsaw youdraw some lines on a board. it would probably work better on the end grain actually if you do it with the dovetail saw. one thing that i'velearned about hand sawing is your stance is really important so you want to keep the saw- i hold the saw with my pistol finger

like your trigger finger out like this and get a good stance not too wide, but one foot kind of inthe back of the other. you want to keep your arm so your arm is movingin a straight motion. and i always- you let the saw do the work. a lot of guys will try to start off- if you try to start a sawoff by pushing so hard

it jumps across the wood, but you let the saw do the work and i always start- i always use my thumb as a guide and you always juststart with that kind of one backward pull to getthat nice little kerf for the saw to rest and then you just let the saw do the work. you don't have to push too hard.

and you just try to cutdown that line you did. that line you made you try to cut straight and the reason you hadthat line is so that you're cutting down. if your saw tends to wander you know where the set is too heavy and then what i always doif the set is too heavy on one side i just take a waterstone with any grit and just kindof swipe along real quick.

marc: so essentially you remove that set and what it winds updoing is creating almost a razor thin line that alwaysseems to track straight. marc: i mean if you'reoff at the beginning you may have an angle, but you're never gonnareally curve very much because the set is so thin. kaleo: some guys will take this set completely out of their saw.

i don't do that because the set is there to help remove the waste and sawdust so i don't take it completely out, and the other thingyou have to remember is as i was teaching for thefirst week the students since last few weeks ago. the students kept coming up to me and asking "oh, you know, my saw "is not cutting straight,my saw is not working well,"

and i'm like, oh, here, let me see and i mark a few lines and bam, bam, bam, straight down the lines and i'm not tooting myown horn, but, you know, i would just say no,no, it's not the saw man you got to practice moreand hand their saw back and it's really true it's about practicing especially cutting straight and you want to cut straight, you know,

your dovetails if you've got to hand cut dovetails you need tobe able to cut straight. my other little tip that i like is when you're cutting dovetails you always mark the base as far as you can go down so when i cut i always cut up like this at an angle so that i know as i'm watching my saw here

get close to my baseline i know that it's nowhere here near because i'm not looking. marc: right. kaleo: you know, sothen as i get close here i just kind of tilt the saw forward and i pull the saw outand 9 times out of 10 you're right on that line. marc: great.

kaleo: right at the bottom. marc: very cool. kaleo: next, we're going to go over some ingrain planing. ingrain typically is just a pain to plane so thatkind of rhymed real quick. marc: yeah. kaleo: so you can see this is some of that beautiful tiger maple that marc used on his latest creation.

marc: that's my backup board in case i screwed up really bad. kaleo: well it's beautiful. i haven't seen nice maplelike this for 2 years. so on the end grain i always like to use a block plane or specificallya low-angle block plane. i have a nice veritas number6 low-angle jack plane i think it is that i use too, but i use a low-angle block plane.

now some of the keys to planing end grain is as you're planingacross you're gonna notice right here at this edgeit's really fragile so what a lot of guyswill do is just come in and just slightly shear off that edge. nothing too extraordinary just because- so then you can plane down marc: that's a lot of end grain. and i didn't pick the best board for this.

sorry about that. kaleo: maybe i'll just focuson this side over here. marc: yeah, that's fine. kaleo: you can't get that part because i can't get over there, but you'll notice thatthere's no real chipout on that edge and we wereplaning pretty aggressively to get there and so thefarther you do down, you know, you got to come back.

if you need to plane some more then you have to go back and check for that alittle more and keep going. okay, so for anybody who doesn't know kaleo does a podcast this week in wood and i think in the future from what we were talking about it sounds like you might be venturing into some videos which will be really cool

so if you want to plug your stuff let everybody know what your website is in case they don't already know because we talk about you all the time. kaleo: yeah, kaleosworkshop.com i'm starting to getbetter content on there. i've been kind out ofschool, out of a shop and moving so. marc: well moving back to the country.

marc: and just havinga kid i think you got your hands full. marc: a little bit so. kaleo: i'm really looking forward to getting the shop setup and then doing like a- i really want to dohands-on type of stuff, teaching things, and things like that so check back often. marc: do you think thepodcasting is going to

take control of yourcareer? like it did to mine. kaleo: no, i don't think so. i don't think it will get to that point. marc: yeah, that's alwaysan interesting path to take, but it will influence itthough i can tell you that just by doing it and talking to people about your work andespecially if you start showing your projects as you build them it definitely changesthe dynamic a little bit.

it's thought provoking for sure. kaleo: it's really good.i really enjoy interacting with everybody and, youknow, getting comments and getting the feedback on things and it's really interesting to hear other people's stories and other people's views on things, i mean, i know you experienced it with that table. marc: uh-hum, big time yeah.

kalea: it's really goodto get people's opinions on things because a lot of times you might get stuck in a rut on something so people can offer you help and you can bounce ideas off of people. march: yeah definitely. do you find like asyou're designing things in the school did youget a lot of feedback on your design in termsof you're going down

a certain route and maybe your instructor doesn't think it's the right way to go. i mean did they confront you in that way or they just kind of letyou be what you want to be and make what you want to make? kaleo: it was really interesting. i had 2 different heads ofschool while i was there. the first one he was a master craftsman so we learned a lot ofgreat techniques with him

and he's a great designer, but the new guy, the second guy, or president or whateveryou want to call him he is a designer and he'sa furniture maker too, but he's more into the design so it was really interestingtalking design with him because they would ask you build- my one project was a cabinet project and i didn't want to buildthe traditional cabinet

so i built this coffeetable that contained a cabinet and all these weird things. you could see it on my blog, but as i talked with him he would always give me feedback that would be positive,but also push you more so it was always why are you doing this? why do you want to putthat there? why this? because you want to be able

to justify what you're doing. you don't want to go oh well because i think it looks good. no, you're putting this there because this curve here accentuatesthe straight lines here. marc: okay, all right.so you have to justify? kaleo: justify your designs. marc: yeah, not justdesign for designs sake it's form following function or something.

kaleo: yeah there's a medium in there a happy ground there whereyou justify everything, but at the same time youcan do things on the fly. i'm more that way. i more like to start building something- i'll draw an initialconcept and as i'm going i'll go oh, i don't like that so much i'm changing this now. marc: sure, just be flexible.

kaleo: yeah, whereas sometimes the program was more get everything out, get it all down on paper, get it all technicaldrawings, everything out done, then build it and i wasn't, that's not, i'm not that way. marc: i find that harder. i think once you startseeing things in 3d space it suddenly changes your impression

and you can see things now that you couldn't see on paper and you couldn't predictit until you got there so you have to have alittle bit of flexibility in your design becauseif you just kind of, you know, go toward the finish line and only follow your plan you may miss an opportunity i think. kaleo: yeah, and at the end

you might not even like it. marc: yeah, after it's all said and done. kaleo: i designed a chairand i did the whole thing just like that i did this chair it was all designed i got6 weeks into the chair and just completely hated it so i threw it away and started it new. marc: that's rough. kaleo: yeah, it makes you cry.

marc: yeah, i'm sure it does. well kaleo we are allvery excited i'm sure to observe your journey into the world of woodworking and we'll be- i'm sure a lot of people will be checking it out and hopefully- kaleo: well thank you.thank everybody else. it's been a pleasure being here. marc: yeah, it was great.

believe it or not kaleojust flew out for the day from san diego and he'sflying back tonight. it's not that far, notthat big of a flight. kaleo: no, it's like an hour flight. marc: but still thoughto me to get on a plane that's a big deal i'm a baby like that so i appreciate you coming out here. kaleo: hey anything to come meet the wood whisperer.

marc: yeah hey, but noone else can just kaleo. thanks for watching everybody and keep your eye kaleosworkshop.com kaleo: .com yeah. marc: and lots of goodstuff there, so cool. kaleo: cool. marc: peace. kaleo: i get to play with all these tools. it's been so long. what happened to marc?

marc: i was replaced.i'm very replaceable. they sit on the wall for decoration so it's nice to havesomebody actually use them. now the question i have for you is do you find that sandalshelp you cut straighter? kaleo: i find that sandals. marc: [unintelligible] kaleo: while flying are the best. marc: okay (chuckles)

woodworking essential power tools

today were going to make this woodworkingproject for beginners this nice little chisel rack you can make this out of standard sizetimber that you can buy from any hardware store and requires no sanding and you canmake it in an afternoon so stick around and i will show you how to do it. first thing you want to do is layout yourchisels that you want to put in the rack have

woodworking essential power tools, them spaced out a little bit we will probablygo about 34cm something like that you want to allow for space on the end as well so itdoesn’t hit the sides for the rails i just got 42mm x 19mm woodfrom the hardware store setup a stop block on my cross cut sled and we just need to cut4 of these out remember if you don’t have

a table saw or cross cut sled you can justuse a mitre box and a saw and just cut that way this way just faster it will take me about10 seconds to do. in between the chisels i’m going to uselike a one inch spacer block or 2.5cm so we will just move another stop block when cuttingskinny little parts like this ill use a little stick to just hold it down so it doesn’tget trapped and come fly out at me you just need 2 post about 190mm long or 7.5inches long roughly. to avoid sanding i’m going use a nicelysharpened hand plane i just sharpened this one so its razor sharp and it a few passeswe can get a really super smooth shiny surface okay all i’ve done is laid out my chiselsroughly how i want them i used a little spacer

block in between just to set the distancesso there all pretty even. so i’ve taken the clamps off now i justwant to get top surface and bottom surface dead flat so its all nice and clean lookslike one nice neat piece of wood to do that i’m just going to use the hand plane againwhich is the veritas low angle jack plane which i really love if you don’t have aplane you can just use sandpaper and a sanding block that will do the same thing as well. so i’ve got everything squared up now everythingis smooth nice and shiny we didn’t have to sand anything love it and project you don’thave to sand is a good one were ready to glue up because i’m gluing end grain what i’mgoing to do it rub some glue right into there

because if you think as end grain like aslike straws so its going to absorb much more glue than the face grain so we will just worka bit in there but i’ve got a pretty decent surface area for the size of the project soit will hold it no problems at all well i hope i’ve done enough to earn yoursubscription and i hope you have like this nice little project don’t forget to takea look at some of my other videos and subscribe to my channel also you can follow me on socialmedia particularly instagram where i am most active boy okay i will take that part outoh don’t take that part out okay i ill try and put it in

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i'm randy maxey with infinity cuttingtools and today i want to talk to you a little bit about the narex carvingtools that we offer here at infinity. you know, at an early age i remember mydad sitting in the living room with not much more than a pocketknife carving ona block of wood and ending up with little whimsical creations like thisboot, for example. so that got me

woodworking essential hand tools, interested in carving and learning aboutall of the different types of carving tools so today i want to give you an overviewof the different types and different styles and how you might select them foryour carving.

when i first got serious about learningmore about carving the first thing i did was sign up for a carving class. andthat's where i learned about all of the different styles of tools. and one of thefirst things you need to know is the type of tool you select kind of dependson the types of carving you like to do. whether it's whittling, like this boot, ormore refined carving, like some of these little figurines, or relief carving likei'm starting on this flower here, those choices kind of dictate whatdirection you need to go with your choice of tools. the first set of tools that i recommendevery carver has — and even every

woodworker — is a good set of carvingknives. we offer a set of three that comes witha straight blade, a skewed blade, and then one with a curved blade. these come in handy for carving styleslike whittling, to relief carving, and even general woodworking tasks where youneed to clean up little details in your work. the next set of tools i highlyrecommend that you consider are a set of palm chisels. we offer this eight-piece set that comesin a variety of blade styles and shapes and i use them a lot for detail worklike the fur on this mouse and the

general shaping of this character. you'll notice that palm chisels have alarge, fat top to the handle but they're short so they're designed to fit in thepalm of your hand comfortably. these chisels are not really designed to beused with a mallet but they offer great control for detailwork. the next set of tools you may want to consider are the full-size tools andthese may be more familiar to you. the handles are longer because they give you more control.you can use them with two hands, but another advantage is that you canuse them with a mallet to get in there

tight and pull away chips nice and easy. these chisels are great for full-sizework and larger carvings and sculptures, relief carvings, like thisflower, but they also, because of their long handles, give you more control fordetail work. so don't discount them as detailed tools for your general carvingand woodworking purposes. we offer the beginner set from narex. it includesfive tools that includes three gouges a v tool and a skewed knife and i tell you,if you're looking for the biggest bang for the buck, this is the set to have. every woodworkershould have one.

and it's also great for general carvingpurposes. you'll notice that the handles are just a little bit shorter than thefull-size tools. they're kind of a compromise between the palm-sized tools and thefull-size tools. you can use them with one hand or two hands, but you can also, if you need to, you cantap them with a mallet. now when you're shopping for chiselsyou'll notice that the cutting edge comes in a variety of shapes but theyfall into two general categories. one is a gouge, which has a curved shape, and theother is a v-gouge, or a v-tool (sometimes called a veining tool).

i've written a blog post that goes intoa lot of detail about the different cutting shapes. but, in general, whenyou're shopping for gouges, the larger the number of the "sweep," theycall it, the tighter the curve. so we go from smaller sweep through a mediumsweep into a larger sweep. so those are some things you want tokeep in mind as you're shopping for your tools and what kind of cut you want tomake. now when you're choosing gouges don't get too caught up in the curvatureof the blade. you can use one tool for multiple shapesand if you find you need a specific shape then you can obviously goout and purchase that tool. you'll also

notice here that we have a differentstyle of blades on these tools. these are called spoon gouges and if you look atthem from the side, they kind of look like a spoon. those are meant for scooping cuts for creating textures ore gettinginto tight areas and shaping convex shapes. so whether you're just thinking aboutgetting into carving, or just a general woodworker, or if you have been carvingfor a number of years, i tell you, you can't go wrong with the narex carvingtools. they're known for their quality.

they're known for their great steelthat's sharp right out of the box (with just a little honing) and with the setsthat we offer, you're not going to find a better valuefor your money here at infinity cutting tools. we also offer a variety of bookson the subject of carving. so whether you're a beginning carver, ageneral woodworker looking to learn some new techniques, or you have a particularstyle of carving you're interested in, we're sure to have a book that suitsyour needs. be sure to subscribe to our youtubechannel and go check out our blog where we talk more about the tools andtechniques we use here at infinity tools.

and finally be sure to check out ourfacebook page, and "like" our page, so that you can stay up to date on the latestgoing on here at infinity cutting tools. yeah

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today were going to make this woodworkingproject for beginners this nice little chisel rack you can make this out of standard sizetimber that you can buy from any hardware store and requires no sanding and you canmake it in an afternoon so stick around and i will show you how to do it. first thing you want to do is layout yourchisels that you want to put in the rack have

what are essential woodworking tools, them spaced out a little bit we will probablygo about 34cm something like that you want to allow for space on the end as well so itdoesn’t hit the sides for the rails i just got 42mm x 19mm woodfrom the hardware store setup a stop block on my cross cut sled and we just need to cut4 of these out remember if you don’t have

a table saw or cross cut sled you can justuse a mitre box and a saw and just cut that way this way just faster it will take me about10 seconds to do. in between the chisels i’m going to uselike a one inch spacer block or 2.5cm so we will just move another stop block when cuttingskinny little parts like this ill use a little stick to just hold it down so it doesn’tget trapped and come fly out at me you just need 2 post about 190mm long or 7.5inches long roughly. to avoid sanding i’m going use a nicelysharpened hand plane i just sharpened this one so its razor sharp and it a few passeswe can get a really super smooth shiny surface okay all i’ve done is laid out my chiselsroughly how i want them i used a little spacer

block in between just to set the distancesso there all pretty even. so i’ve taken the clamps off now i justwant to get top surface and bottom surface dead flat so its all nice and clean lookslike one nice neat piece of wood to do that i’m just going to use the hand plane againwhich is the veritas low angle jack plane which i really love if you don’t have aplane you can just use sandpaper and a sanding block that will do the same thing as well. so i’ve got everything squared up now everythingis smooth nice and shiny we didn’t have to sand anything love it and project you don’thave to sand is a good one were ready to glue up because i’m gluing end grain what i’mgoing to do it rub some glue right into there

because if you think as end grain like aslike straws so its going to absorb much more glue than the face grain so we will just worka bit in there but i’ve got a pretty decent surface area for the size of the project soit will hold it no problems at all well i hope i’ve done enough to earn yoursubscription and i hope you have like this nice little project don’t forget to takea look at some of my other videos and subscribe to my channel also you can follow me on socialmedia particularly instagram where i am most active boy okay i will take that part outoh don’t take that part out okay i ill try and put it in

top essential woodworking tools

today were going to make this woodworkingproject for beginners this nice little chisel rack you can make this out of standard sizetimber that you can buy from any hardware store and requires no sanding and you canmake it in an afternoon so stick around and i will show you how to do it. first thing you want to do is layout yourchisels that you want to put in the rack have

top essential woodworking tools, them spaced out a little bit we will probablygo about 34cm something like that you want to allow for space on the end as well so itdoesn’t hit the sides for the rails i just got 42mm x 19mm woodfrom the hardware store setup a stop block on my cross cut sled and we just need to cut4 of these out remember if you don’t have

a table saw or cross cut sled you can justuse a mitre box and a saw and just cut that way this way just faster it will take me about10 seconds to do. in between the chisels i’m going to uselike a one inch spacer block or 2.5cm so we will just move another stop block when cuttingskinny little parts like this ill use a little stick to just hold it down so it doesn’tget trapped and come fly out at me you just need 2 post about 190mm long or 7.5inches long roughly. to avoid sanding i’m going use a nicelysharpened hand plane i just sharpened this one so its razor sharp and it a few passeswe can get a really super smooth shiny surface okay all i’ve done is laid out my chiselsroughly how i want them i used a little spacer

block in between just to set the distancesso there all pretty even. so i’ve taken the clamps off now i justwant to get top surface and bottom surface dead flat so its all nice and clean lookslike one nice neat piece of wood to do that i’m just going to use the hand plane againwhich is the veritas low angle jack plane which i really love if you don’t have aplane you can just use sandpaper and a sanding block that will do the same thing as well. so i’ve got everything squared up now everythingis smooth nice and shiny we didn’t have to sand anything love it and project you don’thave to sand is a good one were ready to glue up because i’m gluing end grain what i’mgoing to do it rub some glue right into there

because if you think as end grain like aslike straws so its going to absorb much more glue than the face grain so we will just worka bit in there but i’ve got a pretty decent surface area for the size of the project soit will hold it no problems at all well i hope i’ve done enough to earn yoursubscription and i hope you have like this nice little project don’t forget to takea look at some of my other videos and subscribe to my channel also you can follow me on socialmedia particularly instagram where i am most active boy okay i will take that part outoh don’t take that part out okay i ill try and put it in

the most essential woodworking tools

i'm randy maxey with infinity cuttingtools and today i want to talk to you a little bit about the narex carvingtools that we offer here at infinity. you know, at an early age i remember mydad sitting in the living room with not much more than a pocketknife carving ona block of wood and ending up with little whimsical creations like thisboot, for example. so that got me

the most essential woodworking tools, interested in carving and learning aboutall of the different types of carving tools so today i want to give you an overviewof the different types and different styles and how you might select them foryour carving.

when i first got serious about learningmore about carving the first thing i did was sign up for a carving class. andthat's where i learned about all of the different styles of tools. and one of thefirst things you need to know is the type of tool you select kind of dependson the types of carving you like to do. whether it's whittling, like this boot, ormore refined carving, like some of these little figurines, or relief carving likei'm starting on this flower here, those choices kind of dictate whatdirection you need to go with your choice of tools. the first set of tools that i recommendevery carver has — and even every

woodworker — is a good set of carvingknives. we offer a set of three that comes witha straight blade, a skewed blade, and then one with a curved blade. these come in handy for carving styleslike whittling, to relief carving, and even general woodworking tasks where youneed to clean up little details in your work. the next set of tools i highlyrecommend that you consider are a set of palm chisels. we offer this eight-piece set that comesin a variety of blade styles and shapes and i use them a lot for detail worklike the fur on this mouse and the

general shaping of this character. you'll notice that palm chisels have alarge, fat top to the handle but they're short so they're designed to fit in thepalm of your hand comfortably. these chisels are not really designed to beused with a mallet but they offer great control for detailwork. the next set of tools you may want to consider are the full-size tools andthese may be more familiar to you. the handles are longer because they give you more control.you can use them with two hands, but another advantage is that you canuse them with a mallet to get in there

tight and pull away chips nice and easy. these chisels are great for full-sizework and larger carvings and sculptures, relief carvings, like thisflower, but they also, because of their long handles, give you more control fordetail work. so don't discount them as detailed tools for your general carvingand woodworking purposes. we offer the beginner set from narex. it includesfive tools that includes three gouges a v tool and a skewed knife and i tell you,if you're looking for the biggest bang for the buck, this is the set to have. every woodworkershould have one.

and it's also great for general carvingpurposes. you'll notice that the handles are just a little bit shorter than thefull-size tools. they're kind of a compromise between the palm-sized tools and thefull-size tools. you can use them with one hand or two hands, but you can also, if you need to, you cantap them with a mallet. now when you're shopping for chiselsyou'll notice that the cutting edge comes in a variety of shapes but theyfall into two general categories. one is a gouge, which has a curved shape, and theother is a v-gouge, or a v-tool (sometimes called a veining tool).

i've written a blog post that goes intoa lot of detail about the different cutting shapes. but, in general, whenyou're shopping for gouges, the larger the number of the "sweep," theycall it, the tighter the curve. so we go from smaller sweep through a mediumsweep into a larger sweep. so those are some things you want tokeep in mind as you're shopping for your tools and what kind of cut you want tomake. now when you're choosing gouges don't get too caught up in the curvatureof the blade. you can use one tool for multiple shapesand if you find you need a specific shape then you can obviously goout and purchase that tool. you'll also

notice here that we have a differentstyle of blades on these tools. these are called spoon gouges and if you look atthem from the side, they kind of look like a spoon. those are meant for scooping cuts for creating textures ore gettinginto tight areas and shaping convex shapes. so whether you're just thinking aboutgetting into carving, or just a general woodworker, or if you have been carvingfor a number of years, i tell you, you can't go wrong with the narex carvingtools. they're known for their quality.

they're known for their great steelthat's sharp right out of the box (with just a little honing) and with the setsthat we offer, you're not going to find a better valuefor your money here at infinity cutting tools. we also offer a variety of bookson the subject of carving. so whether you're a beginning carver, ageneral woodworker looking to learn some new techniques, or you have a particularstyle of carving you're interested in, we're sure to have a book that suitsyour needs. be sure to subscribe to our youtubechannel and go check out our blog where we talk more about the tools andtechniques we use here at infinity tools.

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hi, my name is kevin and on behalf of expertvillage, i'm going to talk to you a little bit about hand sanding. now that we've sandedthe piece with the random orbital sander and gotten this nice and flush and all the machinemarks out, it?s time to now go for hand sanding which is the final sanding that you'll doand that helps take out any machine marks and just really smooths out the piece of wood.another thing you're going to do on top of

the handyman's guide essential woodworking tools and techniques, smoothing it out is you're going to do what'scalled breaking the edges on the piece. that essentially involves a very light round overput on all the edges so that none of them are sharp or have any splinters on them. whenyou're hand sanding, it?s very important to remember to always go with the grain, thatway the scratches that the sandpaper mark

is making are always going to be getting finerand finer and they'll always be going with the grain and therefore they'll never be seenand the wood will just become smoother and smoother like this. long strokes all the wayacross the piece, not short ones, but just long consistent strokes and then once you'vedone that, when you come over and you want to round over the edge, you just roll it overuntil it?s just broken in soft until it?s not sharp anymore. it?s ok if you do more,but just make sure that you do the same on all of it, that way you have a nice consistentlook. same thing on the end. you just go right off the edge and roll it over until it?s anice, soft consistent edge and then from here, you're ready to do finishing.

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*sounds of wood hitting wood* welcome to make something with me, david picciuto and today we're gonna make this collapsible bookcase. how cool is that? let's make this!

the handyman's book essential woodworking tools and techniques, today's video is sponsored by brusso hardware. *music and tool noises* he knows his stuff!

i'd like to take a moment to talk about today's video sponsor, and that is brusso hardware. all the hinges that i'm using in today's project comes from brusso. they are precision machined to aerospace tolerance. these are not the type of hinges that you're gonna get at your local hardware store. they are high quality hinges there is no slop or play after install. it is is a smooth fit. very high quality standards. why spend hours on a project and buy cheap hardware at the end? there's no frustration or adjustment after the install. the hinges perform as expected every single time.

think about this: how long did it take to make your last cabinet or box? why not finish it with hardware equal to your efforts? brusso has been making high precision hardware for over 20 years in the usa. their entire line comes in solid brass or stainless steel at brusso.com. brusso hardware provides high quality, american made woodworking hardware for furniture, cabinets, boxes and more. learn more about their hardware at brusso.com. alright guys, let's get back to this project and finish it up. man, is that not one of the coolest projects we have done on this channel?

that is so cool. this is a really simple project. it could easily be done in a day i spread it out over two days. very, very happy with the way it came out. i made this using the plans from christopher schwarz's book "campaign furniture." this is a really awesome book. if you're not familiar with campaign furniture, it's british furniture that is made to be mobile for military and travelers it's a very old style.

christopher schwarz goes into great detail on the history of campaign furniture and how it evolved and where it's at today. really, really good book. i highly suggest you check this out. also lots of great projects in this book as well. i like a lot of the look of campaign furniture because it's very simply. it's very square. maybe not this project in particular, but i really like the squareness. uh, and the shapes of the campaign furniture style. let's talk about the hinges. all the hinges come from brusso like i mentioned earlier.

there's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve hinges total. that is a lot of hinges. as long as you install all the hinges in square and this top set and this bottom set are the same distance from the middle here it should collapse and go back together with ease. i used the brusso hinges and i cut all the mortises by hand. brusso also makes router templates just for these hinges. and they make router templates for their other hinges as well. but i really wanted to up my hand tool game

and cut them all out by hand. it was a good learning experience. i got a lot faster at making the hinges and i got a lot better. a couple later ones i got a little sloppy just 'cause i was in a hurry. but as long as you take your time, i got excellent fits. the router plane that i used made this so much easier. this is the lie-nielsen router plane. i believe they come in two sizes. i have the smaller of the two. and so there's this little blade on the bottom here

and you use this screw to set your depth. and then you can get a nice clean bottom. this made mortising out the hinges so much easier than just using a chisel alone. so i set up a timer and timed how long it took mortise out one hinge. and it was just under 5 minutes. the one that you're looking at now, this is the third one that i've done. after i did two, i was like "okay, i've got down. i know what i'm doing now. i think i can do it in less than 5 minutes." i would imagine a more skilled hand tools person could probably get that down to 2 minutes.

but woodworking isn't about being fast, it's about having fun. it's about the enjoyment and the happiness that you get from making these pieces. so the brusso hinges come with brass screws, of course. and all the sets also come with one steel screw. and that is so that you can set the screw in without breakin' it, 'cause brass is really soft and you could easily strip out the head or break the screw off. so you get 'em started with the steel screw and then you use the brass screw later.

yes, there is just a little bit of wobble to it but this would easily hold a bunch of books. the weak point with this definitely is the hinges 'cause the hinges are used for the joinery. the top shelf and the bottom shelf are only held in by the hinges. this middle shelf could hold tons of weight. this could easily hold books. you're not gonna park a car on top of it. will flip it around to the back here and this middle shelf here has this piece which kinda stabilizes everything pretty darned good. the better you cut your mortises, the less wobble that you're going to get later on.

i used three coats of shellac on here; just the normal shellac that you would get at your local hardware store with steel wool in between the coats which makes it real smooth. what am i gonna use this for? i'm not going to use this as a book case i'm thinking about taking this to the craft shows and using this as a display. because since it collapses nice and easy it makes it mobile. which is the purpose of this, right?

so i though i could set up my table and then use this at the craft show next year. maybe make another one too. i'd like to thank brusso for sponsoring this video. i love working with those guys. this project would not be possible without them. also, check out lost art press. that is the publishing company of christopher schwarz he is one of my favorite wood workers. so christopher schwarz is really into the history of woodworking.

he travels the world finding all the documents and trying to find out the history of the different styles of woodworking and i always relate it to going back to my music background. like you cannot be in a rock band without knowing about the rolling stones. the rolling stones shaped rock and roll. if you... you have to know your history to know where you're going. right? and so christopher schwarz teaches the history of woodworking whether it's campaign furniture or other styles of furniture. he also has a really great attitude about it too. yes, he does hand tool stuff, but he also uses modern machines; planers and table saws. and he's not afraid to stand up to the woodworking snobs. and i just love his whole attitude

on life and woodworking. so check out his company, lost art press. he's a good dude. he's one of my favorite wood workers of all time. even if i don't do a lot of the stuff that he does, i still get a lot of inspiration from chris. so chris, thank you. check out lost art press. all right guys. this project was super fun. igotta go. i'm taking my book case with me. takin' my coffee with me.