How To Joint a Board Without a Jointer | Hand Tool Woodworking Skill

Hi I'm at college as you no and what's next for me is a setting out rods for doors windows would u show n send videos on how to get them done with standard measurements for us students keep up good work uv inspired me to make tools when I'm a level 3 please show how there done thank you scott😊😊

Must be doin something wrong, doesn’t work for me lol

When to add dowels for jointing boards? I am jointing 28 inches boards

I don’t know how I didn’t see this video sooner. I feel like I’ve watched dozens of videos on jointing long boards by hand (including others by Wood by Wright), and while they’ve all added a bit of depth to my understanding, non has been quite as straight forward and to the point as this. This seriously has made the process seem so much more approachable. Thank you!

Thx, that was great help.

I’m jointing 8/4 cherry planks that are 16 inches wide so holding the two on top of each other is very hard. Can I do them side by side instead? Any other suggestions?

Love going back and watching your older videos. Great refresher!! Thanks James

Very Indo European.

Great video, I have a problem with rocking my plane side to side, and it creates an angle on the edge. Is this something that just takes practice to keep a flat edge? Thanks

donde consigo esos stanley ?

Hey what brand are those blue planes?

Finally man, thanks so much. Learned a lot

Anyone else hear Kermit the Frog talking?

awesome videos very helpful

This demo is really going to help me out I think - thanks! The only plane I have now is a 50mm Japanese kanna style - it's working well although I haven't been able to get absolutely perfect and level cuts on an edge. I was thinking of going over the edge with a rigid flat sanding block to help smooth down any little imperfections. Should I expect this to be an effective strategy? Thanks again

You are an amazing teacher. I enjoy watching your videos and learn something from every single one. I am fairly new to the art of joining with hand planes. I guess I have been mainly a power tool woodworker for about 20 years. As I evolve, I find myself wanting to do more with less electricity. Call it a challenge... and a challenge it is. The hand tools needed tend to be as expensive or more so than the power tools to do the same job. So I find myself adding a little at a time and/or fine tuning the hand tools that I have neglected over the years. I plan to sacrifice a cheap #4 plane in my arsenal to make a wooden joiner plane that will suffice until I can justify a veritas kit and a more complicated build. Thank you for your expertise. I believe you, Paul Sellers, and Rex Kreuger have added an entirely new dimension to my woodworking.

Finally I found someone showing a way that doesn't need a tablesaw or even a jig. Thanks a lot that's so DIYers friendly! 😭❤️

I can't, i'm struggling...

It’s nice to grow a skill that can remain, even if the power is off☝🏻

well done!

So i have tried to take a small twist out of a glued up. This video is an edge planing. Which is Simpler. My board is 10” by 16” or so. I have a very close chip breaker and it is set very low. It has been sharpened and i do have winding sticks. I plane across grain. Diagonal both ways and then longways. I suspect im making a hump, but i release pressure from the front at the end and try to do the opposite at the beginning. I also suspect a slight flex in material. It’s about 3/4 thick with a mix of hardwoods, cherry walnut, mulberry, maple. Still has a little rock. Ill keep trying, and i think no video can help at this point. Perhaps i should shim the flexing areas

Great video James! Very timely as I'm attempting to purchase a jointer plane myself.

Question: were those blue Stanley's? I thought only Record used that color.

Keep up the great work

Hello from Puerto Rico! I love your videos! They really really help me out a lot. I got a question. How do you set up a Jointer plane? Is it the same as a smoothing plane, or does it have a different set up?

so awesome....such a great explanation!!!!!!!!!!!!! I cant wait to get a #7 now and try. Been having so difficultly getting my boards joined.

Maybe you should say joiner plane so you have that t for acrost the boards...😛😂😂 thanks for the vids.

Hi, I've been trying to join two 600mm (~24") boards together, so I used a no. 5 (it's a new plane from Clifton, so I'm pretty confident that it is flat, but I've heard that even new premium planes can get out of flat). I was getting a low spot on the end of the stroke (checked with the ruler of the Starett combination square, don't know how straight it is, but the error was probably much bigger than the accuracy of this ruler anyway), so I thought about putting a valley in the middle before putting a full pass. Since I was getting a low spot on the end, I thought about forgoing the last 2 inches. Then I checked it and it was perfectly flat, again at least according to my ruler. Then I took a full lenght shaving and then I checked it again, and the low spot was there again on the last 2 inches, about 1/4mm too low. I thought I just dropped the toe of the plane on the end, so I redid everything. Before the last full lenght stroke, everything was already about flat, so I was extra careful to entirely lift my left hand and only put weight on the back of the plane for the last 2-3 inches. Then I checked again and the low spot was there again... Do you have any idea?

So ok cool I watched this video and was like ok time to join some boards. Got some boards started shaving off and umm yeah I just need to know how to make a board with all this shaving I'm sitting with...my board disappeared into thin air and some how I got a pile of shavings

That's realy pleasing to end up with totaly gappless joints, I made a table top on my internship with hand joined glue joints and some people couldn't even tell it was made out of multiple pieces

notice people show how to joint short boards no help for 12 ft tables

So if I am jointing only one edge, not for a glue up, how do I check to see where I need hit peaks and valleys? With a long steel rule? Or the long edge of my #7/8? And then go from there?

I just spent a whole day trying to figure out what i was doing wrong with my jointing plane. I feel fully confident ill have a nice straight edge tomorrow thanks to this video. Thanks mate

You just saved me with this video. Doing my first major wood working project creating a pine beam coffee table. Let’s just say I’m almost at the cost of buying it from a professional with a lot of wood filler in between each beam. Going to take it apart and edge joint it by hand tomorrow.

Table saw works too

Today I was asked if I could remove some white heat stains from a mahogany table which had been French polished. I didn't attempt it in case I messed it up. However, I did see somebody on the internet remove these stains from an identical table just using a dry piece of cloth and a dry iron on a high setting. Which method would you recommend?

Stunning, thank you

I was trapped in Power Tools Madness. A jointer (corded) was my first wanted. Now I don't think a corded one be faster than yours, at least in the case of hobbyist. I did invest in some hand tools, safer and quieter. Thanks.

If using good hardwoods like oak, maple, or cherry, be sure to save those shavings to use in your smoker!

The big lesson in this video is the part about the "joy" of doing this (wood working). This is why I do it. Well done.

I’ll be trying this tomorrow, thanks for the help.

This has quickly become my go to channel. I’m a novice at best. Thank you for your easy to follow and informative videos. Any advice for jointing or joining
breadboards to end grain on a farm table?

Thank you I am learning a lot from your videos. Your explanation with words and video is very clear.

This video convinced me to buy a table top jointer. It costs the same for 1 jointer machine vs 6 separate hand planes.

By far the most informative planing video I’ve seen.

Thank you for this video first of all second of all I like to make cutting boards so I always have to cut strips and join the strips together I always hold it up to the light and see if there's any gaps just like you did my big question is can I use a Stanley 80 scraper? I can't use a wood planer to save my life. I have a couple card scrapers but I don't know if the card scraper will get me those results

Good video. Actually shows the whole process uninterrupted.

Great video. Thanks

That was excellent!

Love the info on this. Thanks for sharing!!!

Have you ever made a wooden jointer similar to a #7 or #8?