A Tool Nerds Dream – Lee Valley & Veritas Manufacturing Plant Tour
A Tool Nerds Dream – Lee Valley & Veritas Manufacturing Plant Tour
In this video we tour the Lee Valley & Veritas Manufacturing Plant. We get to see how Planes, Chisels, Tennon Cutters, and Drill Bits are made. This tour made me appreciate these amazing tools and hand planes even more!
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What tool is this? Some kind of marking gauge with multiple cutters @22:20
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Fascinating, the huge market for hobby tool’s. I only ever bought one show boat hobby tool, a lie Neilsen skew block plane. It’s handy, I use it but veritas doesn’t appeal to me at all. To expensive, to gimmicky, over designed.
They are retired accountant tool’s to give amateur’s and dilettantes a false sense of craftsman status. Which is funny because I don’t know a single craftsman that trusts accountants further than they can be kicked.
I think these types of companies are the most incredible all the knowledge experience and effort that goes into the creating of each and every tool is amazing. This isn’t your Chinese assembly factory. I have several veritas planes and I keep them all in corrosion resistant bags until they are ready for use because I want them to be treated by me as special as they were by the veritas workers.
Mind blowing. I cant imagine how much all that equipment and facility is worth. I own a few Veritas planes. I think they are resonably priced. Good to see Canadain manufacturing.
Fantastic tour!
Fantastic “shop”!
I’m very proud that Canadian made tools are as precise and high end as German or US made ones.
Thanks Lee Vallee 🍁
terrified, torrefied wood.
😂 torrification?
Excellent video Jamie! Underrated editing, you showed the manufacturing process well. It was a pleasure to show you around, it’s clear you have a genuine passion for quality tools & what we do here, we all appreciated your enthusiasm, it’s great to see.
Not one comment about the button configuration on Hal & Dave??? 😅
Seriously cook, man. Hoping to make it up there some day.
Impressive manufacturing setup, must be a joy to see first hand. I got here via the algorithm, not familiar with your channel. While you are clearly passionate about handtools, I think your machine tool knowledge has room for a wee bit of improvement, but I made it through the vid. Check out, say NYC CNC, that guy is next level.
Ok this is cool, thanks!
Neat video, I have the brad point bits and they are great bits.
That first machine is a horizontal mill, not a vertical. The spindle is horizontal this defines its style
Awesome tour and narration Jamie
excellent video
great tour. thanks
I have appreciated the quality of my Lee Valley tools while considering them perhaps unnecessarily expensive. Now I think of them as reasonably priced to bargains.
Très bonne vidéo des ateliers Lee Valley à Ottawa. J’ai plusieurs outils LV et chaque fois je n’ai que de la satisfaction et du bonheur. Bravo LV pour cette qualité d’outils impeccables en tous points. Bravo pour la vidéo.😊
As a machinist AND a woodworker, I really appreciated this video.
This was very cool to see. I love all my LV stuff. I can’t wait to grow the collection. Thanks for sharing!
I purchased the large router plane from the store here in London, ON last week and was BLOWN AWAY by the quality! There is something so satisfying and rewarding when buying a Canadian made tool.
This is a lot more manual than I expected. Wow ok. I wonder how Stainley did them back in the day?
Lee valley makes the best woodworking hand tools in the world! I have had the pleasure of using some of them for the last 25 years.
12:47
Soooo sickk!!
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I love that Rob referenced one of your videos. That’s so flipping cool.
This is so awesome!!! ❤❤
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Pura vida Jamie great tour I like Veritas hand tools ❤
I work full time as a machinist and do woodworking at home, so I had to watch this video. I also JUST got into YouTube myself. Great job on this video. I hope I my own videos get this good.
As a machinist, you mixed up the machines. The vertical and horizontal.
Ive done lapping by hand, wish I had that machine!
A tool vending machine would be dangerous for consumers haha, I’d be broke always!
must not know what to do i got birdfeeder garden tools Mayan hammock wood finish compass lets see what else too many to list
I’ve been a LVT customer for 40 years but I never knew that they manufactured any of their own tools. One thing that I find to be a bit ironic is their use of CNC ( yes, there is often no other way ), but yet they have no CNC related products in their showrooms. I have done CNC metal and woodworking for 20 years and it really opens up projects that I could not / would not do otherwise.
Thank you! I’ve turned to Veritas when i needed a woodworking tool that will be perfect from the box. I it’s a relatively easy way to eliminate variables as i learn technique.
Rob is the nicest guy in the world. He’s bailed me out of a couple of tight spots before now. Glad you got to meet him and you’re spot on about his humour…he’s one of the good ones.
Wow, they must sell a lot of planes! Now I have a jack plane with adjustable mouth from "The Metallic Plane Co" that dates to the 1860s or 70s. I’d love to tour their factory!
Hopefully I can take Lee Valley 0 ie. Canada – off my boycott list. That will happen when the crazy government gets off its ultra liberal bent.
Upstate NY???
Great, informative video. I’m a retired Tool & Die maker so most of these machines are either familiar to me or I at least recognize them. You did a great job of explaining all the processes.
Love Veritas tools, and I have a few of them. Most recent purchase is their Shooting plane. What a game changer! Of course it’s left handed, as all tools should be. 🙂 Seeing all those miniature tools together is a trip.
You have your horizontal and vertical mills reversed. The first one you show is a horizontal spindle mill.
I want to thank you and Lee Valley for this excellent plant tour. It was particularly interesting for me because the large Veritas shooting plane, and their shooting board fence, were my most recent purchases from Lee Valley. Before I retired, more than 20 years ago, I was a business consultant. One of the joys of that job was to be able to visit client factories and see how things are actually made. People tend to take a lot for granted! Unfortunately, many of the US-based factories that I visited are no longer in operation. For economic reasons the companies have gone out of business or transferred manufacturing operations outside of the US. Your tour of the Veritas plant gave us an opportunity to appreciate the amount of work and the pride that it takes to create Veritas tools. When one considers the efforts of caring workers, the fine materials used, and the expensive machinery required, Veritas tools become a real bargain. i was fortunate to have met Leonard Lee, a fellow woodworker and founder of Lee Valley and Veritas, many years ago. The company and factory are a reflection of his vision. Because of his efforts Canadian workers are making a living and raising their families, while adding value to all of our lives.
Precise Lee is a fantastic name for a Lee Valley robot hand
This is awome! I Live about 20 minitus west of Lee Valley , love that place!