How to Edge Joint Two Boards by Hand | Paul Sellers
How to Edge Joint Two Boards by Hand | Paul Sellers
Simple things are often hidden in the age of mass information. I put this simple explanation and demonstration together to show you how our fears and doubts are all too often unfounded.
With a little understanding of what’s really happening beneath the plane sole, we can restore methods of working into our daily lives working wood and the result will be new levels of confidence.
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Thank you for sharing a part of your lifetime of learning!
Thank you, it is simply lovely. The lesson is very clear and you exude inspiration!
These videos are soooo repetitive. Showing the same basic stuff over and over and over again.
I’m the boss of the wood workshop at an Association in France, having come from nowhere (woodworking-wise) in four years flat. At any one time, I am only one Paul Sellers video ahead of my team. Fortunately, that is more than enough – they think I’m a genius.
Amazing.😊👍🏻
Thanks, that has helped a lot.
Wow, do I see a new bench? Laminated plywood top, methinks.
I just finished the old video of you building a bench in your back yard.
I may incorporate the toolwell into the bench I’m designing now.
Got some marvelous Hard Maple for the top and Poplar for the frame.
Going to get this one just right, it’ll be my last big project.
That pencil move blew my mind😂
I am using a moxon vice as it’s all I have, and when I clamp two boards together like this in the vice, the clamping pressure forces the top face apart. Do you have any advice for rectifying this as I am currently failing to square the boards up. Many thanks
Thanks Paul! Wow, so simple. And here I am doing each face separately with a straight edge and a square!
Do you maybe have a suggestion for thicker boards (say 40 mm thick), that when combined, is wider than even a Nr 8 plane blade?
Thank you Mr. Sellers. Your videos have streamlined my education and play a significant roll in making woodworking a positive experience. My blunders are self identifiable due to the abundance of information you include. I have such respect for your experience and work you put in to educate us all.
This is an incredible lesson! The simplicity of it was fantastic!
Well, of course you can joint them out of square, but then you have your hand forced as to how you arrange your boards. If you want to be able to move the boards around freely to find the most pleasing matches between the individual patterns, it’s better to have them square.
The Trick with the pencil in the beginning was the game changer for me. Had a slightly uneven benchtop and didn‘t notice it and i wasnt be able to joint two boards. Thank you very much sir.
Super helpful video.
This just changed my life.
I see that some people leave a little hollow in the middle to make the boards stay togetter better. What is the best way?
Mr. Sellers, you are one of the true masters of this craft. I enjoy watching everything you put out here. Thanks much.
That looked like a number five, What on earth did they use a number 8 with corrugated bottom on ?
This is the basic stuff that everybody who wants to work with wood MUST LEARN! Mandatory!!! It’s insightful, gives you a feel, makes you aquainted with what’s it really about.
You Sir are wonderful thank you
Brilliant video. Amazing teacher
This is perfectly simple and easy… Until you decide to do it on that hard exotic… then everything goes to sh%t!!
Thank you Paul, you can’t imagine how much that means to me. I didn’t have my grandfather to teach me that, thank you for passing on your knowledge to us.
*Thank You!* Now I have a chance of getting bits joined. All the other videos I watch required the use of a table saw which is something I will never have due to lack of space. MUCH appreciated Paul. 👍👍
Thank you Sir for sharing your hard earned wisdom with the rest of the woodworking community
Nice job Paul. How can I joint these two boards? Tongue and groove, just gluing? Thank you?
Talk about making hard work of a job.
Compensating angles… brilliant!
Do you think this is how they made a perfectly straight reference edge back hundreds or thousands of years ago? Get a pair of boards and plane them down until there were no gaps? I can’t think of any other way to do it.
Brilliant!!!
This man might as well be a magician
This is when a profi doing it!
Thank-you again. Going to try holding my no5 1/2 like that.
Could I achieve the same result with a workbench table top and long narrow strip of adhesive sandpaper? Reason for asking is that my boards are wider than my No. 7 plane, so I am not sure I can easily achieve your result (at my skill level using hand planes), since your boards appeared to be narrower than the blade on your hand plane. I would do the same thing as you did, except my work bench with the sand paper is acting as a hand plane. I would tape the faces of the boards together and sand both edges at the same time on 120 grit adhesive paper glued to my work bench.
Thanks a lot. I’m starting in woodworking and I needed to join a table top without a jointer nor a router. I thought this couldn’t be done with hand tools
Just look at that like/dislike ratio. Nuff said.
thanks
Thank you!
Is it a hint that rather than overdoing a spring joint we’d better not do it at all?..
That tiny detail of balancing on a pencil. Mind blown. So simple, so sensible. Thank you Paul! Every time I joint boards I give up. Everything I do with the plane seems to exaggerate the hollow/belly, not get rid of it. Looking forward to a good joint next time!
Dear Paul! Thank you! Short, Clear and grants confidence.
Today was the first time I planed a top flat. It was relaxing but my arms are dead. Thanks for the video. I’ll be trying this on Monday.
Thank you Mr.Sellers, that worked like magic.
One of his best lessons. And the little pencil trick is worth a fortune.
How would you joint 2 boards that are drastically of different widths? Enough so that they won’t fit in the vise together…
The problem I’ve had with edge jointing out of square is when you clamp the boards together during glue up, they slide out of alignment.
That is very valuable. I struggle with hand planes
Thank you! 👍
Wow!
My English is not good enough to express what I want to – Sorry.
Ich bin gestern auf ihren Kanal gestossen und habe ihn sofort abonniert.
Heute hat sich mein Eindruck bestätigt:
Die klare, schrittweise abfolgende, ruhige und unprätentiöse Art ihrer Darstellung kombiniert mit ihren manuellen Fähigkeiten ist nur bewundernswert.
Als ehemals selbst Unterichtender glaube ich das beurteilen zu dürfen: die Darstellung ist schlichtweg perfekt..
Vielen Dank!
Thank you!