Woodworkers looking to increase their building productivity will be guided through the use, techniques, and construction of bench planes in this valuable hour-long DVD. Master craftsman Jim Kingshott brings viewers into his intimate workshop to illustrate how to set up, tune, and utilize the full range of planes, from jack planes and smooth planes to the popular Stanley-Bailey pattern plane and the finest Norris-style planes. Offering time-saving techniques collected from 50 years at the workbench, this guide exhibits easy-to-follow demonstrations on how to make one's own bench plane, as well as a clear discussion on what to look for when buying used.

Because the hand plane is an essential part of the woodworker's toolbox that can add style and elegance to any
project, this instructional video explains in detail how to successfully set up and use grooving, molding, shoulder, and miter planes, as well as fillisters and spokeshaves, among others. Instructions are provided for making a special plane, as are tips on what to avoid and what to look for when buying a used plane. The friendly and simple style of instruction will teach every woodworker how to both save time and increase productivity.

Tuning and Using Chisels, Planes and Saws

Tuning chisels, planes and saws and learning how to use them properly can make your woodworking a hands-on pleasure. These tools can bring a refinement to your work that machines alone cannot produce. In this DVD you’ll learn how to:

• Sharpen a chisel within minutes
• Rehabilitate flea market tools
• Flatten the bottom of a plane
• Set and sharpen a handsaw
• Stand and hold a plane
• Pare accurately with a chisel
• Saw straight and smoothly

Frank Klausz apprenticed and trained in Europe and has been a professional cabinetmaker for over three decades. He operates Frank’s Cabinet Shop in Pluckemin, New Jersey, writes about woodworking and teaches classes and workshops.

Produce clean and quick joints, by hand or machine

Woodworkers rely on the versatile mortise-and-tenon joint for making sturdy frames, panels, stools, tables and stands. Frank Klausz shows you how to make the joint cleanly and quickly, using hand tools or basic woodshop machines.

You will learn about:

• laying out for handwork
• chiseling the mortises
• sawing the tenons
• laying out for router and handsaw
• routing the mortises
• bandsawing the tenons
• laying out for mortiser and table saw
• making a hollow-chisel mortiser
• working tenons on the table saw

Learn how four basic planes can change the way you do woodworking

If you are like many woodworkers, you own handplanes but never learned how to use them to their best advantage. In this video, teacher and plane expert Mario Rodriguez shows the basics of using planes and how four basic planes -- the jointer, the smooth plane, the shoulder plane, and the block plane -- can change the way you do woodworking.

In this video you'll learn how to:

• tune and sharpen a plane
• correct stance and planning technique
• joint an edge
• adjust drawers for a perfect fit
• trim tenons and other joints
• surface stock with planes

Decorate furniture, cabinets, boxes, and more

Chip carving is a wonderfully direct and simple way to decorate furniture, cabinets, boxes, plaques and utensils. Wayne Barton, a master of the Swiss style of chip carving, shows you step by step how you can beautify a number of objects using very few tools.

You'll learn about:

• tools and the basic border cuts
• decorative designs like gothic rosettes and lace borders
• roman lettering
• creating script monograms

Having trouble getting your carving tools razor sharp? In Sharpening Simplified, Everett Ellenwood will show you a simple proven method to get your carving tools properly contoured and sharp each time you sharpen them.

Ev is an award winning carver, with more than 30 years of carving experience. He has taught carving classes for two decades, and was an independent distributor of pre-sharpened carving tools for 17 years. Over the years Ev perfected a unique, easy to learn, sharpening technique which he taught to hundreds of carvers. This process was so well received that his students kept telling him "make a video", you need to share this!

Professionally made in a studio, using 3 cameras, his 110 minute video is divided into 9 chapters:

1. Introduction
2. Sharpening Positions
3. Sharpening Stones
4. Carving Knives
5. Gouges / Veiners
6. Flat Chisels
7. "V" Tools
8. Micro Tools
9. Conclusions

Each segment of tool sharpening starts with Ev showing what each tool should look like when it is properly sharpened and why; then he actually sharpens the tool to show how to achieve a sharp and properly contoured tool. Comments accompany each process as he shows you the steps.

All 195 back issues (many of them now out of print) on one disc, with a single, comprehensive, searchable index, maintaining a super-high-quality, 300-dpi resolution, ensuring you crystal-clear illustrations and photos.

DVD features:
The user-friendly index of all back issues makes it easy to find any project plan, shop tip, or skill-builder from this huge archive. Click on the indexed article and go to it instantly! Or browse through the issues using the prominent bookmarks, linked covers, and table of contents. There, too, one click takes you to the information you need.

High resolution PDF's make for easy, enjoyable reading.
View every photo, drawing, and detail in digitally reproduced, crystal clarity. Zoom in for a closer look, or print articles for use in the shop with the handy “Print this article” button.

Save hundreds of dollars versus buying back issues.
In fact, many of the most sought-after issues on this disc have been out of print for years and are no longer available in any other format.