I don't enjoy coveting, but that's what's going on. Watching this breakdown tipped the scale. I hereby cease any and all rumination/intent to create a bespoke, over-engineered and autonomous stave shaper in favor of just buying/restoring one of these. The fence was key. Thank you.

@Watchyn_Yarwood

3 ай бұрын

Well said!

Old machines like this really are clever - the fence adjustment mechanism is neat. Thanks for sharing!

I still continue to know less than jack about crap all, but your videos give me entertainment and hopefully some residual knowledge that will come in use someday. Thanks pocket, always looking forward to the next one.

This series, and especially this video, have been very informative. I picked up an old Craftsman planer from an auction at my local university. It was used with care by its previous owners, and is of a quality vintage that allowed me to just fire it right up. However, I've been wary of the impending day when I'll need to service the blades. You've given lots of tips, and your work on this series is much appreciated.

Cast metal has always looked so beautiful to me, but when people restore old machines it never looks quite right to me... The "oiled susan boil" as one of my favorite channels, ZNA productions, once put it must be the secret because your machine has the look. Gorgeous! Functional, too!

Satisfying end result - congratulations on finishing it :-)

Absolutely wonderful series of videos. I have enjoyed it, and look forward to more. I'd love to see an updated shop tour if you get time! Definitely one of the most interesting KZread channels I've ever come across. Your hard work is very appreciated.

Excellent series.

@pocket83squared

3 ай бұрын

Thank you.

How did I know that when you were talking about the knobs it was going to be a golf ball. 👍

Lovely restauration, enjoyed following along and learned qiote a few tricks. Like how your joy of an old, nicely made machine comes through in the video. Looking forward to see the machine in use in the future

@pocket83squared

3 ай бұрын

Thanks. I'm really lucky. I'm one of those weirdos who finds satisfaction in really, really simple things. It makes my life much, much, _much_ less expensive. Since we don't get to choose what we want to want, I feel bad for people who want pricey but useless toys!

@Hiksan5

3 ай бұрын

@@pocket83squared Good philosophy to go through life with. And makes for way more interesting videos as well!

A pleasure to watch, thank you. I'm pretty sure I'll neve restore a jointer, but maybe now I'll try to sharpen the blades on my toy Ryobi jointer.

@pocket83squared

3 ай бұрын

Ryobi has had two tool lines: 1) the navy blues, which seemed to come _before_ the 2k acquisition, and 2) the lime greens, which started sometime after. After all these years, my navy blue bench grinder (from Orange Depot) is still going strong, so I won't say a bad thing about the early brand. But tell me, how does the jointer do, and which color is it?

@unabashedgeek

3 ай бұрын

@@pocket83squared It's a Blue one, and it's working well, except that the variable speed control is a bit "off" - doesn't want to run smoothly at lower speeds any more. I think I didn't use it often enough to keep it from gumming up.

I like the refillable can, I always use/used a valve-steam with the rubber. ( Think I might try this, Thank You @poket83 ) I just take the spay nozzle off and put the rubber valve-steam over the plastic part that sticks up, press down fill, then put the valve-core back in the valve-team and air it back up. It works great when airing up the aerosol can, But it always make a mess with getting oil inside. So if I have a old Windex pump sprayer around, I use that as well. It works good for just getting oil on but nothing is better than a aerosol can for blowing crime and dirt out, Unless you have a air compressor handy. My stuff never breaks down in the shop. 😁

Refillable can with valve stem. I'm too skittish to play with compressed air that way, but thanks for letting me know the idea exists.

@pocket83squared

3 ай бұрын

Nah, don't set it on the stove-top, and you'll be alright. You _do_ know your spray paint already has pressured-ized air init too, right? Besides, a failure goes something like FFFSSSssts sss t t -and life goes on.

Looks good, man

Something I notice about restoring tools is that you have a sort of intimacy with them that surpasses what you get from a similar time spent using them. I did relatively little to restore my table saw and I still feel like I know its nature better than I know my admittedly much nicer miter saw. Mind you I dont like table saws, thats a predator that prefers prey like me, unfocused, prone to distraction and impatience. I lean towards hand tools because they tend to keep the forces at play within my ability to manage. But still theres a knowledge I have of my saw, because Ive held most of the pieces in my hand I can trace the mechanical paths in my head and reason about where a sound or vibration is coming from.

@pocket83squared

3 ай бұрын

Something like the "IKEA effect." Understanding is love, right? As for the tablesaw, try to think of it like a shark you can tame, and then ride!

looking good 👌

What a beautiful machine.

Great job. That looks brand new!

Just like any other project, the more you put into the front end, the more you get out the back end.

Sanding down the junky wrench is a technique I have used for years. I buy a $19.99 set from Harbor Freight and use them for whatever speciality need I have. Bent, sanded/ground thinner, whatever. I have a drawer in my roll around tool chest designated just for my "speciality" wrenches.

@pocket83squared

3 ай бұрын

In their defense, I resorted to buying a pack of HF crescents, and I gotta say, they've held up pretty well against the name-brands. Check the 3-pack's quality against the individual wrenches, though, because their quality control can be totally inconsistent. Also bought a giant chinesium crescent from the big A, and I wasn't too impressed. Poor casting, lots of slop. Turned it into a homemade torque-wrench, so I needed more than 12" of handle to avoid making messy mathematical mistakes.

Add the drill sound in post? Yeah that fence is dope.

@pocket83squared

3 ай бұрын

You'll have to be more specific. This is a long video.

@davebullard

3 ай бұрын

@@pocket83squared I may be entirely mistaken but around 12:11 I felt a breath of cognitive dissonance over what looked to me like an impact driver that sounded like a drill. Then I noticed the rhythms of the editing in that section. This combined with the voiceover made me wonder if you added all of those sounds in post and possibly included a drill sound in place of an impact driver sound. I kind of hope so....that section is rather musical and I really enjoy it.

@pocket83squared

3 ай бұрын

@@davebullard Lovely compliment. Although I do try to consider musicality (within my extremely limited aptitude on the subject) as I edit, I avoid adding non-authentic sound effects. That IS an impact, and I DO use one for drilling. Frequently. Okay, this will be sorta abstruse, so strap in, but here's how I think of editing rhythm. The faster your video is paced, the more the subject becomes important to consider. Think of understanding, or rather, the human capacity for it, as being like drinking from a trickling hose; only so much can be swallowed at a time, and most gets spilled because we swallow in gulps. As such, the pacing of narration should be like a sin wave that dances between complex and easy to understand concepts. More difficult to understand ideas require a pause to absorb. Applied to writing, one might insert a paragraph break. [gulp] A video's audio information has two tracks: verbal explanations and physical sounds. When these two overlap, they become more difficult to resolve and/or discern. Instead, they need to dance around and through one another. On top of all this, the brain is processing visual information as well, in a related, conjoined informational wave. What makes this strange craft interesting to me is that it requires all of these things to be woven together in such a way that its tapestry can maximize conceptual understanding. In this way-at least to me-it's one of writing's high arts. Not that most people would ever stop to see the stupid target I'm aiming at, but there it is at its most pretentious. Thought, sight, and (imaginary) haptic feedback: to get the vicarious feel, good video is woven from carefully placed (and real) parts.

@davebullard

3 ай бұрын

​@@pocket83squared Constructive criticism 1. "pretentious" is a barb set by the incapable. Maybe a bit hyperbolic, idk, but you get the point. 2 "Extremely limited aptitude" is most probably inaccurate. I've been a musician for 40 years. It's a "whole person" thing. What little I know of you via your videos over the years lead me to believe that you have plenty of relevant aptitude. Perhaps undeveloped is more accurate? Anyhow, your "pretensions" to quality and artistry seems most probably baked in to how you live your life. Makes perfect sense that you would give as many shits as you do. Thanks again.

Hey pocket, I’ve been a long time viewer of your channels and am wondering if you have any plans to post on your main channel again? I love your videos, your solutions to build and design problems are brilliant and your videos themselves are extremely satisfying to watch! I’ve been getting into learning about the game Crokinole lately and making a board for that game seems right up your alley and would fit in great with the videos you’ve already made on your main channel. An idea I had for it was to make the pieces out of pool balls or a similar material due to the satisfying nature of hitting them together. Anyway just a video idea I had to maybe stoke the flames.

@pocket83squared

2 ай бұрын

Neat. Haven't seen that one. It's like Shuffleboard Bumper-Pool on a round table! Sure, I'll probably post on there again. Someday. Still have lots to release, but it's been discouraging.

Anti sieze is fine! it happens to the best of us eventually!

Since you've spent 2min at the start of the video talking about the finish, here's my take on it: I'd have LOVED to see this machine Japanned. Keeping in theme with OG metal look on og casting AND highly durable back to watching the rest of it now :)

@Watchyn_Yarwood

3 ай бұрын

Agree

This whole series makes me want to run out to my local flea markets and buy a bunch of rusted junk for restoration.

Probably this sounds crazy like an idiot trying to cut off your finger but trust me this is works. I learned this from an old japanese knife sharpening master. When you sharpening your blade (jointer knife, chizel) slide the edge of the blade on your finger nail. If its bite the edge have burr therfore need more sharpening may be on a finer stone. If its slides you can try to cut news paper

it's unlikely that you'll get zero tearout with straight knives on figured wood, even with sharpening. you'd need a helical cutterhead for that, and even so depending on the figure of the wood it might not be perfect.

@pocket83squared

3 ай бұрын

Yep, I figured as much (pun). Curls like that are a crazy grain pattern, so there's no way to position a cut so as to avoid every possible tear-out. It did a pretty good job considering, which is why I showed that in the video. As for a helix cutterhead doing a better job, I severely doubt it. Though those _may_ have other advantages, their cutting geometry (relative to a curl) remains exactly the same, and at ten x twice the price. Old-fashioned cutterheads are a centuries-old technology for a reason. And specially at 1 or 2 logs milled per season, I'm not buying into the new trend. This jointer is already above and beyond.

@ppezaris

3 ай бұрын

@@pocket83squared Having owned a jointer with both (about 10 years with each), the "shelix" type of helical cutter heads don't completely eliminate tearout in every scenario, but they do certainly help quite a bit. The main benefit is that the cutters are at an angle, so they shear the fibers rather than cutting perpendicular to the blade. You are totally right that they are more expensive, and whether that's worth the money depends heavily, as you said, on how often you will use the tool.

well. the knives for my jointer are $110+ for a couple (reversible through), so I'll give the sharpening a go 😢

@pocket83squared

3 ай бұрын

No sarcasm: I'd find a different jointer. No machine is worth that sort of proprietary pain. A lawnmower that edge-trims & whistles Dixie as it goes wouldn't be worth if if replacement blades cost 110 clams.

@teeringzooi

3 ай бұрын

You are right.

I came here not for the video, but to tell you that I feel sad and sorry for you - the description on the squared channel, reproduced below, tells a story of a man whose heart was broken by the combination of his success and his thin skin - and who remains bitter and unhappy about it. I'm sorry your main channel went that way for you, but from reading through the comments on the 2 year old video, the ones that matter want you back and are probably here already. Fuck the haters. Make what you want, may as well monetise what you want on the other channel IMO. Paste: This is my second channel. I understand that some of you won't like that idea, but please consider: Once you start to gain an audience, they will naturally start to develop expectations. Those expectations quickly become demands, and so any content that's different will be met with intense hostility. So, this is a spillover place for stuff that's less streamlined and/or less related to whatever "theme" is supposed to be appropriate for my main channel. In other words, I reserve the right to put all sorts of random things here, and you are never allowed to complain about it! Read that again from someone else's shoes and consider what I said above. Good luck.

Hold down plate looks like a steak! 😂

@pocket83squared

3 ай бұрын

It totally does.

2x set screws is very common practice - not really a trick :-)

@9:23 Awhhh, you ruined the effect by drilling through the name. 😝😆😂