I love that Black Bear Forge is a retired professional of some kind who reinvented himself into a blacksmith but he’s also been a life long woodworker. That’s why his holdfasts are made with care to work exceptionally well.

Love this video! And why you presented it. Thank you

Just moved and am finally getting my garage, err shop, back in order. The reorganization is sooo much work!

This could be a regular series to introduce artisan tool makers?

Can't praise DFM Tool Works enough. I've bought several of his tools over the last year and they're all fantastic.

@WoodByWrightHowTo

4 жыл бұрын

so true! love his work!

Wow there are so many quality tool makers that are small scale it could take quite a while to list them all. It seems that hand tool woodworkers recommend those tool makers they have experience in using their tools as it should be but we are fortunate to have so many sources to buy quality tools thanks to the interwebs.

Love watching black bear forge would love one of his carving hatchets

Great information thank you

Finding tools and tool makers like these guys is one of my very favorite parts of life, not kidding lol. I love tools, and finding hand made works of art that are certain to make other tool Collectors drool when they scope them in your collection 🤌

Love this stuff james

Great video

Fantastic information!!! Lol just when I thought I was going to not buy any new tools for a month. By the way the Katz Moses jig is very helpful for those of us who have faiding vision. Trying to see layout lines can be a trial.

Thanks...a lot of great information and referrals

Another amazing video Mr. James!

Would like a tour of DFM. I have several of his tools and one on order.

@benfrank

4 жыл бұрын

same here, would love to see his shop

I have bench holdfasts from Gramercy and Hock blades. Someone you didn't mention is North Bay Forge- he regularly makes hook knives, and Adzes but I have a drawknife from him that I love ( which he currently no longer makes). you can find his website with a search of North Bay Forge.

HNT Gordon makes a wonderful little tail vise that can be retrofitted into nearly any bench. I'll add a post about it in the Hivemind Facebook Group. I also love the HNT Gordon Snipe Bill planes. Their "boxing" is made of brass. Their price (even shipped to USA) is actually very competitive with other options (including good vintage models available from dealers). HNT Side Rebate planes come with dovetail angled fences. Easy way to cut male and female parts of the sliding dovetail joint. Blackburn Tools has backsaw and panel saw kits as well. I made a dovetail saw and will be making a small panel saw as well.

@joshualucas1821

4 жыл бұрын

HNT Gordon's planes (and everything else they make) are gorgeous. Someday I'll own one haha

@ZeoCyberG

4 жыл бұрын

US re-seller... www.heartwoodtools.com/hntgordon

@MD-en3zm

4 жыл бұрын

I’ve been eyeing their dado planes for a long time. Not cheap but great quality, and you don’t see many dado planes nowadays.

Bearkat tools has closed shop. Can't even find his tool making videos or plans. Sad because he does stunning work. I remember the King Dick wrenches. My father had one. Sadly it got lost after multiple moves.

@WoodByWrightHowTo

3 жыл бұрын

It was very sad to see him close up shop.

2022 update video?!?!?! Loved this and got a bunch of them.

@WoodByWrightHowTo

2 жыл бұрын

I might have to.

Awesome stuff! 😃👍🏻👊🏻

Also check out Stavros Gakos and Young Je, awesome individual tool makers on youtube.

@Calamity_Panda_2802

4 жыл бұрын

travis dunn Stavros is the best! Really nice guy too!

And stop saying " he sells them way too cheap "! At least untill after I buy one 😁

@WoodByWrightHowTo

4 жыл бұрын

Lol. I will wait!

How about replacement plane blades for #4 and #5’s that don’t cost more than the plane itself?

@WoodByWrightHowTo

3 жыл бұрын

that will be Saturdays video. doing a comparison fo plane blades form $5 each to over $100 each.

thank you

Ron Hock makes plane irons and chip breaks that are incredibly fine. He’s a great guy too. Check him out.

@WoodByWrightHowTo

4 жыл бұрын

love his stuff. I have a few of his irons.

I just bought Rob Cosman's Dovetail saw. I'm taking his "train the hand" class next June. The things I like about it: The smaller teeth at the front, making it easier to start a kerf, the very thin blade and the really comfortable handle.

@WoodByWrightHowTo

4 жыл бұрын

that is a fun one for sure!

Stumbled into this video and subscribed. I notice something unheard of, that you have 508 "Thumbs Up" and only 4 "Thumbs Down". Congratulations!

@WoodByWrightHowTo

4 жыл бұрын

thanks. hand tool people are a kind bunch!

Have you figured out a good way to store your framing and bow saws yet? I thought you had mentioned in one of your recent videos that you were having issues with how they're stored regarding ease of access.

@WoodByWrightHowTo

3 жыл бұрын

I have not found a method that I like better than the one I have been using. Just hanging them on the wall.

The saws that Rob Cosman makes and sells are what I am saving up for

@WoodByWrightHowTo

4 жыл бұрын

those are fun!

@dennishanes2165

4 жыл бұрын

Cosman??

Very nice, I will be looking at some of these. Also, where do you get the hardware for your wood bar clamps?

@WoodByWrightHowTo

4 жыл бұрын

I have a whole video on those. And we had a video showing how to make beam clamps. It was a collaboration with the metal working shop. But there is no company that makes them quite like that anymore. Usually the only place you can find them is at tool meets and antique stores.

Mr bearcat has since stated he will no longer be making saws and such anymore =\ . Wish I could have picked one up!

@WoodByWrightHowTo

3 жыл бұрын

yup. it is sad, but oh well.

I’d like to see the tour of his shop

@WoodByWrightHowTo

Жыл бұрын

Here you go kzread.info/dash/bejne/im2h26irkc7HqZs.html

Wich one of the Katz Moses dovetail jigs do you find most usefull? The 8:1 or the 6:1? Maybe booth?

@WoodByWrightHowTo

4 жыл бұрын

That is purely a personal choice for 99% of all dovetail work it honestly does not matter. I like the one to eight It just looks a little better however the six to one is far more obvious and a deeper look to it. But in the end it just comes down to looks.

Check out Ron Hock -makes plane irons and accessories, out of Fort Bragg, CA

You should do one of Blackburn's backsaw kits

@WoodByWrightHowTo

4 жыл бұрын

That is on my list.

I would like to give a shout out to Granpa's Little Farm. He mostly finds hand brace augers bits and restores them as well as old hand braces. He makes boxes for them as well based off the original boxes they came in. He carries both Jennings and Irwin pattern bits. He also offers a few other things. www.grandpaslittlefarm.com

@WoodByWrightHowTo

4 жыл бұрын

I love his stuff. I have him listed on the hand tool finder website

Although I do not yet own one, Joshua Farnsworth of Wood and Shop highly recommends Florip Toolworks for affordable, quality saws. He seems to be on the same scale as Blackburne Tools. I am waiting for his Sash Saws to come out. He also makes a couple marking gauges patterned after Taylor Toolworks marking gauges.

@WoodByWrightHowTo

4 жыл бұрын

so true. he makes great stuff. I have gotten to play with it, but I do not have any of his stuff YET!

Yes please do a shop tour. I am looking for good quality hand tools and have some money I can spend...

@WoodByWrightHowTo

4 жыл бұрын

that is a good place to be LOL

@cbryantbear6498

4 жыл бұрын

Only by God’s grace and bonus money...

Getting tools from USA to Australia is especially expensive. It is cheaper to send a tool to the USA than have the same tool sent from USA to Australia. It is even cheaper to have the same tool sent from UK to Australia than from USA. But what becomes especially weird is that with tracking numbers I watch the tool leave England go to the USA (usually somewhere in the middle of USA) spend a couple of days in America before boarding a flight to Australia and it's 60% of the postage cost from the place it went to visit in America.

@WoodByWrightHowTo

4 жыл бұрын

Yep. International shipping is crazy.

James Another good shop to look at is PASK MAKES like you hes first class

@WoodByWrightHowTo

4 жыл бұрын

love his channel. would love to go down under some time and meet him!

Florip Tool Works.

@WoodByWrightHowTo

4 жыл бұрын

love his stuff!

Hi James, quick question, been thinking about that Katz-Moses jig and can't decide on which ratio I should buy. 1:6 or 1:8? I know it doesn't matter much, but is one of them a bettter "allrounder", which one would do better with most types of wood?

@WoodByWrightHowTo

4 жыл бұрын

historically 1:8 is for hard wood and 1:6 is soft wood, but to be honest it does not matter. I use 1:8 for almost everything.

@c.a.g.1977

4 жыл бұрын

@@WoodByWrightHowTo Thanks James, I was leaning towards the 1:8 so your advice settles it for me!

Seems like dfm is only selling the wrenches no dowel gauges etc?

@WoodByWrightHowTo

4 жыл бұрын

the dowel makers are being re worked and are out of stock right now.

@williamn01

4 жыл бұрын

@@WoodByWrightHowTo no problem will check back in 👍 just bought a couple of the katz moses dovetail jigs and his stop block, I'm in Scotland so will probably take a while to get here but look rather nice bits of kit thanks James.

Who makes that hand-crafted roll of blue painter's tape on your bench?

@WoodByWrightHowTo

4 жыл бұрын

I get that from the Blue man Group!

Would like to get some of these, but living in Europe ... and then everything gets incredibly complex and/or expensive :(

@WoodByWrightHowTo

4 жыл бұрын

so true. hate international shipments.

@phildodd9942

4 жыл бұрын

Go on holiday to Canada with a big metal suitcase ?

@ricos1497

4 жыл бұрын

There are plenty of individual tool makers in Europe though as well as great stockists. Deiter Schmidt stock some top class tools. I got a Kuri Kuri Japanese brace and bits from there and it's just a stunning piece of kit for around €40-50. Great for drilling small holes by hand. There's the mirock guy that does squares and such like. Plenty of UK saw makers.

@Calamity_Panda_2802

4 жыл бұрын

Jeremy MEYER Skelton Saws in england, corradi files in Italy, Tomas Lainas in Spain, Bill Carter in UK, Ollie Sparks UK. So many great small time makers in Europe

@thomashverring9484

3 жыл бұрын

Dieter Schmid is Fine Tools (www.fine-tools.com/), They have a lot of nice stuff!

I've got a proper king dick it was £7 and I love it they're great on home made/threaded square of steal, I love the look of that dowel gauge I should try and track someone to cut me one to mount in my bench (yeah I'm English/close to Sheffield so my tools have to be made there because my family worked at Stanley and if I don't buy them the scrap man might and then melt them down)

Great video james great promoting the outher shops Well everything was going ok until you mentioned a wooden screw .my wife looked at me as women do and started laughing😶

Comment down below

No Diresta icepick?😉

@WoodByWrightHowTo

4 жыл бұрын

Lol yes.

Unfortunately, BearKat is no longer taking orders.

@WoodByWrightHowTo

2 жыл бұрын

It is definitely sad. He made some great stuff.

James, I'm sorry, but I gotta disagree with you. There's no such thing as too cheap. Unless you're talking about cheap materials, yuck. That hand saw was the first thing that really caught my eye when I began watching your vids. It still draws me in to the point where I have to rewind so I can hear what you said.

47th.

'I like kits'. Even better to make the lot. Why stick to dead plant material? Machining metal is easy (and paid for by not buying kits) and you can have it exactly the way you want it. Crafting tools from dark wood and brass is especially satisfying- they look great.

It’s unfair to say that people are selling their stuff too cheap. First off, I don’t consider 100 Dollars for a set of dovetail guides (both angles, incl. shipping) cheap, but that’s my view. More importantly, these guys have to find a price point at which people are willing to open their wallets, and that’s incredibly difficult. Most of the time you have to give away your stuff “too cheap” so people will buy it at all, and once there is some momentum, you will get shouted at for raising the price to a level that will actually put food on your table. Sometimes going in at a high price will help sales because it makes the thing appear more worthy, but that’s a risky bet. Pricing is difficult. Going back to the dovetail guide example: 100 bucks is a hell of a budget to build your own jig. It may not be the same, and it probably won’t be made from clear urethane, but hey. You’d still have money left for a set of decent clamps and a good saw. Good for Johnathan that he’s making it work, but in the clear light of day that doesn’t look like a great deal to me - it’s a useful little helper for people with a healthy budget, sure.

@WoodByWrightHowTo

3 жыл бұрын

If you knew the work that went into making those you would realize why I say that they are pricing them too low. Many of these items the makers are paying themselves less than $10 an hour. And for artisan items that is way too cheap.

@mm9773

3 жыл бұрын

@@WoodByWrightHowTo I know why you’re saying it, but I’ll say again what I said: it’s unfair to tell people that they’re giving their stuff away too cheaply. They’ve probably all racked their brains trying to find the right price point, and now - even though it’s meant as a compliment for the quality of their work - you’re calling them bad businesspeople. They may be, but that doesn’t mean the pricing is wrong. If you price your stuff too high, your hourly rate works out at $0, because nobody buys your thing. If you make dovetail saws at the same price as Rob Cosman’s and four times the price of those by Veritas and you make less than $10 an hour, you should probably stop making them, because it’s not feasible. You can raise the price, maybe it works out, but an artisanal saw is still a saw: it cuts wood, and there’s a price that people are willing to pay for a saw. You can say “mine is worth more because I spend more time making it”, but then you’re moving into a different territory: then it’s art, or historical reproduction, and you’re selling to collectors or maybe even patrons, not wo much to customers. Artisanal stuff must have its price, but if it’s tools you want to make, you still have to play by market rules to a certain extent. So if someone made $500 dovetail saws or $150 holdfasts, would they still be overwhelmed by the size of their waiting lists? I really don’t know. It depends on a number of factors. And they don’t know either, which is why they’ve priced their stuff competitively. Sure, it’s too cheap to make a living, but unfortunately that doesn’t determine the price - not when I have a choice between a €30 Dozuki, a €60 Veritas and an €80 gorgeous antique saw, perfectly restored and sharpened. They all make perfect cuts in wood, and as much as would like people to be able to make great money with their craft, that’s what they’re up against. A bent steel rod from Gramercy for 28 Euros is just as appreciable for me as a hand-forged holdfast - considering this, I just can’t stand there and say 60 Dollars is too cheap. It’s too easy to say that.

stop saying cheep . some of us are on a just income .and we need cheap things any good product that is cheap and work good we need them.

@dt2419

4 жыл бұрын

clockman45 don’t have a go at him for calling a cheap tool cheap

@clockman45

4 жыл бұрын

@@dt2419 i was referring to him saying the people should sale them for more. i was not saying anything bad about him . you see i am on a fixed income and i am always looking for low price tools. i am sorry i didn't word my statement more clearly.

@dt2419

4 жыл бұрын

clockman45 no need to apologise it was just a misunderstanding, have a good day(or night if you aren’t down under)