Your jig is exactly like mine, with the spacers in the middle. So much work goes into making those strips! And the waste grows even more if you use any power tool to speed things up!

I keep rewatching your videos, they're so relaxing, learning and getting me excited to go back to my shop :) Love it!

The way he saws the work piece evenly around all the corners so the cut finishes in the middle is genius. No tear-out

Great video (as all the others)! I'll try to make a similar planing jig for small pieces. Thank you for sharing all this knowledge in such a careful way!

Absolutely stunning and a pleasure to watch you work!

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Bill!

Wow, this was indeed done by handtools. Nice smooth work, must have a steady hand to handsaw kumiko!

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bjorn! Steady fingers more :)) When the strip lowers after many cuts I barely can hold it to cut.

Thanks for sharing. You have amazing control of those handsaws - great work

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Also the marking prior to cutting helps considerably the job

Hand-sawing mastery!

Always always waiting for the next one Never never bored with your skill Love it

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! Happy to hear that!

Inspiring, entertaining and educational, indeed; spiritual too! Thanks

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you also for watching!

Episode can be called: "Strip Tease"...! Making Jigs for repeatability...Good craftmanship...! Excellent video Adrian.

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Jakob! Nice to see you again :) Many thanks!

Outstanding work young man. So peaceful watching your videos.

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Many thanks Sir! I'm glad you enjoy my videos!

Very nice work Adrian. That's a handy planing jig.

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks John! Yes, it's a dirty version of it, but works great. Probably when will wear off I will make a cool one, and a video too :D

@carlinglis7705

4 жыл бұрын

@@AdrianPreda Hi Adrian, did you ever make a video on the planing jig? I can't see one but I figured it can't hurt to ask. Your channel is inspiring me to get started on simple handtool creations such as boxes and Kumiko work. Thanks for some amazing content.

@shanemccarthy1562

3 жыл бұрын

@@carlinglis7705 little late but I think it would be cool if he made a whole video on jigs/how to make jigs

Very cool! I like your thickness fixture! Thank you.

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Robert too for watching!

This whole video was pure relaxation.

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Wonderful, you have changed my life for the better, I kid you not. Many thanks..

This is truly brilliant. Can’t wait for the next one

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Next week if agw :D And, the following one too, making a kumiko box.

Bravissimo Adrian!!!

Great! I admire kumikos. I read Mike Pekovich's articles how to make it. But he's using power tools for the strips. This is a great way for those, who dont have table saw (like me).

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I follow also M P and enjoy his work. I believe that with a table saw, no mater the quality of the blade you will have some saw marks, and it's quite impossible to sand after without altering the edges and the thickness of the strip. It may be run after on a drum sander, but at the cost of one, even a cheap model... :) A good clean solution with power tools I heard are the Proxxon tools. The FET table saw and the thickness planer leave a nice finish, but again, these two may go over 1000$ :) Kumiko patterns usually are not finished with oils and lacquer, they rely on the glass smooth finish made by the plane in the process of sizing them.

@sandorkadar9847

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your experiences and knowlege with us. Looking forward for part two!

GREAT video - I almost fell off of my chair when I saw you pull out a ryoba saw to cut these strips!! I know the header said HAND tools, but that is a very loose term these days. Thank you for posting this video, I enjoyed it to no end and learned quite a bit watching it. Keep up the good work!

@AdrianPreda

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I admit that I wanted to show also that you can cut those by the bandsaw, but at that time, just a couple of days before, I broke the only bade I had :))

It took me a while but finally I watched the video. What shall I say? Another great video, Adrian!

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Marco! No prob😁 Today there will be part 2😁

Very relaxing!! Nice job my friend 👌

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Many thanks Mik!

Nice video. A lot of patience and skills is needed for this stuff. Good job

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks man, glad you like it! Yes, and tobacco :))

@user-dw3bm8de1h

6 жыл бұрын

Slovenian Woodworker o

Thank you for this! I need to make a thickness jig. Many good tips you shared here

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it! Yes, that jig I use it every time, not only in kumiko, to dimension small stocks.

@ICSDroid

6 жыл бұрын

Could you do a video on making the thickness jig?

Very interesting. In a book on shoji and kumiko I have to get the final strips the guy used a riving knife to cut them instead of a saw, essentially splitting the grain then planed the next face. The book was by a guy called Toshio Odate if you're interested. Like your thicknessing jig very much.

Well edited, great music & great technique, thanks

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback!

Ingenios sablonul de grosime, iar maiestria se vede la taierea anterioara a suvitelor de lemn. Foarte frumoasa treaba. Plus micul banc de lucru. Il admir deja de ceva vreme :)

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Mersi! Bancul cred ca-l updatez in curand, mut menghina pe acel planing board din iroko plus ceva modificari

Yet another very satisfying video to watch from you. Thank you! I love your content, please never stop. Sad that there's so much waste, but I guess that's how it is. :)

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Yes, it may be reduced somehow but there are many pieces to be cut, waste is inevitable😁

Great job.... man with gold hands..... I love your skills...

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks man! Me too, yours :)

Amazing work Adrian. Every video I watch of yours a gets a little bit smarter ;)

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Appreciate that!

Beautiful job Adrian!

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

Complimenti per la precisione e per la pazienza.

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Grazie Andrea! Il prossimo video, dove faccio un modelo Kumiko, avra piu di questi :))

Great video, thanks for sharing! Particularly interesting the not on material loss.

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yes, the loss % was just trivia stuff :)

Muito bom!

Thanks for sharing. This was great.

Incredible! Love your videos

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Great video... and great music choices!!!!!

bravo domnule barbos! (am vazut barba o fractiune de secunda) :)) ideea cu sablonul pentru grosimea betelor e super tare! o sa o folosesc si eu! Succes si multe like-uri!

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Hahaha, mersi! Era, acum nu mai e, am rindeluit-o :)

Once again amazing bloody amazing

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Barry!

Great job and video. Thanks for sharing.

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching also!

So good job you're a Master...

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks🙂

I loved watching this. Thank you.

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks you also! Glad you like it!

Awesome work!

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

You can get "Skinny sticks" at wall mart to try small patterns with. im currently trying a 100mm square piece. with them they are 146 x 6.35 x 2 mm made of some kind of hardwood. i couldn't cut wood like this by hand and i have no table saw so it was the next best thing.

Very impressive. I admire the dedication and skill to do that all with hand tools.

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Many thanks Matt! Tomorrow I hope to enjoy admiring your work too :D

Hi, when planing to thickness, do you find that the wood is sometimes pulled up by the blade and so planes too thin? I have found this with my own thickness jig.

Craftsmen worthy work.

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

شكراً لك التقدير عمل رائع 😎 💕

@AdrianPreda

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

you are awesome!! only applauses

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Glad you like it!

the bird sounds in the background are so relaxing (on top of the calm classical music) - I have (lots of) basswood, and will evolve the set of jigs to go this. I think that I have most of the tools. There will be some kumiko in my future. This seems so much more "refined" than the power-tool version of strip-preparation. you are using a low-angle plane - is it because that is "what you had", or do you think that the low-angle makes this process "better" or "easier"? I have a new-to-me Lee Valley 4-1/2 smoothing plane that will probably be what I would use LV is just down the street - maybe I just go get their kanna and give that a try - for all of the good reasons that you would want to own a Japanese plane - and do your 2-step process

Thank you very much. I am going to use some of these idea with other stuff. You helped much. Does anyone know what the metal plain was?

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching too! It's a Veritas Low Angle smoothing plane, link in description

👍

Wow.

asa ma frate! fuarte frumos!

Great viedo! what is the size of the strips?

Like always an awesome video... congrats!!! What kind of wood do you use??? It’s basswood???

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Indeed, it's basswood.

I am so impressed and happy to find your channel, where are you located? I am thinking to take a class (I live in London) of Kumiko, would be just one patter, but I want to learn much more and here in London is not many options =( Tell me you are in London and you teach =)=)=)

برافو عليك مليون لايك

waiting for part 2 :)

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Next week if agw :)

Una autentica maravilla verte trabajar..........

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Gracias Emilio!

Hi. You’ve made an excellent video. When planing the strips, what is considered acceptable tolerance in their their thickness.

@AdrianPreda

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I have a cheapo china 2.5$ shipping included digital caliper that shows only one decimal, xx.x. I found out that 0.1mm is acceptable, so if it measures 2.0 or 2.1mm is ok. Much important is that your all your strips to be the same thickness, lay them one to another and feel with your finger any difference. Also, do not change your blade depth adjustment during planing the strips.

@stavlee1

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks. That’s very helpful

BEAUTIFUL EXQUISITE WORK,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,have you been doing this kind of work for years and how long did it take you to reach this quality and precision? thanks,,,,,,,,,very inspiring...........

@AdrianPreda

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I started woodworking about 3 years ago doing it in my apartment room :)

@yardlimit8695

5 жыл бұрын

@@AdrianPreda thankyou

すごいねー！

Amazing video. Do you plane the faces cut by the dozuki on the final cuts or leave them un-planed? Is the finish OK from just the dozuki? Also, would you use this same method fork for slightly larger pieces like e.g. shoji frames or use a different approach + tools? Thanks!

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yes, if you notice, after I cut with the dozuki I run the strip on the thickness planing jig. The strip, after is cut by the dozuki, has a square trapezoidal form (one side has been already joint before), so when planing on the jig practically I transform the trapezoid into a rectangle. Sure, I use this technique with small pieces too, which are not wider than the jig width (plane's blade width). For example almost all my recently made boxes, the stock of the frame is prepared in this way

@mogden

6 жыл бұрын

Adrian Preda Thanks for the reply. A suggestion for a future video: Oke stave making technique using hand tools. I can't figure it out without a specialized curved draw knife which is hard to find. I also am having a hard time figuring out how to make copper bands to bind together the oke.

Hey Adrian, I've been trying to research on how to make Kumiko strips and have watched your video several times, but as a noob and lazy person I can't imagine rip cutting over and over again, and honestly can't imagine historical woodworkers doing this. Been trying to do some research and I've found a tool called a "Wari-Kebiki" (Splitting Gauge). It's essentially a marking gauge but goes all the way through the wood, making rip cuts literally take less than 30 seconds. You could buy 1/8th thin stock and split it with the Wari Kebiki. The only downside I see to this is the cost to wood ratio.

@AdrianPreda

2 жыл бұрын

With the kebiki you need to have a very soft wood to go >6mm width for ex (2×3mm, two passes on both sides). Riping harder woods like walnut, even this basswood is not that soft, will be difficult. But I normally use the bandsaw to rip. Here I wanted to show this option as well but my only bsaw blade was broken then😀

@John28530

2 жыл бұрын

@shane McCarthy. How do you think they would have gotten the wood down to that thickness?

What do you do with the wood shavings? can you make home made aper with them or anything? Or do you have a fireplace/camp fire?

@AdrianPreda

5 жыл бұрын

Barbecue, throw them in the chicken's coop or at garbage :)

What a tease... I love this channel though.

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Nice

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

The 58% lost you'll save on your tools. No expansive tools for simple problems. And finaly it's a hobby. I loved you video.

Can you perhaps share drawings to replicate the handmade plane thickness jig?

Bravo, Adi! Îți doresc succes și... să nu ți se termine răbdarea.

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Multumesc😁

Thank you for this video! I'm going to buy your plans on Etsy to try to make some mini lamps. May I ask what the dimensions are of the basswood lumber before cutting? I can see the width to be about 106mm.

@AdrianPreda

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! It doesn't matter what lumber section you have, use whatever you can get and divided so you make groups of strips as you desire. If you use the same technique with the plane thickness jig try to make the intermediate big strips around 1/2 to 2/3 of the plane's blade width, so it will be easy to plane. For example here, I was aiming 6x3mm kumiko strips I remember, so I made the intermediate strips at 6x30mm in order to obtain 5 kumiko strips. 30/5=6mm for each kumiko assuming half will be wasted from saw and plane.

@Sagatto

3 жыл бұрын

@@AdrianPreda Understood! Thank you very much!

What tools do you use

👍👍👍🇹🇷

nice vid, but @ 1:41 are you not using the crosscut side of the saw, instead of the rip side?

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yes, it's the rip side there.

@GetHandsDirty

6 жыл бұрын

He is using the rip side ;) It's correct

Someone buy this man a tablesaw!

What are the measurements of your strips? How wide by how thick?

which type of wood would be recommended?

@AdrianPreda

4 жыл бұрын

Basswood works the best, although any wood can be suitable

what kind of wood are the strips made from

@AdrianPreda

11 ай бұрын

Basswood, linden

What kind of wood do you use here?

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

basswood

How if the kumiko strip more longer (2m) and thinner (2mm)?

@AdrianPreda

5 жыл бұрын

You make a longer thickness jig. I made mine ~35cm/13" cause I don't make kumikos bigger than that

@anasruls

5 жыл бұрын

With this method, the strip will curved if more longer than 30cm.

58% loss is way more than I expected handtools to make. do you think a bandsaw can be set up accurate enough to minimalize planing?

@AdrianPreda

3 жыл бұрын

I do use the bandsaw now to make those cuts and the loss is less but not so much gain. I use a 1/4" 10tpi blade, it's ok, but I want to try a 14tpi too to have them more clean so will ease the planing after

@jonasneumann5915

3 жыл бұрын

@@AdrianPreda I dont have a bandsaw yet and thought that maybe wit a well set bandsaw I could avoid the planing. So cutting with a bandsaw doesnt leave a clean cut?

@AdrianPreda

3 жыл бұрын

Not even the table saw, will still have blade marks. Bandsaw will shorten the time, and the cleaner it is less work on planing. But planing is necessary, it leaves a nice glass finish.

In which language is this kumiko book?

@AdrianPreda

3 жыл бұрын

English

one word, circular saw

🤪😅

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, on viewers demand :))

@baptistec.4546

6 жыл бұрын

Adrian Preda thanks Adrian, nice job 👍👍 (and I really love this thickness jig 😍)

58% loss.no wonder why some of those are expensive. also, 100% handwork, more handwork and you would be planing those with your nails.

@AdrianPreda

5 жыл бұрын

The loss can be higher if you start from a rough piece of timber. You take out the bark, live edge, heart wood, joint it, plane it and will probably go to another 50% (here was already sized the initial one)

Мазохизм)))

@AdrianPreda

6 жыл бұрын

haha, yes almost :)

smecher ce faci aici... iese bani din asa ceva?

That is not the correct way to use Japanese Kanna. You won't get a good job if you use it that way.

What is this If u had not make it then y waist others time

waste of time...