I just built a marking gauge thanks to you! Tomorrow me and my brother are drinking homemade mead, smoking cigars and building the workbench you showed us.

@RexKrueger

4 жыл бұрын

I wish I could be there. For what it's worth, I'll have a new bench design up next week.

My marking guages were built by my Dad. He was a physician but a truly talented artistic woodworker (cabinet maker, folk artist). They very similar to yours.

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

That's awesome. My dad was a salesman but was (and is) a very talented mechanic. I've learned a lot from him.

I just started getting back into woodworking after a few decades off. I've been dragging out the Skilsaw and working on the floor for a few years for around the house projects. I found your channel and have made your Joiners bench (all construction scrap found free), just made your shooting board (bought your plans), made the crochet, and made this handy little gauge. I've ordered the long vise screw and going to glue up my Doug fir scrap wood vise for the leg vise. Got a list of other projects to do, and love all your instructive videos. Keep up the great work. You inspired me to get my hand back in the game! Thanks brother.

I made the same sort of marking gauge, or rather, several. I used a scrap of narrow hacksaw blade. Useful tip: I used a dabs of red and green nail polish on the tips of the lock dowel to indicate which end locks and which unlocks.

@jtscustomcutlery317

4 ай бұрын

Hay hay hay who’s running this video? You, or Rex!?! Lol 😂

@jtscustomcutlery317

4 ай бұрын

Hay hay hay who’s running this video? You, or Rex!?! Lol 😂

Apart from anything else, this is the best explanation of what a marking gauge is for I've ever seen. And that's just in the first three minutes !

As a novice with limited tools, I've watched a lot of woodworking videos in the last couple of years but you have the best I've seen. Clear, concise, not a lot of fancy tools or equipment and no annoying soundtrack. I look forward to watching more of your productions. Thank you.

@timyong6152

2 жыл бұрын

Also has good sense of humor thrown around casually that glues all of the content all intact together

on a budget with a new home, and found some old olive wood in the garden. I now have an olive wood marking gauge, thank you so much.

The two hardest things I found starting out with no prior knowledge and after watching a million KZread videos on wood working was - sharpening tools (most vids assume you have some basic knowledge which I didn’t) and cutting a straight line with a handsaw, mostly on the downward line. No one ever seems to cover that last one even in beginner woodworking tutorials, I ended up just learning through trial and error and wasting a lot of wood in the process.

@sisaktamas

2 ай бұрын

I did some sawing these past days and sometimes had this problem of not cutting in a continuous plane. I can control the saw pretty well but with thick boards it’s too difficult. So today I had an idea to clamp another piece along my line and as I was using it I realized I improvised a ‘shooting board’ or rather, ‘shooting surface’.

Make more tools: 1. Add the vice 2. A trundle lathe. 3. Add some furniture so that we know what we can do with all of our new tools.

How about a "mad-skillz" practice block to work on planing S4S and square cross cutting? Then use two blocks to learn and practice basic joints like box-joint or lap-joint on one end and dovetails on the other. Two 6-inch pieces of 2x4 and a target plan would provide cheap and low-stakes practice. You could repeat it 8 times on a ~$5 8ft 2x4.

The square-cut end of a piece of scrap, with an ordinary drywall screw driven perpendicularly into it, has always served any marking gauge needs I've ever had. The edge of the countersink head is sharp enough to make a decent mark, and the depth is infinitely adjustable just by twisting it in or out. And if you lose it, you've lost a scrap and a screw -- make another in 2 minutes.

@thurgogopro5338

3 жыл бұрын

And you adjust the position of the screw with what??

@sourcererseven3858

3 жыл бұрын

@@thurgogopro5338 I didn't get it at first either, but they're not marking with the point of the screw, but with the side of the head. The screw is driven in perpendicular to the fence (into the endgrain if you will) and they drive it in or out for adjustments. Make 5 of those gauges in different size categories and use the screws to dial in the last inch or so. Heck, as far as I can see (I'm just starting out) you only _need_ a couple different settings regularly, so make one gauge for each of these and never touch the setting. If you're fine with them taking up a bit of space ;) I'm actually intrigued by the simplicity, at least for the beginning.

@unitycatalog

2 жыл бұрын

most under-rated comment ever in the history of woodworking

@UPTHETOWN

11 ай бұрын

Infinitely adjustable? How long is that screw

I would love to see a series on plane making. I know you have already done a couple of those, but more styles! Maybe do a video series on box making. What about fancy joinery? What about other tools you could make? What about tools you can buy and improve? Veneers? Other wooden weapons like your mace! Show us how to make nunchaku! What about little wooden toys for kids? What about big wooden bongs for bigger kids?

I love how much of hand tool adjustment is just hitting the dang thing.

Hi Rex Thanks for the video. I appreciate a) no background soundtrack (yea!!!) b) the encouragement offered c) your word use - accurate and precise - for instance and d) progression of difficulty. I made a six-part entry-way bench/seat a couple years ago for my daughter's family from a scrap piece of 2x12 fir lumber: seat, legs, stringer, and two locking wedges. I hand-drew the plans (in storage now). Basically, a bench top at about 17", a length of about 24" (arbitrary - to fit the space), leg angle of 10 degrees or so set so they don't extend past the ends of the bench, and a mortised stringer to hold the legs together. I cut two tenons on each leg to set into through mortises in the seat. I added an arch to the bottom of the legs. I attempted to balance size and location of the elements to be functional an pleasing to look at. I used wedges in the ends of the seat tenons. No fasteners nor glue. Tools: pull saw, hand plane, combination square, measuring tape, speed square (angles), chisels, mallet, clamps (no vice at the time), and both a marking knife (modified Ever-sharp paring knife - like a $ - and a sharp pencil. I did have a newly minted workbench on which to do most of the work. I probably took about five or six hours - most of that time in getting accurate layout and cutting six mortises and tenons. I used 150 grit to ease all the corners and to smooth it out - all by hand. I left it unfinished since the family was not ready to make a finish decision. I'm guessing that between indirect sunlight and daily use, it will take on a nice patina over time. Might be a fun project. Please stay well. Blessings to you and yours. Handy Andy

Ideas for tools: home-made clamps (short, long, quick-release), plough/groove planes. Ideas for techniques: joints, finishes, how to keep things straight and true, boring stuff (like literally), scrap wood hunting, old tool hunting (what to watch out for) Ideas for projects: clever space saving storage in boxes, on walls or cabinets. Small gifts in multiple copies. Improving or transforming furniture, ...

I just made mine last night! The locking pin was a bit of a tough fit, you're right. I had to make a few before I got it. But the other parts were very simple and it works well! I'm so excited to finally have a proper gauge :) thank you for taking the time to show us how to do this! Some advice to anybody working on theirs: once you've got your fit dialed in, don't be too aggressive with your finish sanding on the beam and pin. It can change the way the parts interact. I learned that one the hard way...

Vise is a good idea. A pipe clamp vice is a great cheap solution.

@averagejoe4837

5 жыл бұрын

Not to mention versatile. I've seen where other people have made quick release leg vices, tail vices and bench vices using pipe clamps.

I like the wooden toolbox in the background

@RexKrueger

4 жыл бұрын

You can make it. I did a video.

What a beautiful design! Really elegant and simple!

Loving this series. I need to get started on these projects. And Yes!! to the vise video

oh man that solid machine like click when it unlocked was very satisfying. these videos have all been super motivational.

This would have been a good time to mention that you can get free/cheap hardwood boards by watching the various free trading lists, or garage sales, or even driving through up-scale neighborhoods on trash day and picking up discarded hardwood furniture. A chair seat could easily provide the needed wood for the fence for this. You might have to laminate 2 pieces of tabletop, but so? Pieces that are too far gone for easy recovery make excellent sources of hardwood boards. Also, this is another opportunity to mention that in SOME parts of the country, firewood is fruitwood or oak etc. When you only need a piece that's an inch thick and a couple of inches square, cutting it out of a well-seasoned piece of fire wood is no big deal.

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

You're totally right. All of those sources are excellent!

Ideas for videos: How about building a jewelry box and/or a small dresser using these techniques? How far can you push this into larger pieces like cabinets and bookcases? In these videos I haven't seen you use plywood. Could you talk about plywood and hand tools? Can you plane plywood the same way? I suppose planing the face doesn't work since you're removing plys. If you build a dresser or a cabinet with plywood, do you need to joint it?

Simplest but greatest design! That's a genius work!

Very simple and mandatory tool to have. Thx Bob

What a great idea! The lock is and excellent idea.I would like to see a vise added to the bench. Thanks for sharing this.

Foot vice on the low bench like used by wood carvers and pelt scrapers.

i really enjoyed that that little bench you made, some more basic furniture pieces!

Awesome! WOW! Even I can do this and yes I'd like to see you do a vise for the bench.

Awesome marking gauge Rex. Also thanks for the knowledge Sir

Great vids Rex!!! A Vice, a wood plane, a spoke shave, .... There are to many fun options!!! Build on Thanks for the videos! Cheers mate

man, the kebiki-esque wedge lock but it looks/acts like a button...and one handed lock/unlock. spectacular, thanks!

Just made my first panel gauge, great fun. Thanks for the ideas. Marking gauge next I guess. Keep up the great work

Yes please make a future video about adding a vise to the bench. I've seen a lot of make your own vise videos, but would love to see your unique take on it.

Thank you! I'm so happy with now owning a marking gauge! :)

Great video, Rex.

A nice addendum to this video would be a simple centre finding gauge. A piece of rectangular flat stock with a dowel in one corner & another dowel in an opposing corner, and a pin centred between the two. Rotating the gauge so the dowels engage on opposite sides of a board will allow you to score a line along the centre with great ease. A vice build would be great too, particularly if you can do it using some kind of cam tensioning system. Cams can be hard to understand but they're so versatile & easy to make compared with threads.

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

Man, I've made a few prototype vices using cams. Fail, fail, fail.

@nightcatarts

5 жыл бұрын

@@RexKrueger Ah, too bad. I keep thinking there must be a way to do it, but it might require some kind of twisted cam to convert rotation into lateral pressure.

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

I agree. That sounds harder to build than just buying a screw.

Fantastic!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for a really well done project and video.

I really like this project! I have a couple older Stanley marking gauges with wooden thumb screws. They often drift as I'm tightening them. I definitely like the idea of the one-handed locking pin.

I brought the plans for this and susecfull made one. It works great and have plans to tune it up a bit and make a few more. Thank you so much Rex for the plans and video.

Had one in my amazon cart. Watched this and had three in an hour. Thanks a bunch man, appreciate this.

This is so inspiring I will make some. Thanks Rex

Your application of simple machines and knowing your materials keeps me coming back. You could do a video on materials, how to incorporate tolerances and mix materials in projects.

That's a sweet gauge. Might have to give that a try.

Tools are allllways better when we get to make them I’d love to see what sort of vise you could come up with that we can all build Thank you for sharing 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

These woodworking for humans videos are amazing! Please keep up this series

Paul sellers bit put your pin in the drill and drill it in works great, your gauge is easier to make!

This is a great project, thank you.

Few hours before you post this video, i was looking how to make my own gauge! OMG

A vise would be great! I'd personally like to see some simple projects for Christmas gifts - old enough now to think about some things to leave my grandkids to remember me by. Maybe some simple but elegant boxes, or knives with hardwood scales, or whatever. That little stool you made earlier is definitely on my list to do. I'm really loving this series! And I thank you for doing it!

Bench Vice, bar clamps, "C" Clamps, All kinds of vices and clamps. :) Cheers from Canada !!

Stackable storage boxes would get my vote. They can be used for tools, or materials and supplies. You need to take one to a project, grab it and go. Something with a partial open front so that you can get at things while they are stacked. Say they are 12" high, the front top 6" could be open. You could also have a partial top. They could be made in different heights with different sized front openings. They could be made with something like lath strips stapled and glued to triangular riser corners. ( the lath strips could be ripped from a 2x4). The strips could be spaced so that the strips on the top of one box fits into spaces between the strips on the box sitting above it. This would lock the boxes and make the bottoms stronger while they are stacked. The boxes could be made 24" wide, (minus the saw kerfs), so there would be little waste from cutting the laths from an 8' board. 32" would work as well but the strips would need to be thicker to span the further distance. . I could do a sketch up model if my idea is not clear.

I must made 2 of these from some scrap wood in about an hour. Thank you for the simple design and thorough explination!

I’d love to see an easy to build vice. I’ve looked into some of the other vice videos people have and I struggle but your videos are always easy to follow! Definitely would love to see more tool stuff! Perhaps router plane? Or some type of chisel plane for cleaning squeeze out and things

Super great 👍 I’ll do it soon ! Thanks 🙏 very appreciate your style 👏👏👏👏

You are an amazingly good teacher!

I really like your videos! You give very clear, articulate instructions while, at the same time, taking the stress out of the projects by making it clear as to when a particular dimension or measurement does or doesn't require utmost accuracy. Also, by giving alternative methods and/or material options, you make the instructions very user- friendly. You seem to be equally comfortable at thinking in either analytical, or intuitive terms. Furthermore, your "quirky" sense of humor makes your videos even more enjoyable to watch. (My wife calls me " King of Corn", LOL ). Finally, thank you so much for showing and explaining how to do things on a realistic budget, so that everyone can benefit; not just the "rich guy" with the "decked out" "dream shop". So thanks again for everything you do, and keep up the good work!

You made me disable addblock because I wanted to support you in the only way I could. Thank you for the great videos!

Love it Rex! But man! I LOVE my Jessem Wood Sabre marking gauge! It is completely awesome and totally frivolous! Keep it up Brother.

Can’t get enough tools/implements and such. Love that you’re including metal work. Your sense of humor is awesome. The concept of doing stuff on the cheap. You really do a great job. I look forward to every video. Turning a Hungarian battle weapon? Who does that? Flipping awesome. Thanks very much.

Yes yes and yes on the wood work for humans work bench vise!!

@QlueDuPlessis

5 жыл бұрын

I second that! (Well, fourth that I guess)

@MillerMade

5 жыл бұрын

@@QlueDuPlessis im glad someone recognizes my three completely legit votes

Yay! I like the video quality of this camera much better! Keep up the great work.

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's a big step up.

A vice is a good idea for the bench. Also a video on making a cheap Screw Clamp would be interesting and useful. Thanks.

@davidkennel9512

5 жыл бұрын

What Cris said...

@garron6775

3 жыл бұрын

What Davis said that Cris said...

Even though I think you can use some kind of vice for that bench, there are lots of channels doing vices. Hand made tools are great. When we see pictures of old master woodworker shops, they had dozens of special purpose tools for projects they liked to do. Great videos!

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

I think I can make my vise special. We'll see...

Well done Rex

Shave horse would be a great addition. Loving this series, thank you Rex

@censusgary

5 жыл бұрын

Coaster's Bushcraft : I, too, would like to see a shaving horse build.

@killermurderer2208

4 жыл бұрын

Me three! I've never seen a shaved horse

Not sure if you will see this ever but I'm really enjoying your channel! Great information, clever ideas and i love that you make your tools. Thanks for sharing!

Great video! I would really like to see you do a video on drawknives. Different types, when to use them, sharpening, and especially technique. I like the way that you explain things. Thanks!

Thanks for the video Mr Krueger

@kdktwelve6142

5 жыл бұрын

build the vise!

Very cool & simple,Thanks

Yep. Gonna have to make one just on principle of it.

Love this Rex, keep it up!

The new camera looks great!

Seriously it is the first time for me watching , but this was a great video . Keep up the good work

Nice. I needed a marking gauge, and a quick search turned up this video. I made mine with a square beam, because of the materials I had on hand. Good afternoon project resulting in a tool I'll have for years to come. Kudos for a great video.

Nice design! Beauty in simplicity! Fully functional - I love how nothing is left behind in functions/functionality in approaching minimalism in the design, and still not without its sense of "high tech" features, such as in the whole lock pin mechanism - that's pretty-darned cool! :)

@VinlandAlchemist

4 жыл бұрын

Hey, Rex... any chance you might show how to make tools like a wooden tap and die set? Like, for making wooden nuts and bolts?

Thanks Rex! I'm Brazilian, I made my gauge today, the ideia of slice lock is amazing! In fact, I use your videos to improve my english too. Thanks for this.

Vise sounds good. Thanks, Rex

To be honest, there are a lot of videos on youtube about installing a conventional vice on a bench. I agree that the handscrew clamp solution isn't adequate, but I'd rather see a workholding solution more contemporary with the style of low bench. Maybe some peg stops to work with the planing stop. I really love the workholding from Ingenious Mechanicks so far

@lazerblade2

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

1. Dovetails on a viseless workbench 2. More furniture like the first videos

Some simple modifications to turn it into a shave horse. Make a scraper plane using the same blade as the one in you cheap Stanley plane.

I just made this as my first woodwork piece, first time no mistakes thank God (still need to install a pin). Thank you! So glad to get into Joinery and see such a helpful community of carpenters/joiners. Took me 5 hours but time much better spent than gaming on phone

Very Cool! I love stuff like this.

Very cool, bud! I think I'll make one even though I already have a couple. Definitely like the one hand lock on it!

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

I'm really glad you like it. I own a half dozen, but these are easier to use.

I made the marking guage, and it works great. Fun little project, and I immediately used the guage on a different and much larger project, and it worked great! Next I'm going to follow your video on making spokeshaves. I have some projects that I think spokeshaves would be perfect for.

@Rex Krueger - 05:55 The handscrew is fine, but improve the ability to secure it to the saw bench. Bore a couple through holes in the side of one jaw to the same diameter as the dog holes in your bench. Then you can pin the handscrew to the bench with a pair of dogs. You may still need the F clamp to hold it down, but it won't wander around and make work much easier.

+1 for the vice video. Really enjoying this series.

I made one like this several years ago from an Instructables. Your design is better, adding the flat face to the bar. I love the 'stone knives and bear skins' approach to this series. It gets us back to our roots.

I have just found your site and I love it! The way you seem to talk with the viewers and not at them. Also so far it looks as if you have started at the beginning ,with nothing, and showing how anyone can start woodworking with nothing. Basically showing how to make your tools by hand. Many of my go to tools or finds I found in a junkyard or even on the side of the road. I bring them home and well make them functional again , if not almost new. My whole point is this site is a lot of what I need to get started building with wood. I build anything I need around the house and to improve my abilities. You also remind me of who my wife and I call “Ole Blood and Guts” Roy Underhill with the Woodwright’s Shop on PBS. He made every tool in his shop by hand. Even human powered tools like drill presses and laths. We called him Ole Blood and Guts because he always tries to finish his project during the 30 minute time slot and ends up cutting himself. He started me out with trying to make things with wood. One the first things I remember was making the jigs for wooden screws. Your bench vice, he would have use a wooden screw he made with wooden nut blocks on the ends before buying a stored bought bench vice metal screw. Anyway I know no ones likes to read these long winded posts so I’m done! Love Your posts and keep them up. I got your joiners bench design plans and looking at the low Roman trying to decide between the two which one fits me best. Thx John PS: You don’t have to start bleeding to keep me watching!

Another excellent video, Rex! Yes, a vise video would be welcomed! Especially, if you show us how to build one rather than buy and attach one! 😉 As to future project ideas... I’d like to see as much as possible on making and/or refinishing tools. I’d like to see ways of making more joints with “fewer” tools. I’d like to see ways/sources to reclaim lumber and get lumber from logs. (I currently salvage a lot of boards from pallets and am working on logs from a maple tree that blew down in my yard.) Keep up the great work, Rex!

Vice would be nice! Love the series, its very good.

What a fun little project! And now I have a nice marking guage without spending $40. Thank you!!

Rex, your videos are AWESOME!! They are clear on where you are going to show, and how to do what needs to be done. I truly appreciate you no nonsense style, with that touch of personal experience for the viewer to understand why you do what you do and when you do it. Keep up the great work!

Bench vise. Hold fast? MOAR TOOLS!

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

I can do that!

@TomLeg

5 жыл бұрын

I built a somewhat similar sawhorse / bench, and drilled a couple of holes in it for a holdfast. Of course the holdfasts are $25 to $50 each ... unless you spend $125 for the fancy Veritas version

@javanbybee4822

4 жыл бұрын

@@TomLeg or you could forge your own from rebar

@TomLeg

4 жыл бұрын

@@javanbybee4822 How much is it gonna cost me to build a forge? and I don't think the property management people I rent from would approve :-)

@javanbybee4822

4 жыл бұрын

Tom Legrady well, for a super easy forge you can use a blow torch and 2 fire bricks. Then use a piece of steel for a anvil and a normal hammer to forge it.

I think you sold me on the wedge-lock design. I still like the screw lock design because banging on things can get tedious sometimes, but it's pretty clever. One of the first tools I made was a marking gauge, before I even knew a marking gauge was an actual tool that people used. I assumed everyone just used tape measures. I would like to see more tools made, especially with unique twists on the design.

Thank you for this series Rex, I do get a lot of inspiration from your videos. I can see how things work, and make my own stuff out of it. Great explanation, very entertaining, and you know how to keep the attention. I think it would be amazing to have lessons from you in person. And to go forth with the series.... Well, tools are great, but actually having a project to make( i mean something not for woodworking) would also be nice. I would prefer a mixture of both.

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

We're just about ready to make more projects. It's taking a while to get the basic tools together, but more projects for sure!

Awesome I had made one it's really cool

Cool marking gage. A vise on the bench would be cool and helpful

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

It's in the works. No easy to make one that's easy to build with limited tools and actually works. I'm in the development phase.

THANK YOU SOOO, MUCH ! AND I WAS LOOKING INTO BUYING ONE ! WELL !!! NOT ANYMORE ! I LIKED THE WAY YOU MADE THIS VIDEO ! VERY NICE AND SIMPLE !!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH ! I ALSO LIKE THE WAY YOU USE TOOLS LIKE IN THE OLD DAYS !! THANKS A LOT REX KRUEGER !!!

to help with making your own dowel stock you can use sandpaper and a battery drill if you have one. put the stock in the chuck of the drill and hold it with the sandpaper whilst you "lathe" away at the stock to get it perfectly round pretty fast. obviously be careful and don't hold too tightly. let the stock slide through your hand its great for fine adjustments.