DVD's

Hand Tools
by Frank Klausz

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.

Making Mortise-and-Tenon Joint
by Frank Klausz

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

Bench Planes
with Ernie Conover

When you purchase a new or much-used bench plane, it would be nice to have a woodworking professional right in your workshop to explain how to best use it. What’s the most efficient way to sharpen and hone the blade? Are there adjustments to make for top performance? What are the correct techniques for using any bench plane? This 55-minute DVD brings Ernie Conover right into your shop to explain everything.

Dovetail Techniques
with Stephen Hammer

Fine Woodworking Video Workshop Series #11

In this DVD, veteran furniture maker Stephen Hammer demonstrates five techniques for crafting strong, beautiful dovetail joints. Aimed at intermediate to advanced woodworkers, the video demonstrates everything from basic through-dovetails to elaborate head-scratchers like curved half-blind dovetails. You'll learn the process of laying out, cutting, and assembly, as well as how to combine hand tools and power tools to reap the benefits of both.

• Easier through-dovetails
• Half-blind dovetails in half the time
• Decorative through-dovetails
• Curved through-dovetails
• Curved half-blind dovetails

(Approximately 36 minutes)

Bench Planes
by Jim Kingshott

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.

Special Planes
by Jim Kingshott

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.

Sharpening Simplified
by Everett Ellenwood

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.