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Make beautiful moldings with basic hand tools.

Rex Krueger

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No trim, no problem. Make your own decorative moldings with common hand tools.
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20 Comments

@winkworkshop 6 years ago

Anyone who watches the intro and skips to the end product is going to be really impressed that you nibbled those moldings with your teeth. Awesome techniques!

@Argosh 6 years ago

It should be noted that these trimmings are what any apprentice would have started with in order to get the feeling for the tools.

@aaroncook5681 6 years ago

This whole woodworking for humans series has become the curriculum me and my sons are doing together this summer to learn something useful and make some cool things along the way. Rex, you are an absolute legend, thank you!

@robertberger8642 1 month ago

Years later, and hundreds of other woodworking videos watched, and I still think this is a great video.

@thomasjohnston7348 6 years ago

If you take the same approach to home schooling a child that you take with these videos, I'm certain that is a lucky child. You're a great teacher. You're a Youtuber struggling with teaching a child at home. I'm a high school teacher now struggling with how to make videos! Keep up the good work.

@nicoisler 6 years ago

at the beginning, did you say If you go down this rabbet hole? XD

@Furlucis115 6 years ago

"But, if we throw in our simple, homemade grooving plane, we can kick things up another notch."
Was that a pun? that felt like a pun.

@abdelghanisiradj3026 6 months ago

شكرا لوجودك يا كريس ❤، أنت تلهم الكثير من شعوب العالم ،هذه هي الثقافة الغربية اللتي لا بأس أن نستوردها ،باارك الله فيك فقد عرفتنا على حيل نسيناها مند جائت الكهرباء للعالم

@NonFerricIrony 6 years ago

Really appreciated the way you demonstrated the role of foot placement and your whole body planing technique. That's important and not demonstrated elsewhere enough. I learned more new things. Thanks Rex.

@johnshumake3696 6 years ago

A while back you were discussing chisels and seemed to like the Irwin Marples chisels. I had a set of them already on order and just got around to using them. Honed them and made my very first mortice and tenon joints. Just had to replace that cheap "case" they came in. Making red oak doors with glass panels. Those chisels went thru that red oak like it was balsa wood! All I can say is WOW! Nothing more satisfying as the sound of a sharp chisel slicing thru wood. I need to get over to you patreon site and sign on, got to give support for the chisel report!

@andyvan5692 4 months ago

one tip, you can also get a combination plane, and just use a fluting or beading cutter, and combine the two (for an O-gee), or do reeding (two, three or four beads in a row); also the reeds are good if you make music or recipie stands (to hold the paper in the groove between beads). rabbeting and grooving blades are available also, to neaten up the edges,etc. so many options. One can't say how difficult the 45/55 stanleys are to setup, but.. the Veritas has good diagrams showing end-on, so you see how to setup each part, and for each operation it lists steps, one part configured at a time. this is also quite quick, by the time you setup a router table, test cut, and go, the 4-8 passes of this plane are done, job done!!

@marcmengel1 6 years ago

Don't forget 1) the stack-em approach... stack simple moldings to get a fancy one; 2) make a quarter round, stick sandpaper to it, and sand out a rabbet into a cove, and 3) file scratch-stocks in metal to make other shapes.

@dickusbigus2079 5 years ago

This channel makes me regret not doing woodwork in school cuz it seems so fun

@stevegreig8324 11 months ago

I have just made moldings on the narrow (15mm) strips of wood that hold the glass into a window frame. It never occurred to me to make the molding on a wider plank and then rip a 15mm strip with the molding on the table saw as the final step. Thank you for this obvious (but not enough for me!) tip. It was very difficult securing the thin strips while I cut the moldings. Much easier on a wide board!

@artemise1tara3938 6 years ago

The way you narrate your videos always gives me a clear idea of how to do what you are doing myself. Thank you.

@NonFerricIrony 6 years ago

The last ten seconds of this will go on the sizzle reel of your next video series: YouTubing for humans. 🤣

@Andrew333K 6 years ago

God god man, this just blew my mind! I know what I’m doing this weekend. I’ve always wondered how all this beautiful trim would have been done pre router! I’ll be damned. I’m not a professional or classically trainer wood worker so this series has been great for people like me. I have 23 years experience in metal fabrication and I’m a tinkering woodworker just starting to take it seriously. So I have a lot of questions and this series has been a lot of good basic answers. Keep up the great work!

@pianoboogie51 4 years ago

Hey Rex, you should do a video on some antique moulding plane and sharpening them.

@Valentinian-FineArtist 5 years ago

You are right about many more varieties on these basic shapes. Go next level by cutting yourself some Contour Sanding Blocks, and connect your moulding strips together using that lovely grooving plane and tongue and groove joinery. Thank you again for this mind blowing demo, as a fellow patient in the moulding plane wing of the asylum.

@Vefa5858 1 year ago

Thank you really realllyyyy a lot Rex. I have been looking around for a way to build classic mouldings as I really like classical furniture and wanna build some myself as they can be really expensive here where I live (imagine 2000-3000$ for a stained pine bookcase... hilarious).

I don´t have much money available to buy new tools and the only thing I could think of was a router and some mouldings/architectural bits but that would cost me a total of 300-400$.

But this way I could simply buy a Stanley chisel kit for 40-50$ and build a bunch of those planes. Thank you a lot mate.