Creating a perfect mitered joint with a shooting board

Lie-Nielsen Toolworks, Inc, which designs, manufactures and sells a wide variety of woodworking hand planes and tools, held 2 days of interactive demonstrations in the Building Construction Technology's area during January 2009. This demonstration, presented by the Homestead Heritage School of Woodworking, shows how to make a perfect mitered edge for a picture frame by using hand tools and no nails.

[@dragomirdichev1196]

This is Frank Strazza, a legendary woodworker and teacher. Thank you Frank

[@fixitmyself]

The skill that man had with hand tools is incredible.

[@thirteenfingers]

Brilliant. Lovely to see such a well executed and simple work process. I've got to say though, as much as I like this video, the mess on that bench was actually starting to frustrate me in the same was I get frustrated when working in a mess. It's a TIP! Haha. Proof that you can do good work even in a bombsite, but I'd still be desperate to tidy things up if I was there. Haha. Thanks for sharing the video.

[@muaddubby]

Very very nice. Loved the idea.

[@DiHandley]

Now THAT'S woodworking!!!

[@VeryTucker]

A true craftsman.

[@MrRichot]

poetry in motion......cheers

[@RobShuttleworth]

Thanks, good video. Nice tools and methods.

[@ronin4711]

Great work, we have at least one thing in common, the mess on the bench...

[@truebluekit]

Simply amazing. Frank (you can see his name on his shirt at 4:18) has mad skills. Thanks for sharing.

[@dragomirdichev1196]

This is Frank Strazza, a legendary woodworker.

[@sumbook]

thanks for the video.. .. very interesting and informative..

[@inasfardesi7695]

good jobs with perfect tools...

[@Offshoreorganbuilder]

Thanks.

[@tomintheshop]

So is it wise to cut the splines off while the glue is still wet... Doesn't that gum up the saw? I was just wondering if it's better to wait until it dries. Appreciate your input

[@dawg1157]

@samvangils i believe he said a "micro block plane"....most block planes have a low blade angle perfect for planing end grain.

[@labrat7357]

$10.00 Zona razor saw, best value ever. Messy bench, but there must be a system to it somewhere, as he produces some nice mitres.

[@dawg1157]

@samvangils just curious......did you use a larger plane like the gentleman did in the video...or did you use a smaller block plane? which one turned out better?

[@MrMeanderthal]

@specialks1953 if the shooting board fence is a true 45 then the joint will be a perfect 90.. no need to check it.

[@edwardjohnson8982]

what is the name of that tool where you place the wood in and saw the wood at an angle

[@mikebetts2046]

+Edward Johnson It was a miter box. A rather small one, but there are larger versions and some that even have a built in saw.

[@micheloderso]

Nicht wirklich 90°, oder?

[@TobyGarcia]

Not sure whether you are referring to the angle of the piece or the angle of the two cuts he made for the splines. The over-all piece should be 90° because his shooting board angle was 45°. The spline kerfs were tapered slightly, as he said at 6:34, "so it kind of forms a dovetail". Probably about 7° each.

[@James_Haskin]

@oOBNOo Woodcraft :D

[@mvanveen4689]

The first thing I learned as painter was to clean up my working space. ALWAYS. I think this goes also for carpenters. No good beginning of your video.

[@nastythomashobbs]

Love the one joint circus. People forget if you plane a 45 that is a 16th less than than the bottom 45 and you have a messy 4 joint disaster. its about 4 joints not 1 . A snake oil salesmen.

[@Offshoreorganbuilder]

+nastythomashobbs If you, or anyone else, thinks this is an unlikely thing to do, you should see the videos put out by Paul Sellers. He makes many projects, in real time with no cut-aways, and using only hand-tools, proving that hand-tool work can be as close to perfect as you would want and the eye can detect. Machines have their place, of course, particularly where volume production in required, but it is entirely wrong to think that it is impossible to work accurately with hand tools. What is needed is knowledge and skill - like anything else. So no, as someone who works mainly with hand-tools, I don't agree with the 'snake-oil' comment.

[@AbouTheMagnanimus]

Yeah, where is the eye roll emoticon? One joint circus? Right, I'm sure this guy has no idea what he is doing: www.strazzafurniture.com/

[@carefulcarpenter]

"A tool is an extension of the hand; the work is an extension of the soul" ~~cc