Woodworking Hand Tools (1967)

Another 16mm film from my archive - this one very pink indeed - but also very much a time capsule of a time when any high school had a really nice wood shop. Here we get some good data about the basic hand tools, and some demonstrations. Don't just set that plane down!!! Just kidding. As always I transferred this film with my own Telecine and color corrected the everlovin bejezzus out of it. Enjoy!
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[@TucsonAnalogWorkshop]

Peter Thomas (1924-2016)...the hardest working voice narrator in history. I wonder if anyone has ever compiled a list of all the films and TV shows he narrated. I doubt if even he could have named all of them.

[@redace01]

I was half expecting him to start talking about a Murder by wedge, Forensics Files style. ;P Classic Narrator indeed!

[@scottthomas6202]

I didn't know that....I guess he's a voice everyone has heard, but didn't know who he was..

[@marmaly]

Immediately recognizable, but he's a bit low key here. Sounds like he's tired.

[@feywerfolevado6286]

Thank you for putting a name to the voice - so familiar! Quite an extensive (exhaustive) list of work, I imagine - what a legend :)

[@dhpbear2]

Brings to mind 'The Wrecking Crew' of the 60s and 70s. They played on MANY hits songs but few knew who they were!

[@MmntechCa]

Wish we had woodshop like this. My granddad was a carpenter, but he died before he could pass along that knowledge, and my dad lacks the patience for woodworking. When I took mandatory shop class in the late 90s, it was just making very simple things with power tools. I liked machine shop better. Still got the aluminum pen I made knocking about my hobby bench. Of course now I have a machine that squirts out plastic to make anything I can download off the internet.

[@derekchristenson5711]

Very cool! We didn't watch any films in our middle school shop classes, but I could easily see this one being shown. Really quite informative.

[@lv_woodturner3899]

As a woodworker, this is very interesting. Thanks for the video. I purchased my first saw set a couple of years ago so that I could sharpen and reset saw blades. The slotted screws were very common in the time this was filmed. I am not fond of slotted screws, but for some pieces they look correct. So many school wood and metal shops have disappeared over the years which is sad. Dave.

[@markgibbs904]

I’ve used them all … but learned new things. Reminded of my contempt for the flat head screw😂

[@seansabhaois]

Another great little movie, from a time, when most boys at school (and a few girls) would learn the basics of working with wood (and metal) The old golden rule of 'measure twice, cut once' to be ignored at your peril.

[@JuryDutySummons]

This was really well shot.

[@McTroyd]

And I now learn I've been using an auger bit wrong my whole life! 😅 Thanks Fran!

[@shedactivist]

Nice, one of my favourite subjects

[@tomschmidt381]

Another blast from the past. I wonder if high school's still offer shop courses? Learn by doing is a great way to learn.

[@terryolsson4145]

Wow, that was another goodie Fran.....thanks again.

[@marcberm]

Sad that so many of these films have so little color left. To look at the originals, you'd think they were red monochrome, so getting them to the point you do is an achievement.

[@thesquarerootofnegativei6225]

Yeah, really. I was thinking she hadn't adjusted this one for some reason. Then I saw the bit at the end without correction. She really did not have a lot to work with.

[@mrroobarb]

That was so pleasing to watch - thank you Fran x

[@scottbracken1284]

Thank you Fran! I just love seeing these films. They were the funnest part of school for me. The wood working films are my favorite.

[@kyleolson8977]

I wasn't sure what to expect at the beginning, but it's a reasonable High-School level look at "Hand Tool Woodworking." Hand Tool Woodworking has a specific meaning in Woodworking. At the extreme, it's the "Vinyl" of woodworking. Certain Woodworkers will claim if you practice you can do nearly everything faster with hand tools than a machine (which is absurd). On the other hand, some woodworkers will claim to enjoy the quiet nature in comparison to very loud mechanical cutting tools (which is not absurd). Most projects including, fine furniture can be done with little to no hand tools, but even cabinet makers entirely focused on efficiency will have need for hand tools occasionally. On the other wise, woodworkers who insist on working entirely in hand tools are likely to use hardwood milled by machine (even if they are crazy and cut their own trees and wait a year to work), and it's common to perform some the in-shop milling operations by machine since these take the most time. "In two-thousand years the plane has changed very little" Realistically, around the beginning of the 20th century Stanley set a design for the hand plane which changed extremely little. Modern fancy hand planes like Lie-Nielsen are mechanically nearly exactly the same as the Stanley shown in video. "The shavings of the jack plane are longer, and easier to make" Woodworkers obsess over showing off their long, extremely thin plane shaving when they are working properly. I hate seeing that auger bit on wood. Don't do that unless you need a really deep hole. Also, kid, never put your fingers in front of where you are chiselling. I would think the film is sponsored by Deft at the end. What's notably missing for the Hand Tool woodworker is the router, and the video isn't going to try to talk about the tools used for Hand Tool work here since they're diverse and not always so much fun.

[@fishpotpete]

Deft! To bad you can't find their stains anymore. Most of my house and furniture wood projects used Deft stain until about 10 years ago. I ended up getting a case from them directly before they disapeared. I'm guessing it caused brain damage or something... but aside from that, I thought it was the best wiping stain on the market.

[@rileyk99]

All hail the wedge!

[@gabest4]

We made a periscope out of wood in school. Everybody had to buy their own two mirrors.

[@therealjammit]

Director at 2:55 "Ok everybody. Act like you're really busy"

[@bobtherat99]

I love these films. Thank you for posting them

[@KeritechElectronics]

Educating and inspiring!

[@mgdurandolo]

From the days when your local high school could afford to let the kids hack away on solid mahogany....

[@hotpuppy1]

Very few shop classes any more. I wish I could have taken them in school 45 years ago, but my school didn't have them. Kids these days don't want to learn manual trades. They all want to play professional sports or be video game designers.

[@dhpbear2]

16:47 - Shot on 'rubylith' :)

[@WDCallahan]

You know the difference between a carpenter and a woodworker? A quarter inch.

[@robchurchill1368]

Nice! Do you use Davinci Resolve for color correction Fran?

[@FranLab]

Vegas tools - not the best, but convenient.

[@kyleolson8977]

@@FranLab It's best to move on from Vegas; the software was not well maintained during several stretches and is far behind now. I used Vegas in the mid 2000's, but when I tried to return to it years later it was clear that was a mistake. There's one feature I miss from Vegas when using Premiere Pro, but otherwise I'm happy. Resolve is a solid option if you don't want to spend anything. It does have a couple of quirks because it exists to push Blackmagicdesign Products, but mostly those things won't bother anyone except people who would be in the market for fancy Blackmagicdesign production tools. It's way beyond what you would get from any budget NLE.

[@leandromountain6829]

Muito bom. Eu gostei

[@VeganAtheistWeirdo]

Loved this! But it made me want to go work in a fully equipped wood shop, and no such thing exists here. 15:40 Was anyone else trying to tell him to catch that drip?

[@Benoit-Pierre]

👍🏻

[@terryolsson4145]

Hello again Fran.....

[@TheJdeft1]

The most commonly used tool these the days is the Voice Wedge... Used to divide people into political factions. The skilled user can divide countries and create chaos and political change.

[@angrydove4067]

It never occurred to me to make a box that way, wood and I don't get along very well. I don't bother wood and it doesn't bother me.

[@FranLab]

The matching lid thing is Table Saw 101 stuff....

[@hazelhazelton1346]

Wood becomes very agreeable if you gently stroke it for a bit. ;)

[@Scyth3934]

Any updates on the Tom Petty situation?

[@alexmarshall4331]

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