How to Cut a Rebate with Basic Hand Tools - Part 1

In this video, I'm going to show you how to cut the perfect Rebate (Rabbet) using basic hand tools (Saw Method). This is a quick, easy, and beginner-friendly process will have you sawing your own perfect rebates in no time.
Rebates are great alignment tools and joints to get perfectly aligned 90 degree corners on any project, and this tutorial will show you how to do it easily without any specialty hand tools. If you're looking for a quick and easy process that will give your projects those perfect corners, then this is the video for you!
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[@sandrawhite3618]

Very very helpful video, thank you! Excellent clear teaching, and I really appreciate you using both the dozuki and the gents saws to demonstrate.

[@AussieWoodshed]

Glad you liked the video. Thanks for the great comment

[@athmostafa2462]

I like your videos , thanks for sharing.

[@AussieWoodshed]

My pleasure, glad to hear you like the videos.

[@toyfiretrucking]

nice basic techniques. thanks

[@AussieWoodshed]

My pleasure 😊

[@TheSMEAC]

I’ve been enjoying much of your videos, but references are certainly different there in Oz than here in the US. I have grown up understanding that to be a fillister or darn near a half lap. Are all edge treatments like this called rabbets/rebates there?

[@AussieWoodshed]

It not just Australia, here in Australia a lot is picked up from both the US and the UK. Wikipedia state: 'A rabbet (American English) or rebate (British English) is a recess or groove cut into the edge of a piece of machinable material, usually wood.' Joseph Moxon mentions a Rabbets in 'The Art Of Joinery' "The rabbet is to cut [away] part of the upper edge of a board or other stuff straight; that is, square down into the board so that the edge of another board also cut down in the same manner may fit and join into the square of the first board cut this way. And when two boards are thus lapped on the edges over one another, this lapping over is called rabbeting." This Sounds like ship's lap boards to me and also means at some point rabbet was the name for this joint in England. I found a reference to the 12 - 15th Century 'The rabbet joint goes back at least as far as medieval Europe. Its name derives from the French word “rabat,” which refers to a recess in a wall.' This was adopted to woodworking. So it sounds like both Rebate and Rabbet were derived from this. However, the Oxford English Dictionary rabbet/rebate's etymology includes the Anglo-Norman rabate. (meaning rebate) When i was looking up Fillister online i found reference to a sash fillister, essentially a rebate used on a sash window for the window pane. Referred to a 'fillister joint.' The Half lap in my mind was where half the material was remove from 2 pieces of wood so they could be joined together. I found references to this 'The name “half lap” derives from a “full lap” joint, which is simply laying one piece of wood over another and pinning them together with screws or nails. A full lap joint is so rarely used in woodworking that “lap joint” is more likely to mean a half lap.' I am reading between the lines here and the lap joint could most likely refer to a ships lap joint (a rebate/rabbet removing half of both pieces of wood) So i think in different regions different names are used for the same thing. This depends on where the original source information came from in the rebate/rabbet from the french. Filister appears to be a term adopted from Filister planes and used to refer to a rebate/Rabbet on a sash window, some where along the line just starting getting referred to a fillister. My Final words on this is that the English language has so many words that mean the same things, and has many words that are usually derived from other languages. I suspect this is due to the many times England was invaded throughout history. Sorry for the essay, you got me thinking and i wanted to give you the best answer.

[@anthonyseiver7000]

...and no rabbet planes were harmed in the making of that rebate

[@AussieWoodshed]

Certainly not. This rebate is 100% rabbet free.

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[@sheilbwright7649]

I wasn't getting nice clean knife walls. I make the line and then move the square a smidge to the waste side and take one light pass with the marking knife. Drop the chisel into the second line and you 3nd up with a nice clean knife wall.

[@AussieWoodshed]

Great tip, hopefully this can help others out. Thanks for sharing