how to thickness plane veneer by hand with the 'Masking tape trick'

[@ian-c.01]

Gonna send this clip to my Dad, he's an old time carpenter of 80 yrs old and I know he'll absolutely love it !

[@ScorpWriter]

Very clever and useful trick, Ben! Thanks a lot!

[@user-du2of3lh1g]

Sooooooo glad you did this video nice trick!!!!! I've always used a clamp and it was annoying!!

[@sirclerox]

amazing how excited you sound in this one... what a booster, I'm going to practice it even though I don't need a veneer right now!! thanks

[@magusbernie8161]

Jolly good show. Instead of an accelerator, you can try to use baking soda instead. The baking soda/superglue combo is actually used on damaged aircraft rotors to fill in any chips. I use it for everything and it is an instant bond. Thank you for the tip.

[@gervasegallant]

This technique is great! Needed to thickness some violin sides from 4 mm to about 1.5 and this was just what I needed. No more clamping the workpiece. When finished, tape let go with no issue. Only downside is that you can't easily use calipers without letting everything go... but nonetheless... thanks for this tip!

[@MakeSomething]

This is a SUPER AMAZING trick! Love it!

[@5000loto]

I thickness plane my back plates, sides and sound boards for acoustic guitars. When I tried this with double sided tape (which is thinner), I ended up with measurable thin spots where the tape was. C'est la vie

[@youtubecommentor4480]

I don’t understand. When you spray the CA/super-glue with accelerator it should cure/set the glue instantly. How are you able to flip it upside down (after spraying the accelerator) and it still has time to dry? Obviously it worked great but my experience with accelerators is once you spray the glue with it it sets instantly. Thank you! Fantastic tip!

[@MarkLindsayCNC]

You know, Mr. Crowe, with just a little bit of work on your grin, you could quite easily be taken for an evil genius when you get excited about something. I suggest a slight upturn at the left corner of your mouth. Too bad you don't have a handlebar mustache to twist, but you can't have everything. Thank you for posting this! It's one tip I'm certainly going to use - and quite often, I think.

[@221Dw]

I'm definitely going to give this a try for soundboards. I am a little skeptical of it's holding power but will still try it for myself. If it works awesome.

[@andrewludlam5686]

Ben. OFF the scale AWESOME. ! Thank you.....and whom so ever showed you....and whom so ever...showed them...ad infinitum.

[@matrixmodulator]

Which is better, a Stanley #4 jack plane or a smaller block plane like the Stanley # 60 1/2 variable opening to plane down a 5mm thick highly figured wood down to 3mm thick?

[@soffronitsky]

You literally saved my life. Thank you.

[@LeonardoSilva-gr5fx]

I make this to sand my fretboards flat and giving proper radius. I don't have high quality planes, but sanding work great in most cases. oh, and also, I use double sided tape instead of CA Glue, it seems it hold well to paper instead to bare wood, that's how I hold all my templates as well.

[@glahome1]

Hello Mr. Crowe, In this video, what is the actual plane, make and mosel, that you are using? Thank you Sir for taking your valuable time to answer my question. Best Regards......G.

[@VaracolacidVesci]

One amazing trick. Thank you

[@jatna77]

Could you do a video talking about how, why and when to use carbon fiber rods in a neck? Thanks!

[@ianthomson9363]

When will we see the masking tape & superglue neck joint?

[@rainbowsate]

How many millimeters of veneer thickness?

[@sryth1]

Aren't you effectively making double sided masking tape here? Is this different than just using the store bought stuff?

[@Dave51262]

Great idea! Thank you for demonstrating this.

[@ezrocks4u]

This trick is AWESOME. A guy I know is going to be supplying me with veneers and blanks soon, so this is perfect! Where can I buy a wood planet like that? I do not own one, and frankly, I need it desperately.

[@NicholasRichardson]

Could I use a levelling beam to do this? Just cut some fairly wonky quite thick veneer, need to level it...

[@GregsGarage]

Def worth an addendum like this. Great trick!

[@simonderycke7545]

I needed this. Thanks.

[@CliffMacdonald]

Hi Ben great vids btw, Could this method (trick) be used to stick a floating bridge down on a Gretsch Electromatic ... thus avoiding having to drill holes for dowels etc or permanently damaging the finish underneath? any ideas pls ... P.S. the reason for asking is because my friends bridge keeps moving when he bends the D & G strings upwards) ... cheers Ben and keep up the great work

[@thomaslau9631]

I have no idea what is it for by doing this?

[@walterrider1612]

thank you again Ben great idea you are rocking it

[@paulie3221]

Omg dude! You have a lucrative future in voice over!

[@Darrenmccarthymusica]

Nice trick, very nice indeed!

[@SoundsToBlowYourMind]

Great tip, but doesn't the thickness of the two layers of masking tape, plus the glue, (I'd estimate something like 0.3mm in total) mean you will have a high spot above the tape which will mean after planing it, the area where the masking tape was will be 0.3mm thinner ?

[@halbritt]

SoundsToBlowYourMind after trying this, That’s exactly what I discovered.

[@hhguitars]

Good one. Thanks!

What's the accelerator?

[@Requius76]

I'm having trouble getting on your website from Australia, again :(

[@markwebb8376]

good on you sir

[@elijahsarian6601]

Will this work with a block plane?

[@CrimsonCustomGuitars]

Yes. Absolutely. B

[@KainzMusic]

Some of the best tricks are the simplest ones.

[@Furiora]

The seventh circle houses the violent. Its entry is guarded by the Minotaur and it is divided into three rings: Outer ring: This ring houses the violent against people and property. Sinners are immersed in Phlegethon, a river of boiling blood and fire, to a level commensurate with their sins: Dionysius I of Syracuse, Guy de Montfort, Obizzo d'Este, Ezzelino III da Romano, Rinier da Corneto, and Rinier Pazzo are also seen in the Phlegethon as well as references to Attila the Hun. The Centaurs, commanded by Chiron and Pholus, patrol the ring, shooting arrows into any sinners who emerge higher out of the river than each is allowed. The centaur Nessus guides the poets along Phlegethon and across a ford in the widest, shallowest stretch of the river (Canto XII). This passage may have been influenced by the early medieval Visio Karoli Grossi. Middle ring: In this ring are suicides and profligates. The suicides - the violent against self - are transformed into gnarled thorny bushes and trees and then fed upon by Harpies. Dante breaks a twig off one of the bushes and from the broken, bleeding branch hears the tale of Pietro della Vigne, who committed suicide after falling out of favour with Emperor Frederick II (his presence here, rather than in the ninth circle, indicates that Dante believes that the accusations made against him were false). Also here are Lano da Siena and Jacopo da Sant' Andrea. The trees are a metaphor for the state of mind in which suicide is committed. Dante learns that these suicides, unique among the dead, will not be corporally resurrected after the final judgement since they gave away their bodies through suicide; instead they will maintain their bushy form, with their own corpses hanging from the thorny limbs. The other residents of this ring are the profligates, who destroyed their lives by destroying the means by which life is sustained - i.e., money and property. They are perpetually chased and mauled by ferocious dogs. The destruction wrought upon the wood by the profligates' flight and punishment as they crash through the undergrowth causes further suffering to the suicides, who cannot move out of the way (Canto XIII). Inner ring: Here are the violent against God (blasphemers) and the violent against nature (sodomites and, as explained in the sixth circle, usurers). All reside in a desert of flaming sand with fiery flakes raining from the sky, a fate similar to Sodom and Gomorrah. The blasphemers lie on the sand, the usurers sit, and the sodomites wander about in groups. Dante sees the classical warrior Capaneus there, who for blasphemy against Zeus was struck down with a thunderbolt during the Siege of Thebes. Dante converses with two Florentine sodomites from different groups. One of them is Dante's mentor, Brunetto Latini; Dante is very surprised and touched by this encounter and shows Brunetto great respect for what he has taught him ("you taught me how man makes himself eternal; / and while I live, my gratitude for that / must always be apparent in my words"), thus refuting suggestions that Dante only placed his enemies in Hell. The other sodomite is Iacopo Rusticucci, a politician, who blames his wife for his fate. Those punished here for usury include the Florentines Catello di Rosso Gianfigliazzi, Guido Guerra, Ciappo Ubriachi, and Giovanni di Buiamonte and the Paduan Reginaldo degli Scrovegni (who predicts that his fellow Paduan Vitaliano di Iacopo Vitaliani will join him here). They are identified not primarily by name but by heraldic devices emblazoned on the purses around their necks, purses which "their eyes seemed to feast upon" (Cantos XIV through XVII). I'll be sure to give the double sided tape my regards as it passes through my domain in the 5th circle.

[@nicklloyd-jones]

So, a bit like Magaluf then.

[@pablodektown]

Good sir, what plane is used??? so good!

[@CrimsonCustomGuitars]

Pretty much any properly sharp plane with a nice tight mouth would do perfectly, I use my block plane as much as my number 5 for this sort of work.

[@ElAvatarDelLuthier]

Really helpful! Cheers!

[@hoen00]

awesome

[@mikebaliardo]

Magic!

[@Jamieip]

GENIUS

[@treeorwh2]

Yes! Yes! Thank you! My sanity is saved :)

[@CrimsonCustomGuitars]

My pleasure, this one trick has made a difference to the world in reduced stress and wasted time! B

[@MichaelBakowski]

LIFE SAVER

[@NicksRecordCollection]

Here ya go m8 neat trick thanks for sharing 7th Circle: The violent; the 7th Circle has 3 inner Circles The Outermost Circle: Those who are violent against property and inanimate objects The Middle Circle: Suicides The Innermost Circle: Those who are violent against God, nature, and/or art

[@AlfOfAllTrades]

I would imagine that putting a couple of sheets of ordinary printing paper, between the strips of masking tape would take away the tendency for the work piece to bend in the middle thereby making it even easier to get a perfectly flat piece of wood.

[@Bobo_Tapia]

Or more tape...

[@georgerobartes5989]

I have no idea why I'm getting stuff a year old . Accelerator? Cyanoacrylate glue was used for surgical purposes in Vietnam and you probably noticed its sticks readily to your skin . Super glues 'activator ' is moisture. Just breathe on the parts you want to bond before applying the glue and joining parts . A barely moisture cloth will do the same job . The 7th pit of hell is for superglue accelerator .

[@kookyflukes9749]

This came up in my recommendations and I thought I was watching the comedian bill bailey for at least 10 secs. Great tip though.

[@CIRCLEOFTONE]

You addendumn'd the shit out of that veneer. Great video.

[@gaknisguitars]

2 downsides. 1. Can't separate the piece easily and may break. You skipped this part btw which is the most important. 2. The piece gets thinner above the tape.

[@qigong1001]

Why don't we like double-sided tape ?

[@palfrayguitars2916]

f+@*ing brilliant ('scuse the French)....

[@frankstoutstens688]

Woodprix has a lot of plans to choose from.

[@diederichabels8119]

I recommend Woodglut to every beginner and not only.

[@evgenpatotskiy177]

I can make it myself. Just got instructions from woodprix website and I'm ready for do it :D

[@tomekapompey563]

You can use WoodPriX instructions to build it yourself guys.

[@HolisticHealthEducation]

Why don’t you use your Japanese Kanna for planing? Then you can have it butter smooth and shiny? The 7th hell is where you go for the mother of all parties. Champagne, caviar, fillet mignonette and all things decadent. Additionally, everyone is entitled to their own opinion and is expected to be respectful of everyone else.

[@markgordon4368]

The level of hell refers to violence, so murders and suicide (the Christians believed that it was self murder) as we are illegadly made in the image of God, so someone who kills others or themselves had a special place 😢🤔, me, I've joined the flying spaghetti monster 👾 religion, 😂🤣😂🤣😂