Mastering Your Bandsaw

“If you can’t finish, you can’t build. Knowing how you are going to finish your project before you start is one of the best finishing tips I can give you” - Charles Neil

This DVD explores five important skills that will help you refine your woodworking. Woodworkers often debate the best way to get a smooth surface directly from the hand plane on difficult to plane woods. David’s techniques are easy and effective. Other tips on edge jointing, finish planing an assembled frame and panel, crisp decorative bevels to finish edges, and the effective use of the shoulder plane are all well thought out and refined by years of experience.

This set of 9 videos, each approximately 60 minutes long, was created by B. Allan Mackie and is packed with information and designed for the serious builder. Narrated by B. Allan Mackie himself, they contain everything you need to know to construct your own state-of-the-art home with consideration of the ecology in mind.

Now you can acquire the satisfying skill of carving wood. In this tape you'll discover the basics of woodcarving, see how to carve an 18th-century scallop shell and gain an understanding of the production techniques of that era.

This video takes the beginner through the selection and use of basic woodturning tools as well as the tool movement required to make simple projects. This video is the best alternative to actually being able to take a class from Chris Stott.

Rob Cosman has been woodworking for most of his life. While earning a B.Sc. in Industrial Technology/Furniture Design at Brigham Young University, he was Dr. Dale L. Nishs teaching assistant. Rob has also worked with many of the worlds best craftsmen - including Alan Peters, Sam Maloof, Tage Frid, Monroe Robinson and Peter Korn. In the first of Rob Cosmans Master Craftsman Series, he teams up with renowned woodcarver, author and teacher Chris Pye to present a comprehensive DVD.

This dvd is 1 1/2 hours long and teaches the fundamentals of incising letters. Logically broken down to manageable steps Chris takes the viewer to success. Intended to teach the furniture maker how to carve it will also help the seasoned carver to learn some of Chris's techniques.

Bench-side instruction on hand-cutting hounds tooth, half-blind and mitred edge dovetails. Building on "Hand Cut Dovetails" Rob takes you through the more difficult variations of the joint one step at a time, each thoroughly explained as it is demonstrated. An additional camera was used in this DVD to provide even closer shots of what was happening at the "cutting edge". Rob introduces some custom tools he has found to make the job easier and faster.

This 85 minute DVD by master carver David Bennett reveals his secrets to successful relief carving. With step-by-step instructions, David leads you through an actual carving project, showing his techniques and the visual concepts that make them work.

This video explores David's hand planing techniques for precise, efficient preparation of furniture-size components. You will be astonished by the precision that is possible with a well-tuned, sharp hand plane. This second video explores David's techniques for hand planing.