Guy sure works fast. Mildly entertaining. ;>)

[Tony (Charleston WV)]

 

That tote looks painful-ergonomically and aesthetically, but to each his own, I reckon.

[Bruce Haugen]

That was fun, but he should take a class from Ron Brese on how to make a tote.

[barryvabeach]

I am pretty embarrassed,  he got his done in under 20 minutes, I have been working a few months on mine so far, and still not done.

[Acorn]

This is both a tool building exercise and an exercise video.

[AHill]

All that work and in the end, he's taking mega-thick shavings.  Hmm.  I was pretty impressed that the dovetails for the sides and bottom were all hand cut.

[TomFromStLouis]

It looked like he chiseled out some of the dovetail waste. What kind of chisel would do that?

[EricU]

I saw him chisel out the waste on the brass.  Didn't seem to be a cold chisel.  Brass might give way to a wood chisel, not sure. Brass tends to crack when deformed.

[Bruce Haugen]

Don't feel bad, Barry. I got my smoother kit about 20 years ago and just finished it last month. It took a big shot of encouragement from Bob at St James Bay to get me to finish it.

[AHill]

It looked like he chiseled out some of the dovetail waste. What kind of chisel would do that?

Most steel wood chisels can work on brass.  You can turn brass on a lathe using HSS turning tools.  I thought I also saw him chiseling out the steel sole as well.  Perhaps the sole was not yet quenched and hardened.

[EricU]

I don't think most people harden the steel for plane soles.  But it wouldn't work for something that is going to have peened dovetails.  I was curious what Kingshott had to say about chisels.  He only shows a cold chisel.  I think I bandsawed kerfs into my dovetails to remove most of the waste and took the rest out with files and hacksaw.