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11 August 2015 at 3:58 am #129251
There is a Chinese Paul S. I don’t know how to link to you tube so look for
Zefeng Zhang …007 making a square stool..
English. SubtitlesFrankj
11 August 2015 at 6:43 am #129253Notice how he marks his square face and how and what he says about marking out the parts, he talks for two minutes and five words come up on the subtitle ?
I do notice he talks a lot, with little to say. I wonder if, in Chinese, he is explaining in depth what he is doing and whoever is translating is just paraphrasing. I also noticed he does like his smoke breaks! lol. I like watching him build tools. I find it very cool that he spends so little time making his tools, yet is able to do so much with them. It really makes me wonder about the value in high priced “boutique” tools that are on the market.
When he made the bow saw, he didn’t set ever third tooth. I’ve been meaning to ask why he sets the saw that way, but just haven’t. I’m guessing that is a “skip-tooth” pattern?
14 August 2015 at 1:43 am #129362He’s not easy to listen to is he, the way he talks it’s as if he’s giving you a bollocking the whole time. Best viewed with the sound turned way down low
The multiple-setting marking gauge is ingenious and so simple, it’s firmly on the wish list now.
Favourite quote, “Some say inside mortise is harder, I say it’s easier because you can’t see the inside”.
Matt
19 August 2015 at 2:48 am #129472I understand some of what he says and my oldest son Trung speakers it well. He says he is explaining things in depth and a lot of home spun wisdom. The marking gage is home made, I recall seeing them but never saw them for sale at a tool vendor. I had made notes on it but they are long lost. Play with it make your own. In Asia few tools are bought, a lot is home made as was the custom here for many years. He is a card.
19 August 2015 at 3:01 am #129473Dan a skip tooth is just that no tooth, the three tooth set is not common today but it was normal years ago, one left one right one centered it’s just a setting option it was to clear the cut, that is what I was told ?
25 September 2016 at 11:35 pm #140853Old subject, but I am glad I found it! This guy is a bit like Paul Sellers on speed ;). He seems rough and loud, but well, he is Chinese, not British! He gets precisely to the point, both in explanation and craftsmanship. In this regard, he is level with Paul Sellers.
I watched the mortise and tenon joint (first videos in the playlist) and I liked how he uses bench, saw horses and his own body while sawing. Asian people don’t need ergonomics, it is embedded in their culture.
I will watch some of his tool making videos, could be quite interesting too. I love making tools, it is so rewarding!
Dieter
PS: Large saws still have these additional teeth to clean out the fibres from the cutting line, and they work in both directions, pull and push. They are not set and a bit shorter than the cutting teeth. But I suppose, the third unset tooth on the Chinese saws is cutting even deeper than the other ones, because it is not angled, and I wonder if the other teeth are set a bit more than we would set them. Well, guesswork here, I don’t know…
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