His vids are too long. After "welcome to my shaaarp" and 5 minutes of not getting to the point I lose interest, so I've never really found out what he's on about, except he's obviously another extreme fusspot!
Cosman is a bit hard to pigeonhole,
On one hand it's straight off the saw for his DT's, no pairing walls kinda thing,
Good marketing if you're selling saws, and honest precise work
So were on a good level there regarding skill
Then there's the planing, with a cap iron which is only half working
as there's money to be made selling uber expensive stones which likely give a better edge than most folks methods, which is what one might expect with the price of them.
So not going to get an equally skilled show on that front.
I tried to find you someone to demonstrate trad style which I could say looked even half speedy or even traditional
in a rough to ready, I thought Klausz's old Taunton productions video was on youtube but is elsewhere.
You may have seen it 20 years ago on VHS or whatever.
Evidently Frank was unaware of the use of the cap iron, and had no qualms at the time
saying something along the lines of my imagined phrase in Hungarian accent ...
that's the best you're going to get with this vood, now we scrape...
Good that we have some honesty here, I can find the above clip and screenshot
Fact is, someone who uses the cap iron will plane differently,
and can plane in rows once flat, regardless of grain.
So both David's opinions aren't far off the mark in my view.
I like the surety of using the bench as reference, which might sound a bit strange to some, although there might not be videos of that per se, (although Charlesworth and Cosman hinted at the use of it as such)
the natural progression of that is to take from this what one can get, as the bench says so, compared to using skill.
Horses for courses for me, as I intend to be doing more difficult planing tasks
down the road like thicknessing instrument timbers
so I don't think I'll ever change my ways, as there's no way to plane thin stuff like that
honestly without having flat surfaces, should I decide buy timber which wasn't surfaced on the underside beforehand.
That's not even mentioning removing the super tough finish off timbers, like on a recent thread
I would think that might make an extremely noticeable difference compared to
doing things "traditionally"
as I have the same cynical view about those old books, as the older folks have about youtubers today.
The difference is we can put our money where our mouth is today.
Not saying the old methods wern't valid, but perhaps it's all bias
in favour of the work, take Follansbee's knocking off the inside corners to denote
face side or whatever reason he does this,
That coulda been the done thing, and then the same principals carried over into the new era of spindle moulders, never mind the far face/edge kinda thing.
Horses for courses IMO, and yer all wrong except Charlesworth
as he's the only one I've ever seen who doesn't have bad habits.
Still though kudos to D_W for taking Warren Mickley's advice when everyone thought he was just a troll having a laugh.
That David wasn't afraid to try, and thankfully was thick skinned enough to
relay this information on the forums without tiring,
whilst putting his money where his mouth is at the same time.
Tom
