I've had three of them. Perhaps 4 (plane and chisel sharpening, a chisel method DVD and there was a summary video with five topics on it with a wonderful segment about sharpening scrapers). The sharpening video for planes was where I learned to sharpen planes, though I moved away from that method pretty quickly once I started working entirely by hand (it's a bit slow and limiting, but those aren't issues when you're starting and you just need sharp so that you can get moving). The scraper method was lovely, but I no longer use scrapers of that type (a slower method of achieving the same thing as a common plane with a cap iron).
At any rate, limiting meaning, how will you sharpen your pocket knives? Your gouges? moving fillister planes that are askew?
If you are never going to do any of those things, then sure, no problem. But watching George Wilson work in the colonial williamsburg videos....it doesn't look the same.
I have much more regard for David than Chris, though. It's just an opinion, a feel of who is credible and who is not. There are a lot of holes, though - what if you like to saw everything by hand? Why do most of the videos push beginners toward modern tools so much instead of having perhaps a separate video about the function of tools in general and preparation of them to a level of functionality less so than perfection.
Why is it that when I make a statement (as I did last year) on here that you can plane a flat surface and keep it flat without taking stop shavings that all of the gurus work into dogma and state that you cannot? I haven't read about this in Nicholson (I don't have the nicholson text), but one of the older texts states that you need to be able to plane a board along its length and finish it. What is implied with that? The plane guru in the united states (larry williams) has everyone believing that there is some set of strange moves that you do with a small plane and that smoothing is sort of like picking dandelions. What happens when you have about 30 square feet of surface to smooth and you adopt that instead of just achieving the finish as a matter of lumber preparation itself?
At any rate, limiting meaning, how will you sharpen your pocket knives? Your gouges? moving fillister planes that are askew?
If you are never going to do any of those things, then sure, no problem. But watching George Wilson work in the colonial williamsburg videos....it doesn't look the same.
I have much more regard for David than Chris, though. It's just an opinion, a feel of who is credible and who is not. There are a lot of holes, though - what if you like to saw everything by hand? Why do most of the videos push beginners toward modern tools so much instead of having perhaps a separate video about the function of tools in general and preparation of them to a level of functionality less so than perfection.
Why is it that when I make a statement (as I did last year) on here that you can plane a flat surface and keep it flat without taking stop shavings that all of the gurus work into dogma and state that you cannot? I haven't read about this in Nicholson (I don't have the nicholson text), but one of the older texts states that you need to be able to plane a board along its length and finish it. What is implied with that? The plane guru in the united states (larry williams) has everyone believing that there is some set of strange moves that you do with a small plane and that smoothing is sort of like picking dandelions. What happens when you have about 30 square feet of surface to smooth and you adopt that instead of just achieving the finish as a matter of lumber preparation itself?