Woodcraft Ninjas

Michael’s jointer plane is the tool of choice for finishing off the milling of this perfect board.

Michael planes the facets of the octagon using—you guessed it—the jointer plane.

In order to create a perfect octagon, the last edge of the board is sawn and planed to be perfectly square to the face, and the other edges—a difficult task.

Michael demonstrates how to lay out a perfect octagon using only a compass and straightedge.

Bringing it all together are the beveled facets, which will only meet up as they should if everything up to now has been done perfectly.