Nick Engler tackles the glue myth behind dull planer knives

Workshop Companion's sharp rise in daily views comes alongside a new glue-cleanup lesson and renewed interest in an older adhesive-safety video.

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Why this story? The whole channel is running at 538,927 views a day, 7.4 times a normal day (73,041).

Glue doesn't have to become harder than steel to cause trouble for a cutting edge, Nick Engler explains. His latest Workshop Companion upload takes a familiar woodworking warning and separates the mistaken explanation from the useful precaution.

The channel is drawing roughly 540,000 views a day, more than seven times its usual pace. Published on October 15, "Can Planing Glue Damage Your Planer Knives" addresses the idea that glue keeps hardening until it can chip planer or jointer knives.

Not quite, Engler explains in the description. Cutting glue puts different stresses on an edge than cutting wood does. A fully cured bead or a substantial amount of squeezed-out glue can dull the knives, so cleaning away the excess belongs at the end of a glue-up, not on the list of jobs to leave for the machine.

An older glue lesson is also picking up speed. January's "Is Wood Glue Safe?" is drawing views at more than six times its usual daily pace. That video examines common workshop adhesives and whether they are suitable for food contact after curing, a practical question for anyone making cutting boards or wooden kitchenware.

Between them, Engler's lessons address what happens after the pieces stick together: what the adhesive means for the tools, and for the finished object.

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The numbers

Daily viewing across Workshop Companion has risen sharply. The older glue-safety upload is also seeing a distinct increase of its own.

views per day, whole channel

typical day

73,041

now

538,927

subscribers

1,120,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

227,135,909

views per day

538,927

typical day: 73,041

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

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As of October 18, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.