I really enjoy the detail, there are so many little things that happen, the variance in tapping the chisel, the way you work the different angles. When there are multiple options for a job I like to consider:in order safety - how certain we can be of the result - the amount of effort - how much time it takes - and last but not least cost...bottom line opt for the safest method. At the same time - what's the point of having an extension collet for your router but to use it??
You couldn’t watch an accountant having the same level of satisfaction at work, you just couldn’t. This is how I know I’m in the right line of work. Thank you Robin, I really love this series
I too am a Carpenter and Joiner self employed ,watching your videos reminds me of the connectivity and sense of belonging among my fellow Chippies , Also I am forester and so I have that sense among the wood trades society from planting of whips and standards to felling and machining and final use ,it is a real pleasure to be among "my own" and to watch and listen to people like Robin selflessly imparting the methods tricks of the trade , something I have done decades with individuals ,as for appearing on "youtube" I would be afraid that my stunning good looks would detract from the subject matter , but maybe theres and idea ,a series of films on the subject of the Wood and its various journeys ,the cultivation of and final uses , but beware that journey truly is the story of the the Lords of the wood Rings., thanks again Robin , wood brings out the best in men.
Hi Robin, what an absolute pleasure it is to watch you work. This is something I would love to have done in my younger days. Wood is a wonderful medium with which to work. It’s my first time watching your videos but already I’ve learnt some many things from the planning to its conception. Lots more of your videos to watch yet. Keep them coming
Knowing that people will be looking at that beam and thinking about the craftsmanship involved in maybe 100,200 or even 300 years must give you a fantastic sense of satisfaction, Robin. Nice job.
Hi Robin. Watching this transported me back to my childhood and watching my late father create wonders from blocks of wood. I know, exactly, that zone you refer to and saw dad get into it time and time again when doing intricate work. While modern tools can carve humanly impossible shapes, the quirks left the craftsman show the human behind the work. Great build and a great video series, showing its not all humping 4x2s and square cutting frames.
Ah craftsmanship, something that can be watched for hours. I learn something new each time I watch this build. I am a weekend hack only made reasonable learning from these videos.
Ok robin all your shows they have been great. It is wonderful to watch a proper Carpenter with proper wood your skills are outstanding. Going to be gutted when this projects over
Great Job Robin, i learned a bit off carpentry in holland but here its all about the time, it all needs to be done fast. Just seeing you built this frame with such a passion and so relaxed, you are an inspiration and a true craftsman.
Great video. This is exactly the kind of detail needed in such videos. It is so refreshing. In addition to tradespeople, a lot of DIYers / people, looking for ideas to renovate, watch such videos What seems obvious to tradespeople is not so, for DIYers around the world Thank you 👍👍👏👏
It's worth saying to be very careful when sharpening steel tools on top of oak. If any of the lapping fluid with steel dust gets on to the oak it will react with the tannins in the oak and stain it black where it touches. For the same reason, wipe your tools carefully after sharpening before you touch the wood with them. Ask me how I know.....
Hi Robin. Sean here from S.M.Carpentry. Another very well executed showcase of your skills! Any bespoke task will take time to complete and you explain the process perfectly. Another master class for any up and coming quality chippies. Keep up the good work your videos are a realistic insight into how to achieve the highest standards of a difficult trade to master. Very impressed!
Neat and precise as usual. Never had the big router or the table saw but always carried a couple of chainsaws. Freehand the design on a piece of scrap. Use that as my pattern. Cut out with chainsaw and clean up with belt sander. All our tenons cut the same.It was all we had. One of the guys I work with in Oz carves with a chainsaw. A big hardwood beam in one place we were working on he did all the cuts with a chainsaw and carved a large Platypus onto it as well. Looked great. I thought I was reasonable with a chainsaw until I moved to Rural Qld. The skill a lot have around where I live is phenomenal. There are a lot of houses where they cut the wood on the property and half built it with a chainsaw. And some of the carving is awesome. You are the more refined English gentleman style. Technically proficient and beautifully executed.
Really says something about how much i love my job, when i can come home from a hard days graft, and then watch someone craft something like this for 20 minutes. Lovely to watch with good music soundtrack too. Great stuff
One of my first foreigners as we call em up here I drive past every few months... The same antique light fitting still there 33 years later.. We do things that stand test of time and out live us.. We leave our mark. Lovely work mate
I really appreciate the craftsmanship. Can you tell me about the beam? It looks like it's made from several smaller pieces but the growth rings seem to span them seamlessly. Am I seeing things? Thanks for all your hard work!
Its a solid beam, when I was working through it its very wet inside and as the cut end is exposed then it dries the same giving the effect of lamination!! quite cool
Have made the same detail myself when rebuilding Victorian era porch brackets (110 x 90 mm timber), though instead of a router I drew out the shape and then stitch-drilled from both sides, then cleaned up with a power sander. Worked a treat. Interesting to see this approach though.
Have you ever watched the documentary on rebuilding Notre Damme Cathedral , amazing the lengths they have gone to in restoring it, well worth a watch, brilliant craftsmanship in the original building, and put back together the same way .
the team is coming up with great ideas for the lead intro ... and logo. The voice over is a great part of the vid and also you explaining on site is important. Like what you got going on Robin. Cheers!
Hello Robin, Brilliant work. I love your accuracy and precision. Keep it up. Very few handful people are out there who has ability to do perfect accurate job. The new generation are looking for easy and short cut here and there and everywhere. Old carpenters had a lot of experience and knowledge. Today's generation with all the tools available and still do rubbish job. Thank you Robin, to show us the perfect way to the job with best carpentery skills and experience. God bless you Robin. I want to meet you one day..... Best wishes, Ahmed Leicester ENGLAND
I have to disagree I've worked with many young people who have great passion for the job well trained well educated alot of the time people don't want to pay tradesmen rates but choose the cheapest option 🔨
Watching you chiselling away at that big piece of oak then picking up the piece and smelling it has put a big smile on my face That is exactly what I do 😁 Love doing work like that.
Superb piece of art! I built a whole extension with steel beams by myself by watching your videos. I can't thank you enough Robin! Unfortunately there is a shortage of builders in North of Yorkshire which led me to quit my job to sort my wife's house. I'm planning to build an enclosed oak frame porch, but not sure how to do the wind braces without acquiring the big boys power tools, any tips?
Lovely job. That nice sharp chisel polished that wood back nicely, and yes it smells great doesn't it, I love oak. I think learning to do the job with hand tools only first, is the way to go, then use power tools. Hand tools give you a feel and understanding for the material in a way power tools never can.
Robin, i have to say, I thoroughly enjoyed this video from start to finish! The craftsmanship displayed here is truly excellent. Definitely a project to be proud of. Thank you for sharing!!!
One thing to mention is how you conveyed the elapsed time. I think the illusion about how quickly things are completed (and how error-free they are) is one of the problems with RUclips.
i think i'm going to go and rewatch that chisel sharpening video you did a while back robin, doing that final clean up is just so relaxing to watch plus you've changed the intro
Had a stressful day hanging pre-finshed matt black doors in someone else's linings, and this video is the perfect way for me to de-stress🤗 Cheers Robin. (I literally don't think I've used a profile box since 1987😵).
Robin, I have a tape measure that has a flip out piece with a sharp point and hole near the end of the tape for your pencil. I don’t use it often but it’s very handy and quick for any random radius. I Appreciate your interesting videos. 👍
My cheap old routers (Freud ) will plunge 3” that’s why I chose them ! With a long cutter I can get a fair old depth. Nicely done, I like the box rather than a sheet template.
I was using a router locked out at full plunge to mortice a green oak beam. I was astride the beam. Going well. Then it hit something harder. It jumped up out of the mortice and pivoted out of my hand grip. It fell back down onto the beam and the bit dug into the beam and propelled the router along the beam towards me and my wedding tackle. Then in the manner of a cartoon the power cord reached the end of its travel and pulled the plug out of the socket killing the power and saving my manhood. I then spent two days running around trying to find a joinery shop thta could do the job for me. Unfortunately all were too busy. So I returned to the mortices. This time I only performed plunge cuts and cleaned up with a chisel. Watch out using a router with the cutter extended and locked out. Holding a half inch router and moving it when running is very difficult becuase of gyroscopic effect. If you have to do it, then wait for the router to stop before pivoting to put it down.
Couldn't agree more, power tools frighten the life out of me but I am 76 years old. It probably would have been quicker by hand but I suppose that creating a machine finish on green oak is necessary for customers who are paying a fortune for the job nowadays, I wonder how they feel when shakes appear.
it's always great to see how people go about jobs, i feel i always learn something that will come in handy in the future. Do you not use a leather strop for the chisels though? 400, 1000 then a leather strop gets the chisels incredibly sharp
Great to see proper craftsmen at work,there's something so satisfying working with wood I think it's the smell of the cut wood that adds to it hugely,I love music on when I'm making or building something,lately I've been listening to Neil Young live at the Carnegie Hall 1970,what was the music in the background on this video Robin,?
I really enjoy the detail, there are so many little things that happen, the variance in tapping the chisel, the way you work the different angles. When there are multiple options for a job I like to consider:in order safety - how certain we can be of the result - the amount of effort - how much time it takes - and last but not least cost...bottom line opt for the safest method. At the same time - what's the point of having an extension collet for your router but to use it??
Good morning Robin Clevite
You couldn’t watch an accountant having the same level of satisfaction at work, you just couldn’t. This is how I know I’m in the right line of work. Thank you Robin, I really love this series
I too am a Carpenter and Joiner self employed ,watching your videos reminds me of the connectivity and sense of belonging among my fellow Chippies , Also I am forester and so I have that sense among the wood trades society from planting of whips and standards to felling and machining and final use ,it is a real pleasure to be among "my own" and to watch and listen to people like Robin selflessly imparting the methods tricks of the trade , something I have done decades with individuals ,as for appearing on "youtube" I would be afraid that my stunning good looks would detract from the subject matter , but maybe theres and idea ,a series of films on the subject of the Wood and its various journeys ,the cultivation of and final uses , but beware that journey truly is the story of the the Lords of the wood Rings., thanks again Robin , wood brings out the best in men.
Lovely comment Paul, happy to do something with you!! lets make a video about our amazing sustainable and beautiful raw material that is wood!!
Hi Robin, what an absolute pleasure it is to watch you work. This is something I would love to have done in my younger days. Wood is a wonderful medium with which to work. It’s my first time watching your videos but already I’ve learnt some many things from the planning to its conception. Lots more of your videos to watch yet. Keep them coming
Hi, thank you for your message!! I will keep the videos coming!!
Fantastic to watch your channel your skills are amazing
Thank you so much 😊
More Robin is better Robin. I never get enough of you, Good Sir.
loving the detail
Thanks Karl!
Pure craftsman, great to see someone who takes a real pride in their work and does things right.
Lots of lads do we just charge more than the average person is willing to pay 🔨
Beautiful - lovely to see how such things are done.
It was great watching your fantastic program, so relaxing
Knowing that people will be looking at that beam and thinking about the craftsmanship involved in maybe 100,200 or even 300 years must give you a fantastic sense of satisfaction, Robin. Nice job.
thats spot on robin. brilliant seeing this on youtube to help keep the craft alive
lovely looking job Robin, many thanks
Thank you! Cheers!
Fantastic Robin you are an artist and a craftsman.
It is a great privilege to watch you work, you are a True Master Craftsman
Hi Robin.
Watching this transported me back to my childhood and watching my late father create wonders from blocks of wood.
I know, exactly, that zone you refer to and saw dad get into it time and time again when doing intricate work.
While modern tools can carve humanly impossible shapes, the quirks left the craftsman show the human behind the work.
Great build and a great video series, showing its not all humping 4x2s and square cutting frames.
Ah craftsmanship, something that can be watched for hours. I learn something new each time I watch this build. I am a weekend hack only made reasonable learning from these videos.
Ok robin all your shows they have been great. It is wonderful to watch a proper Carpenter with proper wood your skills are outstanding. Going to be gutted when this projects over
Thanks David, plenty more projects to come after The Big Build!!
@@ukconstruction nice one robin thats good news cant wait
Great Job Robin, i learned a bit off carpentry in holland but here its all about the time, it all needs to be done fast. Just seeing you built this frame with such a passion and so relaxed, you are an inspiration and a true craftsman.
Thanks Jeroen!!!
In true Clevett style again. Thanks Robin
Great to see the passion you have for your craft. The little touches make all the difference.
This has to be the most Calming video you have done, I shall play it back in my mind as I go to sleep. A true craftsman at work
Oh and lovely change of pace for this video. Love these in depth ‘how to’ jobbies 👍🏻
Great video. This is exactly the kind of detail needed in such videos. It is so refreshing. In addition to tradespeople, a lot of DIYers / people, looking for ideas to renovate, watch such videos
What seems obvious to tradespeople is not so, for DIYers around the world
Thank you 👍👍👏👏
It's worth saying to be very careful when sharpening steel tools on top of oak. If any of the lapping fluid with steel dust gets on to the oak it will react with the tannins in the oak and stain it black where it touches. For the same reason, wipe your tools carefully after sharpening before you touch the wood with them. Ask me how I know.....
Hi Robin. Sean here from S.M.Carpentry. Another very well executed showcase of your skills! Any bespoke task will take time to complete and you explain the process perfectly. Another master class for any up and coming quality chippies. Keep up the good work your videos are a realistic insight into how to achieve the highest standards of a difficult trade to master. Very impressed!
Hi Sean, It was great talking to you on the show recently!! Lets keep in touch would like to meet up next time on my way to Wales!!
Neat and precise as usual. Never had the big router or the table saw but always carried a couple of chainsaws. Freehand the design on a piece of scrap. Use that as my pattern. Cut out with chainsaw and clean up with belt sander. All our tenons cut the same.It was all we had. One of the guys I work with in Oz carves with a chainsaw. A big hardwood beam in one place we were working on he did all the cuts with a chainsaw and carved a large Platypus onto it as well. Looked great. I thought I was reasonable with a chainsaw until I moved to Rural Qld. The skill a lot have around where I live is phenomenal. There are a lot of houses where they cut the wood on the property and half built it with a chainsaw. And some of the carving is awesome. You are the more refined English gentleman style. Technically proficient and beautifully executed.
Really says something about how much i love my job, when i can come home from a hard days graft, and then watch someone craft something like this for 20 minutes. Lovely to watch with good music soundtrack too. Great stuff
Was literally thinking the exact same haha.
Good too see how you set up your template
Woodworking taken to high art, indeed. And a nice piece of green oak. Thanks, Robin.
Nice work
Perfect, what a relaxing skill to watch, fantastic job Robin.
How do you not have nearer a million subscribers???? 🤔
A meticulous craftsman there Robin. Lovely to see. Well done....All the best
Highly satisfying to watch. Well done. Thank you.
Bloody lovely job there
Nice work Robin.
What a terrific video....quite soporific in the best sense
Absolutely pleasing to see.
Amazing video Robin, great to watch a true craftsman at work.
Looks awesome!
What a lovely video watching the master mixing old and new to show how it's done, thank you.
Love the attention to detail, perfection as always Rob, fantastic job. 👍
As they say, it’s all in the detail. Thanks for taking the time to both produce.
The proof is in the pudding
Still beating the programmes on BBC 1 for enjoyment!
Lovely job! My wood work teacher would have strung you up for leaving a hand plane on its blade 🤯
Hey thanks for the long video length. I really like this detailed format hope others do as well.
One of my first foreigners as we call em up here I drive past every few months... The same antique light fitting still there 33 years later.. We do things that stand test of time and out live us.. We leave our mark.
Lovely work mate
I really appreciate the craftsmanship. Can you tell me about the beam? It looks like it's made from several smaller pieces but the growth rings seem to span them seamlessly. Am I seeing things? Thanks for all your hard work!
Its a solid beam, when I was working through it its very wet inside and as the cut end is exposed then it dries the same giving the effect of lamination!! quite cool
Literally just finished ep22 and boom next one. Brilliant work robin, love watching how you work
Fantastic demonstration of your skills Robin. It is a real pleasure watching a craftsman at work.
Your an Amazing craftsman robin and the apprentice you have is a very lucky person to have you as his mentor.
Have made the same detail myself when rebuilding Victorian era porch brackets (110 x 90 mm timber), though instead of a router I drew out the shape and then stitch-drilled from both sides, then cleaned up with a power sander. Worked a treat. Interesting to see this approach though.
beautiful work love the video's
Nice to work on a piece of timber of such self-weight, it needs no clamping!
That was bordering on ASMR, Robin.!
Have you ever watched the documentary on rebuilding Notre Damme Cathedral , amazing the lengths they have gone to in restoring it, well worth a watch, brilliant craftsmanship in the original building, and put back together the same way .
Have you got a link please pal 🔨
@@tomsmith9048 hi mate sorry I haven’t, maybe try google see if you can find it from there
@@tomsmith9048 hi mate , I just googled it and came up with BBC documentary Rebuilding Notre Dame Cathedral
@@ph110760 thanks very much pal I appreciate it I'll have a look myself 🔨
Spot on with both the content and length of video for me Robin. Very relaxing to watch and see a craftsman at work. Thanks for sharing your skill👍
Nice change to the format, tunes fitted lovely, great work, proper jarrb…
Thanks for all the detail terrific work mate.
Great skill, beautiful finish
Love the fact you never charge into anything gung ho. Superb
the team is coming up with great ideas for the lead intro ... and logo. The voice over is a great part of the vid and also you explaining on site is important. Like what you got going on Robin. Cheers!
Thanks Thor!! I appreciate your encouragement!!
Christmas day and watching this while peeling Spud's for the dinner. Thanks.
Nice.
Total quality work as ever, a dream to watch
Hello Robin,
Brilliant work.
I love your accuracy and precision.
Keep it up.
Very few handful people are out there who has ability to do perfect accurate job.
The new generation are looking for easy and short cut here and there and everywhere. Old carpenters had a lot of experience and knowledge.
Today's generation with all the tools available and still do rubbish job.
Thank you Robin, to show us the perfect way to the job with best carpentery skills and experience. God bless you Robin. I want to meet you one day.....
Best wishes,
Ahmed Leicester ENGLAND
Thanks Ahmed, I appreciate your comments mate, 🙏
I have to disagree I've worked with many young people who have great passion for the job well trained well educated alot of the time people don't want to pay tradesmen rates but choose the cheapest option 🔨
Watching you chiselling away at that big piece of oak then picking up the piece and smelling it has put a big smile on my face
That is exactly what I do 😁
Love doing work like that.
Put a smile on my face too. I just bought some cedar gates and they smell fantastic.
Superb piece of art! I built a whole extension with steel beams by myself by watching your videos. I can't thank you enough Robin!
Unfortunately there is a shortage of builders in North of Yorkshire which led me to quit my job to sort my wife's house. I'm planning to build an enclosed oak frame porch, but not sure how to do the wind braces without acquiring the big boys power tools, any tips?
more more more detail detail detail! LOVE IT!
Beautifully done.
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Lovely job. That nice sharp chisel polished that wood back nicely, and yes it smells great doesn't it, I love oak. I think learning to do the job with hand tools only first, is the way to go, then use power tools. Hand tools give you a feel and understanding for the material in a way power tools never can.
Well, that was lovely.
Robin, i have to say, I thoroughly enjoyed this video from start to finish! The craftsmanship displayed here is truly excellent. Definitely a project to be proud of. Thank you for sharing!!!
One thing to mention is how you conveyed the elapsed time. I think the illusion about how quickly things are completed (and how error-free they are) is one of the problems with RUclips.
Excellent
i think i'm going to go and rewatch that chisel sharpening video you did a while back robin, doing that final clean up is just so relaxing to watch
plus you've changed the intro
That was lovely to watch. Nice one Robin !!
Had a stressful day hanging pre-finshed matt black doors in someone else's linings, and this video is the perfect way for me to de-stress🤗 Cheers Robin. (I literally don't think I've used a profile box since 1987😵).
Black Ash prefinished doors I've just done some to Feel your pain
@@markmills7640 I normally love hanging doors Mark, but prefinished doors, especially black ones are just itching to get marked😬 Well done mate
Lots of patience required (for this) thanks for sharing Robin. Regards.
Beautiful work Robin 👍
Robin, I have a tape measure that has a flip out piece with a sharp point and hole near the end of the tape for your pencil. I don’t use it often but it’s very handy and quick for any random radius. I Appreciate your interesting videos. 👍
Nice tool that!!
Sensational content thank you
Hello
Very interesting to watch like this type of video,
Nice work 👍👍
Lovely work Robin.👍 really like the ovolo moulding plain but impressive in its simplicity.
I can see the passion in the way you do things robbin truly the Fred dibnah of all timber really enjoyed this one 👌
Wow what a comparison r.i.p the legendry Fred Dibnah!!
@@ukconstruction you have the same passion robin you can see it in the way you use the tools keep up the amazing work it's very inspiring 👏
Fred Dibnah was originally a joiner to trade. Not a lot of people know that.
@@daihedral9269 he sure was what a guy
Robin, you are one hell of craftsman - love the videos. So fascinating 👍
Lovely job!
Truly beautiful work Robin 😍
Lovely job. 💪
Can smell that oak from hear and got black fingers thinking about it haha lovely job as you say Robin perfect mate.
My cheap old routers (Freud ) will plunge 3” that’s why I chose them ! With a long cutter I can get a fair old depth. Nicely done, I like the box rather than a sheet template.
A true craftsman. Would have been nice to have a bit more of the close-up at the end after all that hard work!
I was using a router locked out at full plunge to mortice a green oak beam. I was astride the beam. Going well. Then it hit something harder. It jumped up out of the mortice and pivoted out of my hand grip. It fell back down onto the beam and the bit dug into the beam and propelled the router along the beam towards me and my wedding tackle. Then in the manner of a cartoon the power cord reached the end of its travel and pulled the plug out of the socket killing the power and saving my manhood. I then spent two days running around trying to find a joinery shop thta could do the job for me. Unfortunately all were too busy. So I returned to the mortices. This time I only performed plunge cuts and cleaned up with a chisel. Watch out using a router with the cutter extended and locked out. Holding a half inch router and moving it when running is very difficult becuase of gyroscopic effect. If you have to do it, then wait for the router to stop before pivoting to put it down.
Before I use certain power tools, I say to it in my mind “your my worst enemy” it’s a mental reminder to be very careful.
Couldn't agree more, power tools frighten the life out of me but I am 76 years old. It probably would have been quicker by hand but I suppose that creating a machine finish on green oak is necessary for customers who are paying a fortune for the job nowadays, I wonder how they feel when shakes appear.
enjoying to view after a day with the jackhammer taking out the concrete floor to expose the piping for the plumber.
it's always great to see how people go about jobs, i feel i always learn something that will come in handy in the future.
Do you not use a leather strop for the chisels though? 400, 1000 then a leather strop gets the chisels incredibly sharp
My very thought. Old barbershop trick.
Great to see proper craftsmen at work,there's something so satisfying working with wood I think it's the smell of the cut wood that adds to it hugely,I love music on when I'm making or building something,lately I've been listening to Neil Young live at the Carnegie Hall 1970,what was the music in the background on this video Robin,?
Oh yes !! Awesome 👌you the man Robin, you the man !! When we doing an evening with Robin Q&A at D/halls theatre or a stand at a show 🤔 love it 😀
Maybe the queen's Head!!
Perfect I'm easy, I had the idea when you very first announced the the roofing square 😇🤯🤗
Great work, a portable band saw would work a treat if you can afford one $$$
I'm sure he can 😉🔨
love it robin.. stick with him ed cos thaz gunna learn shed loads..