I really like the idea here. I have bought a few plans that were downright tough to work with. I'm too cheap to buy the expensive plans though. Maybe you kind of get what you pay for? I have to say though, since you are such a talented wood worker you could pretty easily figure out most of it. I would really be curious how this would go for someone with either no experience or someone like me with less than a years worth of experience. Still enjoyed the video. Keep them coming.
This is a fantastic question, and I'm really going to try to avoid writing an essay in a RUclips comment. Someone with zero experience in woodworking would struggle on all of these plans. It would probably be better to take a class or two first. In the end, plans are an attempt to transfer ideas from one person to another. The more shared experience those two people have, the easier that transfer will be. At one year experience, I think the best plan out of all of these would be the Scott Walsh plan. The idea was creative, but the tools and techniques needed to build it were not complex. Add that the plan was highly detailed, and you have a recipe for success. The Katz-Moses plan had a similar level of detail, but I had a bit of a discussion about how complex a build it was in my original cut of the video that I had to take out for time. If you haven't done a good bit of routing and building from templates, that one would be really tricky. The other two were cabinets, and I have built a zillion cabinets, so I was able to work around problems and lack of detail in the plans without too much trouble, where at an earlier experience level I may have had a lot more frustration. I think it is like anything else. Pick your projects (and thus your plans) based on your assessment of your skill and maybe just push yourself a small bit at a time.
Great idea for a video .. very unique! Keep up the great work.
I really like the idea here. I have bought a few plans that were downright tough to work with. I'm too cheap to buy the expensive plans though. Maybe you kind of get what you pay for? I have to say though, since you are such a talented wood worker you could pretty easily figure out most of it. I would really be curious how this would go for someone with either no experience or someone like me with less than a years worth of experience. Still enjoyed the video. Keep them coming.
This is a fantastic question, and I'm really going to try to avoid writing an essay in a RUclips comment.
Someone with zero experience in woodworking would struggle on all of these plans. It would probably be better to take a class or two first. In the end, plans are an attempt to transfer ideas from one person to another. The more shared experience those two people have, the easier that transfer will be.
At one year experience, I think the best plan out of all of these would be the Scott Walsh plan. The idea was creative, but the tools and techniques needed to build it were not complex. Add that the plan was highly detailed, and you have a recipe for success.
The Katz-Moses plan had a similar level of detail, but I had a bit of a discussion about how complex a build it was in my original cut of the video that I had to take out for time. If you haven't done a good bit of routing and building from templates, that one would be really tricky.
The other two were cabinets, and I have built a zillion cabinets, so I was able to work around problems and lack of detail in the plans without too much trouble, where at an earlier experience level I may have had a lot more frustration.
I think it is like anything else. Pick your projects (and thus your plans) based on your assessment of your skill and maybe just push yourself a small bit at a time.
For the record, I had more corny woodworking jokes to share, but this video went a bit long and I had to cut back fairly aggressively.
Let 'em rip. I thought the joke was funny.
I made a similar one with WoodPrix instructions!
I made similar with WoodPrix instructions :)