Beaches, oysters, penguins and this channel moving forward
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
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I'm a simple guy: watching you working, doing your magic, makes me happy.
The best kinda subscriber, a simple one 😂 Appreciate it Andy!
i like the repeat fixes to because theyres always subtle differences or different problems that could arise.
Definitely much more to cover in regards to subjects already discussed so luckily I still have a while to go before I run into this problem. Just thinking forward before that moment sneaks up on me!
Love Mangawhai. I used to spend a lot of time throwing sticks into the estuary for my dog. Back in the late 2000’s we had a little off the grid shack at the Longview subdivision on kakapo place. Was a bare paddock then. Sold it in 2015 as the paddock was then littered with houses. Lost its appeal for us but still an awesome place to have a hideaway surf shack off the beaten track. Walk to Frog and kiwi and the tavern for concerts. This vid brought back memories. Love your channel. Don’t think I’d ever get bored of ding repairs. Those oysters look epic! Yeow
It's a great place but boy howdy, has it changed even in the short 10 years I've been here. Much for the better and some not so much! Kakapo ain't what it used to be like much of town!
I do come across an interesting repair often but I agree with you on the repetitiveness. Glad to see you are going to expand your content.
You do live in an amazing part of the world that many people would like to see. Maybe show us around a bit?? Introduce us to some interesting locals?
Always something notable coming through the shop!!
Yea, that will expand into the ''secret idea'', seeing a bit ore of the world here and meeting some randoms along the way!
Terrific to see some "out of shed" scenery. I'm very envious that you can eat the local shellfish. Around the Huon, it's a nono, all the time.
Sorry to say there's another cold snap coming across the Tasman.
This video was a great production with lots of innovation
All the best with the channel creativity for the future.
O really?! I thought the Huon would be a prime place for collecting kai moana as they say here? Is it a forestry and farming issue with shellfish?
Cheers, hopefully more outdoor footage to come!
@smallkinedings yeah, it's pollution from farms and run-off from septic systems after rain . The Derwent and estuary has been poisonous from the Zinc Works in Hobart for years.
We would have to travel a long way South to get to fresh shellfish or decent sized crays.
I'll just have to settle for farmed Salmon at $34 a kilo, or Marinara mix for $15 a kilo from the local supermarket 🤔
@@dnomyarnostaw Gutted! It's certainly catching up with us here too. Had to send some samples of this oyster bed off to MPI at the end of last year as there was a mass die off after a really big storm we had. Luckily they've come back now but we'll see how they are looking in another 5 years
I do actually enjoy repeats for fixes. They are all different and always learning bits and pieces and new tricks to save time and improve end result.
You made a video about the foams, it would be good something about the resins as well, laminated, finishing, waxed, marine, epoxies, curing times, temperatures in summer and winter, hardeners...
Just got a new laminating poly that gels in 15 minutes and sanding it is horrible. Maybe next time I can get the right one with your tips.
Great channel, it shows your passion about your craft. Thanks a lot for sharing with all of us, my kids got boards because of me learning how to repair them properly with your tips. 🎉
Will definitely keep pumping them out, you're right, they are all different even if they're the same (boxes for instance) and there is plenty that I haven't put in older videos just in the interest of time!
I do have a video called ''poly resin for beginners'' I think it's called. I have a similar titled one for Epoxy too but some of those older videos I want to redo merely because the sound and video quality wasn't as good back then.
BUT, I can solve your resin problem right meow! 😸
So, there are two types of poly resin.
1. Sanding resin. 2. Laminating resin.
Both are the same, the only different ingredient is waxed styrene or wax additive.
As long as there is air touching poly resin, it will remain sticky, even after curing. This makes it terrible for sanding BUT it means you can add more cloth or resin onto it even after it's cured because of that stickiness.
If you want to sand it after pouring though, then you need to use a sanding resin. This can be bought pre mixed or you can just buy yourself some waxed styrene and add it to your laminating resin at 2%.
The wax in the styrene floats to the surface of your resin once applied and creates a barrier between your resin and the air. This will make it easily sand-able.
Laminating resin for laminating or coats that you want to add more resin layers on top of after curing.
Sanding resin for final coats or fills that require sanding after curing.
I will definitely do a video on this for you in the coming weeks!
Heres that video link on poly - ruclips.net/video/4DgXLSqaZBk/видео.htmlsi=5JRQkrxtaL4y7ylL
Well I get your point, eventually things get repeated because the works are similar.
However this is some ideas I might have, I dont know if they all apply to your channel:
- Pro tips on mixing resins
- Pro tips on new chemichals that we may use
- Pro tips on cleaning material (shape rooms, brushes and so on), and maybe strategies which minimize cleaning?
- Pro tips on equipment - masks filters, machines - maybe you can even get partnerships there
Then:
- Full lenght videos on board restoration
- Full lenght videos on shaping surfboards
- Video on shaping /surfboard theory - why have such rails, why have such concaves, why have sunch rocker
- Video on coloring - resin tints, spray, squeege, strategies and methods
That are some ideias out of the top of my mind.
As for the livestream, I live on the middle of the atlantic so that wont work for me :D
Appreciate that very much and will look into these ideas for sure! Some winners there for sure, some on my list, others weren't until now!
Where do you live in the Atlantic? I've never really wanted to target NZ with my channel as teaching my customer base how to fix boards... Not ideal 😂 Most of my subscribers are in the states and I'm a night owl so the times might suit you, you never know!
@@smallkinedings I live in a Portuguese archipelago named Azores, its a group of nine islands, 1500 km from mainland !
And there arent many people doing surfboard repairs around here. I am probably one of three 😁 Your videos have helped me immensely! So much gratittude! My objective is more on shaping surfboards, but there is always ding work in the corner
@@rodrigomacedo4283 o wow, just looked it up. What a spot to live, looks unreal! I grew up on a small island too (kangaroo island) though not quite as far off the mainland as you!
Definitely adding Azores to my bucket list!
@@smallkinedings nice to hear! Kangaroo island sounds very typical for that side of the world ahah. Do add, its cool out here! All the best!
thanks sir for the encyclopaedic knowledge sharing, if i were to suggest random content it would be some sort of index page that links back to youtube content(s) for particular topics e.g. foam mixing or rail ding or somesuch, i guess thats like putting tags in- but it might be the road map to take some of the weight away from having to respond to each and every comment for trivial request. give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day, Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer! easily the most comprehensive ding fixing i’ve found, cheers
Would be great to get some kind of index going! Will look into that, appreciate it!
Uncle dings, please don't forget that every board is a new project an a new experience for us mere youtube mortals. For me its just great to watch what you do your thing and see how it progresses, complications and all. Hopefully all the feed back here is letting you know we all just like watching. Have you considered doing something with John from Ding Fixers and comparing the different techniques etc.
Still a long way to go before I run into the problem of repetitiveness. Some of my older videos I want to re cover with better audio and video than I had back then. Many pointers were left out just in the interest of time too so still plenty to cover on subjects I've already done videos on.
John would be the epic guest appearance and I certainly have him in mind for the ''secret series'' I talked about! Wouldn't want him showing me up on my own channel though with his epic repair skills. He'd probably have to clean his workshop up a bit too for the camera and that could take years! 😂
@@smallkinedings Uncle dings, do you reckon you could do a video for us OCD types that need our FCS fins to sit flush against the bottom of the board or just roast this question and tell me that Kelly doesn't notice the 1mm gap and just go surf and stop being a psycho.........................
Hell yeah! You’re killing it my guy. Would be cool to see some outside of the shop videos every now and then to get to know yah a bit more (kinda like this one or out about in town). 🔥
Definitely wanna do more of them and have a few ideas for out of the shop videos!
@@smallkinedings right on! Looking forward to watching 🍻
That wave looks like some deep water
It's actually super shallow. The boat channel between the rock and the peak is 6 to 10 meters deep but then it drops to maybe 2-3 meters where the wave breaks. It only really works on low tide too. We sadly had a local late last year hit the bottom and break his back. He's on the long road to recovery but there was a period where his only movement was his eyes. He's got years to go in recovery but compared to what could've been, he's a very lucky man!
I agree with @robertical - (it's like any construction job) while some principles remain the same, every circumstance is slightly different than the next and there is always something to be learned and applied to future projects. As far as I'm concerned - whatever you'll be putting down, I'll be picking up.
I will add... I would really enjoy some "start to finish"-type shaping videos from you, if that is of any interest to you. I've watched hundreds of hours of shaping videos here on RUclips, but I haven't seen any that really go in depth with the craftsmanship, thought process, nor the problems or realizations, that occur during shaping. They're all kind of generically "well I plane each side of the board to get my thickness, I foil the board, add concave, mark rail bands, shape rail bands, screen board, laminate board, and now I'm done". Maybe it's too much for a RUclips video to really dissect the craftsmanship that is part of the creation of a board, but you're a thorough and creative type, so I think you could easily find the best angles and shaping scenarios to benefit the many of us who are here to stay regardless of what you put out. Worst case scenario is... us amateurs get better, or we make mistakes and then run back to your repair videos haha Sounds like a potential win-win.
Anyway, I really do enjoy and appreciate this channel you've created and look forward to the future vids. Cheers, mate!
For sure, will certainly repeat a few video types. The older videos with rubbish video quality and audio need to be remade any way but theres also plenty of information I never put into them because the videos would've been too long!
Shaping is something I've avoided as I'm really not an authority on the subject. I have limited boards shaped under my belt and I'm still learning myself with every one I do. I could do a video on my method so far but it would have to come with the warning that ''I don't know what I'm doing'' 😂 I too have noticed the same lack in quality coverage on shaping. It gives me the impression that many of the people making these videos are in the same position as me and don't really know what they're up to either, which is fine as long as they say that before they start!
Appreciate the feedback, cya in the next one!
back to back to back episodes. noice
Full blown influencer schedule, walking down public beaches talking to cameras and all 😂
Love your content very helpful! Thank you
Cheers John, appreciate it!
Btw if you are thinking about purchasing a new cmera gear, honestly, as a professional photographer, I won't probably bother and just buy some of the latest iPhones (if you do not have one already). their vid capabilities are pretty good for your use and if you would like to improve the sound quality a bit, you can always use some sort of external mic.. maybe it sounds ridicolous, but that is how it is.. the ration of price and performance if pretty good and if you would like to use a professional camera gear, you would spend much more money on it then on an iPhone..
The camera would only need to be a webcam, I wouldn't use it for filming any of my regular videos. I use an Iphone currently and if I was going to get another camera, it would probably just be another Iphone. I can't get past the convenience of air drop!!
@@smallkinedings ah yeah, got it. So I can’t help ya with webcame set up.. sorry. Yes, air drop is such a brilliant thing!
haha NZ penguins! Classic! I remember when I watched them for the first time and I was so stoked, until they flew away :-D But yeah luckily I saw the real ones as well :)) anyway, live stream sounds pretty good! With time difference we have here in Czech I should be able to watch it easily :)) chur
Ahoy! I was just raving about Czech Goulash to the missus the other night. The most I ever weighed was after 3 months living in Praha, Goulash and mystery butchers meals 3 times a day stacked on the kilos!!
@@smallkinedings haha great! Yeah classic czech food is full of fat so it is really good to have a beer or two with the meal which leads to gain a weight like nothing haha :))) great you were in Prague, hope you liked it there!
@@wayne5741 yeah we call them Cormorans here is Czech, we have some species of them as well, but not those one with white belly, which missled me to think they are those bloody penguins for the very first sight 😂😂
From a RUclips perspective I'd recommend to keep doing what you are doing now. Your most recent succesful video was the restoration / vintage debate. Try doing one similar format video on a different topic and do one restoration/repair video, if you wanna keep it at 2 videos a month. From 10k subs onwards the algorithm will reward you with another glowup. I can definitely understand the grind is hard, but keep going. It might still be to early to experiment with 'different' media as your audience and subscriber count it still kind of low.
As you have reached your own personal goal of creating a information platform, I'd recommend looking into what your current viewers want. So its a good decision to post this video.
I think your ideas to do/discuss on your livestream are good. But perhaps still use the video format. If you find that you struggle with time spent on creating a video, perhaps even consider doing course of easier a Google or RUclips search on video editing or video creation pipelines. Might help you streamline your process and save time.
Finally, ding repair edits are also leaning towards asmr or 'fixing satisfaction'. So repetiviness isn't bad perse from the audience its perspective.
Appreciate the feed back, taken on board for sure. Lot's to think about!
Really its about finding what fits you and your audience, wouldnt take long to find that out.
Keen to see how it all goes.
Miss that part of the country, spent so much time at Langs just round the corner.
Can only try 🤙
O snap, Langs is still the epic spot and as beautiful as ever!
I like the variety show idea. Little update, projects you’re working on, submittals, reviews, tips/ tricks, New Zealand tour, random something else…
Don’t know about the livestream unless most of your commenters are in the same time zone. Seen lots of livestreams with no commenters/ quick log in and bail.
Yea the "secet idea" could actually travel around NZ and hopefully will in the future!
The beauty of the live stream is particualr sections I can download and edit so if theres a discussion on say "epoxy lamination", I can cut that down to a video on its own. Of course people have to be there to create that dialog to begin with though!
yes you should be proud of yourself for helping alot of people, me included.
thank agine be well and take care
Stoked to hear it!! Cya in the next one!
It doesn't matter if it's the same thing every time, that's actually a benefit. People watch channels because they offer a specific subject matter with a well rehearsed and familiar structure. Some of the biggest channels basically just make the same video over and over. In particular "process" type videos like repairs, dog grooming, fishing lure making etc are basically just asmr. If you're just going to do random stuff your appeal will quickly become diluted and the algorithm will punish you for it.
A fine line between attracting new viewers and still serving the old ones as they improve, learn more and progress in their own skills.
I think the way I see it is a mix between two subjects and topics. First one, What I've been doing so far which falls under "how to" or "education" with the live stream helping that by answering questions, going over photos and footage of subscribers projects and other yourube videos/questions from platforms like Facebook.
Second one, more entertaining/easy watching and story telling combined with surf footage to fall into the "entertainment" category which will be the secret idea I've got. The live stream can also support this aspect as well. So the live stream becomes the link between the two categories.
That's what I'm foreseeing anyway. No change to the original mission, just an evolution so not every video is a class room or a lecture
Look out for that shark behind you at 10:45 mark.
They gotta watch out for me!!
auntieksdingrepairs often does a livestream from Hawaii on instagram, but different to what you are proposing 👍
What kind of stuff is she doing on her streams? Have seen a few of her instagram videos but never caught a stream. Guessing she’s going live from her mobile?
Im a video editor from the Philippines. if you needs some help pumping more videos, maybe I can help. I’ve also watched a lot of your videos to help me fix my own boards so thank you 🤙🏾
Nice one, will keep that in mind for the future! Where in the Phillipines are you? Stoked to hear the videos have been helpful!
is that Taranga island in the background?
Theres a few Islands off in the distance but yup the Hen or Taranga Island is the one that can be seen from the main beach. Sail rock is between Taranga and the beach and ''the chicks'' can be seen too!
We also get a view of Te Hauturu O Toi as well, little barrier looking south East.
Holla at ya boy if you need a hand looking at hardware/software to get a stream setup together. Also basic bird classification skills on offer
Shot bro! Seen a bird today and didn’t catch her name. Got some photos though so I’ll send um your way!
Looks very tranquil there. When I get my channel back up and running I have some ideas for a collaboration. 🤙🏼
Cool
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