Oh, Amen! I have told him so on other vids, but I can’t help chiming in to back you up. He’s not only a top flight woodworker, but absolutely the most organized, illustrative, and thorough instructor of woodworking on the internet bar none. Literally (that is: in the Oxford English definition of, “literally”, prior to the American generation, X, Y, Z re-defining of the word to mean, “figuratively”).
I personally think that there is something profound about being able to look at a finished project and remembering felling the tree and all of the steps that followed. Great video.
It's an old, old piece of cherry that I took from a pile of freshly-sawn wood that I air-dried sometime around 1990. The wood was green, I was just gearing up to write my book, "Wood and Woodworking Materials," and I wondered what would happen if I let a board dry independent of the stack, with no pressure to keep it flat. So I plucked it out and set it in a corner of my shop. That was the result. Fantastic lesson, great photo/video prop.
@@WorkshopCompanionI posted a comment not long ago that you reminded me a lot of my dad and the times he had me in the shop growing up and i just realized he bought and showed me some of your books. I was 6 in 1990 and remember being about 10 he got your book you mentioned above and showed it to me. We built something that was shown in another of your books when I was 14ish. Absolutely amazing
You should see the green table in a production sawmill. We had a curve saw gang that the saws , double arbor each capible 6 " and guides twisted to follow grain in bowed logs. The theory was cutting lumber like this , then with stacks weighted flat in kiln would produce straight nontwisted dried lumber. ????
This is like watching the Bob Ross of woodworking. I have extreme respect for this craftsman and dream of someday being able to retire and spend time in my own workshop creating mission style pieces of furniture for my family. ❤🇺🇸☺️
Your way of speaking and teaching is extremely calming and fatherly. It makes me want to give you a hug. Thanks for creating content. If I’m ever in Ohio I’m going to look you up.
Been looking forward to this one, and boy did you deliver. You've topped yourself once again. I had to go back and re-watch the explanation of why you pegged and glued the front pin of the bread board top rather than the middle pin. You explained it very well, but it is an advanced topic I simply didn't get it on the first pass. Your ability to execute and explain that sort if advanced skill really sets this channel well apart. Congratulations on a fantastic video.
@@WorkshopCompanion I can imagine, my last project took me 11 videos to cover. Unfortunately, I don't have the time or talent to craft a single watchable video such as you and Travis pull off.
Fantastic video! Very educational and high-quality craftsmanship! I think I can tell that a lot of time, care, knowledge and preparation went into this video. You also present it wonderfully. You would say you are a teacher. This is one of the best video channels I know in this area. Thank you so much!
Love your Shopsmith planer. I have a Shopsmith with every attachment they ever made…. Dated to mid 80’s. Used it just last week to make some trays for a couple of jigsaw puzzles
Hey there! Just wanted to drop in and say that your video was like a breath of fresh air in a world where explanations can sometimes be as clear as mud. The way you blend graphics with real-life examples is nothing short of wizardry. Your approach not only makes learning a joyride but also sticks the information in my brain like gum on a hot sidewalk. Keep up the fantastic work - your videos are a goldmine for curious minds. Cheers!
Far better than we deserve. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. No other channel on YT woodworker comes close to your insight and considerations into the materials your working with. And bonus points for the counter surfing Collie
Bella is...well, we're not quite sure what Bella is. The folks who whelped her assured me she was a border collie, but I've had many border collies over the years and she doesn't fit the mold. Our Australian viewers suggested she might be a kelpie, and that seems closer. But my best guess at this point is that she's a McNab Sheperd (who, like border collies and kelpies, are descended from Scottish herding dogs). Whatever she is, she's a delight. Affectionate, smart as a whip, and enjoys mugging for the camera as much as I do.
@@WorkshopCompanion I'll throw another guess in the mix then. She's the spitting image of my own Border Collie x Welsh collie cross, Dingo. Down to colour and marking pattern
Mr Engler, I'm a retired CAD engineer who has began an after career in woodworking some hand some CNC. You are the greatest thing since sliced Eric Sloan. Thanks!
This one video packs in a full woodworking course - not only the whats and hows, but the whys, of every operation along the way. So, thank you. And gosh darn it, you ought to write a book.
I would say hell yes as well! I would also say that there is a huge satisfaction in creating something that you milled yourself. Another excellent video overall and valuable explanation of how to deal with and account for wood movement.
Thank you sir for sharing this experience with us! I'm not sure if I ever get to use some of the many things you taught us in those 2 videos, but the feeling of knowing a bit more and watching that beautiful chest getting build is a great start into the weekend, thank you!
Just wanted to say as a new and amateur woodworker looking to learn, I have thoroughly enjoyed every video you'd produced. Thank you and please continue the great work.
Thank you for explaining everything so well. Your focus on grain selection and design, and proper order of operations helps me as an intermediate level woodworker. I appreciate you.
Very glad you did do the follow up of using that beautiful Walnut to make that astounding box, might have to give one a go myself and definitely need to find me some "firewood" and harvest some lumber myself.
I loved both of these video sessions. I have always wanted to mill my own lumber, but never really knew what to do. Thanks to you I now know. As a word of caution, please remind your viewers to always add acid to water when diluting the acid to a usable concentration. If the reverse is done, the acid will splatter and may damage either the skin or eyes.
If I would really(!) study everything you explain in this single video, I would need to watch again and again, with years of practice and experience in-between, coming back every now and then to see if I'm finally on this level. Nowhere to find are videos as rich, instructive and passionate about the craft as yours. Thank you, with kind regards from the metric realm!
I worked in the UK as a painter and decorator from age 15 to 70 I decided early on that for me the best way forward was always to aim to do the best job possible and teach apprentices to do the same, I loved working with my hands, Sir, your video's are excellent.
I love this channel, explaining what you do is so im portant to learning ! Lately I have to sort thru wood working vid's to eliminate the ones posted THAT just want me to watch while they run expensive wood thru their high dollar shop equiptment, while listening to their favorite music over and over and over! THANK YOU!
Most welcome. When I began writing books and articles (back in the days when we had to read to get information), my publisher (Rodale) asked us to put together a shop with equipment that might be found in the garage of a serious amateur craftsman -- no high-dollar commercial stuff. I thought that was an excellent idea, and I have stuck to it ever since. It makes the information we generate useful to a much wider audience.
Really appreciate the work you put in and all of the great info! Something really special about the thought you put in to the project. I think it would be really interesting if you built the same project but didn't pay attention to the small details around wood expansion/grain direction. I really wonder how long it would take before we would see problems with cupping etc... Would be a cool "part 3", a really interesting experiment, and a way to keep the series going!
Brilliant! Thank you Nick for an extremely informative and helpful step-by-step video. I will be watching this again to ensure that I haven't missed any of your words of wisdom or practical instruction. I love the clarity, passion and detail of your videos especially in this one! They are addictive!
You are AMAZING! Not only as a craftsman but as a teacher as well.. I watched your video where you saw the wood and actually have tought about this video since. FINALLY you made it and was all the waiting time worth it ♥
Nice video! Lovely design and execution. Brings back memories when I used to make jewelry and valet boxes. I would take a doubly wide board and re-saw and plane. Then turn the board so the inside surfaces of the re-sawn board are now on the out side and proceed as you did to make the case with EXACT grain matching at each corner. Imagine a zebra wood box with that property. Please check out the claims made at 16:50 where you say a plainsawn board can change from an average 8% to 11% in width due to changes in relative humidity (.96” for a 12” wide board). This may be true when going from green (~30% EMC) to oven dry moisture content but not for seasonal moisture changes. In addition, you explain the location of the front lid trim molding as needing a 1/16” clearance to allow for shrinkage of the lid if construction was performed in the summer, since humidity is higher in the summer. The 1/16” clearance you recommend seems right when calculating the seasonal change of 2% EMC using Table 13-5 and formula 13-2 in ‘General Technical Report FPL-GTR=190, Wood Handbook: Wood as an Engineering Material, April 2010’, which for walnut would require a 1/32”. However, Table 13-1 of that same documents indicates that EMC is lowest in May-June and highest in December-January in outdoor Ohio, which would require the clearance if the chest was built in the winter not in the summer. This reverses your statement at 21:10. As you state, “… the lid expands and contracts with changes in RELATIVE HUMIDITY”. You go on to say, “It’s the dead of winter in this part of Ohio and the humidity is as low as its going to get”. Both true, but the RELATIVES HUMIDITY is the highest it’s going to get. Now if a home or shop is heated with electricity this may reduce the relative humidity but if heated with gas the opposite may be true and humidifiers may be present too. This only compounds the issue of movement clearances so I use a rule of thumb where I assume a 5% moisture change and adopt a dimensional change coefficient for plain sawn lumber of .004 (worst case). This yields a 1.5% change in width and .7% in thickness. At a minimum, I double that change and target the center of the pinning of the joint so that the project can survive both swelling and shrinkage. Allowing for even more movement in joinery without compromising other considerations may be wise.
a while back a tree fell on my barn. It was a junk tree, a hackberry, wasn't supposed to be good for anything but fire wood, but for fun I made a chainsaw mill and milled some boards and left them in the barn to dry. A year later, I remembered they were in there and made them into a desk. For a junk wood, it had a surprisingly nice grain.
Hackberry is a surprisingly attractive wood. It is especially good for bentwood projects; green hackberry is easier to steam bend than any other wood I've ever tried to bend. It's reputation as a junk wood is a myth-conception; it has been used for fine furniture for centuries, particularly chairs. But since the name hackberry is so decidedly unsexy, it is most often sold to unsuspecting furniture buyers as "elm."
In a time when wood working channels are increasing dominated by tool evaluations, merchandising, and "how to grow your business" (all of which have their important place), a video such as this one reaffirms why I went back to wood working when I retired. Your depth of knowledge is clearly evident, and your engaging style is unmatched on RUclips. Moreover, this is not just a "build something", but a view of your own vision for a pile of wood. This isn't a "go and build this", but rather one, detailed approach to building a box (how many different boxes are there? Well, how many different woodworkers are there?), and the reason for the decisions for "why I made this", and "not that."
When resawing short boards or for veneer, attach the stock to a longer backer board such as MDF. This is safer for resawing and when making veneer then you can run the stock through the planer to clean up the surface for the next slice of veneer. Be extremely careful when handling nitric acid. As mentioned in the video, wear the correct protective equipment, especially eye/face protection and the correct gloves for the substance. In this case it's butyl rubber - do NOT wear latex or nitrile gloves. Always pour acid into water, never water into acid.
Extremely well done. Thanks for putting all the time and care into making this episode. I heat my shop with firewood and often end up milling boards (too good to burn). But your detailed instructions on building the box are fantastic. I have a large oversized oak chest that I’ve wanted to modify for a couple years because it’s too deep to be functionally useful. Adding a drawer below, a new base, and maybe some fancy dovetail edges may be just the ticket.
I feel like I'm 10 years old watching Saturday PBS woodworking shows when I watch this guy. So informative and well done.
Thanks for the kind words.
This is the greatest woodworking channel on the internet. Thank you sir for sharing your lifelong knowledge with us. God bless you.
I could not have said that better. You are 100% correct.
This could 100% be on television! Fantastic channel for sure.
X2
You guys....(This is where I drag my toe in the dirt and try to look humble.) Thanks for the kind words.
Oh, Amen! I have told him so on other vids, but I can’t help chiming in to back you up. He’s not only a top flight woodworker, but absolutely the most organized, illustrative, and thorough instructor of woodworking on the internet bar none. Literally (that is: in the Oxford English definition of, “literally”, prior to the American generation, X, Y, Z re-defining of the word to mean, “figuratively”).
I personally think that there is something profound about being able to look at a finished project and remembering felling the tree and all of the steps that followed. Great video.
Thanks.
I love that twisted & warped board you show. Kind of reminds me of some lumber I see at Home Depot.
It's an old, old piece of cherry that I took from a pile of freshly-sawn wood that I air-dried sometime around 1990. The wood was green, I was just gearing up to write my book, "Wood and Woodworking Materials," and I wondered what would happen if I let a board dry independent of the stack, with no pressure to keep it flat. So I plucked it out and set it in a corner of my shop. That was the result. Fantastic lesson, great photo/video prop.
@@WorkshopCompanionI posted a comment not long ago that you reminded me a lot of my dad and the times he had me in the shop growing up and i just realized he bought and showed me some of your books. I was 6 in 1990 and remember being about 10 he got your book you mentioned above and showed it to me. We built something that was shown in another of your books when I was 14ish. Absolutely amazing
@@woodworkingandepoxy643 Amazing that I'm still here...;-)
@@WorkshopCompanion right? I'm glad you are! Your knowledge is reaching so many people that just don't read books anymore and I'm here for all of it
You should see the green table in a production sawmill.
We had a curve saw gang that the saws , double arbor each capible 6 " and guides twisted to follow grain in bowed logs.
The theory was cutting lumber like this , then with stacks weighted flat in kiln would produce straight nontwisted dried lumber. ????
And an emphatic "Hell Yes" to this video.
Finally somebody on RUclips that really knows what they doing and able to clearly teach the how and why ! Thank you !
Most welcome.
This is like watching the Bob Ross of woodworking. I have extreme respect for this craftsman and dream of someday being able to retire and spend time in my own workshop creating mission style pieces of furniture for my family. ❤🇺🇸☺️
This is the most amazing and profound wood work, with short, precise explanations and solutions!
You are a great inspiration and motivation, sir!
Kind words, thanks for saying. We try.
I live in Georgia. Our relative humidity is about 208% on average. 😂
"Not too shabby" indeed! It is a pleasure to watch you work and you provide a wide ranging education. Thanks.
Most welcome.
Your way of speaking and teaching is extremely calming and fatherly. It makes me want to give you a hug. Thanks for creating content. If I’m ever in Ohio I’m going to look you up.
Been looking forward to this one, and boy did you deliver. You've topped yourself once again. I had to go back and re-watch the explanation of why you pegged and glued the front pin of the bread board top rather than the middle pin. You explained it very well, but it is an advanced topic I simply didn't get it on the first pass. Your ability to execute and explain that sort if advanced skill really sets this channel well apart. Congratulations on a fantastic video.
Thanks for saying. This really was an effort -- there was so much info to boil down.
@@WorkshopCompanion I can imagine, my last project took me 11 videos to cover. Unfortunately, I don't have the time or talent to craft a single watchable video such as you and Travis pull off.
Fantastic video! Very educational and high-quality craftsmanship! I think I can tell that a lot of time, care, knowledge and preparation went into this video. You also present it wonderfully. You would say you are a teacher. This is one of the best video channels I know in this area. Thank you so much!
Most welcome...and thanks or the kind words.
he's got the best hair do, like the mad scientist of wood working, great channel
There's not a woodworking youtuber I enjoy watching more than you, fantistic workmanship on the project and the video too! Keep it up sir.
Thank you so much for adding the metric measurements as well as imperial. Makes it so much easier for those of us that grew up with metric only.
I will never look at a joinery piece the same after seeing all the hard work and precision that goes into making something like this. Beautiful craft.
Thanks for saying.
By far one of, if not the best educational channel about woodworking, as an apprentice in carpentry, I thank you for all that knowledge :)
Most welcome.
quite stunning work as usual... the King is live... long live the King!
Most days, I feel more like the jester. Thanks.
@@WorkshopCompanion True Kings jest only on themselves and have shop dogs to prove it... deaf ones perhaps but none the less happy ones!
Nick you're awesome! Thanks for being you
Do I have a choice? Most welcome!
So much obvious information that 90% of woodworkers do not even think about, this video is a comprehensive masterpiece on wood working.
Love your Shopsmith planer. I have a Shopsmith with every attachment they ever made…. Dated to mid 80’s. Used it just last week to make some trays for a couple of jigsaw puzzles
THANKS for all the information, I always look forward to you videos.
Most welcome.
I wish I had half the confidence and knowledge of this man. This guy is a pro to pros. A master. A grandmaster. The DM of woodworking.
Great video! Thanks for sharing your craftsmanship. Greetings from Bulgaria.
Most welcome from Ohio.
The information no wait your knowledge that you share is priceless....I am wiser for your share of it.....Thank you kindly.
Most welcome.
Hey there! Just wanted to drop in and say that your video was like a breath of fresh air in a world where explanations can sometimes be as clear as mud. The way you blend graphics with real-life examples is nothing short of wizardry. Your approach not only makes learning a joyride but also sticks the information in my brain like gum on a hot sidewalk. Keep up the fantastic work - your videos are a goldmine for curious minds. Cheers!
Wow. That was quite a transformation! Thanks
Far better than we deserve. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. No other channel on YT woodworker comes close to your insight and considerations into the materials your working with. And bonus points for the counter surfing Collie
Bella is...well, we're not quite sure what Bella is. The folks who whelped her assured me she was a border collie, but I've had many border collies over the years and she doesn't fit the mold. Our Australian viewers suggested she might be a kelpie, and that seems closer. But my best guess at this point is that she's a McNab Sheperd (who, like border collies and kelpies, are descended from Scottish herding dogs). Whatever she is, she's a delight. Affectionate, smart as a whip, and enjoys mugging for the camera as much as I do.
@@WorkshopCompanion I'll throw another guess in the mix then. She's the spitting image of my own Border Collie x Welsh collie cross, Dingo. Down to colour and marking pattern
This is awesome. Great method and approach to teaching how to build, techniques to use during the build process, and the nature of the wood itself.
Thanks.
Hell yes is right! Taking a log and turning into that chest is something to be truly proud of!
Thanks for saying.
You really squeezed a lot into this one. Cheers!
Mr Engler, I'm a retired CAD engineer who has began an after career in woodworking some hand some CNC. You are the greatest thing since sliced Eric Sloan. Thanks!
Many thanks for the high-quality and informative film. I wish you good luck and prosperity to your workshop!
Most welcome.
Outstanding! Please don’t stop!
Have to when I run out of wood -- it was just one little log...;-)
A great teacher makes learning fun
Every. Single. Time.
You are the true north of woodworking videos
Thanks for saying.
As a fellow OH woodworker who just milled a neighbor's felled tree this summer, it is fun watching this.
So happy to see you back on with new stuff!
This one video packs in a full woodworking course - not only the whats and hows, but the whys, of every operation along the way. So, thank you. And gosh darn it, you ought to write a book.
Thanks for you kind words. But no more books; I've done my time.
I would say hell yes as well! I would also say that there is a huge satisfaction in creating something that you milled yourself. Another excellent video overall and valuable explanation of how to deal with and account for wood movement.
Thanks for saying.
Thank you sir for sharing this experience with us! I'm not sure if I ever get to use some of the many things you taught us in those 2 videos, but the feeling of knowing a bit more and watching that beautiful chest getting build is a great start into the weekend, thank you!
Most welcome, and thanks for the kind words.
Happily earned my subscription at the line, "Good enough for government work". Haven't heard that in years
It was one of my grandfather's favorite sayings -- he worked for the government. Welcome.
As always, an outstanding video. thank you for sharing!.
Most welcome.
Hey, that was the first video of yours I ever watched!
Just wanted to say as a new and amateur woodworker looking to learn, I have thoroughly enjoyed every video you'd produced. Thank you and please continue the great work.
That's the plan...most welcome.
If you want great advice,tips and tricks on woodworking you are definitely the right man for the job
Thanks 👍
Thank you for explaining everything so well. Your focus on grain selection and design, and proper order of operations helps me as an intermediate level woodworker. I appreciate you.
And we appreciate your kind words.
Very glad you did do the follow up of using that beautiful Walnut to make that astounding box, might have to give one a go myself and definitely need to find me some "firewood" and harvest some lumber myself.
I loved both of these video sessions. I have always wanted to mill my own lumber, but never really knew what to do. Thanks to you I now know. As a word of caution, please remind your viewers to always add acid to water when diluting the acid to a usable concentration. If the reverse is done, the acid will splatter and may damage either the skin or eyes.
A lot of information in this video. Thank you.
Most welcome.
It's hard to believe it's been a year already. As always, a beautiful piece and very informative video. Thank you for sharing it with us!
Most welcome.
If I would really(!) study everything you explain in this single video, I would need to watch again and again, with years of practice and experience in-between, coming back every now and then to see if I'm finally on this level. Nowhere to find are videos as rich, instructive and passionate about the craft as yours. Thank you, with kind regards from the metric realm!
Most welcome, and thank you for the kind words.
Nick, so grateful for your wisdom and generosity sharing it with us on the internet
I worked in the UK as a painter and decorator from age 15 to 70 I decided early on that for me the best way forward was always to aim to do the best job possible and teach apprentices to do the same, I loved working with my hands, Sir, your video's are excellent.
My philosophy to a "T," whatever a "T" might be. Thanks for the kind words.
I love this channel, explaining what you do is so im portant to learning ! Lately I have to sort thru wood working vid's to eliminate the ones posted THAT just want me to watch while they run expensive wood thru their high dollar shop equiptment, while listening to their favorite music over and over and over! THANK YOU!
Most welcome. When I began writing books and articles (back in the days when we had to read to get information), my publisher (Rodale) asked us to put together a shop with equipment that might be found in the garage of a serious amateur craftsman -- no high-dollar commercial stuff. I thought that was an excellent idea, and I have stuck to it ever since. It makes the information we generate useful to a much wider audience.
Really appreciate the work you put in and all of the great info! Something really special about the thought you put in to the project. I think it would be really interesting if you built the same project but didn't pay attention to the small details around wood expansion/grain direction. I really wonder how long it would take before we would see problems with cupping etc... Would be a cool "part 3", a really interesting experiment, and a way to keep the series going!
Brilliant! Thank you Nick for an extremely informative and helpful step-by-step video. I will be watching this again to ensure that I haven't missed any of your words of wisdom or practical instruction. I love the clarity, passion and detail of your videos especially in this one! They are addictive!
Kind words, thank you.
Happy New year from down under, good to have you back . Frank
Same to you.
I was really impressed with the quality of information on this channel. Congratulations and thank you very much.
Most welcome.
Excellent video
This is my favorite woodworking channel. Great information, well presented and extremely informative. Thank you.
Most welcome.
You are a true master. Sandpaper on the work table while sanding is genius.
This is Rafik Barseghian from LA .even for my limited English this is the best way to explain.
Thank you 👍.
Very nice, I very rarely buy new timber for my wood working, yes most of it would normally been fire wood.
This is the best explanation of how (and why) to dry wood that I have ever come across. Thanks!
Thanks for another awesome how to video. It is nice to see someone who still teaches something on RUclips.
Thanks.
Don’t know what to say I’m just blown away you are an amazing teacher so much real knowledge in that head of yours. Thank you for sharing some of it.
Most welcome.
Has it really been a year since that video? Wow!
Also, you are a master at explaining. You keep my attention the whole time. Thank you!
Most welcome.
Beautiful.
And I say 'Hell, yes,' as well!
What an amazing wealth of knowledge in these videos. Thanks for taking the time to put them together.
Most welcome.
I work at a woodshop and I would love to try out some of the tricks you have! Thanks for sharing!
These videos are just such a treat! Entertaining and educational!
Thanks.
This might be the best channel on all of youtube. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the world!
Most welcome.
Incredible transformation! Seasoned skills on display to behold! I have to watch the video again now.
Thanks for the kind words.
You are AMAZING! Not only as a craftsman but as a teacher as well.. I watched your video where you saw the wood and actually have tought about this video since. FINALLY you made it and was all the waiting time worth it ♥
Thanks for saying.
you sir, are a woodcraft Jedi! thank you for the technical details on how to wrap and let wood dry!
Always great contions to consider for Beautiful results!
Thank you cheers!
Most welcome.
Tons of work in woodworking. It best fits as just a hobby. Nice cupped board you got there
Brilliant ! Nasa, take note !
Nice video! Lovely design and execution. Brings back memories when I used to make jewelry and valet boxes. I would take a doubly wide board and re-saw and plane. Then turn the board so the inside surfaces of the re-sawn board are now on the out side and proceed as you did to make the case with EXACT grain matching at each corner. Imagine a zebra wood box with that property.
Please check out the claims made at 16:50 where you say a plainsawn board can change from an average 8% to 11% in width due to changes in relative humidity (.96” for a 12” wide board). This may be true when going from green (~30% EMC) to oven dry moisture content but not for seasonal moisture changes.
In addition, you explain the location of the front lid trim molding as needing a 1/16” clearance to allow for shrinkage of the lid if construction was performed in the summer, since humidity is higher in the summer. The 1/16” clearance you recommend seems right when calculating the seasonal change of 2% EMC using Table 13-5 and formula 13-2 in ‘General Technical Report FPL-GTR=190, Wood Handbook: Wood as an Engineering Material, April 2010’, which for walnut would require a 1/32”. However, Table 13-1 of that same documents indicates that EMC is lowest in May-June and highest in December-January in outdoor Ohio, which would require the clearance if the chest was built in the winter not in the summer. This reverses your statement at 21:10. As you state, “… the lid expands and contracts with changes in RELATIVE HUMIDITY”. You go on to say, “It’s the dead of winter in this part of Ohio and the humidity is as low as its going to get”. Both true, but the RELATIVES HUMIDITY is the highest it’s going to get. Now if a home or shop is heated with electricity this may reduce the relative humidity but if heated with gas the opposite may be true and humidifiers may be present too. This only compounds the issue of movement clearances so I use a rule of thumb where I assume a 5% moisture change and adopt a dimensional change coefficient for plain sawn lumber of .004 (worst case). This yields a 1.5% change in width and .7% in thickness. At a minimum, I double that change and target the center of the pinning of the joint so that the project can survive both swelling and shrinkage. Allowing for even more movement in joinery without compromising other considerations may be wise.
exceptional job
OK nick now I have reached my quota on new things to learn! Thank you!
a while back a tree fell on my barn. It was a junk tree, a hackberry, wasn't supposed to be good for anything but fire wood, but for fun I made a chainsaw mill and milled some boards and left them in the barn to dry. A year later, I remembered they were in there and made them into a desk. For a junk wood, it had a surprisingly nice grain.
Hackberry is a surprisingly attractive wood. It is especially good for bentwood projects; green hackberry is easier to steam bend than any other wood I've ever tried to bend. It's reputation as a junk wood is a myth-conception; it has been used for fine furniture for centuries, particularly chairs. But since the name hackberry is so decidedly unsexy, it is most often sold to unsuspecting furniture buyers as "elm."
Nice discussion on the importance of using dry, stabilized wood. 👍
Thanks.
Excellent!
In a time when wood working channels are increasing dominated by tool evaluations, merchandising, and "how to grow your business" (all of which have their important place), a video such as this one reaffirms why I went back to wood working when I retired. Your depth of knowledge is clearly evident, and your engaging style is unmatched on RUclips. Moreover, this is not just a "build something", but a view of your own vision for a pile of wood. This isn't a "go and build this", but rather one, detailed approach to building a box (how many different boxes are there? Well, how many different woodworkers are there?), and the reason for the decisions for "why I made this", and "not that."
Nicely put. Thanks for spending the time to write up that kind analysis.
GOD bless you man. it is a master class.
Thanks.
Immensely enjoyable content. Thank you!
Most welcome.
Thank you again for sharing your expertise. What you do, how you do it and why you do it. Clear and precise.
Most welcome.
Brilliant, absolutely brilliant 🌞
Thanks.
Great craftsmanship! Informative video! Thanks.
Most welcome.
Definitely worth the wait!
Thanks.
When resawing short boards or for veneer, attach the stock to a longer backer board such as MDF. This is safer for resawing and when making veneer then you can run the stock through the planer to clean up the surface for the next slice of veneer.
Be extremely careful when handling nitric acid. As mentioned in the video, wear the correct protective equipment, especially eye/face protection and the correct gloves for the substance. In this case it's butyl rubber - do NOT wear latex or nitrile gloves. Always pour acid into water, never water into acid.
Nooo way....this is the video i ve been waiting for more then a year......suuuuuper!!!
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That is an excellent video. Thank you for sharing.
Most welcome.
Extremely well done. Thanks for putting all the time and care into making this episode. I heat my shop with firewood and often end up milling boards (too good to burn). But your detailed instructions on building the box are fantastic. I have a large oversized oak chest that I’ve wanted to modify for a couple years because it’s too deep to be functionally useful. Adding a drawer below, a new base, and maybe some fancy dovetail edges may be just the ticket.
Glad to be of some help.
Great small project. Keep them coming
Very impressive attention to detail and knowledge. I suspect this man judges shows.