This post rambles on and doesn’t have a real conclusion as it just relays some thoughts of mine. If it’s too long for some, or uses too many long words, fine, don’t read it. I enjoyed watching the build and am nearly envious at the machinery you have invested in. I appreciate you have a business to run and need to make a profit for yourself and also repayment on the investment. No issues with that at all. I was thinking about your earliest videos when you were on your old shop and how things have changed. I wondered if you had gone from “ hand made” to “factory made”; if that’s correct and, does it matter? My thinking is that there is very little out there which is truly hand made. Someone, somewhere, used a power tool to cut down the tree; someone used a powered kiln to dry it out and, of course, powered transport at each stage. So, even if ap everything afterwards is “un powered” is it still hand made? My favourite style of furniture is the UK Arts and Crafts and, to a lesser extent, the US Mission or Prairie style. The UK A&C move,ent was really started by people like Morris as a reaction to the mass production of goods on the Victorian era with their belief that these factory products lacked the interaction with craftsmen. The founders were all Socialist in perhaps it’s original - and best - meaning. They wanted better lives for their workers and were prepared to provide them with it. Not too dissimilar from the Quakers such as Cadbury. However, even then, machines played a part in the making of their products. Yes, a lot was hand made but machines were used for rough dimensioning. Does the definition of hand made to factory made rely upon a percentage of what was done by machines? Does this matter? Yes and no. Yes, because so much stuff is advertised as hand made and a premium charged for it. Just because a human wiped a cloth over the finished product, does that make it hand made? No, because, at the end of the day, we want products which are beautiful and fit for purpose. I do like to see hand planished silver ware or timber that shows the marks of hand work but not in everything. So much has changed in my 45 years plus of woodworking. The advances in adhesives and abrasives alone are staggering. We didn’t have access to many powered tools at all to begin in with and then more and more became affordable for the smaller shop. Now, for so many things, the human input is to design, configure software and supervise. Different skills which I have no issue with and skills which are needed to make products which people will buy. I still think of the pieces that I still build (now, mostly for pleasure) as hand made and yet my shop has tables saw, band saw, planer, router table, wide belt sander etc. etc. I still do much of the detail work by hand and all of the design work by hand. Does that make my pieces more worthy than something similar that was made by CNC? I don’t think so. Has it had more hand work input? Probably. Anyway, now off to think about the make up of the solar system
I watched this in slow-mo! He just didn’t keep any downward pressure at the start of the cut and therefore the board naturally rode up slightly before it’s own weight pulled it back down. Just slightly lazy machining technique. Second pass would get it.
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Just need the sun to shine in the UK for summer 2023 and it ‘s a winner!
brilliant work just loved it thanks for sharing
Thank you! Cheers!
Wonderful craftsmanship 🎉
Very cool and great work. It would be nice to see it filled with water, but the build was assume to watch.
Wow absolutely amazing beautiful work as always
Great job Andy - bet the clients are chuffed with the result. More solid craftsmanship.
Good work, you have very good machines
Epic build, and what an outstanding location mate ! Well done Andy !
Nice work
Cracking job and video. What kind of heater do you use for this if you don't mind me asking?
I import my own if you’re interested, email me, I can always quote you, but they’ve got very expensive since Covid
@@ManorWood hi. Thanks for the reply. I shall keep this in mind when I get a chance to build a hot tub. Thank you
Как всегда супер👍👍👍
Beautiful build. Very impressive spindle moulder. Just a thought how much for a hot tub, undelivered?
Great job. Could you please share the Grover you used on your Altindorf. Thanks
Very nice setup and great work 😍
Can you please advise on the rebate cutter for your Altendorf F45? Where did you get it from? Thanks
This post rambles on and doesn’t have a real conclusion as it just relays some thoughts of mine. If it’s too long for some, or uses too many long words, fine, don’t read it.
I enjoyed watching the build and am nearly envious at the machinery you have invested in. I appreciate you have a business to run and need to make a profit for yourself and also repayment on the investment. No issues with that at all.
I was thinking about your earliest videos when you were on your old shop and how things have changed. I wondered if you had gone from “ hand made” to “factory made”; if that’s correct and, does it matter?
My thinking is that there is very little out there which is truly hand made. Someone, somewhere, used a power tool to cut down the tree; someone used a powered kiln to dry it out and, of course, powered transport at each stage. So, even if ap everything afterwards is “un powered” is it still hand made?
My favourite style of furniture is the UK Arts and Crafts and, to a lesser extent, the US Mission or Prairie style. The UK A&C move,ent was really started by people like Morris as a reaction to the mass production of goods on the Victorian era with their belief that these factory products lacked the interaction with craftsmen. The founders were all Socialist in perhaps it’s original - and best - meaning. They wanted better lives for their workers and were prepared to provide them with it. Not too dissimilar from the Quakers such as Cadbury.
However, even then, machines played a part in the making of their products. Yes, a lot was hand made but machines were used for rough dimensioning. Does the definition of hand made to factory made rely upon a percentage of what was done by machines?
Does this matter? Yes and no. Yes, because so much stuff is advertised as hand made and a premium charged for it. Just because a human wiped a cloth over the finished product, does that make it hand made? No, because, at the end of the day, we want products which are beautiful and fit for purpose. I do like to see hand planished silver ware or timber that shows the marks of hand work but not in everything.
So much has changed in my 45 years plus of woodworking. The advances in adhesives and abrasives alone are staggering. We didn’t have access to many powered tools at all to begin in with and then more and more became affordable for the smaller shop. Now, for so many things, the human input is to design, configure software and supervise. Different skills which I have no issue with and skills which are needed to make products which people will buy.
I still think of the pieces that I still build (now, mostly for pleasure) as hand made and yet my shop has tables saw, band saw, planer, router table, wide belt sander etc. etc. I still do much of the detail work by hand and all of the design work by hand. Does that make my pieces more worthy than something similar that was made by CNC? I don’t think so. Has it had more hand work input? Probably.
Anyway, now off to think about the make up of the solar system
Where do you get your stainless bands and heaters?
Oh and good job…..
Very Nice
Your planer cutters don’t seem set properly at 2:55 the wood is riding up
I watched this in slow-mo! He just didn’t keep any downward pressure at the start of the cut and therefore the board naturally rode up slightly before it’s own weight pulled it back down. Just slightly lazy machining technique. Second pass would get it.
Totally wrong technique for planing, pressure should be on the outfeed table. You can see the board does not get flat this way if you look closely....
Amazing job as always :D
When you're cutting circles, why do you go router->jigsaw->router, rather than just pencil->jigsaw->router? :)
To get a clean edge for the 2nd flush cut router pass possibly
Can see by the amount of Systainers you need to build an additional storage.😂
Think we share a common problem.👍📐🇨🇦