My Grandfather only wore wood shoes as long as I can remember. He would modify them a bit with leather nailed to the bottoms to increase wear, lessen noise, and add a bit of comfort. The thing I remember most is that he could also use them as self defense and had fun showing how he could launch them off his foot with deadly accuracy and hit a 5 inch target 10-15 feet away every time.
Unrelated meaning, and not nearly as interesting, but when I first heard the phrase "shoot the works" it sounded like "shoed the works", and I thought of when I was 6 and my sneakers got caught in the escalator and it stopped it from working.
My understanding (and I might be wrong) was that the fields of Holland were so wet that leather shoes rotted quickly, while wooden shoes didn't soak up as much water, lasted longer, and kept your feet drier. Also, wood is more readily available and cheaper.
I come from the Netherlands, and it is not entirely true what you say, it was mainly worn by the farmers so that they protected their feet from sharp and heavy objects, they were the safety shoes of the past. 😉
Also the farmers were very poor to buy normal shoes so what they did is invent these wooden shoes (klompen)so they could make shoes themselves very cheap very durable and very comfortable when you learn to walk with them /in them)
I dunno if it came from the Netherlands, but in Indonesia there is wooden sandal. Instead of covering the fret like crock, they used leather or fabric as strap to the wooden soles, they make similar sounds, tap tap
@@LastBastion yea I’ve seen that before, it’s one of those solutions that seems obvious, but I’d probably have a hard time coming up with that if I had to make shoes from cheap household objects
+Sander Baas No, I obey traffic laws even when the police are not around. The clog & woodpecker bit is an old music hall joke that I’ve often heard repeated by the Dutch.
+halnywiatr ik kom uit nederland en ik loop de hele dag op klompen. ze lopen heerlijk en hout geleid heel slecht hitten, als je niet veel beweegt krijg je geen koude poten
Cody, you inspired me! Got my klompen yesterday from Nelis Dutch Village in Holland MI. They were only $40 plus shipping, very inexpensive. While quite large, I'm hoping they give me more support and protect my feet from the cold of the concrete in my garage/shop. Roasted coffee for an order this morning and I haft say, they're quite comfortable. Going up stairs will take some getting used to, however!
One small correction. Threaded pipe has the same o.d. because the fittings need to match the different schedules of pipe. One inch pipe, no matter what the schedule, can be threaded with a one inch pipe die. Schedule 40 or standard pipe has a larger i.d. than schedule 80. Just to make it interesting the pipe sizes are an approximation of the actual pipe size. Schedule 40 half inch pipe has a 5/8" i.d. and will just fit into 3/4" schedule 40. The standard sizing makes it ideal for shade tree mechanics and farm yard fabricators, like me, to build telescoping chain tighteners.
Perfect information on the wooden shoes. Thank you for sharing that. I live in Holland and i wear them too (in my spare time). Back in the days (like 40 years ago) the wooden shoe maker sold the wooden shoes out of the trunk of his car. If you bought a pair they where cut to a perfect personal fit using special tools like you did . Now a days you buy them in the store and the store keeper has no idee what to do if you ask to cut the wooden shoes to a perfect fit. In Holland wooden shoes are called "klompen", "klomp" (1) or "klompen" (2 or more).
You visited Holland! That is so cool, I live in the Netherlands and I was watching your channel for a while now. I can confirm that wooden shoes are even considered comfortable and safe here. I used to wear them as a kid when I was 'helping' my grandpa doing some woodworking. Great to see this and hear the sound of the wooden shoes on the background... Enjoy them, greetings from Holland!
Clogs are great, I use Swedish clogs("toffel") during the summer when I work in the yard or when I am at the cabin. I can highly recommend using clogs during the summer months! I haven't tried using all wooden clogs but if I visit the Netherlands I might buy a pair. Keep up the awesome videos!
I love the out of the box solutions you come with creatively. Your ideas don't always succeed; but you still show your failures; which is very honest and instructive. We won't always succeed but to continue to try is the main thing. I love the show man. Keep it up. I enjoy it immensely!
Me, as a Dutch who wears clogs as safety shoes and while on the tractor: proud. Hehe They require getting used to, but are very durable, comfortable, never hot nor cold, slide-ins, and cheap.. just wear thick socks the first 1-2 months for the pain.
This is one of the things I really appreciate about your channel the most. You're not afraid to just try to figure something out. You've got a problem and you figure out a solution. It's nice that you're just using the skills you have to solve the problems you encounter. It's really inspired me to try a few more adventurous projects around my house recently. Some have worked, some haven't, but I've really learned a lot. Keep up the great work!
Nice clogs :) Yeah the farmers used to wear clogs in the old days to protect their feet from rocks and stones also to keep the feet dry and above the mud. Also back in the day there weren't many shoemakers and the leather and having them custom made was not something a lot of common people could afford.
Before we understood how the human decayed after death, there was the belief that corpses were climbing out of their coffins and feasting on their relatives. This is where the vampires myth started. One method of keeping the "Vampire" in its coffin was literally staking them into it. It didn't originally need to be wooden, but wood was easier to come by then steel stakes.
Still hand made, even if you use a tool with your hands to make them. :) I'm pretty sure he has or had a lathe at one point that someone gave him, but maybe it's not fully working.
+Mark Doumert He has a lathe. You can get a decent mini lathe for around $200. No, it is not in the same class as a Jet or Robust, but they work fine for most people.
Hello Cody, If u ever have cold feet, try filling ur wooden shoes with hay. It keeps blisters away and ur feet will be nice and warm. U can also add a leather band ( notice the holes in the sides) to keep the front of your feet from rubbing against the klomp. This also prevents your feet from sliding around in the klomp an makes walking alot easier. Thanks for this video, its nice to learn more about the old woodworking skills.
I found this channel today, and been looking through a couple of videos, I dont know the ideology behind his way of working, but I was actually thinking the same thing... Is there a specific reason for not using a lathe? Im sure they didnt invent it for no reason. hihi, seems like a lot of work to make a dowel by hand like this.
+Jonas Devenport Wood is surprisingly fire resistant for a short time. I know plenty of houses made out of wood that have burnt material in them. Certainly, modern firefighting is a completely different issue.
For my timber frame dowels I used a Veritas 1 inch dowel maker from Lee Valley tools. I scrounged walnut scraps from a local moulding mill. For a 1" dowel the stock is ripped to 1 1/8" and chucked in a 1 1/8" square socket ( included in the kit) and driven through the twin blade jig. Worked perfectly, made hundreds of linear feet for the cost of the jig.
Like you say, wooden shoes are still used. They are quite comfortable. My dad also had them and we had little ones. Now I moved back to a rural environment, I plan to pick some up too.
The wear/wore a similar thing in Norther England, in the 19th and early 20th century. There was a lot of cotton mills up north and the folk who worked in the factories wore what they called clogs. The sole was made from wood made from Ash, Beech or Sycamore but the tops were made from leather, I think the might have had metal or rubber on the soles to protect them, and a metal cap at the toe to protect the toe.
I live an hour South of Holland Michigan, so a couple of years ago I went there and bought everyone a pair of wooden clogs. The kids don't wear theirs but they are used for St. Nichols day on December 6th. I wear felt clogs with cork souls most of the time. Hoeflingers. I wear my wooden clogs whenever I have to stand all day. I am going to use them in the wood shop from now on. Wearing wool socks helps with cushion. I do wood working, pottery, knitting and painting. I don't like cooking, laundry, house work or gardening. I do like home repairs and yard work.
mathias wendell has a video on making dowels using a really simple jig. in the video he uses an electric drill, but im sure it'll work just fine with a hand powered drill.
I recommend soaking them in boiled linseed oil-and letting them dry, off course-before wearing them. The oil impregnates the wood which protects it against moist and most dirt and prevents the shoes from drying and cracking. I use the same oil to take care of my Japanese white oak Katori Shinto Ryu gear. Really works wonders.
In the north part of Spain we also have wood shoes pretty similar to yours, but we have other kind of design for the sole. Check it if you are interested they are call MADREÑAS and often are used to work in the farm or garden. Recommend to be worn with thick wool socks.
They do isolate in cold weather. Totally good to use as farmer or in the garden. You dont mind about mud, keep warm feet. Still used by some people in my area and it is not even Netherlands.
I'm sure someone told you about a 1 inch nut with an X hacksawed through the nut and held in s vice and take the wood and spin it through the nut to get a perfect dowel. There are videos on RUclips of guys making arrow shafts with that method.
Thank you for taking the Thank the user who is so happy I am not to hearing this up to you or me I just don’t know how long I am on the way home and the other kids I look like I used the same thing and
Hi Mr. W. When making dowel chamfer the edges as you did before though not as much; try making your dowel about 1-2" over-length. Taper 1/2 - 1" of one end to fit nicely inside your dowel-making pipe then tap the wood through. This leading edge should help steer the rest of the dowel through keeping it squared-on & giving you a near perfectly round dowel from a slightly oversized peg of wood. Love your programs. I hope you & your family are well. Best wishes: Glenn (England)
Ahhhh, wooden shoes. These go nicely with my wooden socks. I also enjoy using my wooden blanket at night (No, it's not just a sheet of plywood, it is a wooden blanket.) The "Before Comfort" times are nice.
we still use partial wooden shoes in sweden, the sole is made of wood and the rest is made out of leather. and its plainly called träskor. very common in the countryside.
Matthias Wandel has a different solution to this problem as well. I love seeing all the different solutions to the "how to make a high-quality dowel" problem! Also, plus one on the wooden shoes. I wear a pair in my own shop. Thick wool socks render them amazingly comfortable.
HiAll the dowel makers that I have seen are holes in a piece of steel plate and the dowel stock is hammered through, the pipe should work Just as well but it would be difficult to remove the dowel after
they have lathe like devices 1000s of years ago... which are pretty simple, first you need an overhead spring (which can be any springy object, a tree branch or a paint stir stick, a spring...whatever you like).... from that you run a peice of twine, around a round spindle which you attach to your work (or in this case it can be your work... and through an eye to hold it in place.... the string goes down to a tredle... and you step on it it spins, you release it spins the other way.... try searching bow lathe or egyptian lathe....they can be VERY exact
did anyone else notice thAT @ 6:27 he used the clip showing him walking out with the mallet and then starts talking about how he should've brought the mallet with him?
+Richard Maunder You mean that rickety thing sent to him? Or did he get another one I missed? Honestly i would have a hard time putting my faith in the safety of that thing and I am the "safety police's" worst damned nightmare come true. lol
A good idea, you are indeed onto something. It's not just the leatherpunch maker's idea, but basically any smith or jeweler is familiar with the concept of drawing wire, which is that same process.... Of course hot metal is more malleable than wood, so you need a sharper hole.... Your draw knife is working fine, but if you are worried about taking off too much material then make another jig that you can go through first (like wire drawing requires going through progressively smaller diameters).
Digging through an antique shop I found a gadget that fits in an old hand brace, it has. A planer blade on it and it carves dowels . Does about 5 sizes. One part is broken but I think it should still work.
+Kyle D I get what you mean, but doesn't having the pipe not count then? and his hammer, vice, and ratchet straps? I mean lathes were invented before ratchet straps...
In our Western-Hobby, we call them "Holz-Mocs"/wooden Moccassins. They are quiet comfortable, when you buy them at least one size bigger. Then you never have cold feet, because thick woolen socks fit in them.
You should try making your own doweling plane (rounders) . I just used some nice sharp irons from an old plane, I made a block like the the one in the link, I drill the size hole i wanted in the middle of the block ,i then carved a cone shaped entrance on one side and then angled a old plane iron like a pencil sharpener to the cone, I used a saw to make the slot for the iron, so the tip of the iron was just on the edge of the hole i put a bolt with a wing nut to tighten the iron. Could be a fun project for you. www.toolsforworkingwood.com/store/item/MS-IROUND.XX/Rounding_Planes_(Rounders)__by_Ray_Iles
in denmark we call them træsko :) when i were just a little boy my grandfather had a workshop as he were a farmer and plumber. i remember being at my grandmother and grandfather's place and i remember him walking from the living room to the entry in his flannel shirt and cowboy jeans, to put his pair of wooden shoes on.. i remember when he got back in, and took them off again i would put them on and see how my six year old feet were way to small for them.. i did not even know i remembered this up until now. miss ya pops..
as a native person, i could make a pretty heavy duty mukluk. they'd look nicer than those too, no offense. slap some beads and fur on em you know lace em up nice
I'm all for people making their own tools and jigs, having been a machinist and tool maker for almost 40 years, but there are dowl punches you can buy also. There really is a satisfaction you get out of making and then using a homemade tool that works. For your dowl, if you semi point the starting end, you would stay a bit more centered.
In the electrical section of home Depot you can find those galvanized steel pipes without the threading. (The one you kind of sharpened and are hammering a square dowel into to make round.)
About 40 years ago I was working on a hog farm ( a nasty place but interesting) and the owner was moving a old tool shed. Blacksmith tool every where. Luckily for me the owner explained to me what some of the tools were. One tool was to make the hardwood dowels like your are wanting to make. It was a flat piece of steel with holes drilled in it. One side was slightly chamfered. The holes were 1/16 of a inch difference in size.. All you did was drive your blank thru the chamfered. side of steel. Going to smaller and smaller holes till you got to the size you needed. It was very fast. One way thew the plate shaved the wood off the other way compressed the wood for a tight fit.
In 1974 I spent the Summer as a 'porteur' hauling a back full of grapes from 'couper' to wagon. I wore wooden shoes, like the Dutch. Filled out with dry grass until comfortable I hauled 80 pounds of grapes per trip. Wore the shoes all Summer.
1:51 simple: - in summer they are cool - in winter they keep your feet warm (especially with good wool socks) - they mold to the way you walk so they walk fantastic - they are save to wear in regard of nails, thorns and all other sharp things beneath your feet and when you accidentally drop something on your feet it doesn't hurt - the sound they make when walking is fantastic :-) I love walking and working on them, one thing though to the first time users: it will hurt the instep of your feet in the beginning. Once used to it the "pain" will be gone not to return again. One thing though: do NOT wear them in the snow because the snow sticks to your soles and forms large clumps that makes it impossible to walk. We loved doing that for fun when we were children 🙂
BTW, the teenagers at a barn raising long ago would challenge each other as to how many trunnels (dowels for the pinned mortise and tenons) each boy could drive through the plate in a row. There were nearly 100 trunnels(slang for tree nails-wooden dowels) necessary for all the mortise and tenons in a barn.
Here's a great way to get a consistent curve with a file: start with the file perpendicular to the stock, front of the file down, handle up, and as you push through the stroke, rock the handle down and the front end up. A little more complicated when you also have a bevel like this, but nonetheless, it will help keep it round.
Dowels are made by drawing rounded off stock through a series of graduated Mortise holes. It works best to drill a hole most of the way through a 3/8 inch steel plate then take a burnishing rod and raising a burr on the remaining material so that it sort of cuts the wood as you draw it. I've made a set of perfectly staight arrows in this way with minimal effort.
I bought a pair of 'clogs', with a wooden sole and a leather upper, in Holland about twenty-five years ago. I'm now on my second pair. I use them instead of slippers around the house. They felt weird, to begin with. Once you get accustomed to them, they are super comfortable.
only one thing.... i love your 'klompen' ( woodenshoes) but you made a statement that Scandinavia use them or develops the style or something like that hahahahah one Holland( only a small part of The netherlands) is not a part of Scandinavia. believe me i am a Dutch man living in Scandinavia ;D and also nobody made ther own shoos in The Netherlands, because the old technique is quiet a art, nowadays they use a copy machine to chissel them out, you probably bought them on the Zaanse Schans, if so then you were correct that you were in Holland. they are comfortable aint they? a hint is to put an steel or leather band around them right under where you go in, this way they last longer. wel keep your videos coming and ignore those 'chairknow it all' with there negativity, just do what you do best, love to see more of your axe building stuf too, greetings from Norway or in dutch Doei!
What a agressief response, and no no chair know it all I am Dutch, and live and work in Scandinavian, so relax and watch your blood pressure! It was a friendly remark, with no negative impact, but you seem to be, what you think I am. So 'boy' look for a fight in a gym, don't use RUclips for that:-)
I'm a Dutchman who lives in the USA. I've had a pairs of wooden shoes that have fit me throughout my life. They are super nice for me to do quick yard work in, or take out the trash, ect.
The wooden shoes you have are quite similar to the ones made in drenthe , the netherlands ( they're typically covering most of the top of your foot) , there are also wooden shoes from the province of friesland that have cut out more of the top and use a leather strap across the top of your foot and are better for walking . Warm feet and no sweat when worn with wool socks.
English millworkers used this type of clog in the nineteenth century. A famous guidebook writer from the English Lake District, A. Wainwright, said that he decided he never wanted to work in a mill when he heard the workers shuffling to work at 6 in the morning with their clogs along the cobbled streets.
They used to have a dowel maker that was common kit, that worked exactly like what you've built. I don't know if they were as big in diameter, but they used them for making pegs for joinery.
Put an equal circle on each end then match each circle with a drawknife, spokeshave or hand plane. Then check with a straight edge and mark any high spots to be taken off. It's still be faster with a way to spin it and cut it with a mounted chisel or using a sheet of steel with a hole and using a larger piece of wood than your hole and driving it through.
Something that seems odd is first like you said a 1 inch pipe is I.D. , so O.D. is larger than an inch. As the schedule increases the O.D. stays the same and the thickness increases inward. Thus a schedule 40 and a schedule 80 will fit in either fitting. The I.D. for fittings are the same for 40 and 80. Fittings the thickness increases outward. And you wonder why plumbers are paid well?
My Grandfather only wore wood shoes as long as I can remember. He would modify them a bit with leather nailed to the bottoms to increase wear, lessen noise, and add a bit of comfort. The thing I remember most is that he could also use them as self defense and had fun showing how he could launch them off his foot with deadly accuracy and hit a 5 inch target 10-15 feet away every time.
This comment took a hell of a u turn that is incredibly impressive
As a dutch Guy its very Nice to see an american enjoing our culture. In Holland we call wooden shoes: "klompen". Keep up the good work Cody!
Keurig !
Huffed gold spray paint and screwed scrap wood to my feet with 3 inch screws
It is not Holland it is the nederlands
I wear clogs myself
Hey that’s where the word “clomping” comes from!
You learn something everyday.
'Metal' pants, wooden shoes... Next he'll be wearing a stone hat!
Or, glass shirt.
Iron belt
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All belts are made of iron stupid
@@phantomminer3293 mines is made of leather stupid
You know you've been watching too much wranglerstar when you live in the city and wooden clogs start sounding like a good idea lmao
Lmaoooooo
The word "sabotage" comes from wooden shoes (sabot) when under paid workers would throw their shoes in the works (gears) of the machine!
Unrelated meaning, and not nearly as interesting, but when I first heard the phrase "shoot the works" it sounded like "shoed the works", and I thought of when I was 6 and my sneakers got caught in the escalator and it stopped it from working.
Star trek fan?
last man standing?
This is a star trek story. Really it was because wooden shoes are super loud when walking lol.
Mogus
My understanding (and I might be wrong) was that the fields of Holland were so wet that leather shoes rotted quickly, while wooden shoes didn't soak up as much water, lasted longer, and kept your feet drier. Also, wood is more readily available and cheaper.
I come from the Netherlands, and it is not entirely true what you say, it was mainly worn by the farmers so that they protected their feet from sharp and heavy objects, they were the safety shoes of the past. 😉
Also the farmers were very poor to buy normal shoes so what they did is invent these wooden shoes (klompen)so they could make shoes themselves very cheap very durable and very comfortable when you learn to walk with them /in them)
I dunno if it came from the Netherlands, but in Indonesia there is wooden sandal. Instead of covering the fret like crock, they used leather or fabric as strap to the wooden soles, they make similar sounds, tap tap
They're way cheaper than leather shoes and that's all poor people could afford back in the day. Many cultures have a version of these.
@@LastBastion yea I’ve seen that before, it’s one of those solutions that seems obvious, but I’d probably have a hard time coming up with that if I had to make shoes from cheap household objects
Why do the Dutch wear clogs?
-It keeps the woodpeckers away from their heads.
+halnywiatr
It keeps the peckers away from their peckers.
+Sander Baas
No, I obey traffic laws even when the police are not around.
The clog & woodpecker bit is an old music hall joke that I’ve often heard repeated by the Dutch.
+halnywiatr If you ain't Dutch, you ain't much!
+halnywiatr ik kom uit nederland en ik loop de hele dag op klompen.
ze lopen heerlijk en hout geleid heel slecht hitten, als je niet veel beweegt krijg je geen koude poten
+halnywaitr You are from Belgium?
“And i only have one problem- HEART RACER, where did you come from, GOOD GREIF
As a Dutch person I approve of your shoes !
+Rovo188 Staat 'm goed. Looks good.
Ja, echt beast inderdaad
Dutch people unite!!! Ik ben ook Nederlands ey..
Agreed, wooden shoes are awesome.
+Remenco038 er zijn er hier nog meer hoor! lol
Cody, you inspired me! Got my klompen yesterday from Nelis Dutch Village in Holland MI. They were only $40 plus shipping, very inexpensive. While quite large, I'm hoping they give me more support and protect my feet from the cold of the concrete in my garage/shop. Roasted coffee for an order this morning and I haft say, they're quite comfortable. Going up stairs will take some getting used to, however!
One small correction. Threaded pipe has the same o.d. because the fittings need to match the different schedules of pipe. One inch pipe, no matter what the schedule, can be threaded with a one inch pipe die.
Schedule 40 or standard pipe has a larger i.d. than schedule 80. Just to make it interesting the pipe sizes are an approximation of the actual pipe size. Schedule 40 half inch pipe has a 5/8" i.d. and will just fit into 3/4" schedule 40.
The standard sizing makes it ideal for shade tree mechanics and farm yard fabricators, like me, to build telescoping chain tighteners.
Perfect information on the wooden shoes. Thank you for sharing that.
I live in Holland and i wear them too (in my spare time).
Back in the days (like 40 years ago) the wooden shoe maker sold the wooden shoes out of the trunk of his car.
If you bought a pair they where cut to a perfect personal fit using special tools like you did .
Now a days you buy them in the store and the store keeper has no idee what to do if you ask to cut the wooden shoes to a perfect fit.
In Holland wooden shoes are called "klompen", "klomp" (1) or "klompen" (2 or more).
Your pegs don't need to be perfectly round, in contrary, the angles help to lock the peg in place.
You visited Holland! That is so cool, I live in the Netherlands and I was watching your channel for a while now. I can confirm that wooden shoes are even considered comfortable and safe here. I used to wear them as a kid when I was 'helping' my grandpa doing some woodworking. Great to see this and hear the sound of the wooden shoes on the background... Enjoy them, greetings from Holland!
Clogs are great, I use Swedish clogs("toffel") during the summer when I work in the yard or when I am at the cabin. I can highly recommend using clogs during the summer months! I haven't tried using all wooden clogs but if I visit the Netherlands I might buy a pair. Keep up the awesome videos!
I love the out of the box solutions you come with creatively. Your ideas don't always succeed; but you still show your failures; which is very honest and instructive. We won't always succeed but to continue to try is the main thing. I love the show man. Keep it up. I enjoy it immensely!
I am actually about to make wooden shoes for my shop. It is not that hard to do. just takes a bit of time.
Me, as a Dutch who wears clogs as safety shoes and while on the tractor: proud. Hehe
They require getting used to, but are very durable, comfortable, never hot nor cold, slide-ins, and cheap.. just wear thick socks the first 1-2 months for the pain.
This is one of the things I really appreciate about your channel the most. You're not afraid to just try to figure something out. You've got a problem and you figure out a solution. It's nice that you're just using the skills you have to solve the problems you encounter. It's really inspired me to try a few more adventurous projects around my house recently. Some have worked, some haven't, but I've really learned a lot. Keep up the great work!
Nice clogs :)
Yeah the farmers used to wear clogs in the old days to protect their feet from rocks and stones also to keep the feet dry and above the mud.
Also back in the day there weren't many shoemakers and the leather and having them custom made was not something a lot of common people could afford.
Next project. Wranglerstar builds himself a woodsawing windmill
Goes to holland*
I wear wooden shoes now.
NO JOKE
Square peg in round hole works great.
NO it really works well
Just look at old timber and half-timber buildings all over Europe. Either square or octagonal pegs everywhere.
Interesting.. Maybe the sharp corners cut trough the round role creating a strong resistance... But the finish is bad for me
Before we understood how the human decayed after death, there was the belief that corpses were climbing out of their coffins and feasting on their relatives. This is where the vampires myth started. One method of keeping the "Vampire" in its coffin was literally staking them into it. It didn't originally need to be wooden, but wood was easier to come by then steel stakes.
Harley04 Cool background info! 🤔
"We" have known how the human body decays after death since forever, mate.
The vampire myth stretches back as far as ancient Sumer, mate.
A lathe would be the ideal thing for those dowels.
And I am pretty sure all of us would buy one if we had an extra 1200 bucks laying around.
Hand . . . Made . . . ?
Still hand made, even if you use a tool with your hands to make them. :) I'm pretty sure he has or had a lathe at one point that someone gave him, but maybe it's not fully working.
+Mark Doumert He has a lathe. You can get a decent mini lathe for around $200. No, it is not in the same class as a Jet or Robust, but they work fine for most people.
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Hello Cody,
If u ever have cold feet, try filling ur wooden shoes with hay. It keeps blisters away and ur feet will be nice and warm.
U can also add a leather band ( notice the holes in the sides) to keep the front of your feet from rubbing against the klomp.
This also prevents your feet from sliding around in the klomp an makes walking alot easier. Thanks for this video, its nice to learn more about the old woodworking skills.
what are those
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Klompen, dutch word for wooden shoes 😂
+69Phuket is klompen in english klompen? Whut?
Wood shoes
klumpkes.
alle dagen dreuge warme veut !
or just use a lathe.
+readyrepairs which could be made by hand and powered by hand.
I found this channel today, and been looking through a couple of videos, I dont know the ideology behind his way of working, but I was actually thinking the same thing...
Is there a specific reason for not using a lathe? Im sure they didnt invent it for no reason. hihi, seems like a lot of work to make a dowel by hand like this.
i think it has something do with the length he can make beacuse if he needs a dowel longer the the working length of lathe it wont do
readyrepairs or maybe make your own with a drill mounted in a vice sideways and something to hold the other end of the word
Oliver Hoekstra one year later... Got em
don't were them for fire fighting
Good advise lol
+Jonas Devenport Wood is surprisingly fire resistant for a short time. I know plenty of houses made out of wood that have burnt material in them. Certainly, modern firefighting is a completely different issue.
For my timber frame dowels I used a Veritas 1 inch dowel maker from Lee Valley tools. I scrounged walnut scraps from a local moulding mill. For a 1" dowel the stock is ripped to 1 1/8" and chucked in a 1 1/8" square socket ( included in the kit) and driven through the twin blade jig. Worked perfectly, made hundreds of linear feet for the cost of the jig.
Nobody :
RUclips Recommendation : *NOW I WEAR WOODEN SHOES*
Like you say, wooden shoes are still used. They are quite comfortable. My dad also had them and we had little ones. Now I moved back to a rural environment, I plan to pick some up too.
I have a pair myself, we wear them to in the very west of westphalia (Germany)
The wear/wore a similar thing in Norther England, in the 19th and early 20th century. There was a lot of cotton mills up north and the folk who worked in the factories wore what they called clogs. The sole was made from wood made from Ash, Beech or Sycamore but the tops were made from leather, I think the might have had metal or rubber on the soles to protect them, and a metal cap at the toe to protect the toe.
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I live an hour South of Holland Michigan, so a couple of years ago I went there and bought everyone a pair of wooden clogs. The kids don't wear theirs but they are used for St. Nichols day on December 6th. I wear felt clogs with cork souls most of the time. Hoeflingers. I wear my wooden clogs whenever I have to stand all day. I am going to use them in the wood shop from now on. Wearing wool socks helps with cushion. I do wood working, pottery, knitting and painting. I don't like cooking, laundry, house work or gardening. I do like home repairs and yard work.
mathias wendell has a video on making dowels using a really simple jig. in the video he uses an electric drill, but im sure it'll work just fine with a hand powered drill.
I recommend soaking them in boiled linseed oil-and letting them dry, off course-before wearing them.
The oil impregnates the wood which protects it against moist and most dirt and prevents the shoes from drying and cracking.
I use the same oil to take care of my Japanese white oak Katori Shinto Ryu gear.
Really works wonders.
In the north part of Spain we also have wood shoes pretty similar to yours, but we have other kind of design for the sole. Check it if you are interested they are call MADREÑAS and often are used to work in the farm or garden. Recommend to be worn with thick wool socks.
They do isolate in cold weather. Totally good to use as farmer or in the garden. You dont mind about mud, keep warm feet. Still used by some people in my area and it is not even Netherlands.
I'm sure someone told you about a 1 inch nut with an X hacksawed through the nut and held in s vice and take the wood and spin it through the nut to get a perfect dowel. There are videos on RUclips of guys making arrow shafts with that method.
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Thank the user who is so happy I am not to hearing this up to you or me I just don’t know how long I am on the way home and the other kids I look like I used the same thing and
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Hi Mr. W.
When making dowel chamfer the edges as you did before though not as much; try making your dowel about 1-2" over-length. Taper 1/2 - 1" of one end to fit nicely inside your dowel-making pipe then tap the wood through. This leading edge should help steer the rest of the dowel through keeping it squared-on & giving you a near perfectly round dowel from a slightly oversized peg of wood. Love your programs. I hope you & your family are well. Best wishes: Glenn (England)
pipe is I.D and tube is O.D just to spread knowledge! love your channel, "amish-ish" lol
Ahhhh, wooden shoes. These go nicely with my wooden socks. I also enjoy using my wooden blanket at night (No, it's not just a sheet of plywood, it is a wooden blanket.) The "Before Comfort" times are nice.
I thought you were going to use of the cloggs for a mallet to release the 1" nipple instead of going back to the shop
we still use partial wooden shoes in sweden, the sole is made of wood and the rest is made out of leather. and its plainly called träskor. very common in the countryside.
My Dutch descendant friends tell me that wooden shoes are also very slip resistant on icy surfaces.
Matthias Wandel has a different solution to this problem as well. I love seeing all the different solutions to the "how to make a high-quality dowel" problem!
Also, plus one on the wooden shoes. I wear a pair in my own shop. Thick wool socks render them amazingly comfortable.
HiAll the dowel makers that I have seen are holes in a piece of steel plate and the dowel stock is hammered through, the pipe should work Just as well but it would be difficult to remove the dowel after
they have lathe like devices 1000s of years ago... which are pretty simple, first you need an overhead spring (which can be any springy object, a tree branch or a paint stir stick, a spring...whatever you like).... from that you run a peice of twine, around a round spindle which you attach to your work (or in this case it can be your work... and through an eye to hold it in place.... the string goes down to a tredle... and you step on it it spins, you release it spins the other way.... try searching bow lathe or egyptian lathe....they can be VERY exact
did anyone else notice thAT @ 6:27 he used the clip showing him walking out with the mallet and then starts talking about how he should've brought the mallet with him?
I love authentic Dutch wooden shoes... I have several pairs... and wear them often... like walking on a hardwood floor, so comforting...
invest in a lathe, you can make all the round things you want
+Inconvient Camping yup, all my files have handles now too, haha.
+Richard Maunder You mean that rickety thing sent to him? Or did he get another one I missed? Honestly i would have a hard time putting my faith in the safety of that thing and I am the "safety police's" worst damned nightmare come true. lol
A good idea, you are indeed onto something. It's not just the leatherpunch maker's idea, but basically any smith or jeweler is familiar with the concept of drawing wire, which is that same process.... Of course hot metal is more malleable than wood, so you need a sharper hole.... Your draw knife is working fine, but if you are worried about taking off too much material then make another jig that you can go through first (like wire drawing requires going through progressively smaller diameters).
Im from holland live on a farm and somtimes i woud wheare these my self
Digging through an antique shop I found a gadget that fits in an old hand brace, it has. A planer blade on it and it carves dowels . Does about 5 sizes. One part is broken but I think it should still work.
why not use a lathe to make those dowels?
+TheAmericanGuy I thought he had a wood turning lathe. Didn't he make a chisel handle with it?
+Kyle D I get what you mean, but doesn't having the pipe not count then? and his hammer, vice, and ratchet straps? I mean lathes were invented before ratchet straps...
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In our Western-Hobby, we call them "Holz-Mocs"/wooden Moccassins.
They are quiet comfortable, when you buy them at least one size bigger. Then you never have cold feet, because thick woolen socks fit in them.
I'm from Brittany and my grand father used to wear "sabots".. And for a comfy feel he used to stuff some straw inside them
My family does reenactment camping and we have these same shoes. I highly recommend lining your shoes in lambs wool. If not some suede will work.
You should try making your own doweling plane (rounders) . I just used some nice sharp irons from an old plane, I made a block like the the one in the link, I drill the size hole i wanted in the middle of the block ,i then carved a cone shaped entrance on one side and then angled a old plane iron like a pencil sharpener to the cone, I used a saw to make the slot for the iron, so the tip of the iron was just on the edge of the hole i put a bolt with a wing nut to tighten the iron.
Could be a fun project for you.
www.toolsforworkingwood.com/store/item/MS-IROUND.XX/Rounding_Planes_(Rounders)__by_Ray_Iles
in denmark we call them træsko :) when i were just a little boy my grandfather had a workshop as he were a farmer and plumber.
i remember being at my grandmother and grandfather's place and i remember him walking from the living room to the entry in his flannel shirt and cowboy jeans, to put his pair of wooden shoes on..
i remember when he got back in, and took them off again i would put them on and see how my six year old feet were way to small for them..
i did not even know i remembered this up until now. miss ya pops..
as a native person, i could make a pretty heavy duty mukluk. they'd look nicer than those too, no offense.
slap some beads and fur on em you know
lace em up nice
How much would you want for that😂 I'll buy some wood shoes
We used to get wooded shoes at Lynden, WA and Solvag, CA when we were kids. Both are Dutch towns there on the West Coast.
I was dying to hear him say "focus you fack!" like AvE
Use a steel plate with a 1" hole. Chamfer the end of your dowel to give you a leading edge. Its called a doweling plate.
18:52 New knife?
I'm all for people making their own tools and jigs, having been a machinist and tool maker for almost 40 years, but there are dowl punches you can buy also. There really is a satisfaction you get out of making and then using a homemade tool that works. For your dowl, if you semi point the starting end, you would stay a bit more centered.
Damn are those supreme??? Those shoes are fire
Warm in the winter, very good resistant against falling heavy metal or stones.
Didn't Matthias wandels wood working channel have a build on a dowel maker?
So did Jack Houweling
God damn love his channel
And Izzy swan
In the electrical section of home Depot you can find those galvanized steel pipes without the threading. (The one you kind of sharpened and are hammering a square dowel into to make round.)
What knife was that that you used?
About 40 years ago I was working on a hog farm ( a nasty place but interesting) and the owner was moving a old tool shed. Blacksmith tool every where. Luckily for me the owner explained to me what some of the tools were. One tool was to make the hardwood dowels like your are wanting to make. It was a flat piece of steel with holes drilled in it. One side was slightly chamfered. The holes were 1/16 of a inch difference in size.. All you did was drive your blank thru the chamfered. side of steel. Going to smaller and smaller holes till you got to the size you needed. It was very fast. One way thew the plate shaved the wood off the other way compressed the wood for a tight fit.
Hi Cody. what kind of pocket knife was that? looks beautiful.
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In 1974 I spent the Summer as a 'porteur' hauling a back full of grapes from 'couper' to wagon. I wore wooden shoes, like the Dutch. Filled out with dry grass until comfortable I hauled 80 pounds of grapes per trip. Wore the shoes all Summer.
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1:51 simple:
- in summer they are cool
- in winter they keep your feet warm (especially with good wool socks)
- they mold to the way you walk so they walk fantastic
- they are save to wear in regard of nails, thorns and all other sharp things beneath your feet and when you accidentally drop something on your feet it doesn't hurt
- the sound they make when walking is fantastic :-)
I love walking and working on them, one thing though to the first time users: it will hurt the instep of your feet in the beginning. Once used to it the "pain" will be gone not to return again.
One thing though: do NOT wear them in the snow because the snow sticks to your soles and forms large clumps that makes it impossible to walk. We loved doing that for fun when we were children 🙂
What knife was he using at 19:05?
BTW, the teenagers at a barn raising long ago would challenge each other as to how many trunnels (dowels for the pinned mortise and tenons) each boy could drive through the plate in a row. There were nearly 100 trunnels(slang for tree nails-wooden dowels) necessary for all the mortise and tenons in a barn.
Cody, its 2019, do you ever wear the wooden shoes anymore???
Welp its 2020 now.
Here's a great way to get a consistent curve with a file: start with the file perpendicular to the stock, front of the file down, handle up, and as you push through the stroke, rock the handle down and the front end up. A little more complicated when you also have a bevel like this, but nonetheless, it will help keep it round.
You were carrying the mallet out there the first time...?
+Ventures With Joe but he didn't have the wrench... the magic of youtube - which he was trying to use to remove pipe
Dowels are made by drawing rounded off stock through a series of graduated Mortise holes. It works best to drill a hole most of the way through a 3/8 inch steel plate then take a burnishing rod and raising a burr on the remaining material so that it sort of cuts the wood as you draw it. I've made a set of perfectly staight arrows in this way with minimal effort.
Where did you get your leather pants?
filson tin pants - wranglermart.com
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how about putting the wood into something that spins and whittling it down?
I thought that too, or using a wood lathe and turning it.
Why do you have a swastika in your name? Are you a Nazi?
I bought a pair of 'clogs', with a wooden sole and a leather upper, in Holland about twenty-five years ago. I'm now on my second pair. I use them instead of slippers around the house. They felt weird, to begin with. Once you get accustomed to them, they are super comfortable.
Alternative dowel method
woodgears.ca/dowel/making.html
A classmate of mine's dad was an US Army Engineer in Holland, he had a pair of olive drab ones.
only one thing.... i love your 'klompen' ( woodenshoes) but you made a statement that Scandinavia use them or develops the style or something like that hahahahah one Holland( only a small part of The netherlands) is not a part of Scandinavia. believe me i am a Dutch man living in Scandinavia ;D and also nobody made ther own shoos in The Netherlands, because the old technique is quiet a art, nowadays they use a copy machine to chissel them out, you probably bought them on the Zaanse Schans, if so then you were correct that you were in Holland. they are comfortable aint they? a hint is to put an steel or leather band around them right under where you go in, this way they last longer. wel keep your videos coming and ignore those 'chairknow it all' with there negativity, just do what you do best, love to see more of your axe building stuf too, greetings from Norway or in dutch Doei!
You are a chairknowitall? He did not says Holland is in Scandinavia.
What a agressief response, and no no chair know it all I am Dutch, and live and work in Scandinavian, so relax and watch your blood pressure! It was a friendly remark, with no negative impact, but you seem to be, what you think I am. So 'boy' look for a fight in a gym, don't use RUclips for that:-)
+Bushman 412 Put the name of the guy you're replying to i don't see whos aggressive here or did he delete his comment?
I had a pair of klonks when I was a kid in Germany. Never did get used to them. Playing Foosball with them was out of the question.
"Let's see you do that with your nicks" do you mean Nikes? :D
Ask your wife about Swedish clogs. Wood lower leader upper. Most comfy shoes I ever wear and still wear them after 30 years in USA
have you ever seen anyone actualy wearing wooden shoes?
yes
I'm a Dutchman who lives in the USA. I've had a pairs of wooden shoes that have fit me throughout my life. They are super nice for me to do quick yard work in, or take out the trash, ect.
For some reason it would make me happy to see a neighbor doing yard work in wooden shoes.
Most people don't wear them here. It's mostly older people.
Yes, Dutch people actually wear them.
The wooden shoes you have are quite similar to the ones made in drenthe , the netherlands ( they're typically covering most of the top of your foot) , there are also wooden shoes from the province of friesland that have cut out more of the top and use a leather strap across the top of your foot and are better for walking . Warm feet and no sweat when worn with wool socks.
Your wife doesn't let you wear those shoes in public does she, the women will be chasing you all over.
English millworkers used this type of clog in the nineteenth century. A famous guidebook writer from the English Lake District, A. Wainwright, said that he decided he never wanted to work in a mill when he heard the workers shuffling to work at 6 in the morning with their clogs along the cobbled streets.
Calls them “Nicks”
Me gets triggered and wanting to slap him
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They used to have a dowel maker that was common kit, that worked exactly like what you've built. I don't know if they were as big in diameter, but they used them for making pegs for joinery.
Put an equal circle on each end then match each circle with a drawknife, spokeshave or hand plane. Then check with a straight edge and mark any high spots to be taken off. It's still be faster with a way to spin it and cut it with a mounted chisel or using a sheet of steel with a hole and using a larger piece of wood than your hole and driving it through.
Something that seems odd is first like you said a 1 inch pipe is I.D. , so O.D. is larger than an inch. As the schedule increases the O.D. stays the same and the thickness increases inward. Thus a schedule 40 and a schedule 80 will fit in either fitting. The I.D. for fittings are the same for 40 and 80. Fittings the thickness increases outward. And you wonder why plumbers are paid well?