You should make some woodworking tools for your dad. Hewing hatchet, froe, drawknife, chisel etc. I'm making a chisel right now myself (though I'm only making it for myself). You can even make irons for planes/spokeshaves etc. I suppose a hammer too. A warrington hammer is just like a light cross peen.
The fact that a blacksmithing channel has gone completely woodworking and everyone loves it is amazing. Great to see the bond between the father and son, next series Alec teaches his old man how to build a damascus chair?
Those two work together. You can be brilliant blacksmith, but if you cant make least decent wooden handle, project wont be what it could be, so metal workers sometimes need to be very familiar with wood working too.
Mr. Steele is such a pleasant man to listen to while he is talking. He's got such a nice calming way of talking. Nice seeing you with your father Alec. Enjoy every minute with him and cherish him. I lost my father 13 months ago. It's rough. Keep on keeping on with the videos.
41 years for me, (im 48) they didnt have video, ph camera etc etc back then, so yea, make those memories, an take the picks/vids An sorry for your loss dude
"It's good. Now do the other one." I love Alec's dad. :) Then he goes from the steamer and drops one of the boards. Now we know where Alec gets THAT from!
please make your father a new set of tools hand forged by you. Adding in adjustments you discovered by using his existing ones. The shape of the blue handled draw knife with a larger blade. Some carving chisels, adze, left and right flattening axes/hatchets. Maybe have him over to the shop to suggest adjustments/improvements to the most used tools.
Love this little”chair” series! Would love to see more of this kind of cool project with your Dad…..something about the dynamic is heart warming. Thanks for sharing this cool time with us Alec!
How blessed you are to have a Father who delights in spending time with you, sharing his knowledge and skill. It's easy to see his influence in your commitment to quality and detail.
It's lovely to see you and you father working together, its now clear where you got you creative skills from. It's also amazing that you are showing the traditional skills and processes of chair making.
"Put a car on it... Gopher it" haha what a great laugh you had there. What a treasure that cinemagraphic shot was that had you sitting at the draw knife, complete with Junior footpegs as your dear old dad looked on approvingly ... "priceless.
Like the shadiversity sponsor ads, or when Alec promotes his shop in a vid (like the pearing knife he made with Jamie). An ad well done is always nice.
This brought back some memories of my gramps. "We old *people* do carpentering. Leave the tool making to yunguns", very roughly translated. Thanks for the throwback, Alec. Got me to realize how much I learned from those weekends.
Love the comment about transferring knowledge from one skill to another. I did that with going from whittling to blacksmithing after watching the channel (both teach you to plan in advance, how to salvage a mistake, and when to admit that you need to start over- handy lessons for pet projects and life in general!)
It is extremely rewarding to be able to share this special time with your father and you! Blatantly clear where many of your traits originate! Awesome!! Take it from me, please, you will treasure these times more than you can now imagine! Great show!!! 👍🏼
Glad to see you get to spent time with your father doing the things he loves and that you have taken his knowledge and adapted it to your skills. Please enjoy that time - stay safe young man.
The changing of the wood grain was super cool to see sped up when you were making the back slats. And that had to be the cutest ad I've ever seen in my life, :D
My wife and I are expecting our first child and man, this has been such a wonderful series so far. I’m not a millionth of a craftsman as your lovely father is but I so adore the relationship y’all have and am completely smitten by the idea of one day being in his shoes. It’s so amazing seeing A) a new form (to me) of woodworking, and more importantly B) a father passing on to his son his knowledge and wisdom. I hope I can bring a similar experience to my child some day. You are truly blessed by having such a talented and wonderful father who is also a talented and wonderful woodworker. Thank you so much for sharing.
There's something really satisfying about making something the old fashioned way. With that said, watching Alec make those slats really makes me appreciate a planer (i think the British call it a thicknesser).
I love that you're able to do this with your dad. I cherish the moments I had making things in the shop with my dad. These opportunities will be gone before you know it, and you'll also cherish these moments and memories. Make the most of these times. Cheers!
YOU NEED TO MAKE MORE VIDEOS WITH YOUR FATHER!!! I promise you'll regret not making more memories on film with him when hes dead and gone one day. I wish I had more videos with my dad growing up. You'll cherish these memories forever and they are digital, so you'll be able to look back on them forever. Hope you and the family are doing well!
Hey Alec, been actually trying to avoid writing this but here goes. These moments you are spending with your father? Precious. Treasure them. It's amazing that you have the necessary resources to go back and watch this video whenever your dad is no longer with you and you start to miss him. I lost my dad, very suddenly, about a week ago and I wish I would have done more things with him, even when we had very different interests.
Old units still used by traditional bodgers, especially the ones who learnt their trade before the UK (which empire did you think “imperial” referred to?) switched to mostly using SI units.
It's very obvious your dad needs an old fashioned style draw knife with similar dimensions to the modern blue handled one.. Your just the man for the job
i wish there are more people who are like your dad, like he takes the time to do something that is a beautiful craft and still is a great way of passing the time. the process is honestly fascinating and shows how much effort is put into chairs back in the day too. it's honestly inspiring and it cool you did this as a kid too. stay safe!
Alac your a great teacher and guy to watch, but you should really start a series where your dad teaches his craft as the way your father talks makes me wanna learn more about building chairs this way
Fantastic seeing you getting to work on a project with your dad. Outta curiosity is your dad gonna start a YT channel? Wood working is just as interesting as blacksmithing so I for one would happily watch whatever he put up
It’s great seeing you interact with your dad. I wish my dad was still here to work on things and make things with. However he’s been gone for a long time now and now I am the one my grandkids want to work with. Lol. The Tool circle of life I guess. Pass it all down so it’s not lost as time goes by.
Alec, I think your next video should be you making your dad a new custom set of draw-knives, tailor made to get around the wrist angle issue you mentioned.
This just made my day! I was literally wondering where part 2 was at this morning. It's very endearing to see Alec working with his father on such a cool project! That chair is going to last for generations. Unless Alec's kid decides to take it apart to see how it's built. LOL!
Hey Alec, it would be so cool to see you craft a drawknife for your father ! its called "plane de charron" in french and it is an amazing tool ! Keep up the good work !
Love it. Thanks for sharing Alec. I came to metalworking from woodworking partially thanks to you. I am glad to see you taking the return path in excellent company. Keep it up.
As i gre up to be the son amd grandson of carpenters. This video takes me back to being a kid and showed the right way to do things. Almost mind boggling how different we build rocking chairs.
Would love to see you make some of those tools (draw knives, axes, chisels, saws etc) and then make another project with your dad using the tools you made.
Alec’s dad will be an inch (imperial measurement as it’s known here) man because the metric system wasn’t introduced until he would have been middle aged at that point. Alec will have been brought up on metric at school and probably taught imperial by his dad. For those of us at school when we changed from imperial to metric it was crazy confusing because everything up to a foot in length was measured in metric and everything over that in imperial. We were never taught metric weights at all either and the distance a car runs on its fuel is still in mpg despite fuel being sold in litres for 30 years or so.
Another awesome video. Thank you for share the time you are spending with your father. And I think it would be great for you to forge some tools for your father and share that on video.
Idea for a gift to your dad: I just saw an old video from jimmy diresta were he was making a strip canoe, and he used a metal steamer... the design was very simple, and you could totally make a metal steamer for your dad! Great video by the way!
I hope you and your dad having fun doing this I love watching this stuff I love watching you work at blackSmith woodwork I wish you the best of luck have good rest of year
A very special day, For you and your Dad. Great for a get together and create anything. Thanks Alex and Your such a lucky man to have someone to teach you good work eithic. Love this video
You should make some woodworking tools for your dad. Hewing hatchet, froe, drawknife, chisel etc. I'm making a chisel right now myself (though I'm only making it for myself). You can even make irons for planes/spokeshaves etc. I suppose a hammer too. A warrington hammer is just like a light cross peen.
I'm making my own draw knife right now, gonna move onto a carving knife after
Making damascus tools for my woodworking dad
The amount of TIMES I have suggested making this wonderful man a beautiful drawknife is unreal, it’s such a good idea!!
that would be SOOO cool, especially if alec made them in damascus.
@@geodeaholicm4889 I mean, it’d have to be Damascus.
Hey Alec, you need to make your dad a set of Damascus draw knives
YESS ! C'mon alec, do it.
Do it
YES! Do it
Do it
Yes please!
The fact that a blacksmithing channel has gone completely woodworking and everyone loves it is amazing. Great to see the bond between the father and son, next series Alec teaches his old man how to build a damascus chair?
I'm sure it's equal parts Alec having a good presentation style and most of us just liking to watch stuff get made.
Imagine a Damascus chair. It would be worth $75k
In 6423 parts
Here for the personality regardless of content. It's a good community :)
Those two work together. You can be brilliant blacksmith, but if you cant make least decent wooden handle, project wont be what it could be, so metal workers sometimes need to be very familiar with wood working too.
Mr. Steele doesn't realize this, but Alec will scrap the chair and start over soon. ;)
Hahaha
Is Steele, Alex's real surname? If not, technically it's Mr Woode?
@@buttieboy666 Beautiful comment
Next up on episode 37, we put wheels and pedals on the chair (bet you thought we forgot about your mountain bike build)
Hahahaha best comment yet!!
Mr. Steele is such a pleasant man to listen to while he is talking. He's got such a nice calming way of talking. Nice seeing you with your father Alec. Enjoy every minute with him and cherish him. I lost my father 13 months ago. It's rough. Keep on keeping on with the videos.
@ TwistedFire85: So sorry for your loss, my Dad passed away 5 years ago.
41 years for me, (im 48) they didnt have video, ph camera etc etc back then, so yea, make those memories, an take the picks/vids
An sorry for your loss dude
My dad is 80 and still going. So thankful I got to reform my relationship with him as an adult. Learned so much from him.
Sloyd knife and Korlosing knife?
If Alec and mrs Steele ever have little steeles they’re going to have the best grandpa.
Little shavings? Shards?
❤️ That hit me hard in the feels. OMG yes!
Little Chips
Accept for my grandchildren 😜😁
And way less content:/
"It's good. Now do the other one."
I love Alec's dad. :)
Then he goes from the steamer and drops one of the boards. Now we know where Alec gets THAT from!
Your nord VPN add was probably the best one that I have ever seen.
It's right up there with when they played "keep away" from Will.
We all need a friend like Jamie to tell us when we're doing stupid.
"How long do we need our back slabs "
"I've forgotten"
Is the realest thing I've heard in a vid all week. Love it
Jamie: Why not just support it with another piece of wood.
Alec: Because that would be smart.
We don't do smart things here on this channel
I fucking died at that part of the vid 😂
“Golly I feel really stupid” 😭
please make your father a new set of tools hand forged by you. Adding in adjustments you discovered by using his existing ones. The shape of the blue handled draw knife with a larger blade. Some carving chisels, adze, left and right flattening axes/hatchets. Maybe have him over to the shop to suggest adjustments/improvements to the most used tools.
Even if he just customized the larger ones. However, I’m sure the larger ones are angled the way they are purposefully
Love this little”chair” series! Would love to see more of this kind of cool project with your Dad…..something about the dynamic is heart warming. Thanks for sharing this cool time with us Alec!
I love that Alec's dad is just there chilling like a very responsible dad.
How blessed you are to have a Father who delights in spending time with you, sharing his knowledge and skill. It's easy to see his influence in your commitment to quality and detail.
I wouldn't mind watching a carpenter's tools making series in a future.
You could make your dad a damascus draw knife!
Those time-lapses of Alec slimming down the slats were trippy, watching the wood's grain change like that.
It's lovely to see you and you father working together, its now clear where you got you creative skills from. It's also amazing that you are showing the traditional skills and processes of chair making.
Can I just say that, watching you work on the back slats is very satisfying. Seeing you work and the grain of the wood change is amazing.
Alec Steele senior is a treat! Please more father and son projects
Alec, you have no idea how much I have enjoyed these videos with your father! You both are lucky to have one another.
"Put a car on it... Gopher it" haha what a great laugh you had there. What a treasure that cinemagraphic shot was that had you sitting at the draw knife, complete with Junior footpegs as your dear old dad looked on approvingly ... "priceless.
I love seeing you work with your dad. All of the different axes and different tools are great.
7:30 It's so cool watching the grain pattern change in fast motion.
7:28 Thats so satisfying to see the wood change!!! I LOVE IT
7:29 whoah, it's so cool to see the pattern change as you cut deeper bit by bit.
I dont mind ads when they are creative. Well done!
Like the shadiversity sponsor ads, or when Alec promotes his shop in a vid (like the pearing knife he made with Jamie). An ad well done is always nice.
This brought back some memories of my gramps. "We old *people* do carpentering. Leave the tool making to yunguns", very roughly translated. Thanks for the throwback, Alec. Got me to realize how much I learned from those weekends.
Love the comment about transferring knowledge from one skill to another. I did that with going from whittling to blacksmithing after watching the channel (both teach you to plan in advance, how to salvage a mistake, and when to admit that you need to start over- handy lessons for pet projects and life in general!)
It is extremely rewarding to be able to share this special time with your father and you! Blatantly clear where many of your traits originate! Awesome!!
Take it from me, please, you will treasure these times more than you can now imagine! Great show!!! 👍🏼
This is by far one of my favorite series you’ve put up.
Glad to see you get to spent time with your father doing the things he loves and that you have taken his knowledge and adapted it to your skills. Please enjoy that time - stay safe young man.
Reminds me of me and my dad, he passed away a couple years back though. Great to see you guys having fun working together. Enjoy the fun times!
The changing of the wood grain was super cool to see sped up when you were making the back slats. And that had to be the cutest ad I've ever seen in my life, :D
My wife and I are expecting our first child and man, this has been such a wonderful series so far. I’m not a millionth of a craftsman as your lovely father is but I so adore the relationship y’all have and am completely smitten by the idea of one day being in his shoes. It’s so amazing seeing A) a new form (to me) of woodworking, and more importantly B) a father passing on to his son his knowledge and wisdom. I hope I can bring a similar experience to my child some day. You are truly blessed by having such a talented and wonderful father who is also a talented and wonderful woodworker. Thank you so much for sharing.
Watching the grain of the back slats ebb and flow in time lapse as you were shaving them was very satisfying.
I love that you can see the grain of the wood change so sharply in the time-lapse
There's something really satisfying about making something the old fashioned way. With that said, watching Alec make those slats really makes me appreciate a planer (i think the British call it a thicknesser).
It's really nice to see you working with your dad on this project. You ask him to make another. Its quite wholesome to watch really. :)
Loved watching the time lapse of the draw knife work with the grain being revealed.
Alec enjoy these moments with your father. They will be the best moments of your life. Cheers to you and your family!
I love that you're able to do this with your dad. I cherish the moments I had making things in the shop with my dad. These opportunities will be gone before you know it, and you'll also cherish these moments and memories. Make the most of these times. Cheers!
Love this video series. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Forge On. Keep Making. God Bless. Video idea make wood working tools.
I love your g'pa! When I look at him- his stance, his words, his ease- I see a man in his forties- tops. He's still so spry!
So fun to watch you and your Dad together!
Please thank him for letting you strike out on your dream of metal work at a young age!
YOU NEED TO MAKE MORE VIDEOS WITH YOUR FATHER!!! I promise you'll regret not making more memories on film with him when hes dead and gone one day. I wish I had more videos with my dad growing up. You'll cherish these memories forever and they are digital, so you'll be able to look back on them forever. Hope you and the family are doing well!
Hey Alec, been actually trying to avoid writing this but here goes.
These moments you are spending with your father? Precious. Treasure them.
It's amazing that you have the necessary resources to go back and watch this video whenever your dad is no longer with you and you start to miss him.
I lost my dad, very suddenly, about a week ago and I wish I would have done more things with him, even when we had very different interests.
Amazing what your dad can do with just a box of tools and his imagination! He's keeping the old ways alive and deserves my utmost respect.
I've never been more proud of Alec. Back in the UK and still using freedom units of measure like half a pound and an eighth of an inch.
Old units still used by traditional bodgers, especially the ones who learnt their trade before the UK (which empire did you think “imperial” referred to?) switched to mostly using SI units.
This series is extremely therapeutic if your dad is no longer around! I love this relationship!
It’s great to see you building stuff with your dad. I see where you get your talents and work ethic .
It's very obvious your dad needs an old fashioned style draw knife with similar dimensions to the modern blue handled one.. Your just the man for the job
i wish there are more people who are like your dad, like he takes the time to do something that is a beautiful craft and still is a great way of passing the time.
the process is honestly fascinating and shows how much effort is put into chairs back in the day too.
it's honestly inspiring and it cool you did this as a kid too.
stay safe!
just goes to show that, with a good teacher, good tools, a learning attitude and a work ethic, you can make whatever you want.
Alac your a great teacher and guy to watch, but you should really start a series where your dad teaches his craft as the way your father talks makes me wanna learn more about building chairs this way
that manual hand drill looks unexpectedly modern and advanced compared to usual woodworking tools. love it.
Fantastic seeing you getting to work on a project with your dad. Outta curiosity is your dad gonna start a YT channel? Wood working is just as interesting as blacksmithing so I for one would happily watch whatever he put up
Watching wood working like this is so much fun to see. Please do more building with your father this is awesome!!!
These videos feel so much like the older content which I enjoyed so much! Great job Alec, and father.
It's really nice to see you working with your dad... It's priceless!
I never heard of working with green wood until your Full Blast podcast. Thanks for sharing and spreading the knowledge!
It’s beautiful finding that grain in live wood love working down my material and seeing the hidden gems
It’s great seeing you interact with your dad. I wish my dad was still here to work on things and make things with. However he’s been gone for a long time now and now I am the one my grandkids want to work with. Lol. The Tool circle of life I guess. Pass it all down so it’s not lost as time goes by.
I love norfolk folk, they seem to all have this kind of mad charisma/ wild excitement about them. Must be all the good ales.
Really enjoying this build with your father, he is a hoot! Great video, thumbs up. Here's hoping that you do some more projects with your Dad.
How awesome would it be for you to do a series making your dad a whole set of hand forged wood working tools.. he would cherish them!
Alec, I think your next video should be you making your dad a new custom set of draw-knives, tailor made to get around the wrist angle issue you mentioned.
This just made my day! I was literally wondering where part 2 was at this morning. It's very endearing to see Alec working with his father on such a cool project! That chair is going to last for generations. Unless Alec's kid decides to take it apart to see how it's built. LOL!
I think my favorite part of these videos is seeing how happy Mr. Steele is making something with his son
I want to see you make some damascus tools for Alec Steele Sr. now... =p
A whole set even! =D
Hey Alec, it would be so cool to see you craft a drawknife for your father ! its called "plane de charron" in french and it is an amazing tool ! Keep up the good work !
Love it. Thanks for sharing Alec. I came to metalworking from woodworking partially thanks to you. I am glad to see you taking the return path in excellent company. Keep it up.
This is a great series. I am enjoying watching Mr Steele and Alex working together.
That is the best advertisement I've ever seen. That was awesome. Yogo was so happy that she got the ball!
As i gre up to be the son amd grandson of carpenters. This video takes me back to being a kid and showed the right way to do things. Almost mind boggling how different we build rocking chairs.
LOVE YOUR DAD!!!!!
Papa Steele looks so happy and proud of his son, I'm green with envy
Love this series. You and your father should combine a project using both metal and wood work disciplines.
This series makes me feel good
flipping love your dad! is he still making things? and supper excited to see how your chair turns out.
Would love to see you make some of those tools (draw knives, axes, chisels, saws etc) and then make another project with your dad using the tools you made.
Absolutely LOVE your dad gave the measurements in imperial units!! 👍🏼🇺🇸
Not enough people are commenting on how absolutely fantastic that sponsorship skit was 😂😂
Lol I was looking for a comment about it..🔥
loved watching you interact with your dad, & the nord ad was the coolest i've seen in a long time.
4:07 Alac's Dad - "They're about an inch and 1/4" looks straight at the camera (& says silently "for you Americans")
Alec’s dad will be an inch (imperial measurement as it’s known here) man because the metric system wasn’t introduced until he would have been middle aged at that point. Alec will have been brought up on metric at school and probably taught imperial by his dad. For those of us at school when we changed from imperial to metric it was crazy confusing because everything up to a foot in length was measured in metric and everything over that in imperial. We were never taught metric weights at all either and the distance a car runs on its fuel is still in mpg despite fuel being sold in litres for 30 years or so.
Great dads makes great sons
Another awesome video. Thank you for share the time you are spending with your father. And I think it would be great for you to forge some tools for your father and share that on video.
cool watching the grains of the wood when you are thinning
Im shocked when he was going threw the draw knifes he didn't go to his forge and make one haha its always fun when he makes the tool he needs
Ah. The old addage...need a tool, make a tool.
really enjoy this mini series keep it up.
Idea for a gift to your dad: I just saw an old video from jimmy diresta were he was making a strip canoe, and he used a metal steamer... the design was very simple, and you could totally make a metal steamer for your dad! Great video by the way!
I hope you and your dad having fun doing this I love watching this stuff I love watching you work at blackSmith woodwork I wish you the best of luck have good rest of year
A very special day, For you and your Dad.
Great for a get together and create anything.
Thanks Alex and Your such a lucky man to have someone to teach you good work eithic.
Love this video
New channel: ' New Wood by Old Steele'
Man I love seeing the wood transform into smooth pegs and boards from rough logs!
Watching Alec make the front legs, makes me glad wood lathes exist for when i want to do this
This woodshop is just so cozy looking
Try using the draw knife bevel down. It puts the handles where you want them and gives you better leverage.
Excellent, another video with pops!
I absolutely love the dynamic you have with your dad!