Sort of like all the woodworking shows where the workshop is bigger than the entirety of a two bedroom apartment with ~$150,000 worth of woodworking tools and machines and spare off-cuts of babinga wood and some now extinct variety of white oak litter the shelves.
I’ve been kicking around the idea of hosting a Youtube channel from my wood shop. Which is a 10x12 foot shed on the corner of my family’s land. I’ve built some decent furniture out of there.
I often see comments under woodworking videos, to include the New Yankee Workshop’s, that read “I could do that too If I had a giant building an $30,000 worth of tools” and I have two simultaneous thoughts:
It’s a valid complaint; woodworking is a relatively expensive hobby to take up in both tools and materials, and by the time you feel you know enough to stand in front of a camera and talk you’ve probably amassed quite an arsenal, worsening that perception.
Not really. Over half the woodworking channels I watch never count the cost of materials that they already own when they total up the cost.
I’m kind of ok with them not counting the cost of tools, but the materials need to be counted, especially when they are doing something like “how to build a desk for under $50.”
Use what you got!.. You got a dull kitchen knife? Sure you can make a kitchen cabinet. Here’s how you do it…get the dried marine plywood from your walk-in wood dryer. Once you cut all the parts on the bandsaw and planed them on your walk-in planer, then simply feel for splinters. Any splinters can easily be dealt with using your dull kitchen knife. You can also use old used up sandpaper. Once you sprayed it, just put it in your UV curing room with automated venting. It will be ready for the installation crew by tomorrow.
Not as specific as it should be. They’re all insane with the tools and materials these days.
Let’s make a box for Amazon deliveries.
We’ll start by breaking down this $300/sheet plywood with my $1500 festool track saw setup plugged into my $1,000 festool vacuum.
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Now, before we actually start cutting, let’s measure and square everything up with this $150 Woodpeckers square and a $60 knife I use for some reason instead of a fucking pencil…
Woodworker here, the reason you use a marking knife rather than a pencil is because it is more precise, in two ways:
A pencil line has width to it. Even a very fine mechanical pencil line. A marking knife has a single bevel, so the cut it leaves looks like |/ The vertical surface is the mark.
If you need to transfer the mark around the board, say for tenoning, you make the first mark, then you turn the board, put the knife in the end of the cut, butt the square against the knife, and then cut. With a pencil you might stair step a bit. Then, when it’s time to cut, you can register a chisel against the mark, you can feel when you’re in place because it clicks in.
Note I’m talking about chisels here, because you use a marking knife when using hand tool techniques. It doesn’t help at all when using power tools like a track saw, so using a marking knife in a power tool workflow is a bit pretentious.
A marking knife does not need to be expensive, you can use an ordinary utility knife to get the job done, and a cheap single-bevel marking knife can be had for a few bucks. I bought mine from eBay for $9.62 American. Or you could buy this weeb shit for $2400.
Yes, a pencil almarknhas width. That’s why you choose a side of the line to cut. I’ve been woodworking for decades, and nobody ever needs more precision than a pencil because wood’s movement and change over time is enough to erase that extra precision.
Eh, if I’m doing something like chiseling the shoulders of tenons by hand, I like using a knife to mark that so that I don’t stair-step it around the board, plus it makes sure the line that will be visible in the finished product will be straight and not jagged. When marking out for using power tools, I use a pencil, typically a Pilot Sharpwriter. They’re cheap as borscht and the spring action they have reduces the amount of lead I break on wood.
Sort of like all the woodworking shows where the workshop is bigger than the entirety of a two bedroom apartment with ~$150,000 worth of woodworking tools and machines and spare off-cuts of babinga wood and some now extinct variety of white oak litter the shelves.
I’ve been kicking around the idea of hosting a Youtube channel from my wood shop. Which is a 10x12 foot shed on the corner of my family’s land. I’ve built some decent furniture out of there.
I often see comments under woodworking videos, to include the New Yankee Workshop’s, that read “I could do that too If I had a giant building an $30,000 worth of tools” and I have two simultaneous thoughts:
It’s a valid complaint; woodworking is a relatively expensive hobby to take up in both tools and materials, and by the time you feel you know enough to stand in front of a camera and talk you’ve probably amassed quite an arsenal, worsening that perception.
I’ll just bet you couldn’t.
DIY workshop, for projects you can do at home
The workshop…Adam Savage’s
Christ, that’s specific.
Not really. Over half the woodworking channels I watch never count the cost of materials that they already own when they total up the cost.
I’m kind of ok with them not counting the cost of tools, but the materials need to be counted, especially when they are doing something like “how to build a desk for under $50.”
Use what you got!.. You got a dull kitchen knife? Sure you can make a kitchen cabinet. Here’s how you do it…get the dried marine plywood from your walk-in wood dryer. Once you cut all the parts on the bandsaw and planed them on your walk-in planer, then simply feel for splinters. Any splinters can easily be dealt with using your dull kitchen knife. You can also use old used up sandpaper. Once you sprayed it, just put it in your UV curing room with automated venting. It will be ready for the installation crew by tomorrow.
Not as specific as it should be. They’re all insane with the tools and materials these days.
Woodworker here, the reason you use a marking knife rather than a pencil is because it is more precise, in two ways:
A pencil line has width to it. Even a very fine mechanical pencil line. A marking knife has a single bevel, so the cut it leaves looks like |/ The vertical surface is the mark.
If you need to transfer the mark around the board, say for tenoning, you make the first mark, then you turn the board, put the knife in the end of the cut, butt the square against the knife, and then cut. With a pencil you might stair step a bit. Then, when it’s time to cut, you can register a chisel against the mark, you can feel when you’re in place because it clicks in.
Note I’m talking about chisels here, because you use a marking knife when using hand tool techniques. It doesn’t help at all when using power tools like a track saw, so using a marking knife in a power tool workflow is a bit pretentious.
A marking knife does not need to be expensive, you can use an ordinary utility knife to get the job done, and a cheap single-bevel marking knife can be had for a few bucks. I bought mine from eBay for $9.62 American. Or you could buy this weeb shit for $2400.
Yes, a pencil almarknhas width. That’s why you choose a side of the line to cut. I’ve been woodworking for decades, and nobody ever needs more precision than a pencil because wood’s movement and change over time is enough to erase that extra precision.
Eh, if I’m doing something like chiseling the shoulders of tenons by hand, I like using a knife to mark that so that I don’t stair-step it around the board, plus it makes sure the line that will be visible in the finished product will be straight and not jagged. When marking out for using power tools, I use a pencil, typically a Pilot Sharpwriter. They’re cheap as borscht and the spring action they have reduces the amount of lead I break on wood.
Ahem. Dust Extractor
That $60 knife is the last one you’ll ever need and it’s only available at our web shop, Link below.
(Actually just a rebranded Ali Baba drop ship)
More like a $600 Damascus steel knife made by another Youtuber that they were given for free, but otherwise this is spot-on.
It’s either Cam’s Damascus knife or Chris’s Brass Chunky pencil.
Things heating up in the woodworker fandom.