Home for woodworking, construction, upcycling, reclaiming, welding, epoxy, etc. My goals are to inspire you to make cool things, get people excited about making, and teaching while keeping it super fun and interesting. Thanks for stopping by!
- Paul Jackman
Check out my website for plans of some of my builds along more detailed photos: www.jackmanworks.com
Disclaimer: Use your brain when using dangerous tools (although I'd recommend a push-stick, you shouldn't get your brain too close to the blade)
You put so much into every project you do. I think you have more patience than any woodworker I know! The cutting, gluing, sanding and varnishing has to be quite the time consuming endeavor! The end results make it all worth while! Love each video you post!
heck yeah. I picked up very little of my kids old jr highs old gym floor. they put it in a dumpster and before i could get there most of the good stuff was gone.
Captain obvious here: did you give any consideration to Just reassembling the five square-foot sections in laying it that way? You would have been the only RU-vid woodworker with a basketball court for a four.
WOW! Huge disappointment... after it was installed I was expecting you to strip the old varnish and apply a new finish-you can't imagine the let down 😆. As always fantastic video in all aspects and what a megalithic huge undertaking.
haha! Not to worry, this story isn't done yet, I have a couple things up my sleeve still for this floor, including a separate video all about refinishing it -- just waiting for it to warm up a little before I do it
You are AMAZING. The patience & determination you showed to relay that flooring is inspiring and off putting. I bet all the other aspiring models & military wives are so jealous.😂
Bought my gym floor off Craigslist from a guy who salvaged it from a high school remodel. Yeah, the box truck. Mine was individual boards, no sections. Lots and lots and lots of moving,stacking, moving and stacking. It went into the first floor of the house I was building. When the plumber came in to do his part, he saw the unsanded pattern and I had to tell him the story. He got a funny look on his face. "I played on this floor." Then I got the columns salvaged from a Duke University frat house....
Super cool! I got old hardwood maple flooring around the same time as you, @Jackman. Removed all nails using a nail gun (yes, there is a tool for that). And I agree the feeling of reusing materials and saving them from going to landfill - amazing!
Great looking floor! Also, my boyfriend needed to get a pair of steel toed boots for his new job about 6 months ago and I suggested Carolina partially on Jackman's support. He absolutely loves them, wears them at least 5 days a week. I know there are a lot of crappy and shady sponsorships on youtube, Carolina makes legit great footwear.
From some of...well basically all of the stories I've read online that weren't obviously poorly written fake reddit propoganda shilling shrinks.. Basically anything is safer and more effective. Heard the story of the reddit family channel started by a woman and her shrink who became a mind broken submissive of the lesbian shrink swho then went on to manipulate the weak husband and brutally abuse the children while they had gross horrifying BDSM stuff in the house? That's not that unusual actually.
