Hi, I'm Jordz The Carpenter. I'm a Canadian woodworker based in Vancouver, Canada creating fine furniture and home decor. I specialize in epoxy, live edge tables, charcuterie boards and unique solid wood furniture.
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Great job I have the same issue you have with blowing breakers. If I use my air compressor, I have to unplug everything. But you do what you want to do. I am considering buying a generator. and see if that helps.
I think there were parts of this that were kinda skimmed over too quickly. Also, you didn’t include some of the hardware in the description (pivot screws). I think you should always assume that not everyone is at the same skill level and need more thorough explanations.
Thanks for the awesome video! Do you recall what size of top bearing flush router bit you used? Trying to buy the tools to make this and have no idea what I need 😅 thanks again!!!
That why bandsaw is much safer for this. Blade goes down so there is not risk for part shooting away. And ALWYS use pushstick and guard to keep your fingers at a safe distance.
First, thanks for this video. It is super helpful and I appreciate the work you put into making it. I don't have a drill press, so I'll need to drill the forstner holes with a hand drill also. When you drill the dowel holes using the 1" forstner, you say you drill to the shoulder to keep things consistent. Did you do anything other than use a visual cue on when to stop? Is some variation okay since the dowels are held by both screws and wood glue? It would be nice to have some depth stop to get exact hole depth. Any suggestions there? Edit: adding to this comment as I go through the build: At 5:17 you begin attaching the dowels but then cut to them off, commenting that it’s better to sand the stuff before attaching. Did you go back and detach the dowels again or was that clip just edited in out of order? I’m also curious if you would recommend applying finish to each of the parts prior to attaching them. I read coating w poly prior to wood glue can create a stronger bond depending on the wood type. At 7:33 I think you mean the 36” stringers. For an equilateral triangle with 10” sides, the height will be 8.66” or around 8 and 13/16ths (26/32)”. The angle of 30 degrees is the outside of the triangle to a square side of the board. I worked from a ~2’ x 12” board and needed to square off the edge to get angles that double checked as expected. Final (?) edit: I finished this build. The hardest part I found was mirroring each step for the other side correctly. This isn't really shown in the video, but it is a bit tricky. Another thing I did that made this hard was I chose to paint the rungs / stringers and also use polyurethane to seal them. This was a lot of extra work. In retrospect, I would not do this again with out a drill press. It is important that the rungs be perfectly even and it is not very easy to estimate using a drill alone. (It is also a lot of work) I did manage to build this primarily using this video, consulting some others at the end but jordz covered a lot here. It was my first woodworking project.
Beautiful cutting boards. I saw you touch up the plank with sanding and glue. It is better to do this with a clear coat, which will not stain if you put the plank in oil.
I've watched a bunch of these and liked yours the best. Time to go make one now. Also I like how you used a respirator for cutting but not for sanding... only being healthy sometimes.
You had me at “A team like that” T-shirt…. I have a black one. Hello from the Island. I just started doing epoxy charcuterie boards. Thanks for the video. What epoxy company do you buy from?
Very nice. I built this for my son, but I think I got the wrong type of threaded inserts. One of them actually cracked as I was trying to get it in and put a nice gouge in one of the legs. Which inserts and driver do you use?
Those came out amazing, great job. But table saw mishap aside, I wasn't comfortable with your fingers so close to your router blade. I lost a pinkie and almost lost my ring finger holding wood that close to the router blade. That thing will grab the wood and pull your hand in faster than you can blink. Be careful my man.
Beautiful board! Breaker bloiwing kindred spirit here. Questions if you will: 1) Were you nervous about running the board through the planer cross grain (it scares me and I have no drum sander); and 2) No sliding mitre saw here. Could i use the sled/plywood trick to cut the board ends square when cutting it to final length? I appreciate you and the step by step video. That is one very beautiful board.
I just screwed up a cutting board by running my palm router anti-clockwise. I had to cut off about 1 1/2” off the end of my cutting board. I’ll follow your instructions of moving the router in a clockwise manner. Thanks!
