A PRO's way of making Oak pegs 'FAST' for Timber construction 

Wow, yet another educational video Zed, Chris certainly makes peg production look so simple and easy. Artisan skills like this need to be kept alive. Thanks again for sharing.

Much more labor intensive than slapping still wet new lumber together with a pneumatic nail gun for stick building, and that twists like a pretzel within two days! Love me some timber framing and I hope it comes back in a big way. Thanks for posting this video, great to see an easier way than just an axe and a timber slick.

Thanks Zed - Absolutely fascinating to see how some of the ingenious skills of our ancestors are still being celebrated today.

I love simple engineering like this where you can see how things fit together.

How interesting to learn some of the technology used in the old crafts! Thank you! 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸

Very informative- thanks Zed. I'll be using this technique extensively soon.

Hoy Zed. Your the most important person in woodcraft/bushcraft etc. etc. You know people. Keep up the good work, and thank you for what your doing. Dave :)

Love seeing the old ways explained. I would have been obsessive about getting those holes perfectly lined up... Great to hear my 'always slightly off DIY' is apparently the right way to go , and historically valid... even if my version was always by accident . Nice one Zed...

That is the proper way to make draw pegs! A lot of people use a cylinder with a small pencil sharpener point, but this wedge shape is correct, it pulls the joint up gradually

I love the simplicity of that peg maker

I really appreciate your capturing of these artisans that most of us will never have access too! Slick peg strategy!

Awesome! Was looking at some old barn beams wondering how they did it!

Genius idea with the peg shaping jig!! I love it! Thanks for sharing this video. I'm going to make some up over the winter. Two thumbs up! - Cheers for Canada

Zed m8, due to your name starting with a Z, you are at the bottom of my youtube subscription list, and due to that i found it was always bedtime before I actually got to your videos. Tonight i actually decided to start from the bottom of the list and i have not been disappointed. Tnx for sharing this event, that (as a dutchy) i will likely never be able to attend, as well as showing a selection of actual skills demonstrated. Much better than anything i saw listed in the TVguide for tonight (likely even the whole week, if tomorrow 'Gifted' wouldn't start on Fox, which remains to be evaluated). Hope you had an awesome couple of days over there, you certainly gave me a awesome couple of hours of entertainment and an awesome bit of new knowledge. ~peace~

Good stuff, I made a die like this, works a treat once you get the technique down. You also need the right wood - it really needs to be green (and was traditionally), fully dried hardwood (it needs to be a hard wood) is much harder to bang through as I have found to the cost of my wrist tendons. Also the grain MUST be as straight as possible. Another thing is, the bevel on the edge of the die needs to be such that it splays the wood nicely outwards like it was in this guy's setup, otherwise what can happen is the waste ends up impacting on the plate and you have to keep clearing it - or if you don't notice then you will be hammering away on the peg and wondering why it won't go through and will eventually break it - ask me how I found that out :D.

Would really like to see a video on making the Die used to cut the pegs. Thanks for posting

Thanxs for sharing. I love a good peg. Atb.

great to see the old skills back to life thanks for showing atb steve

I think that there has to be a one inch step after if feeds. If you had a 8 inch by one inch pipe it would not feed. But the first inch in length is one inch than it goes into a bigger diameter pipe the peg would feed thru easier. You can see where he has two different pipes on his peg maker.

Always Awesome Zed ! I really enjoy seeing all these old world crafting methods mate, it's cool to see how things used to be done and you're videos have very much helped to fill in a lot of blanks for me, all my life i'm often asking, i wonder how that was done, how that was made. Anyway mate, thanks for another puzzle piece and i'll cop ya ron.

new to OG wood craft. clever stuff.

Glad you found this guy Zed hahaha ,awesome.

This is fascinating. Thank you for doing this interview

woodworking science and history for modern applications .. Fascinating as it spins off other ideas as well. Liked This one Z Man, Regards, .. Mike.

Fantastic Zed another gem from you, brilliant.

Thank you! Great video.

Thx for upload very interesting! Cheers from Poland 🍻

We made our trunnel cutter octagonal. Octagonal trunnels bite and compress as they are driven and are much stronger than round pegs. Cheers!

Brilliant indeed so thanks for showing bro. ATB

That is so cool and useful, thanks for sharing!!!!

Very interesting thank you. Random question- did you see how they kept their big signpost upright? It's obviously only temporary and I'm wondering if the event organisers would have allowed them to dig a hole?

Interesting stuff as always Zed. Thanks very much.

Zed I hope you know that now we'll expect you to actually use this technique! LOL. Another good video, keep them coming!

Wow! Fascinating!

thanks

Really great tips thanks

Very cool

Totally absorbing. Thanks Brian 77

Now that is pretty cool Zed, great vid!

Mate! Ye nailed it......:)

Thanks!

Love that Zed...Brilliant....

SUBSCRIBED, THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING THIS !

Nice

What are the diameters of the pegs you make for timber framing?

Hey Zed, love the content. Can you put me in contact with Chris about purchasing one of these jigs. Thanks. Keep up the good work!

Very interesting. I'd love to se how most of the tools used are made as well. -Jacko

Love these soft skills. You don't often hear about them in the bushcraft community these days. Thanks for the video Zed I hope you have a wonderful week. P.s where can you get that tool that you drive the pegs through? - Josh

As he said also makes you some handy kindling win-win 👍 Thanks for sharing, take care Roo

good teacher

Wow, that's awesome

Wonderful dowel maker! Thanks Zed. What did he use? Was that an artillery shell?

How do I saw off the extended pegs in my timber frame that weren't lobed off after installation?

Great video Zed! ;) Keep it up, also when is the next basecamp video coming out?

Wow really neat

nothing better than an old Thor mallet too.

Dumb question....I am using a bunch of 6"x6" and 8"x8" white oak beams that have been dried already to build a workshop. If I have a 1" peg hole diameter, wouldn't I use a 1" diameter peg?

What are these called and Can you buy them

Nice !

Chris - I manufactured one of these peg cutters like yours. I'm having a problem. The pegs won't drive through but seem to get harder and harder to drive as they go in as though they are wedged inside the steel pipe. Any special insight about how you manufactured that pipe to alleviate this problem?

Thanks for a great, short video. Did you consider purchasing the pegs you need from this craftsman rather than carving each one for yourself? Handmade woodcraft takes time and it seems that your style of bush-craft journalism would not leave you with much time to build for yourself.

Where did he get the drift from? The biggest cutter like that I have found is only 14mm. Or any idea of materials in order to make one myself?

Another class video Zed but as the owner of a log burning stove it was heartbreaking seeing that wonderful Oak firewood being used for pegs and kindling, lol

Like his tool for making pegs smarter not harder.

07:17 did i heard good...they move the hole 3 to 4 mm ??? That is a lot ? I am not an expert but, isn't that peg doing strong force ??

Where can you get that kit to make them pegs

I'm attempting to make one of these from scratch and getting nowhere. Every design ends up with the peg completely jamming up after about 1". A few Qs if I may: - is the inner surface of the cutter parallel or slightly conical? (cutting edge narrower than inner diameter of pipe) This is my main theory why these just aren't working, I've been using stock cold rolled pipe that has a straight/parallel inner surface. I'm wondering whether the cutting edge needs to be narrower, or the mild steel pipe is bending outwards slightly upon first hit, causing a the cutting edge to be fractionally larger than the inner diameter of the pipe. - is the cutter case-hardened? - are you using older growth green oak or younger green oak? I thank you for anything you can share!

That is so clever!!!! Ingenius!!! ;)

Any idea where I can get one of those?

Now that is a nice drawknife. Anyone knows the maker?

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Like his hammer...THOR....nice

Thanks!