love your content buddy, I am a carpenter and I love watching carpentry content. A lot of creators on youtube are pretentious, aiming at beginners, or just not that skilled. I have 25 years of experience and your still showing me things that are changing the way I work. I stole your Packout dolly/truck/ramp idea for my van and I love it.. Thanks Spencer. Really I mean that..
Watching you slide the biscuit in the slot was a real productive lesson for me. Most of the time I settled for some toe-nailed solution and wished there was a better way. Thanks for sharing.
This is my fav when you film these highly detailed and prepared methods. All of the vids have that ... these are the glory moments and you do a superb job with them. Hope your weekend is a delight and thanks again for these great in depth vids
Love your videos! As a general contractor I would love to know how you get to work in the house alone😂 I found myself marveling at the peace and quiet you are enjoying while you work. The plumber didn't even walk thru your work area or the electrician pile his stuff on your scaffold!
Outstanding tutorial. Outstanding. I’ve been a carpenter/contractor for 42 years and have yet to do a coffered ceiling. I’ve never seen a demo before now. Your skills and craftsmanship are wonderful. dba Dave The Carpenter ( in Omaha)
Sir, I work in IT and support users all over the country for our company. I dabble in building furniture and built-in pieces for our home and much appreciated your video on floating shelves, using those techniques for putting in out barn beam mantle. This coffered ceiling series is quite simply amazing and really shows your expertise. Thanks for sharing your learning with us!
This is the part of doing a coffered ceiling that truly matters. You get this part of the work right and the rest of it is a cakewalk. I like this approach as long as my side one by’s protrude from the centers.
Hey Spencer Lewis - been watching off and on for a few years - I no longer swing a hammer very often but love seeing the methods/philosophy/conscientious approach/etc. Grew up a bit southwest of your place. Anyway just occurred to me whilst watching this series - do you give the owners a thumb drive with all your material shot on site? Or at least the final cuts. Seems they could be invaluable to someone 50 years from now. I know when I was working on 100 year old houses it would have been wonderful to have a collection of process photos/videos. Great material as always. You are mentoring and entertaining many 1000's and we thank you for it.
I learn so much from you Spencer, it's just too bad it is so late in my career of 47 years. Watching you climb around on that staging makes me hurt. I'm eagerly awaiting part 3 to see what you do to hide those long biscuit slots.
It always amazes me how simple these steps seem to be, yet I never thought of a single one when I did the ceiling in my office. ...and honestly, had it to do over again, I'd probably start by going...so what did he do again?
I consider myself a decent carpenter until I watch a new video from Spencer, then I just feel like a hack. Spencer's work is as good as it gets and I could never expect to get to that point, atleast in the area I live and work. Ive been working in Florida for 20 years and never met a finish carpenter as good as Spencer. When I try to show the older guys some of the techniques Spence uses they dont listen because it would show them they are hacks and break ego's
Pretty clever - insert biscuits in a slot. I’m sure you’ll show it in 3, but spline to fill the exposed slot? It seems like you’re expecting significant lateral (keep joint together) strength from the biscuits. Thanks for ideas - useful beyond coffered ceilings!
Fantastic work as always. I have wondered as a one man show is there much pressure on you to get the job done quickly? You obviously have great relationships with your builders and project managers but typically with a crew of 4 guys a job might take a week while one man working efficiently say 3 weeks. Are other trades working around you, the painters must waiting to come in and there's obviously lots of $$$ sitting there waiting for next progress payment??
In the past I believe you installed beam pieces as completed box sections. What are the considerations or conditions that you decided not to do it like that and instead to piece it together this time.
Just noticed you don’t drill your pocket hole screw holes through the first board. You don’t find the screw wants to separate the joint when its pushing the 1st boards material into the joint?
I can't say that I have ever noticed that. I have always left the hole just shy of going through. For some reason I feel like this is what Kreg recommends??? Maybe I'm wrong?
@@InsiderCarpentry never looked at the recommendation myself. I’ve also always just assumed, but I assumed the old principle of pre-drilling the first piece right through with an oversized hole so the threads only grab the 2nd piece.
Which brand/source of biscuits do you have the most success? I have found lots of variation from brand to brand trying to avoid biscuits "floating" in the pockets and potentially causing misalignment as the glue dries.
Were those drywall screws used to secure the blocking to the ceiling joists? My experience is that drywall screws are too brittle. Other than that, the level of detail is amazing.
@@InsiderCarpentry Thanks Spencer. All of your work is meticulous, so that makes sense that you would use a higher grade screw. I checked their website & didn't realize that they make a "structural" screw too (RSS). As a 63 yr.old GC, I'm not to proud to say that I've learned quite a bit watching you work. Thank You.
