Wow, spot-on technique, I like it. Thank you for sharing. Prior to watching your video my technique was using a tap measure, speed square, or combo square.
Russ keep doing the great teaching you are doing. I understood very well your demonstration of how to find the center of a board. Great job. Center is center. Thank you.
Thank you for your video and you did a great job of explaining. Don't waste your time on folks that simply aren't happy in life that they have to pick apart everything to cause strife!. You have great videos and I certainly appreciate them!
I got A’s in Geometry, Trigonometry, Calculus and never come up with the idea to make them useful. Thank you for sharing both with the triangle and a flat piece of wood to find the center of a board. I find my center using the method most carpenters do. My bigger problem though is to get a perfect drilling to the marked spots!
Funny as I look back, I was excellent with geometry, trig., etc. myself and bad at shop classes. Geometry is fun, and math creates mistakes. Really great to hear from your again Hai :>)
Science Trumps Preference Every Time ALWAYS!! 👍😉😁👏 Geometry is Perfect and your Techniques are Proven and Indisputable. I can’t believe Anyone who claims to be a Professional would TRY to Dispute the Basic Techniques you’ve shown.
Totally accurate!!! Look, I'm no carpenter, neither am I a jack of all trades type of guy. I don't even know how you called the thing that carpenters are using to hit the timy metal sticks to assemble to long rectangle pieces of wood together. But, has a terminator I can tell you that this square is accurate as the Geneva metric standard. My eyes uses three helium-neon lasers as a basis for length measurement (national standard). These lasers are compared with each other and with lasers of the same frequency. And this, in order to best guarantee the stability of the measurements. I'M TELLING YOU; THIS SQUARE IS TOTALLY ACCURATE.... POST TERMINATED!!!!
Yet another great OTB tip. BTW I read the comments you were referring to. His comments lead me to believe that he is a self appointed woodworking purist. He didn’t explain his definition of accuracy. You could use whatever method he uses and he would still say it’s not accurate enough. Some people can only feel good about themselves by finding faults with other whether or not they real or imagined. Russ keep OTB’ing there are those of us out here that spore our and enjoy your videos. Do your thing and don’t let the naysayers get you.
Very good Russ! Made me realise just how simple it is to do. Never really thought about it before and, having read some of the other comments, I now realise you can do it even simpler with either a diagonally placed ruler or, actually, any piece of wood that already has a mark at its centre by laying that diagonally too.....thanks for enlightening me 👍
Good stuff Russ! I usually use a ruler in the same manor as you just showed. Pick a number of units that is divisible by two and mark it in the middle. If you want any other division amount just pick a number of of units divisible by that amount.
Hey Russ love your triangle to find the center of a board. I took it one step further and I think it is even better now. I added a thin strip of wood about a 1/2” wider than the triangle. Leave it hanging over about a 1/4” on each side. I attached it to the 90 degree side of the triangle. I noticed you had to find a flat surface to line up the triangle. By adding the flanges you just have to tightly hold the triangle at the end of the board and mark it on both ends of the board. I made a second triangle with the flanger only on one side so if you want to mark the center of the board I spring clamped a square on the board and you can flip the triangle on both sides of the board. Keep the videos coming.
Cool way of doing that. I just learned a similar method yesterday. You are right, regardless of that that other guy said, the marking gage doesn’t lie.
This reminds me of a trick I learned as a graphic artist 30+ years ago using a ruler. Place a ruler diagonal on a space (like a board with parallel sides) with the very starting tip of the ruler aligned to the edge of the space (edge of one side of the board), then using a convenient dimension that can be easily divided in half (for example, six inches where three inches would be half) and put the mark for that dimension (6 in.) on the other end of the space. Now, just tick off the middle dimension (3 in.) on the ruler and you have the middle of the space. No need to draw a second line.
Hi Russ, I love most of your videos and have been subscribed for a month or so since I found you. Most of your videos are very thought provoking like this one. I started out thinking you don't need more that one pair of parallel sides to find the centerline at 90 degrees the parallel sides and your triangle method is best for this as long as a "long side" is over half the width of the widest point between the non parallel sides. Taking this a step further, instead of a rhomboid, if you use the triangle method on a triangle, then you can bisect any angle. Food for thought or another video? Thank you for all your work in producing these videos and stirring up this old gray matter. I actually use your (and George's) simplest NMP dado gauge and am inspired by your Donkeys Ear mitre jig which will be my next jig.
Nice to share these pieces of information Russ 😊 I do the same thing to find the centre on work. I can't remember who taught me it, but it works great and especially if one end of the board is wider say on a guitar fretboard where the nut end is narrower than the body end, but you still need to find the centre / center 😊 ॐ
I was thinking about sides not parallel and finding centerline. I had a comment from someone saying the sides had to be parallel. I don't think so. They only need to be straight edges, I think.
@@russveinot5754 The same for me Russ 😊 I've been really busy and no time to comment much. I've got a list of your videos (and many other peoples) to scan through as they pop up in my emails. I usually only have enough time to skip through a video to grasp the idea and click like. We are all great here 😊 Take care my friend, blessings from us all here ॐ
Hi there, liked your video on finding the center, using your style, could you not make a mark on the top piece (an inch from the end) and an inch past the bottom edge, matching each mark on the wood edge to create am "X" and it would also be the center??
I suspect your critic was confusing _accuracy_ and _precision_ - both need to be understood to get the most out of your tools and materials. As you said, your methods are _accurate_ for the level of _precision_ needed for wood/wood tools.
Interesting to think about. In ukulele making the fretboard is a trapezoid with non parallel sides. When you glue it on the neck it needs to be centered on the neck with the frets perpendicular to the neck axis. A technique to find the center of the fretboard would be handy. I will have to noodle on this...
I can't provide a proof, but if the fretboard is an isosceles trapezoid with the two ends parallel and the two sides the same length this would work; The Wood Yogi pointed that out in an earlier comment as well.
Good show again! I too thought the 'inaccurate' comment was way overboard. But now that you showed this method, could you not simply use a rule and choose the 'over the edge' point appropriately (of course you need to remember correctly the where that point was as you scribe your 45s).
Hi there all the way from Bonnie Scotland, Really like your channel Russ, keep up the good work, I would like to know your thoughts on a pocket hole jig I have made, not saying that this is not been thought about before although I haven’t seen it, but I like your OTB thinking style.
@@russveinot5754 Placing the scrap piece of wood on the top of the board you want to find the center off. You’re eye balling when the scrap piece of wood is flush with the edge of the board you want to find the center of, but the scrap piece of wood could not be flush. For example it could be hanging off by a few millimeters.
If the average carpenter working for Chippendale had even a grade two math or could even read I'll eat my hat (I'd have to buy one - don't wear them). They didn't have measuring tapes very often either. Engineers etc. have to justify their higher incomes so they like to complicate thing or use fancy equipment when a simple stick and pencil will do. Go figure. Stay safe, stay healthy, keep your distance😊
This comment is just rude. Anymore comments like this and you will have to find someone else to pick on (I'll band you from here). BTW, have a nice day and think happy thoughts.
I subbed simply to help you change the number. 6.66 thou subs is a horrible amount of subs. You think YT could at least give you a 10 person bump just to put you at 6.67?!
