Awesome book that gives you step-by-step photos ru-vid.comUgkxTNB_zFBSnTo_O1PqfVUwgi7ityw0JlKt and directions to make every day project. I can see myself making a few of these projects and giving them as housewarming and holiday gifts!
I laughed my a$$ off when i saw the gunpowder candles! Very creative and I love your sense of humor. Thanks for the ideas for quick gifts, especially the meat and cheese board.
Love these smaller projects… totally a lot more realistic for some of us small time guys doing this as a hobby. Would love to see you make a custom backgammon board.
Great project… I made my first chessboard before the days of RU-vid. I was using the wood shop on the Navy base and being the self starter that I was I cut 64 square (32 maple and 32 walnut). No matter how I glued it together I just couldn’t get everything to quite line up. Finally an Old Salty sailor took pity on me and showed me the right way to make a chessboard. Who knew I just needed to wait YEARS for your video to get the same process. Thanks for sharing and now that things are built you can sit back and relax (no procrastinating).
My grandfather put a couple of straps on the back of my wooden shield to hold the sword as well, so I could keep them together when I wasn't using them. It was kind of fun to "unsheathe" the sword from the shield itself, too. Sort of a Sword-of-Omens meets Masters of the Universe thing.
Smaller projects like this have been a staple in our shop and keeping the lights on. I love videos like this that help those of us in a "creative slump" to get those juices flowing and get in the shop to make something. Thanks for the awesome content!
I normally don't comment on videos, but I have to say, this was the first video I came across of yours as it popped up in the recommended list. I'm only a few seconds in and had to pause and subscribe from the epic entrance alone!!
Question/suggestion: have you ever made a video about shop cleaning tools and tips? Best Vacuum attachments, hanging shelves, hooks, oil and degreasing large tools? You know, the boring stuff - that really makes the difference in quality of work. Thanks! -Jay
Jason is baaaack!! The intro is epic. Who cares about those who don’t like it. I’m loving the non tree house build too. The candles are a must have. Wooster shire and all lol
Hey Jason, I really enjoy your woodworking and have been following your channel for a good while now. Enjoy your woodwork skills and your efforts at a bit of comedy. Now the thing with a chess board is the special relationship between colors and where the pieces go. It means there is a correct way to setup a chess board and only one. With the board in front of you, turn it so that the square at your right hand is colored WHITE. WHITE is RIGHT. Then make sure that the Queen is on the square of her own color. White Queen white square, Black Queen, Black square. It matters for correctness and also when the move called Castling is undertaken the relevant pieces end up in their correct place. Please accept my comments in the positive spirit intended.
That is the 1st thing I noticed as well.. .searching the comments to make sure it was already posted before Nerding out and pointing out this technical flaw in the setup. Great work though on all the rest.
There is also the whole square numbering system, which has a number allocated to each square, 'King's bishop three', for instance. This system is based on the position of the King and Queen relative to the other pieces on the board, and the squares. People may say who cares, but strategies, moves, and things like 'castleing' as you say are determined by this. Imagine playing chess over the phone, via mail, or from adjoing prison cells without it? Besides, chess is almost 1000 years-old, who are we to question it? My God, the nerdness is flowing!!!!
Hi man, I like your videos and your, perhaps undervalued, sense of humor. I hope you continue to make them for a long time, apart from being a great help to an amateur and very novice woodworker, each one of them always brings a smile to my face. Thanks dude, greetings from Spain.
There’s nothing better than a rainy Saturday morning, a cup of Joe and binging some Bourbon Moth. You’re videos are not only informative but they are very entertaining. Since we can’t get any Baltic Birch how about showing some alternatives. Good plywood is soooo hard to find!
Thanks for the video, used it to make the chess board with a few tool substitutions as I’m only starting out. Looking forward to learning more from your content 👍
I used this video to help me tackle the downtime I felt as winter cold set in. Not woodworking, but plumbing a new bathroom, so that the time spring comes, I can freely start on the workshop to do woodworking. Great motivator video.
Love the use of the Stranahan's jigger! Love that bourbon and the 4-5 of those jiggers in different colors I have lying around the house. Now I have a reason to put one in the garage!
Coasters in a bag. Looks like this could be combined with David Waelders famous sanding and coaster apps for the Iphone. (Yea I've been watching RU-vid for a bit!)
Awesome candle idea.. I wanted to up that, so I made a couple and added nitro glycerin. I am writing this from the hospital. Takes a little longer to type the one finger pinker peck method. Not that I can't type, but I no longer have the other fingers. Should have listened to my inner me. SAYING, Nooooooo Cheers
I've been watching so many woodworking videos lately, it really makes me want to go on a tool purchase spree. I figure I could do most of what I want with a table saw, a router, and some quality hand tools. Then maybe some blacksmithing tools so I can half-ass TWO hobbies. 😆
Aww, why didn’t your wife like the cutting board? Everyone is getting handmade items from me for Christmas this year, so thank you for the video, and the laughs, as always!
Pro Tip if you do try Noom, don't use your cellphone as a scale. I stood on mine and cracked the screen and it didn't even register my weight. Whack I know.
A tip for keeping wide glue ups of narrow strips from warping is to clamp a couple straight scraps of wood at each end to sandwich the ends and keep them flat.
Loved the gags and bits in this one! I would love to see more in the way of tips n tricks, though. Like, how do you get such precise cuts? You mentioned a different kind of wood glue for furniture in moist environments? What's that all about? And if I don't have the money or space for a planer, how can I make sure my boards are flat?
