About 71% percent into your show and you mentioned Saw Stop at the pinnacle of user experience - their manual is a work of art and so damn easy to use and read. Really good conversation on this show. Thanks guys.
Love you guys. Great honesty, great knowledge. Great fun. Because of you, I went into my first Rockler store. You were right they are unusually polite. Will be back there.
You mention how nice harveys photos look. Just some trivia for ya - the reason they look so nice is they arent photos - they are 3d renderings. They can make them looks as perfect as they want out there in the aether :)
Great thoughts on RU-vid reviews. And in reviews in general across the web. I have been researching various wood working products lately and just about all the "reviews" I have seen/read lately have been just about all marketing verbiage and just about every review has just been copy/paste from the marketing propaganda. For what it's worth I watched your miter gauge review several times lately and ended up ordering the Jessem miter gauge, I love it. Thanks Guys. dc
I have a Harvey Alpha 110 tablesaw and absolutely LOVE every aspect of it. the miter gauge, the dust collection, the ability to cut through anything, etc. And my experience with their customer service is second to none. I can't say enough good things about Harvey's products.
The only thing I get out of unboxing videos is seeing how well packaged it is. Make me feel better about what condition the tool will be in when I get it. I bought a pegas scroll saw, and it was nice seeing in the unboxing video that the saw was bolted down to a piece plywood. Made me feel better in shipping
Always a fun show! I had a similar experience with the JessEm router fence micro adjuster as you had with the Harvey miter gauge stop. The JessEm micro adjuster can adjust sub thousandths but the fit allows for movement over 0.015”. However, I called them and they had no response or offer to fix it.
Shannon mentioned something called a "phone book", WTH? LOL, (I do know being the old codger I am). When was the last time anyone saw one of those? Great show as always guys!!
My 6" jointer doesn't have a very long bed so I used to get frustrated trying to joint long stock when I had to. Until I realized I can use it more like a hand plane and hit the problem areas with multiple partial passes, then take that final, light pass on the full length to clean up the surface. It's not something I've seen or really ever heard of before (self taught) but it made sense and it works super well. I actually think my ideal jointer would be a 12" short bed jointer.
I can’t tell if the fellow that wrote in asking about the benchtop jointer was asking in comparison to a Jointer/Planer combo rather than Jointer plane ….??
Great show guys! I'm a new content creator in the woodworking community and I hear you loud and clear. Fortunately this is not my job and I do it mainly for fun and to share. I appreciate all of you and I promise when I do a tool review video which is coming soon I won't BS my community, I actually use all of my tools not just out of the box. Woodworking channels that do mostly tool reviews and very little woodworking... Just saying!
I remember a technical report writing class I had in college where it was pointed out that assembly instructions were almost written by the new intern who has no idea how the thing was designed. What could go wrong!
I will rough cuts boards down to length, and joint in the tablesaw. And everyone says you can’t get a good edge on a table saw. Well, you joint one edge and the how do you parallel cut the other side, a table saw. I basically joint them like cutting a taper leg, and that is considered a good edge.
I don’t think Matt says what brand of router table he got? Unless I’m an idiot (probably). Also, I’ve noticed a huge surge in marketing email from Fine Woodworking. I really hope the quality of the magazine doesn’t go downhill.
I think there should be a movement to start calling out creators that are just peddling “reviews” The only way to get them to stop is public humiliation
Leigh Tools (now owned by Lee Valley) has also been producing top-notch, spiral-bound instruction manuals for years. Probably well before SawStop was doing this. Marc should know this just from having to use their D4R dovetail jig (reference to the sideboard video he posted today).
You don't know how many times I unbox some product, woodworking related or not, and almost immediately ask the question "Does nobody at the factory ever actually use or test this thing?".
I think the idea of 4 squaring 9 foot long boards comes from......drum roll....engineers. I deal with this daily, hourly even. Most people are simply used to dealing with engineered material and the shortest process to sized material. Makes sense if you think about it from that mindset.
I don't pay much attention to online reviews because of two things; Shaper Origins given to anyone who'll post a review and likewise for every diode laser on earth...
