🤯 Holy shnikes you saved me a stupid amount of trial and error/never ending google searches. You’re kinda my favorite person on the internet right now.
I am old school, now days everyone uses apps. I like knowing how and why. This is the best, easiest, and quickest explanation for spindle spacing I ever heard. Most talk about adding ghost spindles when in fact you are calculating the spaces. I am subscribing in hopes that in the future you will give us another pearl. Thank you.
I've gone through at least 5 YT videos before finding this one. Some of them you need a degree in math to follow. You have provided the simplest most straight forward method to solve the spacing problem. Thank you.
The only man who explains this to real perfection , as an amateur I have wasted 2 hours listening to others who just give a rough idea . The mistake I made was not counting the gaps . Many thanks .
Jonah, you are the winner. So many people doing video about this subject and doing unnecessary math calculation. You made this so simple for novice like me. You are very much appreciated. Thank you.
I’m so grateful for this video! I was at my wits end from trying everything I could think of to get perfect even spaces. Your video is absolutely simple and to the point and made perfect sense. Appreciate it very much! Made my builds so much easier.
Man your a genius. I worked for 4 hours trying to figure this out on 6 spindles on a set of exterior steps and still hadn't figured it out till I saw your video. THANKS
Great video Sir, I liked how you kept it simple, short, and to the point. Everyone else talks way too much and they do a lot of math! This worked great for my stair spindles....I will try this as well with birthday candles. Thanks again!
I have run into this issue before and it took me along time to figure out using trial and error. I will surely apply your tip the next time! Thank you!
Do you know how long I've been looking for a video like this?? For about 6 months or so. I quit doing searches because nothing relevant came up. Then last night, your video pops up on my "Suggested for You". I've been needing this video for a long time. Today I used your advice for screw placement on a project and had everything all laid out in less than 10 minutes. Thank you for taking the time to make and post this video. 👍
Thank you, I'm braindead and struggled to figure this out, got the right answer but forgot how I did it. So many nerds on the internet posting massive algebraic formulas when you just explained it easily and simply in 3 mins
It already been said many times but this is exactly what i was looking for. Equal spacing is overall space - total width of pickets / amount of spaces between pickets and posts. Thank you! Liked and saved to a playlist.
Thanks very much, this has been driving me mad trying to work out spaces on my Pergola project. I nearly took my shoes and socks off so I could use my toes to count 😅👍
awesome tips! Much appreciated. I noticed on our fence that a builder installed they butted one of the pickets up against the post. Not sure if that was to "square things up" or what. But I guess it doesn't matter since it simply creates the same situation with that space between the post (or now two pickets which are adjacent to each of the posts).
Add up picket widths and subtract from the inside run measurement and divide by number of spaces (number of spaces will always be one less then the number of pickets being used.
That's some awesome info thank you, I could've used this info while trying to figure out the spacing between welds, 54" wide section I was instructed to do six 2" welds on it.
This is fine so long as after doing the math the space between the pickets complies with local building codes which generally require the pickets to be less than 4 inches apart. If you do the math and your space is 4 inches or more you have to go back and add enough pickets to get the space under 4 inches.
It always hurts my heart to see someone who should know better letting their tape measure snap back into the case like that. Thanks for the measuring lesson, though; best video on the subject I've ever found.
I made a mistake on a clients coat rack. The spaces were uneven and was beating myself up a little thinking it must be obvious. Glad it's not so obvious and not too difficult. This method would work best using metric though. I hope my measuring tape, being in Canada, has that.
good trick, but if you have hundrends of pickets/dividers etc and its difficult to lay them down, just multiply one pickets'/dividers' thickness (as long as they're igual) and add+1 space to divide the rest in igual parts.
The reason for 20/6 not working is because it doesn't take into account the width of the pickets. 15/6 deducts the width of the pickets therefore providing perfect spacing. 20/6 can work but you would need to measure from the dead centre of each picket not the side of the picket
