Great job! Sweet customization of the top! I just saw a carver who turned some old jeans into a tool holder with a little sewing. Also, thank you for not making a pintrest toolbox. There's some weird misconception that everything Japanese woodworking is no nails and all crazy joinery.
As a popular British woodworker is fond of saying, "It's not what we build ..... but how we build it." Your nail through the knot is fine as long as you clench it (bend over and set into the timber) well enough. A historical note, nails were so scarce at one time here in the US, when settlers moved farther West they'd burn down their old house to gather the nails to take with them! Thanks for posting this video.
I have watched hundreds of wood working videos (I'm talking about Japanese primarily) and I can say with total honesty that your videos are my favorite. Your attitude, techniques, humor, skill and the fact that you simply only have your commentary and the sounds of your tools make it joy to watch them. 😄
A lovely approach to working with wood. Nothing in nature is perfect, yet we so frequently demand perfection - your work is a reminder that function and craftsmanship are truly beautiful.
Wonderful...one thing to remember. When cutting a wood like cedar, Cocabola, walnut, please wear a mask during cutting, planing and sanding. These woods if inhaled can cause chemical pneumonia and are very harsh on your lungs. My dad ended up with COPD from inhaling wood particles. (He was a luthier).
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I started out wood working about 15 months ago and i been putting all this pressure on myself to make super perfect joints and stressing myself out. I just found your channel a few days ago. you are one of my favorites to watch. you use simple tools you show the mistakes and how you fix them. You have great attitude "hey just make it work" I absolutely love the japanese tools. Are the Japanese hand planes difficult to tune to get into a working order? and do you recommend a good size to start with? I have a low angle jack plane already maybe something for smoothing? Thanks for any advice?
Wow! Your channel is very inspiring. Haven’t done woodwork for years, it starting up again after 10 years. As I have limited space, your channel is no fills and all practicality. One found your channel whilst looking up woodworking for small spaces. Thank you for sharing. You have a new subscriber from me. :)
Man, I love this vain of woodworking, using the least possible amount of tools. The beauty is in the simplicity... I have a workshop with a table saw, drill press and all these other things but I have endless appreciation for this style of woodwork.
Thanks for kicking me in the butt this new year, I've wanted to make one of these for a while now and couldn't decide which project to start the year with!
I think you're on the west coast so it would help if you had specified the species of cedar that you referenced in the beginning. You can avoid splitting in some situation by using clamps while driving nails, especially along edges. I also find it easier to attach the lid before the base.
Maybe it's me, but I really don't like these nails and but joints. Do you still use this box, and is it out of square with warped top having a gap in the middle? If not, then maybe I should reconsider what I know about woodworking.
I still have it and use it whenever I work. It functions as a footrest and a chair as well when needed. One thing that you should know is that no Japanese carpenter in Japan would waste time making a toolbox with joinery. They are traditionally nailed together since the real time and effort should be put into the pieces you make and not the box you store your tools in.
@@Lemongrasspicker you misunderstood me. There are like hundreds of positive comments here and it obviously works. Maybe I should really start to be more pragmatic in my work. But I know from experience, whenever I nail two board together like you they end up as one of those modern sculptures. How do you do it?
@@orlanino ah gotcha. Well cut nails work much more efficiently than wire nails. Cut nails work to hold pieces together better than round nails simply by the way they work. In the video you can see me pre drilling the holes and then driving the cut nails through. Sometimes if the boards are too warped then they'll slowly pull away from the pieces. If they're reasonably flat then a couple of good cut nails should suffice to hold everything together. Screws are also very good and even stronger than nails
Never seen red cedar that clear. Is it eastern red or some other? Eastern is all I work with so far and its rough on hand planes bed and blade, but what you have seems to be of better quality.
Hi lemmongrasspicker. My question has nothing to do with your nice video, but you can probably help me. i saw in a japanese YT woodworking video ( title: Amazing Japanese Carpenter with Ingenuity Handicraft Fast Easy - Techniques Using Tools) this marking tool with ink. looks a little bit like a Shirabiki. do you know the name of that thing?
Ah. A French Cleat (on the lid) on a Japanese Style Tool Box built with Canadian Lumber (Who knows where the Cedar came from?) and by an American. This is a World Tool Box.
Very cool build! loved the no-frills approach and fast pace. not sure I liked the AvE talk, though.. but maybe I'm just a little oversensitive on that :) It came out really well. could you do (in the future, maybe) a vid on your specific planes (know anything about the maker? what do you like about each of them? you know, stuff like that), and also a vid about working in a small place - that's something I'm struggling with and I'm sure lots of other beginners too. I really enjoy watching your vids. thanks for sharing and hope to see more!
Thanks sir, and thanks for watching. I like your ideas, I'll keep them in mind. I think working in a small space really just boils down to using what space you have to the absolute most that you can. There are some tips that can make it easier and I might make a vid on that soon, got some other ideas in the pipeline right now, I'll add it to the list. Thanks for the idea!
The french cleat on toolbox lid is genius! I'm starting a mini-workshop of my own soon (moving into my first house) and I'm looking at a japanese style shop. I was thinking about making the lid or box into the planing board/workbench that you could put on some low sawhorses. I feel like the runners would make it rigid enough, but you never know. Thoughts?
I would actually recommend not doing that as you'll likely find that the box isn't heavy or ridgid enough on it's own to be a workbench/board. If you want to make a planing board I have done a video on it before (a large one will work best honestly) and you could definitely check it out. I did try using a box as a mobile planing board but the weight/design doesn't really work well for the job.
Nice job , FYI I would use a thin finishing nail driven at a slight angle e.g. 85 deg abt 1/3 the distance from each edge of the cedar to reduce splitting , wrc is very brittle when dry, and easier to nail when wet, spent 25 yrs on w. coast
One more thing our shop teacher said Always practice on scrap first . Before you wack that WRC puppy with the angled finish nail practice on scrap first, thank you
@@Lemongrasspicker 🤦♂️ that's what I didn't want to hear lol so stand on the material on top of the low saw horses. Non dominant hand in front of dominant hand, and pull into the midline of the body basically?
@@rickhickman2730 essentially yes. You can use it with a regular bench though. Just clamp it around waist height and bend over slightly and it'll work too
In Japanese culture, it's better to spend time on the important things like the joinery on a beam/furniture item than it is to have a fancy toolbox. The modesty of the traditional Japanese toolbox is meant to convey the carpenters humility and humble tools. Joinery on a toolbox from a Japanese perspective is rather needless.
It's pretty much the exact opposite, what you Adrian made some days ago, but still I love them both. Yours is the example of fine, delicate woodworkig skills and conceptions, and this one here is the more pragmatic, more functional, I guess I'm gonna have to make one of both :D Nice jobs guys!! :)
Respect to work from third floor appartement, one more time, no need to have wide workshop (even it’s more simple 😁) to make nice things. Just big motivation...and skills of course !!!
Hi back! The hammer is..... heavy-ish. I'll have to weigh it. The planing beam has turned out to be really useful. I can do whatever I need to, and when I'm done I just stand it up and put it away. Only thing I'd say (I'll address it in a video sometime) is that if you plan on working with wider stock you'll want a wider bench/beam to work it on.
Lemongrasspicker Thanks. Double thanks for grams ;) it's hard to choose the right mas when the increments are so spread apart, eh? For the very reason I have designed and made my own cylindrical chisel hammers. One at ~360 and one at ~490 grams. Hand made out of a cylindrical mild steel stock. Filed and cold-hammered. Check the smaller one out if you want ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PFCHQmlqLSw.html Don't mind the pine placeholder handle :)
Do you get complaints from neighbors in your apartment complex? Want to get started with woodworking but worried it’ll be annoying to people both in and outside of my apartment
I make sure that I don't do it at weird times of day. Usually I do it between 10 and 5. I stop completely at 6 unless it's just finish work that isn't noisy. I also have 1 day a week that I work. If it's constant non stop noise that'll be more annoying than once a week. Once a week and they may never even notice
I truely appriciate your channel. Iam going to create a similar channel. I got into Japanese hand tools and have enjoyed lots of practice. I will be starting the channel soon... thank you for being just normal
I see that you are working as a japanese woodworking style but inergonomicly. you can change your working positions for less backaches and more precision. good work!!
