@@maryannmitchell1734 yo no way I’m from Worcester MA too! Just watched this video and scrolled through this comment chain for good vibes and saw yours, small world ig🤷🏽♂️😂💯
I've told people who have asked me "Why aren't you using the table saw or the miter saw?" when I'm cutting wood that "Well I guess in this case I'm a hippy, because I do it in order to form a better bond between myself and the wood." Out of all of the things I have opinions on in life, I have a very high opinion of wood. Wood has a soul to it, just like us. It was, at one time, a living thing, and it has a story to tell and you have to respect that. To always be using power tools with everything wood related brings you that much further away from that connection to the wood.
The grain patterns tell the stories of the trees, the least we could do is work them with care and patience to preserve these stories and the intricacies they posess. To hold it in your hands and read its tales of drought, growth, fires, illness, injuries, and healing through centuries and realize you get to shape these stories into ornate displays of craftsmanship is a very deep connection indeed.
Very satisfying that some of your generation have true respect and sensitive appreciation of natures abundance if you take time to see, feel and work with it. Another interesting video, many thanks🎉😊
I'm pleased with your approach to hand tools and wood. I'm a painter ( artist ) and my support of choice is wooden panel. You are a great woodworker. Interesting videos also😎
My grandpa would have loved this kid, I'm 25 and I'm a welder by trade but I've been building a wood working bench with a steel add-on for metal work it'll be insulated from the wood incase of arcing but I need a place to store tools and do projects out of the dirt. Fortunately with my grandpa's rearing I'm familiar enough with most tools and building, with creators like eoin I can pick up tricks and tips my gramps was never able get to me.
Thank you for being imperfect like the rest of humanity and for having the integrity to include a little mistake. I make at least a few mistakes on every project and that’s how one can tell they were made by hand and not a soulless machine. Your videos are great!
This guy could only be Irish. The way he loves and talks about the wood is pure poetry. My dad used many of the tools he uses as I'm from Sheffield. The home of steel.
I've said this before but it bears repeating: I don't do woodworking. At all. But i love to watch your videos, as they are very relaxing and informational, and I love your enthusiasm for working with hand tools! It's very refreshing!
If you enjoy his enthusiasm I'd say give woodworking a try, you might pick it up in no time and find that it too is quite relaxing. Maybe try out a weekend class or something if you're up for it.
You've really got me inspired to start using hand tools to create things. I hope someday I'll be able to create something like this. For now, I'm getting started on putting my workshop together. I'll need to learn how to make that wood bench vise you use in almost every video.
Very impressive young man! You remind me of Roy Underhill. I used to watch his show on PBS. He also used old school methods of woodcraft. Keep up the good work!
Seen a few of these in person and their simplicity and effectiveness has always impressed me. When I started out as a jeweller we learned how to use a bow drill which works on a similar principle but is handheld (you should definitely get or make yourself one of them too by the way!) If you have a PO box or some sort of mailing address, I've got some lathe gouges I can send you, they're from around the 70's so not as old as most of your tools and they'll need a bit of TLC but nothing auld Busybollocks couldn't handle 😂
Been reading ‘The Wisdom of Trees’ by Max Adams. Highly recommend reading!! He describes a pole lathe… had no idea what it was so had to find out… this is a great video man, thank you 🙏 Cool to see people keeping alive ancient crafts!
100's of maybe thousands of Singer Treadle sewing machines were made before the electric ones were. The were driven by a treadle that rocks back and forth which drives a pulley and a belt that drives another pulley and it drives the machine. These days the machine itself is used to decorate. They look really nice. And the base is usually turned into a table. That's nice too. But you can use it to make a lathe and that's even better. Did any Singer Treadle sewing machines make it to where you are? Love your videos. Have tools I haven't seen in a long time. 🤔😎
Dang, I hope to find a bean drill someday! I don't think they are very common in Scandinavia, unfortunately. Nice work. I'm glad you remember to share your mistakes. Mistakes and how to correct them are part of woodworking. That's one thing I love about working with wood-you can always figure out some way to correct a mistake or build around it.
Eoin you are alot like Rex Kruger in that using hand tools is the entry to any person to develop skill. I.e. I never had a diamond plate always just used a angle grinder and a little 1000 grit. So thank you for staying the course 😂
The first lathe I ever saw was a beam lathe! Some happy memories of me and my dad at a Green Woodworking show in a Forest near Liverpool! Great video, cheers from West Cork!
I would like to make a pole lathe to produce handles for tools I am restoring and whilst I understand the principle, I was unsure how to tackle it, but now all is clear, so thank you for a very interesting and informative video.
When I did re-enactment years ago I was the muscle powering a Roman bow lathe, it is a simpler lathe and required 2-3 people, but you could turn timber very quickly when the carpenter was solely focused on turning, and the two lads took turns pulling and pushing the bow. I can see the advantages of having a pole lathe making better use of labour though.
This video really makes me wish I were in Ireland so I could try it myself. I look forward to more videos starring this lovely lady (don't know why, but this lathe seems like a lady to me, perhaps it's the combination of utility and grace).
Pure class 👏 keep your fantastic work up well done man , very interesting and relaxing to watch ! I like the way you made the mistake and told us , and went away and redone it , worked out very well in the end , thanks for sharing your gift very enjoyable to watch , your keeping it as real as can be fair play Eoin .
You really began two years ago? I started roughly the same time, and you’ve built all of the things I’ve wanted to 😂 shave horse, pole lathe.. it’s great to see other young woodworkers getting it done. I don’t have as much time as I’d like, keep it up mate. I’m 100% here for it
hey Eoin really nice job on the mortice and tenon joints! Im impressed with your hand sawing skills. And the beam drill is wonderful. What a tool, you use 2 inch augers? One way you can make an even stronger connection is to first bore through the morticed part only, smash the tenon all the way in, mark the center location with the auger point only in the tenon, take the leg out again move the center point just 2 mm towards the shoulder (make sure its the right direction! eh, dont ask me how I know), just taper front end the dowel slightly so it will actually have a chance to align the 2 misaligned holes. I hope this makes sense.
Also, hand tools are more sensory friendly. Power tools are hecking loud, expensive, and difficult to control. As an autistic person who wants to do DIY stuff, those are good factors for me. Plus handmaking stuff is just fricking fun.
Lovely job mate. I've been wanting to build a pole lathe for a while myself, to that end I have modified a design from a woodworker named Roy Underhill. My goal with this, being that I play uilleann pipes and am interested in their history, is to try to recreate the tools and techniques a pipemaker may have used in the 18th century when the instrument came into its own.
Would a dedicated pulley+chuck for the string to fit into make sense? I've watched a few videos now about pole lathes and it seems like the string is something that continuously has to be managed. Making a wooden pulley+chuck that both has a groove for the string and holds onto one side of the piece is a lot more involved than a poppet. But if anyone could figure out how to make it work, you'd absolutely be able to! Maybe you start with two poppets to round in one side of your rough billet, then swap one poppet out for the pulley-chuck? Then you don't have to think about moving the string again!
Hello from Texas! I really enjoyed the video, and I'm hoping that one day I'll be able to make my own man-powered lathe. What are your thoughts on treadle lathes, and have you ever considered making one of your own?
Would you consider modifying this into a bow lathe? I imagine it would be quite satisfying to work some yew into a long bow, and also save working space to set up that giant pole setup.
Love the lathe and all your old tools. Where did you find the plans for the lathe? I would love to build one. We are off grid and remote. I would turn more if I did not have to use so much power.
Thanks for sharing your talents with the world, your a wunderkind. Do you know of Dick Proenneke? He went out into the wilderness with some tool heads and build an entire cabin from scratch using hand tools, on his own! There should be a video of his story out there on the inter web somewhere. Cheers! Linstead
Do you generally prefer to chisel the shoulders of the cheeks off of your tenons as you did here for the feet or do you crosscut them as well? I worry about over-sawing the shoulders, but I am interested to know if you think there is an advantage to the chisel method.
Is this actually worth the time making if you don't want to buy an actual lathe? I am trying to decide if I should make one for making new handles for my chisels.
No footage of you without a hat on , why's that Eoin ??? If your starting to loose you hair, don't worry about it mate, I lost my hair in my early twenties, I was gutted about it at first but i just shaved it all off and got over it. Rather than thinking I was going bald, I looked at it as gaining scalp.
That is not a rip saw , but a general purpose saw a rip saw has 6 or less teeth per inch and is sharpened square to the saw the front of the tooth is between 90deg and min 15 deg from the line of teeth
Is there something magic about your cap? I don't recall seeing you without it EVER. Just curious. If it is indeed a magic cap, there's no reason for shame. I have a magic door on my shop. I know it's magic, because if I am in my house and go out to my shop for a tool, as soon as I pass through that doorway, my mind goes blank until perhaps later on, I remember and head back to the shop only to host a repeat performance. Heck of it I s, that door works in both directions. It's magic, I tell ya.
