I appreciate your mellow editing style. The camera angle choices and where you place cuts are cool, without having that unceasing tempo of most youtube videos.
Dude as a young cook I really enjoy foraging for ingredients to make my specials, and the fact that you just do this for your enjoyment at home is so cool. It really makes it worthwhile knowing people are attacked to that natural flavor.
“If anyone asks you what you’re doing when you’re out harvesting Douglas Fir needles, just tell them you follow a weirdo on the internet”😂🤣😂 Justin, you are my spirit animal.
Powdered sugar is just blended sugar, so you are good. Also, you should make a chúng from the needles and use the syrup, I bet that would be good. Basically just put equal amounts by weight the tips and the sugar and it’ll make a syrup that’s really good
After following here for the last year or so, I bought my first lathe this week, and turned a Douglas fir vase (turned out shockingly well!). Oh boy was I ever excited when I found a bit of chatoyancy on one side!! 😅
Absolutely love the fun facts about trees and their uses, the woodworking, and the foraging of such ingredients to use with a project. This channel is very entertaining and I’m always coming back for more
Hey Justin, any chance you could make a Welsh Lovespoon out of some appropriate wood (possibly Sessile Oak)? I’ve been commenting on your shorts to try get you to see this! Guys.. help me out
on the one hand, here for the handcrafts and tree facts. on the other hand, also here for the randomly wandering the woods in a snowstorm eating fir needles directly off the branch like a madman.
Hello, I don't know if you read comments that often but I think it would be really interesting to watch you sharpen your tools. It's a pretty weird request but I feel that process gets skipped over a lot I get that it's not the most interesting thing for some people but I find it's the most important part of projects and deserves some love too.
I'm still building my background on Justin's life story as I'm marathoning all of his videos, but from what I gather - at the beginning of the video he has asked and directed his partner (or a dear friend) who he has invited with him on a winter hike during thick snows to film him biting trees while he screams into the sky... and I think that's really special.
itd be really fun if you did a meet and greet sometime, im sure me and my fellow utahns would love that they dont have to travel like 2+ states for once lmao
I had a guy up in Alaska who was a tour guide give me and my wife a free tour experience because we worked with his girlfriend. Fresh spruce tips are amazing! Also goose weed(?) great stuff. Grows by the shore and picks up the salts nicely and makes a great addition to salads!
I used this sugar technique to make some Eastern White Pine sugar cookies. The flavor is very subtle so they’re great if it’s your first foray into the conifer needle flavor, but I imagine you could also make a pine needle pesto. Considering pesto already has pine nuts in it, I think it’s fitting. I don’t intend to do this myself, but you can also buy pine nut oil (it’s pretty expensive though) and you could use that to replace the olive oil used in pesto for a 100% pine pesto.
By the way, you are giving me brad Leone vibes a little! I feel like your videos would work amazing with some graphic editing (maybe not quite its alive style but something similar)
If you don’t mind me asking, what oil do you put on the wood when your done? Is it food safe? I’m trying to find something I can use because I want to hand carve bowls and platters for my little brother (he loves making sushi)
I like the idea of the poker. But maybe make one that will cut and poke at the same time or poke multiple holes at the same time. 😂 I'm not sure how to engineer that. Just a thought.
They do make rollers for poking multiple holes at a time, if you Google pastry docker you can see what those look like. I haven't seen something to cut and poke holes at the same time though so there is definitely room for innovation 😀
Im planning on making some pine cone syrup come spring, but I'm not sure what kind of pines we have in our yard. Are all seed bearing pinecones safe to make syrup with?
hey dude, i watched a video of yours where you featured an ashtray you made out of mountian mahogany. do you know where a guy could buy/harvest a good sized piece of this stuff? it seems like it would be really good for a fingerboard on a guitar. or a neck for that matter. it looks sweet and i bet if you cut a long thin piece, hung it from a string and rang it with a stick, it would ring like a bell.
Wooden ice pick stabber stick. And they quietly sent you away from the store, you say?? :P Also, the weirdo comment, LoL, wanna say oh well, you're our weirdo, hahaah Love it, and all you do. You have the best job ever, making all this stuff, and making it interesting, enriching our lives with all your knowledge and expertise from over there in your lovely home... And we appreciate it Very fine workmanship on the big (giants) toothpick
