Mortise and Tenon Oak Post for Porch. Full Process Walkthrough 

The best video you’ve produced so far 😂. I’m so pleased you have decided to share your knowledge and expertise with the world and I’m loving this format. Sitting here with my feet up after a tough two hours on the poolside with a whisky once again. 🌞

I think that, after method, the most helpful element for aspiring or beginning joiners is the time a job takes. I was MD of a large main business and started a small bespoke furniture sideline really out of my hobby interest. My main job really taught me the importance of recognising all parts that go into making up a proper costing for a job. From memory, they were: Fixed costs such as rent (if you owned the workshop, you should calculate it’s repair and rebuild costs), rates, power Equipment costs. Tools don’t last forever; there may be repairs required for larger items and there are consumables such as blades which have to be paid for. It wasn’t a bad calculation for us to assume each tool had a life of 3 years. So, if the total cost of all of our tools was £21,000, we would calculate tools at £7,000 per year or £120 per week. Labour. Only experience would really guide you on how long a job will take. You can watch YT for ideas (wish it was around when I started) but sometimes that can be as misleading as helpful Ancillary labour and associated costs. By which I mean something like going to the yard to select the timber. That’s time and car costs. Design. What a pit this could be. We did have someone who took our design and offered it to others to see who could come out cheaper ( they did come back to us, told us what they had done and said that they wanted to order with us. I asked to go forth and multiple). Our best idea/result was to offer the vaguest of design to the client for free; if they liked the overall concept of, say, a bookcase, then we would charge for the detailed design but the charge was refundable against the order. At this stage, the total cost was calculated and advised. It’s also not a bad idea to tell the client at the first meeting about how much a piece might cost (“if you go ahead in oak, I reckon between £7000 and £10000) because so many clients think that a bespoke piece should be about the same as a piece of rubbish from Oakfurnitureland. If they accept that kind of budget price, then at least any further work on design or coatings may not be wasted. Contract and Payment. You are not making any money until you get paid! You really should draw up a contract that your client signs. My experience with lawyers meant that it was easy for me to draw up my own contract but I appreciate this isn’t the case for many. Pay for a solicitor to draw up a boiler plate (generic) contract and then, each time, you just add in the job-specific elements such as total amount payable, stage payments and (very important) what happens if the client doesn’t pay. As I said, we charged for design; that bill had to be paid before we scheduled the work. Depending upon the size of the job (we were making bespoke furniture and so rarely did we have to do this), you should charge in stages. Stage 1 might be the rough cost of materials; stage2 might be costs halfway through the job; stage 3 might be after delivery. Get paid before you go to the next stage and don’t hesitate to go to court if that final payment isn’t made. Unless you also want to be a bank, don’t give credit. There is an old saying - turnover for vanity; profit for sanity. In other words, you are not working for love - make a profit on each job. The number of times that I was told “do this job cheaply and there’s a lot more work for you” believe that and you’ll never make a business! Like everyone else, you get to learn all of this from mistakes that you’ve made. So, I hope others can learn from our painful experiences

I like this length & type of video, what i dont like is videos packed out with time lapse of vans traveling through traffic with monotonous generic music at high volume. I think thats why i like the 🚜 segments in yours so much. 👍

Absolutely love your channel..i was a carpenter for about 20years but due go ill health ive had to stop work. Your videos give me great pleasure. Thankyou

Never boring, even the farm stuff is interesting. Don't do your self down. 🙂🙂

I have watched all the previous videos but it didn't stop me from enjoying this one. I talk to myself as I do jobs in the workshop and I think it helps clarify the task. Not knowing what you have done with a tool is par for the course! It gets worse as you get older! Something to look forward to! Cheers. Jim

Great video as always Ollie! One of the penalties of working on your own, as I’ve done most of my working life, is that, even with no camera, I talk to myself all day!! All my customers got used to it in the end! 😂

Brill....Very talented 👍

as always beautiful work.

Cracking job!!!!!!!

Great walk through. Thanks

Agree with @steveg4iwr, never boring watching a craftsman (joiner/carpenter or farmhand)

great video!

Great job, really nice! Niek.

👍👍👍.Thanks

Just love the skills and great thinking you have ... luv the channel !

Great execution as always

I learned so much in this video!

Recommend getting some WoodOwl bits that can go right through the timber.

Those wobbly horses were making me nervous especially with those runners. I'd strongly advise wearing steel toes, drop one of those oak posts on your foot and it's all over. Have you considered making an auxiliary base for that DeWalt router. It's fairly tippy doing those tenon shoulders. Top notch craftsmanship as always Sir, 👍😁🔨🇮🇪

10:45 yes they are driving me mad 🤦‍♂️😂

Nice to see that someone else wears the same Asdadas Safety Boots as me😂

Really enjoying this series of videos, the farming side as well - I can really recommend the DeWalt 7035 saw horses. Very strong, stable and fold up nice and compact - Noticed you've got a bit of a wobble on at present.

Everytime I'm doing jobs that need a degree of concentration, I talk to myself out loud taking myself through the process, I can't help it it just happens but it certainly helps, 😂

Hi cheeky question, where did you get the saw run guides please thanks great videos

Whenever I see a resin bond driveway I can't help but think in a few years it will be akin to the stone cladding Jack & Vera Duckworth put on their house in Coronation street.

Excellent work! Where did you purchase that large chisel it’s great

Hi Ollie, the thing that doesn’t come across in the videos is if you have never worked with or handled timbers of this size is the effect that goes into every procedure, do that all day long and you are ready for fish and chips delivered 😊

Another great video. When you are undercutting the shoulder at 15:00, would it be easier and more consistent to put a shim across the board near the edge of the router base to establish the angle?

Hi, is that particular festool circular saw still available? Great video

Great series of videos, really enjoyed every one, thanks for sharing your knowledge. How many man hours in total do you think this will run to including the install

Is the packer half thickness of the tenon ?

Question what is the wood you working with. Fur spruce pine or ?. Merci.

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mmmm under cut the shoulders? You basically cut the shoulder once and there you have it. Also whats the point of the jig.. I've been building oak frames fro 25 years and what you do is mark out the tenon and free hand cut the joint.. I have too much experience to even think what you are doing is the right way to do it! Sorry if a bit harsh.

i hope that is a pile of sawdust behind you and not a food crop

Im sure theres easier ways to cut a tenon

there's too much play on your model, buddy

Arrrrrrg! Those bouncy saw horses. All of your wasted energy getting them to dance for you.