She Didn't Design the Nesting Chair 

Your editing and voice overs are really well done! So happy to see you now have decent power in the workshop! Gotta love April, she's come so far, from those small builds in her (parents?) garage to where she's now, with her huge shop(s) and lovely house.

In alot of ways thats just a advanced Viking chair. Which is pretty cool either way. Aprils videos are great, and it is a fun thing with youtubers like her watching her get REALLY good over the years

Ok Canadian watching your video on the bus in Hokkaido Japan....and already made me chuckle when the table saw died with the trumpet playing. Already entertained!!!!!! Thank you Sir

I used to make those for my kids 40 years ago still have them and I can show you

The look on little bit's face, when she flipped the switch. Lovely.

This is AWESOME! Hysterical. Your chair looks amazing. This happens so happen on RU-vid. Ideas and information are free-flowing and very often we think it came from one source and it's not always the case. Stay cool Davide! Namaste Rebekah

My mother got a chair just like that when I was in elementary school twenty years ago at a reenactment. I think the design itself is just really old and they just both wrote up some plans for a chair that's been around for hundred years.

She's been an inspiration for years, I started woodworking and other things because of April Wilkerson's videos.

April is definitely an inspiration and I do enjoy watching her work. She was also great to chat to when I met her at Makers Central in the UK a few years ago. Love your videos and how you take on builds by others. Keep up the great work.

So cool David! Loved your video. The girls are adorable! I haven’t ever done any wood working but have often wanted to build furniture. I mostly refinish old pieces or paint them and make them look pretty again. I could paint your chairs for you. Haha

Really entertaining video! The 1st woodworking podcast i listened to was with April Wilkerson and Jay Bates, it helped get me hooked!

hey buddy, i love your videos and i am watching for month your channel. Its always a pleasure. A little story behind it and easy to watch. Keep it up that way. Best regards from germany :)

I have two chairs and the table. It’s been in my family for more than 40 years. 😁

Great video. I like your philosophy, humor, and style. Very entertaining. I also picked up a few new tips and tricks. Please keep them coming.

April Wlikerson is a awesome content creator as well as many others. I watch content creators with small shops because I could relate to them. Then what happens? Their channel blows up and they start getting sponsorships, getting all the fancy and expensive tools, and of course....a much bigger workshop. Now, I can no longer relate to these content creators, because they no longer have to be limited by their shop size, tools, and whatnot's. Please, don't get me wrong. It is awesome they were able to grow their channel and I wish all of them much continued success. However again, I can no longer relate to them. Also, now they portray a celerity status demeanor (which is sad). I still watch some of them now and then if it is of interest to me and/or I can relate to the subject matter. Go back and watch some earlier videos of your favorite content creator, and compare to them to their most recent videos. Again, I do wish them all much success. I have been told if you don't like what you see on TV....Change the channel. Which I do. By the the way....I enjoyed your video. You have a good sense of humor and you make your videos interesting. (Fist time to you channel)👍

AMAZING!

lol, my 11yr old boy did the very same to me when I tried to "gift" some woodwerd knowledge to him.. I laughed so hard at this ;)

There are a lot of designs - such as that one - that I'd have to say are in the public domain based on how frequently and likely they are made and used by woodworkers the world over. It is always fun to see someone deliver their own twist or take kn a classic. Now, if it is a thing which someone has absolutely created from scratch and never publicly shared a video on, then you're likely splitting hairs. If someone shares a video of them making a thing, they'll likely inspire others to attempt it.

I got a detached retina from trenching the electrical conduit for my shop. Good job I am glad you are getting some shop improvements.

Fantastic work, Dave! It turned out great! 😃 You should definitely make a drawing bow! It could help a lot for jobs like that! Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

I do want to give credit to someone who always gives credit to other wood workers when she does a project on her channel. It is Tamar from 3x3 Custom. She will say that she talked with this person about doing their project on here channel, and she make improvements.

Your Videos are very underratet ! nice Content , Fun to follow . I wish to turn back the time and spend time with my daughters in the workshop!

Good job, thanks for sharing!

Once again, great video. I love the stuff you have to do first, to just get to doing the stuff you want to do. LOL

Awesome video again! I hope all is wonderful with you and your family. I liked Little Bit's boots too! I've been complaining about it getting over 100 here for the last week or two, but the temps up here aren't nearly as bad as they are for you. I had to use a trencher a few years ago, I had to board up the windows and I found myself wishing for full body armor and a helmet to protect from all the rocks it was flinging at me. If you are interested, I'll try to find the website address that should have the parts you need to permanently fix your 'new' table saw. They carry a lot of stuff, and they were able to get me parts I needed to fix my Craftsman jointer that was built in 1981, so I'm guessing they would have the parts you need.

Absolutely, sometimes buying a plan is worth saving hours figuring it out yourself. Great video. Now back to the grind🤣

My family had two of these chairs for camping when I was growing up back in the early to mid 80s. We were told then that the design was old. Possibly well over 100 years old as we were using them for pre 1840s reenacting.

I just found your channel and when you said Fort Worth, made my head pop up. Greetings from N FW wherever what part you’re in.

I have been part of a historical reenactment group and for our events we couldn’t have any modern looking chairs in our camp. A lot of people had chairs that looked exactly like that. I started doing that in 1990 so that design is at least 35 years old.

Great idea great video

AWESOME DAVE!!!

new subscriber and loving the content, hi from south africa

Yeah, I was digging Around in my grandmother's old house, and in the rafters.. one of chairs Look like it's been up there for 50 years

you deserve more views good sir!

Good idea about A/C in the garage and the girls.

Ok I’ve decided I like your narrative style so much ing gonna have to steal your brain for my own channels videos 😂

Another great video David! We did a whole segment on video and plan “stealing” on our last podcast episode. It’s a pretty common thing in the maker space for sure. Some examples are more egregious than others (the one we talked about was pretty blatant in my opinion). I agree by the way, April is amazing and one of the “OGs” in this niche. Happy she’s here in Texas! 🤠

Both of them said you can see this design all over the internet and this is their interpretations of the design

this is like a gonzo woodworking video, if you get the hunter thompson reference lol

I had already bought her plans last year, before I knew that Jay had done a similar video first. I've watched both, I find April's version is easier and better. I still have yet to make the chair.

Thanks!

I follow both Jay and April and 100% she took the design. The million dollar question is did she talk with Jay about it first, which would have been the right thing to do

Used a version of these chairs back in the '90s for reenactments.

Thanks! You're a funny guy

Well April was inspired by Jay who got his workbench from Ron Paulk.

That intro! 😂

Comedy gold

i just wanna know...where'd you get that bangin' "Girl Dad" hat?...as a girl dad of 2, myself, that would be an AWESOME addition!!...enjoying your vids, my "friend" (quotes only 'cause i've never ACTUALLY met you)

I'm poor too! After your channel bombs, can I borrow your camera equiptment so I can give it a go? You can just run it to me in Lake Worth ;) ... Keep it up. Huge fan

🤣I can relate to the table saw! My Sears-special got hit by a car. (My daughter drove into the woodshop during driver's ed). It's a little bent but is ok for cutting stuff you don't care about gluing up. Then I acquired a used Delta contractors saw - from the dark ages. I discovered (or should I say my son discovered) quickly that there were NO safety features on this puppy. I had to clean the rust and paint off it but it cuts a lot truer. It is heavier than all get-out and with no wheels, it doesn't go very far, very often. A new saw? Now that would be nice!

I have two daughters also and I love involving them in woodworking projects as well! Most excellent! How is the old Craftman table saw holding up? I've been thinking of grabbing one also but, I am finding that parts for them are mostly discontinued and hard to find. However, there are so many of them out there that maybe buying two would be better.

Love the design of your videos, as well as the chair (which I too have seen a number of places). Agree that April Wilkerson is a RU-vid woodworking star -- which your daughters are becoming, too! Do you use your TS fence on the left of the blade?

crazy, I just discovered her channel earlier this week. I was looking up Adirondack chairs and found it. I'm working on a cross between hers and a few others that I found.

Haven't seen those chairs until this video, but on a similar vein, there's a bunch of videos by different creators about building a full sized workbench that can fold up and be stored on a wall. I saw one guy do it, and then youtube recommended a few others with what was almost identical designs. So either they all nick designs off each other or someone comes up with these designs for the youtubers to make it and say that it was theirs. Ghost designing maybe?

I guess I missed the point of the video , I wish you all the best but I am not sure I wanna take the trip with ya . Cheers

that design has ben around long before they were both born. Guilty ! 2 counts

words. math. stuff. Little Bit is the best... so dramatic as she should be! Also, nice form from both girls using the drill. April better watch out for those two.

Who do use for to video sound bites thanks

The electric? The table saw? I all could think was: what would Norm say.

Check out viking star gamer chair easy build for the girls only 2 boards

This design, like many others, predates both of them. Literally, it came out of a Popular Mechanics, early sixties, and probably predated that.

15a? those are rookie numbers. you gotta up them numbers....

I think the first time I saw this chair designs was about the time you bought your death trap that died in this video. There was no RU-vid and the WWW was pretty new. I saw it in a woodworking magazine. There really are not many new ideas I’d woodworking.

I can't recall if Jay or April was asked (in the comments) about it, and whichever one confirmed that they are old friends (they, along with Nick Ferry, used to do a podcast together, and did some projects together), and confirmed there's no hard feelings and no one is feeling slighted.

My dad built that same style chair April and Jay built way back in 1980 so does that mean they stole that chair design from my dad?

never let a child flip the breaker for the first time. for real, professional electricians who are more safety conscious usually stand to the side and look away when a breaker is turned on for the first time. there is always a chance of a life changing explosion. even if it is a tiny chance.

I just want to know. How can you move in your work shop. I have a 2 car workshop and still dont have room wife keeps all the stuff she wont throw away. Why is it called a 2 car workshop ..

That kind of design has been around for years probably well before April or Jay were even born.

They probably both lifted the design from a 50 year old magazine.

I made a couple of those in '82 so my wife and I could use them when canoe camping. A guy I worked with had a couple made by his grandfather and he let me borrow one for a weekend to get dimensions. They were originally made with straight stiles/legs so when 'folded' the chair would lay flat in a canoe. You could put your tent and sleeping bags on them, keeping them out of the water that always finds its way into canoe bottoms. Then use them to sit around the camp site at night. While our canoe was sold when we could no longer lift them onto the roof of the van the chairs are still fine.

Sorry mentioned stargazing chair

You and her are both awesome woodworkers. I see a lot of hate for her and Tamar both on various social media platforms, and I don’t get it. One person called one of them woodshop Barbie and a hack. I mean the barbie part was funny lol, but them being a hack is just stupid.

Oldest video I can find on RU-vid, not that old... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IjZcvWozfMc.html

April got more views, a year later

May I, with full respect, kindly ask you to upgrade your table saw with a riving knive? You are much to valuable for the workers community to stop yourself eventually with a piece of wook shooting back into your stomach...

My 2 cents if they matter, is that it’s not about stealing. I guess if you’re creating content that’s a different story. But as far as making something to sell? They don’t live in my town. So if I use either one, technically I’m stealing too. But they aren’t here. And why put it on RU-vid if you aren’t expecting people to be “inspired”?

Ps every time i check out april my wife hits me in the back of the head..

She frequently copies other peoples ideas and designs, and so do a lot of other youtubers, you can count the ones producing original stuff out of hundrrds of channels on two hands..

You frequently scare the shit out of me watching you use the table saw... Shows are funny.... I would just rather not see your dismemberment on RU-vid 😊

If two people have the same idea it's coincidence . I'm sorry you have nothing more better to do .how about being a little more creative yourself .