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that was SUCH a GREAT REACTION!!! - AND for such a BEAUTIFUL table!!! I'm jealous!!! :) Glad that little fire STAYED little... and HOPEFULLY those new cameras don't catch anything TOO exciting :)
Dude your parents are incredible! Honestly, from your mom's honest "where are we moving this to", so keen to help, to their genuine and sincere appreciation of the piece, it's fantastic!
The same thing happened at my elementary school once. A dull cutting surface that burned the wood. In your case, dust was getting stuck, and friction helped with the rest.
Love seeing your sense of humor pop in throughout. The last frame almost made me spit-take lol. I see you put the same amount of craft into your photoshopping as you do your woodworking
I'm literally just a 19 yr old teenage girl, going through life, i don't even know anything about being a wood worker, and i have no interest in being one, but your videos appeared in my recommended and i binge watch all types of different wood working videos, and whenever i watch your videos, i just love the effort you put into them, your voice, your work, how sincere you sound, everything. I enjoy it very much and i enjoy watching this craft even though wood working is something i never want to do lol
Biggest smile on my face when your mom goes "oh, it's BEAUTIFUL", nothing better then your parents (or anyone's) genuine appreciation of your time. You can tell your parents are proud, I hope to be able to build my mom a table like this one day.
"Dimes to doughnuts" was "Dollars to doughnuts" when I grew up in midwest in the 60's. The doughnuts referenced were not the tasty treats but rather proxy for zero, the number, as a doughnut looks like a zero. Fantastic build. I am glad your folks liked it.
Yeah the original phrase is "Dollars to Doughnuts." Never heard the dimes thing. The Daily Nevada State Journal, February 1876: "Whenever you hear any resident of a community attempting to decry the local paper... it's dollars to doughnuts that such a person is either mad at the editor or is owing the office for subscription or advertising."
everything was worth it to see that reaction and put a smile on their faces. Even i feel so proud seeing this video i cant imagine how proud they must be. wish i could make something like this for my parents, maybe someday. Thank you for this wholesome but very educating video.
Just wanted to say I really enjoy the general ✨vibe✨ of your videos. I appreciate the calm narration and the dry humor and your uploads always make me smile. To be good at either woodworking *or* videography would be one thing, but to be good at both is rare and impressive!
I just wanted to say, after watching some other woodworkers on RU-vid, I really appreciate your honesty and your modesty. You have an excellent eye and from my unexperienced eye, great technique. Your doing great!
Brought my first furniture piece home today, got started with woodworking based on your videos. A shame you’ll never be able to truly grasp how many people you have inspired.
For the measurement debate, I love the metric system. I didn't realize that 1cm^3 is 1 ml. There's no equivalent in imperial. I started using it more with my 3D printer and started liking it more. I also actively use the imperial system daily as well with things like cooking, weight, height of a person, and lumber
Great work! Looked awesome. FYI, crystalized epoxy is because at some stage it got cold, you need to warm it in a hot water bath, about 60°C and it will dissolve back to normal.
I just finished my first piece of furniture for my son, thanks to your videos and some other woodworkers. It made me realise how skilled you're and how much progress I've to do to produce half as good furnitures as you do....
I'm 67 and have made a living working with wood all my life. I have a mahogany lap desk, with a secret compartment, that my granddad (furniture maker) made for my grandmother. It was the last thing he made before going off to die in WW2. Make things. Pass them on. When your son goes off to college, or travelling or whatever when he's young, offer to store that piece you made for him. Give it back to him later in his life and maybe he will pass it on one day. One thing that you make, no matter how you think it turned out, means more than a million factory made pieces of junk. Good luck with your journey and have fun!
May I just say… watching your videos really lowers my anxiety and relaxes the fu*k out of me, which if I’m not being clear, is a great thing. Thank you for filming your work and your sweet comentary because it is so soothing to watch x
Just when I thought I was tired of slab epoxy river tables, you had to go and ace it. Well, done sir. Totes jelly. Love your cadence, thoughtfulness, and skills.
Ive had a similar experience with a fire in a dust extractor. It was caused by a tiny shard of metal that may have been in the timber, entering the fan and sparking. Fine sawdust is extremely flammable, as you know.
I grew up with the 'trades' and have always used imperial units. Building houses and such. Then for my 2nd 30 year career I worked in the trades for a Japanese automaker where all the machines I worked on (presses/CNC mills) were metric. So now I can look at a nut/bolt wrench and tell you the size at a glance, either imperial or metric.
In the end it all makes it worth it for that wholesome reaction.. The look on her face after she asked “my house?” You could tell she was so excited. The end though when you’re like “I built all that stuff!” 🤣😂🤣 Absolutely awesome when you’re able to do things like this for the parents. Hope you enjoy your weekend!!!
Wow. Thanks for sharing that experience with the dust collector. My dad and uncle told me to be careful with dust collection and ignition sources, but I until now, I have never seen anything get crazy. I know in milling explosion risk with dust is a big issue.
Thank you so much, Chris, for including clips of when things don’t go as planned. I’m still learning, and it gives me hope that I can create beautiful pieces, even if I flub things sometimes.
Metric for science, and does it really matter for anything else. For furniture, it needs to be functional and beautiful. Your table fits that criteria. Stunning. So glad that you and your shop are okay, and thank you for sharing the moment with your parents. I do hope that Ikea heard you.
As a 67 year old life-long cabinetmaker/yacht joiner/furniture maker, I agree with you. You are a good son. And an excellent woodworker too. And lucky to have those parents. Thanks for your channel.
I would look at it this way, you've spent $5600 and a lot of time on a real nice gift for your parents. One shouldn't really obsess over a price tag for such a gift.
Amazing video as always! Just wanted to pop in and say that a workshop your and maybe an in depth series showing off the workshop would be really cool. Getting into your work benches, the CNC, dust collection, etc, etc.
Wood dust fires often occur due to moisture getting into the dust, which generates heat as the fibers break down. These wood dust collection units have been known to explode, especially when people open a sealed unit causing a fire back blast.
Awesome table. The plastic hose can couse statics, maybe that start the fire. Dust collector ducts must be made of steel and grounded. And the hose must have a cooper wire.
The interesting thing about the imperial system is it's ability to be equally split into smaller units with basic tools. Simple center tool splits 1 in down the middle into 1/2 in pieces. (Ignoring kerf at moment and just measurements). You have other tools that work with 1/2 in or basically any subdivision of 2. But take a 25mm board down the middle you have 12.5mm. And sure those aren't the measurements that you will end with, but the point is metric works great on paper, imperial works wonders with dividing tools.
Its beautiful and your parents reaction was priceless 🥰 🥰I hate “when it’s supposed to go here, but actually goes here” ..Story of my existence 😊. Great video once again
this was worth watching for the comedic value alone. the last shot of your parents almost made me spit my coffee out. your commentary was (how we say in Australia) piss funny.
Crazy opinion here, but your parent's plywood dining table was one of your first videos I ever watched and it is still one of my favorite designs of yours from over the years. I love seeing how you re-imagined it hardwood. It is absolutely beautiful. Thanks for sharing your adventures with us, and I'm so glad that you and your shop are ok.
Thanks...yeah, I always liked that one too. I just think that the single, central spine for support was sort of a design flaw. So this one will hold up better through the years. Plus its' more their style.
I can verify that they work in the harsh weather of New York. The solar panel works great. I installed two of these away from my parents home and with two cameras they have a 360 view of the house.
My dad must have known inflation was gonna get crazy, because he always said (and I now say), "dollars to donuts" Also +1 for metric, but -1 for trying to use it for all the things in 'Murica.
Something I got from West System epoxy tech support, if you have epoxy with crystals in it, just put it in very hot water for a few hours. Everything dissolves back in and you’re good to go. I use it on airplane wings and I’ve never had a problem even with very old epoxy.
1:37 the modern machinery that we have is CRAZY cool. Think about tall the engineering that went into creating/making something like a giant slab rotator.
Fire was due to static electricity. Excess dust = excess friction = static = spark. Finely ground wood powder provides tender for spark to become flame. Attach ground wire to dust ventilation chute to prevent further accidents.
The same thing happened to me in my dust collector. The tool drug on top of what I was cutting and the ember got sucked into the bag. Once it’s in there, it’s a perfect environment for fire (particulates and oxygen). You’re lucky you caught it before the bag was fully exposed and blew embers all over your shop. First time viewing I like the channel. Cheers!!
I was relieved when you stated that you were going to apologize for something you said at the beginning of the video but I thought the apology was due to someone else. Your child. You said that you’re an ok dad but a great son. That statement stuck with me thru the whole video. Why is being a great son more important than being the BEST dad?
I use Epoxy at work all the time and have never come across any that wouldn't cure, no matter how old. I think what you've run into isn't expired epoxy but crystallised epoxy. Very 'pure' epoxies have this problem a lot. It's made worse by being too cold and temperature cycling. You can fix it just by heating it up. It can take a long, long time to fully de-crystallise. To prevent it keep it at room temperature all the time.
I had a similar dust issue with my CNC. Being in sunny Sydney Australia, I usually just push all of my dusty woodworking operations out onto the driveway and enjoy the sunshine whilest blessing the neighbours with my dust. This keeps my garage clean and dust free 🙂. However, I have a CNC that I built and this beast of a thing generally stays put, so it has a shopvac/cyclone and I duct the waste air outside. One day I was doing a really lengthy operation on some MDF and left the CNC unattended (we both know how bad an idea this is). When the noise stopped, I came back into the garage and there was dust everywhere - piled up is little snow drifts in the corners, against everything and on everything 🥺. It seems that some material broke free and was sucked up into the cyclone, which then blocked and sent the dust to the shopvac, which quickly gave up and blocked and somehow forced off the vent hose - at which point buckets and buckets of MDF dust swirled around everywhere.
i would hope everyone knows that screws are used to hold it tight until the glue cures! great build again. I build and install railings and stairs. use to be a trimmer but got bored. but wanted to build furniture originally (highschool). your videos are convincing me to move on again! Happy building!
As a Chinese born and raised boy came to Canada for university in computer science program and stayed afterwards for 12 yrs, I think i am the quintessential example of torn b/t imperial and metric. I grow up using metric then Canada is a mix of imperial and metric. Gym has lb there, school has metric, grocery store has gram, gas station has liter, but shopping online on amazon, there are mix of metric and imperial. So i have to constantly converting b/t 2.
Been watching your channel for some time and want to say that your gift to your parents are what it is all about. Also it is captivating listening to your humor and sarcastic dry jokes that keep me laughing and think the younger generation has a chance to make this world a better place.
you are the superior channel to blacktail studio. his voiceovers are always just a mix of feel bad for me for having to work hard and please give me money.
I really like your style of furniture design. Every time I see one of your video thumbnails, I can just tell it was yours before seeing your name next to the video based on the style. So awesome. Keep making cool stuff I thoroughly enjoy your builds.
