Nice video. It's a nice video series! I smiled when you attached the tarpaulin with the nail pins. Because it reminded me of a TV show about the upholstery shop in the Palace of Versailles. The upholsterer took a few nail pins in his hand, shook them and put the nail pins in his mouth. Then he held the tip of his hammer to his mouth and put a nail pin on the hammer and then hit the chair that was to be repaired, first with the tip that the nail pin held and then with the other side to drive the nail pin in.
WOW! The whole trip was very enjoyable! Thank You. The sheep herders wagon has a special place in my heart……..once I seen you were starting one from scrap……I couldn’t help my self. I was hooked for the ride.
Watching this reminds me of my grandfather. He was an upholsterer, his magnetic hammer very similar to yours. Like you, a true craftsman. Unfortunately, I didn’t discover my practical hand skills until I retired,. Not sure if I would have made a better craftsman than chemist though.
It would be nice to see a video of this wagon traveling to its new location. Then to see it seated there amongst other interesting things. Will there be a ceremony of you being recognised for this work? That ought to be part of the process, Dave and Diane. Although I'm sad it's over now, I am wondering if you'll take time off to rest or find another pile and try to see what it looked like originally. At first sight I thought if it were me I would toss the towel in and run away screaming, lol. You are just so tenacious! It's like you're unflappable while others might be in tears, yelling at the thing, lol. When you sleep, do you do this work in your sleep? I admire your attentiveness to getting it right. Tank you so much for allowing us to see how this could've been created so long ago. I wouldn't want to see how much more laborious it would've been without modern machines. The time frame had to have been exponentially longer. Any idea how much longer? Just curious is all. But I think we, in this era of conveniences, have little to no respect for patience in the era that wagon's from. Anyway, I hope as you age, you still find projects we can watch since you've sort become a good friend though we've never met. I would miss seeing your face, hearing your voice and mostly hearing your unwavering assurances that most anything is possible if you have the right tools and materials and know how, of course.
It's been great having to wagons on the go and more videos to watch Dave, I hope you have more jobs comin gup or we'll all be having withdrawal symptoms.
Does this man ever miss a nailhead with a hammer??? I remember back when I was working as a shipwright there were some bad days where I couldn’t hit a nail with a banana cream pie much less a hammer. Dented a lot of wood. My hat’s off to Dave. A true master.
It's both satisfying, and sad, to see this project coming to an end. I'm used to seeing a new video about it every week. Seems like a long time ago indeed it started, with the 'discussion' of keeping as much of the old as possible, and reusing the rest as material to build other parts. Make it "Like New", or restore it to "As it was in it's working days"? I must say, I really like the result. Not everything has to be 'brand spanking new'. 🙂
Dave did you ever think when you started your channel there would be so many people interested and amazed at your skill, I've been watching for nearly 4 yrs I'm still in aw of your career keep up the good work
Спасибо Дэйву и Дайан за уникальный контент. Давно подписаны и с интересом следим за творением Маэстро. Здоровья вам и вашим близким. С уважением из России.
Wow, what a difference from the first video when you brought in a big pile of crap and said this once was a sheep wagon! I said to myself what in the hell is he going to do with that pile of crap....... Well you showed me that you could turn a pile of crap into a museum piece. You Sir are a master of your craft. 🤠🌵🌵🌵🇺🇲
Hello everyone, I watched the rebuilding of my great grandfather 's sheepherder's wagon. Dave is doing a fantastic rebuild. Dave can read the wood, and with that information, rebuilds history. I've stopped by his shop a few times to check on the progress, and every time, I am amazed with his work.
This has been an interesting project. It was fun to watch you "age" the materials as you were working and using the original style of fasteners (clenched nails) wherever you could. That is quite a departure from your usual fastidious approach (aligning the slots on screws, squaring up the square nuts) and etc. All in all a terrific build, thank you for sharing your expertise and skills with us. Well Done!
In laying canvas decks on boats, the canvas is moistened with a few drops of water sprinkled on, before tacking it down . This makes the canvas expand a little so when it dries it gets quite tight.
What a splendid adaptative reconstruction of that dilapidated old sheep wagon which you gave a breath of new life into. This sheep wagon will be one of the most admired displays in this museum. I want to thank you for your descriptive interpretative adaptation process encountered in this build. Also, thank you Mrs. Engel for your professional camera work and editing of these videos content.
I’m 75 now and not as sharp as I once was. I was considered a pretty good mechanic, in my prime. That was one group of talents, Dave covers the whole range of skills, to do what he does and does them all with great attention to detail. It’s a little late, for me, for all this education but I’m not going to stop learning. Learning has never been this enjoyable!
Watching you use that hammer took me back more than 60 years to being mesmerised by my blind uncle assembling divan beds in the Royal Blind sheltered workshops in Edinburgh. With a mouthful of tacks, the magnetic side of the hammer would kiss his lips the tack would go in, the hammer would spin in his hand and the hessian base would be attached in minutes!
Здравствуйте привет из Нижнего как всё хорошо получается даже молоточек магнитный это вы молодцы придумали чтобы пальцы не отбивать хошорего вам и вашим близким здоровья да хранит вас господь Нижний Новгород Юра жду от вас новых видео спасибо Нижний Новгород Юра
Watching you finish this work of art inspired me to look up "How the West was won" on YT. Plenty of work there for a man with your talents! My mother died last year. She was100 days short of her 100th birthday. My sister and I are just dividing up her boxes of Christmas decorations. We found the six small, rather dowdy baubles which survived the Blitz when her home was blown to pieces by a German bomb on 15th Sep 1940. She treasured them as remnants of a happy childhood and we will treasure them too. You talked, in another video, about living a mundane life. I believe that by holding true to the glories of your past you have achieved a kind of quiet immortality. Nothing mundane about the value of what you and Diane have done with your lives. So the next time you sit down together, raise a glass to each other with a toast "To the treasures we have saved. Job well done". Paul
I have watched with great interest this entire build for I wanted to see just what it took. In early 1912 my paternal grt. Grandpa made just such a wagon, as did his brother, to travel from the Oklahoma pan handle to Arkansas, to look for work and visit family. They got all the across Oklahoma but the way became too harsh to continue as my grt. Grandma was with child. They turned back in hopes of reaching the town of Garber, which they had passed the day before, but they did not make it in time. My grandma's younger sister Daisy was born in the wagon on the dusty trail, with no doctors assistance, just the midwifing skills of my grt. Grandma's sister and their husbands. Thank you so much for bringing this bit of family history back to life for me.
That is an incredible feat Dave. Starting with very little usable old material, only to finish with something that looks like what its first owner would have seen when he bought the original, is nothing short of astonishing. Your skill is just something out of this world.
I personally enjoy watching your videos because I always learn something. And, your smooth narrations and the background music rounds out these great tutorials.
Another incredible project coming to a close. I'm always torn with these things... one one hand I'm excited for the next project... on the other I'm aware how much I'm going to miss this project... ah well. The museum should be proud to display such a fine piece of craftsmanship.
As an upholsterer, I was taught old school how to put a small amount of tacks in my mouth. Rotate them with my tongue with the head out for the magnet on the tack hammer and then place them with one tap before driving them home with the large end, just as you were doing. We called it, Spitting Tacks. Never really had an accident over the years, of biting down on one. It was was quick but not as quick as a modern pneumatic staple gun. Classic C.S. Osborne bronze upholsterers, magnetic tack hammer. Been around forever. Still making them. Our instructor had us all cut off about 2-3" of the handle for more control.
Use to carry two sometimes three different size tacks in my mouth and was able to pick them out with my tongue and place them on the magnet end of the hammer. My C.S. Osborne hammer handle is also sawed off. And yes, it was pretty fast. There is a reason the tacks were “sterilized”. They are supposed to be carried in your mouth.
@EuphJL I'd forgotten about them being sterilized. At First...... my dusty old boxes of tacks, I don’t think so, anymore! LOL! I'm also impressed that you could sort the different size tacks with your tongue.
Thanks for the compliment! I carried different sizes in mouth when I was doing Antiques that had been reupholstered many times. I would be tacking along with a Cross 2 1/2 until one landed in a hole that was made by a larger tack eons ago. So I would have to extract that one and replace it with a number 4 which was already at hand.
Dave, I was really hoping to see you use some of those special self installing nails that you've previously employed in your videos. 😂❤ Seriously enjoyed the sheep wagon and Smith spreader videos. I like restoring things, but I'm nowhere near the level you have attained!❤
The craftsmanship is amazing!!! I just would add a suggestion of showing the inside of the Sheep Wagon after everything was completed!!! To look at a pile of scraps, and being able to figure out what and HOW each piece fits together is mind blowing!!!
Now I know how you get that much work completed so quickly. I paused the video, to answer my phone, at 1:02 and when I got back to it, there were two Daves. They were in different places doing different jobs. Brilliant.
It is such a joy to watch you practice your trade reconstructing these fantastic pieces of history. Growing up on our farm in Missouri I saw so many derilect wagons and pieces of equipment left to slowly self destruct I always wondered what they looked like brand new. Your restorations really satisfy my childhood curiosity. Thank you for taking the time to record and produce this record of your craft, it is truly wonderful to watch and learn. Sincerely, Kirk Skaggs
Beautiful work. Something to be cherished and appreciated by everyone that sees it for many years to come. Thank you very much for taking us along this journey. All the best to you and the wife.
Me neither! I couldn’t figure out why he was flipping that hammer after the first stroke. Never occurred to me that it was magnetic on one side until he demonstrated picking up the tacks with it. So simple! Just like my tiny little brain.
When I saw Dave carefully folding and tacking down the corners of the canvas top, I couldn't help but be reminded of watching Julian Baumgartner, of Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration, do something similar to the canvas tacking edge of a beautifully restored paining.
That's a wrap !! Excellent show piece Dave. Gladly put your signature on the work and the videos are down in History too. Stay safe and thanks again to you and Ms Diane for another part of History saved and recorded. Fred.
