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Was in a custom cabinet shop several years back talking to the owner as he was explaining the products. Off in the corner was an old, old workbench. Great patina and plenty of life scars on it. I asked him what it was for and his answer was someday it will be the desk in my office. Could only imagine what had been built on that thing during its working life.
Dear John,i am a big admirer from Romania,and i have been following you for years! I love your work and i really appreciate everything you create...don't listen to the gossip! I am waiting to see new videos from you in the future! Best regards,Smocot Razvan
Appreciate the reflection on a previous piece and the proper way to deal with wood movement/moisture. Hard lessons for amateurs to retain and learn over time if the pieces don't stay with you. Some days it feels like my garage can almost steam bend with the door open.
Fun fact: Deardorff large format field cameras were made of Mahogany dried/seasoned for 50 yrs before milling the camera parts. In the 90's there was a shortage of new cameras because in WWII there was no lumber harvested and stored. They just let the market go wild and didn't compromise their production by rushing to make more cameras ahead of the seasoned wood availability. Quality first.
I liked that scraper trick with the piece of wood stabilizing it. I never really thought about how the curl would change how the wood moves as it shrinks and expands.
Hahaha. I too have a largely unheated workshop, and I too made a little box about two years ago, that went a bit wonky after sitting in the house. For smaller projects I actually do take my timber inside for several weeks before building whatever but I am thinking that I might just get a decent sized dehumidifier to keep my workshop drier, which is beneficial for my tools as well as hopefully ensuring that my timber stored in the workshop will not be too "wet" for indoor projects.
Thanks for the wrench 'thing' John, If you hadn't, I'd have suggested it! Now you need to open a tin of house paint on that top and leave it standing in the spill and drips - just for the comments haha!
@@IBuildItScrapBin The seasons just fly by these days. I've got lots of plans to do stuff this spring/summer and I know I won't get half of it done before winter comes around again.
John , you are way too good for us mortal. That bench belong in your dining room ( or mine) not in a work shop. As usual great work. Looking up to you and will try to be be half as good as half of you , whatever.
John, I am just curious about your thoughts. I am a big fan of your channel for years now, I think almost from the beginning, ,your main channel followed by the other two channels (one was which documented the renovation of your house) and now its evolution to what it is. its interesting to see how things evolved , and that said , I am curious about your thoughts. Once you mentioned that your intent was not to be a traditional wood work channel, i.making fine furniture etc , to paraphrase "like Mike Cromona" . This beautiful workbench you have seems to indicate that you might be considering that direction , Of course its your bench and you can use it anyway you want, and I understand that its a project for the makes mob where you can earn some money. I am just curious if you are moving towards the "refined" work? Just curios .....
I'm sorry, but it's time for all of us to admit that this is the insidious Paul Sellers effect in action. It starts with little things, like finally figuring out how to sharpen a chisel. Then before you know it, you're not using your jointer-planer any more. The old John would have, at about 5:50 where he's straightening the edge, resorted to skimming a bit off on the table saw, like a Wandel. You watch... pretty soon he'll be applying shellac with a hake brush and eschewing Robertson-headed screws in favor of slot heads.
What the hell... just commented on the bench build and now you violating the bench ? I could just restrain myself on giving you a 👎. L.o.l. Good explanation what happened and how you solved it. So there 👍!
