Wood flower pots. Great gift idea! 

To determine the number of pieces take 360 / angle / 2 so 360 / 12 / 2 = 15 You can also find the angle by 360 / pieces / 2 so 360 / 14 / 2 = 12.86 360 / 15 / 2 =12 360 / 16 / 2 =11.25 You can see that for less than 1 degree either way will add or subtract an extra piece.

About the angle. A full circle is 360 degrees. Each stick have 2 sides. If you want 16 sticks the angle of cut must therefor be 360 / 2 / 16 = 11.25 degrees 15 sticks 360 / 2 / 15 = 12 degrees 14 sticks 360 / 2 / 14 = 12.85 degrees The glue gives you a little play in the angles.

There's going to be Happy Moms all over the world next week! Great vid as always!

I really want to try that epoxy finish now, I make all these vases but never seem to water-proof them! Cheers Steve.

Great Mothers Day project Steve, love the purple gloves.

Hey Steve, This is the project I just put a second coat of hand rubbed poly on, I poured that poly directly on my BMW and started applying it to the pot and finished with another coat to my BMW. In 10 years I'll have a really shiny BMW...haha.

***** A 12 degree bevel should have yielded 15 pieces (360 deg / (12 deg * 2) = 15), so given slight variation in the blade angle (and the necessity for an even number of pieces for this projects), both the 14 and 16 piece versions make sense!

Good one Steve! Using the tape as a way to wrap the pieces up is super simple, but genius!

"I'm sure if you just cut extra pieces you'll be fine" Greatest logic i have ever heard!

Your bevel was probably at a lower angle on the test run.

Great project :) maybe you should drill some drainage holes though

The math is quite easy, number of slats wanted (strips) say 12 strips divide by 360 degrees gives 30 degrees so each slat will get a 15 degree angle on each side which equals the 30 degrees. To get a bigger diameter just make the slats wider. This is the process that I use to make bowls etc on my lathe. Cheaper than trying to find large blocks of wood to turn.

Wonderful Project, thanks for sharing Steve.

Instructions to make a conical segmented bowl : woodgears.ca/miter/index.html

hose clamps is brilliant. Wouldnt have thought about using them!

Obrigado por compartilhar mais uma idéia simples Steve. Thanks for sharing one more simple and useful idea.

It might be obvious, but make sure the angle you choose results in an even number of pieces, or you will end up with two of the same color as neighbors. If you'd really have had 12 degrees, you'd have had 15 pieces...which doesn't work.

That's a great project Steve, thanks for sharing.

I like this, but think I'm going to call mine a pencil holder for a desk. Not sure if I still need the epoxy though. Obviously not needed for water tightness, but for durability it wouldn't be a horrible idea.

Unique flower! Good job 👍

Really nice!

Nice project Steve. Maybe your angel was a little different on the second one.

The difference between 14 and 16 slats is only 1/2 degree.

I love watching all wood working videos on RU-vid same way as I (and rest of the world too, I guess) hates your imperialistic measuring system. What the hell is a quarter of an inch, for wood sake!? ;-) 1 km = 1000 m, 1 m = 100 cm, 1 cm = 10 mm A quarter of an inch is 2,54 cm / 4 = 0,635 cm What the hell!? :-)

Nice simple project, Steve! You do a good job giving us ALL ideas as possible projects. Sure, you could always upload bigger and harder projects but not everyone is interested in complex jobs or even have the possibility to do a complex build. Keep up the good work!

Your tablesaw blade angle differed between your test cup and the red and white one. That's why it took less.

I was so nervous your cell phone was gonna get splattered with epoxy!

They look fab!!! A 12° miter should mean 15 sections (which will look wrong) Needs an angle of 12.857° for the 14 sections, but who cares. Can't wait for the next one.

answer to Gia Rcheulishvili that says: "steve, you're getting lazy! get to do some difficult and more interesting projects, no one needs a god damn flower pots. as a woodworker you must make a wood to a good use, the use that you can not get from other material. " Is it obvious sir, that you don't, or cannot, understand what is the aim of a channel like the Steve one. If you want more complex works there a bunch of other places on internet where you can learn how to make your woodworker life much complex. Last but not least this is a free channel and no one force you to spend your precious time in such a "god damn" projects. Probably your skillness is wasted for a place like this, so be so kind to don't make all of us awarned about our simpleness, let us stay in our useless world of mom's flower pots, use your time and your great skill to improve your capacity and open a your own channel where the "real woodworkers" like you could appreciate your surely incredible ability! BTW New Yankee Workshop is ended, I suggest you to contact your local tv and made "Better Yankee Workshop", a program for No-Mother-Woodworkers! Best regards sir from an italian wannabe-american-woodworker Hope you understand my poor and funny english.... oh yes how could I doubt...surely you are much intelligent and clever rather than the simple people that usually appreciate this channel... with all my " respect".......

Steve. Maybe someone already replied, but just divide 360 by the number of pieces to get the angle for the joint. Divide that by 2 to get the cut angle. TaDa! easy breezy...

so my guess on the size difference is this: angles to make up a circle add up to 360 degrees. 14 strips with 2 bevels at 12.8 degrees gives 360 16 strips with 2 bevels at 11.25 degrees gives 360 so just 1 degree difference can account for 2 pieces of wood. you gave best advice though! just make a few extra :) nice project, im going to make some

.*_about the degrees..._* what happened is that you've made the cuts closer to 13º than 12º that's why it took one less piece, minimal errors (less than 1 degree in this case) add up a lot in this case. if you want to use a specific number of pieces you can divide 180/nº of pieces and you'll have how many degrees you must cut each one: .*[degrees] = 180 / [nº pieces]*

The sum of all the angle of the joints in a circle must add up to 180 deg. If you used "exactly" 12 degrees then you would need to have 15 of those joints, hence 15 slats. Because only 14 pieces were needs tells me that you must have cut your angles slightly off this time -- ie. 180 / 14 = 12.85 deg. On the first one you used 16 slats -- that means the angles cut there must have been a bit out the other way -- ie. 180 / 16 = 11.25 deg cuts.

EnviroTex is great stuff (even rumored to be safe for food contact, though they never paid for the FDA seal of approval). It's basically the same stuff that people use to seal wood bar tops, reclaimed-wood tables, etc. If you find yourself using it on more visible surfaces you'll notice that you get a lot of small bubbles showing. Just wait a couple of minutes after application and "brush" quickly with the flame from a butane plumbing torch to make them all go away and give you a really clean surface.

In regards to your "mathematical way" to figure it out: all you have to do to determine the number of slats required is do 360/2x. x representing the angle you cut the slats on with your table saw. By the way, thickness of the pieces makes no difference as long as they are all the same. This will work for any polygon (excluding triangles), and can even be manipulated to tell you the angle that you need to cut to achieve a certain number of slats. I.E, If I want an octagon (8 sides) I can do 360/2(8) and it will tell me the degrees I need to cut at the table saw (or miter saw for that matter). In this case, it is a 22.5 degree angle.

You cut 12 degree bevels on either side of each slat? That makes 24 degrees from slat to slat. 360/24 = 15, so you'd need 15 slats rather than 16 or 14. Add to this that you might not have placed them as tightly as possible on the masking tape, and you have your answer.

hose clamps who new great idea

all your angles need to add up to as close to 360 you must have been closer to 13 degrees 14 slats with 2 12 degree angles is close enough for wood with all the glue joints the closest i got just by fumbling around with a calculator was 12.857 which gets you 359.996 but were really spliting hairs on that level

No matter the width, the formula for figuring your angle and number of pieces is ... 180 degrees divided by number of sides you want .. 180 divided by 4 is 45, so 45 degrees would be your angle for a four sided box, frame or what ever ...

Nice video. Just remembered a trick I saw in a video from frank howarth. Instead of glueing the full circle he make 2 halfs, sands them flush and glues them together. This way get gets a better circle, even when the bevels are a bit off.

Nice work Steve Would love to see you make a fish tank cabinet as I really want to make one but don't know where to begin :(

You didn't know you had so many math scholars following your channel lol

hola steve.......ayudame por favor necesito fabricar una mesa de dibujo

Your cuts were probably 12.85 degrees if you do the math. Also the glue could effect the angles too. When I make these I usually take the glue into effect and make the angles a little bigger. Loved the video though and I can't wait till the Mere Minutes is out.

Hey Steve it should have been 11.25 degrees for 16 pieces. 14 pieces would be 12.85 mathematically

Very innovative project Steve, I'm with Carl........love the purple gloves ;) Cheers Mike

Lets solve all of the problems with angle's and blade thickness as well of the angle of re entry towards the aperture of the finnagin pin with a double pike and spend a few thousand pound's on a CNC machine, and it can work out the angle's. Or just watch Steve's simple to follow video and enjoy using some timber to have fun and stop complaining.

NICE project. I just watched your "rainstick" vid. This looks like a custom piece and yet there is a possibility I can even do it.

Nice project. I needed an idea for mothers day too! I do like these small projects because I always have too many small pieces in the scrap bin.

I make tapered wooden buckets, and tapered wooden butter churns. They are just for decoration, the tapered wooden buckets will hold water, if they are caulked with oakum. But the butter churns are not recomended for use, as they are subject to bacteria. There is a formula for getting the right bevel on the stays, for a non tapered cylnder. Devide the number of stays into 360, this will give you the correct angel to set the table saw blade. there is another formula for getting the correct width of the stays for the desired diameter of the vessel. But I know you dislike complicated math in wood working, so I will leave that alone.

That's kinda the same method for making stave snare drums. With all of the instruments you've made, you might give that a try too. Plus, you could call them Steve Snares. =)

Steve, to be exact the 12°angle should have used 15 pieces to form a circle assuming everything right on the money. the width of the slats would make no difference in number of slats but would give a larger or smaller size with all the slats the same size. i plan on making one of these then turning true round in my lathe.

You had a slight different angle on the first pot. And thus, the number of slats changed. You can exploit this to make bigger or smaller pots.

I think i will do to my mother.thanks foro your idea, you Have save me;-)

FYI im an idiot... not all the strips have bevels right? I 8 are beveled at 12% and the rest are straight? Thanks, Love your vids.

[(Total number of sides - 2) * 180] / Total number of sides = interior angles between two boards

"Barrel Making for Meer Mortals", great video as always and such a neat idea.

360 divided by the number of sides you need or want. Then divide by 2 for each side. Should give you the angle to cut for a circle.

At 16 cuts out of 360 degrees, it only takes being about .2 of a degree off on the bevel to end up with needing less or more pieces. On a saw, .2 of a degree can be tough to impossible to factor out.

Take your 360° and divide it but how many slats you want. Then divide that by 2 ( cuz you have two sides on each slat) this will give you the angle to cut at.

nice flower pot for mothers day - I wanted to send you a picture of a wishing well planter that I make so you could let your viewers make it for mothers day or they can sell them. But I do not know how to attach a photo for you to see it on you tube. it's 2 feet by 2 feet and 56 inches tall and the cost of the wood is less than $30.00

Wood from the scrap pile is cheap but somehow I'm guessing that epoxy slop is not.

12 degree cut on each =24 degree angle.360/24=15 14 parts = 15 24 degree joints

Pretty damned nifty. I like the way you think. It strikes me that those are very similar to crocks sold everywhere for kitchen tools and accessories except they are way better looking.

Great project and one could use your scrap wood to do some of these as well. Great! Thanks ! Chris

look up stave snare drums the building techniques of the shell will help you understand why thickness matters

Fun project, that could be used for more than just a planter.

i should prolly read comments first :) good luck steve with yer 1000 geometry comments in the weeks to come

Many of your projects are nice but not something I would do. This one is the exception. I think I will put it on a lathe though.

Hey Steve. How would Carmine make bongo drums using this idea?

Very Nice 👍

thats awesome! i can super size that for my water tower!!!!!! you a genius!

Nice project and cool idea. I guess the angle is closer to 13 degrees than 12 degrees to only need 14 slats to make the full circle.

i justwatched the miter saw and agree fully i have an old black & decker radial it is a dangerous saw so have to use caution combined with my table saw it saves a lot of changes to the tablesaw i enjoy both

beautiful work. but how come you didn't make small holes in the bottom for extra water to drop out ? :)

how to cut the strips when the top and the bottom have different diameters ? can you explain, please .

Shouldnt the pot have a hole in the bottom to let excess water drain out? Consult your wife about the finer details of flower pots.

This would make a difficult pot since theres no hole at the bottom for drainage. Other than that I like the design

Steve from math class what is Pi how many time go into 360 some will take 12 some 16 thanks steve

Do you think that for your next project you could teach us how to make a fishing line spool holder

Does anyone have a link to an article about the tankards, I would like to know how to finish them and still drink from it.

Very clever with the masking tape. Great tip

please, make wooden glassess, im try to do it, but i have a big gap between glass and wood. Thanks

Maybe im missing it here but would the epoxy be safe to use if i was going to pour beverages in it or store nuts on my coffee table?

When you go to cut the angle do you set it at 1in as if it were a straight cut? Or is the 1in mark for the inner or outer bevel?

I think the answer lies in how accurate the angle is cut. A 12 deg bevel on each side totals 24 degrees. Since you're wanting to complete a circle, 360 deg divided by 24 equals 15 pieces. So the 14 to 16 pieces depends of the accuracy of the bevel cut. Nice project, regardless. The hose clamps are a great idea. I'll have to remember that.

Can someone plz explain the Microjig thing? I didn't get it

Mathematically if you make 12 degree angles you would need 15 pieces (12 * 2 * 15 = 360). You should use angles like 15 or 10 instead

yur the best master ; u have big ideas ..greetings from peru

What is the youtube channell to the guy who makes those tankards?

I would love to try a large barrel in the same fashion. like 2 foot tall and maybe the sane across

cutting a 12 degree bevel on each side will require 15 slats the same size

Not many people passed the test. It's the iWOOD, guys!

With left over pieces you can make wooden xylophone

Wow, that's just how I make my wooden tankards, including the exact same pour on epoxy. You didn't show us how you cleaned up the inside of it, though, after glue up.

Ramsey eres muy bueno, lastima que yo no tenga donde hacer estas cosas.

Did Audible drop you or is microjigs deal exclusive?

yep I know what you mean . so many pieces and you have one or two left.

A digital food scale us a great way for measuring portions.

My daughter says, THAT WAS COOL! They love watching woodworking videos with me. Yours especially. The hose clamp idea was clever. How quickly did the epoxy set up?