I appreciate your honesty in showing that mistakes occur during projects. Too many channels only show their successes and not the stumbles along the way. Keep on making great content.
Maybe I just miss them, but I don't think any of the channels I watch don't show their mistakes. Then again, channels like Fishers are more about the process of doing something new. The ones that don't show mistakes are probably more tutorial type channels more interested in giving accurate step by step instructions to get the ideal final product.
I bet you can do the missing brick one. Only difference between a regular brick board is the one little piece. Watch the vid one more time and you got this.
Clearly I like the middle one, sandwiches and burritos - I was hungry when watching. I decided I was going to accept the challenge and make one. Went to my wood pile and realized I don't have the wood, so the project is abandoned. My neighbor installed a security system so I cannot "borrow" any wood from him. GREAT projects Drew - painful to see you have to start over but you did learn quite a bit making these three boards! !! !!!
The cutting boards are great, of course, but what I really like is your commentary. I'm sure others have noticed it also, but your voice-over work is professional level.
I really love AND appreciate that you showed your learning process! Most folks only show their perfect projects, and that just makes me feel like I could NEVER make something like they have. But you showed your whole process, including the way you learned from the way you tried things the first time and then figured out how you could do them even better. It not only gave me insight into your learning process, it gave me permission to go for it knowing that if I made mistakes it was no big deal and I could just learn and try again until I get what I want. Thank you so much!!!
Hey Drew, so nice to see you here this morning. Really nice job on all the boards especially knowing the insane amount of processes, parts and glue-ups. Wow! Love the brick board as my favorite but enjoyed them all. All the best to you and your family. Be well and God Bless.
Your craftsmanship is amazing and your, let's call them challenges, shows me you actually are human and I gives me the confidence to attempt to make these and other projects! Thank you for all you do and keep it up!
Missing brick one is pretty sweet! I made a cable hung wine rack with 84 shelves....168 halves....I totally felt that when you counted your work in the outtakes "only 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 more to do...oh shoot...why do I do this?" LOL!!
Great video. I like how you sprinkle random humor throughout, and aren't afraid to show your mistakes while explaining what you learned from them. Brilliantly done. I can see your talent and skill in how you envision each board as an end grain which requires you to understand layout and configuration prior to cutting and rotating the assembly plane by 90°. 👏👏👏👏👏👏
With regard to that outtake on the CNC, here's a little advise from a novice machinist. Those side clamps, while incredibly useful, don't have a ton of holding power. You can't be too aggressive when holding a work piece down with them. In addition, having something to hold the work piece in the axis most if the force will be coming from helps. In the clip you showed, the clamps were only on the long edges of the work. If you had clamps on the short edges as well, it'd be harder for the part to move.
Truly incredible Drew! I really liked seeing the first attempt mistakes ("I'm sure you did Ethan") and seeing how you pivoted in the second version. I really can't pick a favorite, they are all awesome!
All of the boards are great, but I have a challenge for you, Drew: for the next set of gaps in the "brick wall" fill it in with clear resin so it's *actually* clear! Great tutorial, Sir...and an excellent challenge.
If the object of golf is to play the least amount of golf, then I'm the best golfer ever! I win at golf every day! Amazing boards, Drew. I think the hex weave is my favorite but they're all beautiful!
I might be watching to learn how to up my cutting board game. I might also be watching to hear more of your jokes about stealing stuff from your neighbor. I laughed out loud this time. Keep up the great work on both and thanks for posting.
Those are all neat, Drew, but my favorite is the pyramid board. Glad your neighbor keeps a supply of tape on hand. I was worried that you would have to use all of your own wood but your neighbor came through again. Good to see the "oh, crap"s are still around. Bill
May I share a tip? When setting angle on table saw, 45°, go past 45° one turn on adjustment wheel then back wheel into the 45° angle. It takes the slack out of threads on adjustment wheel and threads stay tight to 45° indefinitely.
I like them all; if you make me pick one I think it would be the pyramids... what does it say about the length of time I've been a subscriber that, during the outtakes, I yelled at the screen "watch out, that adhesive sprayer is gonna getcha!"... nailed it.
Hi Drew, I was just thinking the other day that I had not seen a new video of your projects. I really enjoy watching and learning from your ideas and I have in mind, when I find the time, to get some of your plans so I can make some of your project ideas. I am thinking of also doing RU-vid videos. I like all the cutting boards. They all came out great, even if they have a flaw or 2.
Hola! 🖐I like the Hex Weave the best.🤩What I really appreciate in this video is your process of constant trial, error, correct, retry, and on. The process is as valuable as the final product and that's what you give each of us watching in all of your videos! Take care and have a good one, Adios! 👊
This was a great video and I enjoyed watching all three of them. Thanks for putting this out there for us! I think I like the hex pattern one the most, but I'm intrigued by the missing brick and think I need to try my hand at making one with a slight modification: I would want the top of the mortar in the missing brick hole to also be walnut and then use an additional color for the see-through portion.
Beautiful work! When doing a project, we all learn from our mistakes. I've made plenty, especially when I made your step stool. :) The math geek in me loves the hex patter, but they're all gorgeous to look at! Love your outtakes!
Hi Drew, I like the missing piece the best. It makes to want to find them all and count how many. The other 2 are great as well but come in joint second for me. Great entertaining video as always. Take care Drew. Cheers, Huw
For me the hex weave board is the coolest looking board. Just this past week, I made my first (well, second, actually) end-grain cutting board. Before that, I'd made a dozen or so edge-grain cutting boards. Before I started I didn't know that end-grain boards were so much more time-consuming and harder to do, but I did know they take a lot more material. Getting all the pieces flat and lined up when you glue them really takes a lot of attention to detail when you are trying to create a consistent pattern. My first end-grain board was pretty much a complete failure. The second one - the first that was relatively successful - came out all right, but still is far from perfect. I don't have a CNC, a router sled, or a drum sander, so to get it flat I had to *very* carefully run it through my planer. Yeah, I know you're not supposed to do that on end-grain boards, but I glued it down to a sled, and took super light passes (like 1/128th"), and it worked out fine. Mine is a fairly simple checkerboard pattern using walnut, maple, and mahogany, but getting the rows to line up on the second glue up was still a bit of a challenge. Anyway, all that is to say that after having made just one end-grain board, I think your boards are pretty amazing. The creativity and amount of work that went into them is incredible. I hope whoever gets them appreciates them; they are works of art.
Thanks for the video Drew, you really do have some talent and a lot of patience. Wife and I like the pyramid one best although wall is close second. While third board is not bad it is fairly busy looking.
I liked the pyramids one and the Missing Bricks. With that said I would make them both and hang the pyramids on the wall an use the Missing Bricks as my cutting board... :-P Thanks Drew! LLAP
I really like the first 2. Not a fan of the 10yrder, I also liked that you showed the mistakes and how you worked around them. Very inspiring thank you.
You could use a quality drum sander. I bought a SupraMax and never regretted it. One of my favorite tools for building musical instruments. I can get the sound boards and backs down to 1/8" easy. Also eliminates a lot of hand sanding!
I thought I was going to hate the missing brick board... seemed like a weird idea and I didn't think it would turn out well. But honestly it's my favorite now. Good job!
