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Touch Wood
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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2020
Beginner woodworker shows the process of making mistakes and improving over time. Lets learn together!
An overly detailed lesson in drills
If you're a complete and utter beginner when it comes to drills and you're looking for some step by step, non-judgemental guidance, this is the video for you.
In this video I will walk through the very basics of buying and operating a drill. Enjoy!
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In this video I will walk through the very basics of buying and operating a drill. Enjoy!
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🍒 CHANNEL SUPPORT 🍒
🤑 TH-cam membership: th-cam.com/channels/exfmEQtxpbcDd_p89Awurw.htmljoin
🤑 Patreon: www.patreon.com/touchwoodwoodworking
🛍 Website, shop and contact: www.tomkeepings.com
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Come say hello on my socials!
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I made same mistake buying a aluminium little table didn't fit, But for the hole on acrylic A hole saw on slow speed would if done it. any way will done for trying.
Geez man PLEASE use a push block to feed wood through when the edge is that close to the blade. That aside great idea. I personally want to make a proper carry box for it though as my Titan CS doesn't come with one. I like to keep all my power stuff contained even as a beginner.
Hi loved your video where did you buy the pond liner . Need your help please did you make any holes on the pond liner ie for drainage. Thanks
Lining with plastic is going to trap moisture between it and the wood
Hi did you cut some holes in the plastic / pond liner to allow water to escape the plastic 'bag' so to speak?
11:38 What is happening here? You loosen the clamp, but the top part (now bottom part) does not fall on the floor? That's interesting. I am looking for a router to be used on/under a router table, whose height can be adjusted quickly and easily, without having to spend money on a router lift.
the Daft Punk slipped in there 😂
Good Job! You said the router cabinet was too tall making the overall height too high when the cabinet is on your bench. How high is it from the floor to the router table surface? i'm planing on making a router table and now wonder what might be the maximum height. Thanks!
Walnut
I like the idea of the contrasting wood colors.
Why the need to say "go ahead"
Dirt, don’t you mean soil??
That’s what you call soil if you garden 😂😂
Beautiful job. Love the cat too!
Use t- track for your fence.
You could have used a large router bit to cut the fence. Just slide the fence into the router.
What's the cost of that in timber nowadays?
What'd you use at the very end?
Nice looking and very robust-good job!
Nice!
How did you join the layers to each other ?
Are these after weathering much in the last 2 years?
What size of screws did you use!? I couldn't catch your accent?
Hello. What are the dimensions of this stand? Specifically I’d like to know the thickness is it a log which is more than 2 inches thick?
Gosh! I'm proud of your work. I dream of placing your flower bed at the corner of my house. I will share this with my friends who are masters at building raised beds in their vegetable garden. Maybe they will take pity on me and help me replicate your excellent project. Thank you for posting this video. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🏆🏆🏆🏆
Put your biggest bit in the router, turn on the router and raise the bit into it instead of drilling a hole in the plate. Same with the fence.
Thanks for a great video! Silly question, but where does the water escape? I'm looking to make something like this on a concrete floor, but am unsure what to do about drainage... did you poke holes in the pond liner? Or add rocks at the bottom layer before adding soul? Thanks for any advice! 😊
Yup so you want to poke lots of holes in the bottom of the pond liner for a start. If you're using some sort of membrane then you can leave that as is because it'll let water through on its own. After that though, you'll want to ensure the water has somewhere to go. Of course, the water can't drain through concrete, so will need to run off somewhere. Hopefully your concrete floor runs off in a direction and doesn't just pool the water up. Spray the floor with a hose for a while, find out where the water wants to wander off to, and then cut some hole in the flower bed in that direction.
Do you only need the water channels to prevent the rain filling up your sleepers whilst you're constructed them? I assume once they are lined the water channels aren't required? Great video mate.
You want drainage by poking holes in the plastic, and that water needs somewhere to go. The preference is to use a membrane that’s suitable for plants but I didn’t have any so made do with pond liner and vigorous stabbing. If you build these on dirt with concrete footings you shouldn’t need those channels
Great advice thanks
nice mate
Great vid, no waffle just straight into it
Thanks for this. I’m hoping to build something similar for growing vegetables. A couple things I was wondering though.you say to use paint for better protection but everything I’ve seen recommends not using anything on wood like this for the first year because it is already pressure treated. Also, isn’t oil better than paint? Paint sits on top of wood which is why it flakes revealing unprotected timber, and needs to be reapplied a lot and stripped back periodically. oil soaks into the wood so needs less maintenance. The other thing is, could I use vegetable felt lining instead of pond liner so that I wouldn’t need to add a base? That stuff protects but also allows drainage.
Hi Clare. I’m not entirely sure to be honest with you, all I know is that you have to be careful what you put in the wood and how you separate the wood from the dirt because you definitely don’t want the chemicals leaking into your veg! And I think felt will be fine (bearing the above in mind). Hope that helps
Lovely. Would look brilliant with a floating bench on it
Hi, what is the maximum size timber that your Dewalt mitre saw can cut? It seemed to make easy work of those sleepers.
Hey Robbie. The 30cm version which I used in the video was maxed out with those sleepers. If I had the smaller saw, I would have had to make either 2 cuts or 1 cut and hand saw the rest of the way through! So I’d say about 4-5 inches is the max cut depth it can manage
What dewalt saw is that please sir?
Thank you for the video! It inspired me to do a similar stand but using birch plywood. It turned out great too :)
Would it be possible to use a thinner sleeper or wood (maybe scaffold board) only on the rear side where it meets the fence? Looking for a way for it to protrude less without losing planting space. Thanks - great vid.
G’day cap’n. You probably could but my worry is that it wouldn’t last as long because there’s less wood for the weather to wear down and thinner boards holding back all the dirty would be dealing with more sideways pressure to push them out. Bear minimum you’d have to fasten them quite securely to the other sleepers! Ultimately I’d say it’s up to you but I don’t think I’d use scaffold boards for this
Thanks for the video. May i ask why you think you needed to build the base, inside the planter? What would be the harm in having the liner go straight onto the ground?
One thing I didn’t point out in the video was that I stabbed a load of holes in the liner for drainage. There needs to be a gap underneath the liner to drain into, so that’s one reason. The other is to allow said drainage to flow around freely/easily so the wood won’t rot as quickly Thanks for the comment
@@TouchWoodWoodworking Thank you. I have some spair bricks - i may use them to build a platform.
Hi, have been running into the same problem with finding a faceplate. Do you know where you can get an aluminium one that fits this router?
I haven’t looked since making the video sorry! The plastic one has done the trick for me for the time being. Please do let me know if you find one though, I’d snap it up in an instant
Nice to see your mistakes. We all make them. I like your video and it gives me a sense of what to do. I plan on picking up the same DeWalt router, DWP611.
It’s a great little router. I don’t have any bad words to say about it! Hope you enjoy it and the router table you may end up making for it :)
Thanks, the problems really helped and would stop me making the same ones. Cheers
Hi, like most of the comments im going to build similar in my garden. Really great video and well explained. Thank you - really helped me out
Great advice for our next project.
Great work! I'd love to know where you source your wood from? I'm looking at giving this a go too!
www.timbersource.co.uk is my current go to. Sometimes takes a couple weeks for the order to arrive but can’t say a bad word about the quality of the wood that comes from there
Lovely result, great video but how come you put pond liner in the bottom? How does the water escape thorough the channels you cut if it’s all covered in pond liner?
Thanks! I cut a few small holes in the base, and pond liner is what I had in the shed. If I had some, I would have used some of that mesh fabric stuff to allow decent drainage
Sounds like bobs burgers.
Love your humour!!
How do you fix the layers together when you start stacking them? :)
I didn’t cover it in the video. I attached batons along the inside corners and screwed those into every layer. You can see it on the outskirts of the video when i start talking about putting the base in
Love the video, we have all been there. Keep pushing.
Hi, Thank you for this video. I'm looking at building my own raised garden bed and these were the easiest instructions I found. They were simple to understand and easy to follow. Now, I just have to order the materials and have a go. :) Now all I have to do is believe I can do it :)
I believe in you! Go for it! My only tip is to lift with your legs because the sleepers are heavy
Guys this is not as simple it’s shown, you really need to make them strong and it’s a quite laborious and tactful.
You could make your own aluminium plate. It's surprisingly easy to work with using woodworking tools.
Now that I didn’t know. I assume it can dull your blades a lot quicker though? I’ll be up for trying it if it’s not too hard on the tools!
@@TouchWoodWoodworking it may do a bit but I've not noticed although haven't done a lot. There are a few videos on TH-cam about it.
Thanks for that Simon, I’ll be sure to have a look!