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Brian Le
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 28 ก.พ. 2012
Acorn Ring Engagement Box using Lathe and Shaper Origin
This is how I went about making this acorn ring engagement box. Something a little different and unique. This was made using a lathe, Shaper Origin and some bits of brass. #woodworking #latheturning #shaperorigin #engagementring #finewoodworking #cherry #walnut #brass #machiningprocess #machining #engagement #brazing #woodturning
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Creating a personalized stamp using Shaper Origin and Lathe out of brass and wood
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This video shows how using the Shaper Origin and a lathe can turn bits of brass and wood into a personalized stamp or makers mark. #shaperorigin #cnc #cncrouter #dovetails #finewoodworking #brazing #soldering #lathe #turning #brass #engraving #stamp #woodworking #bowlturning
I won the 2024 #ShaperBoxChallenge by Shaper Origin! My reaction video
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I was pleasantly surprised and happy to win first place in the 2024 #shaperboxchallenge. There were incredible entries this year and so I am very humbled to be top 3 let alone first place!? Thank you @Shapertools for hosting such a fun friendly competition! #shaperorigin #finewoodworking #boxmaking #dovetails #gingko #inlay #texture #carving #lathe #cnc #cncrouter #woodbox
Wanamaker Organ at Macy’s in Philadelphia.
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My friend Scott Kip ( IG @ Scott_Kip) is a machinist, clock maker, woodworker, preservationist and mechanical genius who for the past 18 years has maintained the largest functioning pipe organ in the world, the Wanamaker organ inside of Macy's in Philadelphia. It is thanks to him and his colleagues that this organ continues to be played twice a day, 6 days a week since 1911. The organ and the 2...
Sharpening a Lie Nielsen Fishtail Chisel
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For those of us who want a more consistent result sharpening a fishtail chisel, I’ll show you my technique to make a cradle which can hold the chisel in a @LieNielsenToolworks honing guide to create accurate repeatable results. Thank you to David Charlesworth for his contributions to woodworking and where I got the inspiration for this jig. #sharpening #chisels #lienielsen #protractor #jigs #wo...
Trestle Table Build using Tapered Sliding Dovetail Joinery
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This table started off as rough sawn cherry boards and through machinery and hand tools, I made this dining table fitted together with accurate joinery and no mechanical fasteners. This table is inspired by the excellent work of Mr. Ishitani @ISHITANIFURNITURE. I added my own design and construction modifications. The tapered sliding dovetail key used to secure the stretcher is worth watching i...
How to cut a tapered sliding dovetail joint #woodworking #dovetails #finewoodworking #joinery
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There’s the hand cut way which is fun to do but this just gets it done quickly and accurately with a power assist. It’s nice to have two routers to cut the slot but it’s a bit of a luxury. If you only have one router, you can remove a lot of the waste using a circular saw and chisel before you route out the channel using the dovetail bit set at final depth. Do not unplunge the bit until you are...
Oak Wall Cabinet with hand woodworking tools. Dovetail and mortise and tenon joinery.
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I finished this oak wall cabinet last year but just put the process together in this video. With the exception dimensioning the lumber, this cabinet was made with hand tools. Built according to Michael Pekovich’s plan in “The Why and How of Woodworking” #finewoodworking #dovetail #mortiseandtenon #lienielsen #woodworking
This really is great work! I'm planning to make something similar myself and will be drawing inspiration from this. I really like the proportions you got. Do you have a drawing of the table? I'm particular interested in the sizes of the pieces for the base, you've struck a nice balance of looking substantial and strong but not overly chonky.
so beautiful :)
Thank you! Cheers!
This just made my day, Brian. Great job, and congratulations! You're still just as meticulous and detailed as always, and that acorn is the chef's kiss. Here's what blew my mind: not only do they make router bits that narrow, but the shaper origin can engrave using them like that. So confess - how many of those bits did you snap in that walnut doing the date engraving?
Matt thank you for the kind words! The best investment for the shaper was a 1/8” collet as the bits are so cheap! But honestly I haven’t snapped any bits because I z-touch the bits by eye not automatically and I take .01”passes at a time.
Beautiful project! Congratulations! I wish you two long life and full of happiness.
Thank you!!
Gorgeous work as always Brian! And congrats!
Thanks Peter! Hammer coming inbound to ya!
Great project. Congratulations!!
Thank you Steve!
Sorry got to comment twice but the love and care you put into this is really something special
The stock ring box it came in was ehhh so I figure if I’m going to make something, might as well make it unique! Thanks again Rich!
❤❤❤❤❤ beautiful job!
Thank you Rich!
What a wonderful project. Congratulations Brian!
Thank you!!
Gorgeous piece and awesome video! Oh and you have the nicest tools ever!
Thank you! Took a while to amass them but they do make the job easier!
one issue, the glue cones not to the small side instead the glue comes on the wider side
Nope
Very good job, much better than some famous "professionals", I hope to see much more projects from you :)
Thank you for watching! I have 3 projects I’ve filmed and now just need to edit and and post them!
Beautiful table. I loved the tips on the spring joint. Two videos in, and I found my new favorite channel.
I’m glad you found it useful! Thanks for the sub!
Outstanding! I'm looking forward to trying this on my chisels.
Lamme know how it turns out!
Stunning build that combines simplicity and elegance. Amazing craftsmanship!
Thanks man for watching and dropping a line!
Great job Brian. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Steven! Thanks for watching!
Nakashima's wedge was built different
He employed several styles of wedges over a long career.
Wow. Amazing. Pieces and process peacefully explained. At the end I saw handsome symmetrical strength, disguised as simplicity, via slightly imperceptible angles that were the result of the patient techniques employed. Which begs the question, "Isn't it uncommon in the southeast United States for houses to have basements?" All jokes and your perceptible bow tie eye roll aside you are a wizard. Simple lines, as brief succinct writing, Is the time consuming process. Great job!
Thank you for watching and commenting and also noticing the little details! It’s hard to make something rectilinear not look so monotonous and so I hoped the little angles and facets would make it a bit more interesting. And basements are another level headache but they’re pretty common in Virginia. Where do you live?
NC Piedmont Region
Excellent job!!! it´s realy a pleasure watching this video.
Thank you for watching and dropping a comment!
i check both ishitani and kobeomsuk but neither of them give me the shivers. The tenon being inserted, the perfect fit. You would be my inspiration over them any day of the week. I absolutely love that you pay some much attention to the details. I would welcome any additional videos but thank you for uploading this one
That’s probably the best compliment I’ve ever gotten if Ishitani and kobeomsuk don’t give you chills! It’s comments like these that push me to make more videos. One coming up soon! Thanks again!
@@briantheprion both are awesome, don’t get me wrong. But the detailed filming and satisfying assemblies with tight fitting joints are a joy to see. Keep ‘em coming
@@niels5145thank you! Ok will have some stuff out soon!
Well, this one hurt. Allow me to thank you for reminding me how woefully lacking I am as a woodworker with this “boastful” display of your woodworking mastery, lol After watching this video, I had no choice but to list all of my woodworking items for sale on Craigslist…. and then I booked an emergency appt with my therapist. 😂😂😂 Dude, amazing work, congrats!!
Dude!! Don’t think that! We all start somewhere and we just get better with time and practice! What are you working on these days?
AMAZING quality video dude. Inb4 you have 100,000 subs! With vids like this you'll hit that easily! Subbed! Looking forward to more vids like this!!
Thanks a ton and thanks for the sub! I have a few projects coming together and a shaker lap desk will be out soon! 100k seems impossible tho lol
Great video, great commentary, great furniture!
Thanks so much for watching and tuning in! Got a few vids coming out including a shaker lap desk soon!
Wow. This is some of the finest woodworking I have ever seen. New subscriber and looking forward to watching your other videos.
Wow, thank you! Coming out with a shaker lap desk soon!
Well, that was a treat to watch and so well explained.
Thank you! Stay tuned got another build coming out soon!
Really nice table Brian. Also I love in ingenuity and the use of many planes. I’d also like to comment on the videos quality of production. Lastly, Ishitani is great, I’ve learn a lot watching his videos too.
I’m not above using a random orbital sander but sometimes a plane just makes for really accurate adjustments to parts fitting and it’s fun to use too! Thanks for dropping me a line! Do you make furniture too? What kinds of things have you made?
@@briantheprion I do actually, I started when I was nine years old. I make tables, desks and some smaller stuff for my corporate clients. Lately I’ve been making a few things out of slab wood but those are more experimental. Recently I’ve upgraded a bunch of my machines, I now have a Laguna CNC, Hammer C-4 sliding tablesaw/Joiner/planer/shaper and a big Laguna laser. I’m using the new machines to do the slab experimentation. BTW, I saw you on my daughters account, this is her father, Michael
Hi Michael. Wow you got some legit nice upgrades with the laguna cnc and the hammer combo machine! Thanks again for replying and letting me know the type of stuff you do!
After reading some of the comments, I will repeat what others have said. I am grateful to the algorithm for putting your video in front of me. I am blown away by your technique and attention to detail. I have been a hobby woodworker for 40 years and will be making a trestle table with locally sourced ash and yours is the one I will copy, if that is ok with you. I love your " Rube Goldberging" of the project. I too have had a love affair with the dovetail and the angularity of it as it is applied to all facets of a project. I have many questions which might not belong in this comment, and if you are willing I would love to pick your brain about some aspects of the project. Thank you for the very high quality of your work. You are a master craftsman.
Thank you for watching and commenting and absolutely feel free to use any elements of this table in yours! I borrowed a lot from Mr Ishitani as well. I’ve always been interested in building a piece of furniture that I hope will last for many generations and hopefully yours will too! If you’re on Instagram send me a message on it. My ig account is BrianThePrion and I can def answer any technical questions.
those are awesome clamps what brand are those?
They are made by Jet and sold through woodcraft.
What was the final dimensions of the table? What size stock did you use? How heavy is this table? Excellent work. Beautiful piece.
Let’s see: it’s 30 inches tall (76 cm), 36 inches wide (91.5 cm) and 73 inches long (185.5 cm). Thanks for watching and commenting!
Fascinating. I did correctly guess the date area - I don't have a 'branding iron' but I do sign and date my stuff -Sharpies are good and cheap. On your question: nitrile gloves should be just fine - they'll vaporize upon contact, and usually do when I need them not to (ebonizing oak, etc.). The issue is with leather or cloth, which will resist, catch and drag your meat parts into danger.
Finally someone who understands exception to rules and not just blindly following mantra. Agreed about leather or thick work gloves; they’re the kiss of death and a quick way to be on disability.
Always good to maintain that sphincter tone!😂
Haha Tim you know how important that is in our line of work lol
Nice work! And no, nitrile gloves aren't at all dangerous with the lathe or any spinny tools. People get up in arms about this kind of stuff and fail to actually consider material compliance and basic physics. And I know first hand that nitrile gloves will tear themselves to shreds if you just look at them wrong, much less have the necessary tensile strength to pull your hand into the machine. Besides, it looks like you are also a fellow user of the Jet 12-21 lathe which can just about be stopped by hand it's so underpowered haha!
My man Ben. Finally someone with common sense. You explained that perfectly. You got the same Jet Lathe eh? what kind of stuff have you been making? post some vids i wanna see!
I am SO TIRED of epoxy tables also. Nice to see solid wood.
I was thinking of making a tongue in cheek video of the year 2030 and me dumpster diving and fishing an epoxy table out from the trash just to salvage the wood in those tabletops to make proper furniture haha
Well done sir, simply outstanding work!
Thank you kindly! I’m glad you think so!
Whenever I begin to feel over-confident and perhaps even a bit cocky about my woodworking competence…… I watch this video. I do so to remind me that the gap which separates a decent/able-bodied woodworker and a bonafide craftsman (like yourself) is profoundly vast…….like depressingly vast. So on this Easter Sunday, allow me to say (whimper) a lowly thank you for the reality check & making me feel utterly pathetic on this holiest of days. 😐
Shane hi! Thanks for your comment and revisiting my video! I’m definitely still learning and trying out techniques as I go and I feel honored you think my skills are at the level of a craftsman! Also don’t despair! I look at some of the works of people who work with curves and it makes me think: dang, now that guy has it all figured out. If you haven’t already check out the work of Garrett Hack and Tim Rousseau. Those guys are what I consider true masters.
Also don’t ever feel lowly or compare yourself to others! As long as you’re improving and making better furniture as time goes on than you should be proud of that.
So awesome Brian!!!
Thanks Ethan! How’s med school going?!
Congrats! That wave is AMAZING
Thank you JoJo!
Very nice work. Ishtani is one of my favorite woodworkers.
He is a rare type with great eye for design as well as a steady hand. He was one of the reasons I went into woodworking!
What a piece. Congratulations.
Thank you so much and thanks for following along!
Đẹp quá! Chúc mừng anh.
Thank you brother!
Congrats. How much of this was done with Origin? Whatever it was do you have a video? Beautiful piece of craftsmanship.
Thank you! Parts I used the original for: after creating the rippled pattern on the larger board, I used the origin to cut out the rabbet and grooves to fit in a dado on the upper lid. I could have done this by hand by first sawing and then using a marking gauge to get the correct thickness using the bottom as a reference. Does that make sense? Since the ripple creates a nonuniform surface I would have to use the bottom as a flat reference if doing it by hand. I would use a shoulder plane to get the thickness right. But the origin just allowed me to make that in one easy setup. The second part I used the origin for was for cutting out the leaf and also creating the mortise for it. Doing it by hand is tricky because of the ripple pattern: you would lay the leaf down and scribe by hand and chisel/router out the waste but because the leaf is sitting on an irregular surface, this would have been harder to do but still very possible. I hope that explains the parts I used the origin for. Unfortunately I built it with a deadline in mind and so I didn’t get to film it but I would def reconsider building this box again in the future and I’ll def film!
Woohoo🎉🎉🎉 Great job Brian, truly a master craftsman and it’s not even your day job 😅
Thanks you so much for thinking that! How is your table? Is it getting a lot of use? Thanks for following along!
@@briantheprion yeah unfortunately progress has been a bit slow recently, we had a very sudden passing of our dog a few months ago so I took some time away from the project. But things are starting to look up. I'm actually in Japan now and am on a bit of an unexpected woodworking journey. Lots of cool tools and traditions here that are inspiring me to get back into it when I return.
what great details! congrats!
Thank you so much and thank you for following along!
Nice!!! Now give us some more videos!!!😂
You betcha! I swear I’m just a clip or two away from something and then life gets in the way 😅
Congrats! Well deserved. How about a build video?
I built this box under some time restraints and so I sadly didn’t take many other pics or vids except what is shown at the end but I may rebuild this box in the future and I’ll def be making a video about it!
Congrats Brian!
Thank you kindly and thanks for following along!
Love it! Awesome art Brian!
Thank you Rich!!!
Congrats! Well deserved :)
Thank you Eitan and thanks for following along!!
Amazing piece!! Some of the finest joinery I have ever seen.
Thank you for watching and dropping a line!
Hey Brian, I know you ended up making your own reamer because of the rare African wood you had. If you'd used a more common wood, would there have been an easier solution instead of making a custom reamer? Was wondering if there's a simpler solution out there. I've seen some tapered reamer bits around but not sure if that's the way to go.
Such a great question. I thought about this after I finished the project about how I could have made this easier on myself and I found that there are peghole reamers for guitars and violins but the overall size was too small and the taper too steep for what I needed. There are some automotive reamers that are closer to what I needed on Amazon. Admittedly, if I did it again, I’d prob get those reamers and then make the pegs fit the reamer vs the other way around but my method shows you a solution to a problem I created or if you only have a small amount of wood and can’t afford to loose length by turning it on a lathe.