I understand your point, don't get me wrong. I know most TH-cam videos are short. But I'm trying to do something different. I'm making a TV style show. I love to kick back and watch a half hour of Roy Underhill or something else on PBS. Why not online? I feel like there's a place for full shows on TH-cam, and I hope to change people's way of thinking. Glad you subscribed!
The split top saw benches are a great first project!! I’ve built a couple and each time I learn something new with it. It’s a great way to practice a new technique because they’re shop furniture and a consumable.
This was my first time watching one of these video, I am at a lose for words, it over the top in so many good and bad ways. The project was good for some just getting start but I was 10 to 12 years when did these so it was 45 years ago, but back then no video or TH-cam just a library card, popular mechanics and wherever else I can get my hands on. What wood I got home was what I could strap to my bike or back or wood crate from dads shop. My dad own a a glass company and was I shop the glazer until I could drive. Power tools I got where tools from the trash dad had no patience to fix things he just threw them away (or at the wall he got pissed off) Most times they I needed was a new brushes. Had 1 cross cut saw and miter box saw, hand drill and Orange and green drill made of two drills vibrating sander and sandpaper. But if I wanted something I built it didn’t have money to buy, like a bookcases, bookends, chairs, desk anything I can imagine or find plans for.
Boy, this project has everything! Cheap easily available materials, several types of advanced joinery but large enough for a novice, practice with a wide array of hand tools and marking techniques. And most of all the final product is genuinely useful and looks good too! I'll have to make some marking gages and try this project!
he was but a humble & proud american. I realised- ole Pappy Nubs wouldn't want any accolades, he was happy he was able to his part. Just like you my friend. A proud american & like me a proud man from MIchigan. Keep up the good work.
Stumpy, Good clean humour with lots of woodworking information. I look forward to your shows and find the whole team ferry funny. Keep e'm coming and have a cold one for me. Regards from Poole in the UK. Wikk
Well stumpy, I'm impressed. Keep on throwing back the cold ones like a rockstar, and pounding that wood like a pornstar. One of your best episodes. Even brought back memories on one of your old episodes about words. Your videos are getting better and better, can't wait till the next one
Thanks Stumpy for all your woodworking tips. The content is great and I appreciate how you incorporate your humor into your videos. I learn a lot and have a good laugh, to myself that is.
A neat tip I picked up for hand sawing the other day is to look at the reflection of the wood you're about to cut in the blade of your saw. To cut at a right angle to the edge the wood and it's reflection should form a completely straight line. If they form a V then you know your blade us cocked to the left or right of dead square. Of course this requires that your saw blade be shiny enough to see the wood's reflection clearly.
After some careful internet search & review,"we all know that if it's on the internet, it must be real" I was able to determine the the GREAT Pappy Nubs was infact an undercover agent for this great nation of ours. I was at first dismayed that there was not a monument nor a plack or anything to honor this grat man. Then I realised- ole Pappy Nubs wouldn't want any accolades, he was but a humble & proud american. Happy he was able to his part. Just like you my friend.
I love this channel. While there is nothing wrong with using power tools and you can create anything and everything with them. For me personally I get more satisfaction out of building something over the course of a month even though one could do it in a day with power tools. Of course if you are making a living with woodworking..power tools are the way to go. No one could afford to pay what it would cost for hand crafted items. Those days are several hundred years behind us when old timey's produced for the rich and elite, the kings and queens, they couldn't even afford their own creations. Once again , fantastic channel and I love your work :)
This is hands down one of the best woodworking videos I've ever seen. The sheer volume of knowledge imparted is fantastic. This is the kind of thing that's hard to get in such a compact format. This video is on a par with Ron Hock's book, "The Perfect Edge". You can just ignore godu1111's remarks, you just keep on makin' these videos the way you are making them, I love your jokes, and your production values are really good. Bravo!
I finally made one of these myself. Though I ripped a 2x6 and glued it together for the feet pieces and then chopped out the mortise the old fashioned way. Seemed like good practice for my next project. Also learned that I can't seem to bore out the waste with a brace and bit any faster than I can just chop it all.
Thank you very much and congratulations for your great work. This videos are very usefull, specially for people in countries like Venezuela where I live, where buy a decent power tool costs the equivalent from 2 to 15 months of hard work, Thank's a lot, Stumpy Nubs Rules!
After the Revolutionary War he became subdued. He was a modest man. He didn't brag to historians like his friend, General Patton did when they served together in WWII.
Just found you. I'm a new TH-camr in a similarly specialized industry and I have to say I am really, really enjoying your style. I see this video is 7 years old so I am guessing I have a little catching up to do!
Great video! Really like the simplicity of the design. How did you get the 2x4 dove tail stringers in? You show placing the top on before they were in... just curious as I'm interested in building this myself.
After some careful internet search & review,"we all know that if it's on the internet, it must be real" I was able to determine the the GREAT Pappy Nubs was infact an undercover agent for this great nation of ours. I was at first dismayed that there was not a monument nor a plac or anything to honor this great man.
Especially since he appears to have fought in every war over the last 500 years. You should hear his stories about Christopher Columbus... now THAT guy really got under Pappy's skin!
Great video!!! I really like your Old-timey woodworking videos. It's nice to that you understand and enjoy using both power tools and hand tools. I really like using my power tools because there fast but there's something about using hand tools that is very satisfying and rewarding. I also like the fact that you don't use the top of the line uber $$$ tools like a lot of other youtubers do. P.S. your sash saw has a broken handle :(
That's what Pappy Nubs said about him. He said he was the most irritating man he'd known except for maybe Paul Revere. That guy REALLY thought he was something. Always going on about the British coming, drove Pappy nuts.
I have a plane the same as yours at 2.35. It is my favourite go to. No chip breaker, open mouth, lovely shavings. Cost me $25. Do you know what make and age it is. I suspect it is European.
with such a rich & colorful ancestral history, one would expect there to be more information in the history books, I mean, I would probably be a little miffed if my grandpa single handidly sunk the british fleet & there was not a mention of in the history books. but that's just me.
I know its an old video, but ive just watched you put a piece of recently turned steel in your wood working sharpening water. Steel swarf on your waterstones is not ideal😢
as a british subject i am saddened that the events of the 1812 war have been distorted in our biased history books so that the derring do actions of all american heroes such as pappy nubs have been lost from our culture. i feel his actions should be more widely acclaimed!!
Pappy wasn't anti-Brit, he actually fought on their side in the battle of Hastings, against his uncle Willy, no less! Of course, he did have a little tiff with them over Stirling Bridge, but after Bannockburn they patched things up for quite a while.
Sorry you don't like the show, but it is what it is. I don't know who makes the time rules for TH-cam videos, but it seems that thousands of people disagree with you.
Almost makes me regret the fact that I bought hundreds of dollars of power tools. when all I really needed is a few scraps and yard sale saws. I hope my wife never sees this video. Nice Job.
The history of saws would have been a lot different if they had cut on the pull stroke - like the Japanese saws. Wouldn't have hardly needed the re-inforced backs.... None of that agony in woodshed class learning to use them - with the teacher barking at you like a Marine Drill Sargent. Oh wait! He WAS a former Marine Drill Sargent....
I meant cheap, but I've since priced them and....you're right $10 or less it is. Having done a bunch of outdoor projects, I had treated 2X prices in mind. Sorry 'bout that.
Did you say “Short hand.......saw”, ‘Nubby’? (By the way- I take umbrage somewhat at your deleterious characterization of our friend the bovine species... )
$10 eh? I guess the jack plane is free. And the saws. And the beer. You should do a tutorial for absolute beginners. People with zero tools. Like, not even a measuring tape...
sth128 I'm all for making my own tools actually and refuse to buy any, so your first sentence doesn't apply to me. Stumpy's channel isn't about making woodworking tools, it's about using them
***** Except his first few videos are about making marking knives and marking gauges and jigs and homemade tools followed by sawing benches and work benches. Regardless, if these videos are tailored for new woodworkers then it's a safe assumption that not all his viewers have a complete set of saws, planes, and beer kegs. Well maybe the beer kegs.
To tell you the truth, i totally forgot about those videos about him making tools, so that's my bad. I don't rightfully know if his videos are tailored for new woodworkers, but if that's the case, then i totally agree. There's nothing quite like homemade tools :), also it would be cool to see him make a saw haha
Dense with top shelf info and bottom of the barrel dad jokes. Brilliant!
Please, please, please produce more old-timey workshop videos, Stumpy!
I understand your point, don't get me wrong. I know most TH-cam videos are short. But I'm trying to do something different. I'm making a TV style show. I love to kick back and watch a half hour of Roy Underhill or something else on PBS. Why not online? I feel like there's a place for full shows on TH-cam, and I hope to change people's way of thinking. Glad you subscribed!
I realize that the "new" Stumpy is why I came.. but things like this are why I'm still watching to learn.
The split top saw benches are a great first project!! I’ve built a couple and each time I learn something new with it.
It’s a great way to practice a new technique because they’re shop furniture and a consumable.
This was my first time watching one of these video, I am at a lose for words, it over the top in so many good and bad ways. The project was good for some just getting start but I was 10 to 12 years when did these so it was 45 years ago, but back then no video or TH-cam just a library card, popular mechanics and wherever else I can get my hands on. What wood I got home was what I could strap to my bike or back or wood crate from dads shop. My dad own a a glass company and was I shop the glazer until I could drive. Power tools I got where tools from the trash dad had no patience to fix things he just threw them away (or at the wall he got pissed off) Most times they I needed was a new brushes. Had 1 cross cut saw and miter box saw, hand drill and Orange and green drill made of two drills vibrating sander and sandpaper. But if I wanted something I built it didn’t have money to buy, like a bookcases, bookends, chairs, desk anything I can imagine or find plans for.
Juat what I needed in my life...learn to saw from a fella names "stumpy"...what could possibly go wrong?!
Classic, absolute classic. There is so much great info in this video. I always learn something from every video you do. Cheers!!
The best woodworking series on the web, hands down.
I saw what you did there.
The back stories are great with a lot of teeth to the knowledge.
Boy, this project has everything! Cheap easily available materials, several types of advanced joinery but large enough for a novice, practice with a wide array of hand tools and marking techniques. And most of all the final product is genuinely useful and looks good too! I'll have to make some marking gages and try this project!
One of my more favorite stumpy videos, love the old timey stuff!!?
Gotta agree with Dave, great video and project!
Stumpy this is the best video (in my opinion) you have done. It is packed with a ton of tips and tricks. Well done. Keep them coming.
I enjoy your videos, Stumpy, the goofy kind of humor makes them even better. I'd watch them even if they were twice as long.
I love the great instructions mixed with humor and tradition. Good job on these videos......I'm glad I found you!
This has to be my favorite video ever!
Funny AF and educational to boot ❤️
he was but a humble & proud american. I realised- ole Pappy Nubs wouldn't want any accolades, he was happy he was able to his part. Just like you my friend. A proud american & like me a proud man from MIchigan. Keep up the good work.
My saw bench is an old 1970's 2-5gal. (square) cans Chevron Pearl Kerosene box. Most useful packaging ever made. Wish i had 100 of them.
Stumpy,
Good clean humour with lots of woodworking information. I look forward to your shows and find the whole team ferry funny.
Keep e'm coming and have a cold one for me.
Regards from Poole in the UK.
Wikk
Love the videos stumpy. Only tube videos I don't fall asleep watching...great info
Well stumpy, I'm impressed. Keep on throwing back the cold ones like a rockstar, and pounding that wood like a pornstar. One of your best episodes. Even brought back memories on one of your old episodes about words. Your videos are getting better and better, can't wait till the next one
Just measured to my knee cap and got 21 inches, sure will use that knowledge when projects don't come out as good as expected!
Wow! It's cool to run across this video after having seen your current ones. Who knew?
Thanks Stumpy for all your woodworking tips. The content is great and I appreciate how you incorporate your humor into your videos. I learn a lot and have a good laugh, to myself that is.
I am going to have to go and see your other videos, this one is excellent, your video making is as good as your woodworking, thanks for sharing.
Great job please keep them coming we need more hand tool woodworking on the tube
This is one of your best ever. Fantastic work. Love the Roy reference at the beginning.
I made one of these, and freaking love it. I did make one change to the design though; I made the entire top a split top. So far, it's been fantastic.
I'll have to check with my bell and whistle guy on that. But it's shorter than PBS woodworking shows, and those seem to work out great.
A neat tip I picked up for hand sawing the other day is to look at the reflection of the wood you're about to cut in the blade of your saw. To cut at a right angle to the edge the wood and it's reflection should form a completely straight line. If they form a V then you know your blade us cocked to the left or right of dead square. Of course this requires that your saw blade be shiny enough to see the wood's reflection clearly.
What a pleasure to see a craftsman using hand tools! Loved your video- Subscribed!! Hope there will be man y more.
I am new to wood working and love this bench. Do you have plans for this bench? I can't remember how to do it once I am not near my computer
After some careful internet search & review,"we all know that if it's on the internet, it must be real" I was able to determine the the GREAT Pappy Nubs was infact an undercover agent for this great nation of ours. I was at first dismayed that there was not a monument nor a plack or anything to honor this grat man. Then I realised- ole Pappy Nubs wouldn't want any accolades, he was but a humble & proud american. Happy he was able to his part. Just like you my friend.
I love this channel. While there is nothing wrong with using power tools and you can create anything and everything with them. For me personally I get more satisfaction out of building something over the course of a month even though one could do it in a day with power tools. Of course if you are making a living with woodworking..power tools are the way to go. No one could afford to pay what it would cost for hand crafted items. Those days are several hundred years behind us when old timey's produced for the rich and elite, the kings and queens, they couldn't even afford their own creations.
Once again , fantastic channel and I love your work :)
I do like the show. Watched all three old-timely vids (and older ones too).
I`m subscribed and will be coming back as you publish new ones.
Thanks! I also like Ron's book. I've read it several times.
This is hands down one of the best woodworking videos I've ever seen. The sheer volume of knowledge imparted is fantastic. This is the kind of thing that's hard to get in such a compact format. This video is on a par with Ron Hock's book, "The Perfect Edge". You can just ignore godu1111's remarks, you just keep on makin' these videos the way you are making them, I love your jokes, and your production values are really good. Bravo!
Great shows Stumpy. This is a bench I am going to attempt.
I'm glad I found "The old Timey Woodworking"
Keep up the good work. I like your B.C. videos, but this is even better. Thanks for the non power stuff. Keep the projects coming. Thank you!!!
Great video-there is a lot of info on this one , I have never cut dovetails before but you sound like it can be done. I am going to give it a try!!
Cheers man. I wish you lot of good luck. Your`e a great woodworker.
I really, really miss the humor from the older videos.
Great job Stumpy. I like your idea about the "TV show" format on TH-cam.
I finally made one of these myself. Though I ripped a 2x6 and glued it together for the feet pieces and then chopped out the mortise the old fashioned way. Seemed like good practice for my next project. Also learned that I can't seem to bore out the waste with a brace and bit any faster than I can just chop it all.
Thank you very much and congratulations for your great work. This videos are very usefull, specially for people in countries like Venezuela where I live, where buy a decent power tool costs the equivalent from 2 to 15 months of hard work, Thank's a lot, Stumpy Nubs Rules!
Great video with loads of good information.
Thanks Stumpy,
Roland
Great video. I love the format. Keep them coming.
After the Revolutionary War he became subdued. He was a modest man. He didn't brag to historians like his friend, General Patton did when they served together in WWII.
Busted out an ol' Millers Falls 900, nice. I'm surprised you didn't have a millers falls No. 9
I really liked this an I hope you will do more.
I just discovered your videos. Brilliant!
I really like your videos good job
Just found you. I'm a new TH-camr in a similarly specialized industry and I have to say I am really, really enjoying your style. I see this video is 7 years old so I am guessing I have a little catching up to do!
Great saw horse, my next project! 😀
Thanks, Dave!
Really enjoyed this! What is the link to the Dovetailing Instruction you mentioned at 12:30?
That's an old video. It's no longer available. Sorry.
Awesome! Great commentary!
From the knees down. The top half are another 2 or 3 inches at least!
Great videos james . I prefer 12 TPI . As I got older my eyesight is no longer good enough to sharpen 14 TPI and up.Dammit.
Great video, packed with lots of information, including: stumpy legs are 19" long. Thanks.
Just off the rack, Home Depot pine. One side of each board has the blue and gray streaks. Might have been some insect problems in the tree.
Great video! Really like the simplicity of the design. How did you get the 2x4 dove tail stringers in? You show placing the top on before they were in... just curious as I'm interested in building this myself.
This is way more effective than gouging out the area with 50 circular cuts. Only to bash it out and take forever to get a smooth and cornered finish!
!!! I'm wearing the EXACT same cap today. I swear to God.
Do you mean that seems cheap, or expensive? I got two 2X6s and one 2X4 for around $10 at Home Depot. That's a pretty standard price around here.
After some careful internet search & review,"we all know that if it's on the internet, it must be real" I was able to determine the the GREAT Pappy Nubs was infact an undercover agent for this great nation of ours. I was at first dismayed that there was not a monument nor a plac or anything to honor this great man.
very entertaining hahaha and informative
watching in 2021.
That 10 dollar bench is around 1000 bucks right now
How about a removable back rest?
Great video! Might I suggest to the people worried about keeping this
I keep pressing the like button but it's not liking it the 50 plus times I need it to like this video.
Especially since he appears to have fought in every war over the last 500 years. You should hear his stories about Christopher Columbus... now THAT guy really got under Pappy's skin!
Great video!!! I really like your Old-timey woodworking videos. It's nice to that you understand and enjoy using both power tools and hand tools. I really like using my power tools because there fast but there's something about using hand tools that is very satisfying and rewarding. I also like the fact that you don't use the top of the line uber $$$ tools like a lot of other youtubers do.
P.S. your sash saw has a broken handle :(
Now that you mention it, I seem to remember reading that about Patton. That he liked to brag.
$10? Where do you buy your 2X's?
That's what Pappy Nubs said about him. He said he was the most irritating man he'd known except for maybe Paul Revere. That guy REALLY thought he was something. Always going on about the British coming, drove Pappy nuts.
I have a plane the same as yours at 2.35. It is my favourite go to. No chip breaker, open mouth, lovely shavings. Cost me $25. Do you know what make and age it is. I suspect it is European.
I still like an angled brace. But, hey, Thansk... I mean Thanks!
"Drill your holes a sixteenth below the mark." Do you mean "closer to the shoulder?" (I guess that would draw it in.)
You can see exactly what I mean in the video.
You are right. I think he meant above the mark made by the first drilling. He just used the opposite word I guess.
9 years old and still every bit as relevant. Except for the prices. This is a $20-30 bench now. 😂
with such a rich & colorful ancestral history, one would expect there to be more information in the history books, I mean, I would probably be a little miffed if my grandpa
single handidly sunk the british fleet & there was not a mention of in the history books.
but that's just me.
Awwwww Pappy! You passed to soon..we hardly knew ye🥴. I lift bourbon to ye!
$10 for a 2x4 in today’s world , still a great deal for a great tool ..
Prices have been back down wherever I have looked for several months, now.
Entertaining and informative, but PLEASE never use a chisel that way. That's a serious injury waiting to happen.
I know its an old video, but ive just watched you put a piece of recently turned steel in your wood working sharpening water. Steel swarf on your waterstones is not ideal😢
as a british subject i am saddened that the events of the 1812 war have been distorted in our biased history books so that the derring do actions of all american heroes such as pappy nubs have been lost from our culture. i feel his actions should be more widely acclaimed!!
Pappy wasn't anti-Brit, he actually fought on their side in the battle of Hastings, against his uncle Willy, no less! Of course, he did have a little tiff with them over Stirling Bridge, but after Bannockburn they patched things up for quite a while.
Sorry you don't like the show, but it is what it is. I don't know who makes the time rules for TH-cam videos, but it seems that thousands of people disagree with you.
Gees, you weren't so hansom then.
"Sawhorse!"
There's a difference between a sawbench and a sawhorse.
2021 Update: Project Cost = $749.99
Almost makes me regret the fact that I bought hundreds of dollars of power tools. when all I really needed is a few scraps and yard sale saws. I hope my wife never sees this video.
Nice Job.
The history of saws would have been a lot different if they had cut on the pull stroke - like the Japanese saws. Wouldn't have hardly needed the re-inforced backs.... None of that agony in woodshed class learning to use them - with the teacher barking at you like a Marine Drill Sargent. Oh wait! He WAS a former Marine Drill Sargent....
Felarca needs help paying those bills, to.
I meant cheap, but I've since priced them and....you're right $10 or less it is. Having done a bunch of outdoor projects, I had treated 2X prices in mind. Sorry 'bout that.
Did you say “Short hand.......saw”, ‘Nubby’? (By the way- I take umbrage somewhat at your deleterious characterization of our friend the bovine species... )
lol can’t even buy a 2x4 for $10 right now
EEK! A mouse!
$10 eh? I guess the jack plane is free. And the saws. And the beer.
You should do a tutorial for absolute beginners. People with zero tools. Like, not even a measuring tape...
why would you even attempt building anything with no tools?
*****
Good thing our ancestors didn't think like you and built tools when they had none. No tools are better than our hands.
sth128 I'm all for making my own tools actually and refuse to buy any, so your first sentence doesn't apply to me. Stumpy's channel isn't about making woodworking tools, it's about using them
*****
Except his first few videos are about making marking knives and marking gauges and jigs and homemade tools followed by sawing benches and work benches.
Regardless, if these videos are tailored for new woodworkers then it's a safe assumption that not all his viewers have a complete set of saws, planes, and beer kegs.
Well maybe the beer kegs.
To tell you the truth, i totally forgot about those videos about him making tools, so that's my bad. I don't rightfully know if his videos are tailored for new woodworkers, but if that's the case, then i totally agree. There's nothing quite like homemade tools :), also it would be cool to see him make a saw haha