After the first Wooden Lego video I made, I haven't stopped thinking about how to improve them. I decided to give it another crack! Just a word of warning to anyone that wants to make them "they are a lot of work". :)
I think this would be a great job for a pantorouter (if you need any more excuses to make one!) with the doubling down from the templates you could get these really accurate, however I quite like the look of them being slightly off
I'd love to have a set! Maybe if I get bored enough and have a week of vacation... I do have a suggestion if you have decide to tackle something similar (or if you want fo finish these differently): don't bother with all the sanding ahead of time. Make sure there's no big burrs anywhere, glue it all up then throw everything in a big rock tumbler, or several, with some beeswax and half as much by volume (or so) smaller wood chips. It should take care of all the corners, smooth everything down, finish the wood and protect the surface. They ought to look cool too!
The little unspoken trick of, when flushing them on the tablesaw, flushing them ACROSS the grain first (definitely causing tearout), then flushing them WITH the grain (removing said tearout) is great.
This vid is almost three years old, so I'm a little late to the game, but as a life-long lover of Lego bricks, I am completely enchanted by this project. The bricks turned out great, very much like the real thing only larger. I love the simplicity and accuracy of the jigs you made for marking, drilling, and cutting. Repeatability is key in making something like these bricks, and the jigs make it a snap to get accurate holes and cuts every time. The sanding attachment for the dowels was also genius. I'd love to see additional pieces to fit the set. Instead of only 1x2 bricks, I'd like to see the classic 2x4 brick, which was the basis for the whole Lego system back in the day, and maybe some of the other classic sizes of 1x4, 2x2, and 2x3. And a big plate to snap them all down!
They're just gorgeous sir, perfection is not man made ever. these have character that they wouldn't otherwise have if they were perfect. Besides when is perfectly perfect it looks assembly line machine made...these were hand crafted. Well done
"You may not be comfortable with that... so I just made this amazing highly precision ajustable quick fix jig Pask Makes 2.0..." You are amazing mate!!! Thanks for being you!!! Cheers!
This is why this is my favourite woodworking channel! Someone who has a genuine passion for working with wood, making weird and wonderful things, spiced with a seemingly never ending amount of ingenuity, imagination and not least skill. Such a treat, and I always look forward to the next instalment on this fantastic channel......either for inspiration, or just as often simply because I enjoy the woodworking 'ride' that we are taken on.
@@PaskMakes You have truly mastered your craft! So many jigs and uses for the tools. Such a simple project but with so much room for learning. Congratulations Pask
This is my favourite channel it never sees to amaze me every time and every time I see a new jig I get excited and makes me want to try and come up with something myself. This is why I’m so behind in my projects I’m always making jigs lol great video again mate keep them coming
These are so cool. When I was a kid I built all types of things out of Legos and couldn't wake to get older and make real things. So to me it's so cool that you made these, it's the best of making in 2 ways lol
Told you last time, there is no fails just learning experiences, and you made them. Better, good job pask, thank you for continuing to share your passion with us
Only just seen this video. Awesome. I love it when he says "I've just made..." another jig, tool or other gizmo to make the work easier, more accuarate or safer. Pity these aren't for sale. Would buy them straight away
I love how you show people how to build your projects without more advanced tools, and sometimes I’ve seen you build things with basic tools to show it can be done. Keep up the great content. 😊
I wasn’t sure which video to write this on but I just wanted to say “thank you!”. I have been following your videos for many years now and really admire your work, craftsmanship and overall positivity. I’ve used your designs for some projects (legos and kids toys) and they’ve come out amazing
Really makes you appreciate how tight the tolerances on legos actually are. I should try measuring them with a micrometer and see how much they vary, if at all.
Yup, then tell us/me what the taper is on those pins eh… BTW, if you are serious the micrometer will have a pressure gage for measuring soft materials.
I heard the moulds used for lego are so valuable as intellectual property that when they wear out, to ensure competitors cannot get a hold of them, they are cast in the middle of concrete. Not sure whether the concrete is used for bridges etc or Lego has a pile of concrete blocks in storage...
Neil I am continually amazed by your ingenuity! I have watched this particular video a dozen times or more, and each time I pick up something new. I intend to make a set of these for my grandson as soon as I can get back in the woodshop. It is hunting season here in Montana, and with any time off work I am engaged in the pursuit of elk for now. Great project! Keep 'em coming!
Love it. The design improvements especially the drilling jig with a locating dowel were brilliant. Cutting to final size after the holes were drilled? Brilliant way to increase accuracy. Although I like the use of a caulking nossle best.
So glad this was revisited. I don't have any woodworking tools but ever since I saw your first wooden Lego video I thought different colored hardwoods (or different stains) would look amazing. Might have to try it some day when I get some more tools!
When I saw the title I told myself it is another video. Honestly its one of the most thrilling and exciting video I have ever seen. Woooooow man. You made a process for every step that brilliant Thanks for this great work
I made a set of wooden Lincoln logs a few years ago. 1-1/2" X 1-1/2" stock made from 2X4. Very labor intensive. But worth every minute. The grandkids still get them out and play with them. Also made a marble run using cherry wood and a whole bunch of blocks. I thought I had patience. I don't / can't hold a candle to you. Great work.
I am going to do the same making large size Lincoln Logs. I have a lathe to make the dowels . Then use my table saw to carefully notch them out. Then finally cut the multiple pieces with the table saw.
Neil did it again. Never stops thinking or experimenting and with a little ingenuity he comes up with another brilliant Pask Makes video. Very nice thinking and presentation Neil.
Great video. You are getting truly fancy with the Challenge. The measures you took to make it more precise really made the difference. Keep it up, man!
Thanks Alex! I think I would've made this video even if it weren't a scrapwood challenge but making it out of scraps lets me kill two birds with one stone! :)
Another way to reduce tearout is with the order of your cuts. If you cut your end grains first, you are more than likely to cut off the tears when you do the rip cuts. The same applies for rotating cutting tools. Another way is to have a sacrificial piece/zero clearance behind your work piece, but that's not always possible e.g. routering edge profiles in a top. If your material is very prone to splitting, you can consider backing into the cut if it's safe to do so
I'd like to see someone try and reproduce this on a CNC. I'm sure I'd still like yours better, the craftsmanship is amazing, attention to detail, but just to see if they can even come close. Seems like a simple job, make a Lego, no big deal... you have way more patience than I do. Well done sir!
If you use a finer toothed blade on your table saw, you'll get less tearing. Personally, I use metal cutting blades because they have the least tearing. I usually cut the blade 6.6mm (roughly ¼ inch) in between every third or fourth tooth (depending on the tooth count divided by three or four) with my bandsaw to improve heat sinking, though.
Neil, well done mate. I admire your dedication to making it work and especially the amount of thought you put in to creating your manufacturing setup. A lot of work on your part, but it made for an excellent video. Thanks again, Bob. 👍👍👍
I really like that you are making wooden toys, brilliant. Everyone else is making benches, DIY electric tools etc. Wooden toys are timeless and have a far greater impact. You can make them for your children, grandchildren, for the local school fete etc. PLEASE show us more ideas for wooden toys.
Also. Curious as to what gear you use for recording. Cameras n microphones etc. Might be in the market myself and dont really know much about that tech side
Insane! Wonderful! But here's a thought. With wood and normal woodworking equipment it's just impossible to get the legos just as accurate as the plastic ones. But... using the plastic blocks... it's not possible to make cabinets and whatnot that are just as accurate as the normal wooden ones! Makes you wonder. Anyroads, thanks a bunch. This was as usual educational and fun to watch.
So awesome Pask. I bet if u had a "replicate all of my shop machines out of scrap wood" challenge,you sir, would find a way and it would be great lol. Thanks for your vids!
Very nice work Neil! I'm still amazed at how precise those Lego parts need to be in order to be usable. At least you got them to work. With a little more tweaking, I think that you could do even better but what's the point?
Since the first one I kept on thinking how I could improve on it! I told myself I could do it faster this time but still took too long! If I were to do it again with the jigs already made and no filming I could make them much faster, but still a lot of work! :)
Seems like a CNC router would do well. All you'd have to do is set up a jig that has a corner to clamp into. Then you'd just need to do what you did, excluding the holes. That being said Holy hell I'm so impressed with what you learned and how you applied changes to your designs. I've recently started watching your videos and your ingenuity is astonishing. I watch other woodworking videos and I see their lack of technique and usually go back to watching your videos. BTW loved the knurling jig video!! If you end up doing that again, try brass bushings inside the knurling wheels and add a third in place of the bearing maybe?
After the first Wooden Lego video I made, I haven't stopped thinking about how to improve them. I decided to give it another crack!
Just a word of warning to anyone that wants to make them "they are a lot of work". :)
Curious as to how long it took you
Turned out so nice though. Looks fantastic!
I think this would be a great job for a pantorouter (if you need any more excuses to make one!) with the doubling down from the templates you could get these really accurate, however I quite like the look of them being slightly off
I'd love to have a set! Maybe if I get bored enough and have a week of vacation... I do have a suggestion if you have decide to tackle something similar (or if you want fo finish these differently): don't bother with all the sanding ahead of time. Make sure there's no big burrs anywhere, glue it all up then throw everything in a big rock tumbler, or several, with some beeswax and half as much by volume (or so) smaller wood chips. It should take care of all the corners, smooth everything down, finish the wood and protect the surface. They ought to look cool too!
What is the measurements for this
The little unspoken trick of, when flushing them on the tablesaw, flushing them ACROSS the grain first (definitely causing tearout), then flushing them WITH the grain (removing said tearout) is great.
This vid is almost three years old, so I'm a little late to the game, but as a life-long lover of Lego bricks, I am completely enchanted by this project. The bricks turned out great, very much like the real thing only larger.
I love the simplicity and accuracy of the jigs you made for marking, drilling, and cutting. Repeatability is key in making something like these bricks, and the jigs make it a snap to get accurate holes and cuts every time. The sanding attachment for the dowels was also genius.
I'd love to see additional pieces to fit the set. Instead of only 1x2 bricks, I'd like to see the classic 2x4 brick, which was the basis for the whole Lego system back in the day, and maybe some of the other classic sizes of 1x4, 2x2, and 2x3. And a big plate to snap them all down!
They're just gorgeous sir, perfection is not man made ever. these have character that they wouldn't otherwise have if they were perfect. Besides when is perfectly perfect it looks assembly line machine made...these were hand crafted. Well done
"You may not be comfortable with that... so I just made this amazing highly precision ajustable quick fix jig Pask Makes 2.0..."
You are amazing mate!!! Thanks for being you!!! Cheers!
Thanks very much mate! :)
This is why this is my favourite woodworking channel! Someone who has a genuine passion for working with wood, making weird and wonderful things, spiced with a seemingly never ending amount of ingenuity, imagination and not least skill. Such a treat, and I always look forward to the next instalment on this fantastic channel......either for inspiration, or just as often simply because I enjoy the woodworking 'ride' that we are taken on.
Thanks very much mate - glad you enjoy the channel! :)
@@PaskMakes You have truly mastered your craft! So many jigs and uses for the tools. Such a simple project but with so much room for learning. Congratulations Pask
This is my favourite channel it never sees to amaze me every time and every time I see a new jig I get excited and makes me want to try and come up with something myself. This is why I’m so behind in my projects I’m always making jigs lol great video again mate keep them coming
These are so cool. When I was a kid I built all types of things out of Legos and couldn't wake to get older and make real things. So to me it's so cool that you made these, it's the best of making in 2 ways lol
Told you last time, there is no fails just learning experiences, and you made them. Better, good job pask, thank you for continuing to share your passion with us
No worries mate! :)
Only just seen this video. Awesome. I love it when he says "I've just made..." another jig, tool or other gizmo to make the work easier, more accuarate or safer. Pity these aren't for sale. Would buy them straight away
I love how you show people how to build your projects without more advanced tools, and sometimes I’ve seen you build things with basic tools to show it can be done. Keep up the great content. 😊
I wasn’t sure which video to write this on but I just wanted to say “thank you!”. I have been following your videos for many years now and really admire your work, craftsmanship and overall positivity. I’ve used your designs for some projects (legos and kids toys) and they’ve come out amazing
Really makes you appreciate how tight the tolerances on legos actually are. I should try measuring them with a micrometer and see how much they vary, if at all.
Yup, then tell us/me what the taper is on those pins eh…
BTW, if you are serious the micrometer will have a pressure gage for measuring soft materials.
.05mm tolerance is good for snapping lego pins into the technic holes. You can see some I made for my kickstarter video. Stop by and say hi.
they dont vary much at all
I heard the moulds used for lego are so valuable as intellectual property that when they wear out, to ensure competitors cannot get a hold of them, they are cast in the middle of concrete. Not sure whether the concrete is used for bridges etc or Lego has a pile of concrete blocks in storage...
Neil I am continually amazed by your ingenuity! I have watched this particular video a dozen times or more, and each time I pick up something new. I intend to make a set of these for my grandson as soon as I can get back in the woodshop. It is hunting season here in Montana, and with any time off work I am engaged in the pursuit of elk for now. Great project! Keep 'em coming!
Gosh that song is like one of those commercials you can’t get out of your head. Great job.
Pask never fails to impress. A true problem solver. It would be scary to think what he could achieve if a day was twice as long.
Haha! Thanks! :)
Love it. The design improvements especially the drilling jig with a locating dowel were brilliant. Cutting to final size after the holes were drilled? Brilliant way to increase accuracy. Although I like the use of a caulking nossle best.
Thank you! :)
So many clever tips in this video. Thanks!
Great improvement. Happy to see the lessons learnt from the first attempt and your continued safety steps.
So glad this was revisited. I don't have any woodworking tools but ever since I saw your first wooden Lego video I thought different colored hardwoods (or different stains) would look amazing. Might have to try it some day when I get some more tools!
That would look great Ryan! :)
You really emphasise the idea of working smarter not harder. Very ingenuitive. Thanks for another great video.
Thanks Erold! :)
When I saw the title I told myself it is another video.
Honestly its one of the most thrilling and exciting video I have ever seen.
Woooooow man. You made a process for every step that brilliant
Thanks for this great work
Your ingenuity and patience never ceases to amaze me Neil!
Thanks Henry! :)
I made a set of wooden Lincoln logs a few years ago. 1-1/2" X 1-1/2" stock made from 2X4. Very labor intensive. But worth every minute. The grandkids still get them out and play with them. Also made a marble run using cherry wood and a whole bunch of blocks.
I thought I had patience. I don't / can't hold a candle to you. Great work.
I am going to do the same making large size Lincoln Logs. I have a lathe to make the dowels . Then use my table saw to carefully notch them out. Then finally cut the multiple pieces with the table saw.
Neil did it again. Never stops thinking or experimenting and with a little ingenuity he comes up with another brilliant Pask Makes video. Very nice thinking and presentation Neil.
Thanks very much Johnny! Glad you enjoyed it! :)
Glad round 2 worked out! You did a fantastic job making them.
Thanks very much Troy! :)
Hey Neil, love your perseverance. Please continue your scrapwoodseries, I love it!!!
Thanks Bram! :)
Really great to see you have another go at this. Brilliant outcome, well done
Thanks David! :)
One of my top five woodworkers out there. You are amazing Pask. Greetings from Dominican Republic.
Wonderful project! Great seeing how you moved from the last version to this one.
Awesome job Neil! Easy to see what an improvement these are. Well done!
Thanks Matt! :)
I absolutely love your videos, sir. Please keep them coming.
You blow my mind with some of the stuff you do on this channel. Keep it up!!!
Thanks! :)
Outstanding. So elegant. Thank you for persisting to show that persistence pays. In wooden lego!!!
Great video. You are getting truly fancy with the Challenge. The measures you took to make it more precise really made the difference. Keep it up, man!
Thanks Alex! I think I would've made this video even if it weren't a scrapwood challenge but making it out of scraps lets me kill two birds with one stone! :)
Another way to reduce tearout is with the order of your cuts. If you cut your end grains first, you are more than likely to cut off the tears when you do the rip cuts. The same applies for rotating cutting tools.
Another way is to have a sacrificial piece/zero clearance behind your work piece, but that's not always possible e.g. routering edge profiles in a top. If your material is very prone to splitting, you can consider backing into the cut if it's safe to do so
Sir, you have the patience of a saint. Love the challenge
they turned out much better, great job
the dowel sanding jig for the win! awesome stuff!!
I like how you get the most out of your tools ... thanks for sharing
Thanks Glenn! :)
As my old man used to say " they will ride up with wear", so all in all a great job, thanks for sharing !!!!
Just an amazing video showcasing many techniques. Great great stuff.
Fantastic craftsmanship!!!
Way more patience than most! They turned out great.
This is strangely satisfying.
WoW ! You have the patience of Jobe 👍👍👍
This time, totally a success!! Well done Neil.
Thanks Nima - it was a lot of work but persistence paid off! :)
Yes!! I really appreciate the amount of time and hard work you put into your projects.
Absolutely awesome! It’s inspiring to see you have another go at this and for it to turn out so well!
Brought me back to my childhood. I was a big LEGO fanatic. Those came out awesome. Got me inspired to do my own... one day ; ) Thanks!
I'd like to see someone try and reproduce this on a CNC. I'm sure I'd still like yours better, the craftsmanship is amazing, attention to detail, but just to see if they can even come close. Seems like a simple job, make a Lego, no big deal... you have way more patience than I do. Well done sir!
It would be interesting to see, if I had one I'd try it out! :)
Superb! Really great to see you showing different ways of doing things for people with fewer tools and making a good jig is always satisfying! :)
You did a remarkable job!
Awesome! Seeing them all together at the end was so satisfying. Loved the homemade tools for the dowel rod process as well
If you use a finer toothed blade on your table saw, you'll get less tearing. Personally, I use metal cutting blades because they have the least tearing. I usually cut the blade 6.6mm (roughly ¼ inch) in between every third or fourth tooth (depending on the tooth count divided by three or four) with my bandsaw to improve heat sinking, though.
Neil, well done mate. I admire your dedication to making it work and especially the amount of thought you put in to creating your manufacturing setup. A lot of work on your part, but it made for an excellent video. Thanks again, Bob. 👍👍👍
Thanks very much Bob - glad you enjoyed it mate! :)
Love watching how you figure it out......brilliant mind sir.
Awesome job as always
Another great video, great ideas, great execution, well done!
I really like that you are making wooden toys, brilliant. Everyone else is making benches, DIY electric tools etc. Wooden toys are timeless and have a far greater impact. You can make them for your children, grandchildren, for the local school fete etc. PLEASE show us more ideas for wooden toys.
You have awe inspiring patience. Super video.
You have tons of things to teach us..Thank you so much!! Love your work
Thanks Aamir! :)
Thais is awesome. Looks great. If it look straight then it is straight. Keep the great work.
Brilliant! Great job!
Wow. Thanks for the dowel making tip at the beginning. Especially the box section jig. Cheers mate.
Well I think I already said this, but I'm saying it again after watching this video: You are a genius!
Not sure about that Jolien but thank you! :)
I’m not completely convinced LEGO themselves could make them out of wood to that level..... great job
Lots of great tricks in here for mass-producing things. Love it.
Fantastic work brother! Well done!
Enjoyed seeing the improvements, Neil!
Cool to see how you optimized the non-efficient parts of the process and even added a gage! fantastic gig work! :D awesome
Thanks Carlos! It shows how many parts of the process needed improving! :)
Also. Mate love the channel got some ripper ideas and designs. If you keep it up ill keep watching and spreading the word:)
Thanks very much Mick! :)
Also. Curious as to what gear you use for recording. Cameras n microphones etc. Might be in the market myself and dont really know much about that tech side
Tremendous job! Congratulations! Unbelievable!
I love it, and I'm pretty sure my nephews will too. Look out scrap pile, here I come.
Great design and tooling improvements! Thanks for sharing!
You are so creative and resourceful!
Very nice and hard-working job
Incredible Pask.
These are brilliant!
THEY LOOK REALY NICE
Even if they're not perfect, they're still amazing to watch
Great job. Congrats.
What a wonderful job. Some little one is going to be very busy indeed. Thanks for sharing!
Insane! Wonderful! But here's a thought. With wood and normal woodworking equipment it's just impossible to get the legos just as accurate as the plastic ones. But... using the plastic blocks... it's not possible to make cabinets and whatnot that are just as accurate as the normal wooden ones! Makes you wonder. Anyroads, thanks a bunch. This was as usual educational and fun to watch.
So awesome Pask. I bet if u had a "replicate all of my shop machines out of scrap wood" challenge,you sir, would find a way and it would be great lol. Thanks for your vids!
You are a genius .thanks to share your knowledge
very good Sir !!! love it !!
Very nice work Neil! I'm still amazed at how precise those Lego parts need to be in order to be usable. At least you got them to work. With a little more tweaking, I think that you could do even better but what's the point?
Thanks Steve! I'm happy with them now so I can't see me making any more, for a wile anyway! :)
The perfectionist in you could not let go hey mate. We have the same problem lol. The project came out really nice, well done mate.
Since the first one I kept on thinking how I could improve on it! I told myself I could do it faster this time but still took too long! If I were to do it again with the jigs already made and no filming I could make them much faster, but still a lot of work! :)
Amazing idea with a great video, well explained...thank you
The best 😊
Very very very beautiful LEGO
Love it! So fun!
I love it i think i think i just found nephews Christmas gift. You have alot of talent
Such a cool project. Seems like it must have taken a lot of patience. Great work.
Killing it!
Beautifully done
Back for more! I like it.
These also look amazing!
Seems like a CNC router would do well. All you'd have to do is set up a jig that has a corner to clamp into. Then you'd just need to do what you did, excluding the holes.
That being said Holy hell I'm so impressed with what you learned and how you applied changes to your designs. I've recently started watching your videos and your ingenuity is astonishing.
I watch other woodworking videos and I see their lack of technique and usually go back to watching your videos.
BTW loved the knurling jig video!! If you end up doing that again, try brass bushings inside the knurling wheels and add a third in place of the bearing maybe?
Love how you did this. I built a LEGO prototype night stand top just the other week.
Just love it. Reminds me when I was a kid and I had a set of leggos
That is very impressive and so fun, too.