Thank you 🙂 Yes, it has been a while. Had to move out of my previous workshop. Now I finally got set up in a new space. Nice to dust off my tools again 😃
I am retired keeping myself busy doing woodwork. I mostly use salvaged wood from old dressers ect or like this use firewood. It's all free and I like the challenge. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching 🙂 I also like the idea of repurposing old wood. It adds some constraints that are fun to work around. Also it is often drier and more stable than “new wood”. Hope you post some videos!
Very nice video. Thank you for sharing. I have some black walnut that was destined to be firewood until i rescued it. Now i have a great use for it. I was waiting for you to pull a rabbit or the kitchen sink out of there!
Beautiful work! Your expertise and know how is incredibly inspiring. I never thought of using firewood for carpentry before. I also have some birch firewood that I will try to make a pen box out of. Thanks for the inspiration! Greetings from Sweden
As I just discovered your site, I am impressed. Very nice workmanship. As others have commented, the sharpness of your tools is really impressive. What method do you use? Thank you for filming this and posting. Please keep up your very good work.
Thank you very much! And thanks for taking the time to watch! I have been through a few sharpening setups, but I think I have settled on a combination of diamond plates and ceramic water stones. DMT diamond plates (I mostly use the fine and extra fine) and a Shapton 8000 glass stone for polishing. Sometimes a little stropping on a piece of leather with "green stropping compound", but I would like to avoid that and instead get a Shapton 16000, as the 8000 is juuust a little too coarse. I would then go from the DMT (Extra Fine 9 micron - 1200 mesh) directly to the 16000 ceramic stone, as suggested by Rob Cosman. I think that will be my perfect setup :-)
@@Schnekkern no worries! Keep up the good work! I’m wanting to get more into using hand tools like this rather than the modern machinery. It’s so much more satisfying
@@Alexdoc13 Takk! Den gamle Stanley-høvelen kjøpte jeg i England for ca. 10 år siden. De andre verktøyene er stort sett bestilt fra USA før valutaen her ble svak 😞
Excellent workmanship Schnekkern. It's lovely to see how you transform something simple like firewood into a fine product. I particularly like the way you cut dovetails. Do you use the ruler trick so as to not make the tails/pins too wide?
Thank you very much! This way of transferring the tails to the pins is something I learned from @RobCosmanWoodworking . I use a shopmade jig/fixture to align the pieces. The jig offsets the top piece (tailboard) about 0.5 millimeters to the left. When I ad the ruler, the offset becomes about 0.5 to the right. This ensures the socket for the tail is not too wide.
Beautiful work! Love the video style as well. Do you have any recommendation on where to buy hand tools in Oslo? I don't know any store that sells some specific tools, such as marking gauge, dovetail marker and planes.
Thank you very much 😊 For high quality tools in Norway, there is a really good store: no-10.no It is not in Oslo, though, and a little hard to access physically:-) They sell the really high end stuff like Lie Nielsen etc. and they are very helpful and nice! Also there is www.gustavsenas.no and of course FINN.no for second hand planes etc. I have bought quite a lot of tools from online stores abroad over the years. Some I like are: www.classichandtools.com toolsforworkingwood.com www.dictum.com/en/ www.leevalley.com/en-gb I have no affiliation with any of these.
I did not really measure anything while building this. The size of the box was determined by the maximum size of the pieces I got from the firewood logs. I.e. the thickness of the pieces were made equal to the thinnest piece. But, I don't think the size is ideal. If I were to build another, I would make it a little wider and not as tall. Maybe 70mm wide.
Thank you 😊 It is a Split Top Roubo Workbench. I built it myself over several years. The plans and hardware are made by @Benchcrafted and based on a design by the 18th century French carpenter and author André Jacob Roubo. It weighs almost 200 kilograms and is very sturdy :-)
Thank you very much! I guess laziness played a big role here. The more correct way would probably be to make the bottom a floating panel captured in grooves in the sides the same way the lid works, but without the opening. But for such a small box, I think the wood movement in the bottom is negligible.
@@Schnekkern thanks, just good to understand another makers thought processes! I made a sewing box for my daughter's Christmas, went through many of the same processes.
My thoughts too. Maybe recessing the bottom piece instead of it being flush to the outside would have left the purity of the joinery intact. But what amazing workmanship. Loved the video. Thank you for making it.
Oh, yes, I am rubbing some paraffin wax on the sole of the plane. Makes it glide easier over the wood. That in turn helps with accuracy, since I don’t have to focus so much on pushing the plane, but can concentrate on holding it straight :-)
There's several thousands of dollars worth of tools used here. Are you being sponsored or did you buy all of those yourself? Edit: I'm sorry this came out a bit aggressive, that was not my intention. It's a bit late where I live and i just burped my thought out inconsiderately. I'm a big fan of your work, all your jigs are beautifully made, all your tools look very well cared for, and you obviously know exactly how to use them. Watching you work is an inspiration, it's awesome on the true sense of the word. Thank you for sharing.
Not aggressive at all :-) Fair question. I am not sponsored. I have bought all the tools myself, but over many many years. A little here, a little there. Most of the expensive ones were purchased at a time when my local currency (Norwegian Krone) was still strong compared to the Dollar. Many of them would have been almost twice as expensive now. I also drive a car that is older than most of my tools :-) Thank you for the kind words and thank you for taking the time to watch and to comment!
@@Schnekkern thank you for your reply! I'm an avid consumer of woodworking related content on TH-cam, and I would really love to see more of yours, including tidbits in case you do not have time for full projects. The quality of your work is way up there. Also, old cars rock.
When the Carpenter and the Wood..
Are made from the same Chip” 👏👏👏
Beautiful work. I really appreciate the natural woodworking sounds rather than some crazy background music.
Thank you! Yes, I agree, background music is not really needed :-)
I agree not needed
I thought the same thing. I love the chisel and plane carving noise.
@@Katsoup98 That settles it, no more background music 😃
You enjoy your work, it shows. Thank you for filming and sharing this!
Thank you for taking the time to watch and respond:-)
I completely enjoyed watching you make this box.
The use of hand tools is so satisfying. I learned a lot. Thank you for sharing with us. 👍
Thank you for watching 😀
Wow checked your page. Last video was 2 years ago. Glad you're back very enjoyable video
Thank you 🙂 Yes, it has been a while. Had to move out of my previous workshop. Now I finally got set up in a new space. Nice to dust off my tools again 😃
You are a very talented craftsman. Thank you for sharing your work and hope to see more in the future.
Thank you very much 😀
Another great box build. Please sharpen my chisels and planes!
Thank you 😊 Still not satisfied with my own sharpening technique, but it is getting better!
I am retired keeping myself busy doing woodwork. I mostly use salvaged wood from old dressers ect or like this use firewood. It's all free and I like the challenge. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching 🙂
I also like the idea of repurposing old wood. It adds some constraints that are fun to work around. Also it is often drier and more stable than “new wood”.
Hope you post some videos!
What a beautiful work! But give me some espace to admire also this amaze set of tools! Well done my friend!
Thank you very much 😀
@@Schnekkern Greetings from Latvia!
He uses a lot of Vertias hand tools. Try Lee Valley
Great job, very jealous of your selection of planes! But they are clearly in good hands :)
Thank you! Yes, I am very lucky to have great tools. Got most of them around 10 years ago, before prices and shipping costs skyrocketed 😅
9:51 it's a bottomless magic box! 😂😂 ❤
😃
Very nice video. Thank you for sharing.
I have some black walnut that was destined to be firewood until i rescued it. Now i have a great use for it.
I was waiting for you to pull a rabbit or the kitchen sink out of there!
Ha ha, thanks :-)
Excellent craftmanship👌
Thank you very much 😊
Another excellent video.
Very enjoyable to watch.
Thank you so much 😊
Beautiful work! Your expertise and know how is incredibly inspiring. I never thought of using firewood for carpentry before. I also have some birch firewood that I will try to make a pen box out of. Thanks for the inspiration!
Greetings from Sweden
Tack så mycket 😀 And thanks for watching!
Excelente trabajo! Saludos desde Argentina
Muchas gracias 😊
As I just discovered your site, I am impressed. Very nice workmanship. As others have commented, the sharpness of your tools is really impressive. What method do you use? Thank you for filming this and posting. Please keep up your very good work.
Thank you very much! And thanks for taking the time to watch!
I have been through a few sharpening setups, but I think I have settled on a combination of diamond plates and ceramic water stones. DMT diamond plates (I mostly use the fine and extra fine) and a Shapton 8000 glass stone for polishing. Sometimes a little stropping on a piece of leather with "green stropping compound", but I would like to avoid that and instead get a Shapton 16000, as the 8000 is juuust a little too coarse.
I would then go from the DMT (Extra Fine 9 micron - 1200 mesh) directly to the 16000 ceramic stone, as suggested by Rob Cosman.
I think that will be my perfect setup :-)
Hermosas herramientas!
Great video!😁👍🏼
Thank you so much 😊
@@Schnekkern no worries! Keep up the good work! I’m wanting to get more into using hand tools like this rather than the modern machinery. It’s so much more satisfying
Отличная работа мужик 👍👍👍 , успехов тебе!!!!
Thank you 😀
Such quality work, thank you for sharing.
Thank you! And thanks for for watching:-)
Impressive
Thank you very much 😊
Lovely work that.
Thanks 😊
❤ Fantastiskt arbete! Och fantastisk instrument ❤ Vart köpte du allt?
@@Alexdoc13 Takk! Den gamle Stanley-høvelen kjøpte jeg i England for ca. 10 år siden. De andre verktøyene er stort sett bestilt fra USA før valutaen her ble svak 😞
Amazing!
Thank you 😊
That was beautiful to watch! Thank you!
Thank you 😀
What a perfect ending😂. The Mary Poppins pencil Case
Thank you! And thanks for watching all the way to the end 😀
@Schnekkern you're very welcome. It was a great piece of woodwork, the video had me hooked to the last second
Прекрасно только дно всё портит.
Такое ощущение что мастер устал и дно решил просто приклеить.
Excellent workmanship Schnekkern. It's lovely to see how you transform something simple like firewood into a fine product. I particularly like the way you cut dovetails. Do you use the ruler trick so as to not make the tails/pins too wide?
Thank you very much! This way of transferring the tails to the pins is something I learned from @RobCosmanWoodworking .
I use a shopmade jig/fixture to align the pieces. The jig offsets the top piece (tailboard) about 0.5 millimeters to the left. When I ad the ruler, the offset becomes about 0.5 to the right. This ensures the socket for the tail is not too wide.
@@Schnekkern Terrific. I will have to watch those Cosman videos. Curious about the jig you mention. You should do a short on this jig/ruler technique.
@@kryptik0 Yes, I will! I will just have to find the footage. Built it a few years ago.
Very nice! And pretty joke in the end :) Keep pushing on!
Thank you! Great that you watched all the way to the end and got the joke 😀
You built the tardis from firewood???
Perfect!
Beautiful work! Love the video style as well. Do you have any recommendation on where to buy hand tools in Oslo? I don't know any store that sells some specific tools, such as marking gauge, dovetail marker and planes.
Thank you very much 😊
For high quality tools in Norway, there is a really good store:
no-10.no
It is not in Oslo, though, and a little hard to access physically:-)
They sell the really high end stuff like Lie Nielsen etc. and they are very helpful and nice!
Also there is www.gustavsenas.no
and of course FINN.no for second hand planes etc.
I have bought quite a lot of tools from online stores abroad over the years. Some I like are:
www.classichandtools.com
toolsforworkingwood.com
www.dictum.com/en/
www.leevalley.com/en-gb
I have no affiliation with any of these.
@@Schnekkern Fantastic! Thank you very much, and congratulations with the channel! :)
Thanks for sharing your jobs. I enjoy it a lot of. I want make a similar box, Can you tell me the size of the pieces? Thank you.
Regards
I did not really measure anything while building this. The size of the box was determined by the maximum size of the pieces I got from the firewood logs. I.e. the thickness of the pieces were made equal to the thinnest piece.
But, I don't think the size is ideal. If I were to build another, I would make it a little wider and not as tall. Maybe 70mm wide.
@@Schnekkern thanks for your quickly answer. I draw a plan and i think the same. Thank you again.
That pencil case could really hold alot of things almost as it is bigger on the inside 🤣🤣🤣👊
😁
Brilliant 🙌🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Thank you very much 😀
Bravo!
Takk 😀
Очень интересно! Вы настоящий мастер! Это у вас хобби, или вы так зарабатываете?
Thank you very much 😀
It is just a hobby 🙂
Superb work. May I ask you the reference of the work bench please ? Thank you and keep it up.
Thank you 😊 It is a Split Top Roubo Workbench. I built it myself over several years. The plans and hardware are made by @Benchcrafted and based on a design by the 18th century French carpenter and author André Jacob Roubo.
It weighs almost 200 kilograms and is very sturdy :-)
@@Schnekkern amazing, I was expecting a surprising answer, but the given one is Just "wow"
Nice box . You didn’t say what kind of wood it is. Thanks for sharing this
It is Birch. Thanks for watching 😀
I’m building a pencil box out of walnut and oak . Other than kitchen cabinets I haven’t built anything out of Birch. Thanks
Nice 👍
Thanks 😄
Very beautiful. And it's nice to watch you work. What material is it made of?
Thank you 🙂
It is Birch. Very common wood where I live.
how do you split the wood?
also great work
Thank you! I use an old school tool called a Froe. It is originally used for manking wood shingles for roofs and walls I think.
Thanks! I might try with a big opinel knife instead or something like that.
Great video and workmanship! Just wondering why you decided not to attach the bottom using joinery?
Thank you very much!
I guess laziness played a big role here. The more correct way would probably be to make the bottom a floating panel captured in grooves in the sides the same way the lid works, but without the opening.
But for such a small box, I think the wood movement in the bottom is negligible.
@@Schnekkern thanks, just good to understand another makers thought processes! I made a sewing box for my daughter's Christmas, went through many of the same processes.
My thoughts too. Maybe recessing the bottom piece instead of it being flush to the outside would have left the purity of the joinery intact. But what amazing workmanship. Loved the video. Thank you for making it.
❤❤❤❤❤❤👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you 😊
Wow
What does drawing on the hand plane do, i get drawing on the wood but not sure i understand the Op 🧐. And that box can fit a lot💀
Oh, yes, I am rubbing some paraffin wax on the sole of the plane. Makes it glide easier over the wood. That in turn helps with accuracy, since I don’t have to focus so much on pushing the plane, but can concentrate on holding it straight :-)
@@Schnekkern Ahh makes much sense, thank you. I am attempting to make this box myself following the same steps 😁
There's several thousands of dollars worth of tools used here. Are you being sponsored or did you buy all of those yourself?
Edit: I'm sorry this came out a bit aggressive, that was not my intention. It's a bit late where I live and i just burped my thought out inconsiderately. I'm a big fan of your work, all your jigs are beautifully made, all your tools look very well cared for, and you obviously know exactly how to use them. Watching you work is an inspiration, it's awesome on the true sense of the word. Thank you for sharing.
Not aggressive at all :-) Fair question. I am not sponsored. I have bought all the tools myself, but over many many years. A little here, a little there. Most of the expensive ones were purchased at a time when my local currency (Norwegian Krone) was still strong compared to the Dollar. Many of them would have been almost twice as expensive now.
I also drive a car that is older than most of my tools :-)
Thank you for the kind words and thank you for taking the time to watch and to comment!
@@Schnekkern thank you for your reply! I'm an avid consumer of woodworking related content on TH-cam, and I would really love to see more of yours, including tidbits in case you do not have time for full projects. The quality of your work is way up there. Also, old cars rock.
Vakkert håndverk!
Takk 😄
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