Mästermyr chest part4 assembling
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- Eventually it is time to assemble the Mästermyr chest. The pieces are ready and prepared and all the tools needed have been created. When the tools are placed in the chest I think of it as a tool chest… the wood just needs to dry up a bit. I kept the boards uncut as long as possible until the last moment just before they are coated with tar. In the last picture the tar pile/tar ditch is running as a teaser for the next step.
So even if the chest is now a tool chest without the coating it will likely dry up, crack and bend. I think of it as not quite finished until I stabilize the wood. One of the challenges to begin with was to make a tool chest from scratch. Considering the timespan that means working in wet wood. A living tree turned into a chest in one spring means wet wood, less so in the winter but still. Everyone I talked to in my research said this is impossible. Stabilizing the wood using tar however may be a solution to that.
The other concern was more of a philosophical concern. Where does it all begin? If I have nature, metal and a fire/blower what is the beginning? What tools are needed to reach a full circle and how do I close the loop?
You need tools to make tools to make a toolbox. The toolbox is a thing - hand made. It becomes a tool as soon as it is given a function; when tools are placed, stored and carried in it. When all the tools used to make it are carried in it there is harmony… but not if the tool chest do not protect the tools from the elements, not the way I see it anyway. The chest has to be durable, that is one of its purposes, one of its most important functions.
Therefore I have a few more videos to make before more focused short versions of the projects will be uploaded.
The previous videos of chest making are:
Part 1 • Making a Mästermyr che...
Part 2 • Making a Mästermyr che...
Part 3 • Mastermyr chest part3 lid
But then another another 24 videos or so are dedicated to make the tools used to make the chest... all to find a beginning and end to things.
If building the tool chest from wet wood is impossible, I have to ask how all these different cultures around the world built all sorts of things using green wood for thousands of years before the invention of kiln drying ;) And considering how well these artifacts made from greenwood have survived through the centuries, it's pretty obvious that it worked well and they knew what they were doing.
Right, one would assume so. Of course before kiln drying there was normal drying... but I can not beleave people had the patience to wait that long every time they came up with a new need.
@@gustavthane2233 Parts air dry much, much faster than logs ;) And if the parts are riven, they dry with minimal movement and checking. There's quite a lot of evidence about historical construction with wood. Work it green, when it's much easier to work, then use different degrees of drying to advantage. Very dry pegs through wetter mortice and tenon joinery, using drawbore methods, produce joints that don't come apart as the shrinking mortice and tenon lock down on the stable peg. There are records about many buildings, records of various joiners - wood was worked from the wet log, parts getting some time before being assembled to dry a bit, but not left to dry to anything like today's expectations. Interior climate in modern buildings is an important factor.
@@peterellis4262 yeah, the toolbox is still doing fine today a few years later, but I have not brought it indoors either, most of the time it is standing in a wood shed close to a waterfall keeping it semi dry.
That is an amazing piece of work ..my only question is how much ???
Is there a video where you actually use the pine tar on the chest? Or had that video not been made yet? Beautiful stuff, thanks for sharing
Thank you for asking. I have replied to peoples comments and talked about such a video... but now that you ask it straight out I took the time to look through the videos and I can not find it. In one video I make tar and in the next my chest is allready brown and dry... it appears the video where I applied the tar was never released. I know I edited it. The video where I actually apply the tar must have been the one I never finnished. It was a long one where I made the whole process into one coherrent story... but It became to long and I never finnished it. I am sorry, one day I hope there will be time for that.
Cant belive this viedo is 2 years old and im just seeing it lol
For real .would b very interested in purchasing one if u make them for sale ?
not the chest... hinges though, those could be made anew, but not now, I am extremely busy the next year or so.
You sir have my respect! You should have more subscribers!
Thank you, yeah we will see, I am happy you stopped by. Nature is home.
There is nothing more satisfying than crafting somthing from scrach with tools you made yourself! I have a small TH-cam channel too. th-cam.com/video/x4oUGKRcoeM/w-d-xo.html I was wondering if you were interested in doing a collaboration later this summer?
Kul att få följa projektet! Får en verkligen att uppskatta sin skruvdragare ;)
He he, man är sannerligen tacksam för de framsteg som gjorts sen dess... även om det finns en romantisk aura och spännande känsla i det som görs riktigt nära människokroppen o de förusättningar vi fötts in i.
Amazing work!
Thank you, yeah i am really happy for the result, I was never sure it would work to do it this way but it sure was rewarding to try, and now it seems like it actually became a fully functional chest.
@@gustavthane2233 Do you think it will have issues drying because it is freshly cut lumber?
@@VikingMakery Yes precisely that, but also because there are not wooden rods glued together into boards, it it just natural wooden boards and not even from the middle of the log. One of my theory was that the techniques chosen to build the original chest where chosen due to their ability to handle the stress of drying wood but expert woodworkers, even timmermän (log house builders) skilled in working wet wood did not believe in this project. But the lumber was cut just after a months of -15 degrees Celcius and I made the boards really thin, together with the tar I recon It would work. And it seems to do so. At least this far.
@@gustavthane2233 It would be awesome to see a 1 year later video.
@@VikingMakery That is a great idea, I will try to do that. Not very interesting if it is still the same but if it has aged severely it would make an interesting topic. I mean since the Mästermyr chest is mainly functional a thousand years old...