Gilles, nice shop! Reminds me of where I started at your age, working in my Grandfather’s old shop, with his rough top bench, no vises (my uncle had run off with them years before). Learning woodworking with hand tools only is a grand way to start, and is how I started after being banned from power saws by my great uncles, who were professional woodworks. Hand tools teach good techniques and discipline. Have fun! Cheers
Well, I was a carpenter before many power tools and prefab stuff, then a custom woodworker for 20 years and I think you are doing very, very well. You have a nice shop, too.
I really like your shop. You have found a way to repurpose a lot of stuff to make the shop yours. From cabinets you've collected, to ceramics that your mom has made, its great. As a 52 year old guy, who's seen and done a lot of crazy things, please trust me when I tell you, this is a great shop you have. As you grow, it will grow as well.
Hi Gillis, I like your shop . Reminds me of being 13 years old and my uncle helping me build a 10 foot racing boat. I used only hand tools. Long story short, I taught studio woodworking for 37 years at Cal State San Bernardino. Down side , I have emphysema now that I’m 80 . So be sure to protect yourself. The best thing one can do with their life is to make a living at what you love.
I really appreciated the tour, Gillis! We’re kindred spirits when it comes to hand tools and I totally concur with your “unplugged” philosophy. And by the way, I too am “weak” in the presence of old tools and clamps just waiting to be purchased! Haha Thanks again for the interesting and fun video.
Well done you I am nearly 60 all my woodworking is done unplugged. Really nice to see the younger generation coming into woodwork. Please keep up the great work you do your creativity is good and you are developing Your Own style very refreshing In today's society. Happy new year and hope 2020 brings you all you desire.
It´s so satisfying to see young people getting into woodworking with handtools. I´m 44 now and will start an own tiny shop soon. Your videos inspire me a lot! Thanks for sharing your passion with us! Have a nice 2020.
Those 20 minutes passed by real quick, really fun to see your channel grow! I like that you’re sticking to the classic way of woodwork without the heavy machinery, it really does add that touch of genuineness. If you haven’t considered livestreaming yet, I really think it’s something worth looking into :) I also still cannot hear enough of wooden pieces hitting each other, the sound is just amazing!
Thank you very much! Livestreaming is a very fun idea, I will look into it for sure (but I suspect I should have a few more subscribers first!). I agree on the sound of wood hitting wood, it's absolutely lovely.
Mr. Bjork, If I may say so, you are far too modest regarding your woodworking skills. But being modest is an admiral trait to have. When I was a young carpenter I too enjoyed working by hand but as my experience grew and got into machines of all sizes and very fine woodworking I became a lover of both handtools, old woodworking methods, and new powerful machines production as well. It is impressive and heartwarming to see a young man as yourself working frugally and so skillfully as yourself. BRAVO Gillis. I'll be watching and learning from you too, no one knows it all.
I have a Stanley #7, Bailey style, patent date of around 1912 that I dearly love. It was an antique store find and was pretty clean. Sole was good and flat still and is much lighter than a Lie Nielsen #7.
It looks as if it's rather cold in your shop in sweden. Yesterday my son returned from Christmasholidays in Sysslebäck. One night he had - 23 degrees. I hope you will not freeze in your shop and be able to show us some more videos. I wish you a happy new Year and stay healthy 🎉
Thanks haha! Not that cold yet around here, the sharpening water was frozen one morning recently but it's been very mild so far. Thanks for watching and happy new year to you too!
Your video popped up in my suggested feed and I am very glad it did! What an awesome workshop! Probably sounds odd to many, but I look at your shop as a peaceful vacation shop compared to mine. Keep up the awesome work! Subbed and now I'm off to see your other videos.
Glad you decided to click on it then, haha! I think I understand, it's a very peaceful place and I'm fortunate to have it. Thank you and thanks for subscribing, I'll make sure to check out your videos too!
Muy buen Tour! Gracias por compartir tu lugar de trabajo. Estás cerca de los primeros 1000 suscriptores, espero que los consigas pronto, siempre es bueno ver tu trabajo. Saludos desde Argentina!!
I've seen a couple of your videos before. Good stuff. I'm also a bit of a beginner so for me it's good to see someone who is on my level, although you are more advanced. One suggestion is that you could recess some magnets into your plane rack so you don't have any falling. I am subscribing to the channel. Glad I found it!
Hi Gilles and thank you for sharing your workshop. I've only today found your channel while looking for a thicknessing jig (thank you for that one, too!). You have a new subscriber. Maybe we'll bump into each other grabbing for the same old plane in a second hand store some time. Sweden's a small place!
great great place to make woodworking in. I really enjoyed the video!! nice plane collection. does the LN 62 came with a 25° angle blade? I'm asking because I have two low angle plane, and to work properly a smoother they need to mount a 38° angle blade, with the York Pitch they are performing great
Thank you so much, I'm very happy to hear you enjoyed it! I believe yes, it was something like 25°. That's a great tip, will look into getting a second blade eventually then. I've seen you use a few low angle planes and get great results with them!
I really enjoyed your video!! I subscribed to your channel and look forward to watching more. I’ve been building furniture and cabinets for 30 years but am brand new to my You Tube channel so I’m learning from you!! Thanks 😊
Thank you very much! Glad you got something out of my beginner steps! I'll have a look at your channel for sure. Regarding your camera question, I just use my phone. Would love to get an actual camera but you know. Pricey. Hopefully gonna happen though!
Gillis Björk I just use my phone as well. I accidentally held the phone the wrong way, portrait mode instead of landscape, so my first few videos aren’t great. But I’m learning 😁
The possible mahogany you pointed out could also be meranti or sapele. You'll recognise the stripes of sapele (after planing it), or the paler pink colour of meranti. I believe meranti is less dense too. True mahogany is very durable, meranti is not. Sapele is moderately durable.
Nice, always fun to get new clues on wood identification! Some of the pieces are lighter and softer than others, so meranti sounds plausible then. Since making this video I have used a few of the slightly darker boards towards the back of that chair, and they felt denser and harder, but still very easy to cut. You might hear me incorrectly state mahogany again in my next video haha
That shelter is a lovely place to be and where to do woodworking! I watched in other videos that you milled fair large slabs with handsaw. Here, you showed tools for setting saws. In your experience, how important was to set your saws? (I'm an apprentice amateur woodworker)
Thanks! Well, if you buy new, you probably won't have to adjust the set until after many sharpenings. In restoring old saws, it gets much more common. Those that I've tuned up were mostly over-set, so I primarily had to stone down the sides as opposed to introducing set with a sawset. But sooner or later I think it's inevitable.
You may already have done this, but I've found rubbing candlewax on the drawer parts that contact each other helps a lot. Liberal use of candlewax, Probably half of a candle.
@GillisBjork I had the good fortune to spend 2 years in Upsalla & have fond memories of Sweden. Them met a number of new Swedes ( Vikings) on a project in Singapore... my liver is still recovering... introduced my Viking drinking buddy to his wife in the Phillipines ( she is Indonesian ???) when I took him to Borocay to learn to scuba dive... they visit regularly as they travel through singapore going to Indonesia... catching up them in November in Bali... Learned to ski in Sweden & ice-dive in the Stockholm archipelago.... Thought I was a hardened drinker.... buy Pripps Blau destroyed me. Still can't understand System Bolagat ..Sköll
Hey buddy keep it up u need to start somewhere and I know ur gonna make a very good woodworker .... It's been a while since this video can u do a new shop tour
Thank you! Not a lot has changed since this tour actually, might make a new one if this starts to feel outdated but most things are still the same for now. Good to know there is interest tho
I can see myself in you, same age (I think), same hair, same style of working, similair types of tools (although I do like some specialty weird planes from veritas, their medium shoulder plane is very recomendable), same opinions about power tools. only thing: I don't have glasses :) I work in a space smaller than your wood storage space, the workbench and a tool cabinet fills in 2/3 of the space and a slanting roof is always in the way, but I can use the space underneath that for sharpening there is just enough headroom. but to be honest, I can work around it
Nice! I like weird specialty planes a lot too, but as you maybe noticed, I have more fondness for vintage ;) Sounds like you're making the very best with the space you have, that's awesome and hopefully you'll have more room someday! I began with a bench in a corner of my 1-room apartment, storing things underneath and on a shelf above, it was good times really. Don't know what nooitgedagt means I'm afraid, they're large-ish gouges from a couple different swedish manufacturers.
@@GillisBjork thanks! Nooitgedagt is a dutch tool manufacturer, if you can get your hands on something pre ~1980 you can expect great quality. Here is a picture: images.app.goo.gl/Dsep5sjYycpoYuERA
So much hate for the wood stove. A wood stove releases carbon dioxide that was circulating in the last 100 or so years. Wood is also a renewable resource on this same time scale. Burning hydrocarbons releases carbon dioxide that has been trapped for millions of years and is the real risk for climate warming. I understand the soot risks of wood stoves, but the regulations seem out of step with the risks. Burning “clean” natural gas is okay for some reason.
Gilles, nice shop! Reminds me of where I started at your age, working in my Grandfather’s old shop, with his rough top bench, no vises (my uncle had run off with them years before). Learning woodworking with hand tools only is a grand way to start, and is how I started after being banned from power saws by my great uncles, who were professional woodworks. Hand tools teach good techniques and discipline. Have fun!
Cheers
Very enjoyable.!! And your English is better than half the people I know here in Tennessee 😉 Love your enthusiasm for hand tool work.
Well, I was a carpenter before many power tools and prefab stuff, then a custom woodworker for 20 years and I think you are doing very, very well. You have a nice shop, too.
I really like your shop. You have found a way to repurpose a lot of stuff to make the shop yours. From cabinets you've collected, to ceramics that your mom has made, its great. As a 52 year old guy, who's seen and done a lot of crazy things, please trust me when I tell you, this is a great shop you have. As you grow, it will grow as well.
A wonderful video and so good to see the talent of the future starting out.
Hi Gillis, I like your shop . Reminds me of being 13 years old and my uncle helping me build a 10 foot racing boat. I used only hand tools. Long story short, I taught studio woodworking for 37 years at Cal State San Bernardino. Down side , I have emphysema now that I’m 80 . So be sure to protect yourself. The best thing one can do with their life is to make a living at what you love.
Glad you made this video. Krenov had nothing on you young man. Your bright future looms large in the distance...
Thanks for the video. I use plain bar soap or white candle wax on my old wooden drawers when they stick.
I really appreciated the tour, Gillis! We’re kindred spirits when it comes to hand tools and I totally concur with your “unplugged” philosophy. And by the way, I too am “weak” in the presence of old tools and clamps just waiting to be purchased! Haha Thanks again for the interesting and fun video.
Well done you I am nearly 60 all my woodworking is done unplugged. Really nice to see the younger generation coming into woodwork. Please keep up the great work you do your creativity is good and you are developing Your Own style very refreshing In today's society. Happy new year and hope 2020 brings you all you desire.
Thank you very much! I try! Happy new year to you too!
It´s so satisfying to see young people getting into woodworking with handtools. I´m 44 now and will start an own tiny shop soon. Your videos inspire me a lot! Thanks for sharing your passion with us! Have a nice 2020.
I'm so happy I could give you some inspiration! Thanks for watching!
I'd be interested to see what the shop looks like now. thanks for sharing with us mate good job 👍
15:25, I had such a phone, too at home :) What a coincidence..separate part of the world, same toy :) Thanks for sharing!
Those 20 minutes passed by real quick, really fun to see your channel grow!
I like that you’re sticking to the classic way of woodwork without the heavy machinery, it really does add that touch of genuineness. If you haven’t considered livestreaming yet, I really think it’s something worth looking into :)
I also still cannot hear enough of wooden pieces hitting each other, the sound is just amazing!
Thank you very much! Livestreaming is a very fun idea, I will look into it for sure (but I suspect I should have a few more subscribers first!). I agree on the sound of wood hitting wood, it's absolutely lovely.
Mr. Bjork, If I may say so, you are far too modest regarding your woodworking skills. But being modest is an admiral trait to have. When I was a young carpenter I too enjoyed working by hand but as my experience grew and got into machines of all sizes and very fine woodworking I became a lover of both handtools, old woodworking methods, and new powerful machines production as well. It is impressive and heartwarming to see a young man as yourself working frugally and so skillfully as yourself. BRAVO Gillis. I'll be watching and learning from you too, no one knows it all.
Many thanks for the kind words!
I have a Stanley #7, Bailey style, patent date of around 1912 that I dearly love. It was an antique store find and was pretty clean. Sole was good and flat still and is much lighter than a Lie Nielsen #7.
Very accomplished for your age thanks for sharing
It looks as if it's rather cold in your shop in sweden. Yesterday my son returned from Christmasholidays in Sysslebäck. One night he had
- 23 degrees. I hope you will not freeze in your shop and be able to show us some more videos. I wish you a happy new Year and stay healthy 🎉
Thanks haha! Not that cold yet around here, the sharpening water was frozen one morning recently but it's been very mild so far. Thanks for watching and happy new year to you too!
Your video popped up in my suggested feed and I am very glad it did! What an awesome workshop! Probably sounds odd to many, but I look at your shop as a peaceful vacation shop compared to mine. Keep up the awesome work! Subbed and now I'm off to see your other videos.
Glad you decided to click on it then, haha! I think I understand, it's a very peaceful place and I'm fortunate to have it. Thank you and thanks for subscribing, I'll make sure to check out your videos too!
Love the handles on the workbench cabinet
Bello complimenti. Sei un artista. Ciao
I have just found your videos and love them thank you soo much
Muy buen Tour! Gracias por compartir tu lugar de trabajo. Estás cerca de los primeros 1000 suscriptores, espero que los consigas pronto, siempre es bueno ver tu trabajo. Saludos desde Argentina!!
Muchas gracias! Glad you liked the tour, and I appreciate the support my friend!
I've seen a couple of your videos before. Good stuff. I'm also a bit of a beginner so for me it's good to see someone who is on my level, although you are more advanced. One suggestion is that you could recess some magnets into your plane rack so you don't have any falling.
I am subscribing to the channel. Glad I found it!
Amazing video. Thank you for sharing!
Awesome video and cool shop. You've earned a subscriber. Looking forward to your upcoming content.
Thank you very much!
Nice shop! I love the plane till and the bench with that classic BC vise handle.
Thank you! I remember watching your stunning corner cabinet build but haven't kept up since, gotta catch up on your videos!
Hi Gilles and thank you for sharing your workshop. I've only today found your channel while looking for a thicknessing jig (thank you for that one, too!). You have a new subscriber. Maybe we'll bump into each other grabbing for the same old plane in a second hand store some time. Sweden's a small place!
A nice little shop, sir!
Ha! Never mind my other comment suggesting Paul Sellers - you mentioned him with the rag in a can comment in this video. :)
I fully enjoyed that Gillis 😊 Very nice tour 😊 ॐ
Glad to hear it! Thanks! :D
Very nice shop.
Thank you!
LOTS OF RESOURCES . HOPE will not go to waste
This was brilliant! Jealous of the location.
great great place to make woodworking in. I really enjoyed the video!!
nice plane collection. does the LN 62 came with a 25° angle blade?
I'm asking because I have two low angle plane, and to work properly a smoother they need to mount a 38° angle blade, with the York Pitch they are performing great
Thank you so much, I'm very happy to hear you enjoyed it! I believe yes, it was something like 25°. That's a great tip, will look into getting a second blade eventually then. I've seen you use a few low angle planes and get great results with them!
I really enjoyed your video!! I subscribed to your channel and look forward to watching more. I’ve been building furniture and cabinets for 30 years but am brand new to my You Tube channel so I’m learning from you!! Thanks 😊
Thank you very much! Glad you got something out of my beginner steps! I'll have a look at your channel for sure. Regarding your camera question, I just use my phone. Would love to get an actual camera but you know. Pricey. Hopefully gonna happen though!
Gillis Björk I just use my phone as well. I accidentally held the phone the wrong way, portrait mode instead of landscape, so my first few videos aren’t great. But I’m learning 😁
The possible mahogany you pointed out could also be meranti or sapele. You'll recognise the stripes of sapele (after planing it), or the paler pink colour of meranti. I believe meranti is less dense too. True mahogany is very durable, meranti is not. Sapele is moderately durable.
Nice, always fun to get new clues on wood identification! Some of the pieces are lighter and softer than others, so meranti sounds plausible then. Since making this video I have used a few of the slightly darker boards towards the back of that chair, and they felt denser and harder, but still very easy to cut. You might hear me incorrectly state mahogany again in my next video haha
That shelter is a lovely place to be and where to do woodworking!
I watched in other videos that you milled fair large slabs with handsaw. Here, you showed tools for setting saws.
In your experience, how important was to set your saws?
(I'm an apprentice amateur woodworker)
Thanks! Well, if you buy new, you probably won't have to adjust the set until after many sharpenings. In restoring old saws, it gets much more common. Those that I've tuned up were mostly over-set, so I primarily had to stone down the sides as opposed to introducing set with a sawset. But sooner or later I think it's inevitable.
Have you tried your old bench with wooden planes? They tend to be thicker so planning is made easier on a low bench.
Oh interesting thought! Thanks!
You may already have done this, but I've found rubbing candlewax on the drawer parts that contact each other helps a lot. Liberal use of candlewax, Probably half of a candle.
Thanks for the tip! I have not tried that, will give it a go!
I like your shop & what you are doing.
Which of the scandinavian countries are you in ?
Thanks! Sweden
@GillisBjork I had the good fortune to spend 2 years in Upsalla & have fond memories of Sweden. Them met a number of new Swedes ( Vikings) on a project in Singapore... my liver is still recovering... introduced my Viking drinking buddy to his wife in the Phillipines ( she is Indonesian ???) when I took him to Borocay to learn to scuba dive... they visit regularly as they travel through singapore going to Indonesia... catching up them in November in Bali...
Learned to ski in Sweden & ice-dive in the Stockholm archipelago....
Thought I was a hardened drinker.... buy Pripps Blau destroyed me.
Still can't understand System Bolagat ..Sköll
Thanks for sharing that
my pleasure
Hey buddy keep it up u need to start somewhere and I know ur gonna make a very good woodworker .... It's been a while since this video can u do a new shop tour
Thank you! Not a lot has changed since this tour actually, might make a new one if this starts to feel outdated but most things are still the same for now. Good to know there is interest tho
To follow up my last comment, what are you using to film with? And what are the settings you use on your camera?
So fun to see your shop! How far is this from where you live?
Thank you, glad you liked it! Only about 10 minutes by bike.
I can see myself in you, same age (I think), same hair, same style of working, similair types of tools (although I do like some specialty weird planes from veritas, their medium shoulder plane is very recomendable), same opinions about power tools. only thing: I don't have glasses :)
I work in a space smaller than your wood storage space, the workbench and a tool cabinet fills in 2/3 of the space and a slanting roof is always in the way, but I can use the space underneath that for sharpening there is just enough headroom. but to be honest, I can work around it
one thing i forgot, are those red plastic handled nooitgedagt chisels, I love mine
Nice! I like weird specialty planes a lot too, but as you maybe noticed, I have more fondness for vintage ;) Sounds like you're making the very best with the space you have, that's awesome and hopefully you'll have more room someday! I began with a bench in a corner of my 1-room apartment, storing things underneath and on a shelf above, it was good times really. Don't know what nooitgedagt means I'm afraid, they're large-ish gouges from a couple different swedish manufacturers.
@@GillisBjork thanks! Nooitgedagt is a dutch tool manufacturer, if you can get your hands on something pre ~1980 you can expect great quality.
Here is a picture: images.app.goo.gl/Dsep5sjYycpoYuERA
nice tour!
Thank you! Glad you liked it!
jealous of your #7
nice workshop
Thanks!
love it nice video
Thank you very much!
I’ll give you a sub... gotta support fellow new woodworkers
Åhhh vad fint allting är!!! Sjukt imponerad! Allt som saknas i min mening är en kaffebryggare ...för kaffe dricker la du?...
Shit nostalgi på den dära telefonen
LOLED at the whiteboard part
Du får komma ut och karva lite nån gång! Men ta med kaffe i termos om det är nåt du vill ha ;)
@@GillisBjork gärna!
Fick den här i min fortsätt titta 2024, undrar varför jag inte såg klart den tidigare. Mysig verkstad oavsett.
My wife had that toy phone.
I only knew it from Toy Story, was really excited to see a 1961 manufacturing date on it and realize there's a longer history behind it!
Woodglut has a lot of designs to choose from.
So much hate for the wood stove. A wood stove releases carbon dioxide that was circulating in the last 100 or so years. Wood is also a renewable resource on this same time scale. Burning hydrocarbons releases carbon dioxide that has been trapped for millions of years and is the real risk for climate warming. I understand the soot risks of wood stoves, but the regulations seem out of step with the risks. Burning “clean” natural gas is okay for some reason.
I heard about Stodoys good opinions.