Lovely project, Frank. My mom, aunts, and grandma did a TON of canning when I was younger. Here's a tiny suggestion if you're interested. Put date labels on those crossbar pieces so you can quickly determine which jars need to be used first. Then you won't have to pull them out to check the date on the lid. Cheers!
@@idontthinkso666 interesting! I haven't heard of that before but it sounds very effective. My mom labels the lids (flats?) and then a label on the shelf for batches.
When he said he was running low on lumber, I thought he wouldn't have enough to make a ramp for the jars to walk up. Pouring them in from the top was even better.
I'm not into canning, however I always enjoy the quality of Frank's story telling and videography. I also wish we had extensive basements here - craft room and a canning room!
Beautiful, and a clever use of the space! Here's a tip for canning: Take the rings off when storing the jars. If the lid didn't seal properly, or loses its seal over time, the ring can create a "false seal" and you end up with bad food. With the rings off you can check every week or two, give the lids a little flick to make sure they still have a seal.
@angelbear_og - great reminder! It takes getting used to, storing the jar without the ring, but you’re 100% correct! The rings are for the water bath or the pressure canner and must come off to check you made a good seal ⭐️ Isn’t his jar storage a dream?? I keep mine in an old fridge in the garage 😝
@@GaiaCarney It is a dream! I hope I can put together something like it one day! I don't have the skills or the tools so it won't look as pretty, but if I can get functional I'll be happy! I tried using an old fridge, but since it wasn't a working unit it just kept getting mildewy & disgusting so I had to get rid of it. Possibly because I'm in the southeast where it's rarely below 50% humidity! 😆
@@frankmakes Probably a sectioned box, keep it wherever you keep your other canning supplies. Ooh, a customized storage box that holds all the items (pot, ladle, lids, rings, jar lifter, etc.) in one place.
@@frankmakes Keep in mind that you only need as many rings as you'll be canning at a time. Once the jars are sealed & cooled, you can reuse the same rings. My mom canned hundreds of jars a year, but only had maybe 30-40 rings of each size. We untwisted the twisty bit of a wire coat hanger and made it so it just hooked around itself, and then threaded the rings on to it. One hanger full of narrow mouth rings and one of wide mouth rings was all she needed. The hangers could just hang on a long nail on the wall in the pantry.
I've missed this style of Frank video. It's been a long time! Friendly reminder to fix the spring on your jointer guard. Take a look at Jaime Perkins hand (from the Perkins Builder Brothers) for a reminder on why to not ignore the jointer guard.
Frank- your videos are a delight. I love your humor and the care you bring into the animations. Don’t stop! Also: I think your tomato situation is permanently solved.
That was fascinating! Well filmed, well organized, and a well executed project. I'm currently in the middle of building my first shelving unit based one some custom dimensions that fit my work room better than what I can buy and boy howdy is it a learning experience. Great to see how other folks are doing it and get some good ideas!
I love love LOVE when you post infrastructure (shop, kitchen, basement, outside) videos! They are so enjoyable to watch because you have such a unique and methodical approach to problem solving, and your aesthetic is so wonderful. Thanks for sharing, Frank :)
Even years kater this guy is still cranking out the best quality videos, also glad to see you seem like youre in good health, hope you will last maaaany more years to come
Canned tomatoes, canned peaches, canned asparagus and pickles. These are things my grandmother used to makes us help her with when my cousins and my brother and sisters and I were kids and of course some of the things she fed us. This video brings back memories. Thank you.
love this build! your designs are always so wonderful : ) my nana always taught me that an empty jar takes up just as much space a full one, so its important to always keep your jars full--even with something as simple as potable water. hope you enjoy your canning adventures
Ohhh, you might even be able to use all those pine chips in your garden for mulch or in compost making since its untreated. A virtuous cycle from this tomato preserving project to the next tomato harvest!
Wonderful work as usual your attention to detail is remarkable, great plan and execution. Canning is alive and well in this house looks delicious. Thank you for sharing
I was watching the latest “Perkins Builder Brothers” episode and your channel came up in my recommendations. This is an awesome instructional video for building a very useful set of food storage shelves. But the really genius part and I still don’t know how you did it was cloning yourself for a second pair of hands to help in the building process ❕ Kudos to you, Frank. And you two, Frank. ❤️😁😎
@@ninabooker2904 you are in for a treat. Frank has so many different videos, for furniture and shop jobs and everything in between. Go back like 8 years to see his shop build. It’s a whole series and it’s amazing!
Was excited to see a new video from you which was not focused on the CNC or lathe. Love them all, but I feel more inspired by practical rather than artistic projects.
If Frank ever sells this home, it’ll go for 3x market value. .5x extra for TH-cam Historical Registry, .5x extra for amazing shop, 1x extra for the kitchen and basement upgrades no one could imagine being better.
How satisfying it must have been for you, Frank, to use lumber you've been ageing, and mill it into this storage system for your home grown produce rather than having it all over your home. I was wondering about security from Pacific Rim trembles, and, of course you had that under control too. Congratulations on this very practical project.
Frank, great project! I'm actually surprised you recovered that much lumber. I'm worried that Mrs. Howarth is close to an intervention for you (e.g.: bowls, slabs, cans, etc.) so I'd suggest you point out to her that you managed to insulate your basement with stewed tomatoes.
The shelves, being only one jar deep, is nice. The feature for cat insurance is a must. My cats move anything light than their body weight to the floor. There would be many broken jars.
I enjoy your editing and end product. The animation of the jars filling up the shelves was funny. Then I thought about your knees. Every jar was a squat to retrieve.
Love these videos from you Frank! Thanks for another great one. Rigid foam sheets would be a helpful addition for moisture control between the concrete wall and shelving (maybe to consider for future basement projects)
You could also add some label holders on the bars that hold the jars, that way you can add labels with the year that the jars have been filled (assuming all 6 are from the same batch). But a very nice project, like always well done, very well explained and of course, well "animated", i always enjoy your stop-motion-animation parts.
How many jars do you want to have space for? Answer: Yes! Your kids one day: "You think your dad is a prepper? Mine has made a youtube video about all of his jar storage". Nice video, hope I will be able to fill that many jars one day too. Even if it might be overkill to have 330 jars in the basement. The neighbors and friends will love it too.
If you need more jar storage in the future you could make a half width version that slides on a piece of black pipe mounted to the top of the back set of shelves. Similar to how a rolling library ladder works. Doing so would give you access to the closet and water heater as needed.
I'm not likely to be cutting up any trees, but I like the jar shelf idea, particularly the "guard rails" - just need to find a place for that in my very small house...
A trick which saves a lot of problems is to make an adjustable fence out of a couple boards fastened together at 90 degrees so you can clamp them to you saw table . Most band saw blades tend to have a built in drift ---your fence has to allow for this . Start your cut freehand following a straight line---after your into your piece about 12 inches stop your saw without moving your piece ,slide your wooden fence against your work and clamp it to your table . Your wooden fence should now be set for the drift of that blade . It is worth a try and may prevent a lot of future grief . Hope this helps.
It's a really cool project. Might have to do something similar myself. It might be a good idea to pull one of the units out in the spring to check for mold behind them. My concern is lack of airflow and cold concrete makes a great spot for condensation and, eventually, mold. I hope you find nothing though.
Beautiful, and so enjoyable to watch you build as well as listening to you explain each step. Note, it is best practice to remve the ring of the lid to store your jars. This prevents the ring holding shut a lid that is not actually sealed properly. I bet those tomoatoes taste great! Did you grow them yourself?
Hi Frank and family long time since I've seen anything from you hope you are all well and haven't suffered too much from all these storms we've been having around the globe this year ❤😊😊😊
We just did apple sauce, apple preserves, and apply jelly out of the skins this morning. Canning is fun. I'll warn though of canning too much. There's nothing quite as disappointing as having to throw out old canned stuffs.
6:52 if your blade wanders, your guides are messed up. Potentially not just the bearing unit iself, but also the alignment between them (vertically). Has the bandsaw ever fallen on its side? Check the verticality of the blade while pushing on it side to side (one of those magnetic angle finder cubes should work). Also, i'd get a wider bearing. Those are too thin, even on my super thin saw, my guide bearings are wider than the blade's width by at least a mm or two (with the teeth poking out by the heat line).
I've always felt just looking at these guides that they're meant for a thinner blade. Just by the thickness of the wheels. I really need to redo the tires on the main wheels of the band saw as well.
If you ever need more storage, you can probably layer more shelves in front of these with swing-arm hinges so you can still get to the stuff in the back. Like TV wall mounts where you can pull out and rotate.
You can easily nearly double your capacity by building four more of the shelf bay units. Mount the lower end on channel track and wheels (2 per shelf unit) With Uni-strut mounted to the ceiling, and track wheels on the top of each shelf unit. Sliding the front shelf unit to the side will give you access to the rear shelf unit. It also gives you space to open that left side closet door. I suppose that you could even repeat the process for a third, and even four row of rolling shelves. (ad infinitum) Deeper shelves for different size cans/bottles/boxes. (much wider would need 4 wheels and two channel tracks)
Don’t let Frank fool you. There are still several rooms left in the infinite basement.
Haha, and here I thought he was running out of rooms. Thank god he is not 😊
Hahahah so true. I do NOT have a basement, and am thus in constant awe of the tardis behaviors of this basement.
It’s the Tardis basement.
He can just make another set and sliders, like a library wall system.
still no end to the rooms. here we see the water heater usually placed in the middle of the house
So, a tree fell on your house and you cut it up and made it into shelving as an example to the other trees? This is brilliant.
The tree observed the whole time. It knew. So it leaned over to apply for a job.
@@philstevens9914
Impressive that you managed a negative interpretation...
It’s a parenting strategy adopted by managers at fortune 500s that’s now been adopted by arborists and woodworkers.
😂
You haven't seen any other trees fall on his house have ya...?
For some reason I especially loved it when you reminded people who are uptight about cutting up a slab that "wood has to come from somewhere!"
Yeah!
Lovely project, Frank. My mom, aunts, and grandma did a TON of canning when I was younger. Here's a tiny suggestion if you're interested. Put date labels on those crossbar pieces so you can quickly determine which jars need to be used first. Then you won't have to pull them out to check the date on the lid. Cheers!
You could use white tape and whiteboard marker (or schoolboard paint and chalk), deleting the need to remove stickers from the pots for re-using
Good idea. My wife was making the same suggestion.
@@frankmakes 😊
Most people just use a wax crayon & label the jars as they come hot out of the steamer. Better to mark the jar vs. the shelf.
@@idontthinkso666 interesting! I haven't heard of that before but it sounds very effective. My mom labels the lids (flats?) and then a label on the shelf for batches.
Was patiently waiting for the inevitable jar stop-motion. Did not disappoint!
It clearly took a lot of time to shoot but I got a good laugh.
When he said he was running low on lumber, I thought he wouldn't have enough to make a ramp for the jars to walk up. Pouring them in from the top was even better.
I'm not into canning, however I always enjoy the quality of Frank's story telling and videography. I also wish we had extensive basements here - craft room and a canning room!
What a lovely world you live in, where trees in your yard are actively volunteering to be part of your family's future livelihood!
Beautiful, and a clever use of the space!
Here's a tip for canning: Take the rings off when storing the jars. If the lid didn't seal properly, or loses its seal over time, the ring can create a "false seal" and you end up with bad food. With the rings off you can check every week or two, give the lids a little flick to make sure they still have a seal.
Sounds like a good idea. Although now I have to make ring storage.
@angelbear_og - great reminder! It takes getting used to, storing the jar without the ring, but you’re 100% correct! The rings are for the water bath or the pressure canner and must come off to check you made a good seal ⭐️ Isn’t his jar storage a dream?? I keep mine in an old fridge in the garage 😝
@@GaiaCarney It is a dream! I hope I can put together something like it one day! I don't have the skills or the tools so it won't look as pretty, but if I can get functional I'll be happy! I tried using an old fridge, but since it wasn't a working unit it just kept getting mildewy & disgusting so I had to get rid of it. Possibly because I'm in the southeast where it's rarely below 50% humidity! 😆
@@frankmakes Probably a sectioned box, keep it wherever you keep your other canning supplies. Ooh, a customized storage box that holds all the items (pot, ladle, lids, rings, jar lifter, etc.) in one place.
@@frankmakes Keep in mind that you only need as many rings as you'll be canning at a time. Once the jars are sealed & cooled, you can reuse the same rings. My mom canned hundreds of jars a year, but only had maybe 30-40 rings of each size. We untwisted the twisty bit of a wire coat hanger and made it so it just hooked around itself, and then threaded the rings on to it. One hanger full of narrow mouth rings and one of wide mouth rings was all she needed. The hangers could just hang on a long nail on the wall in the pantry.
I've missed this style of Frank video. It's been a long time!
Friendly reminder to fix the spring on your jointer guard. Take a look at Jaime Perkins hand (from the Perkins Builder Brothers) for a reminder on why to not ignore the jointer guard.
Frank- your videos are a delight. I love your humor and the care you bring into the animations. Don’t stop!
Also: I think your tomato situation is permanently solved.
That was fascinating! Well filmed, well organized, and a well executed project.
I'm currently in the middle of building my first shelving unit based one some custom dimensions that fit my work room better than what I can buy and boy howdy is it a learning experience. Great to see how other folks are doing it and get some good ideas!
I love love LOVE when you post infrastructure (shop, kitchen, basement, outside) videos! They are so enjoyable to watch because you have such a unique and methodical approach to problem solving, and your aesthetic is so wonderful. Thanks for sharing, Frank :)
Even years kater this guy is still cranking out the best quality videos, also glad to see you seem like youre in good health, hope you will last maaaany more years to come
Canned tomatoes, canned peaches, canned asparagus and pickles. These are things my grandmother used to makes us help her with when my cousins and my brother and sisters and I were kids and of course some of the things she fed us. This video brings back memories. Thank you.
love this build! your designs are always so wonderful : )
my nana always taught me that an empty jar takes up just as much space a full one, so its important to always keep your jars full--even with something as simple as potable water. hope you enjoy your canning adventures
What a great use of this space. Love the look. You're right, that is a lot of tomatoes!! Thanks for taking us along on your journey.
Frank's canning shelves are built to more exacting standards than anything in my house, including the house.
Ohhh, you might even be able to use all those pine chips in your garden for mulch or in compost making since its untreated. A virtuous cycle from this tomato preserving project to the next tomato harvest!
Wonderful work as usual your attention to detail is remarkable, great plan and execution. Canning is alive and well in this house looks delicious. Thank you for sharing
Quite the jarring video. Nice work.
Hey. Can it with bad puns, dude.
@ericcasteel1379 Sorry, I'll put a lid on it.
I'm always excited to watch your videos. Such craftsmanship and patience with good humour. I wish we had a lot more folks like you around!
I was watching the latest “Perkins Builder Brothers” episode and your channel came up in my recommendations. This is an awesome instructional video for building a very useful set of food storage shelves. But the really genius part and I still don’t know how you did it was cloning yourself for a second pair of hands to help in the building process ❕ Kudos to you, Frank. And you two, Frank. ❤️😁😎
@@ninabooker2904 you are in for a treat. Frank has so many different videos, for furniture and shop jobs and everything in between. Go back like 8 years to see his shop build. It’s a whole series and it’s amazing!
Add label holders on the cross bars so that you can label what is in each 6-jar row. Love it!
Was excited to see a new video from you which was not focused on the CNC or lathe. Love them all, but I feel more inspired by practical rather than artistic projects.
If Frank ever sells this home, it’ll go for 3x market value. .5x extra for TH-cam Historical Registry, .5x extra for amazing shop, 1x extra for the kitchen and basement upgrades no one could imagine being better.
Impressive work & canned good collection!
This is just what I needed! Thank you!
Frank, you and your family must Really love tomatoes!
How satisfying it must have been for you, Frank, to use lumber you've been ageing, and mill it into this storage system for your home grown produce rather than having it all over your home. I was wondering about security from Pacific Rim trembles, and, of course you had that under control too. Congratulations on this very practical project.
Glad to watch another video Frank. Keep em coming. Been missing your weeklys.
I like tomatoes and Frank.
Frank, great project! I'm actually surprised you recovered that much lumber. I'm worried that Mrs. Howarth is close to an intervention for you (e.g.: bowls, slabs, cans, etc.) so I'd suggest you point out to her that you managed to insulate your basement with stewed tomatoes.
The shelves, being only one jar deep, is nice. The feature for cat insurance is a must. My cats move anything light than their body weight to the floor. There would be many broken jars.
Nice melding of hobbies. I keep bees and woodworking and gardening have the same melding.
If you run out of space it would be cool to add 4 more of these on tracks and then you could slide them around like those old filing systems.
Super nice project! Thanks for sharing
Also, cute stop motion too ^^
I enjoy your editing and end product. The animation of the jars filling up the shelves was funny. Then I thought about your knees. Every jar was a squat to retrieve.
Your animations are amazing
I really didn't know I needed a better jar storage until now ! Nicely done
Everyone needs good jar storage
Your narration is so calming and nice. Thanks for the video!
Outstanding As Usual!
Happy Thanksgiving Frank!
☮️💜🇺🇸
Very nice system
Love these videos from you Frank! Thanks for another great one.
Rigid foam sheets would be a helpful addition for moisture control between the concrete wall and shelving (maybe to consider for future basement projects)
lovely to see your editing skills just continue to grow in confidence, as shown by the increased levels of quirkiness and invention
Well organized basement. Nice utility for the family 👏 Good job as usual.
So the tree went from your roof to your basement. Nice! :D
Excellent project--lovely, really. Practical storage solution that still looks attractive. Neat idea for the retention bars (and brackets).
It ended up looking better than I thought it would. It makes me want to finish out the rest of the room.
You could also add some label holders on the bars that hold the jars, that way you can add labels with the year that the jars have been filled (assuming all 6 are from the same batch).
But a very nice project, like always well done, very well explained and of course, well "animated", i always enjoy your stop-motion-animation parts.
Grandmas arround the globe god a kick from this one 😊
perfect tomato storage! :)
i think you might be a better video editor than woodworker...and thats saying something bc you are a damn good woodworker.
Please measure out and remove the one jar that eventually will get hit by the brass door nob. Nice project!
as always great workmanship, and a vid to make you smile... thanks for sharing
Brilliant as always! from one Oregonian craftsman to another you never fail to inspire!
Always enjoy your projects, thanks.
Man Frank is goalss!! Will be working towards getting the same skills and resources you have
Your animation is impressive!
Canning is the best! Love your work Frank!
How many jars do you want to have space for? Answer: Yes!
Your kids one day: "You think your dad is a prepper? Mine has made a youtube video about all of his jar storage".
Nice video, hope I will be able to fill that many jars one day too. Even if it might be overkill to have 330 jars in the basement. The neighbors and friends will love it too.
I figured I can't have too much jar storage
13:40 inspiration for when you run out of space, because you will.
Nice work on those shelving racks Frank! 👍👍🔨🔨
If you need more jar storage in the future you could make a half width version that slides on a piece of black pipe mounted to the top of the back set of shelves. Similar to how a rolling library ladder works. Doing so would give you access to the closet and water heater as needed.
I'm not likely to be cutting up any trees, but I like the jar shelf idea, particularly the "guard rails" - just need to find a place for that in my very small house...
Now you have to add a sliding cover to keep them from getting degraded by light! 😊
I thought about that. that back. Room stays dark most of the time so it shouldn't be a big deal
Dan Lee Boat Building has an excellent bandsaw set up video. Always enjoy your videos, thanks
A trick which saves a lot of problems is to make an adjustable fence out of a couple boards fastened together at 90 degrees so you can clamp them to you saw table . Most band saw blades tend to have a built in drift ---your fence has to allow for this . Start your cut freehand following a straight line---after your into your piece about 12 inches stop your saw without moving your piece ,slide your wooden fence against your work and clamp it to your table . Your wooden fence should now be set for the drift of that blade . It is worth a try and may prevent a lot of future grief . Hope this helps.
Keeps you busy filling that up! 🙂
Fascinating as usual 😊
Enjoyed the video. Thanks for sharing
It’s nice having home grown food on hand . Great storage space. Thanks Frank
That is awesome.
OMG that's a lot of dadoes. It looks great. Tomatoes for a lifetime (or two). 🙂🙂
The shelves look great. I hope you and your family have been safe in the storm.
It's a really cool project. Might have to do something similar myself. It might be a good idea to pull one of the units out in the spring to check for mold behind them. My concern is lack of airflow and cold concrete makes a great spot for condensation and, eventually, mold. I hope you find nothing though.
Shelves each holding 50kg easily, designed for holding 5 kg of jars. Better add plywood to the back for support! Love it!
The shelves are lovely! Also, love a dust collector reveal lol.
Love this!
That jar stacking animation was so cool 🏆
That project is amazing.
Very nice, Frank.
Thanks for sharing with us.
Thanks for the videos. Doctors should prescribe your channel to anyone with high blood pressure. Stay safe out there.
Beautiful, and so enjoyable to watch you build as well as listening to you explain each step.
Note, it is best practice to remve the ring of the lid to store your jars. This prevents the ring holding shut a lid that is not actually sealed properly. I bet those tomoatoes taste great! Did you grow them yourself?
Amazing work, Frank! The shelves turned out great! 😃
I need to find that recipe!!!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Beautiful job great video. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Hi Frank and family long time since I've seen anything from you hope you are all well and haven't suffered too much from all these storms we've been having around the globe this year ❤😊😊😊
Yessiree. When them there zambies come to eat me gray matter I'm gunna going hide up at the old Howarth homestead.
Even under pressure your can-do attitude always lets you preserve-ere through even the toughest of pickles.
Look. I love puns, but not everyone does, so maybe put a lid on it?
Very nice! Animations did not disappoint! And now I'm eyeing what was once the coal bin in my basement...
Very Nice Frank
I wait for you videos frank,thank you
We just did apple sauce, apple preserves, and apply jelly out of the skins this morning. Canning is fun. I'll warn though of canning too much. There's nothing quite as disappointing as having to throw out old canned stuffs.
Fun, yeah I found some older stuff while gathering things up from around the house. We will have to eat them soon.
If two rabbets come together, won’t that result in more rabbets? 😅. Thanks for the videos Frank!
Not if they are both female rabbets.🙂🙂
Great project. That was a helluva storm back in January.
Yes it was! Wind than ice
Terrific idea
you guys are lucky to have fallen trees to get stock from, our fallen Saguaros dont yield much, although Mesquite wood is nice.
6:52 if your blade wanders, your guides are messed up. Potentially not just the bearing unit iself, but also the alignment between them (vertically). Has the bandsaw ever fallen on its side? Check the verticality of the blade while pushing on it side to side (one of those magnetic angle finder cubes should work). Also, i'd get a wider bearing. Those are too thin, even on my super thin saw, my guide bearings are wider than the blade's width by at least a mm or two (with the teeth poking out by the heat line).
I've always felt just looking at these guides that they're meant for a thinner blade. Just by the thickness of the wheels. I really need to redo the tires on the main wheels of the band saw as well.
If you ever need more storage, you can probably layer more shelves in front of these with swing-arm hinges so you can still get to the stuff in the back. Like TV wall mounts where you can pull out and rotate.
Beautiful!!
Nice!
You can easily nearly double your capacity by building four more of the shelf bay units.
Mount the lower end on channel track and wheels (2 per shelf unit)
With Uni-strut mounted to the ceiling, and track wheels on the top of each shelf unit.
Sliding the front shelf unit to the side will give you access to the rear shelf unit.
It also gives you space to open that left side closet door.
I suppose that you could even repeat the process for a third, and even four row of rolling shelves. (ad infinitum)
Deeper shelves for different size cans/bottles/boxes. (much wider would need 4 wheels and two channel tracks)