Hand saw, speed square, block plane, jewelers saw / coping saw. Table saw, jig saw, router all very much overkill. And you wouldn't have had to build the sled :)
Hilarious. I visited my sister and made a table and bench for her. I heard her neighbors talking about, " are they going to be doing this all day, " I hope not". Ha! Just one day people, never went back to build anything again.
Somebody needs to do a series where you bring in some absolute beginner and coach them through a project. That way, other beginners can see what challenges we’ll face when building. And demonstrate just how much of an impact talent and expert Ave on the outcome. I’d watch.
The "I Like To Make Stuff" channel has done some videos like that. Also the "John Malecki" channel has a series of Beginner vs Internediate vs Pro videos where they do a build-off.
The Wood Whisperer has done that, Marc brought his wife in to build a blanket ladder as a total beginner. It's a great video. th-cam.com/video/c05qtOqM_Xw/w-d-xo.html
That is a fantastic idea, Coda. I hope that one of these woodworkers with a well equipped shop will do that. You know, Steve Ramsey did something like that during the lockdown. He guided a shoe salesman through making a shoe shine kit. He might be interested in doing a series like this.
Man I needed this, I work in my shop on my porch, it's 40 sq/ft and I needed to see I could make nice stuff like this. By the way Just so you know, Im a biker too Even wear a patch and even I'm right there with you in the bikes stuff.
I'm a patron member and I'm loving this weird woodworking among nature. It shows us mere mortals fine woodworking is possible anywhere. But it is a true testament to your craft skill. Right on!
OMG…..didn’t think I would like this week’s project but I came out so RAD……love it……and when you include “sand in the place where you live” that puts the icing on the cake. Well done my friend!
That piece is definitely a "Picciuto" and it looks really good 👌 Love the humour and nearly spat out my morning coffee with the line "if you don't have a drill, use your CNC" 😂
Worked retail up in Ketchikan Alaska. All summer long, one guys favorite thing to do would be roaring up and down main street revving his engine. One of my friends, rather my brothers friend "What if that's what they enjoy?" Great. I'm gonna start blasting music through the neighborhoods in the middle of the night because it's what I enjoy.
Been watching you for several years. Great content. I see a lot of potential with this new series. I love the chill Bob Ross vibe, but instead of “happy trees” it’s frustration towards stuff like motorcycles with loud radios, punching boards….lol! Great stuff.
Loved the vid, looks amazing. I bet that motorcycle radio was about as loud as that table saw. It was the middle of the day, let them enjoy life too LOL.
Great video as always, Dave. I have a hack for you with that jessum miter gauge. Loosen the screws on the gauge and slide the fence to the other side, then load it from the back of the table saw and you’re all set. You can include that tip in your next video 😜
I love that you said what I always think. “I’m now going to check for square”. All I need to know is how to fix it if it’s not square! (Because that’s a reality to me!). Thanks for being real David! Love your show!
I was just at Toledo Plywood last week. I just started a woodworking business and was checking out where to get my lumber. Watching these videos are giving me a good look at my competition! Look out! Here comes a new up and comer! 😅
I personally would pick a track saw over a table saw if you don't have a workshop. I've built all my workshop cabinets and furniture using it, plus a sander and drill
Loved this. Been really digging your recent varied approach to your videos; trying things outside of the norm. It's been fun watching and looking forward to more
Hals Wood Shop. Thank You. Change is Great. Nice Saw and demo, since you bought it. Great design. We are ready for more.....from my small shed shop in AZ 8x16 workin inside and outside builds like this Inspire.
You can also attach fabric to wood using regular wood glue. Spread some glue over both surfaces and let them dry (it's less messy and alignment is much easier). Them just go over it with an iron, just like edge banding. You can also get away with glue only on wood (you want your fabric glue-free to let it breathe) - it is a bit less durable but for your application it should work just fine.
Cool project. It is a piece of working art. Great to work outside on a beautiful day with hand tools. I will set the sawhorses on the grass and do the cutting, then I don't have to sweep up the sawdust, and a little sawdust helps the grass.
It's no making a bat house in a parking lot, but I guess it'll do. I like the design. My first impression is stylized Asian insipration. It's a little funky, but good funky. And I really like the random holes on random places idea. Good thing your friend JoAnn has a fabric shop for all those do-overs. 😁 Another fun one and I look forward to future outdoor making adventures. Thanks for sharing!
I really appreciate this video series. Its hard to learn alot from woodworkers on TH-cam bc almost all of them have what i consider a dream shop. Im also from and live in Ohio. Its hard to learn when most TH-cam answers are well let me go over to my thousand dollar domino or my industrial sized planner. Most of us who want to learn especially in ohio cant afford 90 percent of the tools you see on most channels. I dont have any festool tools at all and cant aford them. My most expensive tool is my delta contractor tablesaw which took saving up income tax money to get. After watching a bunch of different woodworking channels it makes the little guys like us think its impossible to do anything without a million dollar shop. Its amazing to see an established woodworker go back to not having a shop to show us little guys that the dream is still possible. Its not just knowledge your sharing, its hope. That the little guys can still make it and eventually maybe be in a position like you are now. Loved your content and have been a subscriber for years. Thanks for the hope. From the heart of it all. Lol
I love "novice" videos where I can learn how to do the basics, that are real step-by-step. For instance in this video, I'd love to see the mitre sled done in more detail so I could recreate it for my Dewalt saw. I can't wait to see more, using basic tools to get great results so us amateurs can follow along!
Loved it. That power supply is impressive. It’s like pop up restaurants. If you want crowds, I know if I lived near you I’d shout up, but if you want crowds, post on social where you’ll be and they will come. Shakespeare in the park why not Make Something in the park. Lol. Loved that cabinet
I like the idea of outdoor wood working... probably because I am a wood worker that doesn't have a shop! 😄 Ho, and I used the random hole design on a computer case about 25 yrs ago. I loved it then and I love it now!
I'm not a Luddite, but am getting a growing dislike of screws in favour of dowels if I can, so for me it was nice for to see you using them. Possibly for the future, instead of glueing the fabric, fold over the cut ends and staple to the shortest end, stretch, fold and staple at the centre of the other end and work along, finagle the corners and repeat the last instructions. Maybe a little longer time wise but less messy, and a well tried method. A couple of TV recommendations for you from the UK, which you'll probably have to stream. Salvage Hunters, about a (what you lot call Pickers) furniture dealer who restores and or repurposes items, goes by the name of Drew Pritchard, I think you'll like him, and a spin off series Salvage Hunters: The Restorers which I really enjoy, they show the many techniques used in restoration. Really enjoy your vids/shows great stuff and you do spark up some ideas.
6:11 my closet looks exactly the same, except every shirt is black. Best decision I ever made. I never have to think about what I'm going to wear, or sort through a bunch of clothes that I don't like anyway, trying to find the one shirt that I do like.
Loved the video, I also like the in the shop ones. Would be cool to see you push the concept. Maybe at a beach, on top of a mountain. On a boat. All kinds of places!
I love this idea! What a cool video series. Honestly I like all the different styles of videos. I enjoy seeing someone with thousands of dollars of really cool tools make things, but I also love seeing someone make things with the basics to show it can easily be done and that its obtainable for me. Another awesome video, as always.
Make sure to bring some extra shirts when you go work in the park. No one wants to be arrested for being the 'loud noise drooly guy by the big tree' when making a maker video. Great design choices on the piece. Looking forward to more builds in this series.
You are my favourite youtuber, and all I saw here is mastering expertise, I went jawdropping with that crosscut sled! I tried to make one so many times and I gave up because it was always out of square and stuff gone crazy. Anyway, the piece is looking awesome, I hanged tight till the end with one eye colse because my trypophobia was out of the scale with that cover! Keep posting the good stuff! ❤❤❤
Welcome back everyone! Since everyone loved our last video about using basic tools, we've decided to take this even further... Creating astonishing fine furniture using only our bare hands and the heat from friction! Now excuse me while I set up the time lapse, it's going to take me a little while to rub through this tree...
I think this is a really good idea. I've been woodworking in my driveway for decades. My one car garage is filled with too many tools to actually do anything inside. So, when I want to build it has to be outside (or, if I'm working on a jobsite that's big enough I can work in there). So, I'm excited to see what you're going to do outdoors.
Really beautiful piece, Dave! Fantastic work!!! 😃 I don't care where you work, just keep making cool stuff and sharing with us! Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Since you are gonna be out and about, how about setting up shop somewhere along Lake Erie? Maybe Maumee Bay State Park? My grandfather helped build it, and I would love to see a glimpse. Either way, I love it when you show a bit of home (live in Virginia for the last 23 years). Just seeing Toledo Wood made me happy.
I grew up in the blue collar neighborhood adjacent to it, SouthShore (Bayshore). We would ride our bikes to the beach and fly the enormous kites my dad would make us out of thin wood, bisqueen, and fishing string. The best childhood ever, I mean being a kid in the 1980s were something pretty sweet. You younger people got shortchanged. Sorry. @@MakeSomething
I like that you just threw a square on your sled and called it good. One of my daughters got married in June. I made her a round, walnut, end grain cutting board to use as a cake stand at the reception, then keep for her new home. I needed to build a sled to cut up all that walnut. I wasted entirely too much time fussing over the 5 cut method, and trying to get as close as everyone says the measurements should be. I finally just said, "You know what? It's wood, and I'm using clamps and glue. It will be okay." Then I slapped a machinist square on it, and called it good. Worked perfectly.
I LOVE this series (and can't wait for the next installment), and that piece is kick-ass! The title, however, was hard to take seriously while watching you use a $1600 jobsite saw and a $700 drill.
I thought this video was about not having fancy tools.. it wasn't! It was about not having a physical shop. I wonder how many people can afford all the tools you used and not have a physical space to use them in.. Love your creativity!
Yeah, Sue. I loved the video and I love the idea of setting up in random places, but there has to be a dollar amount limit to be able to claim "basic tools" status. BTW: Don't you just love David's wardrobe? I think that Dan designs and selects all of David's on screen outfits. IMO, Dan should receive on screen credit for his efforts in keeping David so dapper and well dressed!
To be fair, it's not a prescription. At no point are you required to use the exact same tools. The idea is to get the tools you can afford at the time, and how to get beautiful results by using alternate tools and/methods; the tools and methods you have access to at the time. Being able to be creative with alternate tools and methods is much more valuable than using the exact same tools.
When I saw the panel issue. And it biting back Solve this with short aluminum angles on the corners attached to the panel. As slides or rails attached to panel running depth back into opening. Gives a slight air about it. Give you adjustability later
Great project, even if I'm not in love with the orange. I think it's important to do projects where you keep the "Tool limit" under $2000, or projects that can be done on a weekend or two, because most of us do this as a hobby. I'm pretty excited to see what you can do!
Great video David and a great piece of furniture. Really like the idea of functional furniture that helps deal with the clutter of modern technology. Really appreciate the esthetic of the piece!!
Wow, I was fully on board with this 'basic tools only' vibe you had going. I was even ready to build my own piece... and then BAM! Chrome steel legs in the final glamour shot? Did you sneak in a steel mill, chrome-dipping station, and oh, I don't know, AN ENTIRE MACHINE SHOP when we weren't looking? Guess my toolkit's just a bit too 'basic' for those!
I have to say, your area of OH has a lot of good woodworking resources. I wish more cities had those kinds of resources. I doubt I could find walnut plywood anywhere around here.
Inspiring Woodworking Projects: th-cam.com/play/PLhqK_8dnaIW0vJIhhcJfkPYQMbBJ28X42.html
Basic Tools Projects: th-cam.com/play/PLhqK_8dnaIW0JOLZTcmm5X6wD4rnOntuj.html
Hand saw, speed square, block plane, jewelers saw / coping saw.
Table saw, jig saw, router all very much overkill. And you wouldn't have had to build the sled :)
If you don’t have a drill, use a CNC. Best line ever
Yep. If you don’t have a car, take your helicopter too!
That line slayed me haha
😂😂😂😂😂
Love it. In a previous video he said something like “Don’t worry, If you don’t have a CNC, use your laser” 😂
He almost couldn't keep a straight face when saying it.
Don’t you hate it when you are out in the park trying to relax and some woodworker is running a table saw! Just kidding David, great video!
Hilarious. I visited my sister and made a table and bench for her. I heard her neighbors talking about, " are they going to be doing this all day, " I hope not". Ha! Just one day people, never went back to build anything again.
I was so thinking the same thing LOL at least the bike only lasted a few min hahahaha
I bet I could do that too if I had that driveway.
Somebody needs to do a series where you bring in some absolute beginner and coach them through a project. That way, other beginners can see what challenges we’ll face when building. And demonstrate just how much of an impact talent and expert Ave on the outcome. I’d watch.
The "I Like To Make Stuff" channel has done some videos like that. Also the "John Malecki" channel has a series of Beginner vs Internediate vs Pro videos where they do a build-off.
The Wood Whisperer has done that, Marc brought his wife in to build a blanket ladder as a total beginner. It's a great video. th-cam.com/video/c05qtOqM_Xw/w-d-xo.html
That is a fantastic idea, Coda. I hope that one of these woodworkers with a well equipped shop will do that. You know, Steve Ramsey did something like that during the lockdown. He guided a shoe salesman through making a shoe shine kit. He might be interested in doing a series like this.
Your builds often look like what people in the past must have thought furniture would look like in the future
Man I needed this, I work in my shop on my porch, it's 40 sq/ft and I needed to see I could make nice stuff like this.
By the way Just so you know, Im a biker too
Even wear a patch and even I'm right there with you in the bikes stuff.
"Random holes in random places" - reminds me of dating in college. Thank you for another great video and I look forward to more!
🤣🤣🤣
I'm a patron member and I'm loving this weird woodworking among nature. It shows us mere mortals fine woodworking is possible anywhere. But it is a true testament to your craft skill. Right on!
Whether it’s in the fancy shop or random places, the enjoyment and inspiration is all the same.
I’ve made all the furniture in my home and all the doors front door and kitchen units on the front path of my tiny house in oxford England 🏴
OMG…..didn’t think I would like this week’s project but I came out so RAD……love it……and when you include “sand in the place where you live” that puts the icing on the cake. Well done my friend!
I can't hear my table saw over your motorcycle!! I dig the woodworking with minimal tools idea, keep it up.
That piece is definitely a "Picciuto" and it looks really good 👌
Love the humour and nearly spat out my morning coffee with the line "if you don't have a drill, use your CNC" 😂
Worked retail up in Ketchikan Alaska. All summer long, one guys favorite thing to do would be roaring up and down main street revving his engine. One of my friends, rather my brothers friend "What if that's what they enjoy?" Great. I'm gonna start blasting music through the neighborhoods in the middle of the night because it's what I enjoy.
Your comment on the LOUD motorcycle and blaring stereo was epic. Couldn't agree more! Nice build!
Huge pet peeve of mine too. I feel like South Park nailed the loud motorcycle culture perfectly.
I'm liking the new series concept.
The different height shelves at the top make it look like a cheeky friendly robot. love it!
Been watching you for several years. Great content. I see a lot of potential with this new series. I love the chill Bob Ross vibe, but instead of “happy trees” it’s frustration towards stuff like motorcycles with loud radios, punching boards….lol! Great stuff.
Loved the vid, looks amazing. I bet that motorcycle radio was about as loud as that table saw. It was the middle of the day, let them enjoy life too LOL.
I love that you still make videos like this, even after building up your shop. Fantastic content
Great video as always, Dave. I have a hack for you with that jessum miter gauge. Loosen the screws on the gauge and slide the fence to the other side, then load it from the back of the table saw and you’re all set. You can include that tip in your next video 😜
Awesome video brings back memories
Those drilled out screens are the coolest thing I've seen in a bit!
I love that you said what I always think. “I’m now going to check for square”. All I need to know is how to fix it if it’s not square! (Because that’s a reality to me!). Thanks for being real David! Love your show!
Love this series keep them coming.
I was just at Toledo Plywood last week. I just started a woodworking business and was checking out where to get my lumber. Watching these videos are giving me a good look at my competition! Look out! Here comes a new up and comer! 😅
Great ideal for a series and great project. Thx for the lesson on dowel center pins.
I personally would pick a track saw over a table saw if you don't have a workshop. I've built all my workshop cabinets and furniture using it, plus a sander and drill
Loved this. Been really digging your recent varied approach to your videos; trying things outside of the norm. It's been fun watching and looking forward to more
Love the random holes with the forstner bit. Definitely going to try on my next project. Thanks!!!
Hals Wood Shop. Thank You. Change is Great. Nice Saw and demo, since you bought it. Great design. We are ready for more.....from my small shed shop in AZ 8x16 workin inside and outside builds like this Inspire.
Love the piece, Love the idea of wood working random places. Next stop wood working at a library.
You can also attach fabric to wood using regular wood glue. Spread some glue over both surfaces and let them dry (it's less messy and alignment is much easier). Them just go over it with an iron, just like edge banding. You can also get away with glue only on wood (you want your fabric glue-free to let it breathe) - it is a bit less durable but for your application it should work just fine.
Cool project. It is a piece of working art. Great to work outside on a beautiful day with hand tools. I will set the sawhorses on the grass and do the cutting, then I don't have to sweep up the sawdust, and a little sawdust helps the grass.
Great idea! Great Job! You make everything look so simple!
It's no making a bat house in a parking lot, but I guess it'll do. I like the design. My first impression is stylized Asian insipration. It's a little funky, but good funky. And I really like the random holes on random places idea. Good thing your friend JoAnn has a fabric shop for all those do-overs. 😁 Another fun one and I look forward to future outdoor making adventures. Thanks for sharing!
One day I'll top the bat house in a parking lot! Thank you!
As always fun and clever, Thanks David
Really love this series-not just because of the simple tools but the design is amazing too! Thanks!
Hand tools with Dave @Crosby Gardens where one still still hear the chirps of the Yellow Warbler while Dave makes little puffy shavings.
This sounds lovely.
I really appreciate this video series. Its hard to learn alot from woodworkers on TH-cam bc almost all of them have what i consider a dream shop. Im also from and live in Ohio. Its hard to learn when most TH-cam answers are well let me go over to my thousand dollar domino or my industrial sized planner. Most of us who want to learn especially in ohio cant afford 90 percent of the tools you see on most channels. I dont have any festool tools at all and cant aford them. My most expensive tool is my delta contractor tablesaw which took saving up income tax money to get. After watching a bunch of different woodworking channels it makes the little guys like us think its impossible to do anything without a million dollar shop. Its amazing to see an established woodworker go back to not having a shop to show us little guys that the dream is still possible. Its not just knowledge your sharing, its hope. That the little guys can still make it and eventually maybe be in a position like you are now. Loved your content and have been a subscriber for years. Thanks for the hope. From the heart of it all. Lol
That turned out awesome!
That was a great vid. I honestly thought you were in a park at the beginning. Keep having fun!
Did this guy just make a crosscut sled with walnut veneered plywood?! 😅😂😂😂
Why not? That's what mine is made from lol
I love "novice" videos where I can learn how to do the basics, that are real step-by-step. For instance in this video, I'd love to see the mitre sled done in more detail so I could recreate it for my Dewalt saw. I can't wait to see more, using basic tools to get great results so us amateurs can follow along!
I love the random holes/fabric panels!
You should call this series "Woodworking Wherever" 😊
Honda Ridgeline for the win! Utility PLUS some pretty decent truck bed audio!
Beautiful and simple I love it ❤ thanks for sharing!!
Loved it. That power supply is impressive. It’s like pop up restaurants. If you want crowds, I know if I lived near you I’d shout up, but if you want crowds, post on social where you’ll be and they will come. Shakespeare in the park why not Make Something in the park. Lol. Loved that cabinet
I wanted so badly for the scene following your quiet neighborhood rant to be you squeeeling away at the router. 😂 5:01
I hadn't seen dowel centers before, it turns wood into lego, very cool I'll have to pick some up.
So good. Love how this turned out!
I like the idea of outdoor wood working... probably because I am a wood worker that doesn't have a shop! 😄
Ho, and I used the random hole design on a computer case about 25 yrs ago. I loved it then and I love it now!
I say it all the time but you, sir, are awesome!!! Such a happy day when a “Make Something” video comes up in my feed!
Oh man. Thank you!
This looks amazing.
I absolutely loooove this idea 🇨🇦
I did the same thing for my trailer kitchen supports random holes and a ton of sanding
I'm not a Luddite, but am getting a growing dislike of screws in favour of dowels if I can, so for me it was nice for to see you using them. Possibly for the future, instead of glueing the fabric, fold over the cut ends and staple to the shortest end, stretch, fold and staple at the centre of the other end and work along, finagle the corners and repeat the last instructions. Maybe a little longer time wise but less messy, and a well tried method. A couple of TV recommendations for you from the UK, which you'll probably have to stream. Salvage Hunters, about a (what you lot call Pickers) furniture dealer who restores and or repurposes items, goes by the name of Drew Pritchard, I think you'll like him, and a spin off series Salvage Hunters: The Restorers which I really enjoy, they show the many techniques used in restoration.
Really enjoy your vids/shows great stuff and you do spark up some ideas.
The end result looks very nice.
I suggest calling your series -- "Nowhere Woodworks" 😊
Absolutely great video love this idea can’t wait to see what you do next.
Can’t wait for wood working in the grocery store freezer aisle episode
I’m glad all the vehicles on the road are not that loud.
"If you don't have a drill use your CNC." I laughed out loud at that!
6:11 my closet looks exactly the same, except every shirt is black. Best decision I ever made. I never have to think about what I'm going to wear, or sort through a bunch of clothes that I don't like anyway, trying to find the one shirt that I do like.
This video was awesome!
Loved the video, I also like the in the shop ones. Would be cool to see you push the concept. Maybe at a beach, on top of a mountain. On a boat. All kinds of places!
That is cool AF! I love that design
I like the Woodworking with Basic Tools theme. I enjoy your other video, but just dont have a CNC, etc for some of the projects.
I love this idea! What a cool video series. Honestly I like all the different styles of videos. I enjoy seeing someone with thousands of dollars of really cool tools make things, but I also love seeing someone make things with the basics to show it can easily be done and that its obtainable for me. Another awesome video, as always.
Looks cool man!
Make sure to bring some extra shirts when you go work in the park. No one wants to be arrested for being the 'loud noise drooly guy by the big tree' when making a maker video. Great design choices on the piece. Looking forward to more builds in this series.
That was a lot of fun. I look forward to the new series
How about a series like:
Hey I just found this 14’ cherry slab. What can I make with this…
Sounds like fun!
All together now "Drill some holes, Pound some pegs, I said drill some holes, Pound some pegs"
😂 love that line, too funny
Great concept. I have a workshop but seeing it done with limited tools and space is inspiring. Makes me think anything is possible!
Alex
You are my favourite youtuber, and all I saw here is mastering expertise, I went jawdropping with that crosscut sled! I tried to make one so many times and I gave up because it was always out of square and stuff gone crazy.
Anyway, the piece is looking awesome, I hanged tight till the end with one eye colse because my trypophobia was out of the scale with that cover!
Keep posting the good stuff! ❤❤❤
Welcome back everyone! Since everyone loved our last video about using basic tools, we've decided to take this even further... Creating astonishing fine furniture using only our bare hands and the heat from friction!
Now excuse me while I set up the time lapse, it's going to take me a little while to rub through this tree...
Great video, David. You've gotta take viewer suggestions for the parking lots/locations for future videos. (Toledo Zoo, Kencraft Parking Lot, Landfill Parking Lot, Black Kite Coffee Parking Lot, Agnes Reynolds Arboretum, etc)
I think this is a really good idea. I've been woodworking in my driveway for decades. My one car garage is filled with too many tools to actually do anything inside. So, when I want to build it has to be outside (or, if I'm working on a jobsite that's big enough I can work in there). So, I'm excited to see what you're going to do outdoors.
100% , sunscreen is the first thing I use to start most projects
A Harley usually clocks in at about 80 decibels and a table saw is 100 decibels. I like the build.
I live in Toledo, that's awesome
Really beautiful piece, Dave! Fantastic work!!! 😃
I don't care where you work, just keep making cool stuff and sharing with us!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Since you are gonna be out and about, how about setting up shop somewhere along Lake Erie? Maybe Maumee Bay State Park? My grandfather helped build it, and I would love to see a glimpse. Either way, I love it when you show a bit of home (live in Virginia for the last 23 years). Just seeing Toledo Wood made me happy.
Oh man! We love Maumee Bay State Park!
I grew up in the blue collar neighborhood adjacent to it, SouthShore (Bayshore). We would ride our bikes to the beach and fly the enormous kites my dad would make us out of thin wood, bisqueen, and fishing string. The best childhood ever, I mean being a kid in the 1980s were something pretty sweet. You younger people got shortchanged. Sorry. @@MakeSomething
I like that you just threw a square on your sled and called it good. One of my daughters got married in June. I made her a round, walnut, end grain cutting board to use as a cake stand at the reception, then keep for her new home. I needed to build a sled to cut up all that walnut. I wasted entirely too much time fussing over the 5 cut method, and trying to get as close as everyone says the measurements should be. I finally just said, "You know what? It's wood, and I'm using clamps and glue. It will be okay." Then I slapped a machinist square on it, and called it good. Worked perfectly.
Yeah, many times I over think and over engineer things.
I LOVE this series (and can't wait for the next installment), and that piece is kick-ass! The title, however, was hard to take seriously while watching you use a $1600 jobsite saw and a $700 drill.
I vote you stay in the shop. You tha man do what you want 🤙
Love the fabric color choice 👌 it's similar to Bourbon Moth's whiskey cabnet
I thought this video was about not having fancy tools.. it wasn't! It was about not having a physical shop. I wonder how many people can afford all the tools you used and not have a physical space to use them in..
Love your creativity!
Yeah, Sue. I loved the video and I love the idea of setting up in random places, but there has to be a dollar amount limit to be able to claim "basic tools" status.
BTW: Don't you just love David's wardrobe? I think that Dan designs and selects all of David's on screen outfits. IMO, Dan should receive on screen credit for his efforts in keeping David so dapper and well dressed!
lol yeah I dunno how basic a scroll saw is
To be fair, it's not a prescription. At no point are you required to use the exact same tools. The idea is to get the tools you can afford at the time, and how to get beautiful results by using alternate tools and/methods; the tools and methods you have access to at the time. Being able to be creative with alternate tools and methods is much more valuable than using the exact same tools.
Very nice, love the concept. Your the best❤
My absolute FAVORITE part of this video are the "Karen" rants, pure gold ❤❤🤣🤣
When I saw the panel issue. And it biting back
Solve this with short aluminum angles on the corners attached to the panel. As slides or rails attached to panel running depth back into opening.
Gives a slight air about it.
Give you adjustability later
Great project, even if I'm not in love with the orange. I think it's important to do projects where you keep the "Tool limit" under $2000, or projects that can be done on a weekend or two, because most of us do this as a hobby. I'm pretty excited to see what you can do!
Great video David and a great piece of furniture. Really like the idea of functional furniture that helps deal with the clutter of modern technology. Really appreciate the esthetic of the piece!!
Use your CNC 😂😂😂 literally laughed out loud!
Wow, I was fully on board with this 'basic tools only' vibe you had going. I was even ready to build my own piece... and then BAM! Chrome steel legs in the final glamour shot? Did you sneak in a steel mill, chrome-dipping station, and oh, I don't know, AN ENTIRE MACHINE SHOP when we weren't looking? Guess my toolkit's just a bit too 'basic' for those!
Haha!
Super creative. Clever build location. Mahalo for sharing! : )
Some of us were here when this series was conceived in the parking lot of a big box store when you made a bat box...
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I have to say, your area of OH has a lot of good woodworking resources. I wish more cities had those kinds of resources. I doubt I could find walnut plywood anywhere around here.