This video inspired me to go out to my firewood pile and find a nice almost flat piece of cedar to start working. I've been out in my garage with the hand planes for about 2 hours now. I've got a ways to go but I think it's turning out nice.
Ive been watching you mill logs for a long time and enjoy seeing the grainin the boards. This is the first time I watched you make something useful like the charcuterie boards. Awsome display of how you go about making them in batches. I learned the steps to make my own boards thanks for an excellent teaching class.
Matt, I love it. I’m a creator of artisan charcuterie along with a good friend for our own use. Your boards are beautiful and perfect for the fun side of displaying thinly sliced charcuterie Coppa, Brasola, salamitties, prosciutto etc. Fun stuff salute 👍🏻🇺🇸
Great job as usual Matthew, beautiful firewood. Just a suggestion, if you throw that piece of noskid you use when sanding in the wash with a load of blue jeans it’ll be a lot more grippy, like when it was new.
I am really happy you did this. I have been watching a lot of sawmill videos recently trying to learn all I can and so many sawyers toss so much wood in the burn pile that can be used for smaller items than a slab table. It could be sold as is to woodworkers even. Maybe not for much but to pay the fuel bill!
my week before christmas gift for everyone is brazilian cumaru coasters. Ive made 60 of them, only 18 are actually finished so far, 3 sets of 6. They are end cuts from some amazing teak hard wood flooring I installed. I preserved the flooring finish on the top and routered out the bottom for feet and rounded off all the sides. Finishing wax and done.
I think the greatest thing I took away from this video is confirmation that batching out in higher quantities is always worth it if you can do so. I've made a few boards 1 or 2 at a time and I'm no where near 16 minutes! :) Thanks for sharing.
These look like a good project to batch out. Seeing your “batching” process helps. This year I batched out turned ice cream scoops for the first time. It was a real learning process because batching things out is a lot different than just making a single item.
I was told by an old timer, as a rule of thumb for drying out wood to work with, you should allow around 6 month for every 5 to 6 inches. So, if you have a log that is 12 inches in diameter, you should wait 12 months before using for any projects. That's why it's a good idea to build up a supply of wood so you can have some ready to use.
Just came across your videos and I’m enjoying them. Found myself watching the cycle of propping up the clock on the planer and the subsequent slow slipping until you finally just laid it down. Soothing :)
Matt, I just recently found your channel and have been going through a lot of your videos. I'm about to start on the sawmill playlist right now, actually. Your work is truly amazing and you have a great attitude and demeanor that is a joy to watch. Keep up the great work!
There's one thing left in woodworking that I don't understand: How does one make this type of product such that it stays flat in changing humidity? For example: Where I live, last years annual average humidity was 70%. If I air dried the board and sent the gift to Alberta, it would dry more over time and distort. The same happens vise versa, when kiln dried hardwood is imported to the island, it absorbs moisture and deforms. in house humidity is equal to outside humidity during the warm days, but on winter days it drops to 20%. I made a workbench out of flat sawn lumber in my workshop. When I started have a fire in to warm the place up, that bench would not stay flat no matter how hard I tried. So I collected quarter sawn pieces and made a butcher block bench.
New sub and follower. I know it may sound weird but you have a contagious giggle and it really helps me. The giggle helps me smile and I need more of that in my life! Beautiful pieces by the way! Inspiration for gifts for next Christmas. I am new to woodworking and don't have nearly the kind of tools you have. Time to start TH-cam learning how to accomplish projects like these with what I have. Thanks for your content.
Hello! I am not a wood worker, I play guitar, acoustic, which is perhaps where my love of wood comes from. I do not have a sawmill in my backyard, the idea of getting my fingers anywhere near one of those things terries me! I'm going to subscribe to your channel, because it is so blatantly obvious you love what you are doing. that's enough for me and then had your honest sense of of "funny".. Have a good life and, as I learned in the boy scouts, always take good care of your knife!
Yet another GREAT VIDEO. I actually learned a lot from it. Got some great ideas and knowledge on how to make a piece of otherwise fire wood into a useful and practical item. Thanks again Matt .
Brilliant.. I just came across this. I have an edge of a slab that I wasn't sure what to do with. It's 8+ feet long, it'll make a couple of nice boards.
At the 10:20 mark what species is it? Curly maple? It’s beautiful. And i know my wife would be thrilled if we were toddler free for the night, went out for Italian, came home and at 10:15pm I was back in the workshop... 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ The drawknife shaving was like wood porn. So satisfying!
Another great vijeo as always. Was a little shocked to hear you cutting the souprasada,( spelling? ) My favorite. Have a wonderful Christmas. I don't think many people have heard about it or tried it. Thanks again.
I had to watch this again as I want to make some myself. I did notice you have a USPS tote in your shop. Don't get caught with it. The PO is pretty firm on fining people with them at $200.00/ tote. I'm a retired PO inspecter and handed out my share of tickets. But seriously if you only have one or two they usually let you pass and ask that you return them. I've gone to homes with literally a garage full of USPS totes. It adds up to millions of dollars each year and being a private company, that is a lot of money. And that is just the totes!
Nice serving platters. Have you thought about making live edge guitar pedal board boards, I’m sure that there could be a market for unique pedalboard wood for discerning guitarists; just a thought.
I'm just now finding your videos and like them a lot. What did you use to seal your boards? I heard you say it was just going to be 1 heavy coating but I didn't hear why it was
@@mcremona That's a good idea for a beautiful little project and saving some wood from the fire. Your passion and insight amaze me and your ability to laugh at yourself.
Hey Matt. How big is that shop? Looked like a one car garage at one point and then looked larger at another point. Also, I was glad to see the same style clutter that I have in mine. Most videos kind of make me feel sheepish for not being as well organized but yours put me more at ease.
For the fun of it, It would be an interesting exercise given the comments with regards to making some extra cash to apply some values to procuring/sawing the slabs even though they are slabs and could be gotten for free. The machine and shop costs of the processing. Abrasives, the finish, wax, cleaning th shop, and marketing/delivering. Would be interesting kick around some approximate total cost per unit out of the shop. Im sure it would vary wildly from region to region but comparing to a wholesale/retail price range.
@@mcremona To the contrary I think it would be far more beneficial to nearly anyone to apply some basic numbers to the process so they can get an honest accounting of what their true costs are for items coming out of either a productions shop or a home shop. They both have nearly the same costs and overhead but of course completely different accountings with regards to profitability. The point was moreso to wonder about what is the retail value of the board in varying marketplaces in comparison to the cost to get them out the door. Gifts are always wonderful and something where any form of accounting is typically secondary. Brand recognition aside, the question was more to the point of 16 minutes a board in labor, adding another 10 minutes a board for the other "stuff" puts each at 26 minutes out the door. Given a retail, or selling them wholesale, scenario,... what is the cost of that 26 minutes to cover overhead? And a further honest question, what does a surfaced and sanded "slab" with finish command at retail at various retail marketplaces around the country ? I could imagine in an urban area or with some established branding it could be higher than one would expect. Then I wonder in a rural-ish environment where most anyone would see such items as stuff they put in their woodstove daily in the winter, they would pay far less if at all. In my world 20-30 minutes a unit out the door would head towards a retail price of $60-$80 if selling them wholesale. If selling direct it might be a few dollars less but not much accounting for packaging, delivery/pickup, collecting and paying sales tax, and so on. Its always interesting to hear how people account for their "costs" for a given batch of work.
As a reverse take on that, I was always involved with firewood and milling lumber, but got into woodworking when I saw the crazy prices on relatively simple items made from (scrap) wood.
Time to knock the dust off that Lathe M.C! 😜 You need to come on down this Wood Turning Rabbit Hole with the rest of us Man!...Great Video as always Matt! Much Love ❤️ Have A Super Week!.....Gus
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THANK YOU FOR NO MUSIC!!!!!! In the background, it was wonderful to watch a video with natural sound on. 💝💝💝
Love the sense of humor and easy- going nature. Regularly chuckling to yourself about something or other. 😊
This video inspired me to go out to my firewood pile and find a nice almost flat piece of cedar to start working. I've been out in my garage with the hand planes for about 2 hours now. I've got a ways to go but I think it's turning out nice.
Excellent!
Ive been watching you mill logs for a long time and enjoy seeing the grainin the boards. This is the first time I watched you make something useful like the charcuterie boards. Awsome display of how you go about making them in batches. I learned the steps to make my own boards thanks for an excellent teaching class.
Matt,
I love it. I’m a creator of artisan charcuterie along with a good friend for our own use. Your boards are beautiful and perfect for the fun side of displaying thinly sliced charcuterie Coppa, Brasola, salamitties, prosciutto etc. Fun stuff salute 👍🏻🇺🇸
There is something so satisfying about the sound of that draw knife 🎶👂🏼
Speaking of, what draw knife is that? I'm looking for a nice large draw knife.
Lie Nielsen curved
Great job as usual Matthew, beautiful firewood. Just a suggestion, if you throw that piece of noskid you use when sanding in the wash with a load of blue jeans it’ll be a lot more grippy, like when it was new.
"Finger bevel thingies." One of the challenges I've had with woodworking is mastering all the technical terminology. :)
I am really happy you did this. I have been watching a lot of sawmill videos recently trying to learn all I can and so many sawyers toss so much wood in the burn pile that can be used for smaller items than a slab table. It could be sold as is to woodworkers even. Maybe not for much but to pay the fuel bill!
my week before christmas gift for everyone is brazilian cumaru coasters. Ive made 60 of them, only 18 are actually finished so far, 3 sets of 6.
They are end cuts from some amazing teak hard wood flooring I installed. I preserved the flooring finish on the top and routered out the bottom for feet and rounded off all the sides. Finishing wax and done.
Nothing goes to waste. Man after my own heart.
Your idea of scrapwood increased tremendously with a tremendous bandsaw mill.
Can't burn it fast enough 😄
It would go pretty quick on craigslist. If I was local it would just disappear during the night.
You are the man.
6:24 Warms my heart to see that happens to the professionals too sometimes.
From firewood to beautiful serving trays. Very nicely done.
thanks!
I think the greatest thing I took away from this video is confirmation that batching out in higher quantities is always worth it if you can do so. I've made a few boards 1 or 2 at a time and I'm no where near 16 minutes! :) Thanks for sharing.
Gotta add a zero on there 😄
Thanks for sharing with us Matt, great serving tray and slicing boards 👍👍👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
These look like a good project to batch out. Seeing your “batching” process helps. This year I batched out turned ice cream scoops for the first time. It was a real learning process because batching things out is a lot different than just making a single item.
I was told by an old timer, as a rule of thumb for drying out wood to work with, you should allow around 6 month for every 5 to 6 inches. So, if you have a log that is 12 inches in diameter, you should wait 12 months before using for any projects. That's why it's a good idea to build up a supply of wood so you can have some ready to use.
Awesome Matt. Thanks so much for the plug!
Just came across your videos and I’m enjoying them. Found myself watching the cycle of propping up the clock on the planer and the subsequent slow slipping until you finally just laid it down. Soothing :)
Matt, I just recently found your channel and have been going through a lot of your videos. I'm about to start on the sawmill playlist right now, actually. Your work is truly amazing and you have a great attitude and demeanor that is a joy to watch. Keep up the great work!
Thank you so much, Matt!
Love the board but I REALLLLLY LOVE those custom drawer fronts!!!! Why have I never thought of that 😲🥰😁🙌
Enjoyed watching. You’re a smart guy.
so much nicer than a rectangle
A master at such a young age...so great...
There's one thing left in woodworking that I don't understand:
How does one make this type of product such that it stays flat in changing humidity?
For example: Where I live, last years annual average humidity was 70%. If I air dried the board and sent the gift to Alberta, it would dry more over time and distort.
The same happens vise versa, when kiln dried hardwood is imported to the island, it absorbs moisture and deforms.
in house humidity is equal to outside humidity during the warm days, but on winter days it drops to 20%. I made a workbench out of flat sawn lumber in my workshop. When I started have a fire in to warm the place up, that bench would not stay flat no matter how hard I tried. So I collected quarter sawn pieces and made a butcher block bench.
Matt, Are you what some people call a Master Carpenter. To me, it looks like you are one.
That's a great idea, I've been using those "flitches" for experimenting with my new hobby " Lichtenberg" .
I made a bunch of those this year as well Along with some osage, walnut, oak, tiger maple and Brazilian cherry cutting boards
Dust extractor looks pretty sweet!!
New sub and follower. I know it may sound weird but you have a contagious giggle and it really helps me. The giggle helps me smile and I need more of that in my life! Beautiful pieces by the way! Inspiration for gifts for next Christmas. I am new to woodworking and don't have nearly the kind of tools you have. Time to start TH-cam learning how to accomplish projects like these with what I have. Thanks for your content.
Thanks Andy!
YOU DROPPED SOMETHING!!
Hello! I am not a wood worker, I play guitar, acoustic, which is perhaps where my love of wood comes from. I do not have a sawmill in my backyard, the idea of getting my fingers anywhere near one of those things terries me! I'm going to subscribe to your channel, because it is so blatantly obvious you love what you are doing. that's enough for me and then had your honest sense of of "funny".. Have a good life and, as I learned in the boy scouts, always take good care of your knife!
Thanks!!
Love the video. I especially like the timing included! Well done
For sanding use a large scrap of thick memory foam. It will hold the piece still and maintain a parallel with the sander during different pressures.
Merry Christmas Matt and Family from Tallahassee, Florida. I really enjoy your channel and your enthusiasm.
Thanks for the ideas.
Yet another GREAT VIDEO.
I actually learned a lot from it. Got some great ideas and knowledge on how to make a piece of otherwise fire wood into a useful and practical item. Thanks again Matt .
awesome to hear! Thanks!
Nice! Good way to use your scraps! Nice to safe those from the fireplace
Ploughman lunch and couple beers brilliant i wanna set how much. That your portfolio pic right at the end
Brilliant.. I just came across this. I have an edge of a slab that I wasn't sure what to do with. It's 8+ feet long, it'll make a couple of nice boards.
good job!
DID THE BOSS MAKE THE BREAD ? IT LOOKS GOOD. I HAVE A FEW CASE KNIVES I'AM HAPPY WITH THEM. GOOD WORK AS ALWAYS.
Merry Christmas to Matt and Family
Thabks!
@@mcremona You Are Welcome
At the 10:20 mark what species is it? Curly maple? It’s beautiful.
And i know my wife would be thrilled if we were toddler free for the night, went out for Italian, came home and at 10:15pm I was back in the workshop... 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
The drawknife shaving was like wood porn. So satisfying!
Another great vijeo as always. Was a little shocked to hear you cutting the souprasada,( spelling? ) My favorite. Have a wonderful Christmas. I don't think many people have heard about it or tried it. Thanks again.
sopressata. A staple in my house :)
@@mcremona i need to learn to spell. Have a wonderful Christmas n New Year.
love the boards! Great video. ...now those culinary knife skills, pinch and claw, pinch and claw. Happy holidays!
lol thanks!
Such a cool idea from basically trash to a great gift!
Merry Christmas to you and the family!
Thanks Ron! You too!
Just found this channel. A lot of fun to watch and seems like a great guy!
thank you!
Merry Christmas Matt and family.
thanks!
Love the fingerstyle guitar music while finishing
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family.
Thanks! You too!
Great job
Interesting to watch the process....
As usual beautiful project. I love the simplicity. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Thank you!
great job Matt
I had to watch this again as I want to make some myself. I did notice you have a USPS tote in your shop. Don't get caught with it. The PO is pretty firm on fining people with them at $200.00/ tote. I'm a retired PO inspecter and handed out my share of tickets. But seriously if you only have one or two they usually let you pass and ask that you return them. I've gone to homes with literally a garage full of USPS totes. It adds up to millions of dollars each year and being a private company, that is a lot of money. And that is just the totes!
I use them for shipping out my merch. Makes it easier for the mail carrier than trying to carry 10 packages back to the van
Very nice idea. Something that I enjoy are pizza peels, which are great for the chef. Thank you for sharing.
You know, you could probably box up those scraps as special super-deluxe "Cremona Custom Kindling" and sell it as fire starter. Can't hurt to try!
thank you Matt
Thanks for showing how & sharing that, very good
Thanks!
Always fun Matt, even watching you sand.Happy Holidays!
10:07 oh my! Beautiful
This looks like an enjoyable time spent in the shop.
Happy New Year! Thanks for all the content in 2018! Best wishes to you and yours!
Thanks!
Pretty impressive for wood that was on the firewood pile
Wood is so cool!
I can't believe you have supies in Minnesota!
Fun video to watch Matt! I like the clock in the background.
thanks!
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Best wishes to you and yours for 2019, Matt!!!!
Thanks!!
It's a beautiful project. Thanks for what you post on you tube
Thanks!
@@mcremona I guess I must ask if there is any permission needed to create this project for myself. It is a interesting project
No permission needed to duplicate anything I make. Thanks!
I love it when almost goes to waste. Thnx
Nice serving platters. Have you thought about making live edge guitar pedal board boards, I’m sure that there could be a market for unique pedalboard wood for discerning guitarists; just a thought.
Great work as always. Merry Christmas.
Thanks Ben!
Nice technique to move the clock around.
I'm just now finding your videos and like them a lot. What did you use to seal your boards? I heard you say it was just going to be 1 heavy coating but I didn't hear why it was
Excellent video Matt
Thanks!
Good Morning Matt.
Morning Gary!
@@mcremona That's a good idea for a beautiful little project and saving some wood from the fire. Your passion and insight amaze me and your ability to laugh at yourself.
Thanks Gary!
great video. Thanks.
Date often. It is very important. Cheers and Merry Christmas.
Thanks Gary!
Hey Matt. How big is that shop? Looked like a one car garage at one point and then looked larger at another point. Also, I was glad to see the same style clutter that I have in mine. Most videos kind of make me feel sheepish for not being as well organized but yours put me more at ease.
it's a 2 car. Always more stuff than I have space for :)
Thanks Matt!
Great job, though leaving the bark on looks much more decorative. Saw somewhere a product that secures and preserves the bark on..
congratulazioni per il tuo lavoro, che tipo di legno hai utilizzato?
Nice maybe you have inspired me to get off my butt and make some serving trays!!!
out of curiosity, about
what would this sort of cutting board cost at a craft fair?
Do you worry about bugs in the wood without going through a kiln? Or do they typically stay out of dry stacks or stickered lumber?
I make good wood into fire wood... You make fire wood into good wood. 😩😂
Great project and cool video, Matt! Merry Christmas! 👍🏼
😂😂thanks!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2019 Matt !!! I love your movies! You are woodgenial
Regards from Norway😀🎄
Thank you!
Very good
I like this new format of video, since I sell product that I make in batches.
My way of connecting with the batch-man
Thank you I enjoy your videos always
What a great idea! Fun video
Awesome as always man.
thanks!
Awesome video.
Have you ever used your saw dust to make Christmas gifts. Our local woodworker makes sawdust wax fire-starters.
For the fun of it, It would be an interesting exercise given the comments with regards to making some extra cash to apply some values to procuring/sawing the slabs even though they are slabs and could be gotten for free. The machine and shop costs of the processing. Abrasives, the finish, wax, cleaning th shop, and marketing/delivering. Would be interesting kick around some approximate total cost per unit out of the shop. Im sure it would vary wildly from region to region but comparing to a wholesale/retail price range.
it certainly would be. probably much easier for someone who runs a production shop to throw some numbers at.
@@mcremona To the contrary I think it would be far more beneficial to nearly anyone to apply some basic numbers to the process so they can get an honest accounting of what their true costs are for items coming out of either a productions shop or a home shop. They both have nearly the same costs and overhead but of course completely different accountings with regards to profitability.
The point was moreso to wonder about what is the retail value of the board in varying marketplaces in comparison to the cost to get them out the door. Gifts are always wonderful and something where any form of accounting is typically secondary. Brand recognition aside, the question was more to the point of 16 minutes a board in labor, adding another 10 minutes a board for the other "stuff" puts each at 26 minutes out the door. Given a retail, or selling them wholesale, scenario,... what is the cost of that 26 minutes to cover overhead?
And a further honest question, what does a surfaced and sanded "slab" with finish command at retail at various retail marketplaces around the country ? I could imagine in an urban area or with some established branding it could be higher than one would expect. Then I wonder in a rural-ish environment where most anyone would see such items as stuff they put in their woodstove daily in the winter, they would pay far less if at all.
In my world 20-30 minutes a unit out the door would head towards a retail price of $60-$80 if selling them wholesale. If selling direct it might be a few dollars less but not much accounting for packaging, delivery/pickup, collecting and paying sales tax, and so on.
Its always interesting to hear how people account for their "costs" for a given batch of work.
As a reverse take on that, I was always involved with firewood and milling lumber, but got into woodworking when I saw the crazy prices on relatively simple items made from (scrap) wood.
What bandsaw do you have? You appeared to resaw a huge capacity . Enjoyed video, Jack in idaho
You should make a brand to stamp on your work that way you can save the cramps in your hand signing each piece.
Time to knock the dust off that Lathe M.C! 😜 You need to come on down this Wood Turning Rabbit Hole with the rest of us Man!...Great Video as always Matt! Much Love ❤️ Have A Super Week!.....Gus