How I Got Started - The Whole Story
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A couple years ago I came for the woodworking but I stayed for the personality. Keep up the great work, James!
I'm mainly a power tool user and will likely remain so, but because of you and Paul Sellers I added chisels for squaring up round mortices. Then I added a shoulder plane to clean up shoulders. Then I added a router plane to dial in tenons and half laps and dados. I absolutely love using them and pull them out on almost every project.
I'll probably never use half the stuff you teach about but I still love learning about it from you.
I wish you continued (and growing!) success.
Personally I hate shorts, they expose my thin skinny legs
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Honestly, that was silly of a joke it got me to smile and chuckle thank you.
😂😂😂😂
And I thought you had thick skinny legs
@@tearybligh5202 Dad Joke of James' Dad Joke quality.
Your personality comes across in your videos ,we love watching ,learning your attitude is infectious.
wortheffort was the channel that initially inspired my woodwork too. it was also a hand plane build.
What a wonderful trip down memory lane. It’s been a fun journey. I looked at my subscription start dates. I joined Wood by Wright 9-26-15, and Wood by Wright Howto 1-18-17. Not sure where that puts me in your storyline, seems like yesterday. The Tuesday night live are great fun. I wish you Sara and the kids all best. [ In case anyone is wondering, James and I are no relation to each other. My comments are genuine and not some family obligation]
That would put you in the first hundred or so.
Wood shorts give me splinters😳
LOL not if you finish them with blo.
I hope it's not Ipe, though. Nasty stuff. 😬
Wood by wright is a "brand"!! Thanks for everything you are in the special group of teachers ( Rex, Paul Sellers, Steven Ramsey and Shaun from Worth the effort) that are making woodworking accessible !! You have made a great influence on my woodworking you have got the Ha element!
Roughly best segment of the video for yall ppls
0:00 - 13:10
I enjoy your channel. Dad jokes, misspelled words, down to earth talk, cool hand tools display, interesting new tool tutorials, tool sales tours, and by the way, you make cool stuff. Please keep it coming!
"Have fun in the shop." One of the best comments I've heard about woodworking. If you're not doing it for money, then do it for fun. Thanks for sharing your experiences with us.
You give me hope. I recently became a stay at home Dad and coincidentally took up hand tool woodwork to maintain my sanity.
Thank you, James.
I am from India. I love your channel and you have been the motivation for starting my channel. Just like you, I simply use TH-cam for documenting my work. I don't have any hitech camera and simply record with a digital camera or mobile phone. But surprisingly I got some viewers.
Thanks James, I enjoyed the backstory a lot. I have mixed feelings about shorts, yours are about the only ones I consistently enjoy. Your passion and love of woodworking and teaching always comes through. I’m a hobbyist primarily power tool woodworker who builds Arts and Crafts style furniture. I am working on figuring out how to combine hand tools and power tool techniques. You and Rex are my favorite channel to relax and learn with.
I’ve watched a lot of woodworking channels, but consistently come back to only a few. You’re thoughtful in how you explain things (and you probably would be horrible with the shorts if you weren’t), and you know your stuff, instead of being a hobbyist that barely knows more than his audience. Many people on TH-cam only check one of those boxes.
I noticed the throwaway "big enough to build a dining room table." Was that how you convinced your wife that you needed the extra space?
I'm so grateful for your channel. Between you and Rex Kruger, I have been inspired to start buying hand tools and start building things. I've only built one project so far, but just doing it has really started improving my mental and physical health. Thank you!
Thank you for talking about woodworking. You are lighting a passion in thousands of us❤
Commenting for the algorithm and to say, thank you for sharing all your experience and knowledge.
Hand tool woodworking is just darn fun. It's hard to cut off a finger using hand tools.
I am new and have grown about 75 subscribers in the last few weeks. It is an awesome feeling to know people care enough about what I am saying to watch and subscribe. I agree about workbench con. I just missed it this year but plan to go next year because it is only about 50 minutes from my house in North Ga.
It took me awhile before realised this was a *hand-tool* woodworking; I thought it was just a really good woodworking channel. Compare to say Rex Krueger, who I enjoy but what I learn there isn't applicable or further my mixed (mostly power tool) wood working. Here, it's all gold. I haven't felt this inspired since I first encountered Steve Ramsay and fell in love with working with wood. Respect for this.
Good background, thanks for sharing!
Wortheffort TH-cam Chanel got me into workworking, I even built the workshop to do it in, all from watching TH-cam aswell
Thanks James
I'm quite impressed that your origin story is about as long as mine and with similar roots (small space, hand tools, WorthTheEffort and others on YT). I have nothing like your collection of tools or a YT channel, but you taught me how to rip thru wood, so many thanks. $0.02 from an early subscriber, Tasmanian, and person who really dislikes wooden footwear.
Love sharing knowledge myself
I remember when you started the second channel, hard to believe how long it has been. Still relevant today, keep it up.
Cheers from Bulgaria!
Thanks for sharing.
My dad was a maintenance man with all the tools but no hand planes or such,I got into those not wanting to be an ass to my neighbors late nights and wasnt many plug ins and loved being able to build in nowhere! Already want a sailboat... old technologies, love em!
You're right - this is a very different video. But I found it quite interesting and enjoyable. Thank you.
This video is exactly why I am coming to visit!
Thanks for the story of your journey.
Me: Patiently waiting for James to discover model kit making as I too discover the art of handtool woodworking.
I use to do a lot of models and even stick built model RC airplanes before the ARF took over.
Please, please do not stop your videos. At first, I wasn't so sure about your shorts, but now I'm on the fence. I watch both you channels equally. Both are really good.
I love your channel, I also found the love of hand tools because of shop size issues. Thanks for the journey keep making your stories.
you are the one that got me started in hand tool woodworking. now following your videos I hope to one day start doing youtube videos of my work
Hi James. Great video! I stumbled across Worth The Effort a couple of months ago. I agree, he content is great.
I love the teaching videos. Those are the only ones I watch. Keep up the great work.
James your personality reals makes your channel as enjoyable at it
In many ways we are kindred spirits. I am a strictly hobbyist woodworker. I got more or less seriously started with routers. I’m in a wheelchair and actually the day I recognized I would need a wheelchair I discovered The Router Workshop. Over the years I acquired more power tools then gradually learned about the health hazards of very fine wood dust. I discovered hand planes. On the advice of an experienced friend I acquired skew block planes, skew Rabbet planes, jack plane, jack rabbet, jointer, smoother, etc.
I am a retired college prof, molecular biology.
Lovely, thanks.
Keep on truckin!
Thank you! Glad sometime ago you start this channel
Full time dad - children make me crazy.... Hmmm this sounds exactly why I got so into woodworking. I was made redundant 4 months before my oldest was born which kind of made our decision easy for me to stay at home. I really enjoy woodworking, next step as the kids head towards school age is to work out what I want to do with it.
Great video. Thank you for sharing your TH-cam journey.
Similar thing happened to me. I bought a few electric tools: handheld planer, two-hand router, resonator... I thought that a handsaw was somewhat beneath me. Then I stumbled on Paul Sellers YT-video on how to rip down a board by hand with a handsaw. I instantly went nuts for hand and panel saws, and now I have bunch of them. Including some old rusty one we had at home that my grandpa gave us a long time ago. (Weardly enough, I had a handsaw sign printed on my shoe cabinet when I was in kindergarden.) So through the last ten years, I'm slowley collecting and buying hand tools. And ofcourse, I discovered other's channels: Matt Estlea, Rex Kruger, Wood whisperer, Stumpy nubs etc... But Paul's, and this one are my favorites. It's interesting to go listen British and American English back and forth.
Love what you do. No BS, no sponsor segments.... just James doing stuff and not being afraid of showing the stuff ups.
I found you through shorts and I’m very glad I did!
Thanks. Let me know if there is ever anything you want to see.
Thanks for sharing your journey with us, James! And I agree that Worth The Effort is fantastic.
I love your videos and I learn a lot from them. But I also continue watching because you seem like a really really really nice guy and I like spending my time with you.
Here's my short: Great video. Love the honesty and info.
I have been watching your videos for about four to five years and though I am not that big into hand tool wood working any more, I like to stay informed and I enjoy your videos. Thanks for keeping up the good work.
thanks! that means a lot. I will keep them coming!
Thanks for sharing your story. -I ama a long time woodworker but mostly with power tools. I watch you and others to learn the hand tool techniques. I am over the noise and dust of machinery.
I love the honesty in this video and the passion is obvious. A lot of woodworking channels are “content creators” that don’t give the impression they actually enjoy the craft of woodworking. I use a lot of machines but I am getting sick of the dust and noise and taking inspiration from your channel, Paul Sellers and Rex I got an old #4 and #5 Stanley off eBay and going to start doing more by hand which works out because my jointer and I are not currently speaking.
A massive thank you, like you through moves and life in general I had sold, stored or otherwise disposed of a lot of tools. Your videos got me back into woodworking and the joy it brings. I have learnt so much about the hand tools I have through these videos. Also, as much as possible, the videos have shaped my tool collecting so that it is a good deal more coherent than the see it buy it of old! Keep them coming!
I am glad it is working out for you. You have helped me with my own hobbies.
Loved this. Thanks for sharing.
Dude im not even into hand tools all that much. I have planes i use a lot, chisels etc. But i don't know about everyone else but for me it's your personality and how you explain things that got me to subscribe. The wealth of information you give is just a huge bonus
Profoundly loved this one. I am thinking of diving in. But not in this field .thank you for the help
It's been an awesome journey with you my dear! Can't wait to see what the future holds. 😘
Fascinating. I liked the origin story.
to the person that asked the first question thank I like all of your channel and thank you for answering all of my questions and email. have a blessed day.
What I do not like with shorts is that too often TH-camrs try to squeeze a topic that could/should make a 5/10/15min video into 60 seconds. That makes very dense videos that are hard to follow, especially for an educational channel. I don't think shorts have to be fast or dense, some subjects will be great as shorts, while some may require a longer video (even a "short" regular video).
I like Paul Sellers shorts, he doesn't pick a full topic, only a quick tip/anecdote/myth to break. Not too much talking and straight to the point.
That being said, keep doing what you are doing, they are only a few TH-camrs like you that makes great woodworking/hand tools educational content 👏
This is a great story, man! Thanks for including the content creator section too. 👊🏻🍻
Really glad it’s working out for you. Really enjoy your videos on both channels. All the best
You bring up a good point. David Barron furniture hasn't made a video in 7 or 8 years and was one of my favorites. Perhaps he didn't enjoy it any longer or couldn't find new material, Idk but I wish he'd come back. You have to keep finding new material to hold the fans interest, and your own! Thanks
use to watch your HP WU videos years ago and then just stumbled upon this video from a short that showed up on my feed. glad to see things eventually worked out for you!!
thanks man. that was a fun side hobby for a year or so.
Did you read this comment? I bet you did! Thank you for the inspiration James, I'm a combination hand and power tool woodworker (or at least I attempt to be) and I don't know if I'd be trying as many types of projects without the wacky oddball things you show. Keep up the good work sir!
I've been in trouble for pounding on a chisle before too. 😮
I was gonna say no way he didn’t end with a joke and the he hits us with that one😂😂 legend
I was almost certain you were about to end without a joke. Glad I was wrong. And, as long as you still have time to read these; thanks for sharing your story and passion. I have learned a lot. Glad the channel's doing well. In theater we say break a leg (I'm a stagehand.) For a woodworker maybe we can say "Get a splinter"
Fantastic. My masters was in technical theater. I was technical director for quite a few years.
Great video James sir
Great to know your story. When I started watching you at first I figured you were a wood shop teacher. One I would have wanted to have because of your enthusiasm!
Now I want to make videos again on moulding planes... Thanks James for this insight into your youtube and woodworking history!
Thanks a lot, James, I love your philosophy as much as your woodwork. I'm happy that shorts gave your channel so much more traffick, hope it continous upwards, good luck
Hi James I really enjoyed this video sir think the thing with hand tools for me its the fact that seeing them come to shape over time and more enjoyable
Hello James,
I concur with most of the comments already there. glad you made it, because you deserved it so much. You even give the key "just do what you love".
I really enjoy watching you because i can see how much it please you and seeing someone enjoying doing something we enjoy create bonds at human level, that s also why the community is important, so this bound is not unilateral anymore!
Have a nice day!
I find myself watching your videos over and over again trying to learn everything I can. I just had my first "shop" an 8x12 shed delivered and my 6 year old son and I have been spending a lot of time out there just learning how to use the tools. Keep up the awesome videos and I appreciate each and every one of them.
Sounds like a lot of fun. Looking forward to seeing what you make.
Thanks for sharing, interesting stuff
Wood by Wright the start and philosophy in less than 15m! I love it.
I like your shorts because they aren’t just snippets of your other videos. Thank you
Thanks for your story. It was very interesting.
Great idea for a video. I've been watching for a long time. I enjoyed learning your back story.
I Enjoy your channel. Watch every week. I have learned a lot Thanks Keep Up the Great Work
Worth the Effort is a GREAT channel. I love that guy’s totally unpretentious-but smart-approach to woodworking.
It’s great to see the older videos and see more of the wall and less tools, then as the channel has grown the wall filled up!
great story.......
Hi James, I like this format, I am a few years older than you, however, when I was a kid I loved learning from my grandfather about woodworking. I realized why I like watching you so much, you teach like my grandfather, and you explain and show me how to do things. Like you I am not a fan of shorts, I prefer sitting down and learning, I just don't get that from shorts.
I really hope to see a million of us following you much sooner and grown this wonderful craft and spread it more. Thank you for all your effort
Thanks for doing all these videos! Being new to hand woodworking tools, I have found your channel indispensable in helping me progress and improve my woodworking. I hope you will be around for a long time! Thanks for everything James!
Great story! I have watched several of your videos as I have become obsessed with hand tools. I also grew up in a shop full of power tools, but in my retirement, I find much more enjoyment working with hand tools. You have helped me with that, and I thank you. You're also in some pretty great company, because Paul Sellers, Rob Cosman, Rex Kruger, etc... have also helped a lot.
Thank you for sharing your beginnings and how this all got started. Personally, I would rather watch the deep dive and get into the details. But I’ll still watch all of your videos even the shorts.
Thanks for this video. And thank you for this channel. I only watch you and Rex Kruger for hand tools otherwise I watch Turning. Raffin, The Papa and some others. I appreciate all the explanations of how and why. Learning is what I enjoy the most.
Very interesting story i remember back when you started I was trying to to start my channel at the same time ( my channel name has changed since )
I appreciated your comments on some of my early videos always positive and encouraging !
I unfortunately let my channel fade out quite a few years ago now , but now I am back and giving it another go and have it re focused !
Thanks for your inspiration !
You are one of the best most genuine woodworkers on you tube right now
Keep it up !
Merry Christmas to you and your family
-Greg Fowler
thanks Greg. that means a lot!
Speaking of growing the channel and as you mentioned having the kids in your shop, how about a video where you show the kids how to make some toys?
I don't know how old your kids are, but I remember making stuff with my dad when I was around six years old, and that "construction experience" shaped my interest and my career. You say you started by using your dad's power tools - obviously at an older age than six, but it's something we all do and I'm pretty sure that we all love to watch dads teaching their kids, too.
I love working with the kids in the shop. I've done quite a few videos building things with them. My oldest actually has a channel where she makes her own projects.
What a journey... It's hard to believe what your channels have grown into. It helps that you have a great personality and all the family support too. Glad to see y'all are doing well.
I’ve always enjoyed your stuff….. but this one sums it up….. I have a similar background, but only dabble now as a woodworker; moved more into construction. Keep up the great work. Love it all…..
thanks for this video, very inspiring
Ahh.... this is the good stuff. 🙃