It's only wood after all.

Love your channel! First time watcher. Let me guess: Briton living in the States for…what, 40 years? Anyway, look forward to many visits to your channel.

The Toledo Museun of Art has a large standup walnut chest/cabinet about 6 or so feet tall made during the mid 1500s. It is quite something, ornate, and has lattice woodwork crisscrossing glass in various door panels. It is a wonderful piece. A guard allowed me to examine it very closely. I noticed it has numerous dutchmen, splices, and gap filler pieces literally everywhere. Then it struck me that the artisan who built it screwed up a lot more than I do----either that or every other board he used was too short. Walnut stain hid many defects, too. After that I never thought too much about making "mistakes" in my projects.

Thank you for this video! Purchased your book ( vol 3, furniture making) which highly recommend when building this box. I, too, appreciate your approach. For years, I had worried about my own mistakes. No matter how hard I tried, every piece had at least one error -- usually more. Then one day my boss tasked a coworker, a retired master carpenter who had properly built many houses from foundation to beautiful interior finishing, to make a store display using an old shipping pallet. The pallet was in terrible shape -- uneven, cheap wood, broken slats, etc. After many hours, my coworker had managed to put together a amateurish-looking display with uprights badly out of plumb, gaps in joints 1/2" or more , etc. "I knew I should have told her ( our boss ) this pallet wouldn't work" he grumbled as he disgustedly pointed out how the display reflected the specific pallet flaws. ( Mr. Blackburn discusses the flaw magnification problem at paragraph 2, page 3, Vol. 3, Fundamentals of Woodworking.) I walked away, thinking he would simply throw the display in the dumpster. How could a master carpenter / woodworker publicly display something like that ? Returning a few hours later, though, the pallet was still there, but looked completely different -- it now appeared to be an expertly made, custom display by an experienced professional designed to showcase the store merchandise. He then explained his secrets of carefully and artfully using our store's extensive moulding selection and finishing products to cover gaps, straighten uprights, paint over flaws, etc. To a professional, I realized, the mistakes were an annoyance but creative finishing turned a disaster into a success.

Thanks!

Thank you so much!

Hello, how is everything going over there. I'm Melvin and I want us to talk it's very important.

Great!

Thank you.

Thanks!

basics first!

Hello, how is everything going over there. I'm Melvin and I want us to talk it's very important.

Great!

I was taught as a kid helping my dad around the house, and again as an adult trying jewelry; "let the saw do the work". It's a lot less work for you.

True. You're welcome!

Hmmm, learnt al lot from my father. Then the rent kept coming due...

@@gjbmunc necessity being the mother of hard work?

Wish you luck!

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Thanks for watching!

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks for watching!

Same to you!

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Hello, how is everything going over there. I'm Melvin and I want us to talk it's very important.

Thanks. I try.

Yep, I'm grateful to Rex.

Glad you like them!

I am flattening my boards after cutting them to pieces. Less material to remove, less effort, thicker pieces.

My pleasure!

Thank you very much!

Thank you!

Thank you

Thanks for watching!

You too!

Have fun!

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Good luck....

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Hello, how is everything going over there. I'm Melvin and I want us to talk

Hope so, he certainly won't inherit your smart phone!

@@gjbmunc You got that right!

sounds great!

I can see how one might think that the case. What’s taking place is that initial entry into the wood surface is crushed by the blunt end. This, on a macro level, punches a hole into the wood for the shaft of the nail to follow into. A sharply pointed nail, will rive into the grain likely initiating a split which, as the shaft is further driven will “run away”/worsen.

Try it and see!

Blunting the nail makes it push a hole through instead of acting as a 4 sided wedge, if you're real keen run the nail through your hair to add a little bit of Oil, learnt that from changing nappies with safety pins, sound crazy but it works 😀

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Sounds great!

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More chamfering coming soon.

@@gjbmunc looking forward to it ❤️

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There you go!

Spasibo!

So start teaching what you learn to the next generation!

The shooting board and plane, Rex Kruger did an excellent video of a simple one, it's where people were "sign posted" to Graham's channel, another good method is to clamp a good straight piece of timber along the cut line to guide your saw.

@Jimbo That's a great idea Jimbo. I'll will definitely give it a try. Thank you for your reply.

See below!

Indeed!

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Thinking the same.

Also thinking the same. For now, I assume he’s not going so much for an accurate ruler measurement as he is just making sure that all respective components end up being the same size. This I assume is achieved simply by shooting them until they match. I hope he responds to clarify.

Just my question too. Was there a little tidy up at the end perhaps along with the chamfering?

@@mercoid To be fair I just happened upon his video. I got the impression this video is in a series so the truing up of dimensions could have been previously demonstrated.

Basically measure carefully, leaving the shortest amount extra for trimming (if necessary) on the shooting board. But of course final trimming when all is assembled can also be done.

make sure the head fits and it is shorter than the thickness of the wood.

twice the thickness of the first piece, assuming the second piece is at least the same thickness.

practice makes perfect.

Patience you must have, my young Padawan. I'm sure Graham will cover all this (and more) in future videos. First steps first.

Your challenge then is to make a perfectly, and I mean perfectly, square box.

I think it's a lot more important to show the techniques. What the woodworker does with those is limitless. There are plenty of 'project' sites on YT, but, it's refreshing to see a site concentrate on taking a complex craft and dividing it into manageable chunks. Besides, the experienced woodworkers can always pick up a new trick!

yes indeed. keep watching!

Of course you're correct, but the purpose of the videos is to demonstrate the basic procedures. beginners need an overview first, not necessarily the complete 'propper' way... Thanks for your comments; much appreciated!

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