I'm so tired of those. Just the abundant use of epoxy really. Like obviously do what you wanna do, I'm just voicing my personal opinion on them. I have to put that disclaimer cause we all know how "they" can be lmfao
@craigmunn9669 Жыл бұрын
Yes!! So many slab tables and live edge everything. When did bolting legs to a slab become the standard?
@evanlane1690 Жыл бұрын
@connorhart7597 Everyone's taste is their own, and I'm glad people are making things with their hands. That being said: river tables are the CrossFit of fine woodworking and I want the style to die a quick, complete death.
@connorhart7597 Жыл бұрын
@@evanlane1690 holy shit dude couldn't have said it better myself. It belongs where green and red carpet went to.
@seanfaherty6 ай бұрын
I thought I was the only guy who felt that way
@drman427 Жыл бұрын
I am a beginner to woodwork, the main test I have with this bundle kzfaq.infoUgkxTNB_zFBSnTo_O1PqfVUwgi7ityw0JlKt is that I think that its hard to settle on a choice of the plan and outline to use as there are a large portion of them there. Nonetheless, I like the simple stride to step directions laid out there.
@stepandanek6138 Жыл бұрын
I live in the center of Moravia and had no idea there was a woodworking design from here known around the world. That's pretty cool!
@KevinOMalleyisonlysmallreally Жыл бұрын
There are lots of excellent woodworking content creators. But when Rex is in form there's no one better.
@HPalivec Жыл бұрын
Just watching it at home in the middle of Southern Moraivia 🍇
@mcswordfish Жыл бұрын
As someone who lives in a weird hybrid land where we use a mix of metric and imperial measurements, I really appreciate you using both systems in your videos, but they do highlight how weird my brain is with measurements. I've been making a conscious effort to train myself more on metric - I've stopped weighing myself in stones and use kg instead, and as my kids have grown, I've only ever used cm to check their heights. But, a few years back, I worked in a shop that did packing and shipping and when reshaping cardboard boxes (to fit pictures frames etc) I tended to use inches for the simple reason that "The numbers are smaller so the arithmetic is easier" and this has bled into some aspects of my woodworking, but not others. Half-inch plywood is easier to visualise than 12mm, but as soon as you were talking about changing from 3/4" to 5/8", I had to stop and think about the fractions because I have no practice of using inch fractions beyond quarter. And when folks on KZfaq start talking about 32nds of an inch, I have no idea how small that is, and then find myself in my calculator dividing 25.4 by 32 to get a value in mm. It's a funny old world
@notreallymyname3736 Жыл бұрын
The Moravian stool design is by far one of my favorites. I recently finished a set of bar stools based on this design, and they're tough as nails. Between the wedged through tennon, sliding dovetail battens, and morticed stretchers, it's just stupidly strong.
@vanessakitty8867 Жыл бұрын
I have been thinking this design at the bar height.
@notreallymyname3736 Жыл бұрын
@Vanessa Kitty it's definitely worth it. I'd be sure to have stretchers between the lower portion of the legs at bar height, though. In my experience, the legs start to flex a bit once they get longer than 30".
@ryanclelland6743 Жыл бұрын
I think the cleanup part before final fitting is what my work has been missing to make it look professional rather then amateur.
@RexKrueger Жыл бұрын
I'm right there with you. My work is not pro yet. More attention to details.
@sgtmcd Жыл бұрын
@@RexKrueger love it. Off topic: I have a complete set of Chinese planes. I’ve seen you use them often. If you know of someone who needs a set let me know. I’d like to donate to a deserving new woodworker.
@markelder1345 Жыл бұрын
Great video Rex! I appreciate that you don’t do epoxy river tables.
@therealzilch Жыл бұрын
So nice again. I will never build a Moravian Stool, but your techniques and thoughts will still inform me. This is a good example of how humans should behave. Cheers from a musical instrument maker in Vienna, Scott
@alexsavastru8125 Жыл бұрын
This is so ingenious. I think the value of most of your builds is in the light you shine on otherwise unknown (to me at least) woodworking technology. I love this!
@BohumirZamecnik Жыл бұрын
My grandma's grandma used a small stepstool like this while milking a cow some 100 years ago. I made another one from a 115 years old piece of spruce firewood. This kind of stool has a very clever design. It can last another 100 years. Thanks for a detailed video.
@johnford7847 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for designing it around 3/4" stock instead of requiring 8/4 or other, harder to acquire material.
@Dunc2222 Жыл бұрын
So appreciate the ingeniously simple but sound techniques you demonstrate - eg, your approach here to tapering down the legs. Well done again, Rex!
@ondrejmolin4409 Жыл бұрын
Great video. I used to see this type of chair all through my childhood. Guess what. I spent my entire childhood in Moravia. Thank you!
@bluskysmilin9 ай бұрын
Thank You! Your content connects the beauty I see with the techniques, tools and history. It’s so appreciated!
@RossDMartin Жыл бұрын
Just became a Patron on Patreon. Thanks for your excellent and honest videos.
@BasiliskFilm Жыл бұрын
The well-splayed octagonal top-tapered legs are often found in Welsh stick chairs too, as parts were often shaved rather than turned, unlike the traditional Windsor. Interesting that you found an example from a Central European tradition.
@ciaheadmechanic0809 Жыл бұрын
I also really like the look of tapered legs with the wide end at the floor. I’m pretty sure that Schwarz-style stick chairs are in my future.
@klez42 Жыл бұрын
I made the Shwarz three-legged stool with legs in this style, it really worked well and made the build way simpler :)
@chlebon Жыл бұрын
I'm from Moravia and I approve this stool :). Have old one just like this at home. Good job Rex
@johnnyb95678 Жыл бұрын
Sliding dovetails are so cool! Always appreciate your great instruction. Thank you
@theeddorian Жыл бұрын
I do the handhold first, but I also learned the hardway to remember it. I use a coping saw to cut the outline between drill holes and a rasp to do the main finish shaping. It isn't a Moravian design, but that handle is useful in most low stools.
@yizhuolin3906 Жыл бұрын
The good thing about it is the dovetail dado adds thickness to the bench without making it looks heavy. By just looking at it I immediately want to add stretchers both way for my 90kg rump, but I know the thickness of bench and dado combined could handle the spreading of the legs. Great works as always Rex!
@Clark42EoC Жыл бұрын
Great video. Mirroring the compound angle via the use of a bevel gauge is such a trippy thing I never really feel like I'm going to pull it off but sure enough my eyeballs figure it out. I'm going to give most of the credit to the bit and brace length.
@What_Other_Hobbies Жыл бұрын
I love sliding dovetail as a stablizer for solid panels. I have a radial drill, and its head can rotate, which will make the angled mortise drilling easier.
@dragonstonegemironworkscra4740 Жыл бұрын
Now that's a really kuul project, done by a really kuul woodworker and a kuuler teacher! Blessings y'all Crawford out 🙏🔥⚒️🧙🏼♂️
@stevem268 Жыл бұрын
love that stool, with different dimensions, it could be a simple elegant table. i'll add it to my shortlist of "next projects"!
@glencrandall7051 Жыл бұрын
Very nice stool. Yes, it would have been easier to cut the hand hold before doing the legs. I also like the sliding dovetail. I used it on two baby cradles I built a while back. I also have a nice tapering jig for use with my table saw. Excellent design. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.🙂🙂
@weldabar Жыл бұрын
Nice design. I love sliding dovetails in furniture.
@sigogglin Жыл бұрын
I love your passion over this stuff it is very motivating to me when I am in a slump! Thanks
@PetrKiskaPE-kneTR-uhlarstvi Жыл бұрын
Nice video and product. All the best from South Moravia😉
@carlsmith6613 Жыл бұрын
most excellent video, rex; thank you...! in the background i noticed a big pipe and thought, rex should get an artist to paint the pipe to look like a giant ship's auger bit... 😁👍
@quantumleap8888 Жыл бұрын
Impressive that you are showcasing the sliding dovetail Rex. A few years ago I tested my talents and started making my outdoor table sets with sliding dovetails. It really is a genious way of building. Right now as you post this great instructional video, I am currently building the first of three garden/planter boxes using only sliding dovetails. The boxes are 5'(w) x 3'(T) x 16'(L). Once you start applying using just wood joinery in your projects, you just may never go back to using nails or screws. I also use Draw board joinery on my table sets on the tressles and stringers, Perhaps you can showcase that type of joinery?
@MCsCreations Жыл бұрын
Beautiful work, Rex! It really looks amazing! 😃 Thanks a bunch for all the tips! Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
@trevorlambert4226 Жыл бұрын
The irony is that the stool with the wider tapered end at the bottom may look more substantial, but it's significantly less sturdy than the other way around.
@inouveaution Жыл бұрын
Cool! Glad I mentioned the style a while back here. You got it done! I have enjoyed your book.
@aeromaxout Жыл бұрын
Hmm... I'll have to give this a try some time.
@mattevans-koch9353 Жыл бұрын
Great video Rex. And thank you for the tip on the guide for getting the angle on the dovetail.
@bobrees4363 Жыл бұрын
I would have thought the mortices were only in the dovetail, leaving a solid top. You might need a thicker piece for the dovetail if you did it that way though.
@pitsnipe5559 Жыл бұрын
Recently I built the stool you made from common construction lumber. Used hand tools that belonged to my wife’s grandfather.
@dustinnochta2504 Жыл бұрын
Very cool stuff. I always enjoy your videos
@lincolndickerson1293 Жыл бұрын
Great build!
@krokodyl8088 Жыл бұрын
Thumbs up for a great build.
@kevinleeobermeyer5601 Жыл бұрын
Beautiful stool, Rex
@ikust007 Жыл бұрын
Again exceptional !
@dwainlambrigger3769 Жыл бұрын
Love this project. A very cool, well, stool. I think it's an under appreciated style and I may try to get this built. Thanks for sharing.
@curm1778 Жыл бұрын
Always wondered how legs like that were angled and made symmetrical. I guess you could prop the corner of the seat under a 15degree wedge and drill press the hole once you've started it flat give yourself a hole starting guide
@J.A.Smith2397 Жыл бұрын
Love your leg method!
@thomashverring9484 Жыл бұрын
Excellent, Rex!
@bluesideup007 Жыл бұрын
Nice job!
@TuxPanther Жыл бұрын
That's a good project ! Thank you !
@scottlamp3097 Жыл бұрын
Well done Rex
@tinycuisine6544 Жыл бұрын
1.7k views in an hour! You'll get a million in three weeks👏👏
@kennethbezanson4266 Жыл бұрын
I love sliding dovetails and this stool seems like the best test project! I also almost thought your shave horse had a back rest because of the pallet testing against the wall behind you hahah
@JKAW Жыл бұрын
Great work on the shop, audio has come along way when compared to your first video. Also, enjoyed the video!
@BobAmarant Жыл бұрын
Nice project! Keep up the good work!
@AFCDen1965 Жыл бұрын
I like it! Nice
@dpmeyer4867 Жыл бұрын
thanks
@mariushegli Жыл бұрын
I have nothing to say really, but I appreciate your content, and wish to help with the yt-algorithms.
@amk1393 Жыл бұрын
How does this make the chair stronger? Is it because the batons add thickness? Is it the perpendicular grain directions? What is it?
@RexKrueger Жыл бұрын
Yup. Perpendicular construction WITH the legs staked all the way through. Crazy strong.
@J.A.Smith2397 Жыл бұрын
Finally time
@Ocean-blue6 ай бұрын
Who else thinks that the guy who first made this stool just put the legs on the wrong way around.. 😂
@user-zj4eb7hv4z Жыл бұрын
This is great! @Rex, just my education, why did you wedged the legs in the stool top? That would prevent expansion, which is the point of the dovetail pieces. Why not make those beefier enough to accept the wedged legs?
@RexKrueger Жыл бұрын
Wedging the legs keeps them from falling out. With a straight tenon, they need wedges.
@user-zj4eb7hv4z Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the reply, but the question was why not use the dovetail pieces to do that? Wedging the legs that way has the penalty of limiting wood movement of the stool seat. Nevertheless, I appreciate your teaching style and the fact that you are bring to our attention a method that is unique
@RexKrueger Жыл бұрын
Ah, now I get the question. Sorry. You can use just the battens for the legs, but then the battens have to be much thicker, which messes up the whole point of using thin boards. Also, these rarely split, so there's basically no downside to sending them all the way thru. Thanks for taking the time to explain your question again.
@LiftRanger Жыл бұрын
My eyes! My eyes! Not only did you show electric tools, you USED them in the video....Aaaagggghhhh. Lol, carry on. Another great one!
@leroidelabagarre Жыл бұрын
Little tricky, but interessing way to build stole. But why making dovetail assembly when legs will pass through all the seat? Ils this only to prevent the seat from timing?
@s.r5496 Жыл бұрын
I actualy used the sliding dovetail in my shaving horse builde
@ikust007 Жыл бұрын
Merci !!
@quantumleap8888 Жыл бұрын
I challenge you Rex. Can you put a square peg in a round hole?
@baumstamm6129 Жыл бұрын
you should have bought the godrilla extension from lost art press!😉
@alexfraser7760 Жыл бұрын
What’s the point in the sliding dovetailing your fixing the legs via a wedge all the way through the seat?
@youngbloodbear96624 ай бұрын
Im a little confused what the point of the dovetails are if the tennons still come out the top
@jimcarter49298 ай бұрын
Seems like if you start with 3/4 inch stock to laminate legs you are 1/8 inch short to end up at 1 5/8 inch.
@jimcarter49298 ай бұрын
Looks like one inch stock.
@andrewbrimmer1797 Жыл бұрын
I used to subscribe to you then I got tired of how it seemed all you did was sell. After watching this video am going to subscribe again
@osgeld Жыл бұрын
what's the point of the sliding dovetail if everything is glued and pinned into place
@ajaxshung4604 Жыл бұрын
Would we want to make slots instead of holes in the seat board for the legs to account for expansion?
@muleskinner47 Жыл бұрын
I cannot see why the legs locking the dovetail blocks to the seat does not restrain the seat causing it to split during wood movement. ?.?
@RexKrueger Жыл бұрын
Sometimes they do. Not often, but it happens.
@itrstt66 Жыл бұрын
what is the purpose of the dove tail?
@jeffroberts760 Жыл бұрын
Rex you have a sawstop you don’t use???
@wynelleu Жыл бұрын
Great new project! Link to Peter's channel?
@joeleonetti8976 Жыл бұрын
Thanks Rex. I made a 10 degree jig not that long ago (about 1:6) for sliding dovetails and then 90 degrees on the other side. That way it has a dual use. The sliding dovetail side is obvious. The other allows me to chop to the baselines easily after coping/fretting out the waste of dovetails (trick I learned from Laura Mays). In order for the scribing to work, does the bench also need to be level with the floor? I can't quite tell in my head if that is needed. I know the surface of my bench is flat and twist free.
@ricos1497 Жыл бұрын
Yes, it would need to be level. Imagine just two legs, the left one is 1 inch shorter than the right. You would put a 1 inch spacer underneath the left leg to bring it level. If you have a block set at 2 inches to scribe the legs, then you will correctly chop 1 inch off the left leg and 2 from the non-wedged right leg. If the bench is not level, skewed by 0.5 inch downward at the left leg then you'd need a 1.5 inch wedge under the left leg to make the seat level. Thus when you scribe the legs then, you'd be taking only 0.5 inches from wedged left leg, leaving a 0.5 inch discrepancy when you stand on the floor. Hope that explains it (and I hope I'm right!).
@ricos1497 Жыл бұрын
Also, I should add, don't try to level your bench if it isn't already. Just use a flat piece of ply or MDF and shim that until level on top of your bench. It'll save a lot of effort. It's not a requirement in normal use to have a perfectly level bench.
@crispy_otter Жыл бұрын
Rex, I enjoy your videos (and book!) but I've noticed that lately the sync between sound and video is out. I find it disturbing to watch (my grey matter is intolerant to it) so I wonder - with your incredible talent with timber - if you could make yourself a Clapper Board out of some scraps and maybe help to sync the audio track. Maybe that would make a good subject for a video, too!
@user-ii8my8rs5p Жыл бұрын
I might be dumb but I don't understand what is the purpose of the sliding joint, why not just insert the legs into the top plank? Is it just esthetics?
@mercoid Жыл бұрын
As he mentioned, the sliding dovetail construction allows one to use thinner pieces of material while providing a great deal of strength in the finished piece that you wouldn’t otherwise have in using such thin planks.
@petrosicka2741 Жыл бұрын
I am from sout moravia and I did not see this type of stool never.
@natesewell9402 Жыл бұрын
the Moravian stool plan purchase link in the description is not working: it's missing the "-1" at the end of the URL
@disco_falcon1895 Жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure 2 pieces of 3/4" stock glued together won't make 1-5/8". What am I missing here?
@RexKrueger Жыл бұрын
My stock was from a sawmill and was a tiny bit over. Use 3/4 stock. You'll never miss the 1/8.
@russellfranken3662 Жыл бұрын
I`m sorry but I don`t get it. Why use sliding dovetail when legs are drilled and secured to both pieces. I could see glued into slide only then it would be easy to tear down and transport.
@tl1925 Жыл бұрын
Link for stool said it could not be found. Could not find the stool in the store. Am I doing something wrong?
@joeyfrantz312 Жыл бұрын
Great video!! Do you have the link to Peter's account as well? I didn't see it in the description
@alexander8492 Жыл бұрын
What happened to the good mic quality?
@eliseveldt Жыл бұрын
whats up with the audio? it sounds a bit fried
@Reepicheer Жыл бұрын
There seems to be an error in your plans, Rex. You say "Drill into that center-mark a 1⅛ " (43mm) dirll bit". Whilst we spell it "centre" in England, 43mm is more like 1¾". (1⅛ " is nearer to 28mm). So I am left wondering which is correct.
@RexKrueger Жыл бұрын
1 1/8 is correct!
@anduril328 Жыл бұрын
Which plane stop is that on the bench?
@RexKrueger Жыл бұрын
That's the new one from my company, Compass Rose Tools . It will be ready next month.
@jean-marcdumas-perrin5324 Жыл бұрын
👍⭐️⭐️⭐️👏
@Grishanof Жыл бұрын
Another reupload?
@RexKrueger Жыл бұрын
Nope. No idea why you would think that... unless you didn't actually watch the video.
@Grishanof Жыл бұрын
@@RexKrueger because that's 3rd or 4th video about the same stool
@RexKrueger Жыл бұрын
But this is the video where I actually built it. It's in 2 parts. The other video was about practice. No reuploads here.
@dwainlambrigger3769 Жыл бұрын
Definitely different videos. There were also several posts on Instagram with this. Go back and review the videos...