So true! thanks!

LOL I thought he would like that sled!

so true. If I did not have a hand tool channel I would so be that way.

Thanks sam. Glad that step is done!

glad i could help out. let me know if you ever have questions. you may want to check out the second channel Wood By Wright How 2. that is where all the teaching is now.

@@WoodByWright thanks so much man!

You and me both man.

lol that sounds like a fun time.

Lol thanks man.

Some times it just makes sense

Lol thanks. I could not resist.

LOL thanks Barry!

thanks man!

Thanks man. Me too.

I am looking forward to eating at it!

Looks big enough to seat at least half your entire subscriber base round it!! :-D

Thanks Richard. It is one of those parts that is hard to see but once you do it is easy to visualize

Yup there is a time and a place for every tool.

Thanks. My pleasure.

LOL I got to draw the line someware!

Come to the dark side!

Exactly my thoughts. I was like, yeah man, definitely not a purist

Didn't he giggle like an insane person when he finally done with it, though. Man's gotta know his limits! :-)

Lol yup

thanks Ian

thanks!

I am so in the same boat

Merci mec. toi et moi tous les deux!

Lol some times it is just smart!

Thanks man!

LOL perfect timing!

At a certain point you also have to respect your time (which ties into cost, especially if you’re doing work for a client) and recognize that the other side of the coin is getting caught up in the ideal at the expense of all else. I think the questions we need to ask ourselves are 1. Does this make the difference between me doing this vs not even attempting it (in terms of time and money)? 2. Will sticking to only hand tools detract from my enjoyment of woodworking here? And 3. Will using a power tool allow me to do a *better* job here? Better job is very subjective, of course, and it’s certainly not synonymous with having “perfect” surfaces (we generally see a craftsperson’s marks as a positive), but I think you know what I mean. For instance, a heat gun is very much a power tool with no good analog option. And from recent personal experience, I can say that an impact driver allowed me to free some seized bolts that otherwise would have been too awkward to get at with a brace (or may have stripped out without the jarring action allowing less power to free it).

Lol nice!

I guess Im asking randomly but does any of you know a method to get back into an Instagram account?? I stupidly forgot the account password. I would love any help you can offer me

@Phillip Darwin Instablaster =)

Yup they are from Matt's stash. I draw the line at 300lb

Sounds like a nice collection fo tools!

Any time Walter!

Il y a beaucoup de travail à venir. Je suis impatient de voir cela fait.

LOL thanks man. really looking forward to taking this upstairs.

LOL thanks Thomas!

Lol yup some projects are just not worth it

It is a lot of fun. As long as you don't have to leak. Said it's not as much fun.

I love that beast. really makes things a lot easer.

lol just the hand plane for that.

LOL thanks Thom. this was a fun one to play with.

Wood By Wright when the Hand Plane Started I told the Wife OMG this is going to take forever THEN CLICK, Too Funny ! Great Job in all !

Lol. Thanks man. If there is ever anything I can help with let me know

...and your wife probably doesn't want to wait 6 months for her dining table.

Lol I yup.

I thought about that but then there will always be a floating joint for water and other junk to get into. Though it sounds like a lot it really is not that dificult to move the whlow thing as one pece

LOL I like it!

SO true. most of them do not sense flesh like hand tools do too.

Exactly. He would never had had his tools gouge out a huge chunk like the router did either. With hand tools you can see your mistakes before they become major problems.

Or, you could just tighten the bit properly to start with.

Jason Bye lol in this case I did, but the cheap collit worked lose twice on it.

Cheap power tools let you make mistakes even faster. They really cut down on time wasted on perfection.

it will be fun for sure to put together.

Lol I thought about it. We will see.

Wood By Wright hey, you never know. That table could go on for hundreds of years with a story built into it.

I absolutely agree with TheMayflowerPilgrim -- everything from objets d'art to a kid's first favorite toy (uh, maybe not the drool stained SpongeBob SquarePants...) could be the genesis of family stories and memories. Go for it! Clyde

LOL my pleasure

the table is for me. my wife likes it but it is my table.

oh ya. still got to come in with the hand tools to do a lot of clean up.

not Dutch. just love them for the shop. I wear them every day.

I will be doing a bit of both. the underside will be left fairly uneven but will be flattened where the table connects.

OH NO FUN! This one was air dried. from Matt Cremona's back yard.

The wood is stiffenough that it won't sag much. All you have to do is make sure the outside rails are coplanar to each other.

LOL I like that definition!

interesting idea might have to experiment with it! thanks!

Wood By Wright. It has been helpful for me. I use kids sidewalk chalk to get a couple colors. For me the color red points out areas not to touch at this time, yellow is areas that need attention and green are areas that a good.

Thanks. Is it your plugs are in my ears.

LOL that would be fun!

You could but it would probably be easier to just use winding sticks and a straightedge to find the highspots. And I don't know if you would want to use a sander as most slabs are out of flat by more than a quarter inch.

It all depends on how much material you have to work with. And a perfect world you would plan everything down to the lowest point on both sides and that would give you your final thickness but in reality a lot of times people want something that's a little bit thicker than that and so they live with a table top that isn't quite perfectly flat. On my top there's actually a bit of a twist from corner to corner making it a quarter inch different from one corner all the way to the other corner but over such a large distance no one can tell.

You need to take off about another 100th of an inch. I would probably say a card scraper would be the fastest way. And then go back through the sanding.

thanks man. I thought about that. it would be fun. I also thought about encasing some old tool. I think my wife just wants clear though.

it all depends on you and what you want. splitting in half saves wood but then you may have to live with that seam when it is done.

it is a fairly straight shot up the stairs to the dining room. with a few friends, it will go smoothly.

it crossed my mind but I really like the live edge. It makes everything that much more fun.

That would be a pain to rase the slab that often. It takes almost as long to shim up the slab as it does to run it

Couldn't we shim the board to the final position by setting the rails there? The plane could go freehand over the rails, what would matter is that it does not go under the rails.

There might be a way to sling the plane under neeth, but it would be an interesting rig. And you do not always know where finished is tell you get close. It would be interesting to figure out.

sure. here is flattening a twisted bench. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a5mXmZyU1NmRpmQ.html and here is flattening lumber. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qZ9_Y9eJz7G5aY0.html

@@WoodByWright thanks so much!

It is actually slower. I tried that. You have to spend more time ajusting up and down.

I feel like I've been issued a challenge!

Nice! Now that is a deal?

LOL nice man!

LOL yup!

LOL thnaks Bill!

that is a possibility, but often takes more work then just flattening it as you still have to flatten it. if you are really worried about thickness that would be a great option though.

@@WoodByWright With and hand saw yes. But since you have some cracks to fill with epoxy that would only be on more. Also, the slab would remain thicker this way.

it would seam that way but do to how little it takes off it is actually not. plus it would take a lot more to make a sled to fit the power plane and keep it flat. I have made those in the past and they generally take far more time if you are taking off more then 1/8"

It was the cheapest one at Menards. But you can get them at Harbor freight.

@@WoodByWright thank you very much

you and me both. it will be fun!

I eventually want to start a second channel for hybrid woodworking we will see.

lol sounds about right!

LOL that sounds like fun!

yup. I had a blast the couple times I got to help Matt build that beast. so cool. this slab was actually cut before that. But still a chain saw. I do have some lumber I have milled with a pit saw. that is a ton of fun!

Impressive. Is a pit saw what I saw in Kenya with a man above and man below?

yup. it can be surprisingly fast, but no way near a band saw or even a chain saw.

Lol I need to find a hand crank camera.

LOL thnaks!