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If you titled your videos with what you've made, they would become even more useful. So rather than a "Very useful thing" this could be a "Very useful dowel joinery jig". You have great ideas. Keep up the good work.

Who else came here for the caster in the thumbnail?

I’m not a woodworker, but somehow came upon this video. This was more interesting than watching tv! Creativity and skill at their finest. I hope this way of life becomes more widespread.

How many people on earth have that many different tools to turn such an idea into a useful tool? The editing of the video was as good as the craftsmanship of making the tool. Right tempo, right angles, nice distance and no comments did the job. Extremely nice

Very glad you video showed up as a suggestion! Very inspirational and great idea! Thank You Kindly for sharing your ideas! I did machine woodworking for almost 50 years until I became disabled. Living in a small apartment now, I am learning all hand tool woodworking. It's much more of a challenge than machine woodworking, but much more gratifying.

My grandfather was a master designer and toolmaker. I learned a lot from him. This is of his caliber. Thanks for the reminder that creativity is still a thing.

This was great! I'm 64 and just learning to work with wood. This was so satisfying to watch and learn. When I was a teen in high-school girls were not allowed in wood shop. It's only been since I retired from the medical field that I've started building a little shop to create. Please do more like this. I wish there were skilled people willing to offer classes locally for people like me. So much I want to learn to do. Thank you for your creativity.

6.6 million views in 9 months says it all. This is the stuff that brings me to KZfaq. Its title alone “I regret that I did not do it earlier! Very useful thing!” so grammatically composed warranted my curiosity of what “it” was that I had to investigate. In my opinion not this setup, procedure or tooling precision is for every KZfaqr. As an electrical engineer, much of what I “did” was made physical by those who made things real. Over and over the unspoken message of my experience demonstrated the recognition that it’s they who make the tools that make the things who enjoy the most creative craft. Look at the accuracy and speed with which this tool provides the doweling connection! It’s another production multiplier. A thrill to watch. A well crafted video by a master craftsman. Thanks.

I got so many ideas for tools and shop items to build just from watching this video. I mean there were things in there that had me say, why didn't I do that, or think of that. I love these videos, and anything that helps us to be more creative or efficient, even cleaner around the shop. Great job!!!

This is the best version of this type of tool I've seen. So simple to use as well.

My dad was a cabinet maker and made most of his own jigs. This reminds me of him! Your stuff is amazing! I'm into woodworking but no where near the skill level of you and my dad. Keep up the great vids!

Brilliant tool and brilliant method of showing us, perfectly filmed in every aspect. It's a pity others who make "how to do" content, don't use this method of conveying their knowledge. Done quickly with all aspects shown and without a voice over uhming and ahing every step of the way

simplicity . . . precision . . . what more could you ask for - thank you for posting

Thank you for the inspiration to build things in the real world.

This is really cool! I'm just getting into woodworking. Made my first outdoor bench recently. I can really use tips like this. I did makeshift jigs for repetitive steps, but my clamps are really inefficient. Also, I put a table in the middle of my bench but didn't add it until last. I found it hard to get the drill into the space to screw on the table legs. In time I will get better! I like videos like this that get right to the point. Thank you!!

I am past the phase of life that I could use this doweling jig, but this one is obviously very accurate-to the limits of your hand-held drilling technique. This is an ingenious tool for anyone who does more than occasional doweling.

I had no idea what you were making and that made it entertaining. "Oh, it's a jig for dowels," I realized at some point. I really liked it. It was like a little mystery story and without the loud music and talking that ruins so many of these instructionals.

I’ve got to say what a cool tool! I love the “Old School “ way. You could buy a tool that would do the same thing. But if you are a woodworker why buy something you can make your own? And every time you use it you get great satisfaction!

Nice tool that provides perfect outcome for relatively difficult joints. Keeping an eye on this channel!

I have recently been making bits and bobs because I'd rather try my own hand than buy off shelf, made a tidy bin storage shed, made several raised beds and some strawberry planters with old scaffold boards and guttering. I wish I'd done woodwork when I was younger because I may have made a career out of it, its videos like this that make me sit and think, I wonder if I could do something like that, or, yea I need a tool like that in my shed. Your inspiring many people. Thanks.

Very crafty. Loved to watch it be built and definitely well done. One improvement may be a center bearing that's wide, epoxied in, while the two outer ones could change for differing diameters of bits/plugs. Nice work!

Very useful video....👍 Thanks for sharing🙏

WOW! I wish I had all those tools! Had NO idea what he was making but he made it interesting. Not something I'll be doing anytime soon but thanks for posting!

You are a master carpenter... wow, how precise you are and measuring for perfection!!!

Perfect dowels every time.......Amazing bit of kit.

You have that rare gift of invisioning something(anything) in your mind the. The ability to create it exactly!

Man, I didn't know you could do magic in plain sight with just wood. This is amazing.

Wow! Now that was cool! So hard to allow the time and patience to create a useful shop jig before jumping into a new woodworking project. It’s the project before the project! For us occasional woodworkers anyway! Great post!

Wow, this is truly awesome. Over 30 years of woodworking and I've never seen this. Good job.

I’m a carpenter in Boston You are amazing Thank you I look forward to doing this

You are the Michael Angelo of Carpenter's,I love watching every thing you create. Thanks for sharing.

I'll have to keep a jig like this in mind if I ever need to drill edge holes like that. My only improvement would be a way to easily change the hole size so this can be used with different drill bit sizes to help line up holes for different sized dowels or to just line up straight edge holes for other things. Maybe some grommets with a sleeve that matches the inner diameter of the bearings with different sized washers attached for different hole sizes? Or maybe even just take a delrin rod that matches the inner diameter of the bearing, cut it to size, and then just drill centered holes in each bit or rod for each size you'd want? Delrin would probably not hold up too well if you push sideways while drilling, but it's cheap and also slick enough that you should be able to pop it in and out with a tap from a screwdriver without dislodging the bearing, and I would think it would be more likely to give than your drill bit (except for the smallest sizes) and easy enough to replace if you do break it or it wears out. Just a thought. I don't really make anything that needs dowels, anything I ever make is pretty utilitarian and I'll just screw together butt joints like that, but even on sloppy garage shelves it can be a pain to get a straight hole drilled in a board with a cordless drill. That's where I think I would really find use with something like this.

The finished item doesn't appear to have any relationship to the initial photo. I watched it to see something that was never presented.

Great, 12 sec into the video and I'm already learning. Did not realize I could use those groves on the carpenter square and just drag a straight line :-) Thank you.

Dear Men's Craft: My great grandmother was a woodwright, raised in a family of Kentucky coffin makers. Her work was exquisitely displayed in the toy chest she made for my mother. Her first home was an empty church that she, herself purchased, framed and finished, while her husband Joe planted and tended the orange grove. Personally, I built the wooden tables and bookshelves for my first home while I worked and attended college. More women should enjoy woodworking. It's so rewarding in so many ways.

Great job Sir, I'll take 17. Your qualified hours of skill show not only on your beat up and split up finger tips but the speed and finished quality of your work.

I don’t do woodworking but this person has a great knowledge of techniques. Bravo!

very nice idea for mortise and tenon. thought I'm at a lost about the caster wheel on the thumbnail, I thought its for lift and rolling your workbench.

This is my favorite woodworking video! Genius!

You make it look so easy. And that's the sign of a true expert. Nicely done!

I was waiting for the function of the bearings - something to rotate (for which I doubted the strength of the tool). Using bearings just for accurate alignment? Good idea! Looking at the value of something rather than the cost. It may also be the least cost design, considering time. I appreciate all the techniques illustrated. The most important one for me is that all the critical dimensions are fitted and not measured. I also see a great mind that invents something like this.

Read the hateful comments, figured I'd watch in case it was a joke that no one was getting. Instead I saw a guy make a useful jig for dowel placement. I thought it was pretty cool, and certainly successful. Don't understand the hate in the comments. Nice one!

I am amazed at all the cool tools you have to make more cool tools. I get a kick out of watching what you’re making and wondering what it is. At the end I would be surprised and applaud your ingeniousness. I’ll never have the tools or need for most of what you create, but it’s fun to watch. If anyone ever needs a solution to a wood project I’ll know where to point them.

A woman here, sneaking a peak into the world of “Men’s Craft.” You’re very talented and the jig is a great idea - very useful, some might say! So useful that I’d like to know how to make one myself. 😊 I think I could figure it out by watching your video in segments, but a tool and supply list would be very helpful - or even just a supplies list. Also, I’d like to know what the jig with the caster is. Maybe it was clickbait, but it worked…because I have an extra caster and have been wondering what to do with it. This video didn’t help me answer that question, but the caster tool looks cool!!

It would be nice to know what he's making AT THE BEGINNING OF THE VIDEO.

Ignore the haters. It's a nice upgrade to an old idea. The fence and the alignment slot for transferring the dowel positions to the second work piece are a noticeable improvement over the ones sold commercially. I like the ball bearings as a drill bit guide. I might have made the main part out of plywood, or possibly run the grain in the other direction just because the slotted "handle" end could easily break off if you knock it off the bench.

I love it most when there is no need for a narrator that I wish all influencers were like this one, many would learn how immediately to do anything even investing and curing diseases .... thanks for sharing free for me.

Oh damn that's awesome. Been looking for an easy and practical diy dowel jog for years. Thanks!

It would be so cool to have a work shop full of useful tools that you yourself made, but also, for the couple hundred bucks, it's also cool to have a workshop of tools that you bought with the five thousand hours of bonus time you didn't spend making all the tools that were easily purchased and delivered to your door

I don't even know what I just saw, but I'm pretty sure you are a magician!

Thank you pour ce guide de perçage. Travail formidable.

Terrific master carpenter. it reminded me of my father. I am woman and I watched your mastery in awe. Thanks for sharing.

what the heck!?.. I'm so jealous of your mind.. lol this is so cool!

Thank you Dima for posting. I thoroughly enjoyed watching that. You, sir, are a very creative man. Brilliant.

What an excellent tool! Perhaps making it out of transparent acrylic, allowing for visibility, would enhance its functionality. We look forward to seeing that in coming update.

I like many of the others commenting am a woodworker of 40 yrs. I really like this doweling jig made. I to make a lot of my own tools and jigs. But I bought one years ago that allow me to use different sized dowels. But I still enjoy your videos

I've been watching for 23 seconds and you've already taught me why I have such a hard time drawing and cutting straight lines! :-D I love coming up with my own solutions to problems.

Brilliant design for an excellent tool!! I would add an adapter for different size dowels since they would always be centered with your system. Perhaps adding a collection of machined fittings with the same outside dimension as your bearings and various inside dimensions which would accept other drill bits.

If I had a workshop with $30,000 worth of tools, these videos would be so helpful.

I like the hole in your work bench for drilling holes. I usually just hang it over the edge, but I can see it as a jig holder as well. Peace!

This is why I stop watching videos that don’t describe what’s being built in the beginning.

Like a homemade Festool Domino! But I'm still looking for that castor!

Please keep posting this tips of the trade because I am learning so much… Thank you 🙏

I love watching videos like this and trying to predict the function of the tool or device being made. This one had me stumped for quite a while!

Suggestion for improvement: identify what you are making in the description

Amazing! He had just the right thickness of wood to fit 3 bearings, exactly!

What a great idea! Thank you for sharing!

I had no idea what I was watching, and yet captivated beyond words with an inability to turn it off. I loved it! I love wood working, but I don't know if I'll ever reach a 10th of this level. ha ha Excellent video!

Absolutely brilliant and innovative for the man cave. Great editing too.

Hallo Dima du hast echt geniale Ideen👍 und danke das du sie mit uns allen Teilst. Gibt es dazu vielleicht eine Zeichnung-Stückliste wäre echt super

I appreciate the dowel jig, but the proper use of the tool being demonstrated so well was beyond the usefulness of the tool itself! Thank You.

i watched out interested as i couldn't fathom at first what it was. Im not a joiner or carpenter but can see how incredibly easy this makes things. Cool design.

Interesting stuff but too click bait. Tell people what your making upfront.

Great design. Thanks for this. One suggestion would be to go long grain with your main piece. I cringed when you hammered in the steel pins. You obviously used a strong timber.

Spectacular! Ingenious! Thank you for showing us.

Your Router table is great and ingenious. I have a doweling jig similar to yours that I bought. I used it to build a wooden crate to store newspapers. I like your jig much better.

Leaving all of us to figure out what the hell that caster is for.

This is something I've never seen before, the idea and the design are very good, really useful 😊😊👍👍

Wow, that last wood-working tool is good. That designer should make it a commercial product.

Nice, and I also like his strong silent type, no useless yapping he just gets her done...bravo.

Шикарный кондуктор! Жаль с деревом не часто работаю, но на заметку есть что взять!

Spoiler Alert: Caster is clickbait. It’s just a drill center jig

Great gig, also a very good video. Well done. You explained everything without saying a word.

Super prático e eficiente!!!

Who else was curious what the finished product looked like?

Все нормально , но от таких названий уже тошнит

Thank you, very well done! I love wood work, weld TIG, i forget all problems...

Loved your creation! Happy to learn from you.

Как всегда ,приятно смотреть на работу , как всегда шикарная вещь ! Удачи !

Хорошая штука и исполнение !💪💪💪👍

Truly golden hands! Masterly and very aesthetically pleasing!

Your craft is amazing thank you for sharing

Brilliant idea. Very clever 👍

Yep ! I was click bated by the castor too ! However although it seems to be a lot of work to make this somewhat over engineered drill centre , it does serve to brush up the carpentry skills of the DIY woodworker. Traditionally apprentices would make their own jigs and tools to save money whilst it also improved their skills. The China thing had not happened in their day.. Still, a bit of a drag when we expected to see some wonder aid featuring a castor !

Oh yes! Just brilliant. Love your channel. Namaste x

Whole video is very interesting, but how you did the wood knob blow me away for sure I’ll steal your idea! 😃

Absolutely beautiful.

I see how the holes are centered on the first piece -- the two pegs allow for varying thicknesses of wood -- and how the holes are aligned when drilling into the second piece of wood, but how do you insure that the holes are centered on the second piece as well?

You have an amazing shop! What a great video.