My wife and I love your channel. We know that you are not a woodworker who is a Dad. You are a great Dad that does woodworking. Thank you.

very touching scene of you working with your daughters. I built a little boat with my son when he was 7 or 8. The boat was nothing special, we only took it out once, but the memory of doing it with him is something I am sure that we'll both remember for the rest of our live. He's 24 now and I hope some day he'll build something with his kids.

"this is why we spend time together, for moments like this" amen

after watching many corkniffing woodworking youtubers with all the fancy woodpeckers and festool toys while they press buttons on a cnc half the time, its great to see theres actually a few channels that actually show the blue collar woodworker struggles. that being said, i wont get too made once your channel blows up and you get all those fancy tools lol

The best part of this project is the memories you and your daughters will always cherish. I have pictures of my son pounding on 10 inch stakes on a retaining wall "we" built when he was 3. The extra time that my helper cost me were well worth the memories we both have of working on it together.

10-15 years sounds like a long time... but it goes past so quickly, spending time with the kids & later the grand kids is more precious than anything else in the world...Keep creating memories❤ & things from your workshop.

I too suffer from the dilemma of formerly being 20 and thinking I still am.

This channel is always so much fun to watch. Love the girls being involved. We raised two, so I know how it is. I've been remodeling our entire house for the last 3 years, including a new roof. I'm dying to turn my attention to my workshop, but don't have time yet. I've watched a lot videos on benches to get ideas on how I want to build it. Not one of the great workshops came up with the brilliant idea the worst workshop did. Making an extending apron from an old garage door track is freaking ingenious!

I sketched up some plans for a workbench of my own that combines some elements of a few different types of well estalished bench designs, and I was pretty proud of it. I even reached out to a realtively well known wood worker on here for their thoughts, where I was met with "nice try, but don't mess around with the classics." This video is all I needed to realize that there isn't one person out there who has all the answers and that my bench is going to come out great. Well done, man!

I love the family connection you have and the appreciation for those moments with your kids, and love the velveta humor.

Love the extending apron idea. Even more, I love your comments about time with your daughters. So true. People talk about quality time vs quantity time but it's the quantity time that leads to the quality times. I have memories about working with my sons. They're grown now and tell me about significant moments that they remember that I either didn't make note of myself or have forgotten. Good job, Dad!

Absolutely great video seeing your girls out there helping you making them memories the workbench turned out great. Glad you are doing ok 🙏🏻🙏🏻

You are one of my KZfaq faves. I have two daughters as well, strikingly similar to yours. I joke with them like you joke with yours, and drag them into my projects every now and then. Thanks for keeping it real. Your common sense approach to problem solving is inspiring.

Your helpers are the best.

I love the bench! Especially the expanding section. Awsome combination of multiple designs.

This is the first of your videos I've watched ,and I have to say I really like your style of presentation. It was really enjoyable. I'm going to subscribe now and hope to watch many more enjoyable videos from you.

Love the way you made the workbench to suit your personal needs instead of conforming to "rules". I am quite tall so my workbench looks crazy to most people. Also great to see you sharing the work with your family.

your "rule of thumb joke" coupled with the "please dont unsubscribe" remark is exactly why I just subscribed! lol im here for those kinds of jokes!

The expandable apron is ingenious! You can use it to support sheet goods while ripping them down without damaging the tabletop! You must have felt really proud when your daughter decided to stay and learn how to make a mortice. Even if nothing else comes of it, it was a great bonding moment.

Love the table; extension skirt-thingy is a really good idea. Also, I love how you interact with, include, and involve your daughters.

Keep the Vids coming ! As a father of 2 Daughters I can relate (although they never took to woodworking, they certainly take advantage of my wood working!) ... I love how real your videos are. Cheers!

Workbench turned out a treat! Really well done.

Great workbench, thanks for the video. I have been wanting to build a new bench top with dog holes for a while now. Watched a bunch of other videos and everyone makes it seem like you have to be so precise and use expensive templates and jigs. It was great to see you did it with a homemade jig and weren’t worried about being that precise.

Another great video! I was really happy to see your co-stars come out to help. I've been needing to build a work bench for my shop for quite a while now, but I keep putting it off, okay procrastinating doing it. I keep telling myself that I need to build a new miter saw station, especially one that doesn't have 5 different saws (ranging from chop saws to radial arm saws, and finally a real miter saw) in the middle of the way and actually has a recess that fits my good miter saw. I also need to build an outfeed table for the table saw. Anyway, you gave me some great ideas, and I really appreciate your innovation and ability to think outside the box to make things work. I hope everything is wonderful with you and your family. Please take care and have an amazing week.

Was great seeing your kids in the shop with you. Time well spent! Wish more channels did this.

Having your daughters work with you on this project was so nice to see. Reminded me of when my daughter and I worked together on Habitat for Humanity homes.

I’m impressed. That is an awesome bench. I like your creativity and I want to build one of these now. 😊

Great dad jokes and good editing. Cool ideas for a very functional workbench.

Great bench!!! the extending apron is brilliant! Rule of Thumb and Boring... Nicely delivered sir! And as always, great times in the shop making memories with your daughters! Us Girl Dads rule!😀

Love it! The family stuff hits home for me. Great video, and bench. I bet you're going to love having that space and the vices in the shop!

I don't think i was going to like a random video that shows up in the middle of my tech videos, i'm not a woodworker anymore due to my horrible vision at 55, did just get a cornea transplant that still has 16 stitches in my eye, mixed about that right now. But you're easy to listen too, and with a couple girls of my own, much older, if you can get them at that age to help you must be doing something right, so i like this video. I have several work benches i have built. Good work.

Moments like this made me smile. . . Never forget these afternoons

Already built my bench (Rex Kreuger plans) but had to watch. I'm very happy with my bench but the techniques I learned from you are invaluable. Awesome video and even more awesome family. Nothing like dad jokes from a real dad ... I know because MY son's deadpan reactions to mine are priceless.

Wow, the expandable idea was genius! I may try something like that on my Sjoberg. Good video my man 👍

Great build! Excellent idea of using a standing table for an outfeed table, going to have to pick one up.

Love the bench! You have some great memories and quality time spent with your daughters, I definitely think they will tell that story someday! I like the way you explain things and enjoyed this video very much so I subscribed! Looking forward to more!

Love your videos. Another great one. Keep up the amazing work!

Well that was entertaining as all heck my friend! From that router sled you just threw together, your cool drum sander, awesome choice of music at 15:40 and especially you working with your daughters making those forever memories. Looking forward to more of your channel and your whimsical spirit! Way to go!

Sir, you are an artist, thank you.

Excellent video! I’ve been wood working most of my life but I still learned a few things from your video. Just a lot of good information!!

Great to see you posting again!!❤

Great video, great build and great message! Also I gotta say I love the line where you say "and this is where we run into the 1st challenge" after we just got done watching you hoist a 80 lb bench top into your planer to find out it don't fit. 😂

Great video as always! I love the extension you added to the bench, that is so handy and a great idea!

Nice job, the appron was great idea. Glad your feeling better.

Great video, David! Impressive numbers after only 3 days! I just noticed your smiley face on the wall at the end of the vid... tee hee. You must be so proud of your new workbench. What a memory for you and your girls!

stunning bench bud. Really nice. Innovative idea with the extension too. Wish I had seen this before adding my near useless wings lol.

The apron is brilliant! Well done.

First video of yours I've seen and you have a subscriber!!! Corny jokes check, modest guy doing new things check! Keep up the good work!! Built my bench last year and feel similar...joy to make and hope it goes through generations!!! Well done!!!!

That was a great video! And so smart to use a flexispot stand for adjustable heights!

My first view. You're a natural. Your girls are also naturals. They wouldn't be in the shop if you guys didn't love each other.New subscriber.

I really like the sliding apron. I am thinking of how to incorporate one for my outfeed table.

Another great video and project. I really like the extending arm. I can think of lots of things that it will be useful for. - Chris

Been awhile since a cool, new woodworking channel was recommended.. diggin’ it!

Another great build man. Love the expandable section of the table 🤟

Really excellent work, dude! The bench turned out fantastic! 😃 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

This channel is awesome! Keep it up! I hope to one day finish my work bench to also have a flat top and dog holes...

The sliding apron is a work of pure genius...I'm adding that to my new bench plans....and I'm also doing the same on the opposite side with the addition of two bench screws to make the mother of all vises!

It’s nice to see someone showing the next generation it’s ok to work with your hands.

Great video David! I love the wingnut trick!

Excellent job, you will remember that day with Princess every time you have a moment of reflection and will smile every time a bit of frustration sets in. I’m planning to do something similar sans “tool well” but need it to breakdown because I’ll mostly be working outside or is a quonset hut style shelter. Really like your vice solution and and saved the video just for that tip when I build mine.

I am watching your videos nearly since your beginning and i keep on for more. Really cool workbench right there. I hope my two daughters will help me when they get to the age of yours. Best regards from germany 😊😊

Very much enjoyed your video. Nice job

Love your channel! Its real!

Love these videos. My daughter has just started to show minor interest in doing some projects with me (shes 5) Time for me to get the workshop sorted!

Awesome workbench you guys made here! Great video, and your voice-over/story telling is just great, so nice to listen to. 16:00 this is such a clever idea! I made the Paul Sellers Plywood workbench for my shop, but in the future I might transform it into something similar to yours!

Great stuff!

I thought you were going to incorporate the lift table into half of your bench. I dig what you came up with. I’m doing some mental design for an outfeed/side wing table for my old Delta contractors table saw right now. I think I’ve got it figured out I just have to get the garage cleaned up so I have room to build it and record the process. I’ll probably get it done in a couple of weeks or so.

That patreon video was awesome!!!

Great video. You're gilrs are awesome.

Man I love the channel huge inspiration boss love the family time too

Interesting bench build; love the had; I have a couple of dollies in my world too. Nothing better than daddy-daughter time.

Great video as always mate. I've just finished my work bench so pity u didn't get onto this earlier, could of saved me some pain haha!

A member of the sliver haired club here; I’m enjoying this video. Getting my12 year old or wife to help me requires an act of congress. And yes, I am still 20 (35 years ago).

That anaesthesia video is a great way to advertise your patreon!

+1 subscriber, just for you having gotten your daughters to help with the commercial 😂. great woodworking too. back when i started, i made my own bench too, because they don't make them for people my size! its also a cross between a nickelson, a rubou, and a joiners bench, with a European and American twist or two.

Absolutely loved this video. You had me laughing with some of your comments. Keep up the good work! (P.S. And I did learn a thing or two.)

Best video yet! Thoroughly enjoyed it and will definitely steal some ideas for my own bench! Thought I was the only one still using a corded drill 😂

Great video love the humor & family time, New subscriber here

The corded drill joke was awesome. I had a project where my cordless drill wouldn’t do it. I got the most inexpensive name brand corded drill I could find at a local ACE (Black and Decker). About broke my wrist with the torque it generated. So yea, a corded drill does come in handy.

Always like the kids involved here.

Thanks!

Just found your channel. Very nice video. Subbed. Great job!

I thought I was the only one wide hand tool workbench that I could also use break do plywood 👍🏾💯

Again a fun watch! good job and it looks like you are getting some views too! awesome

Its awesome you can do woodworking with your kids. So cool man. It defintiely ahould continue ro be passed down.

That bench looks solid. It'll do the business.

Nice video buddy! 👍

Well dang man..... You beat me to it. Must be workbench season 🤔🤔

Watching you try to load 2 slabs in the planer was pricless! Great vid

Your dark haired dancing daughter always cracks me up. Keep up the great work!

Thank you for all your time and effort. 1in7

Thanks for sharing the update on your absence I was wondering if that holding chair actually killed you 😆 But in all seriousness glad everything is OK 👍

Ah man! In your after surgery video, I was hoping for a Near Death Experience testimonial. Jokes are cool. That's why I watch your videos. Love & hugs..

Great working wood bench, built with pride and with ur Kid's. They should be using the wood bench with their Kid's.

My wife: you okay honey? Me: yep.. just tearing up at this extremely wholesome workbench build

besides screwguns everything in my shop has a cord, you don't miss what you don't have and I'm like cool hand Luke lassoing them around

New sub here hello from down under am mainly using pallet wood HT only to create furniture in my workshop , great upload indeed. Great 2 see you getting the youngens involved my son and daughter are now in their thirties, yep grey beard here , hello from down under. And yes I was also 20 years old once same lol, planers not tall enough , I use the bottom rail as a foot rest, working with the things I build , I stopped a long time ago finding faults which probably I could only see , am not a wood craftsmen, people say that's amazing whether it be or not I agree doesn't matter , I built it and spent time in my workshop creating the end result, that end result I learnt from and more than happy with the finished thingy what other think of it problem belongem they. @ 14:11 its a cord classis indeed. Nice build I live remote rural off grid here lucky I have not the largest workshop but enough room for everything can swing a cat in it , not that I would but I digress have been told I do so, will share a story was in my workshop one morning and I felt a bump against my butt , turned 2 look and it was one of the kangaroos from the local pod that had come in through the door mooching for food as they do. Don't know why I added that but yes if one can have that type of trust given with a wild animal must be doing something right me thinks. May I add the old fella was on his last legs and chose to come 2 the workshop and lie down and pass knew he was safe there , I had animal welfare come an euthanize him , guess that was self disclosure can see the same thing in you , good people like you and your family are getting harder 2 find. As I mentioned before I digress I do such thingy's. Wont say sorry I tend 2 turn comments into minor blog posts its a wordsmith thingy.

Your videos are a joy. Though not as quotable as "The Princess Bride" or "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" several of your comments made me laugh. Now I'll just have to rewatch so I can remember them 🙂

Great video!! Wry entertaining and informative!! On another note, it was great netting you Thursday night!! If you need anything from Rockler, let me know!!

When are you doing a video on "How to make a homemade drum sander"? Ok now that the comment to help your engagement numbers is done: Love the video 😍