As a magician I showed this trick to an audience, but they all left the hall before one hour was over. I thought it was good.

If you squeeze both sides, they will match in size when you re-hydrate them.

01:46 ”This will soften your wood...” Noooo

Jump ahead 10 years later when the boy is grown up. Dad comes home to find a tree through the garage. The boy smiles and says, "and you said it couldn't be done".

The secret is you put the paddle through the hole while it is still young and growing and after 3 years you can show it to people and surprise them.

I assumed either the paddle or the canoe were made in two parts skilfully joined....this is much more satisfying.

Just as impressive is the fact that he still has all of his fingers.

I've been watching too many weird math videos so I thought this was going to be a demonstration of how to get a paddle shape through a canoe shape. Honestly this is way cooler

This was great! LOVE the soundtrack, too.

That's pretty cool man. Subscribed! Thanks for sharing and not going on and on for an hour like alot of people do. Straight to the point with no wasted time.

Wood is light weight because it is porous, making it squeezable. That “secret” is the foundation for all these “impossible” puzzles.

This is great. Wonderful gift idea. Thank you!

Imagine one time a famous puzzle company makes something like this that’s literally impossible to solve

“This will soften your wood” cue 70’s adult film music. 😬😬

Made it and it turned out great. Just used old pine scraps. Thanks!

When you said the word "Puzzle" and "Geddit" my wife and nineteen children haven't ceased laughing. What a great mirth maker you are.

As soon as I saw the vid, I went to go make it. The paddle is in the vise right now. But I made a walnut ring to put it through. Thanks for the cool vid!

Very cool. I see a project in my future. Thank you.

Honestly thought he was going to carve a single piece of wood into the canoe and oar shape.

Dubstep music is righteous. Good for you for making your own. I want to.

"They've always puzzled me. Hah, get it? PUZZLED?????????" Good one, Dad.

" You need to boil your wood for 10-15 minutes and this will soften your wood" Ya Permanently lmao

Hell yeah..all this softening and hydrating wood in one video....In a 4 minute video....yezzir I will subscribe

You crafty rascal you! That is pretty cool 🤘🏼

This helped me out so much thanks

Muito bom, obrigado! Robertson (Brasil)

I agree with Alex....that was pretty cool

I actually assumed it would be something involving water but I thought ”nah, no way it could be that, wood can’t expand THAT MUCH after being squished so hard!” Turns out it can, pretty impressive

My guess was that before watching the video I was thinking the boat in the paddle war one solid piece at first and you carved each part out and then you carved a hole in the canoe where the paddle would be going through to make them into two separate pieces I really wasn’t guessing that you soaked the wood and squeezed it down to a smaller size

"and then you have to say: "yeah, cause i gave up", ok?"

I knew how this was done yet I still watched the whole video 🤣 love it.

“Boiling it for 10-15 mins” guaranteed way to soften any wood

Paddlin' the school canoe? Oh, you better believe that's a paddlin'

Rather than find fault I thought it was well worth watching..nice work boys 👍

That’s pretty dope!

Actually pretty cool, gonna have to make it for my kids!

My boys and I just bought a canoe. I will make this for them and put the date on it to remeber our first trip.

Cool. I saw a video once on how this guy creates these thick, curved wooden beams, for use in ship making, horse carts (I think) and buildings. It was a similar process; take a thick wooden beam, steam it for like a day so its totally waterlogged using this big steamer and then they would put it in a special vice to slowly bend the beam into shape, before leaving it to dry out for several days. After it dries it gets stuck in the new bended shape.

I am a sucker for this type of stuff....I would have never guessed you boil it I just had to subscribe :)

Honestly when he first pulled out the drill and was just starting to drill the guide while holding it in his hand I screamed NO and woke up my cat!

So... I boil the coin for 1 hour and it will soften, then I shrink it in a vice and hey presto, it will fit inside the solid walnut cube. Or... I could freeze the coin to -150⁰C and it will expand inside...

Good video. Thanks

All I heard was "for about 10 to 15 mins this will soften your wood"😂

Impressive😉👍💛

Could also make a good penguin using this idea :)

I've always wondered how to soften my wood ;)

Isn't the blade guide on a handsaw supposed to be lowered to just above the work? Might save a finger or two.. and would be more precise?

what's the piano music at 2:28? and cool video of course, neat idea

That was pretty cool indeed

I boiled the quarter to do the same trick ! It worked wonders !

Can't we just show pictures of Rosie O'Donnell? That's always been effective at softening my wood.

Pretty slick

Same method as the nail through the 2 inner pieces of wood. In that one he just soaked the wood, squashed in the vice, and left the wood return to full size as it dried.

I already knew the trick, but I enjoy watching things made with boiled or fire hardent wood.

This reminds me that my splitting maul is ready to use.

That was my immediate thought was that you'd have to make the wood soft, then for a moment when you started the saw, I wondered if there was any way to make it from 1 piece of wood.

A couple fun little projects.

I loved your video! I hope you didn’t have that intro music playing while you were cutting the wood it had my hands moving, you could lose a finger Oof

Cool trick. That band saw scared me. I never leave more open blade than necessary.

Science! Wait, I mean Magic! Lol! That was cool. Thanks!

Man, you need to do something about that janky band saw. You need a new belt or possibly new tires or something. It shouldn't be vibrating that! I made the canoe and paddle, pretty cool. I tried the cube thing too, but after hours of boiling I couldn't get the quarter to soften up at all!

How long do you have to boil the quarter to get it into the cube?

Anyone else think he was gonna carve the puzzle out of one block of wood? Also, would the linseed oil prevent you from repeating it--the oil preventing water from soaking into the wood? And what of the quarter puzzle?

So what type of wood was the one that was the best for boiling?

If you added wooden wheels to it and lowered it so the paddle reaches the 'floor' and clacks around as you roll it, you could make a pretty nice little toy here.

Ah, linseed oil. Brings back memories of using it on cricket bats. Cricket 🏏

i liked this

First thought that went though my mind was do we have access to water to do this? That was the only explanation. The paddle started out thinner then retained all the to swell up.

Man defying physics here. Also, yes please, soften my wood.

great video. thanks. how did they do the quarter in the wood. do they stretch the wood or shrink the quarter? how would one do that?

Man's intro music is from that mobile sniper game....

1:45 "this will soften your wood" Why am I watching this at 1pm

Its all about the type of wood, the grain direction and hot water and a vice

I see a smart, young, future carpenter!

wutup Alex, man i bet he grown now lol

Lol the classic music I feel like imma bout to make an overwatch compilation

Is the kid prophetic? Maybe a video on that. Fun stuff.

What type wood is the paddle? Cool video,love your work ❤️👍

Band saw guide should be 1/4 in above wood.

So how do you keep the water boiling while the wood dries for several days?

Have you ever heard of the disappearing elf puzzle? Called a few different names but I’d like to see a 3D version of it made

These comments about wood 😑 I enjoyed the video, I don't do handy work but this was so satisfying to watch and I learned something new about the properties of wood, thank you for sharing!

We call it the shrink fit. As in an all size swimming costume for winter swims 😂

A guy in Birmingham, AL, makes arrows through glass bottles this same way. He said it came to him from an old scout book.

Cool.👍

Right. So what are you going to use it for?

Usually a cold shower softens my wood.

I widdle mine out of a single block of wood but hey your trick works too

You could possibly make both pieces with one piece of wood and keep them interlocked the whole time. If you did this approach but with completely different kinds of wood, it could remove the previous possibility from the mind of the viewer.

1:40 - yknow, Usually when things get 'hot n wet', Soft Wood is the exact OPPOSITE of what i end up with :-P

"aaah... no." perfect delivery

Why not just clamp the entire paddle in the vice then it will reshape uniform when immeressed in the water the second time👍I like this trick...btw because of the shape of the paddle it determines the the boat as a kayak...a canoe uses a single end paddle whereas a kayak uses a paddle on both ends of the shaft...I do a bit of kayaking...so this is cool for me👌

Woah!!! When dude shows the wood boiling and the funky music starts.. I realized, he was totally using huslter magazine BONUS DVD music!)

The upper blade support on your band saw should be no more than a quarter of an inch from the piece being cut. Just a safety note.

Like the projects, but I do have issue on the improper use of the band saw. The upper guide needs to come down closer to the wood to keep the blade from twisting.

I don’t really need this information but this still beats tiktoks 100 - 0

Think you should sell it to the history channel as ancient alien technology.

Excelente, me puede compartir las medidas? Por favor, gracias.

I thought that it would be piece of wood and it was cut into the shape so the paddle would be there but I never thought about that water trick

Would this also work with a kayak? ;)