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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.

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.

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!!!

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

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!!

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!

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

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'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.

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

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

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!!

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

Настоящий мужик, с умной,думающей головой и золотыми руками. И наличие отменного инструмента делают удивительные вещи. Искреннее уважение.

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Все нормально , но от таких названий уже тошнит

This is my favorite woodworking video! Genius!

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

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

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Who else was curious what the finished product looked like?

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.

Wow, I didn't even know what it was until 110% of the way through the video. Brilliant.

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

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

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!

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

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

This is life changing video... This secret is revealed how to curiously waste the time

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

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!

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

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

Oh ! Wow Very cool !

In Russia we call this tool "conductor". A month ago I bought one for like $40, and it can do everything that the one in the video, but also supports drills of three sizes.

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'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.

Just one question. What do you do for different sizes of doweling as this tool (which is awesome) appears to be built for one size and one size only?

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.

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.

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

Good workshop 😊

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.

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

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

A better title would be "Doweling Jig" In a year when I do a search I won't remember "I regret that I did not ..... ". But I will remember it was a doweling jig and will never find it. It is pretty cool.

Ok...I got to admit, I skipped to the end to find out what the tool is used for..... AMAZING.... then returned to watch all the way through.. Good job. 👍

Your jig is designed very much like the one I purchased from JessEm that I paid $160 bucks for. Nice work. Also, that homemade router table is incredible. Mark Nicholson Former, US Army - EFMB, Combat Medical Specialist 1/94 FA MLRS

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 !

Well made. Handy tool. Good job. BUT...I made mention in a post just before I watched this video and sometimes its worth the $5 to avoid the time making a tool. I have a lifetime of tools collected and still make a tool every few weeks to 1. Help my hands which aren't doing well after 3 broken necks and 2. Continue my trash-art to keep sane during my forced retirement and last few years on the planet. I did actually buy a tool that does this exact thing for $5 plus some change and shipping. I wont say where as I don't endorse companies...only people like you. So, for me, buying was a good choice. For those who live making tools as much as making things with them...this is one of the better ones I've seen lately. I noticed your bench appears to have a few other very well done features im sure you made as well. I will be watching more of your videos. You do good work.

Super clever. Wards used to sell a similar device which I used for years until the drill, it fit on, finally gave out and someone chucked the drill, with the device, instead of taking off the device to use with a new drill. It wasn't as versatile as yours but it did everything I needed to fix things around the house and build furniture. I haven't seen a similar one since. After saying that I checked Amazon again (it's been a few years since I last looked) and they have a similar one, to my old one, for sale. It's now in my cart lol.

Loved it. The world's shortest version of Waiting for Godot.

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

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

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!

The tool he made wasn't the one in the thumbnail.

Мужчина, Мастер с золотыми руками. Уважение !!!

Just came across the link for the video on thingiverse (of all places). I have to say... THIS IS FREAKING AWESOME. My Saturday project is set, looking forward to building this as I have some cabinets for the shop upgrade that this jig will make soooooo much easier.

it's the narration that made that clip so awesome.

Is this like click bait or something? What's the castor on the block of wood for?

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

Holy cow! That was amazing to watch…. Kept asking myself what is it…. Now I want one!!

I scrolled to the end of the video to learn what you were making and regret that you did not show that earlier.

What about the castor wheel shown in the thumbnail?

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

thats some real clickbait right there