Excellent video!! thank you so much for this invaluable info, you did a great job of explaining 8 months of info into about 8 minutes.

Once again, thank you Shawn for more woodworking gold.

Just before Sunday Lunch with Friends...darn! Will have to wait till everyone goes home...Great to see you back...cheers from Normandy,...rr

Another great comparison of hand tools vs machine. Thanks.

You are a great teacher. Thanks

Nice discussion of the knowledge difference needed for differing approaches to a very similar project. Great video.

Really a lot of interesting thoughts. And I really appreciate you share with us!

These are great points! With all the technology people often times under estimate hand tools and over estimate technology.

A lot to think about with that CNC. I’m a retired programmer, so not intimidated. The issue for me is entry cost. Back to the lathe for me. 😊. Great vid. THANKS 👍

Excellent video! My previous career was in the quilting world. When machine quilting came along there was quite an uproar that it was cheating. Until the general quilting world understood that there's great skill involved. Now of course, few people hand quilt. And the long arm quilting machine business is where the growth is in the industry. Also, because quilters finish more quilts more fabric etc. is sold. Now that I'm making cuckoo clocks here in the US (was designing and importing them from Germany) I'm at that conundrum of hand carving versus CNC. I took a clock with birds carved by a world champion bird carver to a Wild Birds Unlimited trade show. Not one shop owner commented on the birds being hand carved. Didn't matter to them. Quite a surprise!

I really have to commend you on your patience and attention to details...You've created a fan and hit the like button and subscribed as well. I've learned a great deal from your videos and keep them in folder for reference material. I appreciated the passion and your philosophies that guide you in teaching us. - Much respect to you sir!!

Thanks for another nice content, i really learned a lot from your videos. I wanted to do woodworking but dont really have any experience whatsoever, also dont have a huge collection of tools. You made woodworking looked like soo easy😀

Great as usual. Thanks.

Good points made.

AVE just did a video about the learning curve. He explains it really well also

Very good! Thanks

You can always switch bits for different parts. Also if you wanted to b real fine on a special piece you can rough out with the CNC and follow up with knives/gouges. I just got a CNC (used) and I also have a laser engraver. I plan on experimenting with combining tools and techniques as well as using nitrogen or CO2 to prevent burning.

So what speeds and feeds worked best for you with carbide 90 degree bit? Thanks for the new video.

In 1969 our typing class only had manual(we didn't turn on or off) typewriters and you had to "throw" the carriage back with the lever to start a new line, lol. But, comptuter stupid I can still type 65 words per minute...Great video Shawn(lunch over)...rr

It's Funny to say we had to learn how to turn on the computer but you're right. I remember using a Mac for the first time and trying to find the button to eject the floppy drive (only clouds back then were in the sky) and going through the same process of "Why would I put the floppy in the trash can, doesn't that erase the info?" In the end i had to ask the girl beside me how do I do it. lol

Have you tried dampening the wood with water before machining to help with tear out

That double v at the bottom issue. Did you have a stop depth set for that tool used for the name font, when it may not have been needed? Not allowing the v bit to go deep enough to properly clean up the bottom of the v? Or, Vectric Aspire has a v tool correction tool for adjusting this issue. Because the v bit is not truley 60 degrees. In newer versions than what I have, I think.

To fix the burning issue you could slow the rpm down or speed up the feed rate and if neither of those is possible run a multipass as the tip doesn't have a lot to cut but the deeper you go the more material the bit has to remove and as the bit gets wider the speed the cutting edge is moving at increases greatly. Hope this helps

Have you considered changing the bits for different parts of the CNC work?

My kids is in a Waldorf school so they get woodworking from 6th-8th which means they get to know how to use hand tools more than what I am showing them.

Watched your video and thought it was great. Two questions: First - what CNC machine are you using and what is it's maximum dimensions of the work piece L X W? I do chip carving by hand and my largest work is a lazy susan 18" in dia. Second - I use Corel Draw to generate vector diagrams. Corel Draw works with bit maps as well as vectors. Would it work on the CNC machine or do I need to acquire "Aspire"? Will any application that has vector capability work with a CNC machine?

Shawn, I would like to buy a bodark mallet but they are "out of stock". When will they be "not out of stock"?

Where have you been? Since long time you hav'nt show

Don't read this if you alredy know but you can convert pictures to vectors in aspire. Its the bird button.

making the first of a production run. In most cases takes a tremendous amount of time compared to a single hand made item. The difference is not only that. Every hand made item is unique even when copied. That's why experts can detect forgeries. A mass produced item is just the same as the next item and in most cases is not unique and when copied with enough knowledge of the programing involved in the production of the first one, is not unique and in most cases can't be differentiated from the original. While most of us can't afford "originals". There will always be those willing to pay for one.

Next we CNC a tiny house

I really like your videos, but please consider getting a better (clip on) microphone. It will significantly increase audio quality and reduce background noise. Wireless one will not get in the way when you work. Check out ElectroBOOM's video "Quality Audio Recording for Video", he explained it completely, and in "Video Recording with Rode Shotgun and Wireless Lavalier Microphones" he demonstrates two of the best solutions

It's not that the hand tool one take more skills. I will agree that the skills are different. However the hand carved one is truly one of a kind. It is very unlikely that two hand carved pieces are going to have the exact same cuts and tool marks. In the CNC it is not a one of a kind, sure the grain is going to slight variations from piece to piece but the cuts and tool marks are not really going to vary. If you are trying to sell something as a collectible one of a kind piece of art then hand carved is better than CNC. If you are selling production pieces that you are batching out then obviously the CNC is the way to go. If you are making a piece of wall art to show and sell in a fine art gallery there would be higher value placed on hand carved piece of art compared to a CNC carving because the CNC carving could be replicated once you have the design file compared to a hand carving. I only bring this up because personally I am more interested in using wood as a fine art medium rather than doing production woodworking. Undercutting relief carvings for more dramatic shadows is not really done well on a CNC unless you get a 5 axis CNC machine but those would be prohibitively expensive and large for most small shops or woodcarving studios.

what annoys me is when someone calls something handmade when a CNC carved it. Its not handmade just because your hand touched the wood, and you created the design on a computer. That's like calling something made in a production line handmade because at some point, a person's hand touched something.