Mmmm. I used google translate to translate it into English (your English is 1Billion times better than my Estonian), and I found it charming and attractive. Question for you: why do you use a round wedge in your tenons as opposed to a split wedge? It works for your clearly, but every woodworker on KZfaqr outside of you uses a wedge split in their tenons so that it doesnt force the wood/grain apart. The wedge goes in horizontal to the grain so as not to split. Will you explain to me why you use the circular wedge please? Tx

@@LitoGeorge You probably translated my homepage. Yes, sorry I don't have the English version, the multilingual version would have been much more expensive and I couldn't afford it. There are several reasons for using round wedges. Well, first of all, because the probability of splitting the material with a round wedge is much higher with hard wood than with soft wood, and i use soft wood, so I can use round ones. When attaching the legs to the seat plates using my method, only the 12mm end of the round wedge is visible on the surface of the seat. If done with a splitting wedge, the entire diameter of the tenon would be visible (30mm.). If you make, for example, a chair where you can see the ends of 6 tenons on one side, then with a splitting wedge they should all be exactly parallel, but in practice they do not remain parallel, moreover, the splitting wedges tend to slide sideways when gluing, which leaves an incorrect appearance. There is no such problem with round wedges. I guess that's all the reasons.

@@udoaas2466 Thanks Mister Udo, I appreciate your explanation and time. After your explanation, I believe I would like to try use a soft, roundwood wedge in future. Two days ago, I just made my first wedge ever, using a walnut home made wedge on a spalted piece of waste wood (3 legged milking stool). My walnut wasnt wide enough for the mortised hole, so it looks a little......rustic. Thats my excuse anyway. I find your videos a pleasure to watch and will be rewatching quite a number of them to learn from you. Thanks for showing the world the magic you make. Best to you, George

@@ge3029 Thanks George. And congratulations on your first rustic milking bench. We hope that there will be more of them, and still rustic ones. I feel good when somebody find something useful from videos i make.

@@udoaas2466 hello again! I wanted to ask you one further clarification on the round wood wedges. Are the legs (tenon's) fully dried wood (I believe you have said they are alder aged one year?) and are the soft wood wedges fully dried or still green/wet? What species do you use for the round wedge? I would like to try your way. Thank you.

If our grandchildren are more or less the same age, then probably we are more or less the same age as well. Thank you for the good wishes. All the best to you too.

Cảm ơn bạn. Các cháu thật dễ thương.

Thank you for all the things you mentioned. Especially purring, nice word.

Yes, I'm old. I started working in wood when I wasn't old. So I have a lot of practice.

Gracias !!

Obrigada. Da nevada Estônia.

Muito obrigado. Um grande abraço da Estônia.

Drills are pretty ordinary, nothing special. For tenon making i made a machine tool myself a long time ago, i thought it was just a prototype and after that I would do better, i'm still working on it. A little bit of it can be seen here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nuCCacRl0JyZdIU.html at 5:00 I will also try to make a more in-depth video of this self made machine. As soon as I have time.

Hello Enrique form Mexico. In the bath, I use "Teak Oil" to fill any small cracks. In the final finishing coat I use "Danish Oil", based on tung oil.

I try to deviate from nature as little as possible. This also applies to color. I get this color so that I keep the logs outdoors in the sun and rain for at least a year, then they achieve this color. Which means I don't use green wood. And I dry too. However, when drying, I follow the relative humidity as I described in my introductory videos. I think my videos might be tips on how to make this kind of furniture. If you still have any questions, I can answer, if I can. May I ask why you want to make log furniture. To meet a creative need, or do you want to make a living from it?

@@udoaas2466 thanks for the answer and I’ll take a look at your earlier videos. My wife saw a log bed and she’s asked me to make one for our grandchildren so at the moment I’m trying to learn from people like you who already make log furniture. I appreciate your kindness in sharing your skills and knowledge 👍🏻

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Hi, I'm 63 now, so I was 60 in this video.