great video

I love watching your videos! You are well done!

Neat!!

The great Paul Sellers will tell you that you absolutely should be storing your block plane with the blade down, just as you are doing. And his word is gold.

I have one of those old Stanley smoothing planes, but it may as well be just for show. In 40 years I've never managed to ever get it adjusted right and several years ago I got an electric hand plane or jointer and just use it instead. I always thought the "block" plane was the smallest one...often they look like they use an old razor blade inside them and you could cup them in one hand. Then going up ya had bench, smoothing, jack and jointer planes. And yes, we used them in shop in school but I've never seen any of the rest of them since. I also prefer the Robertson type screwdriver and screws as they don't tend to cam out like phillips and slotted screws do. I grew up with crosscut and rip saws and always despised both of them and as soon as I was able to I got a skilsaw, jigsaw, etc. With handsaws I always invariably managed to jump out of the groove and scar up the board, or, even with a new saw I could bend the blade on the push stroke. I could always use a coping saw well though. And if I had had one, I bet I could have even bent a back saw, lol. I regularly blow out my outlets with compressed air from a 60 gallon compressor, especially since 90% of the outlets in my garage have the face horizontal instead of vertical. My air hose is on a self winding wheel as well mounted high up on my wall. The shop floor was finished with a push broom instead of a trowel. Yeah, it makes it hard to sweep but it also makes it very unlikely that you'll ever slip on it.

Such a beautiful piece of art made from one of the most magnificent trees of American history!

Great tips as a new woodworker I thank you for sharing your knowledge

Little details that make the big difference. 👍

Wow, this is amazing.

Very cool! Its nice to see a thriving mom and pop organization with its roots based in more average prosumer tools.

This is a great PSA, I wouldn't have thought outlets were trapping all of that!

This is why i won't hire someone else for just about anything. Most people are hacks or are only interested in finishing the job to get paid. I deal with "experts", "professionals" and "licensed" contractors all the time professionally and wouldn't trust more then 5% of them with the simplest of task.

Great share, but I fear you might be missing an even bigger danger. I might be wrong and you stuck to the context of this incident for sake of the video, but I can't "click by" at the risk you aren't aware. It's not only a fire hazard, but combustible dust can be explosive if knocked loose into a cloud, either by a large industrial drop / knock or by a previous flame up / explosion. This new cloud can then ignite from the last, or if it's the initial cloud it can simply find an ignition source like that fuse box. All that governs this is that Fuel-Air ratio at the time ignition is met. Fine sawdust is up there with Flour and other dry powders which will absolutely explode if you "puff them up in the air" then light them. Definitely consider the explosive effects of combustible dust which could be knocked down from rafters, roof spaces, behind large / permanent furniture and fixings, even enclosures like AC ducts or anywhere you think an enclosed and forgotten space might exist. This might also suggest the use of caution when cleaning with compressed air, perhaps a fabric bag over the wall to catch the blow-off, with the nozzle tucked under it. And as far as electrical safety goes, consider insulating the tip of that air nozzle or getting a plastic or rubber "nose" for it when going near outlets and fuse / junction boxes, especially if you're putting that bag over it.

You say don't do it by yourself but you also said that you hired a professional to do that box 🤔

Thank ' s for the heads up

Nice piece! How did you decide on the level of the cleat you attached to the slab back? The slab doesn't have straight edges, so I'm wondering how to "level" it when attacheing to the wall. Thanks.

Guess you need a fire/smoke alarm

Yea, but when was that wood whiz payed off, ten-fifteen years ago?

You dodged a bullet, for sure. Thank goodness. Best of luck.

I'm glad your workplace didn't have a big fire.

Scary! Glad you came out well.

“Everything here was done right”. Nope

Glad that your shop was not harmed.

WOW, what a great tip. I am glad it was not as bad as it could have been!

Thank you! Something so easily overlooked...but totally preventable! Glad that's all that happened.

Great tip, It's not what most people would expect in a home or professional shop..

Really great work Dr Berg, the shape, the natural grains, design, every detail you put into this with the time you took to create this master piece, very interesting watching the entire process, this will be a very special usable artwork that will exist in your possession with history and a video on record, also nice seeing you do something different on this occasion.

تحاتي لك دكتور بيريج اتابعك من فترة طويلة وقد غيرة مفاهيمنا اللتي كانت سائدة من قبل ٠ وأطلب منك معلومة واحدة فقط من فظلك٠ وهيا معيار الملح لمخلل ألملفوف ، كم جرام من الملح للكيلو جرام من الملفوف ٠مع تحياتي لك❤ 🎉 كوني لاعرف أستخدم الايمل أو باقي المنصات مع حبي وتقديري لك٠

Love this video. We use a hobbiest sawmill because that is all we can currently afford right now, we have started our business with it and currently have a continuious client every 3 weeks on average. But we work 13 hour shifts on a 2-2-3 job so right now, we are working on establishing and growing to where we can eventually work for ourselves full time.

К сожалению без перевода

Очень красиво получилось! Фактура дерева, красивый каньон! Мастеру - Браво! Доктору Бергу- новых проектов!👍✨

Посмотрела по рекомендации доктора Берга.

This is the America we respect and wish well!🤝

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Yeah I had a circle mill I could cut that board in 30 seconds lol

Круто!!!!!

Супер!!! 👍 Великолепный, восхитительный стол получился для моего любимого доктора Берга! 👏👏👏

Привет из России🤝🏻

Бил супер

I like that you share with the local farmers. We NEED our farmer community.

Yes! You asked to subscribe if we liked what we saw today. I already am subscribed but I also liked what you sawed today. 😊

are you running TK blades?

Hey 👋 I really enjoyed this and I'm well aware of you as I live in Cburg so I know that you also supply Phoenix hardwoods and you have been at this alot of yrs so I look Forward to learning from you as I have a woodworking buisness in the works.

Truth!

One thing that was glossed over was inventory carrying costs. I live in an area with high humidity and the slabs I buy from the mill are often at 35% moisture. Air drying can takes months to a year before that slab is ready for production. I made my reputation quickly where I live because I dont work wet wood. Other guys will gladly start working with 35% moisture and let the customer deal with the warping. I went to a woman's house to build lower kitchen cabinets. The upper cabinets were 3 months old and moisture was seeping from the edges.

I do think there are various dichotomies in the purchase of a piece of furniture. I entirely agree with the sentiments of the presenter; the raw material is not cheap and then you just add cost onto cost. I do remember the days (I’ve been doing this for over 45 years now) when a waney edge slab was remarkably cheaper than square edged. Why. Because everyone wanted square edged and you threw away so much of a waney edge slab to convert it to square edge. Now, the laws of supply and demand have resulted in “unusable” slabs being the most highly prized. There a lot of people who buy brands. It might be cars, watches, jewellery; whatever. And yet, their Rolex watch tells exactly the same time as does mine. Their Porsche gets them from A to B; but so does my cheap car. And yet, the mystic of a brand is such that people will pay many multiples. When it comes to furniture, very few apply the same kind of logic. They want a unique piece; a piece that they can gaze at and admire for years; a unique piece which will impress friends and neighbours. However, for some reason, many people will not look at the materials used and cost them; they will not look at the skills and experiences required to make them; they will not understand the costs of the equipment required. So, again for some reason, that lady wearing diamonds (and not paste), with a Rolex on her wrist (not Timex) wearing a high end dress (not jogging bottoms) will not accept the hypocrisy when she criticises the cost of that table. I don’t think there is a way to resolve this. One of our sons is a joiner and he has learnt to straight away ask for budget; not to do any detailed design work without a deposit - and to accept that so many want their bespoke piece at an IKEA price.

So how much are these tables?! once equipment is paid off you can subtract that from the overhead no?

100 years ago they did everything, you need a machine for, by hand. So there ya go when it comes to price 😂😂

If you aren't charging the same material cost to use a slab that you would charge to sell the slab, then you are selling yourself short.

Must show this video to some of my clients, thanks for posting