I relate so much with building a thing and not liking it.

you have such a way with words. I listen to your videos in the background when I'm not watching and become distracted from the distraction because I'm hooked to the narration. Should start a podcast

sure i would try making it, great video. looks great, and so are you.

Brilliant idea , i will have to try this now , love the video .

Do you think I can do this with stair treads?

Brilliant video , gorgeous comb , so so well done .

Brilliant video .

Great video , the CNC spoons are great for selling but the hobbit spoon is my favorite .

I never thought to use imposter syndrome as fuel to make sure I'm making quality stuff instead of nothing at all. Thank you.

Hi, hope to work with you, easy to know how to contact you?

I have that brand of milk paint and to me it was very gritty, it was for a rocking horse for my garandkids. So I purchased General Finishes milk paint and was very happy with their product. I will give the other paint another try after what you did mixing it! Thank you for the great video.

DBZ shirt!!! I wear a respirator when welding

Stumpy nubs has a good video explaining the tests the Patrick Sullivan did and what people didn't seem to understand about the results.

Loved your poetry!

Thank you for sharing this.

Pure Tung Oil is food safe, but Tung Oil Finishes, such as the Watco used here are not necessarily so. Long Chain Alkyd is the first resin mentioned in the Watco TDS, followed by Tung Oil, but the percentage of Tung Oil isn't specified. No claim of food safety is made by the manufacturer. Their solvent is mineral spirits. I make cutting boards and other food-use items, and use 100% pure Tung Oil (either Hope's or Real Milk & Paint), and apply an initial coat thinned 50-50 with food-safe citrus solvent. I don't see a danger from contact with coffee beans, though.

I wish someone would grip my tool exactly like how she grabbed the mitre saw....

This is a great video. To many “makers” on KZfaq don’t make anything after they start making money and attract subscribers. They just stand in front of the camera and talk about making stuff. I loved your voice over on pallet wood while actually (trying) to make something.

Thanks for the information regarding the pallets, didn’t know what the stamps stood for.

Forgot to ask: Is there a way to make a donation???

I took an old pallet and built a table, a bar, and a cabin- no, l’m lying ( like most influencers) I actually stack the pallets and made a fence for my pigs- until the pallets rot-most all pallets are useless crap wood

Love Sapele! Beautiful wood.

Wow. Based on the title I expected a certain kind of pain, then from the intro I expected a very different pain, and at the end I just need some douchebag to tell me what to do.

Informative video on pallets. I sort of thought that all were HT now days, but never comnsidered that old ones may be lurking around for a long time. On the citrus strip, try a heavy coat covered with saran (plastic) wrap to keep it from drying out and leave it for as long as you can stay away... (Curiousity 'ya know...)

If you want to see some fails, I leave so many of my mistakes in my videos.

Great video! Love the content a ton. Showing failures is so important because the hardest thing to learn for me is trouble shooting. What do I do when something goes wrong for me??? So to me, showing mistakes adds so much value to your videos for me and I'm sure countless others. Keep up the great work!

Careful, these duplicates can go in both directions. Some buy them cheap in China and sell them at higher prices with fake descriptions, but there are also Chinese manufacturers copying legitimate designs. It is not easy to tell who is who. I simply avoid certain sites, and stick to brands I know. If I want to support a specific artist, I go to their own site.

nice informative video. I finally finished a up-cycling recycling a greenhouse job this wk end for family. several times over the last month I've been tempted too just scrap it and revert to what was there before. but although its not 100% perfect its what was wanted and i can always improve in the future. i look forward to watching more of your videos 👍

Lmao, the thumbnail. Completely normal and average way to sit at a workbench.

I think most youtubers use Artisan made pallets.

Another couple of points on pallets. The treatment may not be the only noxious substance they have come in contact with. They are made from the poorest quality wood to begin with. Embedded stones, glass, and metal are all hazardous to you and you tools. You do you but I won't use them. John's furniture repair has a video about stripping that's worth a watch. Good luck👍

You always make me laugh and smile. and I learn new things each time I watch your videos. Thank you for taking the time and making these.

Just getting caught up on KZfaq. Sanding is not the best way to smooth wood or remove the burn marks. Use a wood plane, no dust ( got to breathe), cleaning wood shavings is easier than chasing dust. Take a look at the reasons asians wood workers still use hand planes.

Save a few bucks or save a few years, I know which I'm doing. Plus I don't have to mess around pulling out nails, cutting them up for a few usable scraps, or spending even more time sanding.

Thank you - had no idea!

Good info. Still want to see the beautiful face behind the mask 😊

Hi 👋, IWI IC , 😂, that was a great review pallets, very well explained, the part where you explained about if you start cutting the material, is a lot worse than you think, as you’re putting spores and dust particles into the atmosphere, A lot of people over the years have been using railway sleepers, for making furniture, beds, et cetera, What a lot of people don’t realise that in the olden days, On trains where carrying passengers or whether there is toilet facilities, even when carrying animals, that poop goes out onto the track, onto the railway sleepers, Plus they have a product that is now banned I believe called creosote, Which is impregnated into the timber, again, this is very dangerous, I am a retired, specialist joiner, Cabinet maker and furniture restorer , many many years ago I had a contract restoring furniture that was used in restaurants and bars, I was using a chemical to strip the material that have been put onto them, I remember on one pacific occasion, it was freezing outside snow on the ground, and I had a gas fired air blown heater, in my workshop I had started stripping furniture around 8 to 9 o’clock in the morning somewhere between 9:30 and 10 o’clock I started to fill ill, it wasn’t until I stood up on one occasion, that I noticed there was fog in my workshop, the fumes from the paint, stripper and methylated spirits that I was using to neutralise it, was going through the burning system of the blower, creating a, Luckily, I managed to run to my workshop door at the same time, turning off my blower for my heater, as I stepped outside, I projectile vomit, sorry to put this cost, but this is what actually happened, It took me a few months, but I ended up buying a special respirator, For the job, since then I have brought different types of respirators so if I’m machining I’m not getting any particles into my lungs, and if I’m using something that is creating a gas, I approach the people that I get the respirator from and they make sure they give me the right cartridge to go into my respirator, And sometimes you have to wear a full suit with headgear if you’re using wood preservatives, Your small little table, you could rub it through To show Bear wood and you could probably go to the point of Guilding it or paint on it gold, or even just waxing it as it is showing that it is something that has been used over the years, it’s called patina, stay safe, keep up the great work, Making a mistake is not bad it is how we all learn to improve our skills, it’s how we get over the problem to resolve them, ,

very useful info about the pallets. I never realized the impact the transfer of bugs in international transported pallets could have if not properly killed. For the metal stand I personally would have removed the paint (after finding out your way would not work), to sandblast it with walnut grinds, so the metal would not look too much impacted by it. Thanks for your, always original content. Happy Easter!

Great video , the table looks like you can just sand and paint it .

I appreciated the info on the pallets--I never even thought to look that up, and it's important! On the project, have you considered sending the metal base out for sand/media-blasting?

Ma'am you are quickly becoming my favorite wood working douchebag on youtube. I like that you share your successes and failures in your projects. Sometimes we measure twice and still cut three times. lol Keep up the good work.

I think I would keep the patina and just add a beautiful top. Love your videos!

Thanks for sharing, I was not aware of the different treatment methods for pallets. I do agree on staying away from the chemical treated types. For me it’s a balance between risk probability, risk impact, and reward. I can’t judge the probability, but the potential impact is high. And as there are alternatives, the reward is too low. Thumbs up for sharing your learning process, I’m curious to see how you will tackle the stubborn table.

Whaaaaatttt!!!????

i use HT pallets at work!

Methyl bromide isn't the only possible toxin. Spills and seepages happen and a pallet can be contaminated with nearly anything. Cannibalizing discarded furniture is a safer way to find wood. When I use Citristrip, I put on a thick coat, then wrap the item with polyethylene - a plastic dropcloth, a cut-open garbage bag, even kitchen plastic wrap. Then I'll wait 8+/- hours and unwrap a bit to test the effectiveness. Citristrip does work - but it's much slower than the older, toxic methylene chloride-based strippers. Good video, and an important point. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you! As a small maker, it's hard to compete with the prices at W-Mart, A-Zon, and then people who do things like this on etsy. To be fair, etsy is to blame. They used to be better about it being handmade or antiques. Now, there's more that's bought low and sold high. Plus, etsy then makes the store owners to work harder to get noticed, with little reward. Now, there's groups and people who will help you (for a fee) to tweak your etsy store and listings. Etsy got big enough to be known, and then stopped caring about small businesses.