Rex Krueger
Published on 13 Apr 2018More videos and exclusive content: http://patreon.com/rexkrueger
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September 11, 2019
Straighten boards. No jointer. No jig.
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September 9, 2019
Making the Box Lid | Dovetail Box Project #9 | Free Online Woodworking School
Matt Estlea
Published on 6 Sep 2019In this video, I share with you two incredibly important steps when it comes to constructing the lid. Firstly, constructing the lid for aesthetics. Secondly, constructing the lid for stability. Important stuff here, don’t miss it!
Want to see the full lesson page? Follow this link:
https://www.mattestlea.com/post/how-to-plane-edges-square-dovetail-box-project-9-free-online-woodworking-schoolHow to Sharpen a Plane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtCAb…
How to Plane Correctly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVGvR…
How to Square Timber by Hand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4aim…
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_________________________________________________________________________________________My name is Matt Estlea, I’m a 23 year old Woodworker from Basingstoke in England and my aim is to make your woodworking less s***.
I come from 5 years tuition at Rycotewood Furniture Centre with a further 1 year working as an Artist in Residence at the Sylva Foundation. I now teach City and Guilds Furniture Making at Rycotewood as of September 2018.
I also had 5 years of experience working at Axminster Tools and Machinery where I helped customers with purchasing tools, demonstrated in stores and events, and gained extensive knowledge about a variety of tools and brands.
During the week, I film woodworking projects, tutorials, reviews and a viewer favourite ‘Tool Duel’ where I compare two competitive manufacturers tools against one another to find out which is best.
I like to have a laugh and my videos are quite fast paced BUT you will learn a lot, I assure you.
Lets go make a mess.
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September 5, 2019
Making a Gun-Stock War Club (feat. Green Beetle)
Rex Krueger
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September 3, 2019
Making Dowels with a Homemade Dowel Plate
Pask Makes
Published on 30 Nov 2017Even though my old dowel plate (if you can call it that) worked ok, I decided a new one was called for. It’s a big improvement but the old one shows that there is little effort needed to make dowels and that one has made hundreds of dowels and still works.
I had some fun making my dowel collection, hope you like it 😉
Template download http://bit.ly/DowelPlate
As always I’m happy to answer any questions.
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Also you can check out my photography at my website (nothing to do with making but you may be interested in what I do) http://www.neilpaskin.com
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August 16, 2019
Acrylic for woodworkers (Using the tools you own now!)
Rex Krueger
Published on 24 Jun 2017More videos and exclusive content: http://www.patreon.com/rexkrueger
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You might need a transparent component in your next project, or you might need a material that slides or bends better than wood. May I suggest acrylic? It’s clearer than glass, is impervious to humidity, and it’s flexible. It’s also cheap, so it might make a good addition to your next project. Now, you can buy a bunch of fancy new tools for working with acrylic, or you can learn how to use standard woodworking tools to cut and shape acrylic sheet. In this video, I’ll show you how to do just that.
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July 20, 2019
Blaise in Trees | Buying Hardwood Lumber #2
Matt Estlea
Published on 18 Jul 2019Visiting a timber merchant can be a very unnerving experience. You don’t know where to go, how it works, what the rules are. It’s so easy to simple avoid the whole process altogether in favour of using easily accessible materials purchased from your local DIY merchant.
This series aims to prevent that intimidation and allow you to be prepared when visiting a sawmill or timber supplier for the first time.
Today, we are at a small sawmill just outside of Oxford, UK where timber is converted, dried, and sold on site by Blaise and his team. They specialise mainly in sourcing local timber in an effort to save it from being burnt for fuel or chipped. The selection here is incredible and I can’t wait for you to see what’s inside.
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______________________________________________________________________________________________My name is Matt Estlea, I’m a 23 year old Woodworker from Basingstoke in England and my aim is to make your woodworking less s***.
I come from 5 years tuition at Rycotewood Furniture Centre with a further 1 year working as an Artist in Residence at the Sylva Foundation. I now teach City and Guilds Furniture Making at Rycotewood as of September 2018.
I also had 5 years of experience working at Axminster Tools and Machinery where I helped customers with purchasing tools, demonstrated in stores and events, and gained extensive knowledge about a variety of tools and brands.
During the week, I film woodworking projects, tutorials, reviews and a viewer favourite ‘Tool Duel’ where I compare two competitive manufacturers tools against one another to find out which is best.
I like to have a laugh and my videos are quite fast paced BUT you will learn a lot, I assure you.
Lets go make a mess.
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July 18, 2019
Choose the best wood for your project
Rex Krueger
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July 9, 2019
My secret for buying woodworking tools DIRT CHEAP
Rex Krueger
Published on 16 Oct 2017More videos and exclusive content: http://www.patreon.com/rexkrueger
My trick for buying good tools at super-low prices is really simple: go to antique car and antique tractor flea markets. These places are mostly filled with car parts, but when a vendor does have woodworking tools, he’s usually looking to unload them as fast as possible. Often, car guys don’t even know what they have, so woodworkers can score loads of useful or collectible tools for pocket-change. These flea markets are also a great source of consumables like glue, thinners, brushes, and sand-paper. You can stock up on the most expensive stuff for cheap.
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July 6, 2019
The Iron Bridge in Shropshire
Roger Henry sent along this information on the most recent restoration of the world’s oldest iron bridge near Coalbrookdale:
The Iron Bridge across the River Severn, completed in 1779. The first major bridge to be made of iron.
Photo by shirokazan via Wikimedia Commons.
Wikipedia says:
The Iron Bridge is a bridge that crosses the River Severn in Shropshire, England. Opened in 1781, it was the first major bridge in the world to be made of cast iron, and was greatly celebrated after construction owing to its use of the new material.
In 1934 it was designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument and closed to vehicular traffic. Tolls for pedestrians were collected until 1950, when ownership of the bridge was transferred to Shropshire County Council. It now belongs to Telford and Wrekin Borough Council. The bridge, the adjacent settlement of Ironbridge and the Ironbridge Gorge form the UNESCO Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site. The bridge is a Grade I listed building, and a waypoint on the South Telford Heritage Trail.
Anthony Blackwall, who was the Shropshire County Bridgemaster, recounts the 1979 celebrations in “Historic Bridges of Shropshire”, Shropshire Libraries, 1985:
The most recent restoration was completed late in 2018:
The bridge, the first of its kind, was closed for a year after surveyors found cracks and stresses in its historic cast ironwork.
English Heritage launched a £3.6 million programme of repairs in autumn of 2017.
Kate Mavor, the charity’s CEO, came to the gorge to get a first-hand look at the historic bridge restored, and spoke of her pride.
“This is the first English Heritage site I remember coming to when I was about 11, and now it looks much the same as it did then.
“This is the first time I’ve seen it refurbished and I think it sits very nicely in the gorge, and with the red paint it will especially look good in autumn colours.
“I’ve been following the repairs closely since they began, it is an extraordinary project.
“The gorge is a world heritage site, the bridge was the first of its kind and it’s been there since 1779.
“It has survived a number of pernicious influences including an earthquake.
“We’re very proud of what we’ve been able to do here because it’s been unlike any other project of ours.
“We’re very grateful to everyone that has supported the project.
“The amazing response we had to English Heritage’s first ever crowdfunding campaign was fantastic too.”
Kate said that the surveys carried out before the project started revealed that the bridge had originally been painted a deep red, unlike the recognisable black or grey layer of recent years.
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June 19, 2019
Making an OSB Pen! 🤯 | Turning Tuesday #19
Matt Estlea
Published on 18 Jun 2019In this video, I finally got round to making one of the most highly requested projects on Turning Tuesday to date. An OSB Pen!
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_________________________________________________________________My name is Matt Estlea, I’m a 23 year old Woodworker from Basingstoke in England and my aim is to make your woodworking less s***.
I come from 5 years tuition at Rycotewood Furniture Centre with a further 1 year working as an Artist in Residence at the Sylva Foundation. I now teach City and Guilds Furniture Making at Rycotewood as of September 2018.
I also had 5 years of experience working at Axminster Tools and Machinery where I helped customers with purchasing tools, demonstrated in stores and events, and gained extensive knowledge about a variety of tools and brands.
During the week, I film woodworking projects, tutorials, reviews and a viewer favourite ‘Tool Duel’ where I compare two competitive manufacturers tools against one another to find out which is best.
I like to have a laugh and my videos are quite fast paced BUT you will learn a lot, I assure you.
Lets go make a mess.
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June 11, 2019
My apprenticeship as a blacksmith – forging a nail
Lindybeige
Published on 16 Jan 2018Before forging my sword, I had to do an apprenticeship as a blacksmith, and make a nail. Here witness my training.
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I was a guest of The Cut and Thrust Collective – four blacksmiths who have banded together in a forge that was once known as The Forge of Avalon, in Glastonbury. There I spent most of a week, and there I forged my sword – Arnander – the making of which will be the subject of further videos.
I’m quite pleased with the amount of information I got into this video about how forging is done. It shows you several details of how to use a forge to heat metal, and how to hammer shapes into metal.
Many thanks to Joseph McDonald for inviting me in the first place, acting as cameraman, and cooking lots of bacon. Thanks too to my teacher here Thom Leworthy.
The company takes commissions for blacksmithing, and runs courses so that you can go in and make your own pieces. glastonburysmith@gmail.com
Lindybeige: a channel of archaeology, ancient and medieval warfare, rants, swing dance, travelogues, evolution, and whatever else occurs to me to make.
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June 8, 2019
The sad economics of recycling
Kim du Toit on the actual economic value of most recycling efforts:
Turns out that aluminum cans are actually worth recycling — in that they are 100% recyclable (requiring nothing other than melting and reformulating) and it costs less — much less — to recycle than to produce new aluminum.
That’s almost true of newsprint too, except that while pulping it is fine — hardly any energy is used for that — the pulp also has to be bleached, and in the pulping / bleaching process, about 15% of the original paper is lost. And as raw paper production (i.e. from logged wood) has become more efficient over the years, and as trees can be grown to replace those felled, the only real benefit from recycling paper is that overall paper production is less vulnerable to hiccups in supply of fresh wood — such as caused by forest fires, disease and drought.
And, he added, when it comes to recycling other stuff, glass is little better than plastic — which surprised me, but it actually costs much more to recycle glass than simply to produce it new. And the old “plastic into park benches” spiel is likewise stupid, because it costs so much to produce such stuff, and creates so much atmospheric pollution thereby, that it’s easier just to toss plastic into a properly-lined landfill and let nature take its course.
Knowing all that, I’ve always been skeptical of the benefits of recycling — it’s always been about feeewings rather than utility
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June 2, 2019
Butcherblock table made from scrap hardwood
TG Woodworking
Published on 16 Feb 2018I had started collecting and cutting all the scrapwood almost a year ago, and finally had time to film and build this table. It turned out more beautiful than I could have imagined. I originally just set out to build a new cheap work table out of scraps, but now after making this table, I think I’d like to try this method with some fine furniture!
Another experiment in generating thumbnail images for social media links (just using a literal thumbnail image as in yesterday’s posts didn’t work):
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May 19, 2019
How not to drive a nail
In Christopher Schwarz’s recent The Anarchist’s Design Book, he includes a set of illustrations from a 1947 publication, which appear to still be 100% accurate:
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May 12, 2019
CRAZY easy way to straighten a rough board or cut a taper
Stumpy Nubs
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