• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

Beginner still reading & YouTubing my way into it.

Dr.Al said:
I really like David Charlesworth, but I agree that his pace is fairly slow. I know where you're coming from with Matt Estlea being a bit "in your face", but that's usually only in the first few seconds of the video and then he settles down to a really informative (and not at all dogmatic) pace.

When I was trying to learn, I watched loads of videos from lots of youtubers (including Rob Cosman, Paul Sellers, Stumpy Nubbs, Rex Krueger, Roy Underhill etc etc) and I was getting to the point that I didn't think I could learn anything more from youtube (obviously there's only so much you can learn from watching). Then I watched some Matt Estlea videos and had several "aha!" moments where things really clicked. The fact he showed several different ways of doing things really helped me. The same happened with David Charlesworth, although only with the videos I bought from his website rather than the stuff on youtube.

If I were starting again, I'd start with the Matt Estlea back-catalogue and then watch some David Charlesworth, Mitch Peacock and Rex Krueger videos.

Rob Cosman irritates me, especially all the many, many videos he's done that suggest woodwork is only possible if you buy lots of obscenely expensive stuff that he just happens to sell.

I guess it's inevitable that I'd have a different perspective from someone who learnt woodworking via "proper" tuition and then watched youtube later; videos like the Matt Estlea ones were my only tuition (apart from this forum of course!).

Stumpy Nubs is probably second-to-none if you're a power work woodworker, but I've mostly move away from such noisy stuff!

Oh, and I don't think anyone has mentioned GR Woodworking yet. He won't teach you anything, but there can't be many more serene and satisfying woodwork videos out there.
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I’ll persevere with Matt Estlea…I did find him irritating at first but that’s probably me being a grumpy old fart…😀…I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and be fair. 👍
 
Dr.Al said:
Rob Cosman irritates me, especially all the many, many videos he's done that suggest woodwork is only possible if you buy lots of obscenely expensive stuff that he just happens to sell.
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The only RC UToob vids I've seen are the ones I mentioned (boxes and drawer fitting) and there aren't, as far as I'm aware, any mention of the kit he's trying to flog (perhaps a mention of the dowel drilling jig for his boxes) but I'd agree, the stuff he tries to push is exorbitantly pricy. The two series I've seen were very good - Rob

Edit: just viewed some of the earlier Estlea videos (on chisels) and they're pretty good, so a thumbs up!
 
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Someone uploaded a few Jim Kingshott videos onto the tube recently, quite good watching aswell.
and could mention Phil Lowe for another few videos to watch, as well as Tom McLaughlin for a transatlantic audience.
Quite a few more specialised videos from others too that most could recommend, dependent on what type of work
you might envision, though some names mentioned will likely have the fundamentals covered,
most of which there are differing takes on doing the same job.
That should be enough to digest for sure!

BTW, Welcome to the forum Woody.

All the best
Tom
 
WoodyTheCatLover said:
Thanks. That looks like a very well made piece.

I was looking at some second hand, old fashioned holds fasts on ebay yesterday and most of them did seem to have a brutal finish to the clamping end that would have marked the wood.

Still making my mind up.
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You stick a piece of scrap under the end of the holdfast so it's not touching the workpiece.
 
WoodyTheCatLover said:
No. I’m a great music lover and have a good singing voice but never strayed into playing an instrument.
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You don't have to play to make instruments.

There came a time where my woodworking skills far exceeded my playing skills. That says more about my playing than my woodowork! 😁
 
Malc2098 said:
You don't have to play to make instruments.

There came a time where my woodworking skills far exceeded my playing skills. That says more about my playing than my woodowork! 😁
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Let’s see your best effort…l’m guessing it’s a guitar?
 
WoodyTheCatLover said:
Let’s see your best effort…l’m guessing it’s a guitar?
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My latest effort has a thread on this forum here.

It started with four and had grown to seven. I'm in the middle of filing 280 fret tangs. :)

Because I'm retired and do other stuff, each project takes about a year to complete, but this one through sheer volume, has already taken longer.
 
Malc2098 said:
My latest effort has a thread on this forum here.

It started with four and had grown to seven. I'm in the middle of filing 280 fret tangs. :)

Because I'm retired and do other stuff, each project takes about a year to complete, but this one through sheer volume, has already taken longer.
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I’m impressed. Lucky grandchildren!

I’ll be following your progress with interest.
 
Woodbloke said:
I would love to make something for my grandson for his first birthday in Nov but am at a bit of a loss as it's a bit early for hard woody stuff. Open to suggestions though - Rob
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How about a tooth fairy box? I know he won't need it for a few years, but his parents would appreciate it, especially if you carved his name on the lid.

Or there's the baby gym, with hanging animals and beads, that match the nursery decor.
 
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