Posted: 9/15/2024 3:01:10 PM EDT
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I enjoy watching YouTube for woodworking tips and tool reviews. 731 Woodworks is one of my faves. Matt seems like a solid dude who gives his honest opinion. MWA Woodworks is pretty good, and I also like Lincoln St. Woodworks. I'll watch Bent's Woodworking sometimes, he has good tips and methods but uses Festool almost exclusively. Nothing wrong with that, just that Festool is way out of my budget, so it's a little hard for me to relate. I watch John Malecki mainly for the entertainment. For tools, I like Tool Deals and The Den of Tools. Tool Deals is no BS, he just gives you a heads up on some really good deals, and will throw in his recommendations for what he does and doesn't like. Jeff King at The Den of Tools is a straight shooter, and not afraid of offending anyone. What do you guys (and gals, if there are any here) like? |
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Mike Peace woodturning (I think he finally started recording in something higher than 720p) has lots of variety and insight. Matthias Wandel because I'm pretty sure Elon Musk could give him a warehouse full of plywood and he'd get to mars with it. Rex Krueger as I like his furniture forensics and discussions of historical woodwork. Newton Makes is just an all around decent channel. Pask Makes is highly creative and makes amazing things, and a great variety. Matt Estlea is knowledgeable and turns out interesting products. Shaun Boyd Made This tries a little too hard to be artsy but he does make cool stuff. I thought I would dislike John Malecki but I actually sort of enjoy how unapologetically stupid his channel gets. Maybe he does but I cannot imagine how a shop like that makes a profit. There must be an absolute shitload of stuff going on you never see in the background. I'm sure there is a ton, just crazy how little of the daily workflow is seen in the background of the videos. I agree with the OP that the 731 Woodworks guy seems like a good guy, but he has made his channel the product and rarely does any woodwork. I started watching him when his channel was new and enjoyed it. Looking at his channel, I had to go back four months to find an actual build project (something about a $400 2x4). The channel is tool shill central. I'm glad it is working for him and his family but he barely does any actual woodworking, just tells us how this new tool is a gamechanga. Even in that video, it's constant tool product placement. It's like he's the iraqveteran8888 of woodworking. |
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Originally Posted By CashOnlyLargeBills: Blacktail studios. He is a snarky SOB. And I appreciate his creativity. I cannot stand his voice overs. |
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Originally Posted By farfromhome: I cannot stand his voice overs. I used to sort of feel that way, but then I thought this was a guy taking liquid plastic in super expensive walnut slabs way too seriously. Then I watched some of his videos and it's pretty apparent that he cannot believe what people pay for his own products and he riffs on himself pretty well. His videos are pretty same-y (another walnut slab with black epoxy on a metal base with c channel) but they're alright. It really does hammer home how important being established in a niche can be though, because he really is selling 20k+ tables made with prefab legs and where the most used tools appear to be a track saw, a five gallon bucket with a mixing paddle, and wide belt sander. |
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I'd have to disagree with the OP on the 731 guy. I can't fucking stand his clickbait titles and thumbnails and clearly he's nothing but a shill. Good on him if it makes him a lot of money, but he isn't woodworking. The "tool review" channels are really nothing but shills anymore. Adam Booth, Abom79, went this way and I haven't watched anything of his in a few years. Shame, because he put out some amazing videos in the past and even though I'm not a machinist. Paul Sellers shows actual woodworking, though hand tools almost exclusively. William Ng hasn't put out a video in years IIRC, unfortunately. Marc Spagnuolo is pretty good, though he makes his living selling his projects and rarely shows actual builds. Matt Cremona has good videos and shows actual woodwork, despite his nasally voice.  Jon Peters has good content and while he has some sponsors he doesn't appear to be a shill. Jason Bent has had a few good videos but he's basically become a shill for Festool, Shaper Origin, Hammer (Felder group). James Hamilton has mostly educational videos and clearly has an agenda with some of them but overall is a good guy. Spencer Lewis, while a trim carpenter, has *really* good videos and is a solid, stand up guy, really like his channel. Doesn't shill for products but will tell you what he used to do this or that, why, etc. David Marks has recently been putting his old Wood Works shows on YT, he is an absolute master and the craftsman I aspire to be. Norm Abram, of course, now that TNYWS has been put on YT, those videos bring back memories of when I was a kid watching them on Saturday afternoons. There are probably a couple I'm forgetting. What I can't stand are the guys who are sponsored by various tool companies and don't make it known, but push their products in underhanded ways. Jason Bent has been doing this recently with Shaper Origin. He showed how to fix a mistake with a fucking ~$4,000 (all in) tool when a template and cordless router could have done it for ~$150 as if that was the best way to do it. Give me a fucking break. Also some of the guys with kegs of glue like Dusty Lumber Co and all the Freud and Festool products. JFC. My disdain with the shills isn't due to bullshit jealously, I have several Lie-Nielsen tools, recently bought a hefty amount of Festool, have enough Makita to make a contractor blush, and quite a lot more. It's just what social media has done to woodworking as with everything else. Corrupted and polluted it, and turned it into a subliminal money making apparatus. No wonder they're called "social media influencers"  . David Marks was/is from an era where social media didn't really exist and his Wood Works episodes are nothing but woodworking.
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Originally Posted By A_G: I'd have to disagree with the OP on the 731 guy. I can't fucking stand his clickbait titles and thumbnails and clearly he's nothing but a shill. Good on him if it makes him a lot of money, but he isn't woodworking. The "tool review" channels are really nothing but shills anymore. Adam Booth, Abom79, went this way and I haven't watched anything of his in a few years. Shame, because he put out some amazing videos in the past and even though I'm not a machinist. Paul Sellers shows actual woodworking, though hand tools almost exclusively. William Ng hasn't put out a video in years IIRC, unfortunately. Marc Spagnuolo is pretty good, though he makes his living selling his projects and rarely shows actual builds. Matt Cremona has good videos and shows actual woodwork, despite his nasally voice. Jon Peters has good content and while he has some sponsors he doesn't appear to be a shill. Jason Bent has had a few good videos but he's basically become a shill for Festool, Shaper Origin, Hammer (Felder group). James Hamilton has mostly educational videos and clearly has an agenda with some of them but overall is a good guy. Spencer Lewis, while a trim carpenter, has *really* good videos and is a solid, stand up guy, really like his channel. Doesn't shill for products but will tell you what he used to do this or that, why, etc. David Marks has recently been putting his old Wood Works shows on YT, he is an absolute master and the craftsman I aspire to be. Norm Abram, of course, now that TNYWS has been put on YT, those videos bring back memories of when I was a kid watching them on Saturday afternoons. There are probably a couple I'm forgetting. What I can't stand are the guys who are sponsored by various tool companies and don't make it known, but push their products in underhanded ways. Jason Bent has been doing this recently with Shaper Origin. He showed how to fix a mistake with a fucking ~$4,000 (all in) tool when a template and cordless router could have done it for ~$150 as if that was the best way to do it. Give me a fucking break. Also some of the guys with kegs of glue like Dusty Lumber Co and all the Freud and Festool products. JFC. My disdain with the shills isn't due to bullshit jealously, I have several Lie-Nielsen tools, recently bought a hefty amount of Festool, have enough Makita to make a contractor blush, and quite a lot more. It's just what social media has done to woodworking as with everything else. Corrupted and polluted it, and turned it into a subliminal money making apparatus. No wonder they're called "social media influencers" . David Marks was/is from an era where social media didn't really exist and his Wood Works episodes are nothing but woodworking. |
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Originally Posted By Skunkeye: Matthias Wandell I was gonna mention him. Has he even been active? There were a couple of the canadians who were putting out a lot of cool videos. Then you could tell they ran out of ideas and the content was forced. And then Matthias took a break and kinda fell off the map. |
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Originally Posted By giantpune: I was gonna mention him. Has he even been active? There were a couple of the canadians who were putting out a lot of cool videos. Then you could tell they ran out of ideas and the content was forced. And then Matthias took a break and kinda fell off the map. I like him because he is very frugal, using dumpster wood, sharpening his own bandsaw blades, making repairs...his series on the family camp has some great ideas. He is also not afraid to criticize dogma...preferring box joints to dovetails, or screwing tool hangers to the wall instead of a French cleat system, etc. |
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Originally Posted By Skunkeye: He is also not afraid to criticize dogma...preferring box joints to dovetails, or screwing tool hangers to the wall instead of a French cleat system, etc. I 100% agree with him on the french cleat BS. Much like the adjustable shelves in your cabinets and your fridge (yes, the shelves in your fridge can be adjusted), once you have it setup, you don't really move shit around. So the french cleats become overengineered and a waste of time and materials. I very much disagree with him on his recent presentation about why he doesn't like CNC routers. 90% of his arguments, it feels like he made up just to have some negative points. The issues or cons he sees can be solved a different way that he doesn't discuss, which renders most of his video moot. |
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Originally Posted By Echd: I used to sort of feel that way, but then I thought this was a guy taking liquid plastic in super expensive walnut slabs way too seriously. Then I watched some of his videos and it's pretty apparent that he cannot believe what people pay for his own products and he riffs on himself pretty well. His videos are pretty same-y (another walnut slab with black epoxy on a metal base with c channel) but they're alright. It really does hammer home how important being established in a niche can be though, because he really is selling 20k+ tables made with prefab legs and where the most used tools appear to be a track saw, a five gallon bucket with a mixing paddle, and wide belt sander. Originally Posted By Echd: Originally Posted By farfromhome: I cannot stand his voice overs. I used to sort of feel that way, but then I thought this was a guy taking liquid plastic in super expensive walnut slabs way too seriously. Then I watched some of his videos and it's pretty apparent that he cannot believe what people pay for his own products and he riffs on himself pretty well. His videos are pretty same-y (another walnut slab with black epoxy on a metal base with c channel) but they're alright. It really does hammer home how important being established in a niche can be though, because he really is selling 20k+ tables made with prefab legs and where the most used tools appear to be a track saw, a five gallon bucket with a mixing paddle, and wide belt sander. He's done a few that were pretty interesting though, like using a crane to drop a giant log on one of his tables to test the strength. Epoxy is pretty damn strong. |
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I do not make a habit of watching every new video, just one or two here and there I do like watching a lot of the episodes of epic upcycling but if it were me, some of those projects scream for some better quality wood If any of you have any desire to make a chair, check out the Mike Dunbar videos of Windsor chair making. He basically goes through his old class of making a sack back chair start to finish. He made these after he retired and not likely to make any more of other chair styles. |
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I like ENCurtis as well. I use his 3-part wood finish a lot, it’s really easy to use, although I have to substitute some of the ingredients (he says that’s perfectly fine) based on availability. John Heisz is great. He builds a lot of his own tools and has plans. Paul Sellers is great as well, although his videos are rather long and he only uses mostly hand tools. Rex Krueger cracks me up with his attitude sometimes. |
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Originally Posted By Shoresy: A lot of good channels already listed. I like Samurai Carpenter's stuff too, mostly watched the older vids. He was good back in the day but after crying about how he was going to lose his house and getting tens of thousands in donations he promptly posted a video about taking a trip to Japan. After that I stopped watching that idiot. So many of these guys are just shills it's disheartening. All their videos are advertisements. Although on the metalworking side, Adam Booth is a prime example. Used to have some amazing videos, then he became a joke basically running ads. I wish Tom Lipton would make videos regularly again. |
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- Spencer Lewis (Insider Carpentry) One of the few channels I've consistently watched over the last few years. I've learned alot of useful techniques and discovered new tools that I wouldn't have known about otherwise. - Tom Silva (This Old House) The tv show predates youtube but I still love watching his videos now that pretty much all his content is available online. It feels nostalgic to watch Tom, and I love how sometimes he does jobs with hand tools instead of using power tools just to show how it was done back in the day. |
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Originally Posted By Sarge1400: I enjoy watching YouTube for woodworking tips and tool reviews. 731 Woodworks is one of my faves. Matt seems like a solid dude who gives his honest opinion. MWA Woodworks is pretty good, and I also like Lincoln St. Woodworks. I'll watch Bent's Woodworking sometimes, he has good tips and methods but uses Festool almost exclusively. Nothing wrong with that, just that Festool is way out of my budget, so it's a little hard for me to relate. I watch John Malecki mainly for the entertainment. For tools, I like Tool Deals and The Den of Tools. Tool Deals is no BS, he just gives you a heads up on some really good deals, and will throw in his recommendations for what he does and doesn't like. Jeff King at The Den of Tools is a straight shooter, and not afraid of offending anyone. What do you guys (and gals, if there are any here) like? Den of Tools is legit. The Bear knows best! |
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Originally Posted By roa: stumpy nubs He also shills a little more now than he used to but overall has a lot of good content. He's always been that way sort of but... most of the stuff he plugs is actually pretty good. |
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the Tally Ho project even if your not into boats/sailing the craftsmanship is pretty admirable. |
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Originally Posted By A_G: There are probably a couple I'm forgetting. My Omnijig actually came with a Norm Abram DVD / video to go along with the instruction manual. I actually read my manual and used mine for several different jobs before I ever got around to watching the video and have used it hundreds of times since. Is obvious to me from his video that he has never done more than a couple of boxes with it ever. He was obviously paid for that performance by PC and had little to no actual 'experience' with the tool he was 'demonstrating' in his video. People that actually use these tools can tell the difference between a talker and an actual 'woodworker' in short order. |
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Roy Underhill. He is an excellent public speaker and showman, in addition to know a lot about old woodworking techniques and tools. Most of his entire series of shows can be found on the web https://www.pbs.org/show/woodwrights-shop/ Or on youtube. Back when Popular Woodworking was a very good and serious magazine, they offered DVDs of his shows from season one to the final season, 37 sets in all, I think. Have them all. I don't think the DVDs are offered anymore unfortunately. |
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Originally Posted By JQ66: Roy Underhill. He is an excellent public speaker and showman, in addition to know a lot about old woodworking techniques and tools. Most of his entire series of shows can be found on the web https://www.pbs.org/show/woodwrights-shop/ Or on youtube. Back when Popular Woodworking was a very good and serious magazine, they offered DVDs of his shows from season one to the final season, 37 sets in all, I think. Have them all. I don't think the DVDs are offered anymore unfortunately. Oh man. I was just talking about his show the other day. Spent many a weekend watching that show on PBS with my dad. |
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Don't know the names off-hand, but: 321 Woodworking Lincoln St Woodworking Fisher's Shop Scott Walsh MWA Woodworks Stumpy Nubs ENcurtis Moth guy and of course, the Master himself: Norm Abram. There are others (Eastly, Cosman, etc.), but at least for now those are the ones I've been looking at the most. |
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Originally Posted By COASTIE_E4: the Tally Ho project even if your not into boats/sailing the craftsmanship is pretty admirable. I just saw this post. I really good friend of mine helped Windy Hill Foundry cast the capstan for the Tally-Ho. Windy Hill is casting a brass cannon soon, copied from an original Civil War cannon in Vicksburg and my friend, who's already told me I'm getting drafted to help, is building the carriage. |
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As someone just getting starting in woodworking. I admit to liking 731 woodworks but admit he is more selling product than making anything. Since I know nothing some of his videos that show how to do something....or not do something seem legit but figure others who have done it might recommend a different channel to learn from. I am more "into" woodworking for making storage projects in my new shop. Most of it will probably be made with 2x4's and plywood of some sort depending on what I need the final product to do. I would have built a bigger shop but I am in the city limits and unless I increase the sqft of my house I can't build a bigger shop....rules of the city.......    .I will make do with what I have but it will require me building specific shelving and other things to make it all work so I can use my most common tools/equipment without taking apart half the shop to get to it. For instance I am going to have to build a rolling cart to hold my FEL bucket, pallet forks, box blade and unfortunately will have to lift my brush hog using a gantry crane and place it on top of all of it. I rarely use this implement and being up high out of the way of everything else will work out the best. Underneath it I can store a rolling tool box or two. Then I saw a project that you have a book case type shelving unit on wheels that folds out into a planner station. I might have to build a few things like this to make my shop work. Like this thread..... |
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Originally Posted By COASTIE_E4: the Tally Ho project even if your not into boats/sailing the craftsmanship is pretty admirable. Tips from a ship wright is great as well. He's currently building Orca from Jaws. |
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Originally Posted By Echd: I used to sort of feel that way, but then I thought this was a guy taking liquid plastic in super expensive walnut slabs way too seriously. Then I watched some of his videos and it's pretty apparent that he cannot believe what people pay for his own products and he riffs on himself pretty well. His videos are pretty same-y (another walnut slab with black epoxy on a metal base with c channel) but they're alright. It really does hammer home how important being established in a niche can be though, because he really is selling 20k+ tables made with prefab legs and where the most used tools appear to be a track saw, a five gallon bucket with a mixing paddle, and wide belt sander. Originally Posted By Echd: Originally Posted By farfromhome: I cannot stand his voice overs. I used to sort of feel that way, but then I thought this was a guy taking liquid plastic in super expensive walnut slabs way too seriously. Then I watched some of his videos and it's pretty apparent that he cannot believe what people pay for his own products and he riffs on himself pretty well. His videos are pretty same-y (another walnut slab with black epoxy on a metal base with c channel) but they're alright. It really does hammer home how important being established in a niche can be though, because he really is selling 20k+ tables made with prefab legs and where the most used tools appear to be a track saw, a five gallon bucket with a mixing paddle, and wide belt sander. Not one bit of joinery ever that Ive seen. The tables are interesting, but as they are lkke you described, you see one o two, do you really need to see any more? Epic Upcyling is an interesting youtube channel. They make some nice mostly shop furniture and cabinets out of pallet lumber. ***i already listed this guys youtube. Wasn't paying attention to the dates, like over a year ago. |
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Originally Posted By Skunkeye: I don't know about David Marks...I blame him for still wanting a multi-router 20 years after the show ended, same as I blame Norm Abrams for wanting a wide belt sander! Woodpeckers makes a multirouter https://www.woodpeck.com/multi-router-mortise-tenon-package.html Free shipping! And Norm didnt just have any wide belt sander, he had a big ass TimeSaver. |