teen age woodworking #3: Milling Lumber and Some Other Stuff

Hello Teenage Woodworker.

I hate to say this but you remind me of me when I was your age.

I want to encourage you to keep up the great work, you my friend are going places.
I’m glad that there are younger woodworkers out there like yourself that are not letting this great craft die.
Thankyou for what you’re doing.

All the very best
Gord

Impressive, great job. Keep at it, you might just have something going there.

-- If you can't find the time to do it properly, how will you find the time to fix it ?

Hi Teenage Woodworker!!!

I think you’ve done more with your limited tools than I have with my workshop full. I look forward to your next episode!!

Chris

-- Chris N, Westford, MA - "If you won't eat something from your fridge that turned green...why would you eat something that started out that way?"

This is a first rate video. You presented techniques and processes here that are even advanced for some adult woodworkers. Great job!!!! Your joinery for the panel was very imaginative.

I would like to offer one suggestion, as far as your technique goes, and that is to wear a dust mask when routing. Routers make dust- period. Breathing this dust can have long term health problems.

Thanks for sharing and I look forward to your next post.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

ya, me and my dad are cleaning out our workshop and when we go to Lowe’s/Home Depot Tomorrow i am getting a respirator.

You have a brilliant future ahead of you!

I cannot begin to count the number of us older folks you just made look like an amatuer.

Keep up the excellent work with the emphasis on saftey and thanks for taking the time to do this.

-- My woodworking pictures http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m292/bnoles616/

excellent tutorial with lots of tips and tricks!

You are a natural—very relaxed and you know your stuff.

Yup – bring on the next episode!

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Great job taww, You’ll make a good teacher someday. You’re doing a fine job. Good shop skills, keep up the good work. mike

-- Mike. Profisher50@yahoo.com

Denis,

What a great job you are doing! You are a natural on camera.

It’s really cool to see a teenager embracing the craft and working with his hands where so many others have begun to ignore this. It’s also great that you understand that you don’t need a shop full of large fancy tools to do woodworking projects.

You have done such a great job that you are really making it hard for me to have any excuses for not trying to add video to my site…

Keep up the good work!

-- Mark, Webster New York, Visit my website at http://thecraftsmanspath.com

Another excellent installment, keep it up. I’m looking forward to the finished project, and the next video.

-- Andy Stark

Good on you – well presented and an inspiration to those of us who have forgotten how to do it by hand. We can only hope that there are more teenagers like you who do woodworking outside of the school shop.

-- Phil in British Columbia

Another great episode of TAWW.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Great Job TAWW!..

You’ve convinced me that my next purchase is going to be a router. I’ve been mulling over how to joint some inch thick x 2.5 inch boards to laminate them to make a wider board (also for a coat rack incidentally) – without a true jointer. I’ve got my dad’s fore plane, which I’m going to work on rehabing, but the router will do so many other things.

BTW.. is it safe to be creating fine saw dust near the furnace? Isn’t there a risk that the furnace could ignite the sawdust? Just wondering.

-- - living vicariously through lumberjocks

Well i usually don’t work when the furnace is on and after I’m done i always clean thoroughly so that there is almost no sawdust left in the shop.

Cool – as long as you’re aware of the possibility and taking steps to avoid an issue then you’re good.

-- - living vicariously through lumberjocks

Right on, I like your enthusiasm toward this craft and I hope you can keep it going and inspire more young folks to get involved in woodworking! Keep up the good work!

-- --Chuck

Kewl: I wished that I had your “go for it” attitude at your age, I hope my grandson can see from your vids, that even at a young age that we all can learn, from ANY ONE young or old that you are all ways learning some thing new, who ever it be from. And that a open mind wiil never close due to lack of business

-- saw dust makes tree huggers happy

I’m impressed!
looks like Mr. Spagnuolo has some competition!
keep up the good work.

-- ~ www.darrylmasterson.com ~ www.woodworkingdungeon.blogspot.com ~

Well done, Denis!

I agree with darryl (and I like Marc a lot!) :)

-- Steve (Plano, TX)

I see a DIY show in your future. Excellent presentation. Great attention to process and you keep the viewer “in the loop” constantly. These are qualities that some professional how-to experts could learn from you. Well done!

-- Sir Robert

Great job! I see Norm has a protege in the making. You show the same easy going presentation style. One thing… I hope that was waxed paper you uused in protecting the clamps from glue. Regular paper just sticks to the glue, but waxed paper will not. You can even use the waxed paper to lubricate your table saw tops, too. Very good presentation using a limited amount of power tools!

God Bless,
Hawg

-- Saving barnwood from the scrapyards