I don't know how in the world you're able to make 30 to 40 minute videos filled with so much information while still keeping my attention. I've seen people talk about wood moving with moisture but never saw anything so clear about the how and why of it. Thank you.

This is possibly the most eye opening woodworking video I’ve ever seen! Thank you!

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These wood working videos are worth while

As a new wannabe woodworker, I'm not sure I can express how lucky I feel that I found your channel. The amount of knowledge that you offer for free is simply astonishing. You are a great educator. Nothing pretentious, just good information covering a topic in depth without trying to dumb it down. It's just amazing thank you for everything.

As someone starting out in woodworking this series has been so informative! At first I considered skipping this prerequisite course just so that I can get straight into the woodworking, but I decided why not check it out? This has been amazing and I’m learning so much! I never understood why the doors in my house fit different season to season (they’re cheap ones) but this explains a lot on how the wood behaves. Thank you so much!

Still watching but needed to comment asap ... wonderful content and easy to understand ... I’m a wanna be woodworker [65 years young and about to retire] and considering my first table saw. I love to learn and to teach ... I’ve now seen a number of your videos ... GREAT & Thank you very much!

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Thank you SO much, this was the best explanation about wood grain I've seen

Man... I've learned more about wood with this video than all the hundreds of hours I spent on youtube before put together, thank you so much. I just wish there was a channel like this in spanish (I still struggle a lot with the vocabulary, cause many tools I still haven't found their right names in spanish and stuff like that, most I only know the names in englsih and they can be very very different). You, Paul Sellers (obviously) and Rex Krueger are my no doubt top three here. Thanks again.

Wow! this video is a great explanation of how wood moves I finally understand this. You are great teacher, love these videos thank you so much!

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Just learned about you from my youngest son. Awsome content, thanks for the excellent information. And presenting it in an interesting and for me easy to learn fashion.

You are a natural teacher. I really appreciate your sharing your knowledge! I'm using your classes on here to get started with woodworking and loving that I've found such a thorough explanation of everything I need to know. It can be frustrating trying to put all the information together from a bunch of different sources.

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As O believe I already said you, I!m a naval architect/wooden boat builder that for the last 20 years has been studying the wood type's and their characteristics for applying in boat construction. I couldn't have explained it better, sorry actually I couldn't have explained it as simply and clearly. Great video on understanding wood, is uses and limitations.

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Great tutorial! I forgot what I used to know! Some parts of this video, I went back and played it again, just to absorb this cranial knowledge! I loved the comparison of zombies to tree trunks! This is, as they say now, “DOPE”! 👍👍👍💖

So incredibly informative. Why do not more woodworkers explain or cover this? Just amazing...

Fascinating stuff. Thank you.

I now understand why all the pressure treated posts cracked within a year of the fence being built. The moisture evaporated and the wood cracked. I later installed a steel gatepost adjacent to each of the 4x4 pressure treated posts. This year I will rehang the wooden gates with steel gate posts. Overkill for sure, but the posts won't crack and warp. Thank you!

Thank you for starting this series! I really need it and have learned a lot already. I watched your Tips #66 video a while ago and had never seen this type of information anywhere else. I watched it again a few weeks later to understand it better. Very good information to help us succeed with our projects.

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Great video! Love the zombies analogy. Packed with information. Thanks for sharing. Can’t wait for the next video👍

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This is the most informative and educational video that I’ve watched about wood working. Excellent presentation!!! Thank you.

Shawn, excellent as always. You are a treasure to the woodworking community.

This was a GREAT and informative video. Never really thought about just how much wood can change when working and over time with changes in temp and humidity.

Shawn, I love that you continue to take me to school. In fact, it's your turning videos that got me started with turning (and ultimately starting a small business). You're still one of two turners on YT that enabled me to truly understand my "first cuts" on the lathe. (the other hasn't been active for almost 6 years)

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Great stuff!! Keep those videos rolling, please. Waiting for the next one....

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This is the best explanation of the nature of wood.

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Great video, awesome lessons!!! Keep on teaching, my friend! Very, very informative.

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Your knowledge, passion, and attitude toward learning and teaching has instantly made you one of my favourite channels on KZread. I just want to say from one man to another, thank you. I appreciate what you're doing here. Over the last 3 videos in this series I have been locked to the screen the entire time. Your excitement for your craft shows through in the videos and is definitely part of the reason you are going to be very successful in this endeavor. I'm glad you have found some value in posting your videos here, because the amount of value I have taken away from them already is irreplaceable. Keep answering questions I never knew I had. Thank you so much.

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Awe wow-the light bulb came on. Very understandable presentation.

makes a lot of sense. zombies - love it!

Another good vid in your series. As I get back into the fundamentals and science of this craft after many years away, it’s good to get information like this. Thanks for sharing.

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Your Dad can be real proud of you. Another great tutorial. Thank you and keep safe.

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What a great teacher

Thank you so much for this video. I'm learning a lot, and you're very good at explaining the subject.

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I’m so happy that I have found your channel, these videos are so well constructed as an educational resource even for someone who is not interested in woodworking.

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Good stuff, like all your videos! Thank you.

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Excellent presention . There is a great interview with Richard Feynman in which he answers the question “where do trees come from?” Feynman was a brilliant physicist, a true eccentric, and a superb storyteller and explainer. Track the video down, it is worth it.

It was nice to see this all put together in one video . Nice thanks

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Fantastic! I don't know what this style of learning/teaching is, but it works for me!

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4 жыл бұрын

@@1DrBar Whenever I'm taught how to do something, very rarely does the person teaching show WHY it's done that way and what happens or can happen when you don't. Shawn does!

"As tree morticians, we must learn to control our zombies...." - Great line! I am not sure it applies to wood, but wouldn't the converse to radially be tangentially?

Wahoo, that was one of the most educated video and deeply explained on wood i have ever heard!!! In all other video they talked in most general way terms with out explanation that i really understand. Keep on teaching and i hope that i will absorb more to better wood worker( for now it's a hobby but in the future....) . Take care, be safe and stay sharp!!!

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Great information, thank you! Very informative video.

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A wonderful video. It gave me a new vision. Thanks a lot

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I watch a fair few wood working video's, most of the other ones charge money for their knowledge, you are running the first free course I have seen, you obviously care about the ordinary wood worker because you don't charge or advertise for your knowledge. This I appreciate very much. so stay safe and enjoy yourself. kindest regards Bill (Australia)

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Well said, sir. Have enjoyed your channel for some time and the lessons are worth the effort to watch repeated times.

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Good stuff, I'm not a newbie to woodworking but this brings you back to the basics. Always important to understand, and not to forget the fundamentals. I'm a big fan, Shawn! Oh and I'm enjoying beating with my Orange Osage mallet. Yeah could've turned it myself but please support this guy!

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Thanks for the video. Very informative. With the woodworking I do, I use the stuff no one else wants. Scrap, junk, hollowed logs, etc. The more I save from the burn pile or landfill, the better.

@wortheffort

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Ya I covered that stuff in a video called "Wood Butchery".

Tree morticians! :) Thank you for this video.

Anyone who can invoke George Romero in an educational context is a true master in my book.

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Wow! I am starting out in woodworking (working up to make weaving looms) and I have always shied away from sheet goods, osb and mdf. Maybe using sheet good might be a very good option, as I do not want to loose the right angles I have everywhere. Thanks so much.

Great teacher

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AWSUM series....

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I learned the hard way about wood movement. my first finger joint project, I got 3 sides of a box done, working on my last side, already did the detail work and just finishing the last fingers (it was easier to do it that way). Didn't notice on the last 2 fingers, me trimming the edge with the fingers allowed the whole board to split. So me trimming the last fingers, they where out of alignment. Cursed, yelled and threw that board clean across my shop and got a beer.

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I'm now worried that my table is going to attack me for my brains. Nightmares beckon.

This is why your house creeks when the tempreture changes.

ZOMBIES! Class video as ever, totally unique style and approach! Keep them coming dude!

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Zombies?! what are yall smoking down there in the hill country?? lol great video!!

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I think you also need to touch on upgrade lumber which is also used in a lot of wood applications.

Great video. Now, I'm not sure I can sleep tonight. I'm surrounded by ZOMBIES!!

Everything I know about woodworking I learned from Lucio Fulci.

I have been dabbling in home woodworking since high school wood shop (about 55 years ago). I am enjoying your prerequisite series. We never stop learning. I love your zombies analogy.

Hmm, so if you had fresh lumber laying at a small incline with a gutter bellow it you could reroute the water back into the fields to nourish new growth saplings. I.E Field 1 new cut field, field 2 last cut field pile the lumber, field 3 previous lumber field now empty with new saplings planted or a different wood. Each plant has its own chemicals biologically produced and broken down from the wood and the sap, might as well rotate them and make use of the waste to make good soil with ground water.

THANKS fro taking the time to make this video! I was just given some trees that where pushed down to make way for some new business. The largest is about a Siberian elem that is 36" to 48" wide at the base. and it is straight for 12 feet. there is also hack berry mulberry and walnut. But they are in the 24" range at the base. I want to buck them up into logs that a saw mill can handle. Then I will be air drying in the hay now above my shop. I was going to cut right at the rot ball but now I know that that wood may move on me. I am also going cut back a bit from the Y's to avoid that wood that may move. But from watching your other videos I will be saving the Y's for bowl blanks. the fist Y on the Siberian Elm is massive large. Do you have any suggestions on projects for a Y that is at least 24 inch before it starts to branch out? THANKS for taking time out of you day to make these very good woodworking videos ! ! Even though I have been doing amateur woodworking for almost 50 years I still learn some thing from you every video . THANKS Again Dan H

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4 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Sectioning them for bowls or door panels is what I'd do. Make sure you seal them up as they crack fast.

"Trees are zombies in your furniture" 🤣

It would be pointless tell you that you are born to teach, so I will not tell you. I will ask you, instead, a silly question that I was thinking about this days: how can I tell which part of a board is pointing toward the roots or towards the branches of the original tree? As always, thank you for sharing this.

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4 жыл бұрын

taper and if you develop it, feel.

So if you identify something as branching wood, is it important to use non power tools?

The points you’re making at 5:15 onwards, I don’t understand- there must be a lot less tension in that wood, it’s already been cut from the tree. That’s a really interesting question; how much tension is in a branch, recently cut from a tree, that 20 minutes ago was supporting hundreds of pounds seven or 8 feet from it’s center? Thousands of pounds of torque, and within an hour it could be on your bandsaw. Do we have a tool that could measure that wood’s “momentum”?

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2 жыл бұрын

Tension is inbetween the cells. You cut a branch off doesn’t change tension in between cells still present.

Zombies...never thought about wood that way...making me laugh...a lot....THANK YOU

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I unliked your vid just so i could like it again.

As I was watching this I've been sorting mahogany pieces that just arrived for ukuleles. I've cut down my own trees and and bought logs and watched the guy 1/4 saw them for me. I dried the lumber in my upper apartment. I steam bent some ash for snowshoes. I was really enjoying this but now I don't know if I can sleep with all of these zombies around me.

wood worker video, trees only things in focus.

@wortheffort

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, the subject of this video was the material we build with.

I think YT has struck and the sound is out of sync with the video

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4 жыл бұрын

Haven't heard this from anyone else. Might be on your end.

Romero has proven...!

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4 жыл бұрын

yep, it's science.

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4 жыл бұрын

@@wortheffort Should have been Shawn of The Dead.

“…and all the wood comes up underneath it…” Sincerely - I don’t understand what this means

Hmmm . . . Native American?

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scottish viking

It's interesting that you use the word 'designed' regarding the tree, and you go on to say their design was 'only' to absorb carbon from the atmosphere, sunlight, and water'. You stated that they were never designed to be a building material.. I believe in God, the creator, and so I am in agreement with you when you use the word, 'designed'. The evolutionist can not, and does not use the word design because they don't accept that there was ever a 'designer'.. that would infer that ID is true... However my point is this.. If trees were designed by God, and God also created man, and is Omniscient, how do we know that God didn't have building in mind when He designed the tree? When God designed food crops, He had feeding man and animals in mind, didn't He? My point? I think it's a bit arbitrary for us to say a tree is designed to absorb Co2, turn the carbon into it's physical substance, and release the O2 back into the atmosphere, and then say it wasn't designed to be building material.. Not important, not meaning to pick nits, just making a point about design, and what a being that can design and create the world and the life in it would have been capable of.

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4 жыл бұрын

Dude, you're reading way to into my meaning. Not that deep.

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@@wortheffort I'm merely pointing out that it's better to think about what we say rather than not.