@@maryannmitchell1734 yo no way I’m from Worcester MA too! Just watched this video and scrolled through this comment chain for good vibes and saw yours, small world ig🤷🏽♂️😂💯
I've told people who have asked me "Why aren't you using the table saw or the miter saw?" when I'm cutting wood that "Well I guess in this case I'm a hippy, because I do it in order to form a better bond between myself and the wood." Out of all of the things I have opinions on in life, I have a very high opinion of wood. Wood has a soul to it, just like us. It was, at one time, a living thing, and it has a story to tell and you have to respect that. To always be using power tools with everything wood related brings you that much further away from that connection to the wood.
The grain patterns tell the stories of the trees, the least we could do is work them with care and patience to preserve these stories and the intricacies they posess. To hold it in your hands and read its tales of drought, growth, fires, illness, injuries, and healing through centuries and realize you get to shape these stories into ornate displays of craftsmanship is a very deep connection indeed.
Very satisfying that some of your generation have true respect and sensitive appreciation of natures abundance if you take time to see, feel and work with it. Another interesting video, many thanks🎉😊
I'm pleased with your approach to hand tools and wood. I'm a painter ( artist ) and my support of choice is wooden panel. You are a great woodworker. Interesting videos also😎
My grandpa would have loved this kid, I'm 25 and I'm a welder by trade but I've been building a wood working bench with a steel add-on for metal work it'll be insulated from the wood incase of arcing but I need a place to store tools and do projects out of the dirt. Fortunately with my grandpa's rearing I'm familiar enough with most tools and building, with creators like eoin I can pick up tricks and tips my gramps was never able get to me.
Thank you for being imperfect like the rest of humanity and for having the integrity to include a little mistake. I make at least a few mistakes on every project and that’s how one can tell they were made by hand and not a soulless machine. Your videos are great!
This guy could only be Irish. The way he loves and talks about the wood is pure poetry. My dad used many of the tools he uses as I'm from Sheffield. The home of steel.
I've said this before but it bears repeating: I don't do woodworking. At all. But i love to watch your videos, as they are very relaxing and informational, and I love your enthusiasm for working with hand tools! It's very refreshing!
If you enjoy his enthusiasm I'd say give woodworking a try, you might pick it up in no time and find that it too is quite relaxing. Maybe try out a weekend class or something if you're up for it.
You've really got me inspired to start using hand tools to create things. I hope someday I'll be able to create something like this. For now, I'm getting started on putting my workshop together. I'll need to learn how to make that wood bench vise you use in almost every video.
Very impressive young man! You remind me of Roy Underhill. I used to watch his show on PBS. He also used old school methods of woodcraft. Keep up the good work!
100's of maybe thousands of Singer Treadle sewing machines were made before the electric ones were. The were driven by a treadle that rocks back and forth which drives a pulley and a belt that drives another pulley and it drives the machine. These days the machine itself is used to decorate. They look really nice. And the base is usually turned into a table. That's nice too. But you can use it to make a lathe and that's even better. Did any Singer Treadle sewing machines make it to where you are? Love your videos. Have tools I haven't seen in a long time. 🤔😎
Been reading ‘The Wisdom of Trees’ by Max Adams. Highly recommend reading!! He describes a pole lathe… had no idea what it was so had to find out… this is a great video man, thank you 🙏 Cool to see people keeping alive ancient crafts!
Dang, I hope to find a bean drill someday! I don't think they are very common in Scandinavia, unfortunately. Nice work. I'm glad you remember to share your mistakes. Mistakes and how to correct them are part of woodworking. That's one thing I love about working with wood-you can always figure out some way to correct a mistake or build around it.
Seen a few of these in person and their simplicity and effectiveness has always impressed me. When I started out as a jeweller we learned how to use a bow drill which works on a similar principle but is handheld (you should definitely get or make yourself one of them too by the way!) If you have a PO box or some sort of mailing address, I've got some lathe gouges I can send you, they're from around the 70's so not as old as most of your tools and they'll need a bit of TLC but nothing auld Busybollocks couldn't handle 😂
The first lathe I ever saw was a beam lathe! Some happy memories of me and my dad at a Green Woodworking show in a Forest near Liverpool! Great video, cheers from West Cork!
Eoin you are alot like Rex Kruger in that using hand tools is the entry to any person to develop skill. I.e. I never had a diamond plate always just used a angle grinder and a little 1000 grit. So thank you for staying the course 😂
I would like to make a pole lathe to produce handles for tools I am restoring and whilst I understand the principle, I was unsure how to tackle it, but now all is clear, so thank you for a very interesting and informative video.
When I did re-enactment years ago I was the muscle powering a Roman bow lathe, it is a simpler lathe and required 2-3 people, but you could turn timber very quickly when the carpenter was solely focused on turning, and the two lads took turns pulling and pushing the bow. I can see the advantages of having a pole lathe making better use of labour though.
This video really makes me wish I were in Ireland so I could try it myself. I look forward to more videos starring this lovely lady (don't know why, but this lathe seems like a lady to me, perhaps it's the combination of utility and grace).
You really began two years ago? I started roughly the same time, and you’ve built all of the things I’ve wanted to 😂 shave horse, pole lathe.. it’s great to see other young woodworkers getting it done. I don’t have as much time as I’d like, keep it up mate. I’m 100% here for it
Pure class 👏 keep your fantastic work up well done man , very interesting and relaxing to watch ! I like the way you made the mistake and told us , and went away and redone it , worked out very well in the end , thanks for sharing your gift very enjoyable to watch , your keeping it as real as can be fair play Eoin .
Also, hand tools are more sensory friendly. Power tools are hecking loud, expensive, and difficult to control. As an autistic person who wants to do DIY stuff, those are good factors for me. Plus handmaking stuff is just fricking fun.
hey Eoin really nice job on the mortice and tenon joints! Im impressed with your hand sawing skills. And the beam drill is wonderful. What a tool, you use 2 inch augers? One way you can make an even stronger connection is to first bore through the morticed part only, smash the tenon all the way in, mark the center location with the auger point only in the tenon, take the leg out again move the center point just 2 mm towards the shoulder (make sure its the right direction! eh, dont ask me how I know), just taper front end the dowel slightly so it will actually have a chance to align the 2 misaligned holes. I hope this makes sense.
Would a dedicated pulley+chuck for the string to fit into make sense? I've watched a few videos now about pole lathes and it seems like the string is something that continuously has to be managed. Making a wooden pulley+chuck that both has a groove for the string and holds onto one side of the piece is a lot more involved than a poppet. But if anyone could figure out how to make it work, you'd absolutely be able to! Maybe you start with two poppets to round in one side of your rough billet, then swap one poppet out for the pulley-chuck? Then you don't have to think about moving the string again!
Love the lathe and all your old tools. Where did you find the plans for the lathe? I would love to build one. We are off grid and remote. I would turn more if I did not have to use so much power.
Lovely job mate. I've been wanting to build a pole lathe for a while myself, to that end I have modified a design from a woodworker named Roy Underhill. My goal with this, being that I play uilleann pipes and am interested in their history, is to try to recreate the tools and techniques a pipemaker may have used in the 18th century when the instrument came into its own.
Hello from Texas! I really enjoyed the video, and I'm hoping that one day I'll be able to make my own man-powered lathe. What are your thoughts on treadle lathes, and have you ever considered making one of your own?
Would you consider modifying this into a bow lathe? I imagine it would be quite satisfying to work some yew into a long bow, and also save working space to set up that giant pole setup.
Do you generally prefer to chisel the shoulders of the cheeks off of your tenons as you did here for the feet or do you crosscut them as well? I worry about over-sawing the shoulders, but I am interested to know if you think there is an advantage to the chisel method.
Thanks for sharing your talents with the world, your a wunderkind. Do you know of Dick Proenneke? He went out into the wilderness with some tool heads and build an entire cabin from scratch using hand tools, on his own! There should be a video of his story out there on the inter web somewhere. Cheers! Linstead
Is this actually worth the time making if you don't want to buy an actual lathe? I am trying to decide if I should make one for making new handles for my chisels.
No footage of you without a hat on , why's that Eoin ??? If your starting to loose you hair, don't worry about it mate, I lost my hair in my early twenties, I was gutted about it at first but i just shaved it all off and got over it. Rather than thinking I was going bald, I looked at it as gaining scalp.
That is not a rip saw , but a general purpose saw a rip saw has 6 or less teeth per inch and is sharpened square to the saw the front of the tooth is between 90deg and min 15 deg from the line of teeth
Is there something magic about your cap? I don't recall seeing you without it EVER. Just curious. If it is indeed a magic cap, there's no reason for shame. I have a magic door on my shop. I know it's magic, because if I am in my house and go out to my shop for a tool, as soon as I pass through that doorway, my mind goes blank until perhaps later on, I remember and head back to the shop only to host a repeat performance. Heck of it I s, that door works in both directions. It's magic, I tell ya.
Hope that every reader of this comment has a day as good as this video.
Thank you very much. Yourself too!
Thanks buddy, you too
Glanced at this comment at the beginning of the video and thought “well I hope the video is good” 😂😂😂
WOW Thank you and God Bless . Such a simple gesture does make a beautiful day . ATB Gail from Worcester Massachusetts…❤❤❤❤❤
@@maryannmitchell1734 yo no way I’m from Worcester MA too! Just watched this video and scrolled through this comment chain for good vibes and saw yours, small world ig🤷🏽♂️😂💯
I've told people who have asked me "Why aren't you using the table saw or the miter saw?" when I'm cutting wood that "Well I guess in this case I'm a hippy, because I do it in order to form a better bond between myself and the wood." Out of all of the things I have opinions on in life, I have a very high opinion of wood. Wood has a soul to it, just like us. It was, at one time, a living thing, and it has a story to tell and you have to respect that. To always be using power tools with everything wood related brings you that much further away from that connection to the wood.
The grain patterns tell the stories of the trees, the least we could do is work them with care and patience to preserve these stories and the intricacies they posess. To hold it in your hands and read its tales of drought, growth, fires, illness, injuries, and healing through centuries and realize you get to shape these stories into ornate displays of craftsmanship is a very deep connection indeed.
@@100GTAGUY I need not explain anything to you. You get it completely.
Very satisfying that some of your generation have true respect and sensitive appreciation of natures abundance if you take time to see, feel and work with it. Another interesting video, many thanks🎉😊
I'm pleased with your approach to hand tools and wood. I'm a painter ( artist ) and my support of choice is wooden panel. You are a great woodworker. Interesting videos also😎
Bonding with wood? You need help.
Its so refreshing to see someone younger share such enthusiasm for hand tools. I share much sympathy with you! Love these new videos!
My grandpa would have loved this kid, I'm 25 and I'm a welder by trade but I've been building a wood working bench with a steel add-on for metal work it'll be insulated from the wood incase of arcing but I need a place to store tools and do projects out of the dirt. Fortunately with my grandpa's rearing I'm familiar enough with most tools and building, with creators like eoin I can pick up tricks and tips my gramps was never able get to me.
Thank you for being imperfect like the rest of humanity and for having the integrity to include a little mistake. I make at least a few mistakes on every project and that’s how one can tell they were made by hand and not a soulless machine. Your videos are great!
Listening to this is like a manly bedtime story….the accent….chefs kiss
This guy could only be Irish. The way he loves and talks about the wood is pure poetry. My dad used many of the tools he uses as I'm from Sheffield. The home of steel.
I grew up with these tools. Some, I've never seen. Insanely cool.
I respect your using hand tool. Any body can use a drill. Your the Irish Roy Underhill of our generation. Thank you for your craft.
I've said this before but it bears repeating: I don't do woodworking. At all. But i love to watch your videos, as they are very relaxing and informational, and I love your enthusiasm for working with hand tools! It's very refreshing!
If you enjoy his enthusiasm I'd say give woodworking a try, you might pick it up in no time and find that it too is quite relaxing.
Maybe try out a weekend class or something if you're up for it.
these videos have become such a guilty pleasure to watch
I love above all else that you are willing to film and admit your mistakes. Loving all your content!
I love the concentration face whilst sawing the tenons 😂 great video as always ❤
You've really got me inspired to start using hand tools to create things. I hope someday I'll be able to create something like this. For now, I'm getting started on putting my workshop together. I'll need to learn how to make that wood bench vise you use in almost every video.
Very impressive young man! You remind me of Roy Underhill. I used to watch his show on PBS. He also used old school methods of woodcraft. Keep up the good work!
You have given me a new appreciation for tools I got from my dad
100's of maybe thousands of Singer Treadle sewing machines were made before the electric ones were.
The were driven by a treadle that rocks back and forth which drives a pulley and a belt that drives another pulley and it drives the machine.
These days the machine itself is used to decorate. They look really nice. And the base is usually turned into a table. That's nice too.
But you can use it to make a lathe and that's even better.
Did any Singer Treadle sewing machines make it to where you are?
Love your videos. Have tools I haven't seen in a long time. 🤔😎
Yes lad, loving the longer form content
Been reading ‘The Wisdom of Trees’ by Max Adams. Highly recommend reading!! He describes a pole lathe… had no idea what it was so had to find out… this is a great video man, thank you 🙏 Cool to see people keeping alive ancient crafts!
Dang, I hope to find a bean drill someday! I don't think they are very common in Scandinavia, unfortunately.
Nice work. I'm glad you remember to share your mistakes. Mistakes and how to correct them are part of woodworking. That's one thing I love about working with wood-you can always figure out some way to correct a mistake or build around it.
Hand tool and things built to last a generation I could watch this all day keep up the awesome work you have a brilliant future ahead of you 👍👍
Seen a few of these in person and their simplicity and effectiveness has always impressed me. When I started out as a jeweller we learned how to use a bow drill which works on a similar principle but is handheld (you should definitely get or make yourself one of them too by the way!)
If you have a PO box or some sort of mailing address, I've got some lathe gouges I can send you, they're from around the 70's so not as old as most of your tools and they'll need a bit of TLC but nothing auld Busybollocks couldn't handle 😂
Sounds wonderful lad, if you could email me a I could send an address onto you.
This looks amazing!
Another lovely satisfying build. Thanks for posting this!
I am so envious. I wish I had a beam drill like that.
The first lathe I ever saw was a beam lathe! Some happy memories of me and my dad at a Green Woodworking show in a Forest near Liverpool! Great video, cheers from West Cork!
Eoin you are alot like Rex Kruger in that using hand tools is the entry to any person to develop skill. I.e. I never had a diamond plate always just used a angle grinder and a little 1000 grit. So thank you for staying the course 😂
That's amazing! Great work, as usual!
That is so cool! The beam drill is amazing!
I would like to make a pole lathe to produce handles for tools I am restoring and whilst I understand the principle, I was unsure how to tackle it, but now all is clear, so thank you for a very interesting and informative video.
I've wanted to make a treadle lathe some day. Nice work on this one. Good catch on the mistake.
When I did re-enactment years ago I was the muscle powering a Roman bow lathe, it is a simpler lathe and required 2-3 people, but you could turn timber very quickly when the carpenter was solely focused on turning, and the two lads took turns pulling and pushing the bow. I can see the advantages of having a pole lathe making better use of labour though.
You learnt that polade of the lad in clare making the bowls eoin 💯🇮🇪
“Another mortise upon that tenon” title of my memoirs i think
That looks so relaxing.
That beam drill is a bonnie, a beauty and a joy forever to be sure!
I’m convinced you would film these with a pinhole camera if you could 😂😂
This is so cool! I may build one myself one day when I have the space for it
This video really makes me wish I were in Ireland so I could try it myself. I look forward to more videos starring this lovely lady (don't know why, but this lathe seems like a lady to me, perhaps it's the combination of utility and grace).
Outstanding work, I love the videos.
Damn i get sleepy watching this
very satisfying
Awesome..
Love your work mate!
Good video and good lathe; the sticks you got look more like hazel than beech.
Watching that timber fall as he was cutting out the mortise was like watching someone drop a baby.
As an aside, those cast iron stands are damn-impressive. I'm not certain I'd fully trust a modern set of saw horses enough to sit and work on.
Love this man
Good work. Wish I could make things like that
Fun build - anticipate seeing a good many chairs in the future.
I like that you showed us the silly mistake you made boring the wholes. As woodworkers we all make them. Very relatable.
You could use a large metal spring suspended from a removable cross bar, making your tool easier move about, like to a craft fair.
You really began two years ago? I started roughly the same time, and you’ve built all of the things I’ve wanted to 😂 shave horse, pole lathe.. it’s great to see other young woodworkers getting it done. I don’t have as much time as I’d like, keep it up mate. I’m 100% here for it
Very fun to watch. Thanks for sharing.
Beautifully done lad
Hey cool and robust design, i have mine too, keep turning 😊
Just awsome!
Very cool. I want to make one.
Pure class 👏 keep your fantastic work up well done man , very interesting and relaxing to watch ! I like the way you made the mistake and told us , and went away and redone it , worked out very well in the end , thanks for sharing your gift very enjoyable to watch , your keeping it as real as can be fair play Eoin .
Really interesting. I am interesting is the fly wheel table saws and and hand cranked dirll press
Also, hand tools are more sensory friendly. Power tools are hecking loud, expensive, and difficult to control. As an autistic person who wants to do DIY stuff, those are good factors for me.
Plus handmaking stuff is just fricking fun.
Square lashings and a frames? There’s a man who spent a while in the scouts.
Over a decade at this stageb
truly fascinating i love that so much im using these videos to help me in my dnd games lol
more lore for my woodworkers
Really neat!
hey Eoin really nice job on the mortice and tenon joints! Im impressed with your hand sawing skills. And the beam drill is wonderful. What a tool, you use 2 inch augers?
One way you can make an even stronger connection is to first bore through the morticed part only, smash the tenon all the way in, mark the center location with the auger point only in the tenon, take the leg out again move the center point just 2 mm towards the shoulder (make sure its the right direction! eh, dont ask me how I know), just taper front end the dowel slightly so it will actually have a chance to align the 2 misaligned holes. I hope this makes sense.
I really love your content and aesthetic, keep it up!
Would a dedicated pulley+chuck for the string to fit into make sense? I've watched a few videos now about pole lathes and it seems like the string is something that continuously has to be managed. Making a wooden pulley+chuck that both has a groove for the string and holds onto one side of the piece is a lot more involved than a poppet. But if anyone could figure out how to make it work, you'd absolutely be able to!
Maybe you start with two poppets to round in one side of your rough billet, then swap one poppet out for the pulley-chuck? Then you don't have to think about moving the string again!
Before today I had little interest in wood work. I could watch you for hours.
Nice job, that old auger is a beauty. What Irish brand thinking caps do you like lad
Thats class man! Fair balls
The second pole lathe I’ve seen, first being Robin Wood
Thanks for sharing your mistake, great fun!
(This from someone who last week cut off the pins from a dovetail joint pinboard...)
Love the lathe and all your old tools. Where did you find the plans for the lathe? I would love to build one. We are off grid and remote. I would turn more if I did not have to use so much power.
You need a goose-neck chisel to get the bottom of a blind mortise smoothed out some.
Hello! Hope you’re having a great day!
Lovely job mate. I've been wanting to build a pole lathe for a while myself, to that end I have modified a design from a woodworker named Roy Underhill. My goal with this, being that I play uilleann pipes and am interested in their history, is to try to recreate the tools and techniques a pipemaker may have used in the 18th century when the instrument came into its own.
Might have to cross the pond to see this in person
Hello from Texas! I really enjoyed the video, and I'm hoping that one day I'll be able to make my own man-powered lathe. What are your thoughts on treadle lathes, and have you ever considered making one of your own?
Yes it's rough and blocky, but it's also a thing of a beauty and a function. It works! Than you!
Would you consider modifying this into a bow lathe? I imagine it would be quite satisfying to work some yew into a long bow, and also save working space to set up that giant pole setup.
Dear sir like the old school tools and hand tools only the drill is brilliant and l like is it possible one from eBay and thanks for your video
Be a right lot of linseed oil you'll need for that! Fine bit of craft there.
You are who I aspire to be
Awesome stuff! Haha it seems that society has come full circle and a literal boring machine looks incredibly fun to use!
God bless x
The machete in our fireplace woodbox was from Sheffield.
Was there a particular alloy used for
" Sheffield Steel" ?
Lad I have no doubt that you will smooth out the rough edges of you lathe. 🧐🤔👊👍🙏
Do you generally prefer to chisel the shoulders of the cheeks off of your tenons as you did here for the feet or do you crosscut them as well? I worry about over-sawing the shoulders, but I am interested to know if you think there is an advantage to the chisel method.
Fair play.
Thanks for sharing your talents with the world, your a wunderkind.
Do you know of Dick Proenneke? He went out into the wilderness with some tool heads and build an entire cabin from scratch using hand tools, on his own!
There should be a video of his story out there on the inter web somewhere.
Cheers!
Linstead
🖤🖤🖤
I’m just interested how do you know how deep to make the mortise
“so i headed down to the forest” to live in a place just to say that when i need something
😍
Where do you get all these antique tools from?
I'm wondering if you would not get better speed and control by using a flywheel like on a spinning wheel??
Love it. 👍. I REMEMBER ON ONE OF YOUR TIKTOK VIDEOS I ASK YOU HOW MUCH INCH IS THE WIDEST BOW SAW BLADE IN WIDTH? CAN U TELL ME? THANKS
Is this actually worth the time making if you don't want to buy an actual lathe?
I am trying to decide if I should make one for making new handles for my chisels.
Thank for showing your mistakes.
And for not showing your capless bonce
Great work
What part of the country are you in Eoin
No footage of you without a hat on , why's that Eoin ??? If your starting to loose you hair, don't worry about it mate, I lost my hair in my early twenties, I was gutted about it at first but i just shaved it all off and got over it. Rather than thinking I was going bald, I looked at it as gaining scalp.
That is not a rip saw , but a general purpose saw a rip saw has 6 or less teeth per inch and is sharpened square to the saw the front of the tooth is between 90deg and min 15 deg from the line of teeth
eoin how do you sharpen an auger it looks scary
Is there something magic about your cap? I don't recall seeing you without it EVER. Just curious.
If it is indeed a magic cap, there's no reason for shame. I have a magic door on my shop.
I know it's magic, because if I am in my house and go out to my shop for a tool, as soon as I pass through that doorway, my mind goes blank until perhaps later on, I remember and head back to the shop only to host a repeat performance.
Heck of it I s, that door works in both directions. It's magic, I tell ya.