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as a retired furniture maker i agree whole heartedly with its "not a mistake if you can fix it". because by this reasoning i have never made a mistake lol.
wayne lewis I’ve said that to my apprentices for thirty years. I was taught that by an 80 year old,one eyed carpenter, who outworked my 35 year old butt every day!
We can all learn by our mistakes...and how to cover them up or correct the situation. These should all be learning items, and it nice that you choose to help everyone learn how to do this, GREAT!!!
I'm using hickory for the first time for a French cleat wall. Every thing you have said about hickory is True! Splinters, brittle and variations in coloring have complicated what should have been a simple job. But, as sanded and finished with Watco tung oil in natural color, it has turned out fantastic. 2 final coats sanded with 600 grit sand paper with oil as lubricate makes the hickory look like fine furniture.....
When installing base or T&G planks marking an x on the off cut side is super helpful and it literally takes a quarter of a second to mark it. Been doing it since my apprentice days.
The Swiss cabinetmaker I worked with once upon a time always said “a mistake is something that can’t be fixed”. This guy never looked busy but pumped out the work without breaking a sweat.
James, I want to thank you for all the helpful hints and tips you share. I appreciate your contribution to the craft. You make a difference. Jim Cunningham
Just yesterday I plowed out some dados in some plywood panels and didn't realize until after I cut them all I had the table saw set at the wrong mark (I measured using the ruler on the table saw instead of measuring from the dado stack itself). Now I'm having to fill the grooves with a piece of oak I had lying around and trying again. Baltic birch plywood ain't cheap, man. Luckily, this project is for the workshop so I'm not worried about having a small strip of oak showing.
Reminds me of a newel post in my own home. I was routing flutes in the faces and forgot to drop in a stop for a jig I had made. Instead of one long flute and two short flute each side, I routed two long flutes. Doh. I had big money invested in the newel post and wasn’t about to throw it away. Long story short, 30 years and not a single soul has ever noticed it, not even the wife.
What's truly funny, is that I just got in from my shop, from having to make a patch because I had a brain fart too. I know that even masters make mistakes, everyone does, but still, it most certainly does not change the fact that I called myself some pretty horrible names, wondering how the h e double hockey sticks I was going to fix such a blatant error on the face of a piece, with wood that I had no more of, other than a few small offcuts. Thankfully I was able to overcome, and I did not have to cut off an entire section of a piece that was already put together, and now my patch is almost invisible. It always pays to stop, take a breather, think about it, and figure out a work around. Thanks for this video, I very much appreciate that others show their brain farts and how they overcome them.
I just recently got into woodworking and I've learned more from just a couple of your videos than I got in two years of woods in high school. I actually wanted to learn back then but my teacher was a couple years from retirement. All we learned was to stand beside our work benches and sweep the floor while he would read magazines in his office. After watching this video I can't help but think of you as the Bob Ross of woodworking. No mistakes just happy little accidents.
I have a sign the wife bought me hanging on the shop door. It says "Anyone can be a Woodworker, but it takes a Craftsman to hide his mistakes." I have become a craftsman out of necessity over the years. LOL.
Hickory is some of the prettiest wood imo. I made several errors when building my kids changing table and felt patching was way easier than milling up a new piece.
Nice! Eye appreciate you're helping us too no how two fix hour errands. If you don't mind, I personally would like to see how this patch looks as you go through the completion of the project. I would like to see your thoughts of where you put the patched part, how it looks with the joint assembled and how it looks with the finish on it. Your videos are the best on-line. Thank you to all your crew and family for their behind the scenes works as well.
Reattaching fingers is a lot harder than patching a mortise. I appreciate the vocal advice in this video, but please use the router handles the way they were intended!
This might be off topic but I'll ask anyway. What's your advise for a path to take in getting an llc for a woodworking business. I've been selling on Facebook marketplace for a while and I want to expand. Any advise on what to do/what not to do?
Wilson Nixon - Any lawyer can help you set up an LLC for your business. Our tax accountant helped us set up one when we had a few rentals. Helps you keep things separate from your personal account.
Thing is to fix your mistakes, before someone else will see it. Even if its not so so perfect repair, still is big chance people will think that's the way it should be done.
On one of Roy Underhill's "Woodwright Shop" episodes he featured a demonstration by a woman carver. He pointed out that she had made a mistake and she said, "Carvers don't make mistakes, they just change the design." Thumbs up to crush a troll.
My best friend often used to say, 'He who never made a mistake never made anything'! Then, when he did me the favour of running off with my first wife he proved himself absolutely correct !
@@StumpyNubs Also with a dowel, the grain showing would be end grain not edge /side so would not match. The way shown in the video is by far the best way to fix the problem. It just takes a bit of care and a bit of time.
The difference between a good carpenter and a poor carpenter is how fast he can cover the mistake. Never point out that mistake. I call them design elements.
Just had a guide slip on a 300mm long router trench on a nearly finished job. Under an hour later youtube shows this. Yep the conspiracy is real and they are watching.....
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@@zumbazumba1 Huh?
as a retired furniture maker i agree whole heartedly with its "not a mistake if you can fix it". because by this reasoning i have never made a mistake lol.
As my old mentor Mr Burdick used to say, “You don’t judge a carpenter by how many mistakes he makes, but by how well he covers them up.”
100% agree
wayne lewis
I’ve said that to my apprentices for thirty years. I was taught that by an 80 year old,one eyed carpenter, who outworked my 35 year old butt every day!
And by how many fingers they have.
That from my Uncle, A master cabinet makers and master carpenter. Local 1146
I heard something similar from my jr high shop teacher.
We can all learn by our mistakes...and how to cover them up or correct the situation. These should all be learning items, and it nice that you choose to help everyone learn how to do this, GREAT!!!
You are correct. The real talent is just as you describe in this video. Mistakes are a given making them go away is experience. Thank you.
Great recovery!
I'm using hickory for the first time for a French cleat wall. Every thing you have said about hickory is True! Splinters, brittle and variations in coloring have complicated what should have been a simple job. But, as sanded and finished with Watco tung oil in natural color, it has turned out fantastic. 2 final coats sanded with 600 grit sand paper with oil as lubricate makes the hickory look like fine furniture.....
Don't be so modest. We've learned volumes from your videos. You are a master by my estimation. It is a rare gift to be able to explain clearly.
Thanks for the great video James! 👍I hope that your hand is healing up well.
When installing base or T&G planks marking an x on the off cut side is super helpful and it literally takes a quarter of a second to mark it. Been doing it since my apprentice days.
I love my crb and the attachments.
The Swiss cabinetmaker I worked with once upon a time always said “a mistake is something that can’t be fixed”. This guy never looked busy but pumped out the work without breaking a sweat.
A craftsman is not someone who doesn't make mistakes it's just they learn how to ( unmastake) something as good as possible. Thank You Jake Bissel.
James,
I want to thank you for all the helpful hints and tips you share. I appreciate your contribution to the craft. You make a difference.
Jim Cunningham
Thanks
I don't know about sore thumbs but that patch looks awesome.
I always enjoy your videos! Thanks for the tip, James.
Great advice!
Great tips. I love the collection of tools you have on the wall
It happens ! I love my CRB7 too.
Brilliant
Just yesterday I plowed out some dados in some plywood panels and didn't realize until after I cut them all I had the table saw set at the wrong mark (I measured using the ruler on the table saw instead of measuring from the dado stack itself). Now I'm having to fill the grooves with a piece of oak I had lying around and trying again. Baltic birch plywood ain't cheap, man. Luckily, this project is for the workshop so I'm not worried about having a small strip of oak showing.
Get tip Stumpy! I can use this type of fix around my shop!
do you still use the router boss?
Reminds me of a newel post in my own home. I was routing flutes in the faces and forgot to drop in a stop for a jig I had made. Instead of one long flute and two short flute each side, I routed two long flutes. Doh. I had big money invested in the newel post and wasn’t about to throw it away. Long story short, 30 years and not a single soul has ever noticed it, not even the wife.
instead of some artists that look at their own work and cringe at the mistakes, you can see them and enjoy at how nobody has noticed them :)
LOL. Exept you looking at it every single time you walk by.
Chris Moody l am sure that fluting was a planed design feature. 😉
Oh that wife test.
What bit would you use for plunging mortise?
That's a great tip and a timely reminder...
What was the guide you used on The router?
What's truly funny, is that I just got in from my shop, from having to make a patch because I had a brain fart too. I know that even masters make mistakes, everyone does, but still, it most certainly does not change the fact that I called myself some pretty horrible names, wondering how the h e double hockey sticks I was going to fix such a blatant error on the face of a piece, with wood that I had no more of, other than a few small offcuts. Thankfully I was able to overcome, and I did not have to cut off an entire section of a piece that was already put together, and now my patch is almost invisible. It always pays to stop, take a breather, think about it, and figure out a work around. Thanks for this video, I very much appreciate that others show their brain farts and how they overcome them.
@@peterfitzpatrick7032 No, bad for the project
Wood working, prop building, welding, and more always have great ways of hiding your mistakes.
Sometimes a patch or repair can become a FEATURE.
No.1 plane 😍, lucky lucky boy, 👍
I just recently got into woodworking and I've learned more from just a couple of your videos than I got in two years of woods in high school. I actually wanted to learn back then but my teacher was a couple years from retirement. All we learned was to stand beside our work benches and sweep the floor while he would read magazines in his office. After watching this video I can't help but think of you as the Bob Ross of woodworking. No mistakes just happy little accidents.
I have a sign the wife bought me hanging on the shop door. It says "Anyone can be a Woodworker, but it takes a Craftsman to hide his mistakes." I have become a craftsman out of necessity over the years. LOL.
They say you learn from your mistakes.
You can now call me "Supergenius of Woodworking "
LOL
Hickory is some of the prettiest wood imo. I made several errors when building my kids changing table and felt patching was way easier than milling up a new piece.
Love Hickory
Nice! Eye appreciate you're helping us too no how two fix hour errands.
If you don't mind, I personally would like to see how this patch looks as you go through the completion of the project. I would like to see your thoughts of where you put the patched part, how it looks with the joint assembled and how it looks with the finish on it.
Your videos are the best on-line. Thank you to all your crew and family for their behind the scenes works as well.
Reattaching fingers is a lot harder than patching a mortise. I appreciate the vocal advice in this video, but please use the router handles the way they were intended!
sharp
That's Pete, not me. He's been warned :)
This might be off topic but I'll ask anyway. What's your advise for a path to take in getting an llc for a woodworking business. I've been selling on Facebook marketplace for a while and I want to expand. Any advise on what to do/what not to do?
Wilson Nixon - Any lawyer can help you set up an LLC for your business. Our tax accountant helped us set up one when we had a few rentals. Helps you keep things separate from your personal account.
I am learning that mistakes are not the end of the world. Not making an attempt to repair is a bit downer.
my dad used to tell me that. "the worst carpenter and the best one make the same mistakes, the differance is the best one knows how to hide them"
Thing is to fix your mistakes, before someone else will see it. Even if its not so so perfect repair, still is big chance people will think that's the way it should be done.
My mom said that she and my dad made a mistake... then she looked at me knowingly.
did they patch it up?
@@sliceofbread2611 LOLOLOL
Thanks for another great tip sir.
On one of Roy Underhill's "Woodwright Shop" episodes he featured a demonstration by a woman carver. He pointed out that she had made a mistake and she said, "Carvers don't make mistakes, they just change the design." Thumbs up to crush a troll.
Issues give pieces character.
Measure twice - cut once.
Mistrakes? the story of my life, from sewing my crest is crossed seamrippers on a field of curses, it doesn't get any better in the shop.
My best friend often used to say, 'He who never made a mistake never made anything'!
Then, when he did me the favour of running off with my first wife he proved himself absolutely correct !
"A decorative feature" not a mistake.🍋🍋🍋
wouldnt be easier to just use a dowel since the "mistake" is basically a hole?
You still have to find the center. And you need a dowel that matches the hole. I don't see how that's easier than a piece of tape.
@@StumpyNubs Also with a dowel, the grain showing would be end grain not edge /side so would not match. The way shown in the video is by far the best way to fix the problem. It just takes a bit of care and a bit of time.
Mistakes? Never! 🙄
There are no mistakes, only design changes...
In the computer business, "If you can't fix it, feature it"
That must be how Windows came to be :)
@@StumpyNubs ...if you only knew!
80% of my time is spent fixing stuff ups. I must be a real woodworker master.
as they say around here the man who never makes a mistake never made anything
Nice jig! ... But I think I'd rather wait for you to design an improved copy of one and spend $10 instead... ;)
You don't need to fix your mistakes if you have someone else to blame them on.
Well, Pete made this mistake, not me. But I've made plenty myself :)
Wait, you're saying a colour wash to hickory?
Why Stumpy, why??? 😭😭😭
She wants grey. She gets grey. It is what it is...
@@StumpyNubs it's akin to murder.
Use pine if you want to ruin the wood
@@yjk1037 Why would you rather ruin pine?
@@StumpyNubs I like pine, but would burn down a pine forest to save a hickory leaf.
A persons problem solving skills can often be traced back to the so called wasted time spent finding solutions to their mistakes.
The difference between a good carpenter and a poor carpenter is how fast he can cover the mistake. Never point out that mistake. I call them design elements.
Mistakes or character it’s all subjective.
Mistakes are easy to hide under a coat of Kilz and 3 layers of Rustoleum. . .
Don't mistakes become 'features'? 😅😆
Features that add character. :-)
Oops lol
Don't tell anyone!
Mistakes are made by human!!!
Just had a guide slip on a 300mm long router trench on a nearly finished job. Under an hour later youtube shows this. Yep the conspiracy is real and they are watching.....
Wait a minute, youre saying you're not a master?
a woodworker showsyou his mistakes . a craftsman doesnt
If I couldn`t patch I would be in a world of hurt
Fixing mistakes is generally simple. Apply wood putty and say it's "paint grade".