Cutting up a £500 Log (Ultra Rare)
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- Опубліковано 20 чер 2024
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Awesome! My father tried to grow those trees, but it is only like one out of 50 that has this, and only in small pieces, and it takeas many decades for it to reach this thickness since they grow much, much slower than ordinary birchtrees. Those are popular as traditional knfe handles in Scandinavia because it keep the fingers warm instead of draining the heat like a an antler handle in the winter. Linen seed oil finish is the traditional, but doing it right takes many day and about 3 weeks to fully set, my father still used to make them the traditional way, but most younger people don't seem to hawe the patience to make a durable oil finish anymore, properly done it should look like old British gunstacks and repel water but feel good to toch and letting the full beauty wood shine trou.
You’re freaking me out running shorts through the jointer… just watched a video from Kingfisher Woodworks where he had a short tip down and suck his hand into the jointer….
Gets me on edge too. I’m always super vigilant when doing so and always have my grip and pressure in a way that would deflect my fingers away from the cutters should something catch. Plus a super light cut
Dude! That's a beautiful reveal. I could sit and watch these sorts of things all day.
Lovely grain! I've been enjoying my new canarywood marking knife - just made a box for it out of alder, redwood and red oak. It deserved a proper home.
Such awesome wood, my favourite so far. I've turned several chisel handles and such in high grade masur birch.
Good job on the marking knives!
Why didnt you build a simple flat bottom jig with a side or pair of ends to hold the log so you could get a much straighter flatter cut?
He literally answered that question in the first 40 seconds of the video...
@@nagranoth_ not really though. And then his cut turned out twisted.
@@kz.irudimen Defo could have benefitted from a sled. But most of the twisting came from tension released when the log was cut. The instant pinching on the blade is evidence of this
@@MattEstlea2 I was wondering though- when you split the log initially and saw the "propellaring", why not cut it lengthwise again perpendicular to the first cut? That way the twist is on a smaller area instead of the entire width of the log and you'd not need to plane so much material off to get rid of it?
Wishing you good health and creating many beautiful works
Should have done some that are quarter sawn. I understand you wouldn’t want to waste material, but the part that isn’t “premium” would become premium+
I need to sell this dude some logs 🪵😳
Next try using a metal for the handle - aluminium for light weight, stainless steel for durability, brass or bronze for looking tasty !
hmmm.....not sure cuz im new to woodworking,but some operations are kinda sketchy to me..... the jointer, the way he use bandsaw even.....
There are all sorts of sled designs for crosscuting and ripping short log sections up on You Tube. Might have saved you some extra work. With a full log,, even as short as yours is/was, Have wedges ready for when the blade pinches. You have to be careful, people might start thinking of you as more of a turner.... Not a bad thing as far as I am concerned....
What was the yield on that 500 quid log?
Looks like celery root
Do you have southpaw editions too?
Ultra fun!!!
How do they source such a log for felling? Is it only very old growth or is it identified as carrying some virus or ???
It’s a specific mutation of usually betula pendula, not a decease. People grow it for sale. You can detect a karelian birch from it’s outlook (not all saplings grow to be karelian birch, but the normal variety).
I didn’t know mickey the poker player had a twin brother woodworker
Thanks for sharing.
Nice video lots of lovely knives to come.
Really nice looking grain.
Turn an end grain vessel with the pith in the center and the grain is spectacular with Masur birch
To avoid pinching you can drive a cheap chisel or screwdriver, or a wedge made from a railroad spike like I use, and keep the cut spread.
Wooden wedges work too and you can bang 'em out on the band saw pretty quick if you've got some scraps. I always use wooden wedges whether I'm re-sawing little twigs like the one in this video or a one ton log on the sawmill. I've even used wooden wedges to split a log in half length-wise because it was a bit too large in diameter for the sawmill.
@@weibullguy I've used wooden wedges too. I figured that everybody has a cheap chisel or screwdriver though.
5:00 Math with Matt!!!! Where's the graphic?!?!?!
Painful story .. 20-25 years ago I worked for a well to do kitchen company and as the workshop manager I would "collect/acquire" this type of wood and put it in my shed for projects...fast forward one summer day and my wife (now ex!) cleared the shed and binned about 500 lengths in the local tip when she had a strop!
Her lawnmower fit in well afterwards though apparently...
😂😂😂
Great video and absolutely amazing beautiful wood can’t wait to see it turned into knife handles.
Ummmm. That’s a jointer 😅
No Americano here my friend 😂
Planers and jointers are named opposite outside the USA. Cause… we’re weird.
*"We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret."* ---Earl Nightingale
Nice, but £500... Oof
Just split it into quarters, if yhe grain is strait it will be fine.
Did your barber die 2 years ago?
How do you come up with the price of £130 or slight less .... per knife I know time effort etc but really £130 come on
Supply and demand + being a highly sought after material that we’re unlikely to find again.
Based on people paying extra for the right to buy them, by signing up to his patreon, the price seems fair. Not in my price range, but clearly within some other people's.
This is what Matt tried to explain by fixing the Amazon plane. Quality takes time. You reward people doing their job well.
It’s the difference between a product produced by a large manufacturer who can employ economies of scale in their purchasing of materials and production quantities and something created by an independent crafts person.
If you’ve seen Matt’s videos on how these knives are made you know the amount of development that has gone into them and how much labour goes into each knife. Put on top of that costs of materials, tools, workshop overheads, staff costs, consumables etc and I would be surprised if Matt is even paying himself minimum wage for each knife at that price. If he paid himself a representative amount for his level of training, skill and experience these knives would cost a whole lot more.
You can buy a marking knife for £20 from a major manufacturer and it will do the job but it won’t be made or finished to anywhere near the standard of Matt’s knives.
It also won’t give you the pleasure that something of this quality does every time you look at it, or pick it up or use it.
I would argue that given the quality, beauty and pleasure that Matt’s knives provide they are ‘worth’, to me at least, substantially more than he charges. But that is just my opinion and everyone is entitled to their own.
Not made in china
Hey man, this is too much Video.