wow! The size of the work is amazing. Compared to this, what I make looks like a toy. Someday, I would like to create works of this size. I enjoyed watching you work in the cool garden. I subscribed and will come back often to watch your videos. Thank you for your hard work.
Unfortunitly a big Mistake was made during construction, water will collect on the right wall of the barrel, because the channels are pointed upwards. The top plank of the Barrel should have two channels, the bottom plank should have two rounded ends. But all in all great work
Never mind i think i see what you meant. as in the orientation of the planks, on one side, the channels are facing up and on the other down, meaning they have a bit of a shingle effect, on the left, but on the right they don’t. Instead they are collecting water. Sorry, again.
Awesome job! Very easy to understand what you're doing every step of the way. I plan to start a similar build and this helped me a lot! Thank you for taking the time to make and post this video.
While it seems like more work, taking 2-3 or more passes of increasing depth with the bull-nose bit would be faster, easier, and safer. Just do all the boards at first depth, set deeper, run them through again, repeat until deep enough.
Oh absolutely. The fact that I built a functional wood-fire sauna in the first place is a small miracle. There's a ton of stuff on this thing I did wrong. Hope you enjoyed watching it at least!@@peterbarlow8912
Omg dude ton of shrinkage. This wasn't heat treated or kiln dried pine. This was the greenest wood you can find from home depot. I mean I went into this fully expecting it to shrink. And I lined the inside of it with a vapor barrier and cheap cedar fence boards so it doesn't affect the heat retention much. I haven't used cedar, so I can't give you a comparison there.
@@Sparky_Mark thanks for the feedback! good insight. Im going to HD now to pick wood, im gonna get cedar... from what I read it'll stay true. Also doing the round joint with 2x6's so if there is some shrinkage it should show... I hope haha. but at $30/stave its gonna suuuuuck for $
@@Sparky_Mark yeah I know what your saying ! Just thinking more about it being outside and here in the UK it rains for sooo much of the winter 😂 but very valid point about the chemicals that they pump into the timber!
@@mattgreen2398 I hear you about the rain. I also live in a very wet climate, and I just posted another video about how the pine has held up after 116+ days of use. A lot of that was in rain. Seems to hold up better than I thought!
Don't use PT lumber because it is toxic. If you want to use wood that lasts a long time in the open I'd recommend cedar. I think that most saunas are made of cedar. Another weather resistant wood is redwood. I've made some awnings out of redwood that hold up in the elements, but the smell of a cedar sauna can't be beat.
@nimblecrow Glad you liked it. You know what I think it’s actually Douglas fir. Just looked it up on home depot. I grabbed the cheapest 2x6x8 I could find. Thanks for the sub! You think you would be interested in other types of diy videos? I’m thinking about filming a video about making a signet ring and using it as an NFC key
Great video. When I bought featherboards that keep the wood tight to the fence I was more confident that I wouldn’t lose a finger. It was a small investment but worth it.
See im in no place ready to start a project like this but i love these types of videos. Im wondering if its better to go just buy the kits already for around 4-5k or buy all the tools and such and do it myself as you have done
Depends on you, really… remember this is raw Douglas fir . So it’s gonna behave differently than the cedar you’d get with a kit. A kit is considerably more expensive than this, but it would be far more straightforward.
@VW.907 oh the wall on the stove side was all scraps of tongue and groove, heat treated pine. The door side, I had made tongue and groove boards myself using the router table and bits.
Amazing build! Is it possible that the wood has shrunk? If yes what are you planing to do to seal it? What materials or scellant are you going to use to prevent the heat loss?
Oh absolutely it has shrunk. Planning to line the inside with cedar to prevent heat loss. I did use a water based wood sealant on the outside! I just remembered that. Haha
I am not a wood worker, so reading all the comments and no one mentioning he was barefoot throughout the whole build makes me ask... is being barefoot compulsary for a great woodworker as he is?
some of those boards were straight pith. almost guaranteed to warp/shrink. and if it's screwed in place rigid, it's not going to be able to breathe/expand-contract.
No plans, but if you watch all four of my sauna build videos, I’m sure you’d be able to figure it out! That’s what I did after watching a few barrel sauna videos. The design is so simple that it can easily be done without plans. Of course what do I know? I’m just a little electrical apprentice. Haha
No sir, I kind of just sent it. Started by making two walls the same size, and figured out the number of staves I needed by the circumference of the walls.
Super nice how this worked out! I've been looking for a way to do these myself or someone who has gone before me and looks like you managed to do it. The routing with the bullnose bit also scares the hell out of me. What router are you using, and are those 12mm bits that go in? Wrt dust, I think wearing a mask may be a good idea? ;-) But also check this guy out who made a very cheap router table with dust collection: ua-cam.com/video/bbNIWc7E4ro/v-deo.html
I did a bit of research and found a collet adapter. Looks like it will slide into a 12mm router and accept 1/2" bits! Idk if this helps... amzn.to/3WsYmJB
wow! The size of the work is amazing. Compared to this, what I make looks like a toy. Someday, I would like to create works of this size. I enjoyed watching you work in the cool garden. I subscribed and will come back often to watch your videos. Thank you for your hard work.
Thank you so much! 🥹
Unfortunitly a big Mistake was made during construction, water will collect on the right wall of the barrel, because the channels are pointed upwards. The top plank of the Barrel should have two channels, the bottom plank should have two rounded ends. But all in all great work
Could you dumb this down for me a bit. What do you mean by top planks should have two channels? And the bottom one being rounded? genuinely asking.
Never mind i think i see what you meant. as in the orientation of the planks, on one side, the channels are facing up and on the other down, meaning they have a bit of a shingle effect, on the left, but on the right they don’t. Instead they are collecting water. Sorry, again.
This is correct. But I haven't had much water come in on that side, even during very heavy rain.
@@Sparky_Mark give it three years and the wood will rot.
I built it to last at least one year so I'm not worried. Lol
Awesome job! Very easy to understand what you're doing every step of the way. I plan to start a similar build and this helped me a lot! Thank you for taking the time to make and post this video.
Absolutely! I’m glad you enjoyed it :)
Hope you post some videos on yours!
Bro it’s a work of art
Wow man, thank you! It has paid for itself over and over again.
That’s incredible. Nicely done.
Thank you!! Honestly I'm way more stoked about the sauna I'm working on right now
"Bad Larrys". I see you are also a person of class.
😃🫡
While it seems like more work, taking 2-3 or more passes of increasing depth with the bull-nose bit would be faster, easier, and safer.
Just do all the boards at first depth, set deeper, run them through again, repeat until deep enough.
You’re 100% right. Next time 😅
I would have done the dadoes and cove on the last piece when I’d did the rest. That way you would only need to do the easy Round over set up again.
Oh absolutely. The fact that I built a functional wood-fire sauna in the first place is a small miracle. There's a ton of stuff on this thing I did wrong. Hope you enjoyed watching it at least!@@peterbarlow8912
Like the elliptical shape of your chamber. They make canoe bits for thinner stock that join boards together on a curved hull exactly that way.
Please let us know how using pine works over time.
Мужик, огромное спасибо за подробное видео и полезные ссылки и размеры в описании!! Лучший!
Да конечно, Надеюсь вы тоже себе можете построить! С лёгким паром!
Wow,it is nice to build a sauna house by yourself
Yes! It was very nice and fun. I learned a lot.
There is a better router bit for coving out the ends of the 2x6. It allows you to run the stock flat on the table. Way less sketchy.
Dang I wish I knew about it before 😩
What is the bit? You’re holding out on the most important part.
Very impressive work you’ve done! 👏👏👏👌👌👌
Thank you!!🥹
Great video. Thank you. I really want to build this hopefully this summer.
Glad you enjoyed it! If I can build it, anybody can. do it!
Hey great job can you tell how thick stoves are and router bits cheers
Absolutely! I got links to the bits I used, and the dimensions should be in the description. Glad you enjoyed it, hope you have your own soon!
Very nice Sparky Mark. I see you still got some skills with the camera aswell as your new carpentry skills.
High praise coming from you bro, thanks so much
Hello! Great work! Can you tell me the name of the machine please 🙏😊
Thank you! Maybe you mean the Router?
Hey good job I'm in the process of planning my own barrels on a build my question is how did the pine hold up compared to cedar any shrinkage?
Omg dude ton of shrinkage. This wasn't heat treated or kiln dried pine.
This was the greenest wood you can find from home depot.
I mean I went into this fully expecting it to shrink. And I lined the inside of it with a vapor barrier and cheap cedar fence boards so it doesn't affect the heat retention much.
I haven't used cedar, so I can't give you a comparison there.
@@Sparky_Mark thanks for the feedback! good insight. Im going to HD now to pick wood, im gonna get cedar... from what I read it'll stay true. Also doing the round joint with 2x6's so if there is some shrinkage it should show... I hope haha. but at $30/stave its gonna suuuuuck for $
@RogueArcher24 30 a stave HOLY SMOKES MY GUY
@@Sparky_Mark Canadian lumber for ya LOL
😭
very cool. hope to see if finished
Check out the latest video on this build. In that video it’s pretty much complete
Love the flat look/grading!
Oh thanks! I’m assuming you mean the video grading?
🤣@@Sparky_Mark yeah + video was super cool!
@@piparskapostins5856 thanks so much! Glad you said that. I love the look too
great job! would of been better to use treated timber ? looking at doing this in my garden this summer in the UK and cant wait!
Ooooh idk the thought of that kind of scares me, to be honest.
I feel like it would heat up and release some sorta fumes.
Good luck with your build!!
@@Sparky_Mark yeah I know what your saying ! Just thinking more about it being outside and here in the UK it rains for sooo much of the winter 😂 but very valid point about the chemicals that they pump into the timber!
@@mattgreen2398 I hear you about the rain.
I also live in a very wet climate, and I just posted another video about how the pine has held up after 116+ days of use. A lot of that was in rain. Seems to hold up better than I thought!
Don't use PT lumber because it is toxic. If you want to use wood that lasts a long time in the open I'd recommend cedar. I think that most saunas are made of cedar. Another weather resistant wood is redwood. I've made some awnings out of redwood that hold up in the elements, but the smell of a cedar sauna can't be beat.
great build. what are the barrel dimensions? diameter and length?
Are you by chance live near GA??? I would live something like this in my garage
Nope I’m in the Pacific Northwest!
Hi great job and thanks for sharing this video. Do you by any chance sell the plan for this project ?
I don’t have anything to sell! It was all just made from memory of all the videos I watched.
Glad you liked the video!
Hey would you mind telling me how many of each piece wood you used
Don't remember for the walls, the staves ( longest ones ) was 43 of them.
Just curious, what did you do with the cedar? Did you line the inside or just stick with the pine?
I did line the inside, my most recent sauna video shows me doing it
Good job sparky mark. its really coming together. Love how tight your staves are fitting together. What type of wood are you using?
This is just the cheapest pine I could find. Thank you so much
Are you sure it isn't fir? Btw, it's a nice video. Subbed
@nimblecrow Glad you liked it. You know what I think it’s actually Douglas fir. Just looked it up on home depot. I grabbed the cheapest 2x6x8 I could find.
Thanks for the sub!
You think you would be interested in other types of diy videos?
I’m thinking about filming a video about making a signet ring and using it as an NFC key
Great video.
When I bought featherboards that keep the wood tight to the fence I was more confident that I wouldn’t lose a finger. It was a small investment but worth it.
Very good job, are you using 2×6
Thanks a lot! Yes, almost all 2x6
@@Sparky_Mark thank you🙏
what type of wood is that please
@@idrizbinaku5838 pine
@@Sparky_Mark thank you very much
See im in no place ready to start a project like this but i love these types of videos. Im wondering if its better to go just buy the kits already for around 4-5k or buy all the tools and such and do it myself as you have done
Depends on you, really… remember this is raw Douglas fir . So it’s gonna behave differently than the cedar you’d get with a kit. A kit is considerably more expensive than this, but it would be far more straightforward.
Beautiful 🎉❤
Thank you so much!
What did your overall dimensions end up being? How many staves total? Thanks
Approximately 7’5” interior length, 5’6” interior diameter. Don’t remember how many staves though!
I did figure the number of staves by the circumference. Just fyi 😅
What'd you do for the door ends? But them or dove tail or butt them together and screw?
What do you mean by door ends?
@Sparky_Mark Sorry, the walls? The vertical ends. Are they simply butted together, or are they jointed some how?
@VW.907 oh the wall on the stove side was all scraps of tongue and groove, heat treated pine.
The door side, I had made tongue and groove boards myself using the router table and bits.
@Sparky_Mark cool, that's what I plan to do as well. Just making sure I wasn't missing an important small detail. Thank you sir.
@VW.907 absolutely! You're building a barrel sauna?
My dad was a wood worker, he didn’t wear a mask, died of cancer. Please consider wearing a mask, it’s important!
My dad was also a laborer and died of a stroke. Please consider minding your own business.
What type of wood is this please thank you
@idrizbinaku5838 pine
@@BillClintonsCigarget mad bro.
Looks like cedar
Awesome job and great video! Can I ask what model router and table you used?
It is a Bosch router table with a Hercules router from harbor freight
@@Sparky_Mark Thanks so much for replying! Looking forward to trying this project
You’re very welcome. Best of luck to you! I’m sure you got this.
Amazing build! Is it possible that the wood has shrunk? If yes what are you planing to do to seal it? What materials or scellant are you going to use to prevent the heat loss?
Oh absolutely it has shrunk. Planning to line the inside with cedar to prevent heat loss. I did use a water based wood sealant on the outside! I just remembered that. Haha
I'd consider a Dado cut for the staves
For their longer sides? You mean in the place where i used the bull nose router bit?
@@Sparky_Mark the place where you cut for inserting the front and back round walls across the staves.
Isn't what I did technically a dado?
@@jasonsborean or are you meaning to run it over a table saw
@@Sparky_Mark Yes... a "Dado Stack". ua-cam.com/video/Kx7utXpC2BU/v-deo.htmlsi=kk32bSEt1cEXsPy8
So dope!
Thank you!
What did you learn you’d do different?
Hmmm to use dried lumber instead of green, wet lumber.
But still I'm very happy with it
I am not a wood worker, so reading all the comments and no one mentioning he was barefoot throughout the whole build makes me ask... is being barefoot compulsary for a great woodworker as he is?
Safety wise - not advised.
Me wise - compulsory.
Bare feet + ground = Joy.
Stayin grounded ..very important
Cheers to that!
Those feet would be so sore after a full days work... Source: me, a barefoot carpenter.
The start board need 2 ends concav !
some of those boards were straight pith. almost guaranteed to warp/shrink. and if it's screwed in place rigid, it's not going to be able to breathe/expand-contract.
We’re gonna send it and see what happens! Does what I want so far 🤷
Have you got any plans to follow?
No plans, but if you watch all four of my sauna build videos, I’m sure you’d be able to figure it out!
That’s what I did after watching a few barrel sauna videos.
The design is so simple that it can easily be done without plans.
Of course what do I know? I’m just a little electrical apprentice. Haha
Are those OSHA approved shoes?
Haha that’s a negative sir.
Were your 2 by 6 a true 2 inch thick or was it 1.5 inches thick
1.5” x 5.5”
You should make these into kits..
Haha no chance.
Any written plans?
No sir, I kind of just sent it. Started by making two walls the same size, and figured out the number of staves I needed by the circumference of the walls.
Anyway we could convince you to share the size dimensions and amount of staves??? If we ask really nice???
How deep did you router the staves?
Shoot idk for certain. I think it was about 1/2”? 3/4 maybe.
I didn’t want a full half circle, I remember that much.
Have that same roller stand. Handle broke off on me about a month after I started using it. Pretty sick of harbor freight crap
Oh that sucks. Isn’t there some kinda warranty for it? I hear harbor freight is good for that kind of stuff
Super nice how this worked out! I've been looking for a way to do these myself or someone who has gone before me and looks like you managed to do it. The routing with the bullnose bit also scares the hell out of me. What router are you using, and are those 12mm bits that go in?
Wrt dust, I think wearing a mask may be a good idea? ;-) But also check this guy out who made a very cheap router table with dust collection: ua-cam.com/video/bbNIWc7E4ro/v-deo.html
Yeah the bull nose was scary.
I have a link for it in the description where you should be able to find the dimensions / specs for it.
@@Sparky_Mark found it, thanks! I'm in Europe and struggling to find a router that takes 1/2 (12mm) bits.
I did a bit of research and found a collet adapter. Looks like it will slide into a 12mm router and accept 1/2" bits! Idk if this helps...
amzn.to/3WsYmJB
Why not just build square easier and more room?
I think the barrel idea just got stuck in my head and I’m very stubborn. Haha
@@Sparky_Mark ❤️🤘🏼
Do you have to build it barefoot? Asking for a friend. Great work. 😊
Haha some of these days I felt like I definitely had to. Just felt right. Not safe but ehh
What's with the bare feet?? Just looking for trouble. Great job though.
Idk it makes sense to me haha
Please get some foot protection 🥴 Nice build all the same.
Haha i might change my username to Barefoot Builder to be honest.
Thank you! New sauna coming soon.
Show us your heart rate stats while using that bullnose bit Hah!
Hahaha I wish I would have thought of that. I was ready to get hurt 😅
I'm worried about you losing a fingy too brother. Get some safety gloves for that shit
Man there's like an 80% chance I'll lose a finger in this life so i've just accepted it. I should put disclaimers in my videos.
Bare feet?
Seriously??
The barest.
And he's barehanded!
Y'asian?
Idk - I was born in Moscow, Russia. Does that make me asian?