In this video I up-cycle the blade from a plane for a dowel making jig, and in my newest video I restore a cracked axe using brass: ua-cam.com/video/ndLAC4g30xU/v-deo.html
My grandparents always had a few of the blue cookie tins and 2 had sewing supplies, and the others has more keys than anyone could ever imagine! At least once a week in summer, my grandpa and I would head inside and search thru the tins and he always knew which key he was looking for and he just preferred keeping them there. We had everything from old 61 Chrysler New Yorker keys, dump truck and log truck keys, tractor and tiller and mower keys, shop keys, etc.. he literally had it all!
The ability to make cheap and easy dowel is important. In many jobs, I'd rather use dowel than nails. Add a little wood glue to dowel peg nails and they work fantastic for many job applications.
Cheaper to buy one than going to all this trouble and who has all the industrial tools.. but compliments to you, nice educational video for ones who have all the tools
No hand planes were thrown away in the making of this movie :) If you enjoyed that video consider supporting the channel on Patreon so I can make more: www.patreon.com/amircreator
There is something special about your work area, its kinda messy but at the same time I wish to have one like you as it has great vibe to it. By the way love your videos you are always improving
It is both good an bad to have a workshop outside, any tools left out will rust to no avail, and its impossible to keep it clean of dust and leaves. On the other hand you get to see the animals and notice the seasons changing, be around when it gets dark and the insects start to come out and go about their night (usually towards my lights). Every night exactly one hour after the sun goes down an opossum appears out of some hole and starts looking for food.
Great video, I really like the way you drilled the two hold-down bolt holes and the way you got the plank out of the tree. I'm hoping you put up a video on how you did that, cuz I wanna learn those tricks. Have a good one ..................
You can use any flat piece of tool steel as the cutter. You can buy a block plane blade separately. There is no need to to take the parts from another functional tool.
However, if you have - or find, as I frequently do when tip-scrounging - a damaged / broken plane you can use the blade from that. (Even if it's damaged. Just put a new edge on it.) Better than ditching everything.
This technique saved my bacon when I was building furniture for a client in the middle of nowhere in Sri Lanka years ago. Had to build most of my own gauges, jigs and tools there.
Really depends on a couple things, one being the frequency of which you buy dowels and the other being how your mind works, I love making things for the sake of being able to do it and have the capacity the thing offers so for someone like me this is right up my alley If you like making things so you can have things then this naturally wouldn’t be for you, it’s just a matter of taste
There's no telling how many times my wife has said to me, "The _____ broke. Can you fix it?" Now, I could say, "I can screw it back together, but it won't be as strong, and it'll look like shit. The best way to fix it is to drill it out and glue it back together with a couple pegs. I'll put pegs on the list and grab some the next time I run to town." (Ignoring the the possibility that pegs of all things might be out of stock due to supply chain issues, there's an 80% chance I won't look at the list and will forget it, but that's a separate issue...) Or I could say, "No problem. I have a dowel jig. Let me see - what size do I need? I have plenty of scraps lying around and can whip out a few pegs right now. Give me 5 minutes." Granted very few dowel applications are emergency situations LOL (and in all likelihood, they won't be out of stock), but so what! Where's the fun in buying a pack of dowels? I like making things. I like knowing how to make things. And it's a jig and jigs are cool!
As a cabinet maker/ finish carpenter I can tell you that making dowels is very very simple. I could turn a few dozen dowels of any diameter and length on my lathe in a matter of minutes. I could drive some stock through 1/4" metal plate with holes in it that I have. If I want to have some fun I'll pull out my spokeshaves. But, though I have the capacity! I would never invest the time to make a jig like that. I rather buy them than to make them in that fashion! Cheers Mates!!!!
The only thing I have control over from my end is make the best video I’m able to about an interesting subject with a good thumbnail. As someone that is watching from the outside, what is your theory on the fewer views?
@@A.Mere.Creator well, again, I really like your stuff so I’m not really sure why you wouldn’t get the viewership... I guess my biggest note would be focusing on projects that are easy to grasp the concept of (like a floating chair) but are obviously impressive (also like the chair, but the lighty-marble-funnel-doohickey too). So I guess “easy to invest interest in, cool to watch.” For example, this video, while very kinda ASMRy, doesn’t really have a super clear “impressiveness” factor, or a wide marketability outside of people who like tools or something. Hope that helps at all. Again, big fan, get you some recognition!
@@A.Mere.Creator Oh! One other thing... idk if this’d actually make a difference but “Amir Creator” is a way cooler channel name I think, a little more unique imo.
А понты проколотить нужно.Вот если бы он его выбросил в туалет тогда да.А так для понтов а через пять минут вытащит обратно.У блохеров понтов больше чем дела.
0:37 Aha! At last we know the REAL reason why you enjoy woodworking so much! Your secret has been revealed. :-) It's always the same story. You start with the cheap stuff-dimensional pine and spruce from the Home Depot. You can take it or leave it. Then, you graduate to some of the harder stuff-red and white oak, sycamore, yew. Still not a problem. You can quit any time. Then, someone hooks you up with the hard-core aromatics-incense cedar, camphor wood, cypress, lignam vitae, sandalwood. You're gone. Now you're hiding pieces of wood all over the house. Your nearest and dearest take away your saws and you find yourself using the cheese grater on some Port Orford cedar that you scored in a dark alley behind Lowes. Perhaps it's not too late. Please don't let us find you hacking away at a telephone pole with a butter knife. We're here for you. All seriousness aside, this project really shows your creativity. Every one of your videos is a joy.
What would be really great is if you could design a compact version of the tool that could be used just by itself in the wilderness for making easy shelters. Dowels are incredibly useful and if you could feasibly use them as fixtures for bushcraft, the camping world would be taken by storm.
If you were going to run the wood through the router why not just chuck a roundover bit in the router and hit all four edges and you have a perfect dowel. E.g. a 5/32" radius roundover makes a 5/16 dowel, a 1/4" radius roundover makes a 1/2" dowel, etc.
Was "Wow" the actual noise you made too? :D Pretty ingenious. Only if you can come up with a version that can make different sizes of dowels. Good job!
In this video I up-cycle the blade from a plane for a dowel making jig, and in my newest video I restore a cracked axe using brass: ua-cam.com/video/ndLAC4g30xU/v-deo.html
Opening up a cigar box to find shop tools is like opening up a cookie tin to find sewing supplies
Or like lifting open the hot tub cover in winter to find a frog party.
Definitly not what i expected…
My grandparents always had a few of the blue cookie tins and 2 had sewing supplies, and the others has more keys than anyone could ever imagine! At least once a week in summer, my grandpa and I would head inside and search thru the tins and he always knew which key he was looking for and he just preferred keeping them there. We had everything from old 61 Chrysler New Yorker keys, dump truck and log truck keys, tractor and tiller and mower keys, shop keys, etc.. he literally had it all!
I'd rather have tools in the cigar box, not the other way😅
Actually I would be more excited with shop tools than cigars!
I have saved so much change doing this, I can't believe it. Now I just gotta go buy a new plane iron for $20 - yippee thanks for sharing!
The ability to make cheap and easy dowel is important. In many jobs, I'd rather use dowel than nails. Add a little wood glue to dowel peg nails and they work fantastic for many job applications.
I don't know why but your videos satisfy me 😂😂
Thanks for the feedback :)
@@A.Mere.Creator brother pls craft a cricket bat
Cheaper to buy one than going to all this trouble and who has all the industrial tools.. but compliments to you, nice educational video for ones who have all the tools
No hand planes were thrown away in the making of this movie :) If you enjoyed that video consider supporting the channel on Patreon so I can make more: www.patreon.com/amircreator
Wanting to "make more" sounds like a massive menace ...
@@Baetzibaer Yeah, phenomenally poorly worded
There is something special about your work area, its kinda messy but at the same time I wish to have one like you as it has great vibe to it. By the way love your videos you are always improving
It is both good an bad to have a workshop outside, any tools left out will rust to no avail, and its impossible to keep it clean of dust and leaves. On the other hand you get to see the animals and notice the seasons changing, be around when it gets dark and the insects start to come out and go about their night (usually towards my lights). Every night exactly one hour after the sun goes down an opossum appears out of some hole and starts looking for food.
@@A.Mere.Creator Yup these things in your videos make your videos look better
@@A.Mere.Creator LOL, man you are funny.
Brilliant! Also that Minecraft ref 😂
You have a good eye!
Perfect video for taking a shit to. Thanks for helping me push it out!
The humor here is grand! Neat jig
Dowels are cheap and this is too much work for me. Thanks for your video
buy to save time to do other things.😀
This is a really well made video that needs more attention
Thank you for the feedback :)
Hammer Hack! Gefällt mir sehr :)
Best video yet!! Did i spot a mine craft knob?!
You got a sharp eye there friend ;)
Pretty cool, and the references and cues too Minecraft were cool also. I especially liked the drill press knob.
I love the Minecraft grass block handle 😁😁😁
Great video, I really like the way you drilled the two hold-down bolt holes and the way you got the plank out of the tree. I'm hoping you put up a video on how you did that, cuz I wanna learn those tricks. Have a good one ..................
Loved the video, especially the humor effect 🤣
I like the creativity. Especially getting points while getting a wood slab without damaging the tree
You can use any flat piece of tool steel as the cutter. You can buy a block plane blade separately. There is no need to to take the parts from another functional tool.
However, if you have - or find, as I frequently do when tip-scrounging - a damaged / broken plane you can use the blade from that. (Even if it's damaged. Just put a new edge on it.)
Better than ditching everything.
I think you will find that it was a joke.
BuT tHeN iTs NoT uPcYcLiNg
This video deserves 1m likes
Excellent experience. Congratulations.
This technique saved my bacon when I was building furniture for a client in the middle of nowhere in Sri Lanka years ago. Had to build most of my own gauges, jigs and tools there.
I LOVE IT! Thank you so much. I wish my husband would give me this instead of flowers, lol
Tell him
@@BESTofAlp HAHAHAHAHAHA, I have son
Thanks for having a lot of fun while making this video. And holy heck, that's fast! 😊🌎❤️
Chopping the tree for a board got my Subscription.
عالی و روشی کاربردی با ابزاری کارآمد.....موفق باشید
Яхши чигибди ашна 👍👍👍👍
Кернить деревяшку
Гений)
Usefull tools for making Crossbow blots,. Tq, for your creation.. 🙋♂✌👌👍👍👍👍
This was super fun to watch! Nice display of craftsmanship too.
I much rather pay for dowels ten times over!
Really depends on a couple things, one being the frequency of which you buy dowels
and the other being how your mind works, I love making things for the sake of being able to do it and have the capacity the thing offers so for someone like me this is right up my alley
If you like making things so you can have things then this naturally wouldn’t be for you, it’s just a matter of taste
There's no telling how many times my wife has said to me, "The _____ broke. Can you fix it?"
Now, I could say, "I can screw it back together, but it won't be as strong, and it'll look like shit. The best way to fix it is to drill it out and glue it back together with a couple pegs. I'll put pegs on the list and grab some the next time I run to town." (Ignoring the the possibility that pegs of all things might be out of stock due to supply chain issues, there's an 80% chance I won't look at the list and will forget it, but that's a separate issue...)
Or I could say, "No problem. I have a dowel jig. Let me see - what size do I need? I have plenty of scraps lying around and can whip out a few pegs right now. Give me 5 minutes."
Granted very few dowel applications are emergency situations LOL (and in all likelihood, they won't be out of stock), but so what! Where's the fun in buying a pack of dowels?
I like making things. I like knowing how to make things. And it's a jig and jigs are cool!
As a cabinet maker/ finish carpenter I can tell you that making dowels is very very simple. I could turn a few dozen dowels of any diameter and length on my lathe in a matter of minutes. I could drive some stock through 1/4" metal plate with holes in it that I have. If I want to have some fun I'll pull out my spokeshaves. But, though I have the capacity! I would never invest the time to make a jig like that. I rather buy them than to make them in that fashion!
Cheers Mates!!!!
But what if you want to make a dowel of a different type of wood?
😂🤭
New subscriber!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥
Did you made a tool, just to make another tool? This is so brilliant
Tool²
Китайский сверлильный станок такой клёвый, что досверливали дрелью. Дальше не смотрел, нет смысла.
Guys may say they'd rather buy dowels, but if I saw this jig in a friend's shop I would think it was totally awesome.
It’s so strange that your videos have started getting fewer views... they’re still great!
The only thing I have control over from my end is make the best video I’m able to about an interesting subject with a good thumbnail. As someone that is watching from the outside, what is your theory on the fewer views?
@@A.Mere.Creator well, again, I really like your stuff so I’m not really sure why you wouldn’t get the viewership... I guess my biggest note would be focusing on projects that are easy to grasp the concept of (like a floating chair) but are obviously impressive (also like the chair, but the lighty-marble-funnel-doohickey too). So I guess “easy to invest interest in, cool to watch.” For example, this video, while very kinda ASMRy, doesn’t really have a super clear “impressiveness” factor, or a wide marketability outside of people who like tools or something. Hope that helps at all. Again, big fan, get you some recognition!
@@A.Mere.Creator Oh! One other thing... idk if this’d actually make a difference but “Amir Creator” is a way cooler channel name I think, a little more unique imo.
Thanks for the insight, these simple things are so easily overlooked.
Love the way your mind seems to work. Well done!
As always so satisfying bro☺️😌
Thank you for the feedback :)
Nice Bro 👍
У меня 1 вопрос нахера ты выкинул рубанок, его можно сделать а эту хрень можно сделать и без помощи ножа для рубанка. 😀😀😀😀😀
А понты проколотить нужно.Вот если бы он его выбросил в туалет тогда да.А так для понтов а через пять минут вытащит обратно.У блохеров понтов больше чем дела.
I just saw this on Reddit. I cannot freaking wait to dig through your catalog of vids. This was awesome. 👍
0:37 Aha! At last we know the REAL reason why you enjoy woodworking so much! Your secret has been revealed. :-)
It's always the same story. You start with the cheap stuff-dimensional pine and spruce from the Home Depot. You can take it or leave it.
Then, you graduate to some of the harder stuff-red and white oak, sycamore, yew. Still not a problem. You can quit any time.
Then, someone hooks you up with the hard-core aromatics-incense cedar, camphor wood, cypress, lignam vitae, sandalwood. You're gone.
Now you're hiding pieces of wood all over the house.
Your nearest and dearest take away your saws and you find yourself using the cheese grater on some Port Orford cedar that you scored in a dark alley behind Lowes.
Perhaps it's not too late. Please don't let us find you hacking away at a telephone pole with a butter knife. We're here for you.
All seriousness aside, this project really shows your creativity. Every one of your videos is a joy.
Sniffing wood is the secret to my immortality, where I get all my power
Once you get to sniffing Huon Pine there's NO form of intervention that can save you. 😉😊
Thrilling to watch
I like your tutorial video...no to much yakiti-yakiti-yak...just a short "wow" and that explains everything...thanks.
and for this little thing, it was necessary to throw out a new tool ???
multiple times I genuinely laughed, thanks for this 😂
I love how serious but playful you are on this
Yoo. Nice mine craft block
Great video man
Keep it up 👍
(or not if you're tired that's good too)
Haha thank you for being considerate :)
I actually laughed when you chopped the tree and got a video game reward, the plank. Cool additions and nice dowel tool!
Great video...whish I could drill hole by just snapping my fingers! Built my cutter with an old spokeshave blade. Thanks.
Muy bueno pero de donde queres que saque tantas herramientas
This is meant for people with WAY more time than money.
Please get a crown guard for that circular saw 👍
Dude! Your vice set up, editing, style and the material. Awesome.
Subscribed!
And don't forget the precision cigars
It's not all that great.
Excellent 👌🏻
I'm going to use that to make my arrows 👍
Love it,funny👌❤. Thanks.
Make your own dowels in only 47 easy steps.
Nice video 👍
What would be really great is if you could design a compact version of the tool that could be used just by itself in the wilderness for making easy shelters. Dowels are incredibly useful and if you could feasibly use them as fixtures for bushcraft, the camping world would be taken by storm.
You're awesome. Can I still make dowels if I'm not as awesome?
Ottima soluzione, ottimo lavoro 👍🏻
It was fun to watch... Unnecesary tool. But fun to watch
Great and creative as always, thanks for sharing👍
I cried a little when you through a way that planner. There's starving woodworkers in the world and you're just throwing out perfectly good planners
Nice Minecraft reference!
So, a table saw, pillar drill, nice electric planer and precision tools are used to make dowels. Great idea if we all have those tools…
A dowel cost .35, how much for all of the tools, machinery and time?
insane shortcut, you could optimise the movements to cut around 50ms off the time tho.
I'm still over here thankful I can just buy off-the-shelf dowels and don't often need hardwood dowels.
I love the vice idea, I’m building that myself
My god that is satisfying O_O
Thank you obese waterfowl
Good I like ❤❤
Well you can make your own arrows that's pretty badass
I drill holes varied sizes in a sheet 1/8 steel . Works way better
Do you need to do anything special with the holes you drill to make them cut, or are they just simple through holes?
Mudah membuat nya,sangat berguna.,apakah bisa lebih besar diameternya?.
The lack of a riving knife terrifies me in this video.
What was that thing with a handle that was thrown in the bin. It had no battery or cable!
How did you break that frog!!!
I followed this idea and made one for making arrows
Cool! I’m glad it was a useful idea
If you were going to run the wood through the router why not just chuck a roundover bit in the router and hit all four edges and you have a perfect dowel. E.g. a 5/32" radius roundover makes a 5/16 dowel, a 1/4" radius roundover makes a 1/2" dowel, etc.
Just a comment for the algorithm, I don’t even know how to fly a plane.
Thank you for the plane and simple comment :)
@@A.Mere.Creator Smooth
I could have bought 10 new dowels with the money from the time I wasted watching this.
That minecraft gag 😂
Good eye!
3:19 min - great idea!
I knew he had a mine craft block on his drill press lmao
You have a good eye :)
Your filming skills 👌 👏 very intertwining looking forward to the next one
Seems like it's just more cost and time effective to go buy one.
That moment where you use the sandpaper applicator for the first time 🤯😮
You should totally make one too!
I will definitely keep buying dowels😂
11 seconds per stake! Vampires won't stand a chance!
Now to make a cross bow to go with it 🤔
Was "Wow" the actual noise you made too? :D Pretty ingenious. Only if you can come up with a version that can make different sizes of dowels. Good job!
One question I have is why the 6 1/2° angle?
I tested a bunch of angles, this one gave the cleanest cut
@@A.Mere.Creator aaaahhhh! Thanks! And here I thought that it just needed to be a straight 90°.
If I could afford to buy all those tools you used to make it. I would just a dowle maker too.
Bagus om itu bisa untuk bikin stik drumben tidak ya 🙏🙏
Hmm, that's actually a great idea. Spend half a day working time to make some cheap dowels. Buying them in the store is an impossible task.
Good for one size only
I really like your vice set-up.