I appreciate your craftsmanship and attention to detail. I have learned a lot watching your videos. I build my hot rods and many things you do give me ideas on how to tackle my building issues. Not only do you do great with the woodworking but the metal working also. Please keep these videos coming. My great-grandson and I often watch them together!! He is interested in what you do and asks many questions. Thank you for that time.
Hi David like many other followers I have never owed or had any types of buggy apart from prams lol but I stated watching you many years ago and have throughly enjoyed every minute watching you and will do for as long as you continue to make videos you all take care 😀👍
Hi Dave, I thoroughly enjoyed this segment. I little about why I watch your channel. I am the great grandson of Riccardo Garon of Garons Coach Shop that was located at the Seamans-Drake Arch Inwood section of Manhattan. This Coach Shop sold fisher carriage products and also built and repaired carriages for the high social guild of the time. Oddly the building still exists and is now an autobody and transmission Shop built around a Tuckahoe marble Arch modeled after Arch de' Triumph Paris. Built by Dr.Seaman who invented the small pox vaccine. So coming from this lineage I thank you sir Sincerely Robert Garo
I enjoy watching your videos and very impressed with your skills and patience you have doing these projects. One of the other things is that while your shop is a bit of an organized mess you always seem to know where everything's at.😀 I don't mean that as an insult we all have our ways of doing things. You are a true Craftsman and I'm sure there's not many that can do the kind of work that you do. Thanks for the videos
Afternoon Dave, hope you both are ok. You mentioned two types of viewer's. One that may be building something similar and one that just enjoys watching. There is actually a third like me that is interested in how you get around the problems and fabricate and fix stuff. I watch as I have learned a lot of different ways of getting around a problem by watching you ?. So I can put your methods into my daily work. And of course now I can fit a roof to the buggy on my desert island if I ever get stuck on one 😁. Regards to you and yours Richard 🇬🇧
i will never ever do it dave, but i will tell you i truely love to wach because it amazes me how much skill and craftmanship it takes to know how to do this stuff you do, i am so inspired by waching you do it and the knowledge you have. i am only a welder/tech who fixes and drives semi trucks, but as i grew up i rode in dad's chuck wagons and even drove the teams, and rode with our neighbour Cam while he tilled land with his 8 team of Clydsdale and belgum horses. so i did feel the way horse drawn equipement and wagons where like.
Mr Engels, as a son of an oldfashioned craftsman I love to watch disappearing crafts. Apart from that you are an ambassador of showing and explaining craftsmanship. Keep up the good work; many will appreciate your work and keep watching.
Hi there I just wanted to say that I'll never billed a buggy or wagon but I appreciate watching a trew craftsmen at work and I realise that you're doing this as an living archive of a way of life that is slowly being lost. However I'm a church bell ringer and I'm planning to build a mock up of a bell for training and recurring as this is a dieing art and I don't want to be one of the last at my church. I'm 50 and we've had 2 Ringers in there mid 80s
THANK YOU for showing us the step by step on the RIGHT WAY to do things!!I Really enjoy watching a PRO at work!! People can see the time and effort that it takes to do all that you do!! THANKS AGAIN!! R and W (KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK)
For those of us who will never put a top together, it's not all just entertainment. Some of us have an interest in documenting history and are so grateful you're preserving these skills for future generations.
My friend is making a custom top for his 1985 Canadian army Iltis (jeep). The body is basically square like a buggy and this video is relevant in designing a functional top. This kind of information is still very helpful to more folks than we may think.. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.
Mr. Engel, your channel is fascinating, some of my favorite childhood memories were taking buggy rides at Knott's Berry Farm in Los Angeles, climbing up in to the seat, bouncing around, the smell of the horses and sound of the creaking wheels left a deep impression on me, so here I am! Fun for me to see how you build them in your shop. I find your videos very relaxing!
Pertinent to your final comment, I never expect to even ride in a buggy, let alone set the bows and upholster one, BUT, I have learned over the years that the techniques used for one job can frequently be adapted for another, and that knowledge is never wasted :-). I fully expect some day that what I have learned here today, I will be able to use for another project, so thank you for covering it. (Sorry, that would be the next video I think ! LOL).
I don't have a buggy and while it is entertaining to watch I'd like to add a third reason for watching. I have two products out there on the market right now that the average person on the street is likely familiar with. I have used some of your fabrication and building methods in my prototypes. To say they have been useful is an understatement. Even the complexity of your custom tools gave me the courage to build a few of my own that I would not have thought to attempt otherwise. I'm not sure how to explain it but watching a master craftsman operate in one field helps craftsmen improve in a completely unrelated field.
@EngelsCoachShop Thanks for another informative and very enjoyable video. Now, I for one very much enjoy watching a skilled craftsman of any "ilk" practice his trade. And seeing someone doing it while also taking care to demonstrate and explain what, why and how he's doing is absolutely fantastic. And although I have no plans of ever building or renovating a buggy, I feel that it's a privilege to watch (and learn from) such a skilled craftsman. It even feels even more so due to the fact that I "normally" never would get in contact with a person like You. Both due to geographic factors, but also due to the fact that Your "trade" is one that I never before have any "connection to". I feel that in Your videos, I get to see (and possibly learn) "things" from You that I NEVER would see or even hear about anywhere in my "normal life" . And I still feel that I pick up very interesting and useful information. Be that "random facts" or techniques and procedures. Sometime these "facts and techniques" just gives me a better understanding of "how stuff works", but sometimes I feel that they are like "little mental tools" that I "file away", and that will give me a better ability to at least attempt solving other "tasks that are not at all related to "building buggies" Just to give one concrete example, merely watching how You worked heat to make wood more compliant, "turned on a bulb in my head", and I have now used that to "solve" a problem that I previously was considering to solve using much more "convoluted methods". My apologies for this long winded comment I really just wanted to say. A heartfelt thank You for making and sharing these excellent videos. Best regards
Dave enjoy and also learning from your video’s have worked on several buggies and tops the last ten years. As mentioned in the video I also have the Auto Body Top Work and also the Auto Body Leather Work books to learn how top build tops but watching you doing your video helps me fine turn some things haven’t done also the saying a picture is worth a thousand words in this case a video is a million words plus. Thanks for all the video’s and the time putting them together. Mike Olson
Watching someone with good sense for problem solving is very adaptable to anyone's life, with buggy or without. The plastic wrap clamp is brilliant! Thanks for sharing!
I love this series. NEVER seen anything like it. You and my Uncle Bill would have got along great. He was AMAZING. Back in the early 1960s he built us a go-cart with tubular steel frame, wood rim steering wheel, leather upholstered seat - better than anything in the go cart magazines, and it could FLY (governor on engine kept US from harm). Thanks again for sharing your considerable skill and talents. I look forward to every episode.
I watch Your video's because I got hooked on wagons early in my life when I worked in an outdoor musical called "TEXAS" and I drove the wagon for the show. Thia made me want to learn more. There was a gentleman who worked in one of the (many) outdoor musicals, this one was in North Carolina (not sure where) who had a shop next to a running stream, this stream powered his shop. Each week he would build a part to a wagon or buggy and when the show concluded at the end of the season, he would drive either the wagon or the buggy out onto the stage. I watch Your shows because it brings me back to those days
I have been following your videos for sometime and enjoy each an everyone of them. I'm 70 years young and I will be retiring at the end of April after 54 years of working, 23 of those years was in the United States Marine Corps working on aircraft and the rest was with the government doing different things. I love working with wood and have since I was a young teen. I even went to mill and cabinet school before graduating from high school. I've never build a wagon, but would love to try to build one for my new grand nephew who was born just two weeks ago. I know it sound like it's early for something like this, but when you are my age it's never to early. I did some googling on the wagon you are rebuilding, but cannot find two seat buckboard/ranch wagons with a folding top. There are all kinds of carriages with two seats and folding top, but known like the one you are working on. So I have your videos to follow when it comes time to make one. Thanks for sharing your videos and the knowledge that go with each and everyone of them.
*- This video by itself alone is what a smart marketing director would use to confirm customer understanding of why proper compensation is due for your work and boost confidence in you as top choice.* *- The amount of craftsmanship and intelligence needed for all of this should be properly compensated.* *- I so enjoy what I can only call the cunningness of your mind's gifted ingenuity, Dave.* *- Using plastic sandwich wrap to bind together wood Bows to steel polls is brilliant ! ! !* *- Engineering the jig as staging props to hold the bows to work from for height and measurements and orientation is so clean and simple.* *- Bending dry wood with heat and pounding polls to fit is a new insight for me.*
Hi Dave I'm hooked on your videos and I think your work is brilliant. I've built a two seater aluminium & Wooden sports car from an old set of paper plans. The hood building section was missing so I felt at home watching your latest video as I also used broom handle & string when designing the top. I still drive it on our roads in London 27 years after building it. Please keep up your good work. Take care & stay .
Ah, you are much more than entertainment! Your technique, the processes you use, your problem solving - it's all applicable to to any craft you enjoy. For me, it's making doors and windows. Thanks for all your work with these videos.
Dave, you're more than a mechanic! Carpenter, cabinet maker, upholsterer, welder, blacksmith, wheelwright, et al. I did have an occasion to re-fabric a folding top on an old MG TD ('53 model) when I was about 15 yrs old. The work you show is more involved than what I did then, but it reminds me of it. That was over 60 yrs ago. About the same time I spent summers working alfalfa hay near Bozeman. I miss those days. Thanks for stirring up some memories!
Mr Engels, I don't watch your videos because I would ever put together a buggy. I watch because you are alive and awake and dedicated to something beautiful, and there don't seem to be a whole lot of people who are such.
At age 70 it is pretty clear to me that I will likely never build a buggy or even a wheel, yet I can honestly say that I've learned something from every single one of your videos that I've watched. (I've watched all of them, btw.) Some of the things I've learned I may never use, while others are used frequently as I work with wood and other materials. One of the things you constantly reinforce is the satisfaction that comes from never accepting anything less than the best you can do under the circumstances, and I thank you for that. In addition, your videos are unquestionably the most entertaining 20 minutes on UA-cam, no matter how mundane they may feel to you. Once again: Thank You for allowing us along on your wonderful journey. Garrett
I think there's a lot of us that are mechanics at heart, and as such, are always interested in how something goes together or works. Aside from gaining some insight into something I will never do, I enjoy watching a mehcanic at work.
I certainly don't have a buggy, but the historical aspect of where we came from is valuable knowledge - whether it's currently in use or not. The entertainment value is simply one of the benefits of watching a skilled craftsman perform work that is uncommon in today's world. Absolutely enlightening!
I fix scissorlifts and Cherry pickers love metal and wood work and would have loved to have been a blacksmith when I was younger, Dave about sums all that up.
Mr Engle, a word comes to mind Superman, I am of the old school as you are and the times i've been called superman in fabricating none existent parts to complete a job is unbelievable I truly think they say that when they have been to numerous workshops who have turned them away, sorry these parts are no longer available, what they are really saying is it's to much trouble what these people are forgetting is the fact that a satisfied customer is worth a fortune to a small business, and you will keep these customers for life. Love your vids thanks you.
Pretty sure I will never have to build a wheel or fit a top to an old buggy, but I always learn something from watching your efforts. I appreciate that you take the time to share your craft so others may benefit. This is a true gift to us all. Thank you.
I am one who I doubt will ever do a top however please do not think we’re all just watching this for entertainment purposes. I enjoy doing upholstery work and other woodworking and mechanical work and I find your videos extremely educational especially with jigs and such and the process you use in working through a project that has helped me immensely. Even though I may never do a top the process that you go through helps out a lot of us immensely thanks for that.
Hi Dave, I was a truck mechanic before an auto accident ended that career and was always learning how trucks were put together and the way they were to operate. It's the same with your videos. I not only enjoying watching your skills at work, but also how everything you create works. This series on the buggy top has me fascinated and will continue watching your videos. Had my first Moderna vaccine injection on Tuesday. You and Diane stay safe until you both can be vaccinated.
I wouldn't call it pure entertainment, I will likely never build a buggy top, but watching you solve problems is extremely educational to me. I'm fascinated and have used a few things I have learned watching your videos in my woodworking. A journeyman learns by watching a master, even if the product isn't the same.
Watching your videos, does wonders for me. Not only learning so much about buggy works. But relaxing to watch. I was fortunate to help build 2 buggy's. Had the parts for 3 more, but those were stolen and hauled off for scrap iron. Sad what people will steal for a few cents. When the parts can't be replaced.
I love watching your videos. My parents had a horse drawn buggy at one time and I remember it from my child hood. I only wish I had a photo of it but that's just not possible. I have built a few models of buggies but never will build the real thing. This is why I watch your channel. Thanks for doing what you do.
Sir, I am a novice woodworker who will never work on any project in your field. But aside from the "asmr" appeal your videos provide, I like to see some of the techniques that the "masters" use. Watching your work flow from front to back or side to side, aides me in my woodworking projects. The expression "I never thought of that" often times crosses my mind when enjoying your content. Thank You for that.
I’m in the camp of “ya never know what I’m gunna learn” like....I had no idea when you brought out the torch to bend the wood that that was even possible! I honestly thought what in the heck is he doing?!? But it makes sense now that I’ve watched you do it that your basically warming up the moisture in the wood to adjust the bend! Now I may use that bit of a trick in projects that I do. So at 60 I still can learn new tricks even though I’m a metal fabricator....ya never know...so thanks!
@@ScooterMLS1960 well it depends on what you call metal fabrication? I’ve been a metal fabricator for 40 years building Race cars and one off prototype cars and pieces. That’s what I would refer to as metal fabrication. What he does is more in the realm of a blacksmith, this is no put down in any way. In my eyes they are just two different things. The only real thing they have in common is that they make things it how they make things that is widely different! I’ve been watching him for years and admire Dave very much!
Dave, i cannot tell you how much i look forward to your videos and the wonderful craftsmanship you have....i don't have a buggy, probably never will, but the manner of the way you approach these custom projects is inspiring. thanks for showing us the way it was really done!
Even if we are never going to make a buggy top, it's more than entertainment. It's education in craftsmanship. Seeing other crafts being practiced by a master opens our eyes to new way to address our own craft.
I am more of the second group of people who watch your videos. Not so much for entertainment but because I am interested in how things are put together and how they work. Keep up the great work and keep the videos coming.
HELLO from las Vegas Nevada, I just hope we can save this videos, this video is more than just entertaining, is the last part of history, GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.
I watched and learned from your first series of top upholstery on the 2-seat buggy that you did. I applied it to a customer's single-seat buggy. Turned out beautifully! I'm very proud to say this buggy is the oldest "vehicle" I've ever done. After 45 years of doing antique auto upholstery, this is a whole new learning experience for my shop. THANKS for these videos!
I*'m in the camp that is fascinated by your craftsmanship and learns something new with every video. I will never do that kind of work, but in spite of that, watching this is far more than entertainment. Thank you for the opportunity!
Dave, most of us would watch you sweep the floor just in case there was a better way to do it. While I will never build a buggy top, I admire your vast knowledge base and skills.
From now on dave, when watching a western movie I'll be looking at all or any buggies to see what they are and how they're put together, many thanks always interesting.
No matter if I ever use the knowledge I get from watching your videos I know that is some small way I know HOW to do it. You Sir are a Craftsman and I thank you for making this videos.
Lord I don't have a stroller to build but I like to fantasize about how I could use it if I ever had one, and all thanks to watching his videos always thank you. Greetings from Sicily
I agree totally with Matthew B, and for all the same reasons, I thoroughly enjoy seeing the geometry, methods, techniques, and materials you use to recreate this old technology. Having lived in Amish country for years, I know that it still exists, and it's knowlegable and talented people like you who keep it alive. Regards, Solomon
I watch your videos not for any professional reasons, but because of my enjoyment in learning (not that I'm likely to use it) new things. And you make it very interesting. Keep up the great work sir and it is an enjoyment watching you work.
I wash for pure entertainment purposes... and in that, I learn quite a bit and enjoy your process, your thinking and your problem solving. You are a master of your craft!
I think many of us appreciate the craftmanship that went into making all these things you do. Even with the use of some more modern tools it still takes quite a craftsman. To think of the time and effort 100 years ago is more than I can comprehend. Thank you for this channel. I look forward to it every Saturday morning.
What’s great in 100 years people can watch this and carry on the tradition and maybe maybe if they are real good add something to it. We surely stand on the shoulders thing.
You Sir must have the patience of a Saint, proud of your work, it will only be OK when your satisfied and happy to put your name to it, master of so many crafts, and rightly proud of your product. Stay safe and well.
I'm one that most likely will never put a top on a buggy---but---When I watch craftsmen such as you I learn techniques and processes that can be applied elsewhere in my wood working hobby. Thanks again for another interesting and entertaining video.
Even if I never assemble a buggy, construction and building techniques always have something to teach us, and other applications that we don't even know exist today! I can think of all kinds of uses for the techniques, and other applications for some of the tools in your shop. I profoundly respect the reason that you create these videos, and hope that many people, even if entertained by "why" you do them, will take real practical applications and remember some of the simple clever ways to approach problems that you educate us upon.
You are right, it is pure entertainment. But watching a true craftsman is very enjoyable. Also thank you for suggesting Todays Wild West. I have been binge watching them and find that chanel entertaining as well.
I will never do any of this type of work but I enjoy learning how things are made. You see something, it looks nice, but learning how it’s made and how many hours of labor it takes to make or do a job. I love to see how stuff is done. I really love to watch a Craftsman that cares what his finished product looks like. Stay safe, see you on the next video.
Not just entertainment but transferrable skills. The way that you approach a task, a job or a problem is something that I (and many others) may be able to adapt in our work. I've learned plenty from you Dave and I'm sure so have lots of others. Thank you as ever.
yes dave thank you for preserving our past . it is very helpful for those of us that want to conquer these types of projects ourselves! very informative and attention to detail !!!! Thanks Again Dave from way up here in Alberta Canada. Would like to meet you in person one day, once all this craziness ends !!!!! Kevin Granger
Many people spend their life doing un-for-filling jobs. They are watching this because their soul wants to, it’s healing. In a different life they would love to produce real things using their hands like you do. Maybe it’s just me!
Having watched your videos for must be getting on for two years, I have gone from someone who thought ‘I wonder how they make wagon wheels’, to someone who I think could make a reasonable semblance of a wagon wheel if I needed to...that’s how good your videos are in knowledge base, quality, and instruction, and I thank you for that...you have opened my eyes to things I never knew, might never have attempted, and shown me how...and that Sir, is greatly appreciated...thank you...
It don't make no difference why we watch / its the skill and method we appreciate / who knows in the future when we may need your skills and knowledge on record as research / your work on all things Coach's waggon's is priceless / much loved and appreciated for all time ✔👍😊💖
I always interesting to see how they make the wheels and buggy in the past. Now I see how you do it. Thank you for sharing your talents. I love to do some woodworking. You give me some idea how you do it. :)
I'll never put a buggy together but as a lifelong engineer and tinkerer I appreciate your skill, attention to detail and your unwillingness to accept anything less than your standard.
I restored MG's, Triumphs, and other convertibles when I was younger and was always amazed and frustrated by the tops. I know this is buggy tops but kind of the same concept. I also Agree with Matthew B I have always been a mechanic and love to learn something new and you are a great teacher. Thank You!!!!!
Well Mr. Engels, while I would love to have a buggy like this. And would not mind building one for my own use, I will probably never do that. Now while this is entertainment for me, it is also educational for me due to my past association with a particular group that enjoys recreating and preserving history. As well as that it is educational for me, due to my family history with my great grand parents and grand parents use of horse drawn buggies like these. That's because horse drawn buggies was still a very common sight in 1900, and are still some what common for those of us who have Amish communities near by.
It is just awesome to see your back ground knowlage to knowing every detail of repair. Wow to know how much the man back in the day took of and threw in the coolie I think you called it was a lot of some ones work. At the same time I can understand his reason for that. I will always enjoy you videos Mr. Engels
I'm an electronic engineer that has an interest in mechanics, but who spends his professional life mostly doing maths and powerpoint and arguing. Watching your calm approach to problem solving is a great way to unwind after a week at work, even though I rarely see a buggy, and will almost certainly never build any part of one.
Hello Dave A great Video it is amazing to see your Skills of a long gone work This work need much Feeling and precision and much empathy All this things are long gone today so it is good that you bring this all back to us today thank you for your work Take care and stay healthy Greetings to you Frank Galetzka
If there is no book. Perhaps you should write one. As you have said, There should be a record of this for future generations. Thanks for all the knowledge you are passing on.
I'm one of those you mentioned that is just interested in seeing how things are made and find it quite entertaining. It is just amazing what you can learn and understand just by watching a true craftsman, such as yourself. Keep up the very informative videos, I do love them.
Great job Dave, really an interesting video. I enjoyed watching the way you formed each of the four hoops for the top. I am going to be able to use basically the same principle to extend the sun shade on my pontoon. Watching you will definitely get my confidence up to give it a try. Thanks for sharing with us. Your videos are awesome. Fred.👍👍👏🏻👏🏻
I just like observing a craftsman at work, and you are that if nothing else. Rock on.... The big plus in your favor is we don't have to listen to some want-to-be expert blabber on and on explaining the obvious just to hear him or herself talk.
I've got a physics assiment and as an older student🧑🎓🧑🎓🧑🎓🧑🎓🧑🎓🤦🤦🤦 who has no idea, your one hell of a teacher 🧑🏫🧑🏫🧑🏫, thankyou. And I'm learning 😌😌😌😌
While working at University of Portland I made four to fit over the handmade pipe racks on our little trucks. And, as you said, being handmade, there were little differences throughout the frame that made even sewing canvas tops interesting. I wish I could have seen this video fifteen years ago!
We all have our reasons for watching what you do Dave. Mine? I like a lot of young boys was drawn to westerns at the movies. in fact as a kid of 15 I worked at a tourist western town in Upstate Ny. called 'Carson City. for one season. tending the horses, and building part of the town . Complete with wagon shed. where we had the stage coach, and buckboards. and buggy's. and I had to help maintain them and moving them around etc. I often wondered how they were made, would stare at the joints. parts etc. so now at 78 I get to see that in front of my eyes. and it takes me back to that time. thank you for completing my wonders of 15 . As an weekend woodworker also I enjoy all that you do and like so many others have taken away tons of information that I did not know. so thanks for the education, and best of all the trip down memorry lane.
I neither restore or build buggies, wagons etc. I am however interested in the old ways relicts of the past were designed and constructed. I am fascinated by the methods used by the old masters. Not only is your channel entertaining it has provided me with a wealth of knowledge. Thanks for sharing with us all.
Mr Dave. Thank you again for posting your video. I will probably not build a top. But one never knows what kind of helpful tip a person can retrieve by watching.
I'll be using this information to build a top for my '24 Dodge Brothers touring car along with future buggies. Thank you for your time and for sharing.
Dave I enjoy the most out of your videos is seeing how buggys where constructed back in the days of old. I also enjoy watching you at work taking Pride in what you do. Thank you so very much for doing these videos and educating those of us who wonder how things were made back in the 1800's. Thanks Dave
Had to do almost the same Thatching job as part of a full restoration on a 1926 model T Ford back in late 1960s early 1970s. Its good to watch a true tradesman at work. Please keep it coming.
Love the craft of old school engineering I'm a agricultural engineer trained the old ways too off making things appreciate your work brings back memories keep up the excellent videos stay safe
Can't say I would ever put on a buggy top but I watch because I enjoy learning new things. Especially lost traded like this. Very interesting , thanks .
Yes I will not be building a buggy in the near future but this knowledge is great to have it works on a whole host of other things and also the knowledge of how it works thank you for this the Wright way is going to be a lost art. Thanks agin for the handing down this art
I appreciate your craftsmanship and attention to detail. I have learned a lot watching your videos. I build my hot rods and many things you do give me ideas on how to tackle my building issues. Not only do you do great with the woodworking but the metal working also. Please keep these videos coming. My great-grandson and I often watch them together!! He is interested in what you do and asks many questions. Thank you for that time.
Hi David like many other followers I have never owed or had any types of buggy apart from prams lol but I stated watching you many years ago and have throughly enjoyed every minute watching you and will do for as long as you continue to make videos you all take care 😀👍
Hi Dave, I thoroughly enjoyed this segment. I little about why I watch your channel. I am the great grandson of Riccardo Garon of Garons Coach Shop that was located at the Seamans-Drake Arch Inwood section of Manhattan.
This Coach Shop sold fisher carriage products and also built and repaired carriages for the high social guild of the time. Oddly the building still exists and is now an autobody and transmission Shop built around a Tuckahoe marble Arch modeled after Arch de' Triumph Paris. Built by Dr.Seaman who invented the small pox vaccine.
So coming from this lineage I thank you sir
Sincerely
Robert Garo
I enjoy watching your videos and very impressed with your skills and patience you have doing these projects. One of the other things is that while your shop is a bit of an organized mess you always seem to know where everything's at.😀 I don't mean that as an insult we all have our ways of doing things.
You are a true Craftsman and I'm sure there's not many that can do the kind of work that you do. Thanks for the videos
Afternoon Dave, hope you both are ok. You mentioned two types of viewer's. One that may be building something similar and one that just enjoys watching. There is actually a third like me that is interested in how you get around the problems and fabricate and fix stuff. I watch as I have learned a lot of different ways of getting around a problem by watching you ?. So I can put your methods into my daily work. And of course now I can fit a roof to the buggy on my desert island if I ever get stuck on one 😁.
Regards to you and yours
Richard 🇬🇧
i will never ever do it dave, but i will tell you i truely love to wach because it amazes me how much skill and craftmanship it takes to know how to do this stuff you do, i am so inspired by waching you do it and the knowledge you have. i am only a welder/tech who fixes and drives semi trucks, but as i grew up i rode in dad's chuck wagons and even drove the teams, and rode with our neighbour Cam while he tilled land with his 8 team of Clydsdale and belgum horses. so i did feel the way horse drawn equipement and wagons where like.
Mr Engels, as a son of an oldfashioned craftsman I love to watch disappearing crafts. Apart from that you are an ambassador of showing and explaining craftsmanship. Keep up the good work; many will appreciate your work and keep watching.
Hi there I just wanted to say that I'll never billed a buggy or wagon but I appreciate watching a trew craftsmen at work and I realise that you're doing this as an living archive of a way of life that is slowly being lost. However I'm a church bell ringer and I'm planning to build a mock up of a bell for training and recurring as this is a dieing art and I don't want to be one of the last at my church. I'm 50 and we've had 2 Ringers in there mid 80s
THANK YOU for showing us the step by step on the RIGHT WAY to do things!!I Really enjoy watching a PRO at work!! People can see the time and effort that it takes to do all that you do!! THANKS AGAIN!! R and W (KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK)
For those of us who will never put a top together, it's not all just entertainment. Some of us have an interest in documenting history and are so grateful you're preserving these skills for future generations.
My friend is making a custom top for his 1985 Canadian army Iltis (jeep). The body is basically square like a buggy and this video is relevant in designing a functional top. This kind of information is still very helpful to more folks than we may think.. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.
Mr. Engel, your channel is fascinating, some of my favorite childhood memories were taking buggy rides at Knott's Berry Farm in Los Angeles, climbing up in to the seat, bouncing around, the smell of the horses and sound of the creaking wheels left a deep impression on me, so here I am! Fun for me to see how you build them in your shop. I find your videos very relaxing!
Pertinent to your final comment, I never expect to even ride in a buggy, let alone set the bows and upholster one, BUT, I have learned over the years that the techniques used for one job can frequently be adapted for another, and that knowledge is never wasted :-).
I fully expect some day that what I have learned here today, I will be able to use for another project, so thank you for covering it. (Sorry, that would be the next video I think ! LOL).
I don't have a buggy and while it is entertaining to watch I'd like to add a third reason for watching. I have two products out there on the market right now that the average person on the street is likely familiar with. I have used some of your fabrication and building methods in my prototypes. To say they have been useful is an understatement. Even the complexity of your custom tools gave me the courage to build a few of my own that I would not have thought to attempt otherwise. I'm not sure how to explain it but watching a master craftsman operate in one field helps craftsmen improve in a completely unrelated field.
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Thanks for another informative and very enjoyable video.
Now, I for one very much enjoy watching a skilled craftsman of any "ilk" practice his trade. And seeing someone doing it while also taking care to demonstrate and explain what, why and how he's doing is absolutely fantastic.
And although I have no plans of ever building or renovating a buggy, I feel that it's a privilege to watch (and learn from) such a skilled craftsman. It even feels even more so due to the fact that I "normally" never would get in contact with a person like You. Both due to geographic factors, but also due to the fact that Your "trade" is one that I never before have any "connection to". I feel that in Your videos, I get to see (and possibly learn) "things" from You that I NEVER would see or even hear about anywhere in my "normal life" .
And I still feel that I pick up very interesting and useful information. Be that "random facts" or techniques and procedures. Sometime these "facts and techniques" just gives me a better understanding of "how stuff works", but sometimes I feel that they are like "little mental tools" that I "file away", and that will give me a better ability to at least attempt solving other "tasks that are not at all related to "building buggies"
Just to give one concrete example, merely watching how You worked heat to make wood more compliant, "turned on a bulb in my head", and I have now used that to "solve" a problem that I previously was considering to solve using much more "convoluted methods".
My apologies for this long winded comment I really just wanted to say.
A heartfelt thank You for making and sharing these excellent videos.
Best regards
Dave enjoy and also learning from your video’s have worked on several buggies and tops the last ten years. As mentioned in the video I also have the Auto Body Top Work and also the Auto Body Leather Work books to learn how top build tops but watching you doing your video helps me fine turn some things haven’t done also the saying a picture is worth a thousand words in this case a video is a million words plus. Thanks for all the video’s and the time putting them together. Mike Olson
Watching someone with good sense for problem solving is very adaptable to anyone's life, with buggy or without. The plastic wrap clamp is brilliant! Thanks for sharing!
I love this series. NEVER seen anything like it. You and my Uncle Bill would have got along great. He was AMAZING. Back in the early 1960s he built us a go-cart with tubular steel frame, wood rim steering wheel, leather upholstered seat - better than anything in the go cart magazines, and it could FLY (governor on engine kept US from harm). Thanks again for sharing your considerable skill and talents. I look forward to every episode.
I watch Your video's because I got hooked on wagons early in my life when I worked in an outdoor musical called "TEXAS" and I drove the wagon for the show. Thia made me want to learn more. There was a gentleman who worked in one of the (many) outdoor musicals, this one was in North Carolina (not sure where) who had a shop next to a running stream, this stream powered his shop. Each week he would build a part to a wagon or buggy and when the show concluded at the end of the season, he would drive either the wagon or the buggy out onto the stage. I watch Your shows because it brings me back to those days
I have been following your videos for sometime and enjoy each an everyone of them. I'm 70 years young and I will be retiring at the end of April after 54 years of working, 23 of those years was in the United States Marine Corps working on aircraft and the rest was with the government doing different things. I love working with wood and have since I was a young teen. I even went to mill and cabinet school before graduating from high school. I've never build a wagon, but would love to try to build one for my new grand nephew who was born just two weeks ago. I know it sound like it's early for something like this, but when you are my age it's never to early. I did some googling on the wagon you are rebuilding, but cannot find two seat buckboard/ranch wagons with a folding top. There are all kinds of carriages with two seats and folding top, but known like the one you are working on. So I have your videos to follow when it comes time to make one. Thanks for sharing your videos and the knowledge that go with each and everyone of them.
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@@cyrilhudak4568 Thanks
*- This video by itself alone is what a smart marketing director would use to confirm customer understanding of why proper compensation is due for your work and boost confidence in you as top choice.*
*- The amount of craftsmanship and intelligence needed for all of this should be properly compensated.*
*- I so enjoy what I can only call the cunningness of your mind's gifted ingenuity, Dave.*
*- Using plastic sandwich wrap to bind together wood Bows to steel polls is brilliant ! ! !*
*- Engineering the jig as staging props to hold the bows to work from for height and measurements and orientation is so clean and simple.*
*- Bending dry wood with heat and pounding polls to fit is a new insight for me.*
Hi Dave I'm hooked on your videos and I think your work is brilliant.
I've built a two seater aluminium & Wooden sports car from an old set of paper plans. The hood building section was missing so I felt at home watching your latest video as I also used broom handle & string when designing the top.
I still drive it on our roads in London 27 years after building it.
Please keep up your good work.
Take care & stay .
Ah, you are much more than entertainment! Your technique, the processes you use, your problem solving - it's all applicable to to any craft you enjoy. For me, it's making doors and windows.
Thanks for all your work with these videos.
Dave, you're more than a mechanic! Carpenter, cabinet maker, upholsterer, welder, blacksmith, wheelwright, et al. I did have an occasion to re-fabric a folding top on an old MG TD ('53 model) when I was about 15 yrs old. The work you show is more involved than what I did then, but it reminds me of it. That was over 60 yrs ago. About the same time I spent summers working alfalfa hay near Bozeman. I miss those days. Thanks for stirring up some memories!
Mr Engels, I don't watch your videos because I would ever put together a buggy. I watch because you are alive and awake and dedicated to something beautiful, and there don't seem to be a whole lot of people who are such.
*You pick up on something I register, too, cbmira01yt.*
*Dave's signature is of the real, unlike so many in expression on this planet now.*
At age 70 it is pretty clear to me that I will likely never build a buggy or even a wheel, yet I can honestly say that I've learned something from every single one of your videos that I've watched. (I've watched all of them, btw.) Some of the things I've learned I may never use, while others are used frequently as I work with wood and other materials. One of the things you constantly reinforce is the satisfaction that comes from never accepting anything less than the best you can do under the circumstances, and I thank you for that. In addition, your videos are unquestionably the most entertaining 20 minutes on UA-cam, no matter how mundane they may feel to you. Once again: Thank You for allowing us along on your wonderful journey. Garrett
I'm age 79, a COVID survivor, and agree with Captain 6. I'm taking an AWS welding course.
I think there's a lot of us that are mechanics at heart, and as such, are always interested in how something goes together or works. Aside from gaining some insight into something I will never do, I enjoy watching a mehcanic at work.
Engineer, mechanic, wood worker and artist all in one. Every episode is a fascinating watch!
I certainly don't have a buggy, but the historical aspect of where we came from is valuable knowledge - whether it's currently in use or not. The entertainment value is simply one of the benefits of watching a skilled craftsman perform work that is uncommon in today's world. Absolutely enlightening!
Agree.
I fix scissorlifts and Cherry pickers love metal and wood work and would have loved to have been a blacksmith when I was younger, Dave about sums all that up.
Mr Engle, a word comes to mind Superman, I am of the old school as you are and the times i've been called superman in fabricating none existent parts to complete a job is unbelievable
I truly think they say that when they have been to numerous workshops who have turned them away, sorry these parts are no longer available, what they are really saying is it's to much trouble
what these people are forgetting is the fact that a satisfied customer is worth a fortune to a small business, and you will keep these customers for life.
Love your vids thanks you.
Pretty sure I will never have to build a wheel or fit a top to an old buggy, but I always learn something from watching your efforts. I appreciate that you take the time to share your craft so others may benefit. This is a true gift to us all.
Thank you.
I am one who I doubt will ever do a top however please do not think we’re all just watching this for entertainment purposes. I enjoy doing upholstery work and other woodworking and mechanical work and I find your videos extremely educational especially with jigs and such and the process you use in working through a project that has helped me immensely. Even though I may never do a top the process that you go through helps out a lot of us immensely thanks for that.
Hi Dave,
I was a truck mechanic before an auto accident ended that career and was always learning how trucks were put together and the way they were to operate. It's the same with your videos. I not only enjoying watching your skills at work, but also how everything you create works. This series on the buggy top has me fascinated and will continue watching your videos. Had my first Moderna vaccine injection on Tuesday. You and Diane stay safe until you both can be vaccinated.
I wouldn't call it pure entertainment, I will likely never build a buggy top, but watching you solve problems is extremely educational to me. I'm fascinated and have used a few things I have learned watching your videos in my woodworking. A journeyman learns by watching a master, even if the product isn't the same.
It’s the joy of watching a multi trade craftsman solving problems
Watching your videos, does wonders for me. Not only learning so much about buggy works. But relaxing to watch. I was fortunate to help build 2 buggy's. Had the parts for 3 more, but those were stolen and hauled off for scrap iron. Sad what people will steal for a few cents. When the parts can't be replaced.
I agree. It’s obvious that you enjoy your work, and take it seriously. No half way measures, no good enough attitude. A true craftsman.
I love watching your videos. My parents had a horse drawn buggy at one time and I remember it from my child hood. I only wish I had a photo of it but that's just not possible. I have built a few models of buggies but never will build the real thing. This is why I watch your channel. Thanks for doing what you do.
Sir, I am a novice woodworker who will never work on any project in your field. But aside from the "asmr" appeal your videos provide, I like to see some of the techniques that the "masters" use. Watching your work flow from front to back or side to side, aides me in my woodworking projects. The expression "I never thought of that" often times crosses my mind when enjoying your content. Thank You for that.
We might not all have a buggy that needs a new top, some of us have early cars that need one! Doing a 1914 car top now! Thanks for the tips!
I’m in the camp of “ya never know what I’m gunna learn” like....I had no idea when you brought out the torch to bend the wood that that was even possible! I honestly thought what in the heck is he doing?!? But it makes sense now that I’ve watched you do it that your basically warming up the moisture in the wood to adjust the bend! Now I may use that bit of a trick in projects that I do. So at 60 I still can learn new tricks even though I’m a metal fabricator....ya never know...so thanks!
He does a bang up job of metal working and fabrication also.
@@ScooterMLS1960 well it depends on what you call metal fabrication? I’ve been a metal fabricator for 40 years building Race cars and one off prototype cars and pieces. That’s what I would refer to as metal fabrication. What he does is more in the realm of a blacksmith, this is no put down in any way. In my eyes they are just two different things. The only real thing they have in common is that they make things it how they make things that is widely different! I’ve been watching him for years and admire Dave very much!
Dave, i cannot tell you how much i look forward to your videos and the wonderful craftsmanship you have....i don't have a buggy, probably never will, but the manner of the way you approach these custom projects is inspiring. thanks for showing us the way it was really done!
I just like watching a true craftsman working his trade.
Even if we are never going to make a buggy top, it's more than entertainment. It's education in craftsmanship. Seeing other crafts being practiced by a master opens our eyes to new way to address our own craft.
I am more of the second group of people who watch your videos. Not so much for entertainment but because I am interested in how things are put together and how they work. Keep up the great work and keep the videos coming.
HELLO from las Vegas Nevada, I just hope we can save this videos, this video is more than just entertaining, is the last part of history, GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.
Im just watching because i love the old scool art of working wood and metal 👍👍👍
I watched and learned from your first series of top upholstery on the 2-seat buggy that you did. I applied it to a customer's single-seat buggy. Turned out beautifully! I'm very proud to say this buggy is the oldest "vehicle" I've ever done. After 45 years of doing antique auto upholstery, this is a whole new learning experience for my shop. THANKS for these videos!
I*'m in the camp that is fascinated by your craftsmanship and learns something new with every video. I will never do that kind of work, but in spite of that, watching this is far more than entertainment. Thank you for the opportunity!
Dave, most of us would watch you sweep the floor just in case there was a better way to do it. While I will never build a buggy top, I admire your vast knowledge base and skills.
From now on dave, when watching a western movie I'll be looking at all or any buggies to see what they are and how they're put together, many thanks always interesting.
Ha right. Watched news of the world recently and had to studdy thecwagon wheel to figure out if it was sarvin style or not. All Dave's fault!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
No matter if I ever use the knowledge I get from watching your videos I know that is some small way I know HOW to do it. You Sir are a Craftsman and I thank you for making this videos.
got no buggy, got no cart. got all the time in the world to watch your craft. thanks mate.
Same.
I second that.
Lord I don't have a stroller to build but I like to fantasize about how I could use it if I ever had one, and all thanks to watching his videos always thank you. Greetings from Sicily
I agree totally with Matthew B, and for all the same reasons, I thoroughly enjoy seeing the geometry, methods, techniques, and materials you use to recreate this old technology. Having lived in Amish country for years, I know that it still exists, and it's knowlegable and talented people like you who keep it alive. Regards, Solomon
I watch your videos not for any professional reasons, but because of my enjoyment in learning (not that I'm likely to use it) new things. And you make it very interesting.
Keep up the great work sir and it is an enjoyment watching you work.
I have been taught and have learned many things in my long life that I will never use. It never harmed me. I like to watch a craftsman do their thing.
I wash for pure entertainment purposes... and in that, I learn quite a bit and enjoy your process, your thinking and your problem solving. You are a master of your craft!
I think many of us appreciate the craftmanship that went into making all these things you do. Even with the use of some more modern tools it still takes quite a craftsman. To think of the time and effort 100 years ago is more than I can comprehend. Thank you for this channel. I look forward to it every Saturday morning.
What’s great in 100 years people can watch this and carry on the tradition and maybe maybe if they are real good add something to it. We surely stand on the shoulders thing.
You Sir must have the patience of a Saint, proud of your work, it will only be OK when your satisfied and happy to put your name to it, master of so many crafts, and rightly proud of your product. Stay safe and well.
I'm one that most likely will never put a top on a buggy---but---When I watch craftsmen such as you I learn techniques and processes that can be applied elsewhere in my wood working hobby. Thanks again for another interesting and entertaining video.
Even if I never assemble a buggy, construction and building techniques always have something to teach us, and other applications that we don't even know exist today!
I can think of all kinds of uses for the techniques, and other applications for some of the tools in your shop. I profoundly respect the reason that you create these videos, and hope that many people, even if entertained by "why" you do them, will take real practical applications and remember some of the simple clever ways to approach problems that you educate us upon.
You are right, it is pure entertainment. But watching a true craftsman is very enjoyable. Also thank you for suggesting Todays Wild West. I have been binge watching them and find that chanel entertaining as well.
I will never do any of this type of work but I enjoy learning how things are made. You see something, it looks nice, but learning how it’s made and how many hours of labor it takes to make or do a job. I love to see how stuff is done. I really love to watch a Craftsman that cares what his finished product looks like. Stay safe, see you on the next video.
Not just entertainment but transferrable skills. The way that you approach a task, a job or a problem is something that I (and many others) may be able to adapt in our work. I've learned plenty from you Dave and I'm sure so have lots of others. Thank you as ever.
yes dave thank you for preserving our past . it is very helpful for those of us that want to conquer these types of projects ourselves! very informative and attention to detail !!!!
Thanks Again Dave from way up here in Alberta Canada. Would like to meet you in person one day, once all this craziness ends !!!!! Kevin Granger
Many people spend their life doing un-for-filling jobs. They are watching this because their soul wants to, it’s healing. In a different life they would love to produce real things using their hands like you do. Maybe it’s just me!
Having watched your videos for must be getting on for two years, I have gone from someone who thought ‘I wonder how they make wagon wheels’, to someone who I think could make a reasonable semblance of a wagon wheel if I needed to...that’s how good your videos are in knowledge base, quality, and instruction, and I thank you for that...you have opened my eyes to things I never knew, might never have attempted, and shown me how...and that Sir, is greatly appreciated...thank you...
It don't make no difference why we watch / its the skill and method we appreciate / who knows in the future when we may need your skills and knowledge on record as research / your work on all things Coach's waggon's is priceless / much loved and appreciated for all time ✔👍😊💖
I always interesting to see how they make the wheels and buggy in the past. Now I see how you do it. Thank you for sharing your talents. I love to do some woodworking. You give me some idea how you do it. :)
I'll never put a buggy together but as a lifelong engineer and tinkerer I appreciate your skill, attention to detail and your unwillingness to accept anything less than your standard.
I enjoy watching the process unfold and the approach to the condition. I personally will adapt and apply it critical to own trade and work. Thank you.
As a woodworker and a metal worker I love watching you because I always learn something new!!! Thanks.
I restored MG's, Triumphs, and other convertibles when I was younger and was always amazed and frustrated by the tops. I know this is buggy tops but kind of the same concept. I also Agree with Matthew B I have always been a mechanic and love to learn something new and you are a great teacher. Thank You!!!!!
Well Mr. Engels, while I would love to have a buggy like this. And would not mind building one for my own use, I will probably never do that. Now while this is entertainment for me, it is also educational for me due to my past association with a particular group that enjoys recreating and preserving history. As well as that it is educational for me, due to my family history with my great grand parents and grand parents use of horse drawn buggies like these. That's because horse drawn buggies was still a very common sight in 1900, and are still some what common for those of us who have Amish communities near by.
It is just awesome to see your back ground knowlage to knowing every detail of repair. Wow to know how much the man back in the day took of and threw in the coolie I think you called it was a lot of some ones work. At the same time I can understand his reason for that. I will always enjoy you videos Mr. Engels
I'm an electronic engineer that has an interest in mechanics, but who spends his professional life mostly doing maths and powerpoint and arguing. Watching your calm approach to problem solving is a great way to unwind after a week at work, even though I rarely see a buggy, and will almost certainly never build any part of one.
Hello Dave
A great Video it is amazing to see your Skills of a long gone work
This work need much Feeling and precision and much empathy
All this things are long gone today so it is good that you bring this all back to us today thank you for your work
Take care and stay healthy
Greetings to you
Frank Galetzka
If there is no book. Perhaps you should write one. As you have said, There should be a record of this for future generations. Thanks for all the knowledge you are passing on.
I'm one of those you mentioned that is just interested in seeing how things are made and find it quite entertaining. It is just amazing what you can learn and understand just by watching a true craftsman, such as yourself. Keep up the very informative videos, I do love them.
I found this site by accident. But it is so compelling watching a true craftsman at work.
Great job Dave, really an interesting video. I enjoyed watching the way you formed each of the four hoops for the top. I am going to be able to use basically the same principle to extend the sun shade on my pontoon. Watching you will definitely get my confidence up to give it a try. Thanks for sharing with us. Your videos are awesome. Fred.👍👍👏🏻👏🏻
I am bending pipe for a Dodger on my Sail Boat and Watching this I just realized it is a Buggy Top.. You just simplifed my life
I just like observing a craftsman at work, and you are that if nothing else. Rock on....
The big plus in your favor is we don't have to listen to some want-to-be expert blabber on and on explaining the obvious just to hear him or herself talk.
Skills like this are lost without good people like you Sir.
Please keep up this good and interesting work.
Thank you.
I love this! Won't ever put a buggy top on, but some of your techniques and methods have come in handy in my woodworking hobby. Thanks!
I've got a physics assiment and as an older student🧑🎓🧑🎓🧑🎓🧑🎓🧑🎓🤦🤦🤦 who has no idea, your one hell of a teacher 🧑🏫🧑🏫🧑🏫,
thankyou. And I'm learning 😌😌😌😌
Watching a true craftsman at work is never a waste of time!!!
While working at University of Portland I made four to fit over the handmade pipe racks on our little trucks. And, as you said, being handmade, there were little differences throughout the frame that made even sewing canvas tops interesting. I wish I could have seen this video fifteen years ago!
We all have our reasons for watching what you do Dave. Mine? I like a lot of young boys was drawn to westerns at the movies. in fact as a kid of 15 I worked at a tourist western town in Upstate Ny. called 'Carson City. for one season. tending the horses, and building part of the town . Complete with wagon shed. where we had the stage coach, and buckboards. and buggy's. and I had to help maintain them and moving them around etc. I often wondered how they were made, would stare at the joints. parts etc. so now at 78 I get to see that in front of my eyes. and it takes me back to that time. thank you for completing my wonders of 15 . As an weekend woodworker also I enjoy all that you do and like so many others have taken away tons of information that I did not know. so thanks for the education, and best of all the trip down memorry lane.
I neither restore or build buggies, wagons etc. I am however interested in the old ways relicts of the past were designed and constructed. I am fascinated by the methods used by the old masters. Not only is your channel entertaining it has provided me with a wealth of knowledge. Thanks for sharing with us all.
Mr Dave. Thank you again for posting your video. I will probably not build a top. But one never knows what kind of helpful tip a person can retrieve by watching.
I'll be using this information to build a top for my '24 Dodge Brothers touring car along with future buggies. Thank you for your time and for sharing.
Dave I enjoy the most out of your videos is seeing how buggys where constructed back in the days of old. I also enjoy watching you at work taking Pride in what you do. Thank you so very much for doing these videos and educating those of us who wonder how things were made back in the 1800's. Thanks Dave
Had to do almost the same Thatching job as part of a full restoration on a 1926 model T Ford back in late 1960s early 1970s. Its good to watch a true tradesman at work. Please keep it coming.
Watching a craftsman at work is a joy
Love the craft of old school engineering I'm a agricultural engineer trained the old ways too off making things appreciate your work brings back memories keep up the excellent videos stay safe
I dont have a buggy nor will i ever own one to retop but just watching a master at work is something else Thanks for Sharing Dave
Thanks Dave, I truly admire your knowlegde and skill
Can't say I would ever put on a buggy top but I watch because I enjoy learning new things. Especially lost traded like this. Very interesting , thanks .
I am one of those that are both , I enjoy watching and learning about things like this and other things as well .
Yes I will not be building a buggy in the near future but this knowledge is great to have it works on a whole host of other things and also the knowledge of how it works thank you for this the Wright way is going to be a lost art. Thanks agin for the handing down this art