The steps look great👏👏👏 Good to see your start to finish process. Also good to see your mistakes and how you got around them. Inspiring. Keep up the good work fella👏
This video is perfect for me! I just started trying to use pallets as much as I can and have been wanting to build a step stool for my gf to reach the top shelves without me lol. Great, well-made video and step stool brother!
The colors that pallet wood have after milling are really something to behold, keep up the excellent videos that shows you are a true artist of wood working.
Very nicely done. I'm also brand new to pallet re purposing. Having a ball with it. Following a couple of other Ausies doing the same thing on UA-cam and along with your content picking up a lot of methods on the way. Thanks for sharing 👍 Cheers Pete' New Zealand.
Thanks Pete! Glad ur enjoying it. I'm learning heaps along the way. Any projects you can inspire me with? I'm making up a few pallet slabs atm and still undecided what to make with them.
Well David, I'm way behind you and all the others at this stage. I've just bought my first table (construction) saw and knocked up a work bench, which is all pallet wood 😄.So, a bit too early to add a suggestion at this stage. But as a new subscriber I'll be watching with interest.... and a note book 😉. Cheers Pete'.@@MelbourneMaker
@@Bristoll170 You're ahead of me working on the floor hahahaha! The one thing I wish id bought earlier was a cheap metal detector. Theres always some nail or staple i miss on the pallet boards. A cheap one will save you a saw blade pretty quick. I grabbed this one off amazon. Hopefully it saves you 🙂 amzn.to/3FUA2s8
Hahaha....Cheers for that, but it seems that's one thing I'm ahead on. Got mine after watching Mark (Dainer Made) suggesting it's a blade saver. And yes, it has saved a few sparks 👍@@MelbourneMaker
Thank you! I would love to have access to all the wood you guys have over in the states. Wish I could get Walnut over here that didnt cost me my first born haha!
There’s a reason certain woods end up being used to make pallets. It was just one notch above firewood. With all of the milling it takes to do anything halfway decent with it, you really gotta ask yourself; “how much is my time worth?” I think you’ll get much more satisfaction out of using at least decent enough wood that you can get at the home centers.
Yes, you're correct, currently it definitely isn't worth the time as I'm quite slow, however I enjoy the challenge it presents. I also plan on the future to record the time spent when I start making some pieces to sell to break it down to an hourly rate to give people a better idea of the true cost. In hindsight I should of used property timber for the legs as this would of saved heaps of time. The slabs though are pretty easy to make to be honest.
Nice build, nice video. For a “first project” you’re really showing some wood skills. Perhaps you’ve logged as much armchair UA-cam woodworking hours as me?
Thanks! Yeh I glued up the first half of the bench top today. Still a fair way off actually starting the workbench frame, but im looking forward to being off the floor.
Yes as the roller pushes it through the machine from the top you want to make sure that the piece of wood doesn't move from the sled. The lip at the front gives it stopping power so they stay together with more than just the glue Edit: to picture it better the wood kind of drags the sled through the machine
Yeh I've racked up a few hours on youtube watching others ;) But was genuinely my first time milling down wood and doing a glue up like that for a slab. Also my first video, so I'm getting better at explaining/showing how I do things. Anyway appreciate it :) Cheers mare
Thanks for watching! What do you think I should make next?
a workbench
@@sitrepx2734 working on that at the moment. Roubo inspired pallet workbench.
You have some great ideas. Keep it up. Great videos.
And it was great to meet you the other night.
Thanks mate! Likewise. Hopefully see you at the next one
great video! 5 out of 5, -1 point for lack of unicorns c:
Hahaha! So very few people will understand that! Cheers!
Great step stool and great video. Loved the different joinery you used and it looked an awesome end product. Keep up the good Work. 👍
Cheers! Was a fun build and ended up better than I expected if I'm honest.
A wonderful example of what can be achieved with even the most modest of tools. Can't wait to see where this all goes.
Thankyou, and the most modest of skills heh. Hopefully you enjoy watching the tools, workshop and hopefully my skill all grow.
Just found you from Fix it Fingers. Enjoyed your build!
Thankyou & welcome aboard! James is awesome, I was lucky enough to meet him at the Aussie makers meetup this year.
Great work, editing on point too 👌🏻
Thanks! Hopefully I can refine it a bit more as I get more used to editing as I go on.
The steps look great👏👏👏 Good to see your start to finish process. Also good to see your mistakes and how you got around them. Inspiring. Keep up the good work fella👏
Thanks! Yeh plenty of mistakes and things not going to plan. But to be honest I enjoy the problem solving side of it. Cheers.
This video is perfect for me! I just started trying to use pallets as much as I can and have been wanting to build a step stool for my gf to reach the top shelves without me lol. Great, well-made video and step stool brother!
Thanks heaps mate. Yell out if you get stuck at all or have any questions.
The colors that pallet wood have after milling are really something to behold, keep up the excellent videos that shows you are a true artist of wood working.
Not sure about true artist, but maybe one day. I do love uncovering the beauty in the pallet wood though. Cheers!
I remember having to clean up messes like that on a larger scale when I worked at a timber mill; you've done a rather good job with the stepstool
Thankyou! I'm not good at many things... But I can always make a pretty good mess haha 😂
Very nicely done. I'm also brand new to pallet re purposing. Having a ball with it. Following a couple of other Ausies doing the same thing on UA-cam and along with your content picking up a lot of methods on the way. Thanks for sharing 👍
Cheers
Pete' New Zealand.
Thanks Pete! Glad ur enjoying it. I'm learning heaps along the way. Any projects you can inspire me with? I'm making up a few pallet slabs atm and still undecided what to make with them.
Well David, I'm way behind you and all the others at this stage. I've just bought my first table (construction) saw and knocked up a work bench, which is all pallet wood 😄.So, a bit too early to add a suggestion at this stage. But as a new subscriber I'll be watching with interest.... and a note book 😉.
Cheers
Pete'.@@MelbourneMaker
@@Bristoll170 You're ahead of me working on the floor hahahaha! The one thing I wish id bought earlier was a cheap metal detector. Theres always some nail or staple i miss on the pallet boards. A cheap one will save you a saw blade pretty quick. I grabbed this one off amazon. Hopefully it saves you 🙂 amzn.to/3FUA2s8
Hahaha....Cheers for that, but it seems that's one thing I'm ahead on. Got mine after watching Mark (Dainer Made) suggesting it's a blade saver. And yes, it has saved a few sparks 👍@@MelbourneMaker
Keep it up I am just starting also but i line in the USA TX
Thank you! I would love to have access to all the wood you guys have over in the states. Wish I could get Walnut over here that didnt cost me my first born haha!
There’s a reason certain woods end up being used to make pallets. It was just one notch above firewood. With all of the milling it takes to do anything halfway decent with it, you really gotta ask yourself; “how much is my time worth?” I think you’ll get much more satisfaction out of using at least decent enough wood that you can get at the home centers.
Yes, you're correct, currently it definitely isn't worth the time as I'm quite slow, however I enjoy the challenge it presents. I also plan on the future to record the time spent when I start making some pieces to sell to break it down to an hourly rate to give people a better idea of the true cost. In hindsight I should of used property timber for the legs as this would of saved heaps of time. The slabs though are pretty easy to make to be honest.
Nice build, nice video. For a “first project” you’re really showing some wood skills. Perhaps you’ve logged as much armchair UA-cam woodworking hours as me?
Haha, yeh I've logged a few hours in the ol school of UA-cam woodworking haha! I'm probably not improving that much, but I'm enjoying it anyway 😉
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Best way is a joiner, otherwise you are doing the planing the best way. Again build a stand or bench for your bench tools, planer and such.
Thanks! Yeh I glued up the first half of the bench top today. Still a fair way off actually starting the workbench frame, but im looking forward to being off the floor.
Get a better hot glue gun will help speed it up :) i think ❤❤❤ love ya video keen on yoir journey as im about to embark on same one in werribee mate
Thanks. Yeh I have started milling boards while I'm doing other stuff so it doesn't take as much time waiting for glue to set. Let me know how you go!
I’m confused about the direction of the sled. Are you sure you were using it wrong initially?
Yes as the roller pushes it through the machine from the top you want to make sure that the piece of wood doesn't move from the sled. The lip at the front gives it stopping power so they stay together with more than just the glue
Edit: to picture it better the wood kind of drags the sled through the machine
@@MelbourneMaker oh I got ya. That makes perfect sense.
Thanks! Videos are great!
@@vamp_valentine3010 thankyou, really appreciate you taking the time 😀
You have no experience but you just jointed all of those boards without a single explanation on how you did it? lol I’m not buyin’ it.
Yeh I've racked up a few hours on youtube watching others ;) But was genuinely my first time milling down wood and doing a glue up like that for a slab. Also my first video, so I'm getting better at explaining/showing how I do things. Anyway appreciate it :) Cheers mare
Well for your first time, you did a great job. I’ve watched a few more of your vids. Thanks for sharing your work. 🫶🏻🇨🇦
I would have built a crash fuse at the top. Otherwise, a great job Mare
greetings
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Crash fuse? I have tried to Google to see what gem of knowledge I am missing to no avail. Please do share