This man has single handedly inspired me to get an apprenticeship in wood working in the future. I already love woodworking and find woodworking at school Incredible enjoyable, so far my proudest piece a really nice clock I made. I really hope you’re successful in your UA-cam journey. Edit: still a ways away from even finishing school lol, but when I eventually do you know damn well I’m getting an apprenticeship in woodworking, his place seems so goddamn cozy. I would also totally live in some remote cabin. (PS will you ever deliver to Australia I really want a chatoyancy sticker)
@@Justinthetrees yeah I’m totally love the idea of just making bowls, plates, utensils and anything you could want out of all types of beautiful pieces of wood
This video popped back up on my feed over a year later, and I had completely forgetten about it. I had the exact same reaction. And thought it was funny another commenter had the same issue. It was me, it was my own comment.
Ash wood? I don't know her. Also this wood is so hard it's PERFECT for making beads and you can watch me do JUST that here: ua-cam.com/video/ZnuPmM-bJME/v-deo.html
actually this way of measuring wood hardness makes sense because it measures density and is a good indication of how resistant to dents and wear the wood is.
I know my mom has a spoon rest for next to the stove that is technically an ashtray. Just gotta get creative for different potential uses of what is essentially just a small dish
The Rockwell test is similar but more precise. But unlike wood, you can harden metal. So just because you can measure Rockwell hardness, you are still guessing what you have. A scrap dealer had a gizmo that attaches to a smart phone. Looks like a gun. He points it at the metal and it tells him what the alloy is. Slick!!! We thought we had some hardened 4140 but turns out it was L6, a steel I had never heard of.
Hardness, toughness, etc, all have different ways of testing and are different qualities. This is compressive strength, whereas Rockwall is resistance to surface scratching.
Fair but his friend asked him for an Ash Tray for his birthday rather than it being in a showcase, using it would remind him of the effort his friend put into making something for him
@@Alex-it7hu excellent point, it’s like people who buy nice shoes just to leave them in the box cause they don’t want to get them scuffed. Doesn’t make much sense for an item that is designed to be used
@@angellopez5315 Then the purpose of buying those shoes are to sell them, that's fine, but if you are buying the shoes for your own personal pair not using it doesn't make sense
I love this guy. I know next to nothing about trees but his passion about them is so nice to listen to. I love learning new stuff while watching the stuff he makes slowly come together.
I laughed out loud my trying not to wake up my wife and kids upstairs when I finished that sentence with ash and you did not lol That said, mahogany is a much better choice for something like the ash from a cigar for sure.
Such a beautiful piece! Also, unrelated but you have a wonderful speaking voice btw. Sounds like I'm listening to an educational PBS special from my childhood
If I like beautiful things, and I need an ashtray, wouldn’t I want a beautiful ashtray? If I’m going for elegance and sophistication, why would I settle for a shitty looking ashtray?
Look, I never said I wouldn’t, just it shouldn’t 😂 it was more just to compliment the craftsmanship. But nah it’s one of them, some people get nice cars and nurse them, whereas I would absolutely cane them. What’s the point in getting a car that was built to be driven and then keeping it in a a garage? Just depends on your out look.
@@warezz1743 I'm not being a smart ass but yeah like I said there's deserts all around the world and lots of those deserts will have endemic Ironwoods. Ironwood isn't a scientific name it's just a coined term. I think there's an ironwood somewhere that has a jenka scale of like 5 thousand
I have to say, I always hated ashtrays. They can be so beautiful but hidden by a bunch of gunk. I used to smoke and even then I just thought, damn, people spend a lot on custom ashtrays and all sorts of stuff like that just to make them dirty. I guess that’s the beauty of a lot of things is that you buy them to get dirty (like shoes or cars). Anyways, I think that’s a beautiful ashtray and if somebody is lucky to have it or if you are keeping it I hope it serves you well and you can cherish it since you made it.
While I agree with most of what you said, I wouldn’t put cars and shoes in the same category as something like a custom ash tray. If you’re buying a car (that isn’t meant for offroading or something like that), you’re gonna try to keep it clean, and if it gets dirty, you’re gonna clean it to try and make it look new. Same goes for shoes that aren’t bought for work, hiking, or something else that you don’t mind them getting ruined for. I’ve never seen someone with a nice custom ash tray try to keep it ‘clean’ lol
Ngl, your videos have got me pursuing a wood lathe. I've already got a spoon carving kit for Christmas and finally made a spoon I kinda like. Can't ever get the sides of the bowl curved well. I end up with a long rectangular spoon 😅 Anyways, love the vids!
Im wondering if I could make a pipe from Ash, because it looks amazing and I feel like with the inside of a bowl being coated with carbon from smoke the wood would be protected
It’s not going to incinerate my guy. It takes much more than a smoldering cig to actually catch it on fire. When’s the last time you burned a campfire? You need more energy than that to burn it.
I would love to see you do a collaboration with an equally talented steel guy. So many of your projects would look so good next to/combined with metal.
The billet still had bark on it. Looks like a shrub tree of sorts. I saw a guy make a slick handle from lilac. Made maple look like balsa wood! This mountain mahogany looks beautiful with its grain and color variation. I will need to get me some. Reminds me of English boxwood. Wonderful stuff for chisel handles but you can only get it in branches… no board sizes.
Ok Ok Ok, i know a lot of people are coming to the comments saying " Oh why didnt he use Ash for an Ashtray". Its because Ash wood doesnt rank high on the Janka hardness scale. So if your using say a cigarette, its more likely to ruin the one made from the lower half of the scale than the upper half. Plus it looked really nice
In case anyone is wondering, the hardest wood in the world is Australian Buloke, and I have to imagine whoever named it that is probably a male Australian.
Ironwood is so cool, noticed it at the top. Fitting name, inspiring and beautiful tree. I remember me and my brother cutting one up that had fallen, it was so labor intensive especially since we were middleschoolers at the time😭😭😭
I started carving wood and I use the hardest wood I can get. Harder wood holds together very well and can be polished up really well. The wood with the highest Janka score is Lignum Vitae. It stands at 4500. It won't even be affected by water and as a result was used in ship building.
I thought you were going to go with ash, for the pun factor, but I totally understand why you would go for a much harder wood. Also love how you ended the it with "neat..neat wood, it's neat." It is!
Id love to see you make something out of Australian iron bark. Its a beautiful deep orange colour but is one of the hardest timbers you'll find. When I split those timbers sparks literally fly sometimes. Its also the best type of timber to throw on the fire as a night cap.
it might be just the samples used in the graph, but what change in the tree's biology causes such an exponential jump in hardness once you get towards the top of the list?
“I chose the wood that felt like the obvious choice”
Me: ASH!
“That’s right, mountain mahogany”
😭
YES!
I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE
@@j-j-jingles4797 it’s the same energy as “that’s right, it goes in the s q u a r e h o l e”
Same!!!!
I SAID THE SAME THING 😭😭😭
In a nutshell, this guy gave his friend his hard wood for his birthday.
What a great friend.
Lmao underrated
Super hard and polished wood
This joke goes harder than his wood
All oiled up😩😩
Lol sounds more like Ass tray now
This man has single handedly inspired me to get an apprenticeship in wood working in the future. I already love woodworking and find woodworking at school Incredible enjoyable, so far my proudest piece a really nice clock I made. I really hope you’re successful in your UA-cam journey.
Edit: still a ways away from even finishing school lol, but when I eventually do you know damn well I’m getting an apprenticeship in woodworking, his place seems so goddamn cozy. I would also totally live in some remote cabin.
(PS will you ever deliver to Australia I really want a chatoyancy sticker)
wow! I'm honored!!
@@Justinthetrees your the best
@@Justinthetrees yeah I’m totally love the idea of just making bowls, plates, utensils and anything you could want out of all types of beautiful pieces of wood
I just want to be able to make beads. I was distressed to learn you need a special drill bit.
Doesn’t mean I’m going to stop trying.
@@Justinthetrees ive never done woodworking but i love to see it and want to try it some time
I’m making an ashtray so I decided to use what I thought was the OBVIOUS choice
“AN ASH!”
Mountain Mahogany
“Oh :(“
Wher does the circle go?
Thats right, in the square hole!
Thank you for this comment wasn't made I would have had to do, so props.
my feelings exactly
congrats, you got the joke
This video popped back up on my feed over a year later, and I had completely forgetten about it.
I had the exact same reaction. And thought it was funny another commenter had the same issue.
It was me, it was my own comment.
Ash wood? I don't know her. Also this wood is so hard it's PERFECT for making beads and you can watch me do JUST that here: ua-cam.com/video/ZnuPmM-bJME/v-deo.html
Ash is better than hickory, best wood for tools, its very hard.
A weird irishman told me that ash is good for long shafts
Time to get some Australian trees to you if you want to use some hard wood.
@@TheGlitch93WuhDeE-foartee
@@TheGlitch93 I think I know that fella! Very good taste in caps.
To say I was caught off guard when he came at me with the “mountain mahogany” instead of “ash wood” is an understatement.
I was thinking he was about to say Mountain Ash. Which is quite nice on it own
That’s the joke
i said ash wood and was quickly destroyed.
Same lol
Frankly, it was disappointing.
You were making him an ashtray, and you *DIDN’T* make it out of Ash!?!
Preposterous, my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
This comment is what I came here for ^_^
Me too
My thoughts, Exactly.
Yep..
Same
"No man, I meant a tray made from ash wood, I don't smoke"
My life goal is to be a standup comedian, and I don’t smoke. I NEED this just to make that pun if people come over.
@@regiluci OK Carlos Mencia 2.0
The absolute weirdest way to measure the hardness of a wood, I love it, makes me think of how horsepower is measured (it’s not how you think)
How???
@@businesssolutions9265How much power it takes a horse to get out of a hole or something.
@@trilobite3120 wtf
yeah they see how many horses they can stack on the car
actually this way of measuring wood hardness makes sense because it measures density and is a good indication of how resistant to dents and wear the wood is.
I love really specific scales like this, like calories, the Pain Index, and Scoville heat units
If you have a friend who makes you a home carved ashtray, that's a friend for life
Yeah well if you smoke that is a friend for life
Short life.
Happy cancer!
I only make friends I hate wooden ashtrays. They don't need houses
All 5 years left of your life from smoking
@@chickenwarriorr Precisely!
I don’t even smoke but I would buy that ashtray since it looks so beautifully made
Amazing job 👏
True!
I don't smoke any more, but I keep some nice ones around for parties in case anybog wants to spark up a dart/J/stogie. Adds a bit of class.
I know my mom has a spoon rest for next to the stove that is technically an ashtray. Just gotta get creative for different potential uses of what is essentially just a small dish
I smoke and I'd probably feel too bad for using that as an ashtray, I'd probably throw my keys in it tho
@@raisin8051 keys would scratch it
Us machinist use the Rockwell test, very handy for figuring out what the hell u have from years of scrap if it wasn't marked
The Rockwell test is similar but more precise. But unlike wood, you can harden metal. So just because you can measure Rockwell hardness, you are still guessing what you have. A scrap dealer had a gizmo that attaches to a smart phone. Looks like a gun. He points it at the metal and it tells him what the alloy is. Slick!!! We thought we had some hardened 4140 but turns out it was L6, a steel I had never heard of.
Hardness, toughness, etc, all have different ways of testing and are different qualities. This is compressive strength, whereas Rockwall is resistance to surface scratching.
Wow. I can't recall the last time I even saw an ashtray in someone's home. This one came out nicely.
“Neat, neat wood. It’s neat.”
-Me trying to get a girl to go to bed with me
Haha that was so funny haha you made my day-🤖
Woah now
"I think they're neat"
Marge Simpson
@Sabizos-TheSacredCowTipper goddamn, just take my comment’s likes, this wins 😂
I was reading your comment at the perfect time. He was just saying it in the video
I wouldn't want to use something that beautiful for an ashtray. Especially when someone took the time to make it for me.
Fair but his friend asked him for an Ash Tray for his birthday rather than it being in a showcase, using it would remind him of the effort his friend put into making something for him
@@Alex-it7hu excellent point, it’s like people who buy nice shoes just to leave them in the box cause they don’t want to get them scuffed. Doesn’t make much sense for an item that is designed to be used
@@vitriolveioit does when that pair of shoes can appreciate 5x in value lol. Not into shoes, but that’s apparently what can happen.
@@angellopez5315 Then the purpose of buying those shoes are to sell them, that's fine, but if you are buying the shoes for your own personal pair not using it doesn't make sense
@@angellopez5315 not wearing shoes is bad for shoes, it causes the rubber to start breaking down and can actually decrease their lifespan
then later you find that he meant a tray made of ash wood.
I know you coat it with stuff and the wood might be different but seems like just such a odd combination to add wood and flames :D
hardwoods are actually decently hard to light.
I love this guy. I know next to nothing about trees but his passion about them is so nice to listen to. I love learning new stuff while watching the stuff he makes slowly come together.
This man single handedly inspired me to start smoking
Cigar
Weed
cock
So this vid inspired u to kill your lungs? Alr
How terribly weak and stupid you are to voluntarily inhale smoke.
I laughed out loud my trying not to wake up my wife and kids upstairs when I finished that sentence with ash and you did not lol
That said, mahogany is a much better choice for something like the ash from a cigar for sure.
Same!I even paused on the jenka scale because I needed to see where ash is after that.
@@saregardner2681 did the same exact thing. Though it really isn’t relevant to the application as ash trays don’t need to be particularly strong
i love whenever you talk about mountain mahogany, you specify that it’s not a mahogany every time
I watched turning video where a guy turned a piece of iron wood. He swore he'd never do it again as he had to constantly sharpen his tools.
Such a beautiful piece! Also, unrelated but you have a wonderful speaking voice btw. Sounds like I'm listening to an educational PBS special from my childhood
That’s too beautiful to be used as an ash tray
Agreed. Hopefully it will just be decorative. Just use a glass ashtray. Better yet quit.
Which makes it useless lol
If I like beautiful things, and I need an ashtray, wouldn’t I want a beautiful ashtray? If I’m going for elegance and sophistication, why would I settle for a shitty looking ashtray?
But if it isn't used for its intended purpose, it'll be wasted. That's more tragic than if it forms a patina from use.
Look, I never said I wouldn’t, just it shouldn’t 😂 it was more just to compliment the craftsmanship. But nah it’s one of them, some people get nice cars and nurse them, whereas I would absolutely cane them. What’s the point in getting a car that was built to be driven and then keeping it in a a garage? Just depends on your out look.
It's equal to Ironwood!? Damn!
While growing up I've always heard Ironwood referred to with reverence as if it were completely legendary.
Ironwood is super hard for sure, but yeah its name helps with that legendary status as much as anything
@@irmatroll I'm talking about Desert Ironwood.
@@warezz1743 Thats still not specific, there's deserts all over the world. Ironwood is a pretty general term there are definitely soft ones.
@@johndiddilyjoe6258 But Desert Ironwood is its name.
@@warezz1743 I'm not being a smart ass but yeah like I said there's deserts all around the world and lots of those deserts will have endemic Ironwoods.
Ironwood isn't a scientific name it's just a coined term.
I think there's an ironwood somewhere that has a jenka scale of like 5 thousand
My lumber guy gave me some ironwood planks and those things are dangerously hard
Yes, my grandmother has a Persian ironwood in her garden, an amazing wood
Deserves it’s name.
"Its extremely hard." Relatable.
I find wooden ashtrays very ironic
That's because you don't really understand the meaning of the word ironic. I'd like to reffer you to vsauce.
You missed a great opportunity to make him an ash tray out of ash wood
or just an ash tray (tray made of ash wood)
@@objective_psychologybe more original next time
Thank you for adding a graph of all of the most common woods! This is something I was curious about but would have never googled. You did good.
I have to say, I always hated ashtrays. They can be so beautiful but hidden by a bunch of gunk. I used to smoke and even then I just thought, damn, people spend a lot on custom ashtrays and all sorts of stuff like that just to make them dirty. I guess that’s the beauty of a lot of things is that you buy them to get dirty (like shoes or cars). Anyways, I think that’s a beautiful ashtray and if somebody is lucky to have it or if you are keeping it I hope it serves you well and you can cherish it since you made it.
While I agree with most of what you said, I wouldn’t put cars and shoes in the same category as something like a custom ash tray. If you’re buying a car (that isn’t meant for offroading or something like that), you’re gonna try to keep it clean, and if it gets dirty, you’re gonna clean it to try and make it look new. Same goes for shoes that aren’t bought for work, hiking, or something else that you don’t mind them getting ruined for. I’ve never seen someone with a nice custom ash tray try to keep it ‘clean’ lol
Well I don’t buy those things to look good. I’m only interested in their functions.
I love neat, hard, and smooth wood.
You should totally start a podcast dude-
Like seriously I would watch the heck outta that
Wish I was a friend of yours, this is beautiful. Great work~!
Ngl, your videos have got me pursuing a wood lathe. I've already got a spoon carving kit for Christmas and finally made a spoon I kinda like. Can't ever get the sides of the bowl curved well. I end up with a long rectangular spoon 😅
Anyways, love the vids!
"it's not just beautiful, it's extremely hard!"
You have a nice teaching voice. I could listen to you explain how to tell an age of a tree and I wouldn't be bored.
If you were to ask me what the perfect tree to make an ashtray was, I’d say ASH
Edit: yall chill
mmmm, I'd have to disagree. Open grain would make for a real mess.
His job is trees, he's the expert
I thought he would say ash too lol
Threw me for a loop when he said mountain mahogany XD
Im wondering if I could make a pipe from Ash, because it looks amazing and I feel like with the inside of a bowl being coated with carbon from smoke the wood would be protected
@@jgcoverkknot5701 it's just a pun lol lighten up
Taking woodshop in high school was a blast and honestly you make me wanna buy a lathe and just go to work haha
I'm using the lathe in shop class currently. My project will probably take the rest of the school year
King Yama really wasn’t joking about his table…
A fellow tfs fan as well
An ash tray out of wood sounds like a bad idea
You'd be surprised. I've used a wooden poker in my log burner for the last few years
A wood ashtray. Intelligent design choice
It’s not going to incinerate my guy. It takes much more than a smoldering cig to actually catch it on fire. When’s the last time you burned a campfire? You need more energy than that to burn it.
Ah yes, it’s smothered in gasoline and highly flammable liquids. No, it’s not gonna catch on fire
the best gift you could have given him was to not smoke
You should totally make a sign out of wood that says “Chatoyancy”!
i was hoping someone else would notice it!!
Missed that low hanging fruit. Ash trees everywhere are disappointed.
That was the point of his joke at the beginning
Beautiful ✨chatoyancy✨
my brain turned off for a sec and I missed everything
Any time I hear someone refer to wood as "neat," I immediately think of Neature Walks
What about the chatoyancy?? ☹️
Bro if my friend *Made* me this nice of an ashtray by hand, I might have to kiss him ngl
🤨 Then why aren't you smooching him now?
C'mon, don't insult your friend with cigarette sized rest notches. If he is not using it for cigars he does not deserve it.
he's not using it for cigarettes OR cigars tbh
@@Justinthetrees ah so would he be using it for a little bit of the mary jane then?
@@Justinthetrees Well a pipe would be S Tier *chef's kiss
Honestly when you said you were making an ashtray and that it was obvious what type of wood you would use my brain instantly went to ash wood
I fully expected "that's right, ash tree."
"Hey man! The ashtray you gifted me caught on fire and it burnt my house down"
I would love to see you do a collaboration with an equally talented steel guy. So many of your projects would look so good next to/combined with metal.
That’s such a random way to test the hardness of wood, god bless America. I love it 😂😂
Damn, you got me with the mahogany wood ashtray. LOL. It turned out so lustery and extra beautiful in the light 😂
This guy is gonna make me ask my professors next year to teach me lathe work when I start school
"Neat neat wood.....its Neat" lol he got passionate towards the end lol
Ah yes, Mountain Mahogany, the wood that most readily springs to mind amongst us all when it comes to suitable woods for ashtrays.
I seriously thought he was going to say Ashwood. Because to me nothing beats a great piece of Ash.
The grain in that ashtray is insane! Wow! 😮
The billet still had bark on it. Looks like a shrub tree of sorts. I saw a guy make a slick handle from lilac. Made maple look like balsa wood! This mountain mahogany looks beautiful with its grain and color variation. I will need to get me some. Reminds me of English boxwood. Wonderful stuff for chisel handles but you can only get it in branches… no board sizes.
I never thought I would like learning about wood
Who else was expecting him to say ash? Now I want an ash ashtray!
Ok Ok Ok, i know a lot of people are coming to the comments saying " Oh why didnt he use Ash for an Ashtray". Its because Ash wood doesnt rank high on the Janka hardness scale. So if your using say a cigarette, its more likely to ruin the one made from the lower half of the scale than the upper half. Plus it looked really nice
His hand is literally shaking af
Bro appreciate your hard work😊
In case anyone is wondering, the hardest wood in the world is Australian Buloke, and I have to imagine whoever named it that is probably a male Australian.
Even an ash tray can be beautiful
You have some neat wood dude! Very hard, with an interesting color. Overall, i could appreciate you wood all day man.
Tbh this made me better understand hardwood floors
*One of America's Hardest Woods Getting Turned into an Ash Tray
*Grit.
I learned about hardness and wood today. Very educational. 😁
when he said he chose the obvious wood, I thought he was gonna say ash lmao
I always thought I would be funny to have an ashtray made from Ashwood.
I simply LOVE ❤️ WOOD 🪵 specially old wood, that's why I dig your shorts 😊🩷🧡💚🌳🌴 please keep creating 🪵💚
This has the
"Who's that pokemon?"
"ITS PIKACHU!"
"It's nefairy!"
"FUCK"
vibes
i feel like i got verbally side stepped when he pulled the "mountain mahogany" instead of ash wood😭😭
This was beautifully entertaining and informative. You have a gift my friend...and you're pretty good at wood working. Lol great vid
Ironwood is so cool, noticed it at the top. Fitting name, inspiring and beautiful tree.
I remember me and my brother cutting one up that had fallen, it was so labor intensive especially since we were middleschoolers at the time😭😭😭
not going to lie, if he made a store of all the extra wood-works id totally cop some.
I started carving wood and I use the hardest wood I can get. Harder wood holds together very well and can be polished up really well. The wood with the highest Janka score is Lignum Vitae. It stands at 4500. It won't even be affected by water and as a result was used in ship building.
This nice dish will hold the evidence of your friend's dying lungs beautifully.
Using wood to make an ashtray. You didn’t think the way I did lmao
my great grandfather owned a quebracho forest in Argentina he would sell it for foundation pillers for houses that wood doesn't rot from flooding
I thought you were going to go with ash, for the pun factor, but I totally understand why you would go for a much harder wood. Also love how you ended the it with "neat..neat wood, it's neat." It is!
This made me think of a time a branch fell on my head
I used to work in a woodshop that made park benches with ipe. Google has informed me that wood has a jenka hardness of 3680. Hot damn
When you said the obvious wood I thought you'd pick ash for the pun of making an Ash Tray XD
"It's not only beautiful, it's also extremely hard."
Same tbh
This man is weirdly obbsessed with mountain mohagony and how hard it is
heat resistance is a lot more important than hardness for an ash tray
Hardwood is plenty heat resistant to snuff out a cigarette.
There's gotta be a better test but honestly, it's clearly working out. Love this wood! It's a pretty one!
That’s amazing man great woodworking skills. I want one
Id love to see you make something out of Australian iron bark. Its a beautiful deep orange colour but is one of the hardest timbers you'll find. When I split those timbers sparks literally fly sometimes. Its also the best type of timber to throw on the fire as a night cap.
it might be just the samples used in the graph, but what change in the tree's biology causes such an exponential jump in hardness once you get towards the top of the list?
Beautiful work man
I'm not sure if I'm pissed off for being trolled, or if I'm impressed at the skill with which he got us all so easily...
A wooden ashtray - makes sense to me.