TIPS Season 3 - Episode 2: How to choose the best lumber for boat building and more
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- Опубліковано 23 тра 2020
- This week we're headed out to Cornwall CT to visit our friend Duke at New England Naval Timbers and purchase some lumber for the 23' V-Bottom skiff we're building.
We've rented a big truck because we expect to come home with some really large pieces. I really enjoy this, getting out to the source and selecting my lumber so that I know it will be right for what I need.
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I am from Australia (born and raised in Adelaide) and then lived the other half of my life in both Melbourne and Sydney. Always been an avid ‘yachtee’ and just love boats and the water. Started sailing when I was 10 years of age. And I love timber, especially hardwoods, whether it be used in boats, furniture or housing. Love timber floors. Love big timber beams. Lou I really love your show. It comes because of your passion and skills and knowledge. I have learned a massive amount. I am so glad that you are back with a new series.
Just found this channel by accident, what a joy to listen to Lou talking, a wealth of experience and a great guy.
The depth and breadth of Lou's knowledge is genius and he explains it in a way that is crystal clear. Halsey is equally brilliant on the production side. This is gold. Thank you!
A glimpse of the knowledge stored in this mans head ... stunning .
I, a landlubber, swung a hammer for a living for 20+ years. I've learned more about wood watching shipwrights than I learned searching through kiln dried lumber in supply houses. Lou, after your long absence I was thrilled to see you in Chile. It seems that you did not waste that time. Your production values have dramatically improved. Your content is the ususal workmanlike stuff we enjoy so much. I loved your collab with Acorn to Arabella. I eagerly await your next installments. At the risk of repeating myself, nice stuff!
When you build furniture for a living you see a lot of lumber and you end up paying a lot more attention to what you are buying.
These are not cheap so you don't want to buy them twice
This is the cream of all youtube, I get so excited when Lou has a new video I find myself savoring it. As much as I want to watch it, I actually take the time to pause, maybe take a shower or make some sandwich and really slide in to my comfort zone to fully enjoy it. Then at the end it is a bit depressing as the wait starts all over again. Was so glad to make Tips From a Shipwright my first Pateron supported series. Now back out to work on my boat !!
I've never built a boat before and I recently decided to start watching and learning from all the videos I can get my hands on. While my ultimate dream is to build my own Brig, I found out real quick from watching these first 2 episodes that I know VERY little about boat building let alone ship building. I never would have thought this much knowledge would go into the wood one uses when building a boat. I learned so much from this video alone, I can't wait to see what else I learn along the way to building this V-bottom Skiff.
Man, I love listening to Lou talk, such love and passion!
Ioannis Aliazis So do I. I love seeing talent, knowledge and skills. I just hope that is passed on to younger generations.
So much knowledge.
He has the gift of gab and can talk the ears off a wooden Indian.
I love seeing Lou light up over the grain in a timber.
I didn't realize how much I missed this.
I don’t think anything has brought me as much peace in ages. Thanks Lou!!
I got quite a chuckle out of your expression when the forklift smashes down on your trailer. You were very gracious about it!
Allen was tired of flippin lumber for ya and said “there ya go Lou, howzat”.
That poor trailer! Lou looked like he was shocked and flirting with getting angry... Can only imagine the quick conversation between him and the operator. I'm still flabbergasted by that whole thing!
That trailer will never be the same. 😆
Very elegant forklift work there. Hahah. Great stuff Lou. Reminds me of a sawyer I used to go to. You had to bring him a six pack and sit and jaw for half an hour before you could get onto the business of picking through the piles. If you didn’t prepare for that, he would send you packing empty handed. He retired and boy do I miss that ritual. My new guy is always too busy to chin wag.
Each time i watch one of his vids i keep think of all the knowledge he has, all the old men who taught him along the way and those older before them long gone, and all the knowledge that has been lost. Amazing, sad and inspiring at the same time.
I hope your love and appreciation of woods rubs off on a younger generation of woodworkers and boat builders, sir. Strange to think that looking at dirty pieces of wood in a backwoods setting can draw up so much emotion, but it does. Excellent content!
Only two words needed.”Thank you” from Scotland.🏴
I enjoy watching craftsmen of almost any profession doing what they do best. You are one I enjoy more, as your content stretches for many installments with enough detail to help in cabinetry and chair repair.
I thought your trailer was no more for a second there. Great to see you back on your game, Lou.
I just love Lou's videos, they are some of the most informative on the net. I've been a carpenter my entire life, but don't know a whole lot about boat building. I learned more about lumber for building boats in this video than I ever have in my entire 59 years. Lou, your passion for what you do makes you great for making these videos. Please keep 'em coming! Thanks.
How wonderful to see and hear you again, Lou. I love your passion for what you do, and I admire your craftsmanship and your amazing skills and knowledge. Way beyond elated that you're back!
never underestimate a man in denim, great work!!
Classic, “Actually go out in the woods and look for” can’t really get better than that.
The only lock down Lou knows is strapping the lumber down on to the trailer .Love the guy
By the look of the ground and foliage, this was recorded maybe March time frame, probably before the social distancing recommendations were in full effect most places. I'm sure Duke is being careful now due to his medical issues a few months back, and hopefully Lou has gotten his lumber and hunkered down in his shop to build and make videos. He runs a few weeks ahead of the videos with the actual boat work.
Gotta love Lou picking up heavy lumber with a jury-rigged boat trailer.
Lou,it's great to have you back! You should get your truck wrapped with your logo!
Not everyone want to advertise
@@vilsiran i think Lou does not even need to advertise... :-)
my new youtube binge.
Dude is 100% example of loving what you do.
Thanks for the content.
Absolutely fascinating. What incredible knowledge and experience these folks have. What a blessing to be able to glimpse into mindblowing skills and abilities of these remarkable people. Thanks for all you do, Lou. You're the best!
Hmmm....Saw mill owner missing a few digits. Reminds me of my grandfather. He lost 3 fingers in a planer accident building a 32’ crab boat for the Delaware Bay. Ended up naming the boat 3 Fingers.
Great video!
Nice to see Duke again!
A nice production.
I follow Louis Sauzedde,(Loui) in his Chanel and I love his job. He is ones of a good boatbuilder in the world, and I notice that he has some thing special ... He has a huge knowledge about the wood ( timber) that needed to make a boat.
I love a cure labor.
Kind regards from The Canary's Island.
Lou scores big at the lumberyard
I want to thank Al for not destroying the trailer holy crap
Great to have you back. Great video 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Louis, your work boat series caused me to build another boat! An Earl Brockway skiff. I can't wait to see what this series encourages me to do! Ha!! Love your work. Alrighty, I gotta get off my duff and go make some sawdust! See you in the next vid. Thanks for sharing your passion and may God continue to bless & protect you.
At the end you two where talking about when you bought some lumber from that mill 30 years ago....wow that's something!! Great to see both of you still at it!!!
The knowledge you have NEEDS to be passed along..... you have an incredible wealth of it!!
Louie you are the man - great to see you back in the saddle and making video's. Been waiting a long time to see you build your V- bottom skiff design. My future just got a little bit brighter now that I have your videos to look forward too again. Halsey's filming and editing are fantastic as usual!
Really enjoyed the tree and lumber knowledge in this video. Thanks Lou.
Everybody talks about Lou, and don't get me wrong, I love Lou but I want to thank Halsey for making this great man immortal with these videos! Thank you Halsey Fulton!
I live next to an old abandoned mill site here in Washington state. It's so grown over now but the scale of what they were cutting was massive during the big lumber boom. I find old cedar stumps in the area and they are beyond belief in size. I can't image that there's not many a boat still in service made from that lumber. Watching these makes me want to go out there and explore more, LOL To the southwest of my location, Aberdeen/Hoquiam. This was the logging capitol of the area during the lumber boom. There is a museum there that was once the mansion of a big lumbar baron. The wood he used for his house was the most exquisite I've ever seen. The hardwood floors for example are all clear T&G that runs continuous the entire length of the building, both floors. If ever your there be sure to take in the atmosphere, for a guy like you it would be like a kid in a candy store, LOL Love your work, Great episode. :)
Missed you Lou!! keep doing the greatest builds and sharing them!! Your last skiff build was amazing! I can’t wait too see more
Chatoyance is the name of the "iridescent" look in the wood that Lou mentioned.
Was going to comment the same but... It is also found in certain gems and minerals.
So, Koa would be the epitome of this?
@@Mishn0 I recall a tree from Hawaii that they nicknamed "Mother of Curl" toward the end of the 1990s. That was largely used by guitar makers both for sides and backs and for veneers on headstocks.
I know it as "Anisotropy", which makes also sense, since wood is highly anisotropic. Hm.. wondering about how those two terms go together. Chatoyance describes the effect more than it does the condition, while Anisotropy is the condition required for the effect to happen.
@@AlphaXDE Chatoyancy is the term to specifically describe the optical quality referred to whereas anisotropy is a general term for anything with the physical property of variation in different directions.
He has some really great timber for boat building and it's good to see it being used.
17:45 those lite colored, thick bands in the annual rings are spring months, that were a wet srping, wood grows fast in the spring, than slows down in the summer, that is the dark (and hardest) rings are summer months, were the growth slows down, that's what i learned.
mr louis you are a master boat builder you can write an encyclopedia on boat shipwrights your knowledge is well explained about lumber ,techniques and layouts you are the best i ever came across best professor great job sir keep it up great job .
Thank you for taking us along Uncle Lou. So much knowledge and experience that you so willingly share with us.
Regards from South Africa.
I could hang out in a place like that all day too! I'm looking forward to this series!
I built boats for thirty years and have my own sawmill and I still learn from Lou
Thanks Lou for sharing your knowledge and part of your life, I recently found out my Uncle and his Dad use to build timber ferry boats in Mackay Queensland before bridges spanned the Pioneer River back in the early part of the last century when going through some old photos of my Auntie's. I guess when demand for them dried up, they moved into building timber windows which was all I knew for years about him and in the end his business was welding up big chains for the mines up there. It's so interesting to see how life would of been for them back then and so glad to see those skills are still carried on today.
Ya'll know what I know about lumber? I can pick out a fair 2x at the big box store. Damn, you can learn from Lou. Great stuff.
Thank you for letting us in on this slice of life. Watching from NZ.
Love theses videos keep them coming.
I know I get excited when I see Lou in my message header
Me and my son wait to see these videos, both were excited for this!
😊😊😊🦀🌊🐟🐳🐬🐙
Always a pleasure to watch a master craftsman do their thing
Thank you Lou for both another insight into your life as a shipwright and the instruction on selecting wood for boats. Looking forward to seeing what these pieces look like when they are finished. There is some wonderful beauty inside those slabs. Take care, stay well and have a great week ahead.
Lou, I don't expect the time to come when the knowledge of a person can be uploaded to a computer, but if such a fantasy were to come about I would vote for your knowledge to be high on the priority list to be collected... Thank you for sharing with us.
"Nutriments". Great word. :)
Thank you Lou and Halsey for keeping the videos coming during a difficult time. You have no idea how much I get out of them. Your efforts are greatly appreciated and needed. Keep them coming as time permits. 👍
Lou, Halsey: thank you, sincerely. Just what we needed.
Just as good as any boat building video. You really help to understand what all these wood terms mean. Very neat. Very unique. So very well explained.
Amazing visit with amazing details about Lumber ,thank you Lou
i sit in amazement watching you do what you do. and listen to the knowledge that you have. dont find skill like yours, very rare. it warms my heart seeing how passionate you are about your work. you are really living life. hope to make it someday to come visit. thanks for all the teaching
Excited to you have you back, Lou! Looking forward to the rest of the season!
Oooooh, Cornwall. i grew up in the super SouthWest corner of MA so i was in Canaan all the time! the mini golf and food stand there at the edge of town since I was a kid! And the Cannaan pet shop.. i was a regular there. made friends with the pizza shop that opened up like....15-20 years ago across the street. good noms.
*takes a smol trip down memory lane. This....this land out there, will always be home, to me.
This looks like a very nice area! Greetings from Switzerland.
North and South Carolina has mountains of Black locust. We use to use it for fence posts. IT IS HARD AS A ROCK. Jim in Chile
So interesting to see what types of timber you look for. Real cool.
LOU go see Leo at Sampson boat co. Help him identify his odd white oak and look over tally ho. Love just to hear u talk with him. Also Duke is a legend supplying lumber for tally ho, Arabella , amd Lou.
I was just thinking the same thing. That would be a great collaboration
Leo and Lou watch each others' channels, and have both linked each others' videos. Leo included a link to Lou's video about red and white oak in the description for his video about his issues with the two types of wood, last week.
They are on opposite sides of the continent.
Lou and Leo make a better fit for collaboration then Lou and Steve/Alix, would love to see Lou go all gooey over what Leo is doing.
This is the same place Leo got his white oak from
Very informative, thank you for Sharing your valuable Knowledge.
Damn, those were some big trees!
Glad you are back, Lou!
It is hard to teach passion but Lou just did in this video. Good things come from great material!
Man, I’m glad you’re back! I’ve missed seeing you and hearin’ to talk!
Bravo. The production quality is really improved. Lou, as always is great. We learn every episode. Can't wait to see the rest of the series.
good to see you back!!!
Lou, you could have a video every day and I would watch! Keep up the great work!
Fantastic episode. Thanks, Lou!
So happy your back Lou
Always a delight Lou. Stay safe.
Great video lou. Very educational. Love it.
It's Sunday, church is in service. Shhhh, Lou is on.
What a pleasure to see you working. Thank you Lou
thanks for the video. i always look forward to them.
real interesting cant wait to see you start building
Great that you’re back Lou! Excellent story that I’m looking forward to watching as you build the skiff.
Great video Glad to see you again
Absolutely awesome. Great information.
Thoroughly enjoyed this video mate.. thanks👍🏽
Thanks Lou, for all you do!
Love the videos. So happy you are back! Ive already worn out my first gen shirts.
This makes my weekend!
My New favorite out of all your videos. Thank you so much for sharing!
What a lesson! I've been looking for a video like this to help me understand lumber for my woodworking. Thank you, sir!
Great to see you back and I love that you are going out to the mills and explaining the hows and whys of your lumber buying
So much knowledge. Thank you for sharing.
Nice work Halsey, nice work Lou. Cheers from Australia
you are one amazing person... such a joy to watch and listen to.. incredible stuff.
Great knowledge. Excellent video - thanks!
Great way to see how each step flows through to the end result.
You do amazing work and your deep knowledge of lumber and its charachteristics is amazing
learning so much with every video
Great information. Also I thought your trailer was a goner when the bobcat rammed it a bit.
I know right? That was not an elegant drop.