"Craftsmanship" New House, Old Soul - Ep. 2
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- Опубліковано 20 чер 2023
- Is craftsmanship dead? Join us as Brent visits the North Bennet Street School in Boston, Massachusetts and tells the unique story of shop craftsmen, Vasyl the Ukrainian wood carver.
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Mr. Brent's philosophy is the true definition of "Build Back Better". What a beautiful view point, these are truly LIFE lessons.
The work Brent and others like him do to keep these skills alive is so much more important than the post industrial world we live in now realizes. With all the radical changes happening in the world today, I think this will become more apparent sooner rather than later
What is his company called? I might have missed it in the video.
These are *by far* the best shows on the Build Show channel. Absolutely incredible
Y’all need to:
(1) teach this in a formal manner, building a network of likeminded artists
(2) have regional shops b/c there has to be a huge amount of pent-up demand for high value homes wherein these design elements are valued
I am absolutely loving this series! I personally would enjoy hearing his opinions on stone masonry. As a stone mason of almost 30 years, I have heard many interesting comments regarding historical quality. For instance I have had several clients that wanted "the old school European castle wall look", because it implies history and quality. After some discussion with them they are usually silent when I explain that the farmers and peasants built the castle walls. Those walls were expendable as they would be attacked and the walls would be ruined. The actual quality stone masonry was the religious cathedrals inside the castle walls! I would love to hear the presenter's thoughts on this!!! Anyway fantastic series and I look forward to seeing more!
We bought a house in West Texas that was re-done by home flippers. They took the exact opposite approach. Put sheet rock over walls with zero insulation, installed paper thin doors which were inoperable after a month. Like your home, it was built to last, but in this case for only about three months.
PLEASE create a playlist for this show like Build Show Boston did. Soo much easier to find and follow
As a restoration carpenter I love watching these videos and the passion for the building methods and craftsmanship of the past .
These are my new favorite episodes 😁
So much of what we do today is penny-wise and pound-foolish. Very excited to see this series continue.
This is true, but in one of the interviews with him he said he can't afford to live in the homes he builds.
So while this stuff will last, unfortunately it's not realistic for the average person to afford it. And honestly, when the stuff was more in use back in the day, could the average person back then afford it?
I'm not sure they could.
We need more people like this
More of these please !
I love what you are doing and how you approach the work. It would be interesting to have a series where you visit with some of your soul mates in Japan who are still building using their version of traditional skills. I have learned a lot from watching Shoyen, a Japanese carpenter. It would be really interesting to see the intersection between your work and that style.
It is absolutely inspiring! Reminds me of the early days of my schooling.
You really don't see these tools and ways to put things together.
It really is all pre manufactured junk.
This series just gets better!!
What a glorious show
Thanks for the tour brent... That guy is a true master piece ... Keep it up brother....
These videos give me hope. I assumed all these crafts were lost to time. Truly inspiring.
Thankful you on🛎️
Details are everything!
I remember working in the basement of an old building with plaster mold castings for for some of the ornate woodworking on the exterior of the building.
Thank you
Thank you for this video, much appreciated 👍🏾
Congratulations on the new series!
Yes! Thank you for focusing on this
Great Video!
These videos are amazing! Brent makes me want to be a better craftsman😊
Fabulous. Being a long time woodworker, I’d love to see detailed video of how a cabinet door, drawer and stiles/rails are milled and assembled to up my skills. And the same for each of the samples on Brent’s wall of moulding combinations.
amazing information. Would love to work at place like this
Very cool, episode #1👍📐🔨
We had a saying ing my trade. Quality, Fast, or cheap, chose two.
I need all of these people to come chill at my house for a while 😂 I’ve got like a million things I want them to teach me!😅
I worked in a similar shop like this that made stuff like that but the one BIG problem was that the owner would work 70 hours a week, charge an arm and a leg, and could still barely pay the bills.
The pandemic and the resulting inflation just made everything worse but he was able to get a teaching job and gladly closed the shop and sold all the machines. The last customer doing everything the could to screw us over adding hundreds of hours of unpaid labour to a job didn't help much either.
Crazy what humans can accomplish when they’re not rushed lol
Back then they did not have excess bean counters on top floor demanding compliance with spreadsheets.
Watching Brent's videos on old ways, sent me down a path of fuinding obtaining so many older books (pre-1900) about building.
It's also ruined "modern" houses for me...
I worked in custom homes in the late 90s and early 2000s. Things gave me pause, and "didn't look right" - my company did the first plasma TV install, those old Philips 42" slabs of glass (120lbs to hold the vacuum before they figured out how to do it well) with a separate external power supply the size of a service case. We fought mounting it over a fireplace for then practical reasons, but as the flat TVs got lighter and more integrated, we still fought designing that way.
It wasn't until I understood the Paladian orders and then actually read his full book that I realized how much knowledge we've forgotten. It also gave me ammunition to talk to customers about not putting the TV over the fireplace, as historically one would put an overmantle containing a small "temple" for the god, spirit, or ancestor who watched over the house. Think about that for a second... It gets all 1984 really quick.
Now I see these flip and home-makeover shows with TVs over fireplaces as a standard "design feature" and it makes me weep. We now worship TV and it watches over us.... yeesh.
Even the TV manufacturers will recommend not installing a TV over a fireplace as that will usually result in it being too high for a comfortable viewing angle but more importantly the heat from the fire place will degrade the electronics over time.
@@TimBryan yup, now would you believe that it took CEDIA installers about a decade to convince TV manufacturers to override their marketing departments and put that guidance in? Yet they still use advertisements showing the TV over the fireplace....
Amazing. I can't imagine what he charges a sqft. More than i can afford, I'm sure. Love to see it, though.
One of the things to think about is that our modern culture of "fast and cheap" has resulted in ...... astronomically high prices for housing. How is that? Could it be that the world of finance and wealth is getting all the money while the expert craftsman finds it hard to make enough to pay the bills?
What is the school name & what city in So. Carolina? You reference to it with no name?
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How fast and how cheap ,get that question alot nowdays
Kudos to those working in the real world to push back against mediocrity.
I understand his passion and desire and why he keeps talking about fighting for details. But these things can only be sold in a niche market, which is fine, but it has to be worth our time as craftsmen to develop the skills to do these things. If we can’t make money at it or sell these products, then it’s a waste of time to think that somehow this is a school of thought that will/should multiply en mass. I love my craft and enjoy the challenges of large remodel projects, but I can’t sell these skills to our average clients. Hats off to y’all who can! I suppose geographic locale also makes a difference. If there’s a lot of historic districts and homes around your business then these skills make more sense (if you can sell them). Good video.
😂 like the way he justified not using a CNC.
Deus Vult.
The craftsman of today are absolutely just as skilled as the past! If not more so. Easily verifiable by a search on this very platform. The difference is we don't want to pay for that craftsmanship. We want cheap and fast. Survivor bias also plays a roll in this false perception. Beautiful well made things are durable, valuable, and cherished thus survive and preserved. 500 years from now, nobody will know Ikea existed while 100 examples of beautiful furniture made by UA-camrs will survive in museums. Undoubtedly someone will muse "We don't make 'em like this anymore"
Mr. Hull this very video is stark evidence that contradicts your opening statement. Your own employees contradict that statement. Respectfully, please reconsider your position on modern craftsman.
Mass production is the enemy of talent and quality
much talk, little action
Why so many videos each week?! Good grief.
Wish they would stop playing music when he’s talking it so distracting and annoying
You've drawn arbitrary lines where you think something is important and cutting corners when you say it's not. You're cutting with machines, including joinery, machine sanding, etc. etc. That cuts all the craftsmanship out of those processes. So if the process isn't important there, then why choose to eschew other new technologies and practices that result in the same outcome? I agree that there are ways of doing things that result in a longer lasting final product but a lot of this stuff you've showcased is just gilding the lily if process isn't important.
Glory to Ukraine
I think this is a false dichotomy. Builders of the past may have been better in certain specific aspects, but there are others where they'd fall far behind modern builders (pluck someone out of the past and tell them to go do an HVAC job). Yes, most today can't do some of the ornamental stuff of the past, but the flip side of that is that a lot of that has fallen out of favor, so they have no reason to know it. One factor in that is that the market wants more for less, and that kind of hand craftsmanship is simply too expensive for most buyers, so there's an inherently more limited market for those skills than there was in the past. They could do some marvelous, skillful things, but stop romanticizing them to the point that you're insulting modern workmen.
I wish our government ran like this
Would you be willing to pay for it? When he talks about fighting for the details, he is talking about getting people who are willing and able to pay for this level of effort and time.