I turned a 2x3 stud into a serving tray, without drawing any plans.
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I'm a novice woodworker, and the times that I have made things without formal plans have felt like much larger achievements. Of course, when I do use plans, I use plans downloaded off the web rather than making my own. Anyway, thanks for the encouragement to just get out there and get to work on it.
Most of us start out highly reliant on other people's plans. I strongly encourage you to try making your own! It's very satisfying to want to make something and not be at the mercy of someone else's pre-existing design. You don't have to build a 3-D model to make plans. Working out the basic math on paper and then putting it to the test in the shop is fun and satisfying, especially if you're like me and HATED math in school. Even if you make mistakes along the way, you learn from them for future projects. Start planning small and simple projects like boxes made from inexpensive materials to reduce the stakes and make the mistakes more acceptable.
@@GrapplingIgnorance and if you do use someone elses plans or idea, (ive stolen lots of ideas ) fix the parts that you dont like, change the angle, make it taller or shorter.. take a good idea and make it better
Watching you for six years now. Still one of the best on UA-cam.
I really miss your project videos. This one is sooo good. I make so many mistakes, and to see you make some of the same ones, gives me courage to try new things.
Maybe by "winging it" the Rob Wing way, more mistakes creep in. You may want to clip your wings a bit and use a pencil and paper! Question: Did your Great Grandfather invent the "wingnut"?
Keep making videos like this. You're trying new things (no plans!) and setting limitations on yourself (one construction grade 2x3!) and you seem to be having fun making videos. You know...like the old days!
"You know...like the old days!" Ditto! Finally, a woodworking video from Steve containing real content. Leave the "Shorts" to tik-tok.
I've been making long videos for months.
@@SteveRamsey if you're making long videos of content other than interviews/commentary, I guess I'm not seeing them either. 🙁
@@rem7751 I haven't posted interviews on this channel in over a year. I post lots of long form content.
@@SteveRamsey thanks for the clarification Steve. Obviously when I watch any video by you I didn't make a distinction of which channel it was coming from. I looked back at my history and see that I watched all of your project videos too (as always). And I guess in my mind I co-mingled all of that into somehow thinking you weren't making as many project videos.
I never tire of watching your videos or project content (new, old, big, or small). You've got an excellent, fun, easy, and thoughtful way to your style and channel content. I would be remiss to say I miss your regular videos as in years past. Thanks for the down-to-earth style and unfancy yet approachable way you instill confidence in us new nonexpert woodworkers. 👌
Hello emanuel, don't forget me
As a hobbyist woodworker, without any particular deadlines, I love the process of building slowly, taking a step, and then considering what the next step should be. It feels like art, where something is emerging from the wood, rather than I’m just following directions. And, also, I do love following plans when there’s something specific I want. So I love that you are supporting both approaches. You have been such an inspiration on my woodworking journey- thank you!
One of your most relatable videos for me! The fun of woodworking for me is the design challenge, working within the limits of the tools and materials on hand. That creative challenge is something I miss out on when following plans.
The projects I've made with plans ussually turn out better but winging it is alot more fun. The tray turned out great!
Feels like the old days. I miss those days. Thanks for sharing this great video.
I really like this no plans/winging it video. I never think of recording when I'm just sort of playing around with scrap wood. Really shows your talent!
Awesome to see you back in the workshop Steve, you’ve been missed here. Keep more coming.
Sir you absolutely popped off with this one! Great job on the tray! Very nice to be reminded not everything has to be perfect!
I'm really enjoying this "New Yankee Workshop" vibe you've taken on recently. I hope you enjoy making this type of vid as much as I enjoy watching. Thanks for posting. Thumbs way up!
It's what UA-cam wants and it's way easier to make!
@@SteveRamsey Well that's a happy coincidence!
Definitely! 😃👍
Gotta say I agree with the theme of this one. I have been woodworking about a decade now & made some really nice stuff, but I am always working off an idea in my head, or a sketch I made on some graph paper. Never bit the bullet on software...and I do spend a lot of time staring at boards, letting them tell me how to orient them.
It's weird how genius and foreign it feels to simply move the fence onto the left side. Great work as always!
It really does feel odd!
Sometimes the solution is right in front of you and it’s so simple you have a hard time realizing it.
@@SteveRamsey I do this all the time... I'm left handed so it feels natural to have the fence on the left. I do have to move it for some angles though.
Absolutely... I was like... oh yeah I see the problem hmm how would I fix it... and then like... oh, yeah, of course.
Excellent off the cuff project video Steve! Just like the old days! 👍👍🔨🔨
I've almost exclusively winged-it, and for the most projects, my working memory makes it work. Recently I turned a shelf project into a dual (mirrored for a room corner) shelf thingy, but couldn't match the reclaimed 40mm by 40mm central post/support piece, so I decided to remake with 42*42mm stock I can get locally. After doing it initially then twice, I was pretty happy when my wife approved and ordered a second pair of shelves for the other side of the room. Being the first time I was repeating a project I confidently layed out, cut out, and fit/finished all the parts. Then I discovered that the 120mm shelves weren't 140mm shelves. I wondered why the $27 DAR pine board was $21.60 at check out, but didn't catch my mistake until final glue-up. Duh. $0.02 Loving it Steve, thought I'd share.
To reply to the notion of cad drawings of a project first. I myself, a tinkerer du garage, enjoying making it all up as I go along.
“And it’s gonna come with some challenges that I look forward to.” I love it
Love the toss back to more your old school project videos.
Your safety procedures on the table saw are excellent and all hobby woodworkers should pay attention.
Love this, Steve! The tray looks great! I agree that sometimes just going with it and working things out on the fly can be a mind freeing experience! (It definitely helps that you use cheap construction lumber though. I wouldn't want to "wing it" with a piece of walnut. Anyway, great video, looking forward to your next one!
I absolutely love this video, Steve. It took me back to the good old days when you made so many great projects that we amateur weekend woodworkers with limited tools and limited funds could tackle and complete. Thanks for doing another project video for us and thanks for so many projects in the past. I've made many of them. My younger daughter has several bedside tables, two closets organized ala WWMM, a paper towel holder, a coffee table and two beds that you helped me make.
Thanks again.
I love how you are always up for doing new things and using the cheapest materials to make awesome projects! Thanks for all the ideas :)
Hello mr anot,, how are u
@@Zie_carpentry Good
@@tyanot8101 thank you
Either with a plan or just free form, I think the results depend on your artistic vision of the completed project. I like simple and fun projects like this, Thank you Steve!
So glad to see you back in the shop making dust!
This style of video you're posting is very enjoyable to watch and learn from.
I really like the style of filmmaking you are trying Steve. Talking over footage of you working, the sounds of the shop, and the natural feel to the lighting are so new and enjoyable.
Good to see you build something. Enjoyed watching you build it. I also love your honesty, you are REAL.
Love this format! And the detailed explaining. Lovely tray!
I'm as green as a fresh cut tree and started my first "real" project that was a horse tack trunk made with plans drawn on a piece of scrap wood. Ive noticed after watching a ton of videos from different channels that there are the same types of people no matter what job or skill set you have, there are very particular people and not so particular people and people who fall somewhere in the middle which is me and so far so good. I just started doing this for something to do in the winter (when we're not plowing snow) and now its developed into a side gig that we hit a few shows a summer.
I love this video. It was a study in easy does it, trust your guts, and don't sweat mistakes. I've learned a lot from you and appreciate that you're out there keeping it interesting and fun. Cheers!
I'll give ya a thumbs-up on this one.
Another great project. So good to see another full length video again. Great demonstrations and explanations. Well done Steve.
I'm currently making a similar tray also with a few simple 20 degrees angles and boy is it significantly more complicated than just squares! :O Great job Steve!
Great to see another project video! This was fun, and had a great pace to it.
Love the project videos. Thanks!
Great work Steve. This kind of projects are so satisfying when you finish them. With only plans that you have in your head. Waiting for more videos like this.
Steve it's good to see you posting some wood working video's. I kinda miss you talking in the video as opposed to a voice over. There was no sarcasm we love the witty Steve.
Shoulda watched my Halloween video lol
Always enjoy seeing you in the shop. Thanks.
I wish you’d make a Micro jig type intro for your homemade push block. I miss those Micro Jig intros from back in the day.
Don't the Microjig intro in this month's newsletter!
Great video Steve!
It’s alt more fun to wing it I do it all the time nice job Steve
I really enjoyed seeing the problem solving you did in this video. Thanks for sharing!
I love the video. Reminds me of some of your earlier videos. I enjoy making things on the fly. Recently made a wood Christmas tree skirt/box. Tried a few different things that didn't work in the process. But my wife loved it.
I loved this! Especially the staring at the boards part. I do it all the time. I keep meaning to learn sketchup. Really neat tray, too. Thank you, Steve!
Love how it turned out. Great information. Good to see you in your shop! I like the natural-looking finish also. All the best to you. Peace and Good Fortune and Good Health to you and your family.
❤love seeing you muck about in the garage and enjoying just (what I’d call) puttering. Good to see a project video too.
Im glad you are doing project videos again. I missed these very much.
My several attempts at learning Sketch Up proves that sticky notes/junk mail envelopes and pencil works the best.
Thanks for the fun project!
I think that when I was beginning my woodworking journey… I NEEDED a plan. Now that I’ve been doing it for 10 years (started with watching YOU)… I feel more comfortable creating from an idea. It’s been fun doing things both ways. There are times for both. Sometimes I just want to be creative. Sometimes I want to be productive.
One of the major challenges of a project like this is keeping the saw dust out of your coffee.........): Love your projects. I never miss a video.
Thank you for leaving in the Oops! I make mistakes pretty much constantly, as I am very new to this. To see you making regular old Human mistakes at your level takes some of the sting out of my own. This enables less shame and more learning and, Steve, I appreciate you for that!!! Greatly.
Great video. Thanks for sharing. You're at level 120, I'm still at 101. So my first serving tray will be without a 20 degree bevel, I guess.
Checking this videos for inspiration in my outdoor shop. Although it is pretty cold outside now in here.
Off the hip projects are awesome! You never know what you’ll come up with. Nice job.
I enjoy watching you create and problem solve. Doing so inspires me to do the same within my own shop. I also appreciate your leaving any mistakes made, in the video to share what you learned with us, and to remind us that everyone makes mistakes regardless of skill/experience level. I know for me, at least, coming up with a creative way of correcting my mistakes often leaves me with a greater sense of accomplishment at the end. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a serving tray to design with pencil and paper in my "project ideas," quad ruled notebook. 😁😁
For those of us with small shops, I appreciate seeing you moving your equipment around to be able to use them.
This hits along with the newsletter that just came out. I just finished a "free form" charcuterie board inspired by a recent Bourbon Moth holiday gift video. I was amazed at how freeing/enjoyable it was to just let the design/final look emerge as the project unfolded. We tend to get a bit particular and precise as a group but just getting going on the journey not entirely sure of the destination enhanced my satisfaction immensely.
A lovely, smooth video and a delightful end product, Steve. The angle cuts with the jigsaw were pure sculpture, you went beyond the how-to-make into a more why-we-make zone.
i really dig your simple approach to things.
Love it. I do a lot of my work on the fly like this. It's definitely a challenge but when your finished the results are satisfying
Steve, Thank you for sharing your thinking processes. Coming from such an experienced woodworker you still demonstrate the "mere mortal-ness" in all of us. It's nice to see you in your natural element, seamlessly using all your tools without restricting yourself to the "$1000 tool list". Nicely done.
Wayne kitt 👍👍✅
Great video and project as always Steve. I think i'll give this one a go!
Always love your project videos great watch.
Very much appreciate your comments regarding dimension and design. It is very freeing to let aesthetic and your eye do the measuring. I do the same with boxes I make. Great to see a woodworker that isn't loaded with high-end equipment. Well done and thanks!
Steve great ideas with every day timber, keep these ideas coming mate
Really good video... I have missed seeing you build... thanks...
It’s what attracted me to your channel in the first place: ideas for projects that we can do without a fancy shop. I can’t tell you the number of videos I’ve turned off at “jointer and planer”. I don’t have either. I’m interested in your cart and table designs. During Covid (JUST as I FINALLY had money with 6 children; I’d gone back to work at NASA) router tables became IMPOSSIBLE to find. So I have a gimpy router with the adjustment dial fallen off and no table for it. I just madly wave it in the air and hope I don’t hurt myself. I’m female and 68. You make me feel that I can continue to do woodworking by making my own tool supports. Also: we raised 6 children: 4 engineers and 2 therapists who say engineers are crazy (they aren’t wrong). One of the therapists recently began woodworking last year, primarily inspired by your videos. I am very proud. For my birthday she made me a cutting board inscribed with a set of 8 octopus arms appearing from the side, done with wood burning. I treasure it, doubly so because I love those cheesy 1950’s giant monster movies and she rolls her eyes at them. Yet made me a cutting board I love 😂
I really happy to see making projects on the fly. It is always a fun challenge to go back to just making and item without all of the design time! If find it refreshing to challenge myself by making something on the fly
Miss you making stuff!!!
Thanks for the build.
This whole video is lovely, but wow what helpful reminders about design. Thank you for sharing!
I have adhd, so plans bore me, which results in substandard workmanship. I really enjoyed watching you dry-fitting oversized pieces and seeing the creative juices flowing. That's exactly how I do my best work 😎
some of my most relaxing and rewarding times in my woodworking experiences have come from starting with a pencil drawing just sketched out. Thanks for giving this concept some air time
Great project! Love the message too
Thanks for finally showing some woodworking.
I don't think people are getting my videos!
Does anybody else always find Steve's videos theraputic or just straight up funny?
I like the project videos! Can't take anymore '5 tools under $20' stuff that's so popular these days.
great video. good to see more freeform kind of work!
Excellent... Totally of the Top of your head.
Guess with you, you could say.
"I see woodworking projects !!"
Really enjoyed this build video. Those trays look like they would make great gifts.
Hahahahaha love that you included the typical shot of a bevel gauge on the saw blade but from the back! 😂😂
Lol...adds a bit of mystery!
Great video! Thank you, Steve.
Thanks Steve!
I love these project/build videos for us “mortals”. Keep them coming Steve! 😉
Fantastic video and great tray Steve. I found this build so serene and peaceful to watch and especially enjoyed all the coffee sipping moments of contemplation you included. While your frequency of posts may have decreased the quality of them just seems to get even better. Thanks for all you do for the woodworking community! 🙏🏻
How steve got his groove back :)
Excellent video and advice.
Since im trying to dip my foot in woodworking as an hobby, seeing this back to basics videos are really nice :)
Steve I really enjoyed this latest article and the video. I do most of my builds this way. I like to start out with a general idea of what I plan to build and let it develops as I go. Thanks again for all your articles and videos, I really appreciate your style and especially your humor.
another great video! also, thanks for using an actual flush-cut saw and calling it a flush-cut saw! I always see people calling the regular pull saws flush-cut saws. Anyway, thanks also for your content!
What a refreshing change watching someone working with tools and materials that are within reach of us mortals! For complex projects I create a 3D CAD model, the generate drawings. For simple things I enjoy planning as I build, or working to a rough pencil sketch.
Thanks for showing that you can do it without plans. I enjoyed your voice over narrative and telling us what you're thinking. It looks like coffee is a necessary woodworking tool also.
By the way I enjoy reading your newsletters. Everybody should subscribe to it!!!!
Thank you! And yes, I agree about coffee.
I started watching your videos in 2016 and just started again. Really motivating me to get back into my wood shop!
Thanks Steve, that was so much fun to watch
As always love your work!
I really like the Steve vérité of you drinking coffee in your shop and staring at wood. In that moment you really broke down that fourth wall. I really like the end result, too.
Thanks for the great video Steve. Very insightful and as always with your content, helpful. I can relate on so many levels.
I recently made a soda(beer) can carrier from a cedar fence picket without any plans. I had the idea for the basic design in my head and winged the measurements. I approached the build knowing that it was a prototype and, while the final result looked wonky, I now have the experience and knowledge of how to make v2 better.
An alternative (and somewhat simple) solution to the boards with the grooves cut all the way through would be to rabbet the edge to the depth of the groove to accept the profile of the end pieces. Additionally, it might give a little extra strength to the joint over a butt, but might not be the look you were going for.
Since I don't have a router, that's a solution I'm able to accomplish on some of my work with just my table saw.
Oh, and I really enjoyed this video! Thanks!