When Rex says his Everyday Woodworking book is "from the ground up" he means that literally. Garden stakes go in the ground, door stops go on the ground, and it goes up from there. My copy came in yesterday and it has all the elements that make his videos great.
@@mass4552 Mine is in the post, its just that its still in the USA and I am in Cyprus, but Rex didn't say that his book was $1 cheaper than advertised which is a plus in anyone's book
@@RexKrueger Kinda like, as George Carlin pointed out, when the ancient Native American Indians practiced their rain dances ... if it rained, was it really practice?
When you're driving nails it's a really good idea to make sure the workpiece is supported on the underside - simply placing the 2nd apron in place as you're nailing on the first will make it much more stable.
Before training to become a Bar Fitter many years ago, I first did two years service for Christie-Tyler to become an Upholsterer. When all of my training was done (5 years when combined with the 3 years Carpentry/Joinery), I worked for my family's furniture business for a number of years then went out alone. I designed a number of things along the way that I could knock together when work was a bit thin and one of those was a chaise longue that I could make and sell to put food on the table. As you point out in this video, the first attempt may look good but it evolves each time you make it until you eventually have an excellent piece that costs less to make and is much better by design. That is what comes with learning and experimentation. Make it, refine it and then refine it again. Simplify it. Do it better every time. Keep doing it until you have done your very best version and then, that is the final piece that you keep in your armoury. I did the same with children's 3-piece suites. Developed them until I couldn't add or remove anything more of the original design. I'm not saying they were the very best out there but they were the very best that I could do with my original idea - and that's all that matters, really. It doesn't matter if you aim for a low, middle or top of the range item, as long as you stick to your original inspiration, it will evolve. Save money where you can but never to the point of sacrificing the originally intended quality. That is how even the greatest of artists evolve their best works over time to produce their final masterpieces. It is why huge companies invest so much in Research and Development (with Development being the key word in all this). Anyone out there looking to make their first little trinket box or whatever, follow the same route; make what you see in your Mind's eye, look at what you could do better and refine it and make another, then sleep on it and then make another, each time improving until you have done the very best you can do. Then have another go a few years down the line and with your grown experience, you will find even more ways to make improvements. Did Chippendale or Sheraton start out as classic designs? No, they conceived and then developed and refined them.
Doing things more than once is such a great way of learning. When doing my bicycle mechanic apprenticeship for the final exam we needed to completely spoke two wheels and most shops don't even offer that service any more, as it is way more economical to just get a new wheel than pay someone to do it by hand. But I luckily worked in a shop that pivoted their business right as i was getting into my second year and as a part of that we had to build 100 bikes for a local food delivery service. Due to us wanting to use specific parts to best suit the hard life those bikes would live we had chosen to assemble the wheels by hand in house and thus we had a whopping 200 rims and hubs waiting for spokes. I got tasked with doing about 60 of them and guess what, I aced the final exam when most who may have done it once or twice before failed. Practice makes perfect!
Made my first bookshelf over the weekend. Whilst it is not a masterpiece, it does hold books and looks good in the office. Thanks Rex for all the videos, they definitely help
20 plus years making "Mission", Spanish Revival, and Monterey furniture.. Also Ukrainian, Mennonite, Hutterite, Doukhobor, Russian, Swedish, Gustavian, etc. Most of it painted over quality timber. Mission is a bit of a misnomer as it can imply "Arts and Crafts" style. Well done video and a useful bench from "materials at hand"..... the true definition of "folk art".
7:20 best thing to do on the old shooting board is take the fall off of your angle cut, cut a straight 90 from the point of nothing across to the other side so it forms a wedge that goes down to nothing, and wedge that between your shooting board backer and the board your shaving. That will keep your work piece at the correct angle while you're shooting the edge 👍
Your SketchUp model made for a nice prototype. Back when we drew everything up on a drafting board, our first prototype was our first prototype! Unless we made a cardboard "model". The original CAD. i.e. Cardboard Aided Design....... Nice bench. Looks good.
I pre-ordered my copy the day he announced it's release on his video. We still have to wait for the 29th of June. Fortunately that's still a week before my vacation starts 😉
This is maybe my favorite piece of yours. Something about the simplicity of it's form and construction, how practical it is and the elegant lines make it really beautiful.
This is so fortuitous. My grandfather had a similar bench (not sure if he made it) that's at least 80 years old. Sturdy as a fort. His also has a hand hold cut in the top for easy carrying and a cross brace for extra stability. He and my grandmother would mount a meat grinder to it with a bracket attached to one side and make homemade sausages, ground beef, pork, whatever. I started laying plans to reproduce one from the original. This video taps into a few fine tuning questions I thought of. Thanks, Rex!
I grew up going to the missions in Southern California. Spent most of my time asking about the construction of well everything. And yes simple sturdy efficient construction.
Would be wonderful if you designed/built a tool tote... tool box... tool chest... portable caddy that can house all the core tools you highlight in your new book. I could see building the tote, stocking it with the tools and gifting that set with your book to a young builder interested in learning the craft.
I've been a historical interpreter at La Purisima, twice a year, for over 25 years. I know most of the furniture pretty well, and a fairly intimate knowledge of the place itself. I may be there towards the end of August if you see any pictures of items you'd like details of. One thing I will say is that seats are lower than modern seats. A wonderful recreation of a great little bench. Well done.
Rex, excellent project. I’m a huge fan and appreciate your presentation style. I just got your Everyday Woodworking book for Father’s Day. The book is intelligently laid out, compelling and educative. I’m on page 57 and eagerly looking forward to finishing the book over the next few days. The quality of the book is genius. You sought out a publisher with the end user in mind. Heavy card stock covers, pages are heavy and coated to resist staining. Good choice as I’ll be using this book at my bench. Kudos to you brother. Similar to your videos, you always have the end user in mind in your posts, publications and executions. Well done, hope you make the NYT best seller list LOL. Be happy in your work! Al
Aw man... That's almost the Tool Stool! I made one with simple tools - slightly wider sides and a handle near the bottom of the feet and you have a great way to Cary your tools and have a bench or stool to help you work. Comes in handy for the garden or just hauling a few items to adjust a tall door. Maybe we could make that. Mine is ugly 😂 but works
More mission style furniture please! I've been binging your videos in anticipation of the construction of my new house that we will be built in a mission style and I'd love to build furnitire to match! The house will have a small area in the garage for me to have a workshop and the more I watch your videos, the more I want to focus on hand tools. I will definitely have to build one of these benches and already have a spot I'd like to put it.
I made a similar one for my daughter 20+ years ago. I used apple ply plywood, biscuits, screws, and one cross member rather than 2. It was 12 inches high, and 12 inches wide, and 18 inches long. It served as table, bench, and step stool. Got a lot of use. I have since made some for some other kids I know. It is sturdy enough to hold me easily. It does appear to be similar to your work bench.
I like to watch basic furniture making, i thought you might get a buzz off watching this guy make stuff. In for a surprise if you've not seen his stuff beforte
Using nails hadn’t ever occurred to me. I had a couple badly warped maple boards I was able to glue up using biscuits. With six feet of length I was able to cut the material to just have enough to make a double deck bread box, however, it means that I will have some alternating grain directions. Nails might be a better option than glue for this project, and various cut nails are readily available at my local Lee Valley store. Thanks for the video.
Just a suggestion, but putting a board in your vice, and letting the notches on the legs for your apron rest on the board, while you nail in the first apron will give a solid base.
Rex,. I have watched everyone of your videos at least once, and many of them four or more times. I am a retired fire captain (because of work injuries), and love to woodworking. I have learned a lot from your program and hope to get all of your plans. I get and restore old hand tools for my small shop. Keep up the good work, Charlie.
often I've built prototypes of "lesser wood" to sort out the details. In my area white pine and white oak are common species. I usually buy from a local sawmill but plan a few years ahead and stack carefully. White pine is considerably cheaper and considered inferior to the white or red oak, so building out of pine initially is a bit cheaper. If you like the project then consider painting the pine, but be sure to seal the knots with shellac or they will bleed through
I have found that in addition to gaining skills by repeating projects, it also gives one the ability to refine things or try to make some changes in joinery method to make things more complex or interesting.
Hey Rex, your new book showed up in the mail yesterday. I just wanted to let you know it's actually in our hands now. Thank you. "Everyday Woodworking". I'll start it today.
I just browsed Amazon to see if your book would arrive today, since it said yesterday that it would. Since it wouldn't give me an estimate, I decided to look when it would arrive if I were to order another one. Turns out: your book is apparently sold out on the EU versions of Amazon. I can only order it from Amazon US now. Can't wait to get my copy ^^
I have been subscribing to your channel for a few weeks now. The projects are great, the explanations are perfect and I like the concept of being able to make something great without "electricity". OK, your light won't be from candles either, but I'm sure you understand what I mean. But as a German, I also thank you for the absolutely perfect pronunciation. I can follow your words without having to think about the translation. With me you have gained another loyal follower.
I support of the prototype, I needed a small end table of my own design, but wan’t sure of the proportions. I whipped it up in an evening out of 1/2 inch plywood. Put it in place to see how we liked it, and, you guessed it, it’s still there. Glue and brads, I’m surprised the simple joinery lasted. The piece went together so fast because I wasn’t being fussy. Lessons for me were prototypes are excellent proof of concepts. When you aren’t worried about getting it perfect it goes together fast and it’s fun! Prototype time is a great time to try out simple joints, which in this case turned out to be surprisingly strong. Do a cheap prototype. They are fun, fast, prevent waste of time by making pieces you won’t regret heavily modifying to correct poorly proportioned designs, and are a great way to practice a joint or technique you will later use in a fine piece.
Very nice traditional bench Rex. As soon as you started I thought what a great time to use cut nails and then you did. I've been mulling over ideas for a front porch bench and I think I found it! Thanks.
Good Morning: I want to let you know that this bench project is one of my favorites of all you have done. I cant quite nail down why, but I assume it is the way it started. I am in constant search for California Mission Furniture so you started right, for me. I am not a hands tool guy but I enjoy watching the outcome of those that are. Good luck.
Awesome that you noticed such detail. Wonderful that you recreated it. CA missions are rich in craft, beauty and spiritual truth. Hope you find more! All the best!
maybe back that up a little more. Build a mallet, a tool tote, and a milking stool first. I have videos on all of these. This is more like your 3rd project. Imho.
Dude, at this point we, who've been watching your videos for a while now, know you're pretty skilled in putting practical and also nice furniture together. You should start trusting in yourself more! Also, I'm sure a prototype making video would be great, showing your learnings on the way getting it done...
Hello Rex, I just wanted you to know that I received your new book today, Thursday 17-Jun-21. Great book. The tools are all here except the bits. Now to get busy. A labor of love. This video from yesterday is really informative. Take care and God Bless.
I built your joiner's bench, then found the plans later on.. it'd be great if you could reference the delux plans on the video for the future. Next up is fitting the vice and bench stop. Your new book looks great so I've preordered it into the UK too.
Great video and plans, I’ll be building it soon! The only detail not mentioned in either is that you’ll probably want to plane the feet of the legs as well so that they sit flush and level with the floor. If not, the outside of each leg will be slightly raised off the ground at that 7 degree angle.
How much better/worse would this hold together if one used dowels instead of nails? I love any excuse to use dowels - hammering them in and trimming them up is half of the fun for me.
Downloaded the plans, thank you for including metric!! I had a maple offcut sitting in the garage but it's 1.18" (30mm) thick. I don't have a planer but thought it would just make for a chunkier stool if nothing else. Too thick to work with??
Excellent project! Simple, but satisfying to build, and a lovely finish :) and it was fun to see you use the set up I have! My jack plane is the only one functional at the moment, so I just swap out the blades as I work. It's time consuming to keep adjusting it, but hey, it works!
I like it. U pull some triger in my minde. I finish log cabin and I think about making reproduction of folding table wich U show last year as small gifts for investors for end of the job.This bench can be nice add to it.
I found your channel a few days ago and I have really enjoyed your content. However, from the first I felt I had seen your face somewhere before. Then you said you were from Ohio and I knew I must have met you somewhere. After a few more videos and it struck. I am pretty sure I met you at an open forge for WRABA. Warms my heart to see you turn out such lovely work, wood and videos both. You have a lovely shop and it is good to see you again. At least I hope I am correct and hammer on.
@@RexKrueger thanks for the reply and hopefully I will get an opportunity to see you face to face soon. Then we can have a good laugh over this. :D Thanks for the reply.
This is great! I live in Sothern California and went to Mission La Purisma last year. I went through my photos just now and found two different instances of that bench, though I didn't find the exact one you copied (though they do look pretty much the same!)
A fine looking bench Rex. I plan on making a couple for my dining room along with a table. I am also anxiously awaiting my copy of your new book. Should be here any day now I hope.
Your book is on order, I'm in the UK so have to wait for it. But I'm currently putting a small workshop together for when it arrives. Love your videos as the style of them is great 🙌🙌
Rex, there are several decent oaks available for carpentry and furniture building, but scrub oak isn't one of them. There are two species called that in California, both are chaparral species, meaning they tend to small, stunted, gnarled forms. A more likely wood would be Coast Live Oak, or Canyon Live Oak. Both are common around many mission sites, as is Valley Oak. Valley oak is considered brittle but works just fine for furniture after it's dried. Blue Oak is another possibility. One of sad facts of California woodworking is that with all the varieties of trees in the state very few ever are employed in woodworking. Instead most furniture wood is imported from out of state.
Enjoyed this video and your design of this piece. However, the shape at the bottom of each leg creates a stress riser at the narrow center peak. Inevitably, over time, the leg will start to split at that location as the wood dries and shrinks and the bench is loaded and unloaded. Red Oak is particularly prone to this problem. Better to have a small radius at that spot rather than a sharp internal point.
@@tomsatterlee8397 Well, there are the thousands of pieces of furniture that use this detail in exactly this way and HAVEN'T split. I guess that's evidence that the stress riser is imaginary!
thanks for doing this rex, looking back at your older stuff and taking serious notes - what bench for splitting logs is behind you? do you have a video of it? amazing stuff!!
When Rex says his Everyday Woodworking book is "from the ground up" he means that literally. Garden stakes go in the ground, door stops go on the ground, and it goes up from there.
My copy came in yesterday and it has all the elements that make his videos great.
Got mine yesterday too! Great book
You're lucky. They haven't even shipped mine yet.
@@mass4552 Mine is in the post, its just that its still in the USA and I am in Cyprus, but Rex didn't say that his book was $1 cheaper than advertised which is a plus in anyone's book
To be fair, the channel is called "Rex Figures It Out" not "Rex videos himself doing it right the first time" 😆 Gorgeous piece!
That IS why I gave it that name!
One for the shop, one for the show room
Was going to say, the title card was especially meta today
@@RexKrueger Kinda like, as George Carlin pointed out, when the ancient Native American Indians practiced their rain dances ... if it rained, was it really practice?
When you're driving nails it's a really good idea to make sure the workpiece is supported on the underside - simply placing the 2nd apron in place as you're nailing on the first will make it much more stable.
Before training to become a Bar Fitter many years ago, I first did two years service for Christie-Tyler to become an Upholsterer. When all of my training was done (5 years when combined with the 3 years Carpentry/Joinery), I worked for my family's furniture business for a number of years then went out alone. I designed a number of things along the way that I could knock together when work was a bit thin and one of those was a chaise longue that I could make and sell to put food on the table. As you point out in this video, the first attempt may look good but it evolves each time you make it until you eventually have an excellent piece that costs less to make and is much better by design. That is what comes with learning and experimentation. Make it, refine it and then refine it again. Simplify it. Do it better every time. Keep doing it until you have done your very best version and then, that is the final piece that you keep in your armoury. I did the same with children's 3-piece suites. Developed them until I couldn't add or remove anything more of the original design. I'm not saying they were the very best out there but they were the very best that I could do with my original idea - and that's all that matters, really. It doesn't matter if you aim for a low, middle or top of the range item, as long as you stick to your original inspiration, it will evolve. Save money where you can but never to the point of sacrificing the originally intended quality. That is how even the greatest of artists evolve their best works over time to produce their final masterpieces. It is why huge companies invest so much in Research and Development (with Development being the key word in all this). Anyone out there looking to make their first little trinket box or whatever, follow the same route; make what you see in your Mind's eye, look at what you could do better and refine it and make another, then sleep on it and then make another, each time improving until you have done the very best you can do. Then have another go a few years down the line and with your grown experience, you will find even more ways to make improvements. Did Chippendale or Sheraton start out as classic designs? No, they conceived and then developed and refined them.
"Recreating a piece from a picture" that is how I built my first lathe last year. 3 versions in and it was awesome, then my wife bought me one.
Doing things more than once is such a great way of learning.
When doing my bicycle mechanic apprenticeship for the final exam we needed to completely spoke two wheels and most shops don't even offer that service any more, as it is way more economical to just get a new wheel than pay someone to do it by hand. But I luckily worked in a shop that pivoted their business right as i was getting into my second year and as a part of that we had to build 100 bikes for a local food delivery service. Due to us wanting to use specific parts to best suit the hard life those bikes would live we had chosen to assemble the wheels by hand in house and thus we had a whopping 200 rims and hubs waiting for spokes. I got tasked with doing about 60 of them and guess what, I aced the final exam when most who may have done it once or twice before failed. Practice makes perfect!
Rex, you inspire me. I’ve bought your book and I’m cleaning out my garage to turn it into a shop. First project is the low bench!
I'm sure you'll do great!
I hadn't thought about using a tapered bit to drill the pilot holes for cut nails. Clever!
All credit to Chris Schwarz!
Made my first bookshelf over the weekend. Whilst it is not a masterpiece, it does hold books and looks good in the office. Thanks Rex for all the videos, they definitely help
20 plus years making "Mission", Spanish Revival, and Monterey furniture..
Also Ukrainian, Mennonite, Hutterite, Doukhobor, Russian, Swedish, Gustavian, etc.
Most of it painted over quality timber.
Mission is a bit of a misnomer as it can imply "Arts and Crafts" style.
Well done video and a useful bench from "materials at hand"..... the true definition of "folk art".
7:20 best thing to do on the old shooting board is take the fall off of your angle cut, cut a straight 90 from the point of nothing across to the other side so it forms a wedge that goes down to nothing, and wedge that between your shooting board backer and the board your shaving. That will keep your work piece at the correct angle while you're shooting the edge 👍
Your SketchUp model made for a nice prototype. Back when we drew everything up on a drafting board, our first prototype was our first prototype! Unless we made a cardboard "model". The original CAD. i.e. Cardboard Aided Design....... Nice bench. Looks good.
3:14 Like the added wobble for authenticity's sake! ^^
Wow. Your book can even be pre-ordered via Amazon in Germany. Looking forward to receiving it soon!
Awesome, thank you!
I pre-ordered my copy the day he announced it's release on his video. We still have to wait for the 29th of June. Fortunately that's still a week before my vacation starts 😉
This is maybe my favorite piece of yours. Something about the simplicity of it's form and construction, how practical it is and the elegant lines make it really beautiful.
This is so fortuitous. My grandfather had a similar bench (not sure if he made it) that's at least 80 years old. Sturdy as a fort. His also has a hand hold cut in the top for easy carrying and a cross brace for extra stability. He and my grandmother would mount a meat grinder to it with a bracket attached to one side and make homemade sausages, ground beef, pork, whatever. I started laying plans to reproduce one from the original. This video taps into a few fine tuning questions I thought of. Thanks, Rex!
I grew up going to the missions in Southern California. Spent most of my time asking about the construction of well everything.
And yes simple sturdy efficient construction.
Wow, I never realized I was using a victor plane from the 40s. thanks for the info.
so many videos, Rex looks at a picture "Oooo, a bench!"
Would be wonderful if you designed/built a tool tote... tool box... tool chest... portable caddy that can house all the core tools you highlight in your new book. I could see building the tote, stocking it with the tools and gifting that set with your book to a young builder interested in learning the craft.
I've been a historical interpreter at La Purisima, twice a year, for over 25 years. I know most of the furniture pretty well, and a fairly intimate knowledge of the place itself. I may be there towards the end of August if you see any pictures of items you'd like details of. One thing I will say is that seats are lower than modern seats. A wonderful recreation of a great little bench. Well done.
Rex, excellent project. I’m a huge fan and appreciate your presentation style. I just got your Everyday Woodworking book for Father’s Day. The book is intelligently laid out, compelling and educative. I’m on page 57 and eagerly looking forward to finishing the book over the next few days. The quality of the book is genius. You sought out a publisher with the end user in mind. Heavy card stock covers, pages are heavy and coated to resist staining. Good choice as I’ll be using this book at my bench. Kudos to you brother. Similar to your videos, you always have the end user in mind in your posts, publications and executions. Well done, hope you make the NYT best seller list LOL.
Be happy in your work!
Al
Aw man... That's almost the Tool Stool! I made one with simple tools - slightly wider sides and a handle near the bottom of the feet and you have a great way to Cary your tools and have a bench or stool to help you work. Comes in handy for the garden or just hauling a few items to adjust a tall door. Maybe we could make that. Mine is ugly 😂 but works
More mission style furniture please! I've been binging your videos in anticipation of the construction of my new house that we will be built in a mission style and I'd love to build furnitire to match! The house will have a small area in the garage for me to have a workshop and the more I watch your videos, the more I want to focus on hand tools. I will definitely have to build one of these benches and already have a spot I'd like to put it.
I made a similar one for my daughter 20+ years ago. I used apple ply plywood, biscuits, screws, and one cross member rather than 2. It was 12 inches high, and 12 inches wide, and 18 inches long. It served as table, bench, and step stool. Got a lot of use. I have since made some for some other kids I know. It is sturdy enough to hold me easily. It does appear to be similar to your work bench.
If you use mahogany and finish with a bees wax you will have produce a peace of art. Better than any thing people are buying today.
I like to watch basic furniture making, i thought you might get a buzz off watching this guy make stuff. In for a surprise if you've not seen his stuff beforte
I do leatherwork and I never make one of anything, except a saddle. (never again) My version 2 of anything is always better.
Id be the one to do it right the first time and botch the second one
Just hearing the enthusiasm in your voice makes me smile and watch your videos even if I’m only half interested in the project at hand.
Using nails hadn’t ever occurred to me. I had a couple badly warped maple boards I was able to glue up using biscuits. With six feet of length I was able to cut the material to just have enough to make a double deck bread box, however, it means that I will have some alternating grain directions. Nails might be a better option than glue for this project, and various cut nails are readily available at my local Lee Valley store. Thanks for the video.
Just a suggestion, but putting a board in your vice, and letting the notches on the legs for your apron rest on the board, while you nail in the first apron will give a solid base.
My uncle made mission style furniture and it is just as sturdy 70 years later as the day he built it. Great job, Rex.
Rex,. I have watched everyone of your videos at least once, and many of them four or more times. I am a retired fire captain (because of work injuries), and love to woodworking. I have learned a lot from your program and hope to get all of your plans. I get and restore old hand tools for my small shop. Keep up the good work, Charlie.
scanning the scene, that bench got my eye as well
You are a man on a mission.To teach us some great carpentry projects and hacks.Thanks !
often I've built prototypes of "lesser wood" to sort out the details.
In my area white pine and white oak are common species. I usually buy from a local sawmill but plan a few years ahead and stack carefully.
White pine is considerably cheaper and considered inferior to the white or red oak, so building out of pine initially is a bit cheaper. If you like the project then consider painting the pine, but be sure to seal the knots with shellac or they will bleed through
Just collected a bunch of scrap from around town, think this is a good place to start. Thanks!
I’ve always wondered about the hearing protection. Thanks for answering that needless question.
I have found that in addition to gaining skills by repeating projects, it also gives one the ability to refine things or try to make some changes in joinery method to make things more complex or interesting.
I like to make gifts for family and friends.
Also like the crackett stool! As it’s known locally. Plan to make one soon 👍🏻
Hey Rex, your new book showed up in the mail yesterday. I just wanted to let you know it's actually in our hands now. Thank you. "Everyday Woodworking". I'll start it today.
I just browsed Amazon to see if your book would arrive today, since it said yesterday that it would. Since it wouldn't give me an estimate, I decided to look when it would arrive if I were to order another one. Turns out: your book is apparently sold out on the EU versions of Amazon. I can only order it from Amazon US now. Can't wait to get my copy ^^
Really cool of you to include metric measurements in the plans. I think you gave us access to a beautiful piece.
I have been subscribing to your channel for a few weeks now. The projects are great, the explanations are perfect and I like the concept of being able to make something great without "electricity". OK, your light won't be from candles either, but I'm sure you understand what I mean. But as a German, I also thank you for the absolutely perfect pronunciation. I can follow your words without having to think about the translation. With me you have gained another loyal follower.
My parents speak German. Maybe that's it!
I am having a hell of a time with building a Mästermyr chest. This video was very helpful!
Totally agree with your love of Mission. Purely Japanese spirit
If this book doesn't go to #1 in hand tools (at the minimum) I'm gonna be mad... looking forward to getting it next week boss.
Mate! Thanks for still doing these videos. It really helps not only in Woodworking
I support of the prototype, I needed a small end table of my own design, but wan’t sure of the proportions. I whipped it up in an evening out of 1/2 inch plywood. Put it in place to see how we liked it, and, you guessed it, it’s still there. Glue and brads, I’m surprised the simple joinery lasted. The piece went together so fast because I wasn’t being fussy. Lessons for me were prototypes are excellent proof of concepts. When you aren’t worried about getting it perfect it goes together fast and it’s fun! Prototype time is a great time to try out simple joints, which in this case turned out to be surprisingly strong.
Do a cheap prototype. They are fun, fast, prevent waste of time by making pieces you won’t regret heavily modifying to correct poorly proportioned designs, and are a great way to practice a joint or technique you will later use in a fine piece.
Very nice traditional bench Rex. As soon as you started I thought what a great time to use cut nails and then you did. I've been mulling over ideas for a front porch bench and I think I found it! Thanks.
The book just arrived. I haven't read much yet, but it is much higher production value than any of the other woodworking books on my shelf.
That's very nice to hear!
Beautiful, very simple and a great skill builder. Love it!
Can heartily recommend those 3M Worktunes. I drilled into a concrete wall with a hammer drill with those on and it was a joy!
Good Morning:
I want to let you know that this bench project is one of my favorites of all you have done. I cant quite nail down why, but I assume it is the way it started. I am in constant search for California Mission Furniture so you started right, for me. I am not a hands tool guy but I enjoy watching the outcome of those that are. Good luck.
Nail down…………
His turned out beautiful 😍
this is just so cool, you are an inspiration
Awesome work, Rex! Really beautiful bench! 😃
Thanks a LOT for all the tips!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Awesome that you noticed such detail. Wonderful that you recreated it. CA missions are rich in craft, beauty and spiritual truth. Hope you find more! All the best!
I really like the project videos Rex. This one and the 6 board chest are very inspiring to go out and do some WWing.
That’s a very nice bench Rex, excellent tutorial as usual, thankyou for sharing.
these benches and your nailed box/cabinet plans you could easy furnish a whole cabin in style. Well done Sir :)
Looks like a good first projects for me to start hand tool woodworking
maybe back that up a little more. Build a mallet, a tool tote, and a milking stool first. I have videos on all of these. This is more like your 3rd project. Imho.
Very nice!! I learn so much more on the seemingly “simpler” projects. You’re a great teacher. Thank you!
Dude, at this point we, who've been watching your videos for a while now, know you're pretty skilled in putting practical and also nice furniture together. You should start trusting in yourself more!
Also, I'm sure a prototype making video would be great, showing your learnings on the way getting it done...
Nicely done! Thanks.
Hello Rex, I just wanted you to know that I received your new book today, Thursday 17-Jun-21.
Great book. The tools are all here except the bits. Now to get busy. A labor of love.
This video from yesterday is really informative.
Take care and God Bless.
Just to let you know, you are still the man.
Only place I could think to post this. Just got your book. Love it. Great job.
I built your joiner's bench, then found the plans later on.. it'd be great if you could reference the delux plans on the video for the future. Next up is fitting the vice and bench stop.
Your new book looks great so I've preordered it into the UK too.
Great video and plans, I’ll be building it soon! The only detail not mentioned in either is that you’ll probably want to plane the feet of the legs as well so that they sit flush and level with the floor. If not, the outside of each leg will be slightly raised off the ground at that 7 degree angle.
How much better/worse would this hold together if one used dowels instead of nails? I love any excuse to use dowels - hammering them in and trimming them up is half of the fun for me.
Congratulations on the book!
Just ordered. 👍
Downloaded the plans, thank you for including metric!! I had a maple offcut sitting in the garage but it's 1.18" (30mm) thick. I don't have a planer but thought it would just make for a chunkier stool if nothing else. Too thick to work with??
He always owns up to his mistakes, it's only fair for him to brag when he nails it.
I just received your book today and I'm so excited to dig into it! Keep up the great work!
oval hole in the middle hand wide and finger diameter makes moving around and carrying much easier.
Excellent project! Simple, but satisfying to build, and a lovely finish :) and it was fun to see you use the set up I have! My jack plane is the only one functional at the moment, so I just swap out the blades as I work. It's time consuming to keep adjusting it, but hey, it works!
I like it Rex. But I like the thickness of the original. I would like your more if it was made out of 8/4.
Thanks Rex great build.
For the curious the math for a compound angle is:
compound = SHIFTTAN( SQUAREROOT (TAN|splay^2 + TAN|rake^2))
I like it. U pull some triger in my minde.
I finish log cabin and I think about making reproduction of folding table wich U show last year as small gifts for investors for end of the job.This bench can be nice add to it.
I found your channel a few days ago and I have really enjoyed your content. However, from the first I felt I had seen your face somewhere before. Then you said you were from Ohio and I knew I must have met you somewhere. After a few more videos and it struck. I am pretty sure I met you at an open forge for WRABA. Warms my heart to see you turn out such lovely work, wood and videos both. You have a lovely shop and it is good to see you again. At least I hope I am correct and hammer on.
I'm sure you're right. I make it out to WRABA events whenever I can.
@@RexKrueger thanks for the reply and hopefully I will get an opportunity to see you face to face soon. Then we can have a good laugh over this. :D Thanks for the reply.
thank you Rex
Writing this in the beginning of the video.... Rex you putz .... Hehehehe loved it
Pre-ordered on the book received it today.
thank you!
Nice project Rex! 2 Thumbs up!
This is great! I live in Sothern California and went to Mission La Purisma last year. I went through my photos just now and found two different instances of that bench, though I didn't find the exact one you copied (though they do look pretty much the same!)
Awesome!
Hey Rex, your articles on the new site are pretty good. Carry on
Looks great! Nice bench. Simple but practical.
I like that three legged chopping block in the background
I use it a lot!
A fine looking bench Rex. I plan on making a couple for my dining room along with a table. I am also anxiously awaiting my copy of your new book. Should be here any day now I hope.
have you changed your mind about the twin screw vice yet?
Excellent Rex, thanks
Your book is on order, I'm in the UK so have to wait for it. But I'm currently putting a small workshop together for when it arrives. Love your videos as the style of them is great 🙌🙌
Rex, there are several decent oaks available for carpentry and furniture building, but scrub oak isn't one of them. There are two species called that in California, both are chaparral species, meaning they tend to small, stunted, gnarled forms. A more likely wood would be Coast Live Oak, or Canyon Live Oak. Both are common around many mission sites, as is Valley Oak. Valley oak is considered brittle but works just fine for furniture after it's dried. Blue Oak is another possibility. One of sad facts of California woodworking is that with all the varieties of trees in the state very few ever are employed in woodworking. Instead most furniture wood is imported from out of state.
I had just this problem, I was going to make a "quick test" and didn't thought about recording it, turns out the test was perfect, well crap
Not to be picky or anything, but shouldn't the feet also be cut at 7° to give maximum support when weight is placed on top?
I was also thinking the same thing. And also make a triangle on the stretchers, in case the angles aren't the same.
I love my #5 !! But I have need for all of my planes
Enjoyed this video and your design of this piece. However, the shape at the bottom of each leg creates a stress riser at the narrow center peak. Inevitably, over time, the leg will start to split at that location as the wood dries and shrinks and the bench is loaded and unloaded. Red Oak is particularly prone to this problem. Better to have a small radius at that spot rather than a sharp internal point.
Is there any scientific evidence for this comment.
@@tomsatterlee8397 Well, there are the thousands of pieces of furniture that use this detail in exactly this way and HAVEN'T split. I guess that's evidence that the stress riser is imaginary!
JUST got the book! It's great.
Thank you!
thanks for doing this rex, looking back at your older stuff and taking serious notes - what bench for splitting logs is behind you? do you have a video of it? amazing stuff!!
Very nice!