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I really enjoyed the Q&A this morning. Listening to your podcast Making It with Jimmy & Bob is my weekly therapy session! It’s nice to know I’m not the only one dealing with woodworking and creativity challenges. My goal this year is to create more artsy projects. Thank you!
Seeing your unfinished projects was so reassuring. I’m not alone and there is hope I can still make amazing things, even if some get stuck. Thank you.
Hard agree!! I’m sitting here on a Sunday in the middle of a project trying to put programmable LEDs on the blades of a ceiling fan and turn it into a radial light show. I love the learning. I’ve learned more about slip rings (including what a “slip ring” is!) and I’ve had tremendous fun with the 3d modeling required for this project. But at the same time, I have this huge inertia bound up in worrying that it won’t work or that it will be another symbol of my inability to finish things. Meanwhile, the pull of the 76 other half-finished projects is STRONG. I love the idea of this project, and it’s still inspiring to me, but I’m in that middle part when it’s hard to get over the hump.
Seeing your closet of unfinished stuff quieted the doubting voices in my head. Thank you.
Another great “off the beaten track” video, thanks David.
On the point of motivation, when I feel a mental block or if I feel afraid to tackle that awkward cut etc. I take ten minutes out to drink a cup of coffee, then I go into the workshop and clean the blades, maybe sharpen the chisels, run the vacuum around . . . then I feel I want to use the newly edged tools and it’s easier to get started again.
Listening to you made me realize that I am not the only one with so many different interests. Woodworking, airbrushing, painting, reading … I also have those drawers, boxes, shelves of unfinished projects.
I find all of my different interests allow me to take breaks when needed to with projects and stops things getting stale. I also keep my ‘idea’ book close to hand so if I’m suddenly hit by a design or concept I can get it onto paper as this usually happens when doing something completely different. i know you can use your phone etc but i seem to be able to work better with a pen and find sketching it out really helps.
table: turn it into a wall cabinet preserving the glass and using part of the legs as the door pulls
13:33 Love the design. I sure hope that turntable is wireless to the speakers though, or it’s not functional! LOL
In my opinion the negative comments are not your problem, I think they are more the problem of the commentators, these commentators would probably have directed those comments at any YouTuber, the trick is don’t take them personally it’s not really directed at you but more the rantings of some with issues that have nothing to do with your content, and last but not least you are definitely a teacher ❤
As a long time fan (10+ years, maybe 15? since your immediate post-Drunken Woodworker era, whenever that was) I’ve always been inspired by your creativity, your production quality, and your ever evolving storytelling style. I don’t watch woodworking videos for learning anymore, just for inspiration, and I continue to get that from your work after all this time. So thank you for all of it: your honesty, your creativity, your art, and your sense of humor.
I only have one question: Can we just have some fun here?
Thanks for sharing!
Is it ok if we just have some fun? ❤️
great vid with a lot of awesome insights. for that table at the end, it would make the perfect battleship / guess who board game table if you found a way for each side to pop open their side that held all their pieces.
When you’re trying to turn something into a career, it’s easy to fall into the trap of chasing what you think others want. But time and time again, it’s the people who stay true to what they love that really make it work.
For the table (and to address one of the things in the closet): Kumiko panels to replace the glass.
“There is no place for hate anywhere.” Amen! Preach Brother Dave!
Dude I cannot imagine having to deal with negative or “um actually…” comments on as large of a scale as you and Busted Knuckle Woodworks ( 32:29 ) have to.
My channel is small and I hardly upload but whenever I get a comment that’s negative or tries to say I’m wrong about something, I just have this overpowering urge to prove them wrong. If I get a bunch of them, I’ll legitimately sit and reply to every single one of them. I’d go insane If I had to deal with the amount of comments you guys do.
Good video btw, I enjoyed it.
I went through death threats, awful comments about me and my family and more when I had a different channel, all because another YouTuber hated me. It was an awful time, however, what it taught me was that everything calms down eventually.
With that channel and this one now which is much smaller, I try to be a positive individual and try my hardest to steer away from any divisive situations as much as possible. I aim to keep reviews mostly factual rather than opinion that invites arguments.
Thing is, social media is tough emotionally, and the bigger you are the harder it gets, but you just have to try to to reach your tribe and understand the positives outweigh the negatives and negative people aren’t happy with themselves – plus you’ll never meet them, so remember that and it’ll help.
I wonder if you could turn it into a game table for battleship. Either traditional withi built in game boards (could be flippable or removeable) or with screens to incorporate technology in.
Alternatively maybe you could make the insert areas flippable to incorporate different functions or different designs depending on how they are flipped.
A simple idea for the little table – Replace the glass with some of your drawings maybe in acrylic or if you’re real adventurous stained glass. Might have to refinish the wood to go with it.
Been watching since the Drunken Wood Worker Days, I have enjoyed your videos and have been inspired. I used your “everything is an experiment” this year for gardening not wood working, but it gave the excuse to try somethings without worry about being perfect.
Table: Make your own stained glass inserts and light from below. Remove the trim around the base of the top.
One of my favorite videos of yours, no question.
Backgammon table, with sweet sweet inlay.
For me, the main tools in my shop are: (1)-Table saw. Agree that a good one makes you want to use it and the quality of cuts also contribute to that. (2)-planer. Also agree about being able to buy my wood from the local hardwood dealers so I’m not stuck buying big box store wood. (3) Solid assembly/work table. Gotta have a good place to build your projects. The rest of these tools are great and for my workflow: bandsaw, assortment of routers, one is a cast iron extension on my table saw with a 3 hp motor if I need to batch-out lots of stuff, jointer, drill press.
The “filthy rich/fancy tools” questions… well done David. Your channel is not a “how to” channel. It’s creativity, and challenging yourself… That’s why I am here. I love it. It makes me want to further my creative side… it seeds is.
If people want simple tools and how to’s Woodworking for Mere Mortals is an EXCELLENT choice.
Keep doing you bud!