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Look at you doing carpentry!! Very nice job. If you haven’t already filled in the gaps, I would recommend using a paintable caulk or something flexible. Since the wood moves and the spackle doesn’t if you use spackle it will just crack over time as the wood moves.
Absolutely love the admittance of what you don’t know. So refreshing to see a person being honest and letting us learn with them.
There is nothing you could have done differently, the knowledge you have gained by doing it your way is priceless! Love watching you, you are truly an inspirational person!!!
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Loved watching you problem solve while also staying excited and true to the goal from the beginning! Well done! 👏🏻👏🏻
God I’m so glad you stuck with this style of videos. Love the vibes my guy
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I didn’t know Sapele and Mahogany were the same thing!! Having fun and learning stuff!!
There are many species in the mahogany family, sapele is one of them.
@sorvissa_somaksiI didn’t know that!
Residential trim carpentry is a different world than furniture building or woodworking. There is a line drawn there. You did great once you figured out how to work around imperfections from other trades or the natural settling of the structure. It turned out great! Thanks for another great video.
That’s quite a challenge, but it turned out great! Sometimes we don’t know the right way to tackle a problem until we try some wrong ways.
Nicee, I love Sapele, it’s one of my favorite woods to work with.
Love the cut with “while we’re doing that”. Fantastic stuff
That sapele is way gorgeous. Wow! It’s tough when you have mastered a craft to then go back and learn more, make mistakes, etc, but figuring it out is the best skill to have in all of life. It’s great for your brain too, to keep learning, great to see you have that skill and work this out. ❤
This video is top notch.
I loved the edits.
Well now that explains and demonstrates the difference between “Carpentry” and furniture building. You will have helped many people with this video. Thanks!
Turned out great. It was a great early treat on Patreon , the struggle is real. Happy Holidays to you and yours.
Your blowup tent cutting station was a great idea.
Finish/trim carpenter here with some experience doing built-ins. I probably would have built this about the same way that you did. Other folks with more experience might have better ideas of how this could’ve been done, but I tend to do things in a similar way to what you did here. Sort of come up with a basic plan and then go winging it on everything else and simply adapt to what you find when you’re doing the actual install. I think the method and end result was pretty good. Also, missed opportunity for “Drill some holes, pound some pegs.”
Very good job! I do a little of both furniture making and custom builtins. It’s often the difference between theory and real world application. Furniture can be mathematically symmetrical but builtins will never be. When I attach something to a house that needs to be more structural, I generally remove the sheet rock so I have a structural bond. It’s actually easier to shim the houses wood framing to make the piece fit then sheet rock to the piece. Also if we consider the piece a framed wall the top and bottom plates of the piece could have a 1/2 inch over hang on both sides. So the finished banister would overhang the sheet rock by 1/2 inch on both sides. That way all caulking and filling would be underneath and not visible.
And also Kyle form RR buildings would smack the trap out of this slats just using carpenters calculator 🎉 nice job, cheers🎉