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Do you keep in mind when the "help i accidentally developed a rack" meme was walking around a while back? There's in fact a little reality to it lol. Let me understand how you fell into woodworking!
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My latest hobby is axe throwing. I made my own outdoor target and have thought if I could build these and sell them.
THANKS FOR THE GREAT VIDEO.
I’m not a wood worker, more of a wood tinkerer. I just make simple things that I need for my own use. I do gradually collect tools and techniques but nothing too fancy and always with a purpose in mind.
100% agree! My Dad was a woodworker, he made most of the furniture in our house which my sister and I still have. He also made a dollhouse for me, and I take great pleasure building tiny furniture for each of the rooms. My garage is my favorite room in my house😊
Lost my mom suddenly at the same month as I moved in with my boyfriend. Started with an orbital sander as I wanted to strip some painted thrifted furniture. Before I knew it, just could not stop watching woodworking videos and wanting to use my hands to create something, make the house more of a home, and just distract me from how much life sucked. I’m a doctor and didn’t even have a screwdriver, just 6 months later now, I realise woodworking came to me when I needed it, and I hope it stays.
I’m sorry about your Mom. Congratulations on your new skills!
gotta make something for mom now.. maybe a screwdriver
You started this light-hearted instructional video with a little bit of humor thrown in. I’m sure I’ll be beginning woodworkers we’re smiling as they listened, little do they know what you were saying it’s all true. It starts with a screwdriver and an old hammer they found on the ground somewhere and little by little the tools become more expensive and they have to start building shelves just to hold all of the extra tools they purchased along with finding extra space to put that table saw, the band saw, the drill press, the air compressor, the… As far as I’m concerned it is all well worth it. Thank you for all the videos you made throughout the years I’ve enjoyed every one of them.
Great video. A long-time fan who relived many memories. I bought a lot of tools after watching WWMM…. Thank you for this love.
When I was a child, I remember going to the lumberyard with my mother to buy materials for the projects in the monthly homemaker magazine. With a jigsaw and a hammer, she taught us to create things with our own hands. Many years later, I discovered a YouTube channel that, with its humility and simplicity, reminded me that the simple, everyday things are always worthwhile. Thank you for all these years…
I got into woodworking because of you Steve. I watched your videos and became intrigued with making something with my hands and the idea that I could make furniture exactly how I wanted it.
Absolutely nailed every stage I have been through, beginning in about 1965, when my dad gave me the 1920’s Union Company combination square (which I restored and still use very day), and today, where I mess around almost every day in my little shop, mostly equipped, wall to wall, with vintage power tools I bought and restored from Habitat. These days I mostly enjoy restoring banged up vintage furniture, which I usually sell for just enough to buy another cool tool to fix up. I do inflict my kids with gifts I make every Christmas, which they take pictures of themselves using to email to me before they stash them on a shelf in the basement…or give to Goodwill. I’m 83 now, so by the time I visit them I’ll have forgotten what I gave them anyway. 🙂 Life is good.
“I don’t know why, I don’t make the rules”….LOL
“Finding joy out of nothing is not meaningless.” – Kurt “The Mountain Man” Steiner
Love that you used the footage from your mallet build video at the start of this! I first got into woodworking making a lap steel guitar and then an electric guitar and then more guitars but outside of guitars that mallet was my first real woodwork project! And I used it all the time I even made a youtube video about remaking my broken original mallet a few years back! Thanks so much to your contributions to inspiring budding woodworkers like I was just over a decade ago!
Steve, this video is soooo funny! I bought the router before the table-saw. I did stuff because I love the feel of warm, smooth wood in my hands. I built for me, then for my kids, then for others. I have more fun seeing WHAT I can build, then what I can sell. Now it’s in my blood, What can I make? You were there for me years ago, and now you’re still there. Thank You for the journey you have led me on! Keep inspiring me to do more as a mere mortal!!!!!
If you like the feel of the wood, then you MUST visit an Amish furniture store to run your hands over the furniture. It’s an absolute wonder how they get that finish so butter- soft and smooth!
This is one of your best videos yet, and will resonate with most woodworkers.
I am so happy to see your video in my feed again!
There is nothing better, making something which solves problems in your house. Shelves, shoe racks, tables, …. Thanks Steve for being part of my “woodworker” journey. I learned so much here over the years.
My 3 brothers and I are pilots, mainly because dad was a wood cutter. That eventually led to a woodworking business
Cain’t nobody wax poetic about woodworking like our Steve! 😎
What Steve is saying here just resonates with me so so much . I cannot wait for the weekend to go and make, what I have been thinking about making, all week at work 😂😂
It is just good fun and knowing you made pretty much everything needed or wanted, with the tools you worked hard to buy, is SUCH a humbling feeling .
Bless you Steve and all my fellow makers tinkerers and hobbiers out there.
(I quite regularly go in my garage just to be in there , I love it !!!)📏📐🔨🪚🗜️🪓