Im new to wood working and jst came ac ross your channel i saw the christmas tree video first well done man and thank you im a new sub from Texas i will learn alot from you and yoir videos tjank you

Hey Andy, I'm here in North East Texas and just wanted to thank you for the build instructions, took a shot at it and the 54° star today too and after about 3.5hrs and some miter saw calibration (didn't realized I was half a degree out of wack and it definitely showed up in my star) I had it done, used a 6ft aluminum Empire ruler for my circular saw to make the taper cuts. You've been a big inspiration for me as a beginner woodworker!

Nice job , not sure is I am willing to drop $80 on such a small amount of product when we can make wipeon poly in the shop .Great demonstration. Cheers

What if I want to make like a 6 foot one can I just double the measurements. Everyone copied each other and did 3’ but I want a tall one to put outside

I plan to paint mine white. Thank you so much. This is great. Question, if I wanted to make them taller yet not as wide, what modifications would you make. I’m sure I need to change the angle, but I’m not sure without experimenting the best way to do it, but you may already know. Also, what size boards did you end up using, and what is the final height of the tree?

I like the look of both. Thank you for showing your builds .. gonna go check out the star video now.

Red! What Brad nailer and size nails did you make?

Love the star I’m having a hard time cutting small pieces where do you measure the 3 3/16 from when I flip it I get the small piece against the fence obviously I’m doing something wrong

Christmas tree first

Great tutorial on these stars. The 45 is nicer in my opinion. The pocket screws seems a bit overkill. One screw per piece would be plenty. Alternative. An easy glue up is to use a combination of wood glue and some spots of CA to hold the pieces together while the wood glue cures. I have a bandsaw and would resaw those 2x4s at least in 3 to get 3 times as many stars in the same amount of wood as they are quite bulky. Being overly analytical here. Sorry. Great informative video and I believe I will be making a few of these tomorrow as I’m retired and can do whatever I want in my shop. These are in my queue! Thanks for sharing! Take care

Very good explanation, thank you, both are so nice 👍

Love both! But if I had to choose, then it would be the red and white. ❤

I like the painted.

I was curious if you felt like the 2 inch brad nails with glue are strong enough to hold the 2x4 together???

Help

You are looking at 54 degrees wrong. think 36 with a fixture

To make a cut larger then 45 degrees is all you have to do is first cut a spare timber at 45 degrees put that back on the saw put your new cut on the 45 degrees cut then change the saw to 9 degrees making a cut of 54 degrees or what ever the difference between 45 degrees and your target cut Example to cut 60 degrees. put your cut on the 45 degrees change cut to 15 you have 60 degrees. simple as that.

I like watching your videos. But the only downside is your videos are the only ones I cannot minimize if I need to.

theres videos on youtube.showing how to use a jig to get to 54degreea . You look a little jooey to be making a star of Bethlehem.

He said he wasn't using table saw wtf

More of the same carbon copied rinse and repeated shite every other youtube working chanel is posting.. this is all shite and non original.. passing it off a value what a crock.

as someone who worked on cars frequently before I started woodworking, black nitrile gloves have been amazing for staining wood too! I always keep a few boxes of them for stain applications or if I'm working on a car lol

Cool video! Just curious, are you in the CR area?

good stuff!

Another winter, seasonal project I’d like to see your spin on would be some sort of decorative sleigh!

Hey Andy! Another great video and build! Thanks for sharing with us! Another set of plans I may need to purchase from your Etsy shop!

How do you like your Hercules miter saw?

Hi Andy, Another great project ! As an experienced hobby woodworker, I would advise against using pocketholes to join up the segments of the star : wood glue would fully suffice, and you don’t have the ugly holes on the rear side either. Also, accuracy in cutting the angles is critical, otherwise there is going to be some spacing between the segments. After cutting the angles on a test piece, the actual angle should be measured on the testpiece, and the miter saw should then be adjusted accordingly (to avoid frustration after a lot of work). Considering the amount of work that goes into this star, 20 to 25 bucks doesn’t sound like a lot of money to me..💵🤷🏼‍♂️

you go too fast when you flip the piece, I have not been able to make the pieces correctly. slow down in your speech

An extreme angle jig for the miter saw will let any miter saw cut just about any angle. It basically makes 0° a 45° angle.

Rusty white and rusty green

Oh my gosh this star is gorgeous 😍 ❤!!!!

Looks great, I love your videos, but if you’re going to use the first cut off to measure the rest you need to use just the first one if not your piece gets longer each time… It’s not a lot but it is a slight difference…

I really enjoy plans from woodprix.

I saw the xmas tree video first. I like painted better. Great video!

I love the painted can't wait to give this ago.

Thanks Brother! For the info.😊

I'd paint them red or green. I cut 2 inch by 1.5 inch strips. Now need to attach then

Saw the tree first. Love both the trees and the star.

I like both of them and black trim set it off great work

I love this. Are there written plans for building this?

Appreciate the details you include. Yes I like the red lined star withe the gold face. I will make some of these myself. I watched your tree video too thank you.

Painted

I think I will paint mine white with iridescent sparkles I'm going to add a solid back to it and line it with fairy lights on the inside

Red green white

Keep these projects coming!

I Love both builds! The plain tree is beautiful in its rustic style. The red and white really pops with the colors of the season. Great job.

Saw the tree first . And u have a follow!!

Just ran across your channel and watched a vid from a year ago, saw something, and decided to look at the most recent to see if you were still doing it... you are. Turn your camera around so that you're not watching yourself on the screen. Your eyes naturally look to the side when shot like that. Look into the camera lens instead. It makes a huge difference.

Why when you mark 6 inches it won't match. Didn't work for me