Learn Woodworking by Studying Vintage Furniture

[@rodskinner3609]

The first half of the kzbin.infoUgkx3ICSK6nSknaL_45CU2NmFSoXjarGMDiJ book is everything about wood: types, tools, finishes, setting up shop etc. The second half is all about doing projects for inside and outside of the home. The color pictures are helpful. After reading a dozen of these types of books, this is probably the best overall (layout, color photos, plans). Only detraction is that many of the projects use a table saw/router/planer, which are usually expensive and take up space, so the plans are less friendly to newcomers and the budget conscious. But I know I can use a drill, circular saw or a jigsaw to make the projects.

[@jasperrodrigues7026]

"I could go on, talking about these pictures of old furniture, and old workbench's all day long" Yes please, I would love that, hahaha. The videos and the insight you share is amazing, it's rare for someone to be so knowledgable yet also so down to earth at the same time

[@Majonez616]

Slow down Rex, I'm still growing my lumber.

[@SSingh-nr8qz]

Viagra will help.

[@short6691]

Great video. Just got home from a trip to visit my elderly mother. While there I inspected some walnut furniture my grandfather built 80 years ago with hand tools in a cramped farm house with little children underfoot. An amazing mitered box, and end table. He did not get a “proper shop” for many years. The kitchen built stuff is what we treasure the most. It has held up quite well!

[@coreygrua3271]

We have been missing you Rex. This is a fine acknowledgement that we haven’t invented woodworking in our generation. Wood has blessed us from the dawn of time. God smiles through beautiful grain.

[@moc5541]

The cover on the dough box would keep the dough from drying out, getting a "skin." When after the first rise you have to beat it down to let it rise again the skin would be a problem... working it back into the dough. Nowadays people use plastic wrap. I use a glass bowl with a glass cover.

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

It just needs to be kept from "going dry" and from getting crap in it, wherever and whatever constitutes "crap" exactly... That's all. ...AND the size of bowl, wrap, or trough depends entirely on the size of dough-ball(s) or "batch" you're planning out. I love a good dough trough for the adequate size of dough batch... BUT it ain't worth a damn when the batch-size is less than about half or a third the volume of the trough. ;o)

[@RexKrueger]

Ah, the skin. That makes sense!

[@JasperJanssen]

Yeah, 19th century people aren’t just spilling lice all over the place. But there’s still dust, and maybe mice.

[@johnfisk811]

In medieval times the trough was the flour store and the lid was curved in cross section so that it could be flipped over and used as the dough trough.

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

@@JasperJanssen Depending on the area and some surrounding circumstances, even in the 18th century things could be kept surprisingly clean... AND the 19th century did see the advent of things like "Listerine" which was originally a hospital's "all purpose" disinfectant, marking the rise of importance in sanitation for successful medical practices... We ("modern humans") have a kind of silly tendency to exaggerate our ideals of just how backwards, nonsensical, and downright stupid the folks of antiquity were in comparison to our so-called "modern" society, when the reality is that "Cleanliness is next to godliness" has been a motto of civilization and civilized people as far back as ancient Rome, near 2000 years ago. ;o)

[@Youzack1]

I recently had a similar “experience”. I’m relatively new to woodworking, and my mom recently moved. Helping her move I noticed one of the dressers that she’s had since I was born was a really nice antique. Awesome ray flek, and dovetailed drawers. I was shocked I had lived next to the thing for so long, and never cared.

[@LinauLee]

Rusty, you leveled up!

[@WeirdSeagul]

Alec Steele did a great series making a green wood with his dad who made them for a living or hobby. really great series

[@christopherstrudwick]

britain has worked green wood for hundreds of years

[@RexKrueger]

I loved those videos. Watched them all.

[@ericg7044]

Was going to say the same thing. I'd never heard of such a thing before that, was fascinating to watch.

[@martinstrath791]

Agreed! Now a really have to try make my own!

[@Samtzu]

I'm in the middle of building the Traveler's Workbench.... and now, after watching this, I have ideas of MORE things I can build.... fun, fun, fun!!!

[@criswilson1140]

I'm glad that I'm not the only person to see an odd piece of furniture and start taking pictures of the joinery. :-)

[@louislandi938]

Uncle Fester, GREAT KZbin channel!

[@DarrenMalin]

here in the UK the grain patting is common on narrow boats (canal boats) it is called Scumble ( Scumbling) and is still Common today.

[@RexKrueger]

Really? I had no idea.

[@kevin_delgado]

@@RexKrueger OK Rex, I'm going to need you to do research on this and prepare a video on it. And - now, listen, this is CRUCIAL to the plan - you have to get Michael Buffer to do the intro. Lllllllletttsss get ready to Scumblllllllllllllle!

[@johnfisk811]

Still used in Britain for interior decorating to resemble specific woods, or even marble. Many a minor mansion had imposing ‘marble’ columns made so wood scumbled as marble. Graining tools to imitate the grains are still made and sold. Modern books still exist on the subject and plenty of old ones free to download from sites like archive.org.

[@Mulletmanalive]

At least in the narrow boat context, scumble (also a cider in Discworld) is a sort of raised mastic arrangement made with a comb, then dry brushed. Shallow but magnificently ugly. Weirdly, they would sometimes go around corners with it. I used to work in a museum about the subject. Rex, try looking up narrow boats for some really odd integral furniture. The table/cupboard arrangement and the collapsible bed were genuinely better designed than most of the “tiny home” fad stuff.

[@amwtm]

You had an aside comment about the rickety workbench that suggested that the worker didn't use it for heavy work, or "Didn't use it for too long" is truth. It didn't work very well, so it went into the barn and never got used, so it survived the passage of time. Maybe the second workbench that person made got passed on through 4 generations, etc. and finally fell apart.

[@DeirdreYoung1]

Rex, I hate to disagree, but I'll watch you build clean, beautiful, expert pieces a hundred times before I'll go look at amateur craftsmanship from the past. But I *will* thank you for doing that reasearch and showing us, though!

[@LinauLee]

Hey, we're NE Ohio buddies...Love our area for vintage stuff. I've lived elsewhere and it's not the same. El Paso didn't have the tons of flea markets, Amish sales, garage, or yard sales here in Ohio. But we did find Jerry Calison's Hardware/Sundries store frozen in time. It was like stepping into 1944. Everything was cotton, metal, wood, or paper. No synthetics. And the packaging was classic. We have had it good here since the 60's, my folks loved looking for finds. Thanks for this one, Rex. Love your show, Lee

[@evensgrey]

In North America, that combination table/bench/chest would have been a prize for more than saving space in a small and likely crowded home. Those Irish immigrants who probably brought the design with them? Initially, they would have likely been living in a small, crowded tenement apartment in an East-coast port city like New York of Boston. A lot of them would,. within a few years, strike out for a farm they'd been able to get out on whatever the settlement frontier was at the time. That meant that at least part of the journey would have been in a wagon, usually each family would have one wagon that had to carry everything they needed to get established. A combination piece of furniture that was storage, seating, and table as needed would be a good choice to take with you on that kind of journey.

[@ximarre5121]

Rex, you won't cease to amaze and motivate me. Those videos are perfectly balanced in terms of information, passion and view of the world that simply soothes the soul. You are great teacher of woodworking and even greater teacher of life. Just, thank you.

[@gordonaddison307]

This video is SPOT ON!!! I pull the drawers out of antique furniture just to learn. The attractive pieces, the ugly ones… look and learn people.

[@mikehindley3]

LOVE THIS TYPE OF VIDEO. youtube especially creates a kind of consensus of what's "proper" when it comes to a creative hobby - be it woodworking, metalworking, cooking, or whatever. but throughout history, people have worked very successfully outside of these guidelines. side note: the lid on the dough trough was probably as much to stop the rising dough developing a dry crust. nowadays people cover it with plastic film in a big bowl, or sometimes use a wet tea towel.

[@criswilson1140]

My great grandmother used to use one. She said the lid was to keep the light out, because the prevailing theory of the day was to let bread rise in a warm, dark place. I guess it would also help keep drafts of cold air away from the rising dough.

[@derekmills1080]

Rex, I'm fascinated by things in your woodwork videos that are common and those less so between England (UK) and America. In the UK grain painting is called 'scumble' work. Consisting, as you know, of traditionally, a base coat, usually lighter, and a top coat, usually darker. The top coat is applied when the base coat is dry and 'grained' while tacky with a comb, sponge or other implement. In the UK, scumble is still available and is oil based, the thinning best done with genuine turpentine rather than synthetic spirit. Hope this is of interest.🇬🇧

[@allenwc]

That dough trough really brings back memories of my Dad’s mom. And that table bench, we had one in the farmhouse entrance porch. Wow, memories.

[@lynnlamastres3424]

Some of us don't have access to the historic pieces to examine because we live in the middle of a treeless wasteland (western Kansas- where homes were built of literal dirt) so I sincerely appreciate this information. I would love more like this video, with examples of woodworkers doing the simple craft of building. Thank you for this one.

[@mikeanderson6881]

8:10 I was thinking pretty much the opposite of that, actually. That was fascinating!

[@pirakoXX]

Absolutely agree, Mike. Love these interesting "history lessons", as they do what only a great teacher can do: Open your eyes to see fascinating things in old/familiar things around you that you didn't see before. Rex is a true inspiration in so many ways. (y)

[@alexr7298]

Love the content you put out, Rex. Personally, videos like this one and the one you did a while back that took an in-depth look at a folding table you found on the side of the road are my favorites.

[@RexKrueger]

As soon as I find another good piece, I'll do another of those!

[@andyputtbach6464]

@@RexKrueger I agree with Alex, love this video. There is plenty of how to project videos on youtube of tools and joints but not much on how to design a functional furniture piece of your own. Love to see more of these videos.

[@mgy401]

Very interesting to hear about painted grains. The Mormon tabernacle in Salt Lake, completed in the mid 1860s, originally had pine pews that were grained to look like oak. They were replaced with actual oak pews within the last 20 years or so, but I think the church kept a couple of original pews in a nearby museum for display purposes. The columns in the building are also pine, but smoothed and “grained” to look like marble.

[@grumpyoldsodinacellar3518]

I've finally finished Rex's "The English joiners bench" I made it from a donated carport, part of a fence, some scrap shelving I'd been given and a bed !!! Not exactly a great beauty, but it's functional with a carpenters cast iron vice and Rex's famous half hinge hold down with a doe's foot in the making !!!

[@pirakoXX]

Greetings from Denmark. Wow. Well done, Grumpy 👍 I'm totally into using recycled materials. Clothes, furniture, tools, etc. etc, more than 90 percent of my things were used before I got them, and the same regarding building/fixing materials. I only use new materials when I have no other options. I've collected (according to others, not to me, a little too many of) all kinds of materials (mostly wood) from neighbors old carports, massive doors, poles, etc. etc, and my 2 next projects are a workbench and a "new" tiny house for my 2 hens. I often make people smile when I tell them what materials I've used to fix something, and they never ask me more than one time "Why don't you just buy a new one?" As the answer almost always is: "Because it now will last longer than a new one", or just "Because it's more fun to try to ... figure it out". ;)

[@grumpyoldsodinacellar3518]

@@pirakoXX thank you, and I agree, always re use where possible. Over the weekend they finally let us out here in England, so I went to a car boot sale, found a 110 block plane of unknown manufacture, it was just a handful of rust but as the seller was only asking 10 pence (14 US cents) I bought it sfter a 48 hour bath in vinegar and a good sharpening of the iron, it works just as well as my faithfull 60 1/2 !!

[@nthenry]

Wouldn't it be great to wander around an Ohio antiques fair on a weekend afternoon with someone like Rex Krueger :D

[@0griggs]

One of my favorite examples of grain painting actually comes from early to mid century iron bedstands, which used the same techniques to make newer, cheaper metal bedstands look like fine wood. Will Eisner, one of the most important comics artists of the 20th century, talked about how his dad, a vienna born classically trained painter, had to work at a wood grain painting studio when he came to America. He was a bit of a stat for how quickly and true to life he could get the wood grain.

[@DeafMaker]

That is fascinating video. I would love to learn more about green woodworking and working with nature rather than against it.

[@RexKrueger]

Hopefully this month!

[@FreeOfFantasy]

kzbin.infovideos kzbin.infovideos Or you could get one of the many books by Mike Abbott.

[@jeremyholman]

@@RexKrueger I don't want to bag on you, Rex; I'm a big fan, and your work is fantastic (in general, and including this vid)... but when you described greenwood construction as "an especially American form of chair-making" at 7:04... really not your best turn of phrase. That said, if you've got a video coming about greenwood, I'm looking forward to it! Another link for those who'd like some more info about greenwork, kzbin.info/aero/PLM4S2hGZDSE4ffSC-WJsm-6w1I4i4vhQ

[@vincentmalpica]

I like the simplistic style of the dough trough. I see it every once in a while in cabinets, benches, and regular holders. The simplicity of some dude in his/her shop throwing something together for their house. It's also just my style. Its just easier to make, nothing too complicated.

[@christianfriisjensen2055]

As an absolutely incorrigible perfectionist, I feel like I needed this.

[@QuadDoc]

This was a GREAT ONE Rex!! I reeeeeally hope it does well and a lot of people see it! I think information like this, and the way that you present it, can really change the face of the KZbin woodworkers of today!!! Great work as always sir!! Keep it up. 👍🏼👊🏼👏🏼😉

[@QuacGiaNgoVietCongHoa]

I like vintage furniture too, especially the furniture befor 1960s. I collect a lot of old furniture for use then repair their joints and surface with japanning.

[@edwardgurney1694]

I love those kinds of old multi-purpose vernacular furniture. I recently learnt of the existence of a type of furniture called a settle or monk's bench- its basically a six board chest with a backrest, and sometimes armrests. It was seating that was also storage. I have nowhere to put one, but I kind of want one. Would make a good Woodwork for Humans project!

[@johnfisk811]

Common enough in England. Usually with a high back so that it could be pulled in front of the fireplace on the coldest nights and the high back protected you from draughts and reflected the radiant heat back at you.

[@residentmusician]

Huh, I always had one. We called it the toy box 😅

[@denbarris783]

Glad you are back. Hope you are better. I really enjoy your videos and comments.

[@heyitsthatdude17]

Rex, as a fellow Ohioan, you gotta give me a warning when antique markets like this are coming up! Lol. Really enjoyed the video, I like this type a lot. Your previous video examining that antique country table is one of my favorites.

[@peterk7428]

I'd love to see you try that triangular vise stabilizer on your bench. It looks pretty amazing.

[@kletops46]

Interesting Concept Rex.... I look at the way things are made, but I never thought of looking at old joinery.

[@kategordon-bloomfield6350]

Nice to see you back! I hope you’re happy, healthy, and safe.

[@kylejohnson4662]

That cabinet maker’s bench is possibly non commercial construction. The pattern maker’s vise was intended to be fully inset, with a fancy cutting to allow the vise to rotate while in the normal position. Also, that vise was clearly a later addition. The base plate overlays a dog hole.

[@sinisterdesign]

This is great. I love the videos where you look at old furniture and break down their construction. More of that, please!

[@peterides9568]

I have a thought to make myself a mantelpiece radio with a midcentury/art deco casework... But yes, the furniture of necessity is very interesting. Australian vernacular furniture is it's own thing again, which I hope to dive into at some point.

[@setdown2]

Your absolutely right...books and videos for the head... but more importantly is the doing for the skill...👈

[@noexpensespentstudios]

Not the content I was expecting from the title, in a good way! It was quite exciting seeing those very different approaches to wood working with green wood, the bark left on, and the interesting forms of the willow chairs. There's a very definite beauty to function and necessity dictating form, especially when you're using organic materials. Imitation wood grain painting (or scumbling) is a fantastic art form all its own too with something of a revival in the 30s and 40s for home decor and used into the 50s for some car interior trim.

[@rkalle66]

Rex, don't overestimate ancient woodworking. Mostly the did what the knew and used what the got with tools the had. You have to go into certain cities like Venice (their yards were kept secret like their glass making) or capital cities to find more than just plain vanilla woodworking and not in some small village elsewhere where only one did the job with no need to improve. Without doubt the knew about grain and local wood properties like we know about car driving. But for the high end I would rather search on old yards cities where sail ships or Mississippi steam boats were built. And keep in mind that just one hard winter like in Belgium in WW-I destroyed many beautiful woodworking masterpeices (e.g. most fairground organs made entirely of wood) because the burnt it not to freeze.

[@nobuckle40]

Great info Rex. The craftsmen of yesteryear deserve our respect. It's comforting to know that, like me, they had to do what they could with what they had. They got the job done and didn't fuss with all the BS that the pros say we have to worry about. I find that if I obsess over trying to get everything perfect I loose the joy of the craft. So, I do the best I can with what I have and leave it at that. Thanks again.

[@MrChadillac89]

I love these kind of history of woodworking videos you do. Makes me appreciate what I love even more. Thank you.

[@jamesanthony5874]

For anyone interested, "Make a Chair from a Tree" is back in print as of this month.

[@large65]

The front vise construction looks very promising. With some runner at the top of the "back leg". I consider give that a try on my bench build.

[@youhaveamonkey]

Hey Rex! Let’s hear a little more about that leg vise with the triangular set up to keep the jaws parallel. Sounds like a fantastic idea!

[@newenglandyankeeliving5052]

Me last night: Man feels like a while since Rex Krueger posted something…. Me this morning: The Matrix has corrected itself

[@philkieran7521]

Great video rex as an Irish person I've not seen those table benches much but they would make a lot of sense in the setting of the house size during the penal times before the famine. I'm fascinated that someone put that much effort into that vise attached to a rickety work bench though

[@RexKrueger]

If you ever get a chance, check out the book "Irish Country Furniture" by Claudia Kinmouth. It's amazing.

[@philkieran7521]

@@RexKrueger thats published in my local university I must have a look

[@damiendrohan9500]

@@RexKrueger My wife just got this for my birthday as I was dropping very large hints!

[@richardgroom988]

I watch some joinery/ wood working videos and feel very inadequate I watch some of your videos and think I can do that Thank you

[@RexKrueger]

You CAN do that!

[@paulkline515]

Great video Rex. I was curious why the angled board on the vise triangle seemed to be overly long, until I realized it presses against the bottom of the top boards to maintain level. Amazing idea!

[@kendarr]

I've never seen this grain painting thing, this is amazing, I once saw a flute on a online store and assumed it was wood it was too cheap to be wood so I had to look into it, it was PVC that was painted so perfectly it looked 100% legit, this reminded of that pvc flute lol

[@elund408]

I watched Christopher Schwarz talk about a roman bench and why did it go away. (ie a low bench) and I thought any 19th century farmer would have recognized it as a bench to sit on that was modified to meet the needs, every barn, house and shop would have had one, they were used abused and turned into firewood as they wore out, pieces were added and removed as needed, they were used to death. When people moved off the farm into a shop and machines took over, the boss didn't like his employees sitting around and space was at a premium they got rid of them for more modern benches.

[@Cowboy_Foradalei]

Great video! People nowdays watch a video of a guy spending an entire day to make a perfect fitting dovetail joint and thinks this is how true wood workers do. If they really depend on this for living they would starve. True professional craftsmen are not perfectionists.

[@moon000dog]

Recently I was at an art show and ended up really looking at a frame and how it was built and the detail. It was high end and was a beautiful wooden frame. I like it better than the painting. After a while of studinging the frame this person came up and asked me what was so interesting - I mentioned the beautiful work on the frame never mentioning the painting that was in the frame to the artist who had just asked. It all worked out - it was her husband had made the frame. Not about old furniture but about noticing what was important. Short story.

[@SuperAragoon]

My grandmother had a bread trough in her kitchen, she had my grandfather install a 100 watt light bulb in the lid to help dough rise.

[@kayakMike1000]

Oh BURTON Ohio! I camped out at punderson a few years ago. Nice place! Love the maple syrup house in the town square.

[@marksexton1340]

Rex... I really love the old furniture, it would be awesome if you were to do an "old" build that we could follow

[@quitethemike]

12:04 I'd love to see a video exploring that vise framing in more detail.

[@RexKrueger]

I might do it!

[@rocktoonzz]

I second that!

[@What_Other_Hobbies]

When there is something in the vise jaws, the top ends of 45 degree parts is pushing against the bottom of bench top.

[@bigal6667]

I third that

[@imatroll2428]

Dang bro, I’ve watched a few of your videos. Your presentation skills are something I would find on “how it’s made” or something of the like. Great content!

[@kchortu]

glad you are feeling better

[@MCsCreations]

Pretty interesting indeed, Rex! 😃 Thanks a lot!!! But yeah, I saw some weird things around here as well! Pretty fascinating! 😃 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@paulmaryon9088]

Hi Rex,greetings from the UK, what a great vid thanks dude, you do like your work benches!! Agree with you there , so much to learn from just looking at old country furniture, thanks again and keep 'em coming

[@davidguenther8170]

I just happen to have a book on making Bent Wood Willow Furniture, amongst my many other woodworking books and magazines.

[@mcswordfish]

Also a good place to check old-fashioned techniques - Folk Museums. I live in the Scottish Highlands and I'm about 45 minutes from the Highland Folk Museum and it has furnished houses and workshops in varying styles going back several hundred years. Great day out with the family, and a fantastic place to get up-close-and-personal with old furniture. I went there just as I was starting to get into woodworking and I think I took more pictures of the wood-workshop than I did of my own children (though in my defence, my camera at that time wasn't very good, and so struggled to focus on moving objects, and my kids are like me and are not known for sitting still)

[@RexKrueger]

I would love that!

[@mcswordfish]

@@RexKrueger Here's a pic of one of the workshops. Sadly, I couldn't get up any closer - this was taken over a fence at the door photos.app.goo.gl/ZzLmiSLauuEFpEXR7

[@WoodfulProjects]

Hey Rex, thanks for all the researches you’ve made and above all thanks for sharing them with us. You’re an encyclopedia. Cheers

[@tompoole7480]

THANK-YOU! Rex, this was a great video. I enjoy your style of "teaching". I use the parenthesis, because you have a great conversational way about you. Continue with all your great work.

[@freddiedoyle472]

Great video as always ! My auto graphed copy of everyday woodworking was delivered a few days ago , it's a great read. Well done sir

[@RexKrueger]

I deeply appreciate your support!

[@shawnphillips2556]

Thank you for this video, reminding us to go outside and get to work. Regardless our skill level. I applaud you sir. Keep it up 👍🏻

[@markp6062]

Great stuff Rex! Loved the idea to go and look at what is out there and that people simply did what worked and it still came out beautiful as well as functional.

[@gimble1]

Glad you're feeling better brother! honestly missed you!

[@mrmime125]

It's good to have you back, Rex!

[@giovannip.1433]

Craftsmanship today is different from the past. I was told 'from an old man' that they trained as a painter. Not only could the stain and prep their surfaces, they made their own paint. They colour matched both paint and the putty they used to fill in nail holes. Putty that could be seen was flicked out of the holes to be redone because it could be seen. Papering ceilings with silver wallpaper... It's sad what skills have been lost to time.

[@colinmartin9797]

A fun project idea for your workbench fetish (it's okay, your obsession built a proper worktop for an iron bench I had for a decade before your videos) could be a way to try to make a low workbench in a fancier aesthetic, and try to sneak in workholding and appearance that let it serve double duty as a hallway or mud room bench piece of furniture. I've been trying to come up with a more mid-century looking version of your roman workbench, and am not coming up with a lot of ideas, but i think it'd be super practical for space-limited woodworkers who can just pick up their nice looking hallway/mud room bench that they put their boots on with, carry it outside, and use it for woodworking. I'd get a lot of use out of that, since I've got space in my hallway that's currently just a lane cedar blanket chest, and could definitely have used the low workbench instead of the janky sawhorses I used the last few weeks to build some large cedar planter boxes for my wife, but I don't really have anywhere in my garage to store the low bench - and moving my big ones outside is impossible. They were ungainly and awkward for workholding, and I nicked/banged myself several times as the wood would pop free from their thin tops or ends fell off.

[@soofihasan]

Rex , hope you are ok. I just ordered your book from amazon here in UAE (dubai). apparently not available but i still placed a backorder. Love your videos, thanks for all your efforts

[@matts.8342]

You ever visit the I-76 antique mall in Rootstown? It's huge, and full of furniture. I don't know where in Cleveland you are, but it's probably less than an hour drive.

[@terristroh3965]

The Shaker, Amish, Arts & Crafts, and various Appalachian influences are very strong in Ohio. I miss that resource being accessible in flea markets and antique shows.

[@boatrabbitchannel4630]

Appreciate these fresh topic on woodworking Rex. Good job@!

[@SKULLZ590]

I love these types of videos Rex I really hope to see more of the furniture forensics type of videos in the future

[@cosmicbrambleclawv2]

Slightly unrelated to this particular video, but I was watching the $100 tool series last night (and a few other vids) and you gave me the idea to go check my local antique mall for tools today I found a TON of stuff I'd habe loved to get but couldn't at the moment, but I DID manage to land the only 2 bench planes in the entire building :D a Stanley #5 and a Miller Falls #8 (never heard of them but it looks like a solid smoothing plane, equivalent to a Stanley 3 or 4) and I habe a Stanley Handyman on the way I bought off ebay for 4 dollars Thanks for the tips :D

[@OrionsAnvil]

Great video, that show looks pretty amazing. We go antique'n a lot. Its always the same procedure, for me anyway, wife is a different story. Scan the booth for rust deposits(old tools) then start turning over any interesting furniture or other handmade item and see if I can solve this riddle left by my ancestor "from another mother". Then we usually leave with another $5+- tarnished silver plated something or other 😉 eh its cheaper than going to a movie... most of the time. 🤣

[@rjinhobart7748]

Trivia Time My Dad has a photo of himself kneading dough in a dough trough. He was about 18 at the time, mixing a huge commercial bread batch with his bare arms. He's 84 now - this is probably why! He pronounces it 'trOw' rather the 'trof'.

[@isakwatz11]

Oftentimes times I find your intros kind of annoying but this intro was really great! I’d love to see more of these more informative than funny intros in the future!

[@davidhamilton676]

The modern equivalent to grain painting is click and drop vinyl flooring, printed to look like hard wood

[@dwayne6402]

I love old furniture books. What titles are you reading? And hey, that triangular leg vise I really like that, I'm going to try this on my work bench.

[@leighchristopherson2455]

As to the idea that green wood chairs are an "especially American" thing, I have to call you on that. In England there was/is a traditional occupation called a Bodger. A Bodger was a travelling furniture maker. They would go from Lord's estate to Lord's estate, pruning the forest, clearing undergrowth. Two trees too close together, cut out the smaller, or the one leaning. Their pay was the wood that they cut, that they would then turn into furniture, and other household goods. Spatulas, spoons, boxes, rolling pins, cutting boards. So not especially American. There are Bodger channels, or episodes here on KZbin.

[@davidpetersen4208]

There are 2 types of beauty. There is esthetic beauty (looks pretty) and functional beauty (is works). Just because it's one doesn't mean it's the other.

[@BakerVS]

I'd like to see a video on those willow chairs!

[@br1ckbr3ak3r]

This content is relevant to my interests.

[@bertkutoob]

Sometimes I feel we have moved from being wood "workers" to becoming just wood "machinists". For an extreme example, I see very little difference between sticking a wooden plank into a CNC machine and sticking a sheet of acrylic into the same machine. Would we call the person with the acrylic an "acrylic worker" and regard him with the same almost reverence as we do the guy with the plank? I don't make a living producing furniture and know that there is a place for speedy mass production but for my own satisfaction, going "unplugged" (well - almost - I still use a table saw for cutting to rough size) was the best choice I made... So a very 👍👍👍👍to those old pieces that cause one to reflect the souls of their makers.

[@miss_baphomet]

fun fact, grain painting is still done in props and set design for plays and other stage performances

[@ricericericericericericerice]

What beautiful workbenches!

[@ACat1255]

2021 grain painting will be making oak and mahogany look like OSB.

[@maverickstclare3756]

disguising cheap oak as expensive plywood

[@TomBuskey]

I just got my copy of MACFAT3 yesterday.

[@linkwokeup]

"I also looked at work benches" rofl! brilliant video ty Rex

[@jasonmako343]

Suffice it to say, there won't be any lice falling off Rex's head.

[@ChrisFranklyn]

I'm sure when I was growing up a lot of people had scumbled plaster walls in their homes. Just regular people. I don't know if they were convincing anyone they were wood panelling or it was just an accepted look.

[@electromechanical_magpie]

6:58 author’s name is Jennie Alexander for anyone googling the reprint

[@wilcooley]

Or just link to the book? lostartpress.com/collections/green-woodworking/products/copy-of-mechanics-companion (I think there might have been some mistake with LAP's CMS to make that URL). There is also the different but also derived "Make a Joint Stool from a Tree", based on the original, with much updating from Peter Follansbee and the project changed a bit: lostartpress.com/collections/green-woodworking/products/make-a-joint-stool-from-a-tree