After a nice family vacation I’m back at it. I finished up the radial veneer video, spent some time on the sawmill slabbing up a live oak crotch, and got my first hands on experience with a vacuum kiln.
Radial Veneer with Scott Grove: Radial Veneer Demo with Scott Grove
Paul’s Sawmill Tour: Legacy Lumber Sawmill Walk Through
Slabbing the Spalted Silver Maple: Spalted Silver Maple Slabbing [Embedded Steel, Brass, & Copper]
Logs from Phil: Sawing Mississippi Pecan with Phil and Harry
Viewer Projects
Decorative Panels by David
I work full time at Bethany Church in Baton Rouge, LA as video director. I built three decorative panels to hang in our smaller campus venue’ stage.
Made with beech hard wood, these were very tedious to build. Every other slat is flush with the face, others are recessed behind a rabbet. The recessed ones were easy but the flush ones were cut with a dado blade and sacrificial fence, with the goal of zero gaps to the face frame. This took a lot of time. Finished with paste wax and several tons of elbow grease.
They came out great but I don’t want to build anymore!! Lol
Coffee Table by Kevin
This is a walnut coffee table that I made trying out a bunch of new things for myself. This was the first time I worked with rough sawn lumber and surfacing it myself, as well as the first time making bread board ends. The table top has a segmented center made from walnut, maple, and padauk with breadboard ends. The carcass was made using mortise and tenon joinery.
Federal Desk by Chris
Here’s a recent project of mine. It’s a Federal period desk for my seven year old son. I built it from rough cut cherry (primary) and poplar (secondary) using traditional hand tools and hot hide glue – no power tools. I turned the legs and drawer pulls on a spring pole lathe.
http://www.vonpimpenstein.com/
Urn by Dan
I made this box as an urn for my friends’ baby who was lost as 24 week in-utero. It was a sad project to make but I was so honored to do it. Made from figured curly Maple and Walnut that I milled on my property. The top is friction-fit, and the CNC engraving was something they designed and I cut using my Shapeoko 3. I also got their baby’s footprints on there using a laser-printer and Polycryllic method. The finish is several coats of Arm-R-Seal semi-gloss
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I always enjoy your videos! Thanks!
Always enjoy your videos and just the beauty of the logs you saw don’t know how much you charge for them but I probably can’t afford them, not to far from you but far Eastern Pa.
Thank You Matt. I like your videos
Love to watch your slab videos, Informative and entertaining.
I am somewhat new to woodworking and found the round veneer project very interesting. Keep on keeping on.
Stacy.
Thanks Stacy!
Thanks for you videos.
That Live Oak is something else!
I love to see veneer work of any kind
Even bad veneer work? 😀
Hi. I would love to receive the Hardwood Edging book. It would be greatly appreciated.
I really enjoy your channel. I like the saw mill videos the best. Thanks and keep up the great job,
Thanks!
Love your show Matt. I always look forward to whatever content you are presenting to your audience.
Keep up the good work.
Thanks Larry!
Great videos
The video on the radial veneering was fine, very inofmative.
Hey Matt always a pleasure watching your videos. Looking forward for future videos. Keep up the good work.
The urn box is very special. Our oldest son and his wife lost a child similarly.
Enjoy; your work.
wish i had more time to do woodwork i work with disabilities and teach woodwork but we only get to use pallets for wood but they love it but do enjoy watching you thanks wayne
I really want that book. Keep up the great videos
Matt the content that you squeeze in to your video’s shows your passion for the art.
I really enjoy watching your video’s to see what you are achieving and the viewer projects, some people have such skills.
You are an influencer of many, KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK ☺
The book would be nice but not essential .
Thank you!
Hi love to win this book as I went to meet you at makers central in Birmingham
I really enjoy watching your videos and learning from your projects. The breadth of your interests and skills is amazing and inspiring. Thank you for offering this book to your viewers.
Thanks Jeff!
Enjoy your working content. It is good to see you taking the time to look out for yourself and the family
Thanks!
You’ve made some references about finding wood, but would you please list all the venues you’ve attempted somewhere?
Have you left your name with tree services, landscapers, etc.?
Thanks.
Great video. Thanks
Great video!!
Thank you so much.
I enjoy your YouTube postings.
Beautiful work
Love your videos
great work
I enjoy watching your videos. Your love of your craft show in every frame…..
Keep it up Matt !!!
as always good work
Looks like a very interesting book. I look forward to reading it
Man you are like revenge of the nerds meets the wood master. Super talented bro! Never judge a book by its cover. Pun intended.
hahaha! Thanks!
looking forward to the read
The Radial veneer table top is awesome!
Great project
I love this channel!
Fun channel and very interesting
Great instructional clip
As always I love your videos!