Sculpting a Table

Totally awesome! I’ve worked with wood for 45 years and have always limited my custom jobs to 4 per year because I think it’s important to use only hand tools. I think my newest hand tool is a ship decking plane from 1736. I have to use a table saw and resaw because time and arthritis have changed the way I have to do things. But you are right..perfection can only be brought to life by patience, thought and hand tools that were made by true craftsmen. I love my router and shaper table but the old shaper planes are the best way to warm a room with live edges (which is different than the modern concept of raw edge). I noticed your Lee Nielsen saw and had a fond memory of my first one purchased after my first professional job. The bench is stunning! Like my old mentor told me many years ago, “Good, Better, Best, Never let it Rest, ‘till the Good is Better and the Better, Best!” -Alban Douglas (D)

Incredible, reminds me of a Japanese Tori Gate

maybe hold the camera still

Came over from Blacktail he says you do great things! Looking forward to watching your content.

Amazing bench! Really! I wish I had the words to describe how and why I feel so amazed... but you know how detail oriented you are makes all the difference! I'm over from Blacktail Studios, liked and subscribed...:-)

Beautiful.

New to your channel but absolutely love you design aesthetic. So many wood working sites have just okay designs. In particularly enjoy that you grow the design as you go forward. Super impressive and a great inspiration.

Beautiful design!

Although I don’t mind power tools, I absolutely love people with the ability to make things Little House on the Prairie style. Making furniture by hand (whether by power tools or hand tools) is not only a rare craft-but an ART. To me at least. I dislike watching people who use those CAD machines to cut things out, it feels like mass production value furniture, impersonal and cold. You asked people to comment on that subject so that’s why I am offering my opinion.

The legs remind me of a ballerina on pointe. This piece is gorgeous!

Only just found ur channel bro.. I think a healthy balance of hand tools and some usage of power tools is ok but too much power tools can take away from the satisfaction of hand planing, etc.. I certainly wouldn't be hand planing 10 mm off a piece of wood but a couple of mm is ok.. I love that router jig thingy u used to cut those mortices? I probably called them the wrong name here.. Apologies if I did. haha!
I've only just begun really and I never saw myself as loving woodwork but man alive I have caught the bug.. I love this form of artistic expression.. That's what it's about to become for me anyways.. Thanks for an awesome video bro and I will be catching up on more of ur vids soon..

Stunning job mate.. Absolutely beautifully made. Love the accents with the little wedges complimenting the darker wood.. It looks so cool bro.. Respect to u from Ireland..

Very nice design

Great video

I am new to your channel but I am jus keep watching. Your projects are amazing. I just love your work and videos.

Came upon your work through Blacktail Studio. Your blend of power and hand tools seems the most logical approach to a somewhat emotional process. Your passion for your art really shows in your videos. Keep it up. Very inspiring.

Love the frame!

👍👍very nice

You do woodworking while wearing a Rolex Submariner? Hmm...

I'm all about skill and you have that in spades

For me the question of Hand Tools, or Power Tools definately depends on the project. turning a solid 6 panel door in my girl's son's playroom into a 2 piece Dutch style door is a power tool project. Making carved 1 of a kind handles for all my files is a hand tool job.

Panta router is new to me. I've seen Pantagraph tools in different forms tracing and flame cutting on the horizontal flat plane. Could you show us how this tool works? Maybe it could be a diy built tool?

I like mixing hand tools and power tools.

You seriously asked the interwebs people about preference between hand tools and power tools? Bwahahaha.

For personal projects I'd love to get into hand tools. Professional it's what ever is fastest most times power tools

Super

Great build sir love your designs
As too your question.
One of the only shop tools that I would ban from existence would be C&C.
I hate pocket holes, but we have to pick our battles.

Beautiful!

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Beautiful

Great video, think I'm turning Japanese-o, great looking chair 💺

Nice job, Nick!

Brilliant 😊

Nicely done. I've learned that Designs and builds vary by many factors. I always give Murphy a share in design credit. happy New Year 2023!

You said hump.

relative demensioning = cut to fit

I agree!

I’m not always a fan of the green and green aesthetic, but your take on it in this bench is really amazing. I would love to see you, tackle a dining table in the arts and crafts style.

Beautiful!

We do many home projects, and these sawhorses are great for so many different applications. Glad we purchased them.

Excellent job thanks for sharing. I use hand and power tools depending on the project I'm working on.

really beautiful. Ever thought about building something without screws and glue?

I’m all about working wood. I don’t care what tools anyone uses. It’s about the finished product. The bench is beautiful!

I do like the base more than the seat and supports, but this is excellent. Thank you for sharing.

Peter & John Hall who built most of the Greene & Greene Houses and furniture, had table saws, bandsaws, drill press and mortising machans belt drive off a gasoline motor.
So power & hand tool have a history more than one hundred years, anyone complains about pure hand tool use point this out to them. Keep up the good work.

Love the bench. Could the 2 boards on top be cut at angles to meet flush?

Cool, I see a bit of Japanese influence in the curves.

I’m all about using whatever tool gets the job done.

Green and Green would have celebrated the gap at the top.

Dear Nick. Love the design and the detail but then I love Greene and Greene. You keep right on using that Panto Router, fun to watch. The only thing wrong with it is I don't have one. I like to mix machine and hand tools as well. Cordially, David McGuinn.

Hey man! Tim from Maine. Former Schooner, kayak and strip canoes builder. Im Retired and looking for smaller creative uses for wood. Love your work!