Tick Stick: The Carpentry Tool That Does the Impossible
This showed up on my Youtube recommendations last night and I watched the whole thing and it's very cool to learn something like this at my age.
Oh my dudes, I've been so obsessed with this channel for years now that I even signed up for his learning academy. Something I've really gotten from his channel & content is how many of the guys who taught me stuff growing up as well as how many guys out there right now who think they know how to do something don't/didn't know *jack shit*. So it's been really nice to learn from some actual pros how to do not just advanced techniques but even some pretty basic tool work correctly. So many times I've had the thought, "Well, I *think* I know how or about [X] but let's watch it and see," and then go, " . . . . Huh! TIL!"
It's pretty sexist at times but other than that I really enjoy it, and have even gotten probably a dozen plus better/more applicable tools as a result.
It's pretty sexist at times but other than that I really enjoy it, and have even gotten probably a dozen plus better/more applicable tools as a result.
@williwaw One of my life's regrets is not learning shop work from my dad. His work wasn't clever or quick or looked cool, but they were always bulletproof, liked you'd expect if you knew he grew up on his father's sawmill where anything they built that didn't last might ruin them.
One of my sisters married a cabinetmaker and fortunately he and my dad got along great together and he had someone to pass along what he knew.
One of my sisters married a cabinetmaker and fortunately he and my dad got along great together and he had someone to pass along what he knew.
I've been trying to figure out how to cut a piece of flooring to fit the space precisely without resorting to trial and error - and I think you just posted the answer.