Ben Nawrath

Sapele is beautiful, but I’ve had it splinter on me. Lately walnut has been grabbing me more and more… always astounded by the grain when finished! My favorites seem to change with the project… I use poplar whenever I’m going to paint something. It works wonderfully and is a great balance of weight and strength.

Glad you guys are doing well. I’m working on a hall tree projects with some sycamore for the bench seat. Luckily Jim H identified it from a sing,e picture, I had no idea lol. More importantly, I’ve been taking care of shop projects along the way. Normally I work around things, don’t have time to properly clean up, make concessions because something isn’t finished… so I’ve been knocking things off my list to make my life easier!

I’ve ordered from the place in FL before (I think). But mainly there’s a bearing model number that’s universal right on the size. I can send a pic as an example if you want. You can even get them on amazon, but questionable quality.

Definitely put a lot of thought into it, and heard what people had to say. I went to my first board meeting last week, and I was impressed with the level of organization and seriousness with which issues were considered.

A few notes on my youtube suggestion;

I was definitely thinking more for us armchair experts who think we can be the next YouTube sensation, maybe her perspective will either motivate or snap back to reality those aspiring folks.

I hadn’t considered the club making videos, maybe a presentation/discussion on that at the big club would be good (Steve?). We might find some volunteers. Videoing some of our meetings/workshops would definitely be a good thing.

I have one or two ancient YouTube clips up. The quality is waaaay worse than it was going up! I think stuff gets shrunken after a while to save server space or something!

Also, maybe she would be interested in getting her presentation to us on video (with our help) for her own channel! Just a thought…

I like the jigs/shooting boards etc idea. If she gave us a list of things, maybe 2 or 3 projects, people could bring supplies for whichever one they want to do and we could work on whichever one concurrently* in the barn.

*Concurrently may not be the right word…

If it was a meeting in the barn it might be interesting to see what goes into making a youtube video. Cameras, other gear, editing, etc. Not sure how interesting everyone would find that but hey!

Also Corey’s shop is 7 minutes from me so that works too 🙂

I wonder if maybe her going into detail about what it takes to make a good youtube video could be interesting. I bet she has to plan the steps of a project more deliberately knowing it’ll be filmed.

That’s great that she got back to you! We’ve had mixed results with weekend workshops, especially if it costs $$. Did you discuss at all what kind of thing she’d be willing to do? Some sort of how-to or all about making youtube videos or something?

I can tell you what does NOT make a good turning apparatus, a Carhartt sweatshirt with angled, open pockets.

Right down the road from tractor supply 😬 That road is a mess right now…