Category: Woodworking

The Cooling Rack Video took a bit longer than usual

The cooling rack video is up! I had to spend some time on my portfolio site. And well… we had to finish “Stranger Things” on Netflix. Still, the Bread Cooling Rack is up on YouTube.

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The Truth

I actually screwed up the two short end pieces by making them a half inch too long. Really I made them to the design. Then I made the call to build to the bottom panel and I didn’t carry that width over.  So I cut them down a quarter inch to find out that I needed another quarter gone as well.  I guess that’s how you practice doing rebates/rabbets, ha!

I’m also not super pleased with my color grading on this one. I need to even things out a bit better. The good news is that I have a good shotgun mic coming. So hopefully next weeks video monologue will be much more pleasant on the ears. Hopefully I can let some more personality show!

Anyways, Thank you for checking it out!

CleanPhil

 

Well, I spent the weekend not sure what to do. I do have list of about 30 projects I’d like to work on but I also have a budget to follow and time to balance.  So even though I’d like to start on a furniture piece I’m going with something a bit smaller.

I would like to do some episodes with my wife where we cook with what we can find here in NZ. Stores here don’t stock what we are use to back in the states so if you crave something you might be out of luck. We’ve played a bit in the kitchen with banter getting ourselves easy with the concept but a couple things are very clear.  We don’t have any trivets and we don’t have any cooling racks.

Usually I just use a flipped over cookie sheet to rest bread pizza’s on, and the cool burners on the stove are where the hot pots go.  That isn’t all that ideal if you were going to host a party or a youtube channel/episode.  So, trivets it was…

Umm, I feel that that is kind of boring and really intensive to do the designs I want with hand tools.  I’ll still do them because we need them but not just yet.  I think I also have a mental block right now for the amount of accuracy I’ll need with those. So, I’ll make a wooden cooling rack.

I’ll get a basic drawing up here in the next day or so to show the design

I’m sure you remember the people that would go and write “Fake!” on each video. Sometimes the explanations of why the were fake were fantastically funny, but otherwise it was redundant information and you easily skipped over those comments.  When I created my youtube account, “yourmomsfake”, back in 2008 or whenever, EVERY video was “fake”. No, I didn’t leave any ‘fake’ comments, as far as I remember anyways.

Well Thanks you all of you subscribing I’ve reached my first goal with youtube, a custom URL!  I am not longer “yourmomsfake”.  I am now “cleanphilwanted”!  https://www.youtube.com/c/cleanphilwanted

Hopefully, after it gets out the search engines, I’ll look a bit more professional!

I also have a foolsbook page too that can be a bit more community based than this site is just yet. so please check that out and ‘Like’ it! https://www.facebook.com/cleanphilwanted/

Celebrate the small things right?

Thank you!  Now off to figure out what to make next!

phil

Part two of the firewood holder/carrier is up on youtube.

I really messed up the first version of it.  Somehow I can still measure something, not two times, not three, four, five or six times, and still cut wrong once.

There are a few power tools in this one, a sewing machine and a drill so that’s a bit of a cheat but I’m ok with it really.

I used a ginormous piece of remnant fabric from a local crafty store for the cloth between the handles and just used some simple wood scraps for the handles themselves.

This is a REALLY easy project to get done with some simple tools like:

• marking guage
• marking knife
• hand saw (back saw)
• coping saw
• a chisel or two
• rasps, files and sandpaper
• and a hammer and tiny nails or tacks.

I didnt’ think I’d like this set of projects. I viewed them as utilitarian only BUT after using them I have to say I really love them.

I’m not ‘old’ yet but I’m old enough to have a back that doesn’t like to bend over like it use too!  And I’m not longer covered in splinters from collecting wood from the wood bin outside.

If I would do these again, outside of trying make it collapsible, I’d only change it by carving into both the holder and the handles.  I think that would really make this pop with some class.