What Kind of Wood Should You Build With? | WOODWORKING BASICS
What Kind of Wood Should You Build With? | WOODWORKING BASICS
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I like red oak the best. I like it in 1×4, 2×2, and 1×2 formats.
Great great great great
Video simple —-> straight to the point…thanks again
God Christ Bless.
We never stop learning
and really good to share.
Subscribed.🏁😉👍
if you hammer pine with a rounded head hammer the dent will smooth out as the humidity increases , i use this method when i want close joints , i deliberately dent the meeting points on the wood , then dampen with water to close up the gaps
What would you recommend to make drawers, boxes and shelves for a walk in closet?
The best wood is particle board, furniture manufactuars cant be wrong, MFD is my favorite. Easely cut, routed, glued, finished.
So, avoid MDF like the plague. Got it.
Good and simple information
Thanks
Australian bullock wood
Your intros always give me a chuckle. They don’t seem to get old!
Enlightening! Thank you.
What an awesome video! Probably the best for woodworking newbees like myself! 😎👍
The lumber sold across the street from me is TERRIBLE!!! I have NEVER found even ONE board that was straight. Cuz here in PR most lumber is left outside in the rain. I miss the states lol
Wood rules!!!
Who were the 300 "geniuses" disliked this video? I’m completely different than I was 15 minutes ago, about wood. Thank you Steve 🙂
The big problems with MDF is that if you even think about water near it, it starts to rot and crumble. That and when you try to move your project the edges and joints disintegrate. One thing I’ve been doing is making my own trim work, including cove molding out of pine 1x’s . I can’t afford oak or walnut. So I spend time in the big box store picking pine. Then run it through my router about 5 times to get a custom trim design. Then stain it. It looks great and 1/2 of my house now has customized trimwork.
We have lots of ebony tree even walnut tree redwood blood lumberd ,but eventually they are ilagal
You can only use is bunch of pine99x wood gemilina wood fuck this wood coconut wood
why the sales bullshite at the end ???
excellent video for beginners.
One correction id like to note though. Fir trees are not a sub category of Pine trees ( they are both in the "Pinaceae" plant family which is where you may be getting the confusion) and most of the wood you handle in the hardware store when discussing the "pine" is Canadian Frasier Fir and Balsam Fir (Abies Fraseri and Abies Balsamea). One easy way to see the difference is if you walk down the aisle of a hardware store in the 2 by, or framing section, you’ll notice the wood color and grain structure will change when you go up in size from 2×6’s to the 2×8’s. thats because Fir trees are used for 2x6s and smaller but framing codes require the tensile strength of 2x8s and higher to be higher than Firs are capable of and thus are cut from Pines (usually Southern Yellow Pine SYP "Loblolly Pine" on the east coast, and Western Yellow Pine WYP "Ponderosa Pine" on the West coast)
There are roughly 50 Fir Species of Tree, and roughly 120 Pine Species of Tree. they both have unique characteristics, will react to stain and oils differently, have different shrink rates and Janka hardness ratings, will burn differently when using techniques like shou sugi ban, and take to steam bending very differently.
Your a raiders fan??
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I’m here watching your video because I went to Home Depot and Lowe’s and nothing, and I mean nothing was marked with what kind of wood it is. You’d think something as basic as the name of the tree would be labeled! I simply wanted Pine in 2×4. It didn’t say hardwood or softwood, or any name at all. They had dimensions with SKU numbers. I think I could get by with visually looking for pine since it’s knotted very much and that’s what I wanted. Well here we go!
Best woodworking channel on YouTube and there are a lot of good ones. Thanks Steve I’m just starting to try to get into woodworking and I have learned so much from you.
Thanks for your time.
very informative video. Thanks for the info from someone who is new at this with no experience
Your surname Ramsey reminds me of Lord Ramsey from Games of Thrones. Face is also similar to the character.
Douglas fir is not pine; it’s douglas fir lol.
As a manager at the lumber yard feel free to pick through the boards. With that said it is not realistic to expect and employee to do this for you. If you want an order pulled and ready when you get there you will get a mix of warped and good boards typical of the variety on the shelf. Also, if you choose to sort through my boards please put them back on their shelf or stack them back in the bunk. Try to come in the morning if you want to avoid the inevitable stack of warped boards on the top and in front. Most lumber yards I have been in cull in the morning or evening before or after close of business.
The Menards, Home Depot, and Lowes near me do not stock Baltic birch plywood, rather they only carry birch veneered pine plywood. While the difference is perhaps subtle, it’s not insignificant. If you can dent the edges of the laminations with your fingernail or if the face veneers are only as thick as heavy card stock, it’s not Baltic birch. It still could be fine for the project, but it will not be the good stuff.
Another great video 👍👍👍👌👌👌
What about Kel Wood?
Thank you very much for this video, probably the most useful I’ve ever seen.
Good video
Had a good video run til I saw that raiders hat. Ha! Good vid.
Hi great video, easy to understand and informative. I am planning to make a TV panel, one that protrudes from the wall and is from top ceiling to floor, having the TV flush. What would you recommend and from watching your video would I be correct in guessing Pinewood the frame?
Awesome!!! Thanks for the info!!!!👏
here in Europe i recently came across a board of American walnut … Damn its a fantastic wood Beauty!!!
More than a million views and only 16k likes? C’mon people!!! You can do better!!! Thanks Steve for your videos!
I have been messing around with pallets. Its great to practice with! I can get them free and I have made a couple shelves and a little coffee table.
Where are these online retailers you speak of that will ship you hardwoods? I haven’t found a single one yet.
I’m a yard associate at 84 lumber and learning this is really cool and more informative than anything I’ve come across on youtube!
Canada wanted to ship truck loads of Canadian lumber to the USA. Your President slapped a tax on Canadian lumber being exported from Canada to the USA . Imagine how low the cost of your lumber would be, with no import tax and a WEAK CANADIAN DOLLAR ! ! !
Hello Mr Ramsey, I get get really good hardwood off cuts for free from a local joinery factory, they are all hardwood that is for sure but… they are all different species and colours. I wouldn’t even know what species they are. Do you think I will have any issue gluing up tabletops and other joints from different unknown species? will different expansion and contraction rates cause me a problem. I plan on selling what I make so I don’t this stuff to fall apart on me?
GREAT VID!
Appreciate the quick guide.
Ha
On true pine trees, the needles are arranged and attached to the branches in clusters of two (red pine group), three (yellow pine group), or five (white pine group) needles per cluster. Spruce and fir trees have their needles attached individually to the branches.
I could’ve did without the commercials💆🏾♂️
Who gave this video a dislike. I wanna know why?
This is great! Thank you
To make a small box as a gift should I use softwood or mdf?