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Testing different species of wood for strength against splitting. But after that I found a flaw in my procedure. But the data still reveals some interesting things. Spreadsheet here: http://woodgears.ca/wood_strength

Filmed on a visit to John Heisz shop in 2016, we got to talking about folding and unfolding bandsaw blades. I proceeded to show my way of folding and "unfolding" the blades, much to John's humor! Good times! More about that visit here: https://woodgears.ca/misc/heisz_visit.html

Going over the homemade jointer after 10 years of use, making some minor updates. https://woodgears.ca/jointer/homemade.html Plans: http://woodgears.ca/jointer/plans

A quick and simple trick to hide the occasional embarrassing gap in wood joints. This is a re-edit to short from a video I originally shot in 2015, so I figure after 7 years a re-hash is ok. Also formatted to be nearly square instead of mostly vertical, seeing that a lot of folks also watch my shorts on regular YouTube. Old article on this from 2015: https://woodgears.ca/shop-tricks/gap_fill.html #shorts

Building something for Harriet to do gymnastics on. But these also make very minimalist sawhorses, or table legs. http://woodgears.ca/sawhorse/multi.html

Using my wood strength testing machine to break many different species of wood to figure out which ones are the strongest, stiffest, hardest. There is so much more that could be explored this way! http://woodgears.ca/wood_strength

Making a small weaving frame and experimenting with different ways of lifting alternate threads to make it easier to push the shuttle through.

Using my joint strength tester to break lots of pieces of the same kinds of wood, exploring consistency and how well it bends if heated or soaked in water. No one answer, but steaming wood may not be the best way for bending, depending on species. 1080p version. Accidentally uploaded the 480p version the first time.

Ran out of spots to put chisels, so made this chisel holder to hold the rest, plus some carving knives. More wall tool holders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhC6i-RZ3cg #shorts

Building a computer controlled wood and joint strength testing machine. Sort of like my own Instron tester. Using a stepper motor, wooden gears and a threaded rod for the ram, and bathroom scale load cells to measure the force.

Making a free standing shelf using parts of shipping palletes as decking. This one ended up so stiff it would bounce back and forth on two legs if let go of at an angle. More about shelves: http://woodgears.ca/shelves

Building another box for proping things up from offcuts from the previous box build. No fancy joinery, so it went together 10x faster. #shorts Previous fancy box build: https://youtu.be/Igy7UHrNPho

Inspired by some boxes that I have been using a lot for propping things up here and there, I made some more, sturdier ones of different sizes for that same purpose.

Using roofing sheet metal to clad an outside shed door. Quite a bit of bending, using an improvised sheet metal brakes of 2x4s and clamps. Moe about sheds: http://woodgears.ca/shed

I needed something to hang a picture on a high hook where I couldn't use a ladder. Then realized I had *almost* the perfect gadget already. #shorts This idea made for a very short video and the vertical format worked well for where I filmed it, so might as well try out these dreadful shorts!

A custom sized door for my shed. I neded up cladding it with roofing sheet metal, but that will be a separate video. More about sheds at: http://woodgears.ca/shed

Adding sheet metal roofing to my shed, with a homemade ridge cap, also using the sheet metal as siding, wrapping it around the corners by bending it with an improvised sheet metal brake. http://woodgears.ca/shed

Time to prepare the site for the shed, place the walls and screw them together. The shed is like a plywood box and very rigid against twist and warping. If the foundations give out, it will be easy to straighten it back up. More about sheds: http://woodgears.ca/shed

Reduced my 44 minute build series from 5 years ago into one shorter video. This has most of the info from the longer series. Though if you want to build it, I also recommend watching the longer series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tdSaE663AU&list=PLSnvVtM4lBIUFfaqrjFXs4kxIq8JkWpNI Plans: http://woodgears.ca/belt_sander/plans More about this belt sander: http://woodgears.ca/belt_sander/

I built this belt sander 5 years ago, talking about minor tweaks I have made to it in that time, and checking how it's doing. More about the belt sander: http://woodgears.ca/belt_sander Plans for this belt sander: http://woodgears.ca/belt_sander/plans

Building a modular shed from a bunch of used plywood and pressure treated lumber. I'm building the pieces in the garage to make it easier to erect where it will go. More shed builds: http://woodgears.ca/shed

I started this out wanting it to be done before I started and not making a video. But being in a hurry I screwed up a lot. When I got back to it a few days later, I thought talking about all the screw-ups might be interesting. More table builds: http://woodgears.ca/table/ More articles where I measure things, often using a raspberry pi: http://woodgears.ca/physics/index.html

Second channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3_AWXcf2K3l9ILVuQe-XwQ This is just a talky vlogy style videos. I usually put videos like that on my second channel, but it appears not everyone knows about my second channel, so I'm putting it on my main channel. A guy stopped on road while I was mowing, didn't know about second channel. So just in case you don't know about my second channel - I have a second channel. I do have a second channel, in case you don't know. It's called "matthias random stuff". Its Random stuff really. Kind of inspired by technology connections. New videos on that have been doing about as well as on my main channel, even though it's only 110k subs vs 1.6 million subs. Of course, my main channel is way down from years ago. Sometimes trivial videos like my fan balancing, or cleaning a paint brush, and sometimes those do well. I also like to play around with electronics, raspberry pi computers, do experiments and measure stuff, but those kinds of videos usually don't do as well. So going forward, I'll put woodworking stuff on my main channel, and non-woodworking stuff on my random stuff channel. Sponsored video: Ecoflow Not thru an agency, which is nice! More flexibility, no dictated talking points. Doesn't feel like I'm interacting with a marketing department. Not like skillshare, vpn, mattresses, razors, audible and the likes. Have been making the website more mobile friendly. Been playing with ads on my website lately. But mostly the ads I get are for the 14000 plans teds woodworking scam. Or ads for some gadget that cuts your power bill by 90% if you plug it in. kind of discouraging. But I don't give google a lot of hints for things I might want, spread over multiple browsers, switched to Bing cause I don't trust google's results biases and data harvesting, and often search incognito. I have to say, google works better though, so I sometimes search again in google if I can't find what I'm looking for. What ads are you seeing? Partnered with Jellysmack for my woodgears.ca facebook page. They take my videos from YouTube and edit them down a fair bit from the original, for casual viewing. I find I skip forward thru videos a lot. So short attention span, fast paced videos do have their place. Maybe we are all getting ticktockified Veritassium video about clickbait. After that video I suddenly saw a whole lot more clickbaity titles in my subscription feed. Clickbait is an advantage, yes. But is it when everything is clikcbait? What about long term reputational harm? Maybe there is just too much stuff out there to suck our attention, so we all have to get better at sucking people's attention, everyone's time is fully sucked up. It used to be that technology was a productivity tool but those days are long gone! Feed the algorithm - the end goal of the algorithm is that you watch more. Subscribing or commenting matter a lot less. So if you want to support me, just watch more, or if you don't feel like it, maybe leave a video running after this one on mute while you do something useful?

My bandsaw on a dolly sawmill using the same 20" bandsaw: Sawmilling with the 20" bandsaw: https://woodgears.ca/big_bandsaw/sawmilling.html More cutting up logs on a bandsaw: https://woodgears.ca/reclaim_lumber/bandsaw_log.html

Testing the EcoFlow DELTA Max with various loads to see just how much power I can get out of it before it cuts out. EcoFlow Delta Pro affiliate link (works from USA only): https://ecoflow.com?aff=138 This is a sponsored video. I'm grateful for EcoFlow's flexibility. This is so much better than being told what to say to peddle foam mattresses, razors or online courses.