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When your writing on the table top...what type of surface is that? I need a better solution versus a white board.

I would not put you being on OF past you… just saying lol

For the love of god please film a tour of that supplier it sounds amazing

A user of this desk will have carpal tunnel in 20 minutes. There is no place to rest your wrists...let alone your forearms. It is pretty, but a poor design.

New subscriber, love the video work, wood work, philosophy, poetry, music, etc etc. but I do wonder what happened to your right hand. It looks rather painful-hope it isn't but hope you are doing well.

Looks dope.

Tour of that hardwood suppliers warehouse!! That sounds wild!!

Definitely the first woodworking video I’ve watched that has the words “watch me nay nay” 😂. Love the videos and the sick beats!

Nick, beautiful desk, dude. Naturally, my wife walked in and said, "OMG, that's awesome..." so I think I have a Future Matt project. Somebody's probably already taken you to task on that jank-asstic gucci move of doing the desktop on the router table, so I'll let you risk your fingers some more. Please do keep putting your philosophic reflections in these videos. You're on the right track, man. It's not totally related to your content here, but I'd highly recommend you explore some of the Stoics (Marcus Aurelius, ofc, because he's the OG Stoic). I suspect you'd like that once you're nearing the end of your quasi-Buddhist reflections... if you haven't already. Knowledge =/= understanding. Word. Wish more people could think their way to that... understanding level.

What finish was that?

In the Kanji alphabet, the characters for knowledge and power get combined to make the character for experiential wisdom; that which you call understanding. I think you’re correct that we master and then a new way comes and we must learn to master that as well. The real treasure in mastery, in my opinion, is that we start to see the interconnectedness of everything and that as we master our craft, we notice how our perception of the work has changed. In that shift, we can start applying the new perception to everything else, and start inching ourselves closer to mastery of other aspects of life. i.e. a master car waxer becomes masterful at blocking punches through the same “wax on, wax off” motion. When the mastery spills into our lives as a whole, I think that’s where transcendence is found. And then we keep doing it and go deeper into that state. “Before enlightenment, you chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, you chop wood and carry water.”-Buddha As far as being remembered, all legacies (bloodline or masterworks) are lost to the waves of time. Some sooner than others, but they all eventually fade. Fuckin’ loved this one and beautiful desk. Keep it up brother man!

Nice work! Thank you for sharing your process. May I ask what CAD software are you using? ☮️

Curious about your choice of finish?

Knowledge isn’t power, it’s freedom. Our purpose of life is to understand that no matter what path, or way, we choose to seek our personal nirvana, they all end with the same thing. Paradox. No good/bad, right or wrong, true or false, it’s a both /and . You are not alone in this thinking, as I recently undertook a design that I came up with for a customer who said “ I want kinda Asian style “. As I worked on it I acquired Japanese tools, and I acquired a different perspective that went from form following function to what would the wood choose? Grain arches, visible defects, and what is a defect but a history lesson of growth? Internal stress and reaction wood. I have that going on in my self. I learned so much from that build that she wanted my next one, which I just delivered a week ago and it blew me away that I was able to incorporate Red Mulberry lumber into it. The silkworms that feed on that produces the finest silks. You are as crazy as you want to be, I too am neurodivergent and I figure that you can’t stay centered unless you know where the edges are. I like living on the edges, it’s too crowded in the center. And I don’t like people who say that I think outside the box, I just just never knew that there was a box. Love your work/ play. Always a thought provoking time when I tune in to see what you are up to now.

Knowledge isn’t power, it’s freedom. Our purpose of life is to understand that no matter what path, or way, we choose to seek our personal nirvana, they all end with the same thing. Paradox. No good/bad, right or wrong, true or false, it’s a both /and . You are not alone in this thinking, as I recently undertook a design that I came up with for a customer who said “ I want kinda Asian style “. As I worked on it I acquired Japanese tools, and I acquired a different perspective that went from form following function to what would the wood choose? Grain arches, visible defects, and what is a defect but a history lesson of growth? Internal stress and reaction wood. I have that going on in my self. I learned so much from that build that she wanted my next one, which I just delivered a week ago and it blew me away that I was able to incorporate Red Mulberry lumber into it. The silkworms that feed on that produces the finest silks. You are as crazy as you want to be, I too am neurodivergent and I figure that you can’t stay centered unless you know where the edges are. I like living on the edges, it’s too crowded in the center. And I don’t like people who say that I think outside the box, I just just never knew that there was a box. Love your work/ play. Always a thought provoking time when I tune in to see what you are up to now.

I see Cherry, Thank you, something that isn't White Oak.

Thank god it's not another Flexi-Spot Table 😂

Big man amazing video as usual I might have to watch it a few times to get the philosophy tho Greetings from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Not a new thing...and I have heard it many times on this and other channels... but is there double sided non-sticky tape? As always beautiful work.

Only fans 😂😃🤣😂🤣

The table looks great! Thanks for sharing your knowledge, talent, and your philosophical thoughts on life.

Have you tried if it actually comes back to you if you throw the desk? Awesome build, Nick!

Très joli travail, beau design.

Bill Shakespeare + Bob the Builder = Sawyer the Designer

Second random comment... Did you just cut the edge of your stunning over-the-top workbench?! Was there footage of you pondering whether to end your existence that was left out for brevity?

Random thought early in watching the video; while solid wood is nice, have you considered doing a torsion box for this kind of 'space hungry' design and then veneering? OK; back to watching...

It’s a beautifully functional table and excellent material selection. I would love to see the table raise and lower.

Really nice design! Happy computering!

Once again i had to turn the volume level down until i could just about not hear the absolute dribble coming out of his mouth, Desk is nice though.

"if you haven't guessed, I'm a little weird"... nah dude, you're a lot weird but also one of the best and most entertaining woodworkers on CZcams! luv ur vids.

Another awesome build! Two things i learned from watching this video: I'm really stupid, and I'm not that good at wood working... Its always humbling seeing your finished projects keep up the good work!

Pretty, pretty cool...

Glad to see I am not the only one with a Hammer combo jointer/planer that has to do massive cleanup with the dust collector after I am done.

Can't wait to get my shirt

Awesome build man 😊

I’d appreciate it if you stop speaking so highly of cherry. I love using it and don’t want it to become the next white oak. I like the price where it is. 😅

"Any fool can know. The point is to understand." - Albert Einstein // Facts only provide the most shallow description of our world. Children get it, when they continuedly ask "Why?" as they seek to go beyond mere facts and understand why. I love to watch groups of people at the mall, or airport, or wherever and find someone whose behavior doesn't make sense, then try to figure out why. Great build, love the use of cherry. No idea why people poo-poo cherry anymore, some of the most beautiful furniture I've ever seen is made out of cherry.

When will you and Bourbon Moth be doing a collaboration? you two are so close to each other this needs to happen.

Hey! I have a question: I would love to collab with you and make a guitar that you design. You design, I build (@BlackwormInstruments). We auction it, and split the proceeds to our preferred non profit. What day you?

Very interesting. Not my taste but that’s irrelevant. I think it would be helpful to many if you could tell us, particularly on pieces not for sale, what the timber cost and how many hours of labour you spent. A son is evolving from joinery to fine furniture and he finds it difficult to predict costs. The long term way is experience but, in the meantime, others such as you saying that piece had timber costing $2000 and took 48 hours would accelerate that process.

Great project, really enjoyed watching the skill involved 👍 beautiful end result. But, about the 30min mark I put it on silent, the carry on voice over was a bit to much for me.

Amazing

Weird, for lack of a better word, is good. Weird works.

Struggled to decide about leaving this, partially because it’s still hard on me 20+ years later… basically I’m a bit concerned for you… my wife had 6 losses when we were trying to have our second child. The first very nearly killed her, doctors said that had I gotten her to the hospital just a couple minutes later, they wouldn’t have been able to save her. The second required a incredibly pain emergency D&C that was done without anesthetic. Three, four and 5 were hard but didn’t result in quite dramatic ways. The sixth still haunts me today… she was about 6 months along and everything seemed fine but one day she went to the bathroom and yelled for me because she couldn’t stop peeing and didn’t feel right. This sounds weird but I looked to see if anything looked wrong and her water broke and the baby fell into the toilet. Fortunately she didn’t see and I didn’t tell her even though I called 911. The umbilical was still attached so I still had hope but knew in my heart that I had just watched our baby die. After the doctors did everything they could, once the shock wore off they brought us our baby girl just like they would a healthy baby, swaddled up in a cute blanket with a small teddy bear. They let us say goodbye and all we have now are the blanket, teddy bear, footprints and a couple pictures. The loss of a baby is extremely tough on a mother but nobody realizes just how hard it is on us husbands and we tend not to show it because we need to be there to support her the best we can, not because we are seeking her support for our grief. Fortunately she didn’t see anything other than the moments she held her and said goodbye, but I can’t unsee everything that happened and even now, 22 years later I still see it and am fighting tears as I write this but feel like you need to know why I feel for you and am concerned because the weight gain and sores on your arm are potential signs of depression. The road ahead will be tough because if the two of you decide to try again, when she gets pregnant again you will worry and fight the fear of another loss right along with her, especially if you have to try multiple times like we did. She likely won’t feel it the way you will, partially because she will have the feelings only women can have when a fetus is developing inside her but you won’t have the feelings of helplessness without experiencing the development yourself. Fortunately we were able to have a second child, a son who turns 21 in November. He’s made up for the experiences of raising multiple small children because he’s perfect and his low functioning aut1-sm keeps his developmental age to range from 4-10 with moments of the adult he really is. He’s a genius with an IQ of 157, he designs houses, stores and infrastructure including sewage systems but he can’t communicate what he feels, thinks or does and can’t directly answer questions that aren’t yes or no and even then you only have about a 60-70 percent chance of being confident that his answer was really correct. He will always live with us or his sister when we can’t take care of him anymore but he makes up for it by being the cutest and most lovable young man that you would ever have the privilege of meeting. Sorry for being long winded but now the balance of pain and joy go hand in hand. It was a long, painful road over several years to get here and only has a happy ending because we gave up on the OB-GYN who was supposed to be one of the best in the country and the head of gynecology at Loma Linda University Medical Center (the place that transplanted a baboon heart into a man back in the 80’s) and switched to her original OB that had delivered our daughter 8 years earlier. We were so in tune with her body that not only did he believe us when we told him that she was 2 weeks pregnant but he immediately diagnosed her condition and after almost 8 months of bed rest, delivered our son. Of course it was dramatic and scary because she had to have an emergency pre-mature c-section but we finally could move on until about 6 weeks later we knew he was aut!s-t1c (yt frequently immediately quarantines that word) and we started a new adventure. Sorry again, my point is don’t ignore your own grief, I guarantee that facing it will really help you be stronger next time…

Nice content. I'd be curious if the titanium layer of those chisels would clog up the CBN wheels I use.

Second oldest trade.😂😂

Table is awesome but are all your videos filled with the talks of mastery / enlightenment stuff? If so, I'll probably still watch just have to turn sound off from time to time but it just caught me off guard bc I was expecting just woodworking lol.

Не проще ручным фрезером... Чем толкать такую махину по столу...

I'm very interested in your hardwood supplier.

Nice table, you could have used your Shaper to cut your patch.