How I Get Old Nails to Hold Again in Old Wood | Engels Coach Shop
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- The goal in this shepherd's wagon restoration is to use original wood and fixtures whenever possible. This kitchen cupboard is mostly there, but falling apart so I'm going to reuse everything I can to hold it together again. Thanks for coming along!
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I always thought I pulled and reused nails because I was cheap. Now I know that I do it to preserve history.
You mean everyone doesn't do that?
Preserving your dignity at the same time...
Even new nails the same size would be loose in that old dried out wood.
@@gbwildlifeuk8269 The glue he uses would prevent that adding the toothpick fills the loose holes...I do it with wooden Qtips and it worked great. Think outside your box.
I don't comprehend how a nail head (the only part seen after re-insertion) can "preserve history." Sorry guys. It just doesn't make sense to me. I would call it being miserly (not a criticism, just penny-pinching).
I learn so many neat tricks watching you work. Please keep making these videos for a long long time!
Clever way to reuse nails ..another great idea to stick in my mental tool box...
You do a great job in editing to get the background music just the right volume without it being intrusive nor distracting.😊
I,ve used toothpicks to tighten screws, but never thought about using them on nails. THAK YOU!!
I have used match sticks for screws too, also not thought to use them for screws.
Ditto
Thak yew two
I also, have made use of the toothpick, the glue was something I had never considered. Thank you for this tip and so many others!
Thank you for posting 👍🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸
Once again thanks for the video.
The toothpicks are genius. I fix a lot of old hive boxes and will be trying that trick instead of making more holes!
In larger holes, bamboo chop sticks work well too.
The Master Craftsman demonstrated, professionally, the fine art of restoring a vintage treasure of national heritage, recycling and using the same original materials. This is , definitely, a workmanship of preservation national arts😊
Amazing work. NOT a resoration, but a preservation. The care taken to keep it all looking old and worn is an art.
I watched a documentary about the Oseberg ship restorations some time ago, preservation of the brittle wood with solidifying solutions and so on. This work gives sort of same knd of vibes, archeologist preserving the decaying history of sheep herders, some probably desendants of those Oseberg vikings.👍😊
Dave watching you and your craftsmanship is better than watching anything on PBS!
History preserved, originality retained, functionality restored, mission achieved, satisfaction guaranteed. Congratulations
@dwansbo , You nailed it . Pun intended
Yes, but for how long until its a mass of fully rotten boards and not the half rotten boards they are now
I like to use wood kitchen matches
The magician is at it again. Thank you for allowing me to follow along! God Bless you and Mrs. Engels.
You'd never know you'd fixed it up, which was the whole point. Excellent as ever. Cheers
Nice restoration. Sometimes is nicer to keep old wood.
Gotta love that wonder bar
When filling a crack with glue, use a shop vac on the other side to pull the glue into the crack.
Great suggestion , tried it on an old greenhouse I rebuilt . Works a treat 👍🏴
Thomas Johnson, eat your heart out. Incredible craftsmen both!
That's funny! I just finished watching a Thomas Johnson video!
Good work, I enjoy watching everything you do.
Your making great progress on the two vehicles you have going. Fun to see the contrast of the desired outcomes.
Along time ago when I was a pinball repairman we used toothpicks and glue to fill in holes where screws and posts had come loose on the playfield. Great to see that it works for nails too. Before that I spent 3 summers working up Rock Creek in Red Lodge in the old pea cannery (all the way from Minnesota). I love the beauty of the area.
Good enough is good enough for a static display piece.
Curious to see the stove and how it’s secured. 👍
Looks great and is probably going to look better when you’re done.😉👍
Good save nice to see to preserve history 👍 love your timber skills cheers ❤️🙏🙏😀🔨🪚🧰👍👍
I hope your customer appreciates the work and craftsmanship that has gone into this restoration. I am always amazed by your talent. Thanks for sharing.
you have an amaizing assortment of tools makes me jealous , i see a large amount of old spreaders and old english farm equipment when i go in the country but the young always throw them out , but i use some of your tricks also and some my dad taught me like cutting the point off a nail so it didn,t split the wood and i have a tool for getting buried nails out and a few other weird and wonderful things but no one wants to know about them anymore i think that,s what makes your show so interesting . all the best terry
I’m just starting to repair my Grandfathers wooden tool box from the 20’s or 30’s and this video is exactly what I needed for techniques. Thanks!
Idea for glue in cracks vacuum cleaner from the other side works great
The materials and technology for restoring vintage arts is in abundance. But , really, what missing is the will and intention.
My dad was a carpenter and he taut me the toothpick trick many years ago. Works for screws, too. It was great to see it here. a real pleasent memory
I enjoy watching the way you restore the pieces, and how you reassemble them to their original form. I also enjoy the background music. Stay safe.
Thanks for sharing. I really wish all the old wood was scraped. But I’m not paying the bills. : )
Nice preservation and video too!❤
thanks for sharing
AMAZING! A person could easily believe that cabinet hadn't had anything wrong with it!
I suspect a growing respect for nails in this project. A mastery of preservation, I am so glad the world has people who give a damn about preserving the past so beautifully.
There is going to be some good grub coming out of that fancy kitchen.
Honorable mention for using both ends of the toothpick. I tend to use splinters; both for picking teeth and filling up rotten holes.
Thanks Dave. Good job.
Thanks Dave. You're an antidote to the modern World. 🇬🇧🇬🇧
The toothpick trick works great, I used it the other day to rebuild the table in my sheepwagon. Thanks!
Really enjoyed the work you do
How you piece this stuff back together really fascinates me. Thank you for sharing.
Good save !!!
Tooth picks for nails and match sticks for screws.
Works a treat.
Thank you Dave. I have enjoyed your channel for a long time!
Thank you for watching!
Great idea for the toothpicks.
I've seen a lot of salvaged parts and pieces but I believe you have successfully pulled out all the stops on the cupboard restoration, my hats off to you🤗😎🤗😎
G'day,
Well done !
I've used Toothpicks & Glue to
Re-Sleeve the Bore of countless Wooden Holes in which
Screws have been overtightened, and cut them too oversized for the Screw's Thread to ever again, otherwise, bite into....; but I've rarely done the stunt on
Old Nails in loose tired Holes, and never on anything half as dilapidated as that old
Pantry...
An inspirational Video, indeed !
Thanks for posting it.
Have a good one,
Stay safe.
;-p
Ciao !
For larger screw holes and such I use golf tees and glue they work great!!
Your way of making it work is very good I like it. The adventure continues. Have fun.
Great job on the cabinet rebuild. I have used wooden matches to help firm up oversized screw holes before but really like the toothpick in the nail hole trick. Thank you for sharing with us.
Going very well thanks
Lotsa little tips and tricks in this restoration. I've used golf tees when I had them, whittled plugs and such for screws, it never occurred to me to use a wood filler stick for a wallowed out nail hole. With pneumatic nail guns and now cordless it was rarely needed to redo a nail hole. An appropriately sized wood dowel and old school pencil sharpener makes great screw hole plugs quickly. Thanks Dave.
Now I kinda wish I had kept that small old falling apart German wooden wagon from the 30's or 40's. Watching the Shepard wagon and manure spreader revival, I probably could have saved that old wagon. Maybe the fellow I gave it to has meanwhile brought it back to life... but I'll probably never know.
Every time I watch this project, I keep saying to myself , , , , "The customer is always right"
As long as the customer understands the three options. Good, Fast, Cheap, pick any two.
@@keith0alan Oh hell, there will be nothing cheap about this project. He's spending twice as long messing with that old wood. As far as good, this will never be anything but a static display. Fast , , , , lol
The customer wants a display piece, not a usable wagon, so it should be fine for that.
Hard to nail 'em when ya got old wood !
Good restoration.
I know why I can't hammer in nails like you without missing, Dave. It's because I don't have a hammer like that.
Looks like a farriers shoeing hammer...
Especially when that hammer has the tiniest head of all hammers.. :D If you drill a hole first, you don't have to try to hit the nail so hard/use a heavy hammer. Accuracy gets better by itself.
Perhaps you need to adjust the sights on your hammer? 😂
@@keithhaycraft3765 I tried that. Hammered myself in the foot. ;)
So Dave, where did you get that hammer?
Great job Dave, liked the way you used the toothpick to fatten the hole. That does preserve the pantry or cupboard for the sheepherders wagon. You did an excellent job really. Thanks for sharing with us. Fred.
Hi Dave I learnt a similar method from my father and father in law using matchsticks. I always keep matches handy even when I get a screw hole that's worn 1 or 2 in the hole and it's good to go again. Great video as always from Adelaide Australia
Good for 100 years more
I can really appreciate the matching and reuse of the weathered boards. I also like to see the use of C clamps on almost all your work. I have some and use them sometimes, but the newer squeeze clamps sure are handy and quick. Thanks for the video.
I have collected a wide variety of clamps for woodworking. Screw clamps ("C" clamps and "F" style clamps) sometimes loosen up under vibration, as when using a saber saw, and they get looser as the glue squeezes out, but you can apply more pressure. Spring clamps stay tight as the glue squeezes out, but the amount of pressure is very limited, not adjustable, unless you add a thicker pad under them. Bar clamps are great for more pressure, but awkward in many applications. Squeeze clamps also apply a limited amount of pressure, but they are handy for getting things stabilized. The clamps I use the most are the Jorgensen pattern "F" style, which are quickly adjustable, but have screws for good pressure, and are available in many useful lengths, depths and weights. The most important thing I know about clamps is that you never have too many!
I have never used toothpicks before for reinforcing screw or nail holes but have used wooden matches before which have always worked quite well.
Really enjoy the videos. Thanks for sharing your world with us.
I use kitchen match sticks (with the heads broken off) instead of toothpicks if the holes are too big. 💖🌞🌵😷
Excellent job
Those are some pretty good tricks for recovering stability. Here for historical purposes, but you never know when someone will be happy to know these tricks because they're making do with what they've got.
Very good work Dave! Thanks!
I appreciate you sharing your vast restoration skills with us.
Well done, again!
I use bamboo skewers instead of toothpicks.
They are fatter, longer, and far stronger.
Love the toothpick trick. Use it all the time! Sometimes, we use matchsticks without the ends! Wonderful work you sure do!!
Toothpick shims! Great idea! I suspect that flaking white paint inside the old cabinet is white lead pigment. I hear it adds sweetness to whatever it is added to! Thanks for another great video!
In those days nothing was fancy is just had to function, I've been to similar situations and survived and I miss it sometimes.
Great idea!
I appreciate your range of talents , skills , from the precision wagon wheel to nailing together albeit with care and attention, a shepherds parlour . Fascinatyas always 👍🇬🇧
great tip with toothpicks!❤
That really turned out nicer than I thought it would. Thanks for sharing, have a great weekend. Charles
Matchsticks (large and small) work great on loose screw holes. Toothpicks are birch -- pretty hard -- but matchsticks tend to be softer aspen, poplar, and even spruce, and handle screw teeth better.
Wonderful!
Yay! Ive been using toothpicks since i was 12. It works great. Except concrete, then i use zip ties.
Cheers, Dave. I've used toothpicks since I was in high school and none of my work has ever loosened up!
I remember watching Homer Formby using match sticks to repair screw holes in furniture when I was a kid. Somehow I never thought to use toothpicks in nail holes. It is the same basic idea, just a different take on it.
Reminds me of the “lipstick on a pig” deal, but it’s very neat the way you kept the old appearances, but greatly strengthened the remains! Kudos!
😂 remains is about right. I'm really struggling to understand this project, its a lot of work and no doubt money for something that may look pretty and original but is intrinsically rotten.
Здраствуй у нас как говорят ломать не строить а так все хорошо получается что сказать хорошего здоровья успехов вам Нижний Новгород Юра
Very nice,great video.continue on doing what you do best.👍👍👍😎😎😎
Dave, I'd trust your rebuilt 'solid' Over most of today's new home construction. Your work on this cabinet would, even under use, outlast most of today's basic home structures.
They say it isn't possible, but Dave has managed to shine sh_t.
А надо мной смеялись, когда я говорил, что в отверстия от гвоздей можно вставить зубочистки😄. Как всегда, отличная работа, Дейв! Я рад тому, что ты используешь старое дерево в этом видео.
More great work from a master Craftsman
Thanks for bringing us along! Nice episode!
My dad worked as a carpenter in the late 40's and early 50's before he joined the Navy. He hung doors and installed windows. He taught me the tooth pick trick just a few years ago when I needed it. I wish I had known it a long time ago. I'm glad to see you doing it too.
Looken good, stay safe and we'll see you next time.
Thanks Dave
Ahha! The old toothpick in the hole trick. It has served me well over the years.
I appreciate you
When the get going git's tough, the tough get going!😁
Ive had a few long and deep checks in mesquite that I needed to glue shut much like you are doing here. The real long and deep ones I found using the ol shop vac on the back side really helped draw glue way down and in some cases through the crack and glued up nicely.