I turned a 2x3 stud into a serving tray, without drawing any plans.
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Watching you for six years now. Still one of the best on CZcams.
I'm a novice woodworker, and the times that I have made things without formal plans have felt like much larger achievements. Of course, when I do use plans, I use plans downloaded off the web rather than making my own. Anyway, thanks for the encouragement to just get out there and get to work on it.
Most of us start out highly reliant on other people's plans. I strongly encourage you to try making your own! It's very satisfying to want to make something and not be at the mercy of someone else's pre-existing design. You don't have to build a 3-D model to make plans. Working out the basic math on paper and then putting it to the test in the shop is fun and satisfying, especially if you're like me and HATED math in school. Even if you make mistakes along the way, you learn from them for future projects. Start planning small and simple projects like boxes made from inexpensive materials to reduce the stakes and make the mistakes more acceptable.
@@GrapplingIgnorance and if you do use someone elses plans or idea, (ive stolen lots of ideas ) fix the parts that you dont like, change the angle, make it taller or shorter.. take a good idea and make it better
I really miss your project videos. This one is sooo good. I make so many mistakes, and to see you make some of the same ones, gives me courage to try new things.
Maybe by "winging it" the Rob Wing way, more mistakes creep in. You may want to clip your wings a bit and use a pencil and paper! Question: Did your Great Grandfather invent the "wingnut"?
Keep making videos like this. You're trying new things (no plans!) and setting limitations on yourself (one construction grade 2x3!) and you seem to be having fun making videos. You know...like the old days!
"You know...like the old days!" Ditto! Finally, a woodworking video from Steve containing real content. Leave the "Shorts" to tik-tok.
I've been making long videos for months.
@@SteveRamsey if you're making long videos of content other than interviews/commentary, I guess I'm not seeing them either. 🙁
@@rem7751 I haven't posted interviews on this channel in over a year. I post lots of long form content.
@@SteveRamsey thanks for the clarification Steve. Obviously when I watch any video by you I didn't make a distinction of which channel it was coming from. I looked back at my history and see that I watched all of your project videos too (as always). And I guess in my mind I co-mingled all of that into somehow thinking you weren't making as many project videos.
The projects I've made with plans ussually turn out better but winging it is alot more fun. The tray turned out great!
I never tire of watching your videos or project content (new, old, big, or small). You've got an excellent, fun, easy, and thoughtful way to your style and channel content. I would be remiss to say I miss your regular videos as in years past. Thanks for the down-to-earth style and unfancy yet approachable way you instill confidence in us new nonexpert woodworkers. 👌
Hello emanuel, don't forget me
One of your most relatable videos for me! The fun of woodworking for me is the design challenge, working within the limits of the tools and materials on hand. That creative challenge is something I miss out on when following plans.
I'm really enjoying this "New Yankee Workshop" vibe you've taken on recently. I hope you enjoy making this type of vid as much as I enjoy watching. Thanks for posting. Thumbs way up!
It's what CZcams wants and it's way easier to make!
@@SteveRamsey Well that's a happy coincidence!
Definitely! 😃👍
Feels like the old days. I miss those days. Thanks for sharing this great video.
I'm as green as a fresh cut tree and started my first "real" project that was a horse tack trunk made with plans drawn on a piece of scrap wood. Ive noticed after watching a ton of videos from different channels that there are the same types of people no matter what job or skill set you have, there are very particular people and not so particular people and people who fall somewhere in the middle which is me and so far so good. I just started doing this for something to do in the winter (when we're not plowing snow) and now its developed into a side gig that we hit a few shows a summer.
As a hobbyist woodworker, without any particular deadlines, I love the process of building slowly, taking a step, and then considering what the next step should be. It feels like art, where something is emerging from the wood, rather than I’m just following directions. And, also, I do love following plans when there’s something specific I want. So I love that you are supporting both approaches. You have been such an inspiration on my woodworking journey- thank you!
Your safety procedures on the table saw are excellent and all hobby woodworkers should pay attention.
I love the fact that you disagree your thinking process. Lovely camera work, but also it reminds us to slow down and just ponder sometimes. Thanks steve
Awesome to see you back in the workshop Steve, you’ve been missed here. Keep more coming.
“And it’s gonna come with some challenges that I look forward to.” I love it
So glad to see you back in the shop making dust!
Love the toss back to more your old school project videos.
Thank you for leaving in the Oops! I make mistakes pretty much constantly, as I am very new to this. To see you making regular old Human mistakes at your level takes some of the sting out of my own. This enables less shame and more learning and, Steve, I appreciate you for that!!! Greatly.
I absolutely love this video, Steve. It took me back to the good old days when you made so many great projects that we amateur weekend woodworkers with limited tools and limited funds could tackle and complete. Thanks for doing another project video for us and thanks for so many projects in the past. I've made many of them. My younger daughter has several bedside tables, two closets organized ala WWMM, a paper towel holder, a coffee table and two beds that you helped me make.
Thanks again.
Sir you absolutely popped off with this one! Great job on the tray! Very nice to be reminded not everything has to be perfect!
This style of video you're posting is very enjoyable to watch and learn from.
Excellent off the cuff project video Steve! Just like the old days! 👍👍🔨🔨
It's weird how genius and foreign it feels to simply move the fence onto the left side. Great work as always!
It really does feel odd!
Sometimes the solution is right in front of you and it’s so simple you have a hard time realizing it.
@@SteveRamsey I do this all the time... I'm left handed so it feels natural to have the fence on the left. I do have to move it for some angles though.
Absolutely... I was like... oh yeah I see the problem hmm how would I fix it... and then like... oh, yeah, of course.
I really like this no plans/winging it video. I never think of recording when I'm just sort of playing around with scrap wood. Really shows your talent!
Is there any woodworker who is not subscribed to you? I think you got them all!
To reply to the notion of cad drawings of a project first. I myself, a tinkerer du garage, enjoying making it all up as I go along.
Love this, Steve! The tray looks great! I agree that sometimes just going with it and working things out on the fly can be a mind freeing experience! (It definitely helps that you use cheap construction lumber though. I wouldn't want to "wing it" with a piece of walnut. Anyway, great video, looking forward to your next one!
Gotta say I agree with the theme of this one. I have been woodworking about a decade now & made some really nice stuff, but I am always working off an idea in my head, or a sketch I made on some graph paper. Never bit the bullet on software...and I do spend a lot of time staring at boards, letting them tell me how to orient them.
One of the major challenges of a project like this is keeping the saw dust out of your coffee.........): Love your projects. I never miss a video.
I've almost exclusively winged-it, and for the most projects, my working memory makes it work. Recently I turned a shelf project into a dual (mirrored for a room corner) shelf thingy, but couldn't match the reclaimed 40mm by 40mm central post/support piece, so I decided to remake with 42*42mm stock I can get locally. After doing it initially then twice, I was pretty happy when my wife approved and ordered a second pair of shelves for the other side of the room. Being the first time I was repeating a project I confidently layed out, cut out, and fit/finished all the parts. Then I discovered that the 120mm shelves weren't 140mm shelves. I wondered why the $27 DAR pine board was $21.60 at check out, but didn't catch my mistake until final glue-up. Duh. $0.02 Loving it Steve, thought I'd share.
For those of us with small shops, I appreciate seeing you moving your equipment around to be able to use them.
Im glad you are doing project videos again. I missed these very much.
I'll give ya a thumbs-up on this one.
I love how you are always up for doing new things and using the cheapest materials to make awesome projects! Thanks for all the ideas :)
Hello mr anot,, how are u
@@Zie_carpentry Good
@@tyanot8101 thank you
I really like the style of filmmaking you are trying Steve. Talking over footage of you working, the sounds of the shop, and the natural feel to the lighting are so new and enjoyable.
I'm currently making a similar tray also with a few simple 20 degrees angles and boy is it significantly more complicated than just squares! :O Great job Steve!
Love this format! And the detailed explaining. Lovely tray!
Always enjoy seeing you in the shop. Thanks.
Another great project. So good to see another full length video again. Great demonstrations and explanations. Well done Steve.
Great work Steve. This kind of projects are so satisfying when you finish them. With only plans that you have in your head. Waiting for more videos like this.
Great to see another project video! This was fun, and had a great pace to it.
Steve it's good to see you posting some wood working video's. I kinda miss you talking in the video as opposed to a voice over. There was no sarcasm we love the witty Steve.
Shoulda watched my Halloween video lol
I loved this! Especially the staring at the boards part. I do it all the time. I keep meaning to learn sketchup. Really neat tray, too. Thank you, Steve!
My several attempts at learning Sketch Up proves that sticky notes/junk mail envelopes and pencil works the best.
Thanks for the fun project!
Good to see you build something. Enjoyed watching you build it. I also love your honesty, you are REAL.
Either with a plan or just free form, I think the results depend on your artistic vision of the completed project. I like simple and fun projects like this, Thank you Steve!
I really enjoyed seeing the problem solving you did in this video. Thanks for sharing!
I love the video. Reminds me of some of your earlier videos. I enjoy making things on the fly. Recently made a wood Christmas tree skirt/box. Tried a few different things that didn't work in the process. But my wife loved it.
Love how it turned out. Great information. Good to see you in your shop! I like the natural-looking finish also. All the best to you. Peace and Good Fortune and Good Health to you and your family.
Thanks for a detailed project. Old times. Miss them
Thanks. It's been a month!
Love it. I do a lot of my work on the fly like this. It's definitely a challenge but when your finished the results are satisfying
some of my most relaxing and rewarding times in my woodworking experiences have come from starting with a pencil drawing just sketched out. Thanks for giving this concept some air time
Excellent... Totally of the Top of your head.
Guess with you, you could say.
"I see woodworking projects !!"
❤love seeing you muck about in the garage and enjoying just (what I’d call) puttering. Good to see a project video too.
A lovely, smooth video and a delightful end product, Steve. The angle cuts with the jigsaw were pure sculpture, you went beyond the how-to-make into a more why-we-make zone.
Love the project videos. Thanks!
I really happy to see making projects on the fly. It is always a fun challenge to go back to just making and item without all of the design time! If find it refreshing to challenge myself by making something on the fly
Miss you making stuff!!!
Thanks for the build.
I think that when I was beginning my woodworking journey… I NEEDED a plan. Now that I’ve been doing it for 10 years (started with watching YOU)… I feel more comfortable creating from an idea. It’s been fun doing things both ways. There are times for both. Sometimes I just want to be creative. Sometimes I want to be productive.
Off the hip projects are awesome! You never know what you’ll come up with. Nice job.
Steve, Thank you for sharing your thinking processes. Coming from such an experienced woodworker you still demonstrate the "mere mortal-ness" in all of us. It's nice to see you in your natural element, seamlessly using all your tools without restricting yourself to the "$1000 tool list". Nicely done.
Wayne kitt 👍👍✅
I enjoy watching you create and problem solve. Doing so inspires me to do the same within my own shop. I also appreciate your leaving any mistakes made, in the video to share what you learned with us, and to remind us that everyone makes mistakes regardless of skill/experience level. I know for me, at least, coming up with a creative way of correcting my mistakes often leaves me with a greater sense of accomplishment at the end. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a serving tray to design with pencil and paper in my "project ideas," quad ruled notebook. 😁😁
I have adhd, so plans bore me, which results in substandard workmanship. I really enjoyed watching you dry-fitting oversized pieces and seeing the creative juices flowing. That's exactly how I do my best work 😎
Very much appreciate your comments regarding dimension and design. It is very freeing to let aesthetic and your eye do the measuring. I do the same with boxes I make. Great to see a woodworker that isn't loaded with high-end equipment. Well done and thanks!
I almost always shoot from the hip when making something, unless it's like cabinet doors or something with critical dimensions. However my "Sketch Up" consist of a pencil and a piece of paper. I just find it to be a lot faster to picture something in my mind and then just make it. I'm glad to see you tackle this project without plans. Keep it up. It only gets easier! Great job on the serving tray. I think I'll try one with all 4 sides angled.
It’s alt more fun to wing it I do it all the time nice job Steve
I love these project/build videos for us “mortals”. Keep them coming Steve! 😉
Thanks for showing that you can do it without plans. I enjoyed your voice over narrative and telling us what you're thinking. It looks like coffee is a necessary woodworking tool also.
By the way I enjoy reading your newsletters. Everybody should subscribe to it!!!!
Thank you! And yes, I agree about coffee.
This whole video is lovely, but wow what helpful reminders about design. Thank you for sharing!
Great project! Love the message too
great video. good to see more freeform kind of work!
Always love your project videos great watch.
i really dig your simple approach to things.
Steve I really enjoyed this latest article and the video. I do most of my builds this way. I like to start out with a general idea of what I plan to build and let it develops as I go. Thanks again for all your articles and videos, I really appreciate your style and especially your humor.
Since im trying to dip my foot in woodworking as an hobby, seeing this back to basics videos are really nice :)
Great video and project as always Steve. I think i'll give this one a go!
Thank you for saving me.
Your the best.
Woodworking Brother.
Thanks Steve, that was so much fun to watch
Thanks for the great video Steve. Very insightful and as always with your content, helpful. I can relate on so many levels.
Fantastic video and great tray Steve. I found this build so serene and peaceful to watch and especially enjoyed all the coffee sipping moments of contemplation you included. While your frequency of posts may have decreased the quality of them just seems to get even better. Thanks for all you do for the woodworking community! 🙏🏻
Thanks for finally showing some woodworking.
I don't think people are getting my videos!
It’s what attracted me to your channel in the first place: ideas for projects that we can do without a fancy shop. I can’t tell you the number of videos I’ve turned off at “jointer and planer”. I don’t have either. I’m interested in your cart and table designs. During Covid (JUST as I FINALLY had money with 6 children; I’d gone back to work at NASA) router tables became IMPOSSIBLE to find. So I have a gimpy router with the adjustment dial fallen off and no table for it. I just madly wave it in the air and hope I don’t hurt myself. I’m female and 68. You make me feel that I can continue to do woodworking by making my own tool supports. Also: we raised 6 children: 4 engineers and 2 therapists who say engineers are crazy (they aren’t wrong). One of the therapists recently began woodworking last year, primarily inspired by your videos. I am very proud. For my birthday she made me a cutting board inscribed with a set of 8 octopus arms appearing from the side, done with wood burning. I treasure it, doubly so because I love those cheesy 1950’s giant monster movies and she rolls her eyes at them. Yet made me a cutting board I love 😂
Really good video... I have missed seeing you build... thanks...
Thanks Steve!
Thanks for the video. I use pen and paper for my designs and cut lists. I've been only doing this for the last year and it helps me organize the way I approach a project.
I always love your videos. You always make it easy to understand what you were thinking and at least motivates me to keep going. Keep them coming please
Thank you!
@@SteveRamsey I also need to start using plans. Everything I build is from my head. Lol
I started watching your videos in 2016 and just started again. Really motivating me to get back into my wood shop!
Great video Steve!
What a refreshing change watching someone working with tools and materials that are within reach of us mortals! For complex projects I create a 3D CAD model, the generate drawings. For simple things I enjoy planning as I build, or working to a rough pencil sketch.
Great video! Thank you, Steve.
I really like the Steve vérité of you drinking coffee in your shop and staring at wood. In that moment you really broke down that fourth wall. I really like the end result, too.
Checking this videos for inspiration in my outdoor shop. Although it is pretty cold outside now in here.
Steve, nice looking tray. The idea of using SketchUp is a good idea. I have an associates degree in mechanical drafting from 50 years ago. I drew plans by hand on a drafting board. I presently use SketchUp Go. It allows you to change directions, dimensions easily. I make cut list with it. Saves me time, money and most importantly adds another skill set designing projects. By using the Go program I can also legally sell plans if I desire. I’m building a four gun cabinet for myself. I’ve had others look at my prospective drawings got great feed back. If someone want a six gun rack I can simply push or pull the pieces to the size I need. You can make for instance the leg of a table a component. This ban be lengthened or shortened. You can draw a mortise in it, or draw it with dowel holes by using the component. This way you can use the basic design numerous way. I print my drawing on bride white paper and put them in non glare protectors in a binder. These can be taken out of the binder brought to the shop. The stay safe, clean and can be put back into an indexed binder for further use. I usually start with a drawing on a piece of paper, then use SketchUp after. You can try the Pro version free for 30 days, or use the free version. The Go version is better than the free has better tool guide access plus you can sell plans. Jay Bates I believe has a great tutorial you can watch and see how he makes plans and cultists. I find I use less lumber, get finer built projects and can alter a design in minutes. Hope this gives you some desire to at least consider looking at SketchUp. And know I don’t sell or get anything from this comment other than helping someone learn a new skill. Have fun, stay safe and keep posting videos. Thanks, John
another great video! also, thanks for using an actual flush-cut saw and calling it a flush-cut saw! I always see people calling the regular pull saws flush-cut saws. Anyway, thanks also for your content!
I am a hobby woodworker and I build mostly furniture for myself. Steve's channel really helped me get serious with this.
I only ever do rough sketches on paper, because no plan survives contact with implementation in my shop. I just do not have the experience to know what works, what looks good, or what I want exactly.
The information necessary for detailed plans becomes available just after the project is done. 😄
a nice project piece, well done these are great
Hey Steve. My name is Hudson. I wanted to let you know that you have a pocketful of amazing talents. Your projects are incredible and I don’t ever wanted to see you stop. Keep it up. You’re doing awesome!
Thanks Steve. Such an enjoyable video to watch. I find myself staring at boards a lot! I enjoy the just winging it sometimes, but I never liked admitting it until now. Fun project. Great looking tray.
An alternative (and somewhat simple) solution to the boards with the grooves cut all the way through would be to rabbet the edge to the depth of the groove to accept the profile of the end pieces. Additionally, it might give a little extra strength to the joint over a butt, but might not be the look you were going for.
Since I don't have a router, that's a solution I'm able to accomplish on some of my work with just my table saw.
Oh, and I really enjoyed this video! Thanks!
As always love your work!