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- Making a new mailbox post for the house this is timber-framed from 6"X6" reclaimed barn timbers. next week we will be working on all the finishing details and putting it in the ground. this is all hand tool woodworking. we will be using several timber framing tools. the beam drill, the slick, and a large corner chisel.
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My old mailbox of 26 years was in bad shape, so I resolved to replace it -- a resolution long overdue.
Inspired by your video, I made a timber frame mailbox post using a 6 x 6 and a 4 x 6 of treated lumber. I chopped the mortises and carved vines and leaves on the sides of the upright post. I fitted the cross piece into its through mortise and cut cloud-lift patterns on each end. After setting the post, I wedged the tenoned cross piece in with a "tusk" of well-oiled 3/4" white oak.
I finished the post by staining the post black and the vines & leaves forest green. After I attached a nice new mailbox selected by my wife (such choices being well above my rank), I stood back to admire the new mailbox. The timber frame design is attractive and rock solid. The carving is unique, distinctive, and appealing.
I am very happy with it. Further, it has been fully approved by my family, by the neighbors, and by our postal carrier. Sweet!
Thanks for the video!!!
Isn't working wood a blast...I love everything about it.
so true!
I don’t know who your camera person is, but they are very good, and they don’t get the praise they deserve in the comments.
Yet another brilliant video.
thanks Mark I will tell Luke you said that. he runs Fuzion videos. does amazing work.
thank you
Nice project. I like that you even got the mail truck in the background around 13:15 into the video!
LOL she stopped and talked with me about it. LOL
There is only one thing that surprised me about this build: no carving. I was expecting you to cover it in Celtic weave. LOL. Nice work James.
the carving will be int he next one. I will be carving the address sign to hang off the back!
nice corner chisel, love that old wood, plus cedar is just neat stuff.
so true. It smells fantastic!
Feliz Navidad?? Where did that come from? 😆😆😆
Nice video, once again, with few boring bits...
LOL thanks!
Love the timber framing! If the backyard "needs" it, maybe a gazebo type building would be a cool project. That hole that you kept, you could use that for the red flag for the mail box.
fun Idea with the flag!
Cant wait to see the mail box your putting on it
I just got it in. all copper!
@@WoodByWrightHowTo sounds like it nice I'll take a pic of the one I made for my mom and email to you
Beautiful tools ! That wood must have been a joy to work with too ! Just a suggestion. This structure had several components. How about starting out with an "outline graphic" drawn on a sheet of paper. Then just before you're shown working on each major component, showing the graphic with that component shaded in ? Then we'll always be sure of what part that you're working on ?
Onto building timber-framed structures. We have many over here in England, going back several hundred years. Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway ( 1555 to 1623 ), not the actress, lived in one at Stratford-Upon-Avon, and it is still standing ! One technique that the builders used was to sequentially number each beam with a chisel, using Roman numerals - so you HAVE to do THAT ! Not just from front to back, but also from side to side. Yes, you MUST have a go at that ! Make a scale model first of what you're going to build !
Yes, another great video - I'm not QUITE sure who was singing at the end, but mabye be a bit more practise is called for - or more "refreshments" ?
thanks. I have wanted to ad animations of the components,b ut the time that requires is just not feasible right now. if it becomes so in the future or someone is willing to help with that I will add them for sure. Thansk Phil
Will that finish be enough to prevent the wood from rotting in the ground? Or will you do more to the bottom?
with concrete it will be fine. it will last as long as treated wood.
Awesome work James! 😃👍🏻👊🏻
thanks Fred!
I made a similar design but only had cedar 4x4 post, designed to pop apart when hit, so far, 2 super bright yellow mailboxes down at 2 different homes.... but the posts pop right back in.... lol also like yours, no power tools.... Hence the reason for 2 locations, 1st was a rental i lived at for 7 years and 2nd is the new purchase of a 18 year old home.
Looking forward to seeing the sealing process.
Used Disney glow in the dark and clear coat 1st time. That was stripped after a short time. Was NOT easy to see at night
thanks Richard. sounds like a good design!
Dang mailbox baseball players.😲
wow , nicely done .👍
thanks man!
Big butch woodwork you’ve got to love it.
Thanks James! Nice Post. Now I know why you wear wooden shoes! (12:19)
LOL they don't just look good!
Protective foot wear. LOL
Great gobs of goose poop, Batman. That is one major post post. I love that you caught the mail delivery truck in the back ground for part of the outro. She's going to be a beast. Will you cut the hole for the post, in the dirt, with a drill, chisel, auger, or what?
P.S. 6th view, 1st like, 1st comment.
Congrats on first man!
So James, you posted a post about making a post for the post?
LOL yup!
Is that a mailbox post or a gallows? Nice job either way. 😆
Read some less than complimentary reviews on so called penetrating epoxy as compared to standard boat building epoxies. Very little was absorbed by weight and no additional strength was found. Granted the review was done by West Systems so maybe tainted. I'm waiting for SV Nanji to complete her Indian Ocean passage for real life review, Tosh and Bonita used it extensively in repairing the cockpit sole recently along with West System build up overlay and various types of cloth and mat. Unless Thompson's has radically changed the formulation I've found it a waste of time and money.
I think that is because penitrating epoxy is misunderstood. it does not actualy penitrate that much. not sure why they used that name. it reallt only goses in as far as a light coat of BLO. the big benefit is that it fills the poors. so water can not get in. and it does not just sit on the surface so you do not get the glossy look like from other epoxies.
For some time I've kinda primed with 50/50 spar varnish/mineral spirits on softwood, several times on end grain. So far Oklahoma hasn't eaten the posts I've treated that way. Been known to poor a bottle of bleach in the hole hoping to retard the fungi.