Many thanks for making these videos. You have a great manner with your demonstrators, getting them to explain the processes so well, and asking the questions we'd like to ask ourselves.
Love to see these long form documentaries. Thanks again for this video in particular and your service to the woodworking community generally over the years!
You are very kind Josh, it was a real honour for me to able to spend time with Richard and document this (unfortunately) dying skill. At the very least this video encapsulates Richard at work and also the myriad of other craftspeople i've been grateful to collaborate with over the years. Stay blessed my man ~Peace~
Thank you very very much Zed for this fantastic video. I think it's the most touching testimony you've ever given on this channel. Thank you for being able to document and share the last traditional skills of a sustainable economy.
I sincerely appreciate your kind words and for the support of these videos. Finding time to film these is always difficult due to me working for myself full-time outside of this channel, however I strive to film as much as I can and especially with craftsmen like Richard who have a lifetime of knowledge. Take care my friend and thank you once again ~Peace~
The skills Richard is demonstrating are brilliant. He clearly knows how all the materials work together and he takes personal pride in what he produces. I particularly liked his technique for softening the seven willow boards. Thanks for recording this Zed. I enjoyed it immensely.
I sincerely appreciate your kind words and for watching Andrew. Indeed, it's all the little things Richard does that demonstrated just how long he's been doing this. Not to mention the myriad of cool things he had in his workshop that would have required another video ~Peace~
Thank you Zed. These long form videos are the antithesis of what CZcams and other video apps strive for, but i love them. I doubt they're money makers for you, but I hope your work becomes your legacy, preserving dying skills for generations to come.
Hi Alistair, thank you for your kind words and for watching. Indeed, these long format videos are not for everyone, especially with platforms like CZcams rewarding short attention spans. That being said and something you mentioned, my focus is to capture as much of these dying skills as possible in the hopes we preserve the lifetime of skills makers like Richard possess ~Peace~
Well done Zed! Thank you for documenting these crafts and the people who practice them. It’s a pleasure to watch and there is nothing like the sound of a sharp tool taking a shaving of wood.
Almost 2 hours of pure traditional talent ! Thanks to Richard and you ! I love how he comment every step, we can tell that he is involved in this video, sharing all the process with you and us. And a special mention to his use of the drawknife, a tool that I really love restoring and using ! Got here a new suscriber !
You are very kind and indeed, I am extremely grateful that Richard allowed me to document his entire process that he's taken decades to develop ~Peace~
Great to see this recorded for posterity. It's a good illustration of the generational knowledge that's lost as a 2nd Order Effect of things people supported, never imagining that it'd cost them so much. Somehow, people made their own land so horribly expensive to operate in that it's now more economical to have something made on the other side of the world and shipped halfway across the globe to a shelf on the corner store rather than by a gentleman right down the road. Imagine that! And it's happened in just my lifetime. Everyone talks about the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back, but never the million straws that came before it. Please keep up with these wonderful documentaries. I always tell folks that culture is the collection of a million little things you do every day, that set you apart from 'the other', and this is a marvelous example of just that. Regional craftsmanship made by regional craftsmen using regional materials, and every piece just a little different from the next. This is what makes your culture, but if you don't support it.... it dies on the vine. As the good man notes, there were once dozens or hundreds making trugs, and now there are but a scant handful.
I found myself nodding in agreement with everything you have written and am always left with mixed emotions when filming with makers like Richard. On the one hand i'm excited to see them at work and to capture their vast knowledge on video so as to share it with a wider audience. On the other i'm saddened to see that we really do run a risk of skills like this being lost. All I can do is my little bit in preserving what i can and bring makers like Richard to the light. Appreciate your support and for taking the time to comment, it really is appreciated ~Peace~
@@Zedoutdoors You're doing a very good thing with these videos. Take heart, and remember that all of these changed occurred, basically, within my lifetime. That means they can be fixed in a single lifetime. If we can get more people aware of the costs of things they support, those dreaded 2nd and 3rd Order Effects, we can start righting the ship. I won't say it'll be easy, or fun, but it is important. The homogenization of mass production is bad enough, but when you make your own lands so terribly hostile to small businesses through taxes and regulations, policies and laws, it's rather self-evident that it isn't a good thing for the people of the land. Now it's just a matter of opening eyes, and your documentaries will play a crucial role in that endeavor.
Superb informative video indeed and something I'm totally not familiar with, wow... Thnaks Zed and I sure hope you will keep making these sorts of video's for all to enjoy. Well worth the bag of popcorn to sit back and take all this in....:)) I love the sounds of a sharp tool!!
Thanks for yet another enjoyable and informative video Zed. I've been very lucky to make two trugs on Richards APT&GW member's courses which are mentioned in the video. Thanks Richard and Zed.
Great video! Love the trugs and a great how to! The examples are outstanding, never seen a square one before and that needlework trug is inspiring. It makes me wonder if I had found one in an antique shop and passed up on it like an idiot not knowing it was what it was! Now I will keep my eye out and hopefully try it out.
If it makes you feel any better, I also recall passing on an opportunity to buy an antique trug many moons ago because I simply didn't understand/appreciate the work behind it! ~Peace~
Great, thank you. I made a shave horse very similar years ago. I noticed the anvil is an iron held upside down in the vise. I wish drawknife sharpening was shown.
This is a fascinating video Zed! Richard is certainly a highly skilled craftsman. I'm going to mention this video in the next episode of Wood Carving Weekly.
I sincerely appreciate your kind words Jack and for the mention in your upcoming video. Indeed Richard is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to woodworking and the use of hand tools ~Peace~
Wow - I've got a sweet chestnut that has to come out (itll ultimately be FAR too big). I'll try and bodge a bit of a trug out of it I think... It'll be terrible, but I MIGHT be able to use it 😂
You should most definitely give it a go Alison and do let me know how you get on. You may recall Richard talking about a gentleman in New Zealand who figured out how to make one all by himself and by trial and error. Hopefully this video provides you with the overall process along with some caveats inbetween ~Peace~
I think your viewerbase and the easy-to-assess quality of the content of the videos mean you don't need to have those fashionable clickbaitey thumbnails. They feel somewhat patronising to me, and I appreciate when youtubers don't follow that trend.
@@Zedoutdoors I'm just one opinion, possibly very much an outlier, so perhaps others might feel differently. In any case, I've appreciated all content I've watched from you, this wouldn't deter me from watching anything of yours I'm interested in.
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You're doing some important work Zed documenting these crafts, thank you
You are very kind my friend thank you ~Peace~
Many thanks for making these videos. You have a great manner with your demonstrators, getting them to explain the processes so well, and asking the questions we'd like to ask ourselves.
I sincerely appreciate your kind words and for watching Brian, thank you ~Peace~
Love to see these long form documentaries. Thanks again for this video in particular and your service to the woodworking community generally over the years!
and of course thank you to Richard for sharing his wisdom & knowledge
You are very kind Josh, it was a real honour for me to able to spend time with Richard and document this (unfortunately) dying skill. At the very least this video encapsulates Richard at work and also the myriad of other craftspeople i've been grateful to collaborate with over the years. Stay blessed my man ~Peace~
Thank you very very much Zed for this fantastic video. I think it's the most touching testimony you've ever given on this channel. Thank you for being able to document and share the last traditional skills of a sustainable economy.
I sincerely appreciate your kind words and for the support of these videos. Finding time to film these is always difficult due to me working for myself full-time outside of this channel, however I strive to film as much as I can and especially with craftsmen like Richard who have a lifetime of knowledge. Take care my friend and thank you once again ~Peace~
The skills Richard is demonstrating are brilliant. He clearly knows how all the materials work together and he takes personal pride in what he produces. I particularly liked his technique for softening the seven willow boards. Thanks for recording this Zed. I enjoyed it immensely.
I sincerely appreciate your kind words and for watching Andrew. Indeed, it's all the little things Richard does that demonstrated just how long he's been doing this. Not to mention the myriad of cool things he had in his workshop that would have required another video ~Peace~
Thank you Zed. These long form videos are the antithesis of what CZcams and other video apps strive for, but i love them.
I doubt they're money makers for you, but I hope your work becomes your legacy, preserving dying skills for generations to come.
Hi Alistair, thank you for your kind words and for watching. Indeed, these long format videos are not for everyone, especially with platforms like CZcams rewarding short attention spans. That being said and something you mentioned, my focus is to capture as much of these dying skills as possible in the hopes we preserve the lifetime of skills makers like Richard possess ~Peace~
Well done Zed! Thank you for documenting these crafts and the people who practice them. It’s a pleasure to watch and there is nothing like the sound of a sharp tool taking a shaving of wood.
Amen to that my friend, amen! ~Peace~
Seen. This. Done. In Sussex cottage. Industry. Very neat. Process. !!
Yep, has a long history in Sussex and it's wonderful to see makers like Richard carrying it on ~Peace~
Fantastic video.
You are very kind thank you ~Peace~
Almost 2 hours of pure traditional talent ! Thanks to Richard and you ! I love how he comment every step, we can tell that he is involved in this video, sharing all the process with you and us.
And a special mention to his use of the drawknife, a tool that I really love restoring and using !
Got here a new suscriber !
Indeed Richard is a walking encyclopedia and an absolute wealth of knowledge. I sincerely appreciate your kind words and for the connection ~Peace~
Amazing work ! Thank you for documenting this and thank to him for sharing all this !
You are very kind and indeed, I am extremely grateful that Richard allowed me to document his entire process that he's taken decades to develop ~Peace~
The man doesn’t look like a day over 65!!
ha! he's more active then blokes half his age :) ~Peace~
That was amazing. Thank you Zed.
Gracias Andrea, Richard is a wealth of knowledge and his workshop was amazing to spend time in ~Peace~
Great to see this recorded for posterity. It's a good illustration of the generational knowledge that's lost as a 2nd Order Effect of things people supported, never imagining that it'd cost them so much. Somehow, people made their own land so horribly expensive to operate in that it's now more economical to have something made on the other side of the world and shipped halfway across the globe to a shelf on the corner store rather than by a gentleman right down the road. Imagine that! And it's happened in just my lifetime. Everyone talks about the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back, but never the million straws that came before it.
Please keep up with these wonderful documentaries. I always tell folks that culture is the collection of a million little things you do every day, that set you apart from 'the other', and this is a marvelous example of just that. Regional craftsmanship made by regional craftsmen using regional materials, and every piece just a little different from the next. This is what makes your culture, but if you don't support it.... it dies on the vine. As the good man notes, there were once dozens or hundreds making trugs, and now there are but a scant handful.
I found myself nodding in agreement with everything you have written and am always left with mixed emotions when filming with makers like Richard. On the one hand i'm excited to see them at work and to capture their vast knowledge on video so as to share it with a wider audience. On the other i'm saddened to see that we really do run a risk of skills like this being lost. All I can do is my little bit in preserving what i can and bring makers like Richard to the light. Appreciate your support and for taking the time to comment, it really is appreciated ~Peace~
@@Zedoutdoors You're doing a very good thing with these videos. Take heart, and remember that all of these changed occurred, basically, within my lifetime. That means they can be fixed in a single lifetime. If we can get more people aware of the costs of things they support, those dreaded 2nd and 3rd Order Effects, we can start righting the ship.
I won't say it'll be easy, or fun, but it is important. The homogenization of mass production is bad enough, but when you make your own lands so terribly hostile to small businesses through taxes and regulations, policies and laws, it's rather self-evident that it isn't a good thing for the people of the land. Now it's just a matter of opening eyes, and your documentaries will play a crucial role in that endeavor.
Wonderful...Thanks for sharing this...!!!
You are very kind Jay thank you ~Peace~
So interesting!!!
Isn't it just ~Peace~
Superb informative video indeed and something I'm totally not familiar with, wow... Thnaks Zed and I sure hope you will keep making these sorts of video's for all to enjoy. Well worth the bag of popcorn to sit back and take all this in....:)) I love the sounds of a sharp tool!!
Sincerely appreciate your kind words and indeed, up till a few years ago I wasn't aware of the Trug and the history behind it! ~Peace~
This is amazing!
Isn't it just, Richard was a delight to spend time with ~Peace~
His trugs are so beautiful. Art.
Aren't they just, and he makes the process of crafting them look so effortless ~Peace~
A thing of beauty. Many thanks.
Thank you so much for watching ~Peace~
Thanks for yet another enjoyable and informative video Zed. I've been very lucky to make two trugs on Richards APT&GW member's courses which are mentioned in the video. Thanks Richard and Zed.
All credit goes to you and Andrew for facilitating this collaboration, for that i am very grateful ~Peace~
@@Zedoutdoors peace and blessed days.
Good show, cheers Zed
Thank you kindly my friend ~Peace~
Cool
Thank you kindly Cedric ~Peace~
Great video! Love the trugs and a great how to! The examples are outstanding, never seen a square one before and that needlework trug is inspiring. It makes me wonder if I had found one in an antique shop and passed up on it like an idiot not knowing it was what it was! Now I will keep my eye out and hopefully try it out.
If it makes you feel any better, I also recall passing on an opportunity to buy an antique trug many moons ago because I simply didn't understand/appreciate the work behind it! ~Peace~
beautiful.
Thank you kindly ~Peace~
Great video.
Thank you kindly ~Peace~
Great, thank you. I made a shave horse very similar years ago. I noticed the anvil is an iron held upside down in the vise. I wish drawknife sharpening was shown.
Appreciate your kind words and I hope to be filming a video on sharpening drawknives later in the year, so stay tuned ~Peace~
This is a fascinating video Zed! Richard is certainly a highly skilled craftsman. I'm going to mention this video in the next episode of Wood Carving Weekly.
I sincerely appreciate your kind words Jack and for the mention in your upcoming video. Indeed Richard is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to woodworking and the use of hand tools ~Peace~
@@Zedoutdoors My pleasure Zed, happy to share!
Wow - I've got a sweet chestnut that has to come out (itll ultimately be FAR too big). I'll try and bodge a bit of a trug out of it I think... It'll be terrible, but I MIGHT be able to use it 😂
You should most definitely give it a go Alison and do let me know how you get on. You may recall Richard talking about a gentleman in New Zealand who figured out how to make one all by himself and by trial and error. Hopefully this video provides you with the overall process along with some caveats inbetween ~Peace~
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Thank you so much ~Peace~
Watched. Gypsies. Making. Clothes. Pegs. From. Hazel. Basic but last. For. Many years. !
Indeed yes I have seen that process and it wonderful to witness ~Peace~
I think your viewerbase and the easy-to-assess quality of the content of the videos mean you don't need to have those fashionable clickbaitey thumbnails. They feel somewhat patronising to me, and I appreciate when youtubers don't follow that trend.
Point taken, was just trying something different time around. many thanks for watching and for the feedback ~Peace~
@@Zedoutdoors I'm just one opinion, possibly very much an outlier, so perhaps others might feel differently. In any case, I've appreciated all content I've watched from you, this wouldn't deter me from watching anything of yours I'm interested in.