The first episode of the new season is online. The road trips at the beginning are gone (thankfully). I expected there to be more focus on hand tools but the very first tool used is a benchtop mortiser followed by a tablesaw. Sound quality is excellent, lighting and camera angles are excellent, video resolution is low. I like that he jumps right into the project without spending 1/3 the episode milling stock or explaining safety. New sponsors include SCM and Felder.
The first episode of the new season is online. The road trips at the beginning are gone (thankfully). I expected there to be more focus on hand tools but the very first tool used is a benchtop mortiser followed by a tablesaw. Sound quality is excellent, lighting and camera angles are excellent, video resolution is low. I like that he jumps right into the project without spending 1/3 the episode milling stock or explaining safety. New sponsors include SCM and Felder.
Thanks. I just watched the episode where he built a Shaker table.
One question: he used screws to attach the top which was made up of two boards glued together. With screws holding the top all around its perimeter would it be unable to expand and shrink and eventually just crack?
It's a pretty narrow table, so probably not a big deal compared to a 40" wide dining table. He may have drilled oversized holes and they just didn't mention it.
I saw an article by Christian Becksvoort
where he glued a solid pine bottom into
a 12" wide box. You could look it up. He's
an authority on shaker stuff and has looked
at a lot of antiques so he might have a good
idea where you really have to pay attention
to wood movement.
Theoretically most woods can move up to
1/4" seasonally over 12" width, but in climate
controlled homes I'm not sure if the humidity
fluctuations are enough to make it move that
much.
You can get these pan head screws that are
useful for fronts on drawer boxes because
the hole can be drilled up to about 5/16" and
the shank can move around in the hole. Adding
washers and drilling a larger hole can make the
adjustment range even greater. I've never
found making elongated holes to be anything
but a hassle. Sometimes it must be done but
I try to do it another way if I can.
Looks good. I like his style, and the hybrid approach. The irony of replacing One T Mac with T Mc is inescapable. Is that recorded in the same studio? Is that why Tommy moved out?
The SCM table saw and Felder bandsaw are definitely not hobby tools, but he demonstrates using them in a familiar way: sled on the slider and shop made tennon and taper jigs. I cringed a little when he free handed the 45s on the tennons.
wrenchhead, it's broadcast early saturday morning on public television in my neck of the woods.
Woodknack, have you heard why he was fired? I know I found his shows lacked the detail of New Yankee Workshop, but comparing anyone to Norm is not fair. I like a little bit of a road trip from time to time, to get some perspective on the project, but maybe Tommy over did it.
Most of you know that Tommy MacDonald was fired from Rough Cut and Tom McLaughlin was hired as his replacement. The first episode of the new season is online. The road trips at the beginning are gone (thankfully). I expected there to be more focus on hand tools but the very first tool used is a benchtop mortiser followed by a tablesaw. Sound quality is excellent, lighting and camera angles are excellent, video resolution is low. I like that he jumps right into the project without spending 1/3 the episode milling stock or explaining safety. New sponsors include SCM and Felder.
Yeah, I've searched around and haven't found anything definitive that says he was fired. Sounds more like just a parting of ways.
The first new Rough Cut didn't really impress me. The curved front cabinet was pretty impressive though. I'm still put off by those tools like that Felder saw that I'll never own.
I'm not a huge fan of the host either, but I wasn't a Tommy Mac fan either. The old Woodworks show with David Marks was more my style.
Let me rephrase, he left the show unwillingly. I would call it fired but you call it what you want. He wasn't allowed to give any details, NDA, but it was clear from the emotional videos he released right after that it wasn't something he wanted.
Let me rephrase, he left the show unwillingly. I would call it fired but you call it what you want. He wasn t allowed to give any details, NDA, but it was clear from the emotional videos he released right after that it wasn t something he wanted.
I guess I'm curious about the Felder. He does not showcase it in episode 1, but of course he uses it and they are a sponsor. I remember Norm's first episodes of NYWS. He used a Shopsmith with the logo plates covered with tape because they could not come to terms on a sponsorship. Norm did some nice projects with his Shopsmith and a few other tools in those early episodes.
Also very curious about Tommy Mac. Remember Bob Vila on This Old House? He got too big for his britches and then poof gone. Then Steve Thomas. Same story. Russ Morash hired Kevin Oconnor to be host after TOH did a project at his home. No TV or remodeling experience at all.
He posts on Facebook and Instagram. If you are trying to find "a" video that explains everything, I don't believe there is one. What little was said, was said on various social media, usually in response to questions. There were videos where at times he was emotional, seemingly bitter, about what happened. He made it clear that he was not allowed to give any details but people kept asking questions and sometimes he would respond with how he felt about things. But it's neither here nor there for the new show.
As for the new Rough Cut, it's good. No more dumb road trips, no milling stock, they jump right into making a piece of furniture. I hope they keep special guests to a minimum.
As for the new Rough Cut, it s good. No more dumb road trips, no milling stock, they jump right into making a piece of furniture. I hope they keep special guests to a minimum.
I would like to see a LINK where he talks about this "in his own words"... I listened to some comments from him, which were hard to hear (poor audio) where it sounded like They wanted all kinds of other things from him that he did not agree with…
Where is a Link to his words? Please… Thank you… Let His words settle this… OK?
Check FB & IG around mid-April last year. If I were him I would have deleted the videos but they might still be up. And here is an old thread about it.
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