Woodenskye (Bryan)

I know you bank videos for while you travel, and you have a bunch not yet released. This was a suggestion more for the future. Also since you have these in the bank, this is a good opportunity to do a IG post or better a short video talking about the next video release. Before the next series, you could do a video promoting the forum and the discussions. As for the moving projects from the private area, that’s 100% your call.

I say my comment knowing you have already shot and edited this series. With most of your projects you always bring to the forum looking for feedback on the design or other aspects before you start. I know we had a good discussion about this particular project. I wonder if it would help with traffic to the forum if you linked the discussion in the show notes and also made a quick reference on camera to the discussion. It seems like a simple way to bring up the forum to people that may not look at the show notes. You have to do what fits your style, but this just seems like a way to promote the forum for 15-30 seconds on camera. Just my $0.02.

I just watched the video. I have never been a big fan of these, but I actually like the water, it was creative.

Great job Chet! The bed and the nightstands look better than anything you could buy.

I would assume that they have updated the house to a more modern style and the front door doesn’t fit. Then again maybe Drew just wants a challenging build.

Not necessarily. Generally will have trim at the edge of the door, so if you take the trim off you will get the actual size of the rough opening. If you went to Home Depot and were looking for a interior door, and your rough opening (stud to stud width and floor to header length) is 31”x81”, you would buy a 30”x80” door, once installed you would trim 2 sides and top with casing. The extra inch on long measurement usually requires some slope in case on an entrance/exterior door to protect from water infiltration and flooring. On an interior door, the extra inch accounts for flooring as well. Now if for some strange reason there is no trim, in your photo it has trim, measuring the door probably would work. If you measure the door that should give you a close enough idea on size. First step should be removing the trim. The reason for the door being smaller than the opening is so that you can shim, insulate and weather strip. You don’t want the door right up against the Jack or King Studs, it will bow the jamb when you screw to framing and mess with how the door sits in the frame (jamb) and affect operation.

The first thing to do is measure the opening. The door and jamb should be an inch smaller. Another thing to search is Stave core construction. Doing solid wood can obviously be done, but the grain direction is important as well as the species, want a wood that doesn’t have large swings in wood movement. If it is covered by a porch you can use a wider array of finishes. I know not specific but just things I researched when I was thinking of doing ours after the estimates we got that I mentioned in that other thread. Check out This is Carpentry, I think Gary Katz made a couple doors, he is a “finish and trim carpentry” expert.

I’m surprised you didn’t set up some elaborate computer system that recorded you in slow motion, automatically edit and upload to your social media accounts. 😀

We had a basic door priced for our house, nothing elaborate, just something you would see at a home center, but since it was a custom size due to door opening, the let’s call it $4K door was going to be $11,000. So I could see how that door is $26k.

Coop, the key if machined properly should provide all the tension to keep the pulley to the shaft, hence no need for a screw or anything. Now since the key came out, I would still try to contact PM cause that shouldn’t come out without some force. My guess is that the key was never fully seated and over time worked its way out.

Glad you got it figured out.

First thing would be how big of a cut your taking, it sounds like it’s being bogged down. Have you tried with less down force pressure to see if it happens. Have you or are you able to check the belt tension?

Hopefully it raises a lot of money!

Great job Coop. You may want to brush some epoxy on the bottoms of the Mahogany so water doesn’t wick up from the ground.

Looking good Coop!

Good reasoning, your turning into a major techie!

If they had to order, why didn’t you get the Pro you wanted?

I still have a 7 and need to upgrade. If I wait 6 months they will then be on the iPhone 25

So in that case you should be fine. You could probably just go to silent mode.

How far away will your phone be? I think the range is like 35 feet, but not sure how a lot of walls would potentially reduce that distance. There’s really not a lot of do’s and don’ts.

So does the bed fold up so it can be more like a couch? I would think that if you were camping in this and the weather was bad, you would want a place to sit that wasn’t the bed or the front seats (unless the fronts are made to swivel).

What about doing an epoxy finish.

I made a sled like that, but not the both sides part. That’s a very good idea.

My only thought is that maybe the air or humidity is going through the pump and maybe that is causing it to ave a reduced working time. I don’t have pumps with the epoxy I have.

Looking really good Chet! They caps turned out really nice.