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Jim Tolpin
United States
Приєднався 27 жов 2011
The videos here are a combination of animations of geometric constructions that I use in my pre-industrial design process and short clips of hand-tool related techniques and musings. These are just my opinions, of course, and if you don't like it I have others.
Відео
Seven Secrets of Cottage Trailer / #thesevensecretsofcottage #cottage #cottages
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New book available at byhandandeye.com #thesevensecretsofcottage #cottage #cottages #cottagehome #cottagehomes #cottagedesign #cottagedesigns #architecture #thenewcottagehome #jimtolpin
Numberless doesn't mean dimensionless
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Unless I'm setting up a machine, I rarely go to numerical dimensions to set up cutlines. Instead, I either hold the stock directly to the required "magnitude" as the Greeks called a certain amount of distance or use a small story stick (or sometimes dividers) to transfer the information.
Sizing Workbenches
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You don't need a tape measure (i.e. numerical dimensions) to size a workbench. You just need you!
Introducing George
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and not only that, but George Walker and I have just launched our joint website: www.byhandandeye.com. Lots of info on using artisan geometry tricks to speed design and layout.
Hatchet job on a straightedge!
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When you don't have a bandsaw, you learn to use a hatchet or getting waste out of the way fast! Interesting that when making a layout tool that will be accurate to a couple thousandth of an inch (because it will be tried and true with a try plane truly enough) you start by removing chunks with a freehand wedge!
Jim Tolpin on Joining a Standing Desk
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Upcoming course at the Port Townsend School of Woodworking. Sitting is the new smoking you know!
Design by hand and eye
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A stop motion animation about how artisans carried out design from antiquity to the dawn of the industrial age (when, in a nutshell, arithmetic trumped the simple geometric relationships of natural (i.e. rational (able to ratio) numbers). The hardcover book I wrote with George Walker, "By Hand and Eye", tells the story and teaches the methodologies and is available through lostartpress.com/. I ...
Testing for sharpness
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How I determine good-enough sharpness of a plane blade.
how to set down your handplane
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a semi-definitive guide on how to best take care of your handplanes My books in print: www.jimtolpin.com/books
the dog steals the mullion
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Othie, the ever-mischievous dog steals the sash mullion! My books in print: www.jimtolpin.com/books
sash profile
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making a window mullion for my shop. The window that this will be part of will have 24 panes of glass. My books in print: www.jimtolpin.com/books
Geometric Expansion from a Rectangle
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Geometric Expansion from a Rectangle
Hearing this was like obtaining a new level of understanding…. Clarity. Wow, looking forward to this rabbit hole
Love the intro cartoon!😊🤗
Great video!
Really enjoyed thank you
Just discovering your videos. I have been reading your books too. Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge for the world to enjoy, and me!
Currently reading though you books. Great stuff!
First time watching one of your videos. You got my sub before the intro was over. 😂
Wise tip indeed!
Lovely design. Off topic but what dimensions are your workshop? Thanks.
Awesome content thank you sir
Subbed based on the intro. Brilliant.
Very cool 😎
My grandmother taught me that you should rest your fingertips on a sink bottom, and your elbows should be level with the to of a mixing bowl. I spent a number of years looking for the right bowl to work with the countertop height that put the sink at the correct spot, but it makes the kitchen a pleasure.
A chef once showed me the importance of counter height based on the height from the ground to the bottom of a large pot of soup when held in his arms with his elbows locked at his side!
This is a pretty solid little workbench. While once you figure out how it comes together, it is physically Easy to assemble ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxyFZUPFEey-PuqsPMxqaykBhgA1LWxFHh by yourself. But the diagrams explaining the steps are really pretty bad. I could not get the handle pins in all the way despite multiple attempts, so I just used a screw I had on hand for the 2nd handle. I could not get the first pin in further or pull it back out. You are supposed to hammer it in, but I had no leverage and the handle is plastic and I did not want to risk breaking it. I will get a lot of use out of the bench because of the convenient size and height. It does fold up nicely for storage. They even explain how to fold it so you don't get pinched...that is important!
Easy and simple tips. Thank you
Very interesting.
many thanks for great explanation
Thank you for sharing your way of setups.
Thanks for the insight, I am new to woodworking and am looking to build my first workbench. I do all hand tools so this was very helpful.
I''m going to make a workbench with my wife (we want to make the furniture for our daughter) so this video is great for us. Just wanted to say thanks for sharing what you know. Cheers!
Your welcome... glad I could be of help
Had you ever checked your ratios to Fibonacci or Mandelbrot? That would be an interesting study…
Check out my book "By Hand and Eye"---it goes deep into the design approach of pre-industrial artisans. They not only used the Fibonacci series but more pervasively--the harmonic ratios of Pythagorean consonants--to design buildings and furniture. www.byhandandeye.com
Jim, if you get the chance we'd really appreciate several dozen more videos, thanks.
More videos and lots of tips at my Instagram @jimtolpin
Awesome content in this video. Jam packed with so many takeaways for someone about to embark on a bench build. Thanks.
You're welcome
I can't believe how underrated your videos are...
Super informative!
As someone who doesn't have the space and finances to afford two benches and a large leg vice, I'm thinking that the solution would be to start with a bench optimised for planing, and to build a couple of mini-workholders that clamp on top for precision sawing and precision chisel work. For example the shooting board could be on a support that raises it 1 handspan above the bench. And with a Nicholson design, it would be fairly trivial to use a couple of boards and holdfasts to clamp fine work a couple of handspans above the bench. Is this a sensible way to go - and if so, can anyone point to practical examples?
I am starting my small workshop too, not a lot of finances for two benches too. So this is my current strategy, don't know what you went for at the end since your comment is a year old. I am thinking on a nickolson bench for jointing, a small 3 feet square moxon vise bench and then a small carving clamp on that bench for the tall work. I am interested to know what you implemented in your workshop and how is it going....
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge sir.
Your welcome
amazing
I've got Jim's tool box book which is fantastic. Also have "From Truth to Tools", another great book. I should be receiving by hand and eye and hound and eye very soon.
Omg subbed instantly bc of the intro alone 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Whenever I'm in Greece I marvel at the beautiful proportions of the Parthenon. I'm confident they built it based on a similar proportionality approach as you demonstrated with your benches, and not by the use of tape measures! Your Roubo bench exhibits classically elegant proportions also. I am about to embark on building my very first workbench, and I have just ordered both your books, "By Hand & Eye" and "By Hound & Eye" from Lost Art Press. Can't wait for them to arrive. In the meanwhile, I would like to ask you a technical question: From the video, your bench looks like it has a split-top, with the central gap occupied by a full-length stop. If so, did you have to modify the base to be a trestle design to support the two independent slabs? And how do you make sure that the two slabs don't expand-contract at different rates so as to make the entire top become mis-leveled over time?
Excellent questions...thanks for asking them. The base is a simple trestle; the slabs sit on the cross-wise top stretchers, wood pins (not bolts) centered on the slab keep them from shifting. Only gravity holds them down (and its plenty heavy being 4 inch thick Eastern Maple. There is a possiblity that they will go out of level with each other but since my shop is kept at a constant temperature and humidity, that hasn't been a problem. If they do go out of coplanar its a relatively quick fix with a try plane. Its almost fun in fact! Feel free to ask more questions.
So obvious yet I never thought or heard about this till now. Thxs for sharing.
THIS is the logic I've been searching for!
Interesting video! Curious, how wide is your chop for the front vise?
This is the first UA-cam video I’ve seen with zero dislikes
You have no idea how useful these videos have been for me. Please consider doing short(s) videos or something like that just to help us understand elements from hand and eye or basic design principles. Can’t thank you enough for your work.
This is an awesome use of a wagon vise! Thanks for the tip
Most scientific. 👍
I'm reading "By Hand and Eye" and struggling with this as it relates to the tool tote. If we're stepping off the width of a chord as overall length of the tote (only about 10" for a scaled down version I want to try), what are you using to step off? The sketch in the book (fig 4.1.7) makes it look like dividers but based on the size of the project wouldn't you have to be opening the dividers to 24"? Even in my scaled down version I can't open my dividers 10 in. Do I just need a larger set of points or am I misunderstanding something about how this is accomplished? Love the book!
I use a trammel for large radius arcs. Good question...I should have addressed this in the book.
@@JimTolpin1 thanks so much for the reply. The book was recommended to me by more than one person to whom I asked the question "how do you incorporate such beautiful curves in your work?" and its been a great help already.
Nice video. I love your books too.
thank you for sharing, appreciated!
Wonderful.
This is mind-blowing.
What is so hard to tell us in number instead of those fingers thing ?
Not hard at all, just simple multiplication after assignment of a numerical dimension to the "finger thing".
This is fantastic. Thank you! The way you break it down shows your years of experience & your skill.
As someone that is about to build my very first work bench, every tip I can find is a big help, thank you.
Thank you for explaining!!! Greetings from Germany!
You made this explanation so simple and I learned something new. Thank you!
Nicely done.
Love that bench, and love that wood-burning stove in the background!