scott brown here in today's exciting episode i'm gonna
try and explain the difference between a carpenter and a builder
let's uh let's first look at the dictionary definitions shall we according to google
carpenter a person who makes and repairs wooden objects and structures
but that fits what i do we build wooden houses that makes sense now the definition of a builder
a person who constructs something by putting parts or material together
i'm kind of both so i call myself scott brown carpentry but if i meet like some grandmother
or something in a supermarket and she asks what i do i'm gonna say i'm a builder because in new
zealand people understand that as somebody who builds houses thing is it also is someone who
renovates houses and it's also someone who builds shopping malls as long as you've got a circular
saw or nail gun and you predominantly work with wood in new zealand we call them a builder
but of course nothing's that simple after all i am a qualified builder that's what i call myself
however in order to be a qualified builder i had to do a national certificate in carpentry and
included in that national certificate in carpentry was concrete concrete foundations concrete slabs
and that is the reason that i keep things like this around a national certificate in carpentry
in order to be a qualified builder and then you go around and call yourself scott brown construction
or something like that that's usually what happens in new zealand why did i call myself scott brown
carpentry well i named my business when i was over in edinburgh but to add to the confusion
you don't call yourself a carpenter over there you call yourself a joiner
a joiner a person who constructs the wooden components of a building such as stairs doors
and a door and window frames great definition but it sounds just like the definition for a carpenter
um but it is what i did when i worked in edinburgh the building was stone and i did all the wooden
parts inside the building that needed to be done so i was a joiner so why did i call it scott brown
carpentry while i was working there mainly because i knew i was going to start my youtube channel and
i wanted a more universal term carpentry you know people in america would know what that is people
new zealand and people in scotland would know what that was so i kind of stuck to the name i
eventually moved back to new zealand anyway and i just kept the name scott brown carpentry because
of the name there is often a misunderstanding and i tend to get asked to build cabinets a
lot if you've been watching the channel for some time you'll know that we mainly renovate houses
build houses and uh work as carpenters or joiners or if you are in new zealand we work as builders
now underneath this piece of mdf is this plywood workbench and the surface of that
plywood workbench has been cut up so many times with our circular saws and track saws
that is very rough and very splintery let's say so i'm about to change the
top over so it's nice and smooth with this mdf because we're going to do
some cabinet making just to add to the confusion we're gonna do cabinet making
i'm still a builder though
so the cabinets that we're going to build are similar to this plywood in that it has like a
laminate on either side and the laminate is going to be like a colored laminate on these cabinets
and the only reason i'm doing cabinets this time i'm making an exception for a particular client
whose house i've renovated and done a lot of work for he's helped me out heaps over the years so
usually i just forward it onto the offcut nz or king post timbers both have youtube channels i'll
link them below if you want to check them out so i don't want this rough ply here on my bench to
damage the surface of the laminate ply that we're going to use for the kidneys so this has to go
if you knew anybody that did kitchens ah it's finally so
so the ron paul workbench that's what this is
check out ron's channel if you don't already know i'll put in the link down below
it's been my favorite workbench so far and i went and glued and pinned the top on so that was
probably a mistake because now that i'm trying to repair i have to sand off all the glue and
splinters of timber but the workbench is great very mobile and uh very handy i think this plywood
delivery is going to be at the job very very soon so i'm kind of in a rush to get this top on
all right my nicely cut piece of mdf i wonder what uh i wonder what ron
calls himself see like a contractor i know in america you guys say contractor right anyway
you guys are no better than me so i'm gonna screw this on this time so if i have to do this again
it's just a case of unscrewing it not massacring it and we just need a few holes for my my clamps
talk about timing
let's go from there
this white stuff is what playtech called carcass grade plywood which basically means the structure
of the cabinet and then the gray stuff is a higher quality hpl which is high pressure laminate
that one is what we're going to use for the doors and end things everything you
see basically and then down the bottom i believe there's a bench top so yeah apart from a couple
of sheets on the back that are a bit thinner it's all 19 mil plywood one more thing i forgot
we're not we don't only call ourselves builders here we also call ourselves
chippies that's like the slang term chippy isn't like chipping wood with a chisel anyway
i'm real interested let me know where you're from and uh what you call yourself if you do
the same job as me i'm really curious about that let's draw some holes in a workbench
19 mil holes and this is called a bench dog and that's 19 mil as well so when you slide it in
it doesn't move so you can put you know plywood up to that or i could put plywood on top of it
um i'm going to do my best to use things like this to avoid
cutting the heck out of the bench top like i did last time these holes also work really well
with the the clamps that we use with the track saw and
when i need to hold boards i can clamp it down like that
oh my god
now i noticed when i was building the van draw
and my blade was very blunt but i didn't want to start using this new blade now i
want to save it for the cabinets so now that we're about to start the cabinet
got a lot of use out of this one
let's see what y'all can do
now another piece of advice i gained from tim at the offcut i'll chuck his channel below make
sure you check it out he's got awesome channel um score the top laminate first this makita track saw
has a little button that makes it so only about two or three ml of the blade comes out and then
that's just enough for you to cut that laminate clean and then you take that little notch off and
then do the full depth you're not putting all that pressure that is required to cut through the whole
ply onto the laminate that can chip up i forgot to do that when i cut the length of the sheet before
and the edges weren't perfect it's not going to matter because it's going to be out of sight but
it wasn't perfect so i started freaking out and then i remembered what tim told me so
score it first that's how you get this a nice clean factory edge
i wouldn't call this a dream workshop
that's all i got maybe i have to go to the container and build this it's just there's
not enough space here all right we're going to figure out a new solution in the next exciting
episode when i build this cabinetry maybe the container i don't know this isn't very good
it's got around carpentry cabinetry services oh my god
people that if we do get that we're going to have to learn from the lessons of new south wales and
we're really going to have to act so we only get one chance that's why cabinet has met this
afternoon and made the decision that new zealand will move to alert level 4 from 11 59 pm tonight
level 4 will be for initial period of three days level four that's the highest one we're just out
just last in command back in lockdown so that's level four for seven days i misheard
the announcement um it was three days for the whole nation uh coromandel and auckland where i am
seven days highest level that means no work
oh well maybe the rain will stop by the time i do the cabinets again
all right let's first i had that forklift with a fiery passion the building was stone
this way
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