sami yim wants to know for someone just getting started in building slash woodworking what are
some essential yet inexpensive tools that you would recommend oh this is a good one hold on
this is one of my favorite tools in this whole shop it is a japanese foot saw um the difference
between this and your regular american saw is that the american saw cuts on the push
the teeth are faced away from the operator and you push to make the cut the japanese saws you cut
on the pole and it is an entirely different experience cutting with one of these um i love
this tool that's all i'm going to say about it because on tested we're about to shoot them a a a
tool tip where i go through all the things i love about this and i will link to i've used expensive
ones i've used really inexpensive ones and the really inexpensive ones are still phenomenal and
so this is a great starter tool to have if you're just beginning making it will make lots of things
possible okay um we have one more question uh and i'm going to let's see here we've got uh let's see
uh blaine bellarood says what is the approximate square footage of the
shop it's smaller than you think it's 15 by 30.
yeah um that's what 450 square feet yeah it's it's pretty small this is about the size of
my first dorm room at weinstein in new york city um and it's it's perfect for me it's perfect for
me if you gave me 5 000 square feet i'd still put all my tools in this arrangement i'd just be able
to park my land cruiser right there and work on it but i want to take one last question uh
nathan nathaniel young says oh this is such a good last question
um do you have a method for keeping track of stuff you rarely use but have squirreled away somewhere
this is the bug bear of being a tool collector this is the biggest issue
with collecting tools and materials is if you only use them every couple of
years how do you store them so that you can retrieve them okay so one way is i i use my
i have almost 50 of these these are sortimo cases by sortimo sort imo they're a european i think
german company that outfits uh repair vans but in addition to those i have an alphabeticized list of
everything that's in all 50 sorta mode so i can go through it but that's not the main method by which
i find stuff that i use rarely i find stuff that i use rarely by let's see okay let's say that i knew
i was only going to need this brush once every two years i asked myself you ever do this thing
where you like take a deep breath and then answer a question without thinking this is what i do
where would i look for this if i needed it right now where would and then i answer that question
immediately oh i would put it in the back of the paint thing on a thing and then i put it there
my first thought is the best thought it's the only thought i pay attention to i try not to be clever
i try not to be efficient i ask my brain where would you look for this assuming that the answer
will be the same two years from now where should you look for this it should go where my brain
first thought two years before so when you are thinking about putting something away and storing
it ask yourself before you place it there where would you look for it if you needed it now that
is perhaps the single greatest organizing trick i have learned in the years of making stuff and
having shops and i only figured that out about five years ago and it's changed my whole life
i lose so i lose so many fewer things is that really a sentence i lose things less
now than i used to by a fair bit you guys have been awesome thank you so much for
submitting these incredible questions tested patrons like i said i know i only answered half
a dozen here today but i have this big fat list i'm gonna answer some more over the next few weeks
um everybody else thank you so much for joining me for this uh for this live stream i love doing
these um hopefully uh in a couple of weeks i might have another kit that i'm working on i'm
not sure we still haven't made a made a call on that but i will be back uh i hope you guys
uh and your families are all safe and sound stay that way wear your masks and i will see you soon