What Kind of Wood Should You Build With? | WOODWORKING BASICS

Maybe it's me but I always like to come back and review these basics videos just a refresher. As a Star Trek fan, have you been watching Strange New Worlds? Take care... 🙂

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You forgot to mention MDF for speaker cabinets! 😁 That's essentially my personal woodworking origin story.

What would you use for cabinet carcasses? I will be painting the parts that show.

Cedar?

Is plywood good for a bed frame?

What About MDP????

MDP (Medium Density Particleboard)
Chipboard is created by pressing wood debris, such as sawdust and dust, with resin and glue.

What’s the best wood for building an outdoor wooden shed in a hot humid climate with a lot of rain?

Great video

Thank you

A problem with pine is resin pockets which can destroy a project….

Why is a softwood i.e pine, being used in home construction rather than hardwood? Isn't soft wood NOT supposed to be used in load bearing structures?

What about LDF, particle board, chipboard, chipwood and OSB?

Overall excellent educational and informative videos. But !! Please, get rid of the music :-( why have it ? Would you switch on some music when you begin a conversation with someone ! ?

Your videos are packed with precise information and always learn and enjoy a lot by watching. Thank you for the hard work you put in to these videos ❤️

Gee, I was with you until you said "hardwoods are rarely stained" I don't think anyone has ever ordered a an oak desk from us that wasn't stained and we have sold hundreds of them. Natural oak or cherry is not very attractive almost everyone orders cherry with a darker stain.

God I remember watching this in my high school woodshop and when I heard the term hard wood I made tons of immature sexual jokes lol. Especially when the hard wood happened to also be dark too like walnut lol.

My wood is hard 😭😭
Big thick hard wood 😭😭
Big dark hard wood

Tom brady of the National Lumber League

Very useful 👌 video

Why are wood working guys blabbing on about nonsense such as Star Trek in their wood working videos…? That model you made i would throw it straight into the bin

Thanks again for another helpful video! 😁

In Brazil, MDF is the main choice for cabinets.

This is a question we REALLY need to be asking homebuilders...

Can you order wood online and have it shipped to home ? im also a big STAR TREK nerd.

I love this

I forgot how great the microjig ads were

I’m very late to the party but holy mackerel-your videos are insanely thorough, easy to understand, and soooooo helpful! Thank you!!!


I’m finally learning how to use my power tools & I’m starting to build things…mainly bc I now have chickens & I want to build an agility course for them in my garden 😂🏆🐓

Anywhoooo…oh yeah! My question! 😆: What type of wood should I use for the chicken ladders & balance beams & bridges & trapeze & everything? And what type of treatment will offer the best protection from New England “weath-ah” & will also be safe for my eight crazy little hens?

Thanks!! 👷🏻‍♀️🛝🐓🎢🏆

Just want to say that I miss your Microjig intros. I bought a Microjig based solely off (a) your coverage of how good they were, and (b) how amusing your intros were for them. The latter put the name into memory and the former was convincing enough that I bought one.

Perfect video, no two minute intro, good shot selection and very informative

hi
I am a wood manufacturer in Canada if you need anything and Steve can you help me out with something

Go Raiders!

Great content !

Well, being from the Pacific NW - timber country. Folks around here make a distinction between pine and fir. We mostly have fir here. But are you saying that fir and pine are the same?

Whatever you can afford. Duh

For building an outdoor piece of furniture always remember to glue all the joints! It will help the wood expand together stopping squeaking

Want to make use of a solid wood tabletop, 1 inch thick, which I purchased on the marketplace. My plan was to refinish this 3ft x 5 ft tabletop and put it top of 2 ikea shelving units which are 57 x 30 x 15 or so. Knowing that these shelving units are made of MDF I wonder if they can support this tabletop adequately or if they will eventually sag? If not, any ideas as to how I can support this tabletop and still used the MDF shelving units? I appreciate any advice you can give me. I have learned so much from watching your videos. Thanks

Hi Steve. Are you a Marin native? I saw that snippet of Rafael Lumber haha. I used to go there with my dad when I was a kid.

Two things,
1st thank you this video seemed very informative and helped me understand alllloootttt

2nd shout out those lumber prices 😭

You're lumber god

Looking at that $2.53 price tag for 2x4s a few years ago almost made me cry.

Dude you just made your video more confusing!

very very very informative. I am a great fan of you

Very helpful thanks 😊

Excellent video! Very informative, clear and great tipps!

What’s the best (value too) for making 6-8 inch floating shelves?

My projects a little bigger than a table.... I'm building a cabin on the back of a truck 😂

God I wish we had home depot in Australia

Thanks.

What's shocking to me is the lumber prices, I would kill to be a maker 5 years ago. Now 2 pieces of ply cost me a whole paycheck