Rex Krueger patreon

Patron Version Video: Furniture Forensics with a Buck Board Bench

🕑 Added 2024-07-20 11:00:13 +0000 UTC

Comments

Oileanach

I'll risk the repetition to say I love these deep dives, the analysis, the detective work, and the critique that will apply equally to the stuff I've done recently. I built an herb stand last year out of cedar (reclaimed from a massive old hedge my neighbour was ripping out) with the same style of leg, and the same shoulder issue... back on my to-do list it goes! I understand that good subjects for this style of video are not common, but I'll be sure to appreciate each one you do!

LiraNuna

I'm a little late here but this has to be your best furniture forensics video! Loved the extra example pictures in the beginning showing benches made of wagon parts such as the suspensions, it must have been traumatic for some people to get rid of their wagons/carriages for those newfangled "horseless carriages" and making furniture out of their corpses was possibly a way to avoid waste.

The Super-wrench Garage

Awesome series I agree with all the other comments

Alex R

Fair point. And a bit of magazine / book research suggests these benches were popular in the 1950s-1970s, which jibes with the glue.

Rex Krueger

My too! I always have to research something new.

Rex Krueger

I feel the same way!

Rex Krueger

I'm really glad.

Rex Krueger

Thank you!

Rex Krueger

Maybe we will. We just did it for so long that it seemed played-out.

Rex Krueger

I did give it back. The owner was glad I made a video about it.

Rex Krueger

It sure does!

Rex Krueger

I can't find enough good pieces to get burned out on these!

Rex Krueger

I'm really glad to hear that! Thank you!

Rex Krueger

Thank you!

Rex Krueger

The drill-press was my first power tool, too. My dad has an old Atlas in the basement. A good tool to teach a kid on. Hard to get into trouble.

Rex Krueger

I like them a lot, too. I'm so glad you enjoy them!

Rex Krueger

I would do one every month if I could. It's just a matter of finding the pieces.

Rex Krueger

Thank you! I'm not sure if restoring this is worth it. It's in good condition and being used. "Fixing" those joints would be a major change. Beyond mere restoration.

Rex Krueger

I'm so glad. I want to make more!

Rex Krueger

I hear you on that. I can never be totally sure. But the glue is dripping DOWN the leg. If somone were just trying to fill that joint with yellow glue, no reason to flip it over and let the glue drip out.

Rex Krueger

So many woodworking videos are just how-to. We also have to think about why we build and have an outlook that guides our work. Even if the motivation is just money, we should know what it is.

Rex Krueger

I think that's exactly what happened here. I wanted to get into that, but it didn't fit the flow of the video.

Rex Krueger

I'm just familiar with the grain pattern since I see it here so much. (And of course, I can't be 100% under all that stain, but I'm pretty sure.) It's so common around here.

Rex Krueger

Thank you!

Dan Delie

I always injoy furniture forensics! Learn something new evey time.

Alice

Yay furniture forensics!

Bruce McDonald

Love it.

Jared Leff

love these vids!

judd

Please bring back the "Rex Figures It Out" interstitial!

Stuart

I guess my question is does Rex take the table back? lol I am a broken record and like the forensics videos even if the algorithm doesn't Thanks.

Eric McCormick

Furniture Forensics returns!

Gerald Eddy

I echo the others in my appreciation for these type of videos! I hope you never get burned out doing them!

Toby Marble

Furniture forensics is one of my favorite series! Thank you!

Chris St. Cyr

This is like a two for one this week!

Kit Schuetze

My Dad had a Craftman tablesaw in the garage, a drill press he bought out of a WW2 war factory and a massive workbench in the garage. I was a kid in the 50's. I couldn't use the tablesaw but he did let me use the drill press. It also was a craftsmen. He also had a belt sander that looked like a space ship. I used up all his scrap wood and nails so when he had a new project he alway had to go out and buy supplies. I know this because he always like to tell this story.🤪

Clint

Great Video Rex. I’m glad you’re able to make these videos regardless of what the algorithm says. They are my favorite.

Matt Evans-Koch

Thank you, Rex. Love these furniture forensics videos. Keep them coming when you can.

David Suitor

I too enjoy the forensic videos. They are unique. I think this piece would be a good canidate for restoration. Then you would have the option of continued use as a table or use as a bench.

Cindy Ballreich

Furniture Forensics are my favorite videos!

Alex R

Love this series -- and great job on this one. For what it's worth, I'm not completely convinced the conversion was done in or after the 1950s. I mean, you might be right, but I think it's also possible an earlier animal glue joint failed and someone did what people often do, which is grab the nearest bottle of wood glue and go to town on the problem area (with or without disassembling the joint). I did this once or twice before I learned better, and I've seen this on older pieces I've worked on.

Bob Templeton

In your videos, you seem to be talking more about the philosophy and motivation in woodworking. It is a different perspective and I enjoy hearing it. After I watch any of your forensics video, I look at my old furniture a bit more analytically.

Stan Fioroni

It would be interesting to see how much furniture was made from old wagons as their use declined with the advent of automobiles.

John Griswold

Curious how you knew that the bench seat was made from sycamore...there are a surprising number of large sycamores growing here in Salt Lake, along with catalpas, long thick clear sections of trunk and I hope they can't sense me measuring them covetously by eye;)

Evan Van Dyke

Great video. Love it

Bradley Barth

Hey Patrons! We have to power to push the YouTube algorithm! 1. Watch on YouTube. 2. Like the video. 3. Comment on the video. 4. Share the video. So simple and it totally works!

Dave West

Cool to see what earlier generations did for home projects. Thanks for putting ynese together.

Richard C von Brecht

You sure have a knack for unraveling a piece of period furniture. You might have given up academia but you are still an academic. It’s a version of “You can take the boy off the farm but…”

Gwynfor

Moin, maybe it was a first project for the builder (then it would be nice to see, what he learnt from it). You can find lots of furniture in shops today, that won't last that long... ;-) Yeah, you are right. We love this videos! :-D Ciao, Andreas