Youtubers

[kmealy]

Is is just me or is YouTube just sending me more?   I am seeing tons of woodworking YouTuber out there when for a while there was only a handful that came up.  It seems like everyone in the world is getting into the "I can make woodworking videos" game.  And not just Canadian and USA.

 

[frenchwwr]

Too many of them to watch most days

[lew]

I get a notice from “Rick Turns” each week listing the woodturning videos from the week past. There’s almost always 150 videos or more. They seem to originate from all over the world.

 

 I wonder if the proliferation is in part due to the success of the IRD’s done by the more well known woodworkers during the Covid restrictions. 

[John Morris]

The more the merrier, I love being able to search for anything, and I can see how it's made, what it's made of, how to get there, and it aint always a popular dude like "insert name here" that has the answer, often times it's a YouTuber in bumb f*%#k Egypt that has the answer I need, ya, bring it on!

[Grandpadave52]

To your question Keith, probably more than a couple of years ago. IMO, during the "lockdowns, some maybe saw it as a way to either supplement lost income or perhaps a path to their perceived cash cow. Regardless, more joining the ranks keeps manufacturing supply companies active and innovative.

 

More likely though, YouTube tracking algorithms are sending you "recommendations" based on your viewing habits. Watch a funny cat video or two...you'll soon be inundated with cat videos. I like messing with them, mixing up what I watch just to see what is "recommended for you" channels. Otherwise, I search fairly specific for my preferences.

[DAB]

hmmmmm.. funny cats building furniture.....what could go wrong?  background music?  CCR, Doors, Guthrie...

[FlGatorwood]

And, a probable cause to the rise of cost of wood.  New users but that keeps the craft and art going.  

[HandyDan]

I think a lot of people feel they can earn some money and maybe get to the point that they can earn a living at it and not have to work anymore.  In reality being a YouTuber is a job and not an easy one either.  Coming up with new content and making a new video even weekly sounds daunting to me.  It is easy and cheap to give it a try as just about everyone I have watched has admitted to using their cell phone for the camera to get their start. 

[StaticLV2]

There are a TON of youtube content creators out there and some of them are even in the woodworking space.  

Like anything else, some of them may be able to "make it" as a career but it is not an easy thing to do.

Constant content creation, editing, and narrating a project while you are building it is a lot of work and there aren't a lot of people who have the cross disciplinary skills to do it well.  Examples of solid productions are channels like the Wood Whisperer and Ishitani Furniture, but these take different approaches.

With the Wood Whisperer, the channel is the primary job and the things he makes are a sideline, Ishitani is the opposite.  He is a furniture builder and his wife does the video work and publishes some of the jobs he does for people.  

[Gunny]

I get alot of request to make videos on how I made something.  Here is my rub.  Do you really want me to verbalize the thoughts going through my head as I am making something?  

[John Morris]

3 minutes ago, Gunny said:

I get alot of request to make videos on how I made something.  Here is my rub.  Do you really want me to verbalize the thoughts going through my head as I am making something?  

Gunny, I don't even want you to verbalize the thoughts in your head when your walking across the street!

[kmealy]

Just FWIW, there is one, Nick Engler, who was a long time employee of Shopsmith and has written a few books. 

Workshop Companion is his channel.   I've met him a couple of times and he impresses me as a cockalorum, but maybe that is just my impression.  Interestingly, while there is a Shopsmith in the background of some of his videos, it is not his main tool.  But you might find him valuable.

 

I started off with Stumpy Nubs, Woodworking for Mere Mortals, Wood Whisper (that I've drifted away from), Paul Sellers, Matthias Wandel, WoodPeckers, Bron Zeage (who is very good but wish he would wear a shirt with sleeves), April Wilkerson, and few others.  Most of the magazines are also running channels.

[DAB]

4 hours ago, Gunny said:

I get alot of request to make videos on how I made something.  Here is my rub.  Do you really want me to verbalize the thoughts going through my head as I am making something?  

 

some years ago i showed a project I had just finished, i think it was our sideboard in the dining room, and someone asked if I had plans.

 

well....sort of.  i have 4 pages of my scribbles, with working notes and various dimensions, but it's not something anyone else could work off of.  and drawing up proper plans would take me as long as building the project took.  and for what?  you going to pay me for those plans?  didn't think so.

 

if anything, I might watch a video to solve a unique joinery problem i have, or get inspiration for a project, but if it's more than 10 minutes, i'll likely not watch it.  brevity is the soul of wit.  get to your point, and stop taking up time asking me to Like, Subscribe, and hit the Bell.  if you are good, i'll return for more content.

[Artie]

6 hours ago, Gunny said:

I get alot of request to make videos on how I made something.  Here is my rub.  Do you really want me to verbalize the thoughts going through my head as I am making something?  

Gunny, just what is the guidelines for what can be said on YouTube? Cause if it’s the same as broadcast TV, then I’m thinking your and my shows might need to be silent, or at least a lot of bleeping out.  

[DAB]

1 hour ago, Artie said:

Gunny, just what is the guidelines for what can be said on YouTube? Cause if it’s the same as broadcast TV, then I’m thinking your and my shows might need to be silent, or at least a lot of bleeping out.  

you need to learn from Mr. Bean, he was funny without very much spoken dialogue....  you can show how a mortise and tenon joint fits together without having to say "this is a mortise and tenon joint".  frankly, too many videos have too many words for the amount of information conveyed.

[Gunny]

1 hour ago, DAB said:

you need to learn from Mr. Bean, he was funny without very much spoken dialogue....  you can show how a mortise and tenon joint fits together without having to say "this is a mortise and tenon joint".

 

Very true.  Last time they had me in for a physiological evaluation at VA the Doctor took 6 months off.

 

After they talked him out of jumping off the building.

 

[Gerald]

I do videos for our woodturning club. Started a couple years ago putting them on YouTube. Purpose here to create interest in woodturning and in our club. I do very little editing . Mind you there is lots of blank space in my videos where there is no talking just someone turning. It takes a real talent to talk thru most of a video, and yes I have tried that. Like has been said unless I am interested in the full assembly process in a video I do not watch the full thing but skip along.

[Artie]

5 hours ago, DAB said:

you need to learn from Mr. Bean, he was funny without very much spoken dialogue....  you can show how a mortise and tenon joint fits together without having to say "this is a mortise and tenon joint".  frankly, too many videos have too many words for the amount of information conveyed.

I’m kinda thinking that unlike Gunny, my videos would be more like this is how NOT to do this. Probably wouldn’t need too much verbal communication, thus saving me from having to translate it into the different languages  .

[Wichman3]

Y'all are just watching the wrong YouTube channels, search for woodworking women. You may not learn any new techniques but it'll be a real eye opener.

[kmealy]

On 2/6/2022 at 7:29 PM, DAB said:

you need to learn from Mr. Bean, he was funny without very much spoken dialogue....  you can show how a mortise and tenon joint fits together without having to say "this is a mortise and tenon joint".  frankly, too many videos have too many words for the amount of information conveyed.

I know a lot of people liked him and he got many interested in woodworking, but I got irritated with New Yankee Workshop.  What really turned me off was: (1) the same irrelevant safety speech each episode.  Tell me something about the tool or process you are using now. (2) "Let's check this.  Yes, perfect"   We make mistakes tell us what to do if it's not perfect!  (3) Having so many routers.  Then using one with a dovetail jig to cut half-blind dovetails on a dresser base molding.  That is just not the right thing.  (4) Having (donated, no doubt) tools like the huge drum sander that no reasonable hobbyist could afford cost or space.