The Toolbox That Makes a Living

[Music] today's video is going to be about what's in my toolbox so we are making this video because i think it could be helpful i wish somebody had taken the time 30 years ago to uh maybe encourage me in a more productive direction instead of leaving me up to my own uh devices as far as just collecting tools randomly that i thought was going to be good from an unexperienced perspective that turned out to just be a long painful waste of time and it took me way too long to narrow it down to the tools that i actually use and make a living with so we are making this video today in hopes that maybe it could bring somebody some value out there who was thinking about maybe getting into some wood carving and didn't really know which path to pursue or what tools they may need so that's why we're making this video but let's take a look inside and see what we got so before we get too far along in this video i should take a moment to explain what this box of tools is best suited for now we found our niche in hand carving that's that's what we do the most of is hand carving it and uh so there's there's a lot of different categories in in woodworking but with this particular box of tools here you're not really going to be making any cabinets or any fiddles or anything this is this is a hand carving box of tools and when when uh so so how this how this collection of tools came about i should take a moment to kind of to kind of adventure down that path for for a minute here and and so let me start when when we were kids uh we grew up maybe slightly different and uh i'm not old enough to say well we had to heat our house with a cross-cut saw from a sense or that like i was born in the great depression or anything like no not that old but we did have to heat our house with a cross-cut saw and we did make a living with hand tools not because i was born in 1909 or anything but because that's just what we did my parents wanted to live like kind of off the back to the land sort of sort of thing is what they are doing and so we just ended up there and uh so my whole family was slightly adventurous in a sense that you know we uh we we kind of wanted to make a living by hand and we always did that from from ever as far back as i can remember and but in doing that you know my dad he didn't come from a long line of woodworkers he you know he was born in new york and lived in dc and every city across the country and so he didn't come from a long line of really skilled woodworkers so so we all kind of had to learn it at the same time but uh one serious driving force that that that enabled us to learn it pretty quickly was if we weren't good at it then nothing we would make would sell and we wouldn't have any income to buy money or food to actually to eat and not starve so that was a good driving force anyway so so uh as we went to pursue our woodworking careers like you would you know just like you always do you'd ask this and seek information and seek information but at a very early age i realized like most information is just from the standpoint of uh old wives tales it's not actually real but being a kid you didn't really know that you would look up to these older men and be like wow i'll use this information i need to go home and collect 30 hand planes and then i need to collect a bunch of draw knives that repeat themselves over and over and over again and i struggle to find a use for any of them but somehow this will bring me magic value and that's when i realized that most of the information in the woodworking world comes from the standpoint of like like a hobbyist or like a collector or old wives tale and so that's very destructive if you're actually trying to not starve to death uh with wood carving so anyways a lot of years passed and and we beat ourselves to death with with awful tools that that were terrible a lot of our our uh a lot of our uh here in in the states here in the united states we didn't get much information because it was mostly wise tales now when we got down to mexico there was a lot of like more hands-on people down there making a living with hand tools and so they they we got lot a lot more of our of our of our uh technique from them which was good because we could see people making a live in carbon bowls and we could see people making living making like uh stick chairs and and different things like that but again that was kind of destructive too because the tools that they were using were awful like they were using machetes and things like that because that's just all they had now a machete is pretty efficient when you got to go cut some briars down or some brush but it's it's ultimately a piece of mild steel that doesn't really even have like a pretty high temper at all and you can file it that's just how soft it is it doesn't take a good edge but we didn't know so we saw the the mexicans using uh these machetes and and like a bent piece of rebar for a brace and then they would have this this piece of metal that they sharpened into a spoon bit to make these chairs and we thought oh wow that's great let's get some of those and so we got some machetes and some bent rebar braces and we went and started making chairs and and using like so a lot of our information came from that too which like i said earlier was kind of destructive so because a machete is not a not a real tool so anyway so as a kid never really had access to really good tools because you couldn't find them there was no internet and anytime you would ask questions or try to seek information it was just all misinformation and that led to a lot of trial and error that was just i mean ultimately that's how you learn the best way to learn is through trial and error and and there's no real easy way to learn a hard lesson and and uh there's there's no substitute for experience either so anyways that that uh back to the point that that long painful uh uh learning curve there got us to this refined machine that you see here today and you'll notice you won't see one machete or one bent piece of rebar in this toolbox and you'll only see one hand plane of this size and one much smaller hand plane of this size and you won't see any draw knives because that's this is all you need now draw knives are good don't let me offend anyone out there if you're going to make a bow really good for making a bow you know a long bow and that's about it and as far as the dry knife is good unless you have to peel bark off of a log or something we use draw knives for peel and bark off and we're building a chicken house or something like that but not for like refined uh woodworking now there are skilled draw knife users but that's just because they're using the wrong tool for the wrong application because they don't have a spokeshave or a proper hatchet or maybe they're not that good at using a hatchet but anyways so let me go let me uh go ahead and proceed all right back to the task at hand here enough of the storytelling so how we're going to approach this is we're going to get the tools off the top that way we can actually get to the tools much easier that are further down inside so we're going to start with bowl carving what tools do you need for bowl carving well you don't need 20 hand planes or any draw knives so what we use for bowl carving is we use adds and that's what we have right on the top and these are these are really nice asses right here and these ads are forged from car springs we make them ourselves you you some of you probably have seen our how to forge an ads video from a car spring and uh some of you may have seen our how to carve a bowl video where we use these ads but anyways these ads are are really really good these are these are great asses and so back to uh let me let me jump into the painful storytelling here i got this ads that i that i use i keep around just just for explanations like this so back in my trial and error days which i guess you're always in in that time period we're still in it now but uh so a lot of years back i was carving on the street and i had this really awful ads let me get the ads i'll be right back with the awful ads okay back with the awful ads this is this is the awful ads right here now back in the day we didn't have internet there was no internet you just had to like you know trial and error or find something or flea markets or yard sales or there was the uh the wood crafters catalog everybody probably well woodcrafters is still out there but that was the main source of tools back in the day was the woodcrafters catalog so so we would always get the woodcrafters catalog we had to read through it and dream of the tools that one day we might be able to get but could never really afford them because all of our money would just go to food instead so anyways one day after saving money forever i invested in this ads right here and i didn't know i thought man as soon as i get this ads i'm going to be making these bowls it's going to be awesome i can't wait to get this tool how it's going to change my life my dreams went on and on and on so i got the ads and i immediately tried to get an edge on it and it wouldn't really sharpen because it's not really hardened steel at all it's pretty mild and then i tried to carve with it and i thought well maybe just my adzing skills are not up to par and i always just thought i just wasn't made for using an ads but turns out this ads is an awful piece of trash this is like an ads shaped object that really isn't even shaped like in ads when you look closely at it and so i was on the street at this one show carving a bowl with this ads after i got better at using it which you can only get so good at using this ads but i did manage to get a couple bulls and so i was selling these bowls on the street and somebody this older guy came up who had some experience i learned a lot from this guy over the over the years he came up and he watched me carving and he was like yeah that is an awful ads you need a better one and so out of the kindness of his heart he went and he bought this ads for me and he and he gave me this one and man when i went from this ad to this one it changed my life and so i was like wow this is a great tool this is really good and so i commenced a carbon and man it really improved my ability to produce bulls so i i think that guy oh jim jim amerine was his name he was a pretty a pretty old guy then and i hope he's still all right now oh jim amarine thank you jim amarine anyways he gave me this ad and so that it really changed my life so i started to use this one for a long time long time and then i started to notice a lot of uh negative aspects of this ads but this became the ads that was available this was like the high grade ads that you could get it was you could get it in uh at this point internet had come along and so you could you could get online and find these and they're really expensive and anyone who knows anything about ads is this is what they expect to see anyway so i started to learn a lot of like how this ads was really handicapping my my progression so that's whenever uh we started to make our own tools and we started to experi experiment with car springs making hatchets and different knives and different ads and so we started making these ads and you can see that man this is what changed our world right here by the time we got that far i mean you can just see that look at that machine this is the timber hog right here and uh man this thing is so fast and then we realized that you could make them with uh and it was something i'd never thought of i just thought of you just getting ads and that's all you have is that one adds but i but then when we started to make them we realized that you could make an ads that favored different radiuses and so this ads right here is a really aggressive ads that really just digs in and just moves so much wood because that's that's the attitude we've given this ads when we made it so it makes a real big radius a real real big radius now that's really good for rough out but it doesn't it doesn't do you any good as far as finishing up your bowl goes so we started to make these other edges now this adds here is this one has much more of a bin so this one favors a much steeper radius you know a much a much smaller radius and so that's when we started making combination adds is that could really really you could rough out with one and then you could take this the the more finished ads and and surface out with the other one and so man that that really changed our world in the in the ads making world so you have to bring us back up to date on the story here car spraying ads are the way to go you can see those those those just they're they're so good i mean they when you when you're using them the the wood that comes out there doesn't hit the throat right here because it's so deep it doesn't restrict your cut you you have the ability to make them specifically for the job that you want so yeah these really changed our life in our bowl carving world so that that really progressed us but uh but anyways thanks thanks jim memory for giving me this one here that really helped me along my path and this is our third ads right here now this one right here man you can just get right down in a bowl and it'll carve the deepest most steepest turn you've ever seen amazing so that was something i didn't know when i started to work with ads as i didn't know that each one of them had a specific task i don't know how many people i don't think really anybody knows that but anyway that's a valuable piece of information that ninety percent of you guys watching will think is completely useless but but uh there'll be one percent that really thinks man i learned something here today okay so back back to bowl carving we uh we use our adds as for bowl carbon and we use our hatchets for bowl carving so now yeah let me start a good place to start too is is talking about where we started with hatchets now where we started with hatchets is we didn't have hatchets we had machetes because that's what we thought that's what we saw people using it that is wrong man a machete is not a woodworking tool that's for cutting grass but anyway so eventually we got some good hatchets and and so one of the early hatchets that we found were these fiskar hatchets and these fiskars hatchets are really good you can buy them at lowe's and walmart for 24. or 26 bucks or something and but these are not trash there's a bunch of videos on youtube of dudes doing reviews and pretty much every review is really good and i don't see why anybody would make a bad review because they're not bad these are real tools you can really carve with this fiskars hatchet so yeah that really got us into the hatchet world that was really good after painstaking like trial and error going through flea markets find different hatchet heads that wasn't very good and and uh eventually we found the fiskars and the fiskars was really good but it only took us so far and then uh and then we started forging our own hatchets and again from from different this this came from a piece of torsion bar from underneath a toyota and so when you forge your own hatchet you have the option of of hardening it to the specific hardness that you want like a fiskars is pretty mild you can file them and they're that way for a reason so if you're out in the bush and you're chopping limbs or something you hit some sand or you hit a rock it'll put a nick in it but then you can file that nick right back out really really quickly so in a proper wood carving hatchet these are really really hard you can't file these and so if you get a nick in it it's way harder to get that nick out but you're never out chopping rocks and roots with this proper hatchet so you never get a nick in it but anyways yeah so so and it with the ability to harden the steel how we wanted it and to actually get the bevel on here that we wanted that that really changed our our life too so hand forging hatchets really really really helped us out i've got a couple of them here this one's a little heavier than this one this one's pretty light this one has a much steeper bevel this one here has has uh it's i'm not sure how to say that but it's not as pointy and so this one is heavier and not as pointy on the bevel so it causes the wood to to remove and split off quicker instead of just sticking in and and just absorbing your energy it might make a deep cut like like the fiskars will make a really deep cut because it's so pointy but it doesn't split the wood off as fast and so the balance between cutting deep and removing debris is a very specific balance but i won't talk about that too much because i'll bore everyone to death anyways back to the tools we use for carving bowls here yeah back to the bowl carving tools the ones we specifically use for that so uh adds as we rough out the bowl with a hatchet and dig them out with an edge and then you'll need a spoke shave this this spokeshave right here replaces the draw knife for me now now the draw knife is a is a tool that maybe you need if you're going to go build a chicken house or something and like i say a lot of bow makers use a draw knife and that is a more of a precision thing following one uh growth ring when you're making a long bow but uh but in general it's not a very versatile tool and you don't have much control with it and uh and it looks like you've used a draw knife on it on whatever your work is if you're using a draw knife now this spoke shave to those of you that don't know what a spoke shape is it's basically like like a hand plane with a much shorter base and so it's more maneuverable but it gives you that same just like really just uh consistent flow so a spokeshave is really really good yep so smoke shave and uh and then we have our fishtail now the fishtail is a nice big chisel that that we use this we use this a lot in everything but especially bold carving because we'll use it to dig out the bottom of the bowl or kind of rough out where we make the uh you'll see how we use this in our in our uh how to carve a bowl video we use the fish tail a lot so i won't talk too much about it pretty pretty straightforward on the fishtail but uh anyways this is this is closing in on pretty much what we use for carving a bowl now you think i want to carve a bowl i need like probably 20 gouges i probably would need that makes about the right amount of sense and a draw knife and maybe six or eight hand planes i'll probably need to flatten the surface but that's not true at all you you don't need that much to do it so this is what we use we use the hatchet to rough it out adds to dig it out spoke shave to kind of surface off the outside and finish out around around the lip and and this gouge to dig out out the bottom of it and that's that's pretty much what we use occasionally i'll throw in this uh this north bay crooked knife right here to kind of do some fine work but that's pretty much it that we use well no that's not true we use uh where's that right here my little gouge i'll use this too occasionally to kind of rough out some things on it but that's not too many tools you can see that's just a small handful of tools that's what we use for uh for bowl carving but let's let's move on to spoon carving now so for spoon carving you you don't really need that many things like a a lot of uh a lot of beginner carvers think about or beginner woodworkers think about approaching woodworking from the standpoint of learning how to carve spoons which is that is a good a good way to approach woodworking because of a lot of things but one specific thing is when you go to get wood to carve a spoon with you can go into the woods and you can like a tree it's fallen over from a storm or something drifted up some driftwood on the side of the river or something but you want to get like kind of green wood but but when you go to carve spoons you carve green and so you don't have to have the store of dried wood or you have to spend a lot of money on wood you don't have to store any of it you can just go into the woods and cut your limb and split into it and you're carving for nothing and so so to get into that is really good because if you're going to get into woodworking you think i'm going to make cabinets well the first thing you're going to need is a giant shop and a big place to put all your stuff and all these tools and routers and table saws and you're going to need a million dollars and completely like super like zero humidity uh uh kiln dried lumber that's completely unrealistic you're never going to get into woodworking if you think all i need is a 15 000 investment plus my 40 000 shop and then i'll be ready to go so that's totally unrealistic but if you want to get into woodworking and and you want to start carving some spoons you really don't need that much you need a tiny little box to put a couple of tools and a hatchet and a few knives and you're ready to go and you can just get wood whenever you need it with a tiny little pruning saw off the side of a trail somewhere or down down by the beach or down by the river or something like that or there's always somebody taking down trees or you can call uh some tree removal arborist guy and he'll have unlimited wood that you know more than you could ever carve so anyways yeah that's a good place to approach it is spoon carving so let's talk about what we use for spoon carving and again a large portion of our living comes from spoon carving and spoon carving is is uh it's it's a neat it's a neat part of woodworking because it's it's it's pretty simple as far as the basics go but then also it's it has every element that you need to really train your eye and to learn how to really get uh involved in some maybe more complicated uh carving projects so let's see what we use for wood carving what we use is a good hatchet number one gotta have a good hatchet and then we use uh let me get my my uh leather case out here you can see i have this really nice leather case that i can put up to five tools in and if you don't have a case a leather case on your tools your tools are going to get ruined every tool that you have should have a case on it or a specific holder in your toolbox but you have to have some way to protect that edge okay so anyways back to the to the topic at hand here so yeah spoon carving you need a hatchet and you need a couple of crooked knives and so i have these two right here this is uh north bay north bay forge look these dudes up you can buy these knives they are not very expensive i think they're like 60 bucks a piece or something like that and they should be i think around a thousand dollars a piece because that's how much value they bring these are good tools anyways north bay forge look these guys up now a lot of a lot of spoon carving videos you'll see on youtube they'll be using these like these single hook knives where where they're trying to get both of these knives in one and i think it's like a moire or something and you can get it from amazon for 15 or 20 bucks those knives are awful don't get those when we're carving on the street like out at market or something like that a lot of people will get motivated and they'll go get them a little kit of tools that somebody on youtube has suggested or they saw on facebook or something ah i have these tools and i said well man come on over carve right here and that's what they'll bring they'll bring those hook knives in oh they're just terrible they don't sharpen they they're they're just they're awful anyways so don't do that uh north bay forge look these guys up anyways so uh back to the old trusty leather case here i've got these two chisels in here too and one is a fish tail which is slightly bent and then i have this gouge which is is more bent and this is that's pretty much what i use for spoon carving i use a hatchet and these two knives and and these two chisels and so to spoon to start spoon carving that's really all you need that's not much of an investment you don't need that really nice hatchet you can just go get one of these for 25 bucks and you know whatever 120 bucks on these and so you're not too far in you know 200 and you're ready to go and you have a pro set up anyways uh yeah so that's as simple as that that's what we use for for spoon carving and so you can see even a lot of the tools that's in here even as minimal as our tool kit is there's still a lot of of a repetition that we don't really need we could thin it down some some more but anyways that's what we use for spoon carbon so let's let's let's dig in deeper and see what else we have another thing we have in our toolbox is what we use to sharpen our tools to keep them at peak performance now what we we have in our toolbox is sandpaper this is what we do the shaping with all our metal all our edges we shape with this and we uh do the fine honing the strapping with this drop right here it's nothing but a board with a piece of leather glued to it i explained it better in our how to sharpen video anyways yeah so you can have all of the greatest tools in the world and none of them will do you any good at all if you don't know how to keep them sharp so keeping them sharp is really really important you don't have to have a lot of stuff to do that you just have to have one thing and that is the ability to know how to do that which is actually fairly simple we explain it in how to sharpen video check that out anyways back to the sharpening stuff so we have our compound and our strop and our sandpaper and that's that's what we have in here i i that's that's all we use i do have a set of stones in here and i'm not big on stones i don't really like stones but but i do have a set of stones in here for sentimental purposes and uh the the same guy that gave me the ads gave me these stones and this was before he really learned how to sharpen two because that's that's where i learned a lot of my uh how to sharpen was from him jim emery and he was a a big influence in my my woodworking career so i just keep these for sentimental purposes to remind me of some the dark times back before i knew how to actually sharpen so i'll put these back in here anyways that's what we carry in our toolbox all the time to sharpen that is pretty simple and that keeps all our tools in peak performance so let's go in deeper and see what we can do so in our carving videos you'll see that we don't really like to do things that you don't understand what it is you're doing and you don't like to do that for a lot of reasons one because you're you're missing half of of uh of the reward no i would say you're missing ninety percent of the reward so if if you go to carve a spoon or a bowl and you think i'm going to carve the spoon of gold because i need this bowl or i need a spoon yes a bowl and a spoon can improve the quality of your life but the ability to learn and the ability to make things that can improve the quality of your life a lot more than a trivial bowl or a spoon can so if you go through the stages without learning what it is you're doing man you're really you're missing out on like i would say 90 to 99.9 of what it is that you're actually doing and so that is my intro to uh the layout uh tools that we have in this toolbox because if we're gonna carve a spoon or a bowl you need to be able to lay that thing out right so you can be more efficient with your energy and you can actually understand what it is that you're doing the entire time instead of just looking like is this what a bowl carver looks like i i see i've watched a couple videos on youtube of these guys carving these balls and this i feel so bad for repeating this right now but the one guy the one comment said uh alternate name for this video is how to carve a squirrel canoe and uh although that was really funny it was also really mean because the guy making taking the time to make that video put his heart and soul on the line and he was not a pro woodcarver or anything he didn't even have that good tools but he was out there and he was doing it and so i respect him for that he was brave enough to put that video out there but sadly enough i am using that as an example of like if if you don't know exactly what you're doing you can be less than efficient so it's best to take the time to kind of follow the steps and that enables you to better monitor your your progress and so you can learn from your mistakes so uh anyways yes let's take a look at the actual layout tools that we have in our toolbox right now we don't we don't have that many but but we have enough and so we have a straight edge and a way to measure very crucial super essential we have a t-square this enables us to get you know 90 degrees and also we use it all the time for a slide gauge you know you can set it whatever and run your pencil across here for for gauging different things or depth gauge t-square is really really good you don't need a big one or anything like that this is this is what we have in there and uh i also have this little box right here with my pencils and another smaller straight edge and ruler and compass the compass you use all the time you can use the compass for measuring and laying out spoons and getting symmetry a compass is really really important and then i have further done in here just a really small tape measure and i only have this tape measure because when i'm talking to people at different shows uh they'll they'll be like ah yeah can you make me a bowl out i want it to be man i want a nice one i want four feet 48 inches and that's basically a canoe you could get enough and pile it down the river because a lot of times people don't have any concept of of dimension or anything so i have to use this to reel them back to reality that maybe 48 inches is a bit big for a bowl maybe we should bring it down so this is my uh this is what i use to bridge that communication gap is this tape measure anyways so oh now i have my uh my little box right here and in this box i've got a piece of string and this string is is some some super low stretch nylon right here some marine grade cordage from back in the old sailboat days and then i have some finished nails and uh just random finish nails now i use these for i use this box right here for laying out the ovals on top of the bowls that we're carving and in our how to carve a bowl video you'll see how to lay out an oval with string and nails which is a neat geometric trick that everyone should know anyways because laying out an oval is a is a pretty neat thing so uh yeah look that up how to carve a bowl anyways that is what we have for our layout tools right there that's so that's what we do the bulk of our layout with right there that's a that's a pretty simple kit that easily fits in our in our in our toolbox anyways let's dig in deeper and see what else we can so another thing we have this looks like a silly thing but it's not that silly this is super crucial this is a it's a leather cuff that i put on my right hand here when i'm carving because when you're carving around the edge of a spoon you end up riding you pry off of off of the side of your wrist right there and then you'll get a blister in a minute and it'd just be really uncomfortable and you can't be very uh direct with your energy because you're always worried about hurting your wrist so if you have that leather cuff you can see how much wear is right there on the side of it and all that wear would be right on my uh my wrist instead of the leather cuff so yeah the leather cuff is crucial easy to make and uh and really really good to have so let me get this thing off here and uh again we've got our trusty mallet right here uh we use this a lot for you know any sort of chisels that you have to bump kind of encourage you know in some controlled movements for a thousand different reasons you have to have your good mallet so that's the amount we got right there bang bang that's how that works and then we've got this this flat inch and a half uh bevel chisel right here for if we got to cut some mortises or some tenons or something like that we've got that and that that kind of gets us in the realm of that but uh in reality you need you need more if you're going to think you're going in the direction of timber framing but this is this is enough for for what we do for right here anyways uh yeah let's let's fit this sucker around here you can see we've got these leather ties and that's where our hand planes swing from and i got my big plane over there my smaller one over there but let's spin this thing around and go and take a look at how it's actually made so in here we have there's a couple of things that we use i do use this gouge often i'll use that gouge a lot on the bottom of bowls or sometimes on spoons i'll even use this gouge here on spoons depending on how big it is and so but then you know the old spokeshave we use the spokeshave all the time got to have a smoke shave and this is a good carving knife too this is a moray but it's not one of the hook knives this is uh uh you can get these i think for less than 20 bucks on amazon i think we might have better i'm not sure i'm pronouncing it right more more more whatever and uh these are really good knives you need you need one of these in your collection for spoon carving you can get by with just the just the hook knives but it's nice to have one of these and they're not expensive anyways and so this knife over here i have uh let me i have this this uh this is a a v tool right there and i have this for signing my name on all of the products we make because without my name all of the products would be absolutely useless and they would have no value at all and then i have this is the saw that i have which isn't the best saw in the world but it does fit my toolbox really really good and it's just just a folding uh like pruning saw that actually works pretty good but but i i'd recommend getting a better saw like a nice japanese pole saw or something and uh this is another different design crooked knife right here that i don't really use that much but the same guy jim emery that gave me that that adds and got me taught me how to sharpen he got me this crooked knife and this really got me into uh really opened up my eyes to a whole new way of thinking too so anyways i keep this for sentimental purposes this was my my first crooked knife but uh i like that nice case right there too that's a pretty nice case [Laughter] but yeah so right through here when i went to build this tool box this is made from sassafras and and this is a locust handle so the locus handle can be fairly small your hand will fit it good but it's still really structural because it's locus and the sassafras's is nice light but moderately stable wood and what happens with the toolbox when you build it is it gets really heavy really quick because everything you put in it is steel and so you want to keep it as light as possible to start with now this whole system over here was when i went to build this toolbox i didn't have really any plan or thought like how i was going to do it which is kind of a mistake but sometimes it works out and so when i got to where am i going to put all my tools i thought i know what i'll do i'll i'll put like another wall right here and then i'll put these specifically and i'll make them specifically for the tools and i thought yeah but my tools change sometimes or what if i lose this one or get a different one it's bigger i don't want these these pockets right here to be specific size and so anyway so i put these dowels across there and the backs of them are not attached and so they can move side to side right here and that's why you can see i can just adjust them to fit any tool that i need through there so i thought that was a semi clever design that just sort of came out of nowhere and uh so yeah i like that i like that design and so that means all these tools here they don't have to have cases on them i can just drop them straight down and they're protected from all the other tools because they're bearing on the wood on the bottom of them and a lot of these tools i don't really even need occasionally you know if i'm building a log cabin or something i'll use this giant gouge over here but i haven't built a long cabin in a while and i have a lot of repetitive things like this is a fishtail you can see how rusty it is i i don't really use it that much and so these are like the questionable tools here do i even really need them in there but occasionally i do need them and a lot of times at market i'll have like one or two of each thing and if somebody needs one of them then i have a tool that i can give away and so i do kind of keep tools in here to do that too too so i can because they'll go home and forget about it but if you give them the tool it'll kind of get them stoked on uh you know keep keep the fire going in the direction of learning how to carve and so i kind of keep some some repeats in there so anyways this is that's my toolbox right there and that was a uh a long description of of what is in it and why those things are in it and it i wish somebody 20 years ago had taken the time to uh to sort of explain things to me and the way i explained it to you because it would it would better help now me i'm delivering this message from a standpoint of i make a living with this toolbox and so this is not a hobby or a like uh like a collector's perspective this is this toolbox earns money the ability to not die and and the ability to like to build yourself up from the ground up and that's when when we got out here to this location it was a from from our youtube channel you would think it was this uh like gallant perspective of like noble dreams or something and from a stamp from some certain understanding maybe maybe it is like that but but we kind of got into a uh a uh less than desirable situation and so we ended up here with nothing i'm talking nothing literally nothing and and so we built ourselves up everything that you see here was basically earned and built from this toolbox and that's where we started on the side of the rocky hill with no shop no nothing but we had this tool box and so that's why i think everyone should have a toolbox because it can save your life in a situation literally like a survival life and death situation like we faced but also in a psychological situation too where in in life we we uh in in in our daily routines that we go about we kind of just get we we get separated from from our dreams and from our our our uh inspiration and and from our our desire or ability to create and and and and so much about modern lifestyle takes us away from all that not to get too deep into uh the philosophy of wood carving but but uh taking a simple box and putting a few tools in it can really get you connected to this this uh essential side of life that would take me five hours to explain the importance of that so i'll i'll wrap it up with take a box and put some tools in it it can really bring a lot of value and maybe what you saw here could bring some value in the direction of taking a box and throwing some tools in it because uh you might have a better idea of what tools to throw in that box anyway we're going to put the tools back in this box right now and uh i hope this video brought you some value and possibly some joy and anyways thanks for watching we'll see you next [Music] time [Music] you

Channel: Carving A Path

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Length: 40min 26sec (2426 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 01 2020