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In another thread on this forum conserning youtubers the discussion started to touch on the subject of good design. Inspirered by this I thought I should start the christmas season with a few thoughts on this subject and maybe start a discussion on a few pieces. By profession and training I...

Funny thing, Sellers divide while Peterson unites!

Just so.

Yes, you can probably learn something from him. And If I were looking up how to make a specific joint or somesuch and chance up on one of his videos I might look at it before doing the real learning in the workshop. But his hatchet job with hatches makes me wonder about some of the other things...

There is no correlation between inspiring and good design and complexity in construction or how much skill it takes to carry out the work. Things can be simple and beautiful. Rococo furniture might take a lot to skill to make by hand, but I am not inspired by it. Neither am I by the work of...

The problem with Sellers is that it seems like he likes being a "guru" so much that he gives out really bad advice about things that he really doesn't know that much about, instead of giving an honest answer or recommending that you look to someone else. Seeing him working with an axe and knife...

Still, very little power. Just enough to power a toaster. With solar you can relatively easily get enough effect to power a modern home. If you add batteries you also have storage. Does it really matter if the power used at night comes from batteries or from the generator? There are no moving...

Because the only advantage for a small hydro is that in theory it is not intermittent. If the system has batteries that advantage is negated.

If you are using batteries there is even less reason to go with hydro instead of solar.

1200w? So not quite enough to power a electric kettle? My toaster is about 900 watts, so at least that is covered... It is still incredibly ineffiecient compared to solar.

With small hydro you basically ruin the ecology of the stream for very little energy. Solar photovoltaics are a lot more efficient and cost effective. I mean the one in the link above has an effect og 1.5 kW. Your typical rooftop solar has an effect of 6-12 kW. Solar also has no moving parts and...

They seem to work fine up here. Most new singel family housing use grund source heat pumps up here. The temperature is now -15, up from -22 this morning.

An air-air heatpump?

-22c here. We got about 40 cm of snow last weekend.

I grind knives freehand on Tormek using no toolrest. It is one of the advantages of a water cooled slow wheel. You can look at the water to see that the angle is correct. If you want to change the bevel angle, the knife jigs are excellent.

Hultafors talmeter is my prefered tape.

There is nothing wrong with painting wood, only philistines claim otherwise. Painting nice hardwood is of course unnecessary. Build it in pine or another suitable wood. Painted mdf looks like painted mdf. Painted wood looks like painted wood. The difference is important. Choose a traditional...

That is probably the understatement of the year!

No 6 turns up quite often in Sweden, seems to have been a popular size here. Another thing I have noticed is that corrugated soles are a lot more common here than uncorrugated. I wonder why, the internet guys seem to say that corrugated soles are inferior and should be avoided.

Let's see if I can summarize this correctly for a beginner in planing like me: Stick with your common stock Stanley/Record/Eskiltuna Steel/E A Berg/etc iron and learn to sharpen if you want to do wood work with your plane. And if you need a replacement, get a carbon steel iron. I really...