Graham Orm
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She's clueless but who cares?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F5wr-cmalM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F5wr-cmalM
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Eric The Viking
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110,000 people seem to agree with you too.
I'd say, "Cor she's got pocket holes" but I fear I might get me collar felt.
But clueless -- too right, sadly.
This PC doesn't have sound (it's supposed to be a server). Did she say how she fixes the construction to the wall? Great big countersunk screws?
Even without sound, it's oddly compelling.
Graham Orm
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No but she makes great comments like 'you get your sawn wood and....' (the wood sawing fairy delivers it). or 'of course if you put a screw in wrong you just back it out'
You really need sound, it adds tremendously to the comedy value. Have a look at the $1 planter. It's superb.
You really need sound, it adds tremendously to the comedy value. Have a look at the $1 planter. It's superb.
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You are thoroughly wicked.
Me? About to go and start dinner for one (the DC is out tonight), and hunt for the tablet's charger (coz it has sound).
Me? About to go and start dinner for one (the DC is out tonight), and hunt for the tablet's charger (coz it has sound).
nathandavies
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Grayorm I shall be billing you for wasting a very small part of my life.
I would
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nathandavies":2ea899dq said:
Oh come on! She's got to be worth ten seconds........probably 5 or 6 for me.
Walney Col
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Damn fine looking but not a patch on April or Linn
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So I got the tablet out over breakfast...
... leaving aside what us broadcasting dinosaurs used to call 'production values' (i.e. doing the TV bit properly), there are some truly scary ideas* involving table saws etc. I know that's the American way, but even so. Demonstrating a tablesaw jig that has obvious safety issues, then to make matters worse by showing a second, even more dangerous way to use it, across the Pond might well get her sued after a viewer has an accident. I wonder if she's thought of that. Probably not.
. . .
There's another classic video about cutting up thin ply (one of the videos that does have some editing applied). Sensible ideas gleaned from elsewhere: use a polystyrene sheet as support for the board and a straightedge, and work off a factory edge for marking out (as it's likely to be straight), and run a handheld circular saw along a straightedge to cut (shame she doesn't bother to do the simple saw-cuts-the-straightedge-edge type of guide, but anyway...). BUT she uses cheap knotty deal for the straightedge (probably "straight from the lumber department"), and there's a lovely shot looking along the cut where you can see the bow in it very clearly. How sad.
. . .
I'd never considered the idea of adapting pocket hole joinery to making frame + panel doors completely . Stupidly, I thought she might put the frame together after grooving it, say on the tablesaw, and use a hand plane to make the panels, but no... 1/2" thick panels (raised to 3/4") pocket-holed to a 3/4" frame. No understanding of wood movement, nor the entertainment value of, say, someone adapting the idea to wardrobe-height, or worse, extra-wide doors. Design considerations as bad as technique. How depressing.
. . .
It's VERY disappointing, though, that most of her detractors in the YouTube comments column--and there are many--seem to be gratuitously sexist. The comments are generally rude and stupid.
She is doing bad, dangerous stuff and saying that gently, without making sexist remarks alongside, might have caused her to take note. She appears so ignorant that she could be excused for assuming all comments are mysogenistic and ignoring them, even though many are pointing out very sensible safety issues.
I'd have loved to show my wife her videos: she has a low opinion of her DIY abilities, not helped by me being a rather grumpy perfectionist. If I was better at encouraging her, I think she'd get great enjoyment from doing things like that. When she does participate, she usually takes pride in the results, and I'm probably the reason she doesn't enjoy it more.
If Ana's videos had been well made and demonstrated good techniques, I'd have rushed to do show my other half. Ana ought to be an encouraging role model, obviously - enthused, pretty, young mum who's very much her own boss - in context, what's not to like?
In fact, if I dared go that way, we'd end up arguing about them. She wouldn't see what I see - the dangerous stuff, the elementary mistakes, etc., and she'd say I was just doing the 'poor girl' down.
What a shame!
E.
*for example using a table saw whilst wearing a frilly pinafore. Seriously:, sexist joking apart, why add clothing that could catch on things, and as it's pretty, you'd expect she'd worry about it (and thus be distracted), too.
... leaving aside what us broadcasting dinosaurs used to call 'production values' (i.e. doing the TV bit properly), there are some truly scary ideas* involving table saws etc. I know that's the American way, but even so. Demonstrating a tablesaw jig that has obvious safety issues, then to make matters worse by showing a second, even more dangerous way to use it, across the Pond might well get her sued after a viewer has an accident. I wonder if she's thought of that. Probably not.
. . .
There's another classic video about cutting up thin ply (one of the videos that does have some editing applied). Sensible ideas gleaned from elsewhere: use a polystyrene sheet as support for the board and a straightedge, and work off a factory edge for marking out (as it's likely to be straight), and run a handheld circular saw along a straightedge to cut (shame she doesn't bother to do the simple saw-cuts-the-straightedge-edge type of guide, but anyway...). BUT she uses cheap knotty deal for the straightedge (probably "straight from the lumber department"), and there's a lovely shot looking along the cut where you can see the bow in it very clearly. How sad.
. . .
I'd never considered the idea of adapting pocket hole joinery to making frame + panel doors completely . Stupidly, I thought she might put the frame together after grooving it, say on the tablesaw, and use a hand plane to make the panels, but no... 1/2" thick panels (raised to 3/4") pocket-holed to a 3/4" frame. No understanding of wood movement, nor the entertainment value of, say, someone adapting the idea to wardrobe-height, or worse, extra-wide doors. Design considerations as bad as technique. How depressing.
. . .
It's VERY disappointing, though, that most of her detractors in the YouTube comments column--and there are many--seem to be gratuitously sexist. The comments are generally rude and stupid.
She is doing bad, dangerous stuff and saying that gently, without making sexist remarks alongside, might have caused her to take note. She appears so ignorant that she could be excused for assuming all comments are mysogenistic and ignoring them, even though many are pointing out very sensible safety issues.
I'd have loved to show my wife her videos: she has a low opinion of her DIY abilities, not helped by me being a rather grumpy perfectionist. If I was better at encouraging her, I think she'd get great enjoyment from doing things like that. When she does participate, she usually takes pride in the results, and I'm probably the reason she doesn't enjoy it more.
If Ana's videos had been well made and demonstrated good techniques, I'd have rushed to do show my other half. Ana ought to be an encouraging role model, obviously - enthused, pretty, young mum who's very much her own boss - in context, what's not to like?
In fact, if I dared go that way, we'd end up arguing about them. She wouldn't see what I see - the dangerous stuff, the elementary mistakes, etc., and she'd say I was just doing the 'poor girl' down.
What a shame!
E.
*for example using a table saw whilst wearing a frilly pinafore. Seriously:, sexist joking apart, why add clothing that could catch on things, and as it's pretty, you'd expect she'd worry about it (and thus be distracted), too.
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I just came across this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf6A7vARr4g. Love the closing comment " a much more elegant way to cut up wood" that and the stupid grin while "sawing".
Made me smile.
Matt
Made me smile.
Matt
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undergroundhunter":2hixg2qm said:
Is she really carving up that bit of old pallet on the kitchen table?
I woudn't half cop it if I tried that!
Walney Col
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Yeah but it's her kitchenEric The Viking":2y2927is said:
RobinBHM
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Ive got a large dustpan exactly the same as the one on the wall behind! perhaps she got hers from Axminster too.....
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Graham Orm
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I think this image says all there is to say really. Hair long enough to get caught in the vacuum cleaner, a colour chart on the wall showing various shades of pink.....we all have a chart on the wall of the workshop showing different shades of our favourite colour don't we? And call me sexist and slap me if you like, but she just looks wrong holding that saw. I reckon this is a blatant attempt to take advantage of us poor woody's. She's making money from YouTube and tool endorsements using her looks. What will they come up with next? Note rather than cupboard doors on her storage she has frilly curtains. I'm hooked
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Is she the Sarah Palin of woodwork?
"When I look out of my window in the morning I can almost see the Quangsheng factory!"
For entirely different reasons, I could see her being the darling of a tea party...
"When I look out of my window in the morning I can almost see the Quangsheng factory!"
For entirely different reasons, I could see her being the darling of a tea party...
Phil Pascoe
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Down boy!!
