nabs":daxey2u9 said:there you go - having finished my impassioned defence of paid content, RM has just released a new video series and its free! D_W you may be interested to know it is about making a laminated wooden plane (you can read his brief intro for why he did this rather than the trad approach). cheers
http://www.theenglishwoodworker.com/plane-build-video/
Ahh - I do recall that.
I know some people will just like to build a plane, and that's fine. In terms of time on laminated planes with a cross pin, I just don't really get it, though. There is an argument (and I get messages on youtube like this) "you know, I like the plane you built, but I don't think I can build it" (or get the right materials, or want to build a couple to get a good one, etc. ).
But I went down the easy road first, and made planes that stay on the shelf. The sensible thing for someone really wanting a plane like that is to go to any decent online dealer in the UK and you can get for 30 quid a near perfect plane that if it needs any tuning, you can figure out what the issue is easily from the making videos.
I eventually threw away all of the "shortcut" planes i made. It was fun to think how they might be great while I was making them, but the fun ran out and they turned out to be a waste of time and money. Your 30 quid near perfect plane costs us 70 over here, because we have to ship it to here, but it's still the same cost as it is for me to build a plane. So, the building is really just for sport. My planes aren't any better than the couple that I scavenged my favorite aspects from except that they are new and tight. But it takes a tiny effort to make those old planes just as new and tight feeling. Then they become a serious lifetime tool that nothing will surpass, and they'll never end up on the rack for any reason other than purchasing excess.
Now, of all of my comments above, I don't wish to change anyones' mind about Richard or paying for content, or suggest Richard should share information for free that he feels he can get paid to share. That's his business, his subscribers' business, and none of mine. Mine's just opinion, and one thing I believe about opinions is that you don't have to agree with me and we can get along fine, and certainly I don't believe that we should insist that our opinions are good enough for obligation.
I picked up on some of his complaints, and drew my conclusion that he's sort of building a case as to why he should sell paid info, but I think that telling potential subscribers that the world of free information is a minefield of trash that can't be navigated (or implying that) is not accurate. Sure, there's a lot of trash. There's a lot of super stuff, too. It would be more useful to just put a list together of the good stuff. And then if people still decide they want better produced videos, well you usually have to pay for that because people like me who don't even have ads turned on really aren't building a business and never intend to, and we're definitely not going to spend an entire day editing a 10 minute video.
I sense that the road to making paid content is due to failure to find satisfaction (which is likely more related to failure to find financial satisfaction) doing anything else, and the frustration of dealing with other peoples' opinions is a perfectionist issue. Not productive. You do what you think is right and ignore the opinions that aren't productive. I used to argue with everyone, I guess compared to the average person, I still do. But when someone comes to my youtube channel and wants to start an argument or leaves a pointlessly negative post just to start the typical internet fight, I just delete it these days without responding. I hope richard gets to that point.
I could be wrong about every single speculation and everything else above! I reserve the right to be wrong I don't reserve the right to tell you that I'm not if we find out that I am.