This Old House: The Rare Home-Improvement Show That Spotlights Skilled Workers

Post by stallmanite » Tue, May 21, 2019, 2:33 AM UTC

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Another gem from that area on PBS is Rough Cut with Tommy Mac. It kind of makes you want to quit your job and just build furniture, but I love that he tends to go into the weeds of the little tricks and techniques.

The Woodwright's Shop ( https://www.woodwrightschool.com/ ): he's been doing this for longer than I've been alive, he's in freakin' great shape, and he has the sharpest tools known to man. [Edit: Holy poop! "BlockChain Implementation w/ Roy Underhill" ( https://www.woodwrightschool.com/classes/blockchain-implemen... ). Hometime ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hometime_(U.S._TV_series) ) with Dean Johnson and (as the…

Post by nataz » Tue, May 21, 2019, 2:44 AM UTC

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Agree so much with this. Frank Howarth, Abom79, This Old Tony, Welding Tips and Tricks, Jimmy DiResta, Stumpy Nubs, Stefan Gotteswinter - there's so much great content like this on youtube. TV was never a great place for craft because it has to serve a general audience. Youtube has so much niche specific content with pretty great production values.

I've found "Acorn to Arabella" [2] to be a wonderful series/channel so far - "building a 38’ sailboat from stump to ship". "People building things" is easily my favorite genre on YouTube. Old things [0, 1, 2], new things [3, 4], useless things [5], repairing things [6] - all fantastic. 0: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA 1: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEjEAxdJLOg4k854j-oESfQ 2: https://ww…

Post by DuskStar » Tue, May 21, 2019, 3:19 AM UTC

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I've found "Acorn to Arabella" [2] to be a wonderful series/channel so far - "building a 38’ sailboat from stump to ship". "People building things" is easily my favorite genre on YouTube. Old things [0, 1, 2], new things [3, 4], useless things [5], repairing things [6] - all fantastic. 0: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA 1: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEjEAxdJLOg4k854j-oESfQ 2: https://ww…

Man, I can't watch acorn to Arabella after watching them pour that lead keel. That was super dangerous and irresponsible.

Post by technofiend » Tue, May 21, 2019, 4:18 AM UTC

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One of the main problems with This Old House, the cost of the homes and projects are for the top 10% of income earners, so generally, they're not examples of rebuilds that can be had by the majority of home owners. I get that real copper gutters are cool and will last two lifetimes, but how many people can afford that? I could think of about a dozen examples like this that regular folk can not afford, slate roofs, st…

Post by mcpherrinm » Tue, May 21, 2019, 7:27 AM UTC

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Those are mostly native ads which is the main weakness of the post-Abram series.

Are you sure of that? I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but I find the lengths TOH goes to to obscure and omit brand names fanatical. It's never "The Home Depot", it's always "your local big box store" (even though it's always orange shelves). Likewise, a lot of logos are blurred out or taped over. They use generic references whenever possible. But, despite all that, I know that Tommy loves Festool, and Norm…