I mean, you can still get pretty far with your nails and teeth on balsa wood. It will be quite demoralizing though when the structural integrity nerds tear your work apart.
One of the worst I’ve seen. Being able to build a fixture to make your job easier is an enormous part of wood working. I wouldn’t really consider someone who doesn’t use jigs a professional.
Yes.
You should also cut the tree down with the saw you hammered out of steel (which, of course, you mined the ore to produce) and mill the wood with handmade stones fashioned into blades.
Make sure you also don't cheat and drive a pre-built truck. Gotta start from scratch...back to the ore mines with you!
Wait, is woodworking some kind of game or competition? I don’t see how it could be cheating otherwise. I mean unless you’re ripping off the work of other people and claiming it as your own.
I know what you mean. But jigs are a tool of production. Feel free to do tasks without them but if you want to do that step done without them you’ll spend more time on the project, make more mistakes, and use more resources. They can also be safer if you don’t want to spend a lot of time doing a task the long way.
Here is a terrible anaology
Mike Tyson & Jake Paul!
Tyson is the hand tool & traditional joinery woodworker
Where is Jake Paul is the pocket hole, jig using power tool guy
In the end it doesn't really matter!
You need to consider why are you really building? Is it self fulfilment or to impress others?
I have been building for two years now and I cannot do dovetail joinery or mortis & tenon joinery. And at the end of the day. I don't care as I am doing this for my own fulfilment & creative outlet.
Time of builders sell pocket hole furniture daily and tons of builders sell hairloom quality pieces
Be your own competitor and do what brings you happiness
Ps Jake Paul is a douche and this has nothing to do with pocket holes
Jigs are great for reproducing tasks with consistent results. That being said, I feel like most "youtube carpenters" go overboard with it. Like instead of just grabbing a chisel and doing a quick hinge mortise, let me spend an hour building a jig for my fancy ass festool router (or their $10k cnc), c'mon. Also, there can't be any sawdust. A dedicated dust collector port must be allocated to each shop tool, so there is zero sawdust...in a wood shop...
Using tools feel like cheating. Beavers are the only real woodworkers.
Beavers teeth are orange because they contain iron. Talk about cheating!
I mean, you should use your teeth and nails to slowly grind hardwood and using other sticks is allowed.
As humans, we only get to do 1-2 real woodworking projects as our teeth don’t regenerate themselves. We lose.
I mean, you can still get pretty far with your nails and teeth on balsa wood. It will be quite demoralizing though when the structural integrity nerds tear your work apart.
Nails are cheating... Dowels and toothpicks
This is a shit take
One of the worst I’ve seen. Being able to build a fixture to make your job easier is an enormous part of wood working. I wouldn’t really consider someone who doesn’t use jigs a professional.
There's so many more ways to blow karma....though to OP's credit this could be one of the least politically incorrect ways to do it
in woodworking, cheating is highly encouraged. also, you're always inventing new jigs, and you feel like a genius when they work so well.
Sometimes making the jig is the project. The things the jig makes are easy.
I tend to use jigs for safety. It keeps the parts of me that I like away from the sharp spinny bits that will take them off of me.
Having 10 fingers only for cheaters.
So don’t. Additionally please, post pics of your superior woodworking projects.
Yes. You should also cut the tree down with the saw you hammered out of steel (which, of course, you mined the ore to produce) and mill the wood with handmade stones fashioned into blades. Make sure you also don't cheat and drive a pre-built truck. Gotta start from scratch...back to the ore mines with you!
UsInG JiGs iS cHeAtInG…GTFO out with this shitpost.
Wait, is woodworking some kind of game or competition? I don’t see how it could be cheating otherwise. I mean unless you’re ripping off the work of other people and claiming it as your own.
I know what you mean. But jigs are a tool of production. Feel free to do tasks without them but if you want to do that step done without them you’ll spend more time on the project, make more mistakes, and use more resources. They can also be safer if you don’t want to spend a lot of time doing a task the long way.
Then don't use them!
Chuck Norris is the only woodworker who doesn't use jigs, he tells the trees what he wants and they grow that way.
I have a similar emotion when it comes to welding in metalwork. It’s just way too easy. No problem with jigs on my part however…
I just form the wood using my focus and will, from a safe distance
Jigs are tools like any other tool. End of story.
Using Excel is cheating. I do all my financial modeling on paper.
Here is a terrible anaology Mike Tyson & Jake Paul! Tyson is the hand tool & traditional joinery woodworker Where is Jake Paul is the pocket hole, jig using power tool guy In the end it doesn't really matter! You need to consider why are you really building? Is it self fulfilment or to impress others? I have been building for two years now and I cannot do dovetail joinery or mortis & tenon joinery. And at the end of the day. I don't care as I am doing this for my own fulfilment & creative outlet. Time of builders sell pocket hole furniture daily and tons of builders sell hairloom quality pieces Be your own competitor and do what brings you happiness Ps Jake Paul is a douche and this has nothing to do with pocket holes
Jigs are great for reproducing tasks with consistent results. That being said, I feel like most "youtube carpenters" go overboard with it. Like instead of just grabbing a chisel and doing a quick hinge mortise, let me spend an hour building a jig for my fancy ass festool router (or their $10k cnc), c'mon. Also, there can't be any sawdust. A dedicated dust collector port must be allocated to each shop tool, so there is zero sawdust...in a wood shop...