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Youtube creators need to demonstrate their shop-made jigs within the first minute of a video BEFORE making you watch 15 minutes of them building it
Just venting to the community here about something that frustrates me endlessly as a new-ish woodworker who's to-do list of shop jigs grows ever longer. Obviously Youtube is an incredible source of top tier woodworking content, along with some middling accounts and outright shills, but that doesn't detract from the quality ones I don't think. I have a serious bone to pick though with the way 90% of these creators structure their videos, which ALWAYS seems to be a 10 second vague verbal introduction to the jig they've designed/copied while standing in front of their workbench, followed by 15 minutes of top down shots of them ripping $100 sheets of Baltic Birch plywood with a table saw, and then in the last 30 seconds you see them use this jig exactly one maybe two times before the video ends (although not before a quick message from today's sponsor!).
I'm not naive, I know this structure is entirely deliberate to get you to watch more ads. But woodworking jigs almost by nature are incredible works of geometric ingenuity with very specific use cases that really need to be clearly understood. I also know that I can usually look at a jig and within five seconds know if it's going to work in my shop and be worth my time to build. But man it is so frustrating skipping through all the action shots of ripping, gluing, pocket screw-ing only to get the most basic and watered down actual demonstration of what it can do.
Rant over - I don't have a solution, but I am hoping my fellow commenters can echo my frustration. Cheers and happy building.
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Just venting to the community here about something that frustrates me endlessly as a new-ish woodworker who's to-do list of shop jigs grows ever longer. Obviously Youtube is an incredible source of top tier woodworking content, along with some middling accounts and outright shills, but that doesn't detract from the quality ones I don't think. I have a serious bone to pick though with the way 90% of these creators structure their videos, which ALWAYS seems to be a 10 second vague verbal introduction to the jig they've designed/copied while standing in front of their workbench, followed by 15 minutes of top down shots of them ripping $100 sheets of Baltic Birch plywood with a table saw, and then in the last 30 seconds you see them use this jig exactly one maybe two times before the video ends (although not before a quick message from today's sponsor!).
I'm not naive, I know this structure is entirely deliberate to get you to watch more ads. But woodworking jigs almost by nature are incredible works of geometric ingenuity with very specific use cases that really need to be clearly understood. I also know that I can usually look at a jig and within five seconds know if it's going to work in my shop and be worth my time to build. But man it is so frustrating skipping through all the action shots of ripping, gluing, pocket screw-ing only to get the most basic and watered down actual demonstration of what it can do.
Rant over - I don't have a solution, but I am hoping my fellow commenters can echo my frustration. Cheers and happy building.
#diy
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