JayZeus wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2023 9:13 pmAre you sure he's French? Are you sure he's not American?
It seems to me like the kind of snake oil 'solution' I'd expect to see from Jonathan Katz-Moses, the woodworker I dislike more than any other, because he's so completely full of himself and his own BS.
Now that you mention it, I could well believe that the French lad is cut from the same cloth as JKM.
JayZeus wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2023 9:13 pmMaybe the genius with the pair of planks full of holes is going to use those holes with some big dowels to join the boards together again after (overkill, but a perfectly good way to do it, working the same way dominos/biscuits/normal-people-dowels would work for alignment), and the whole rubbish about disrupting longitudinal fibres and all that stuff is because he's overthinking it and overselling it to his audience, for whatever his reasons are.
I'm in a bad mood tonight. This didn't help.
Oh, no - he used classical dominos to re-join the two pieces later on, and added another slab, different wood, to make the table even wider ... come to think of it, I don't think he did the big transverse holes thing on that one. Hmmm ...
kadman wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2023 9:16 pm
Theoretically speaking, it makes sense just from the visual of the holes in the planks, considering I have not watched the full video.
By drilling the holes if they are nearly full width across the boards, then I can understand the logic. The board is no longer a full length board with al the stresses that it would carry. Its now effectively a shorter segmented length board, between the holes. Smart old frenchie.
Okay, so maybe there's some value in the idea. I think he might have made reference to an ancient technique used in the making of monastic refectory tables, but I dislike his style of presentation so much, I'm not to going re-watch the video. Oh, and being typically French, he blathered on about what he wasn't doing so much that he had to spread the whole build over three videos.
Next time I'm poking around a mediaeval monastery, I'll see if there's a big old table I can examine.