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I'm not sure there's another tool people spend more time on Youtube excusing themselves for using. Just imagine:
"Now on this project I am going to be using my palm sander. Now you don't have to have a palm sander, you can get pretty good results sanding by hand. But since I do have a palm sander, I'm going to use it."
If I was running a commercial shop churning out furniture for retail sale, I might buy something like a Domino. The time it saves over a router table or dowel jig will pay for itself if it means you can build 10 chests-of-drawers in a month instead of 9.
In my home shop, which is a 10x12 shed in which I make stuff for me and my family, thinking about maybe opening a little Etsy store...I ain't got room for the box it comes in. I legitimately struggled to find a place to put some sandpaper I bought the other day.
That's one of the reasons why I like Chrisfix's videos.
He does take the time to show you how using a power tool or the specifically right tool for the job makes the job easier, but then he always goes back and does the actual job with common hand tools, with a focus on saving his viewers money.
If I have a gripe about his videos, he always makes the job seem easier than it actually is. We see him knock out swapping the clutch on his project car with the magic of editing in 15 minutes but it actually takes two full days when you haven't done it before.
I mean, that's like The New Yankee Workshop.
Those end tables I posted the other day are fairly similar to what Norm built in Season 1 Episode 5. The episode is 28 minutes long complete with introduction, the scene where we go to a museum and look at the original, and end credits. So it feels like he smashes them together in 20 minutes flat. (and/or that it's an afternoon project, that he knocks it out in the course of a Saturday).
According to their website, "a typical project took Norm 2 days." Which I take to mean the photography for the shop section takes that long. Because in the above episode, he's already milled all the stock (if applicable), glued up the table legs and glued up the table top. Oh, and he had one there already finished he kept referring to.
It took me three weeks to build a pair of them from rough lumber.