[CPLX]

If you're at all into woodworking it's just a matter of time before an evening in the YouTube rabbit hole leads you to riving, or Alaskan chainsaw mills, or Wood Mizer demo videos, or silent Japanese guys that are wickedly good at joinery.

[bachbach]

I'm going to put a plug for the Fine Woodworking and Fine Homebuilding magazines and websites here. They both also run excellent podcasts filled with inspiration and advice.

No connection to either, but they're institutions.

Inspired by Fine Homebuilding I'm setting out this summer or autumn to construct this building:

http://www.rodneydiaz.com/garden-shed/

If you've any desire to build your own house, accomplish a DIY or other wood built project - I have an especially good tip here.

Go to Amazon.com and search for "Fine Homebuilding on" or "Fine Woodworking on". These are incredible repositories of hard won knowledge on a specific topic for often literally $0.01 per issue.

The real benefit of all this wood using culture is though - is that you can say to yourself "I think I could do that" and this is invaluable.

[soperj]

hahaha. I've been down the Alaskan Chainsaw mill & Riving rabbit holes, as well as the Paul Sellers stuff (silent british guy that's wickedly good at joinery), but I'll have to check the other 2 out.

[abakker]

2nd this. Buddy and I are currently building a bandsaw mill out of A motorcycle. All because of YouTube.

[mcenedella]

Links??!?! :)

[shabble]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVcHxw2MHN0SCgxkqsQUg... is a pretty good selection of traditional greenwood skills. The shingles videos contain a fair bit of the riving as described in the article.

[dredmorbius]

Youtube search is actually pretty good. Toss in the terms suggested.

[yellowapple]

I'm having a bit of a difficult time finding relevant results for "silent Japanese guys that are wickedly good at joinery" on YouTube; the results tend to leave out the "silent" part.