I feel like most diy construction channels are explicitly not designed for beginners/non construction workers to follow along with and imo that’s fine. Its a very specific niche for people with a very specific set of skills and for them its probrally pretty helpful.
I mean you wouldn’t expect a YouTube channel that does advanced scientific experiments to reduce their safety equipment so viewers could more easily replicate their experiments.
Tldr: It might be DIY that doesn’t mean you can DIY it
I feel like I am in the target audience of this type of channel. I have spent the last 20 years buying a tool every few months, usually used. I might not have every tool, but short of a lathe or excavator, I can usually figure out a replacement.
I still consider myself a DIYer, since i am not professionally trained to do anything. I am fortunate enough to have like minded friends, some even professionals to ask. They watch these channels too, and they consider themselves DIYers on everything but their specialty area.
i think we just need a new term for that, if a normal person cannot do it themselves with some reading, practice, and reasonable purchases, then it isn’t DIY.
Like, if you’re a professional woodworker it’s not DIY if you record yourself building a fancy solid mahogany escritoire…
At the same time it kinda is since many of these creators openly share advanced schematics, 3d files for printing, CNC templates, circuit board designs, and in some cases even full on instructions. Of course the average person doesn’t even have a 3d printer let alone something like a CNC machine, still with someone that has the tools and experience it can be done diy (naturally if you don’t have the experience all the advanced schematics and files wont mean anything).
yeah that’s sorta why i want a separate term for it, it IS good but when we call it DIY it sets poor expectations and doesn’t really benefit anyone other than people who want to clickbait.
The channels I watch generally don’t call it anything, they just say “how to make x” or “making y”. The main problem with term DIY is people assume that means anyone with no experience and just random scrap they have lying around can by default do it.
I feel like most diy construction channels are explicitly not designed for beginners/non construction workers to follow along with and imo that’s fine. Its a very specific niche for people with a very specific set of skills and for them its probrally pretty helpful.
I mean you wouldn’t expect a YouTube channel that does advanced scientific experiments to reduce their safety equipment so viewers could more easily replicate their experiments.
Tldr: It might be DIY that doesn’t mean you can DIY it
I feel like I am in the target audience of this type of channel. I have spent the last 20 years buying a tool every few months, usually used. I might not have every tool, but short of a lathe or excavator, I can usually figure out a replacement.
I still consider myself a DIYer, since i am not professionally trained to do anything. I am fortunate enough to have like minded friends, some even professionals to ask. They watch these channels too, and they consider themselves DIYers on everything but their specialty area.
i think we just need a new term for that, if a normal person cannot do it themselves with some reading, practice, and reasonable purchases, then it isn’t DIY.
Like, if you’re a professional woodworker it’s not DIY if you record yourself building a fancy solid mahogany escritoire…
At the same time it kinda is since many of these creators openly share advanced schematics, 3d files for printing, CNC templates, circuit board designs, and in some cases even full on instructions. Of course the average person doesn’t even have a 3d printer let alone something like a CNC machine, still with someone that has the tools and experience it can be done diy (naturally if you don’t have the experience all the advanced schematics and files wont mean anything).
yeah that’s sorta why i want a separate term for it, it IS good but when we call it DIY it sets poor expectations and doesn’t really benefit anyone other than people who want to clickbait.
The channels I watch generally don’t call it anything, they just say “how to make x” or “making y”. The main problem with term DIY is people assume that means anyone with no experience and just random scrap they have lying around can by default do it.