A ring tool for end grain: Henry Keate's one turning of the week
The new short, made with a Robert Sorby ring tool, joins a 48-day-old titanium-coated 'Golden Gouge' that is still drawing viewers.
Henry Keate Carpentry ShortsStory of Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
Turning with a RING? #woodturning
Six days old, "Turning with a RING? #woodturning" is the only new short on Henry Keate's channel, and it is the one moving fastest. The ring in the title is not jewelry: it is a ring tool for cutting end grain, which the description says came from Robert Sorby, the Sheffield toolmaker. It opened with a little over 12,000 views on its first day and has since passed 20,000.
The tool theme runs through the channel right now. "The Golden Gouge!!", posted 48 days ago, shows off a bowl gouge coated in titanium nitride, which gives it its gold color, and it has gone past 110,000 views while still collecting a steady trickle. Behind them sits "SCRAP Apple to Wood Bowl!!", an eleven-day-old short that turns leftover apple wood into a bowl, very much in the spirit of the channel's about text, which promises the projects that go wrong as well as the ones that go right.
Overall it was a slow stretch. The channel is drawing well below its usual daily views, its subscriber count held still at around 872,000, and among similar DIY and home channels it added the fewest views of the week, while eFIXX and Homeworthy ran well above their usual pace. For a shorts channel that leans on one chilled lathe clip at a time, a single upload makes for a quieter week, and the ring tool is carrying it.
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The videos drawing views on Henry Keate Carpentry Shorts right now
- Channel
- Henry Keate Carpentry Shorts
- Subscribers
- 872,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 87,716
- Videos published this week
- 1
- Video published
- September 29, 2026
- Video views so far
- 21,818
- Views on its first day
- 12,274
The numbers
Here are the figures behind Henry Keate's week at the lathe.
💡 Test your knowledge
On a woodturning lathe, what is the spinning part that holds the workpiece at the motor end called?
The headstock houses the drive spindle that holds and turns the wood, while the tailstock supports the other end.
