I launched the YouTube Woodworkers Dashboard in October of 2025. It started as a tribute to my favorite woodworking channels.
Since then, whenever I encountered an interesting video from a woodworker, I added the channel to the dashboard. I stopped at 200 channels. The dashboard should be more about quality than quantity.
Of course, that meant I needed to decide how to define “quality.” Or more accurately, how to define a minimum level of quality – after all, I’m tracking 200 channels!
Rule #1 – Show Activity
Rule #1 of the YouTube Woodworkers Dashboard is that a channel must have published at least one video in the last 12 months. It seems arbitrary to draw the line at 12 months, but it’s long enough to allow people to have a child and settle into a routine before resuming video production.
Rule #2 – Show Commitment
Rule #2 of the YouTube Woodworkers Dashboard is that a channel must have published a minimum of five videos. It eliminates the unrealistic dreamers – people who think they’re YouTube stars but quit as soon as they realize it’s a lot of work! In my opinion, if you found the resolve to produce five videos, you’ve shown enough commitment.
Conclusion
Implementing just these two rules knocks a dozen channels off the YouTube Woodworkers Dashboard. In the coming days, I’ll be removing those channels and finding new ones to replace them, keeping the total number of channels in the dashboard at 200.
I know that many more rules could be implemented to improve the quality of the “top 200” woodworking channels. I could set minimum thresholds for subscribers or views per video, for example. But that’s work for another day. I’d prefer to bite off what I can chew, which for now is the first two rules!
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