Build A Small Wall Cupboard - Part One 

New subscriber here. How wonderful it is to finally find real woodwork on YT instead of just vids on how to use pocket hole jigs & ply .. & to hear rebates called rebates instead of "rabbits". THANK YOU! :)

I've been researching hand tool woodworking for a few days now and have been most impressed with your videos. The graphics, the level of explanation, the thought process of how to match instead of just measure and hope -- you really give a sense of how one approaches this work. Keep up the excellent and inspiring work.

I like to see this type of 'Back to Basics' woodworking using had tools. Your chopper action is a joy to behold - Ooooooohh Matron!!! LOL

Clinching, I think the old boys of the past were sharp fellows to come up with this and other concepts. Thank you.

I have been for many many of years a carpenter , to see a person using hand tools and using them correctly , gives me hope , because carpentry is dying out , most blokes think that toe nailing has something to do with a toe . So all you , who want to be a carpenter , remember , if you can lay out a circular staircase and calculate every rise and run before building it , if you can build a roof by hand and know what the difference is between a knee rafter and a rafter , or a lintel and a header , sorry Homes you don't , you are on your way to become a carpenter . Never ever say it is good enough , thank you for the video nice to see that some still know what they are doing

I like that you use the axe. Looks like it saves time over a chisel/saw in those larger cuts ;)

These videos and your skill are fantastic. Keeping making videos and we'll keep watching

Just fascinating. Your explanations of what you do and don't measure gives enormous insight into the way old time carpenter's must have worked. I can really see it when I watch you work. Please keep making these videos it's enthralling.

Love the chalk board illustrations!

Thanks, sawing the housing shoulders is certainly an option and I will do that at times. I find that sawing comes with limitations though so I like to show the chisel as a 'one for all solution'. I've another video planned on this subject soon so hopefully that will make the preference clear.

Wow, really really high-quality video and I love it. Thanks for sharing.

Brillant i like your woodworkig technics,Its eye openner how you can do simple but great carpentry,needs to see more of Tips & projects. Many Thanks

Great video

great job, just the kind of work I want to do. it's fun watching you work on the little john, makes me very excited about getting mine. I've.always wonded how a hand router plane works, having seen photos but no one actually using one. where I live ,south india, and work I won't be using a power router it's just too much noise and too much dust. this is really fun Richard. barry

Excellent skills & presentation. Now I must get that wall cupboard started !

True definition of carpenter 👌

Hi Paul, we're a bit restricted on space at the mo so I had to pop out to the main workshop. I build workbenches for my living hence the machines but I love the hand tools for building furniture. We will try to limit the mixture in the future.

Way to go Richard, great video buddy. Good job ;)

Excellent video's with great production values. I am learning a lot!

Thanks Deezynar, the music we've used is all by Emma Wallace. It's something we stumbled upon and really enjoyed, very easy to listen to.

Love your simple straight forward approach ;)

This is a cool little cabinet. I built it out of peruvian (tropical) walnut which is my favorite to work. Thank you for your videos on this project. They are going to make great Christmas gifts this year. The veritas skewed rabbet plane is one of my favorites to use. Good job bro.

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Just found your channel and subscribed. You have a great teaching style and excellent techniques. Cheers!

A young bloke using just handtools!!!!! I love to see that....And also theres just one problem with your videos.............theres not enough of them :(

4:58 " ... the carcass will still end up true.." If only life were this way...

Excellent work, I'm well impressed, and I have an engineering background so that's not easy.

Great video, no bullshit! Thank you.

Well demonstrated,, inspirational craftmanship.

Superb video. This is how woodworking should be done. 'Don't give it too much wellie'. :-)

What a high quality video!

Great video.

Excellent presentation!

Fantastic video, you are great, love your work, well done

Fascinating !

Searched "best woodworker" not dissapointed. :)

Love this. Feeling a bit out of my depth though, but inspirational stuff. Looks like that bench is a great asset - do you have a vid or advice on getting a good workbench set up?

fantastic video, thanks for posting it. subscribed straight away. that good

some of ur jointers/jiggs look like u might have made them would love to c how. good work keep it up

excellent works!

Hi Richard, am I right in thinking the skew rabbet plane you're using is a left-hand model but that you're right-handed?

Great work. I like the old school style. How would you make the holes if you had no drill?

a gem

"for a little bloody cupboard like this I think thats enough" LOL priceless

..aren't the veritas routers just a gem to use? :-) ...love mine to bits...

You have brought up the obvious reason but I still feel that there is a subtext here that is not being mentioned. There is certainly a benefit to be had mastering hand tools working wood. Hand working wood can lead to a deeper appreciation of the material itself. An appreciation that may even transfer to when one uses power tools. I think you may be missing something by avoiding addressing that too. In fact we all may be missing something. Which is why I bring it up.

Nice

Lovely job, I whish I live close to you so I can become an apprentice

Lovely video. Lots of great information presented well. I'm w/ the Irish Wood Doctor on sawing the housing sides. It's all a matter of preference, but that's my 2 cents. I notice the voice of the singer is the same as in another one of your videos. Is that your female partner doing the music, or is it a recording? I love the voice. She sounds American, not that that's why I like it, just saying.

Very good.

15:24 Jeeeesus, was that creepy! :D Where do you get your music for the videos anyway?

Buenas ideas me sirve de mucho

Emma Wallace, thanks!

Im sure you can build it too guys. Just look for Woodprix page

Hi there, I would opt for an old 'egg beater' style drill if I didn't have a power one. You could search for a video we made last year over on our 'Maguire Workbenches' channel - look for the video 'Making a Box at the Little John Workbench'. Thanks.

One question, my good man...you make some of the most elaborate and sturdy benches in all the world and you're woking on that spindly little trestle? Why?

Awesome

The video starts out in that shed, then the next scene is shot in the shop with all of the power tools and I'm thinking upgrade! Then when the video goes back to the shed all I can think about is wait, what about the shop full of tools? I don't know I guess I'm just a bit confused with the purpose of the apparent dichotomy. I'm sure there is a reason but what it is eludes me. This guy still really seems to know his stuff.

I don't understand your stressing that glue be applied twice to the end grain. Do you use the glue as joint filler since it does not offer any additional strength to the joint?

How can I find one of those steel guides to make wooden nails?

do you still use inches in the UK?

What type of wood is this?

ma come parli ? bravo però, ! good woodworkimg

dadoes! haaahah

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