Man, I love this channel. I'm so sick of being recommended videos of guys with $30k of festool equipment working on $10k worth of walnut to make tables for people who make $10k a day.
I was thinking this the other day. There are so few woodworking RU-vidrs left that haven't upgraded to a 10,000 square foot custom shop with industrial equipment, CNC machines, and epoxy resin.
yeah, concrete and bricks are much cheaper than wood right now... but it's really difficult to keep a plane sharpened when flattening concrete with it... =D
Exactly, if cardboard a box breaks, I could glue on a different box, or make a wooden one. But a lot of these drawers get opened just once or twice a year. For the stuff I access more often I used all wooden drawers.
I mean, cardboard is just processed wood after all, and it saves a TON of time making solid drawers... seems pretty ingenious to me :) Just wait until Ikea sees this
Seriously, it was like watching myself struggle in the garage but with better lighting and a real plan. Beating on parts with a mallet, clamps falling off, scraps and clamps laying all over... SO relatable.
I have an entire panel of microwave TV dinner boxes from Trader joes, where the plastic container is the drawer and the box it came in is taped/glued to pieces of foam-core poster board. Nearly 50 containers to hold small items like pens, pipettes, hardware etc. The construction is similar to what you've done but using hotglue and tape instead of dowels and glue. I find that reusing plastic containers is super light weight and quite durable. If one breaks, I just replace it with recycling from my groceries. The boxes are rectangular enough and gluing bits of foam core to top bottom and sides is adequate support to stack 10 of them, even if they are filled with hardware. it cost about $3 for the foamcore + glue and a roll of tape. Finished in less than an hour. Would have taken all day to build it with wood.
I don't think I've ever seen anything wooden built with that much internal stress... actually let's call it "preload". Whole thing probably has enough potential energy to send itself into space if you could harness it somehow. Great video Matthias!
Small children can eat an incredible quantity of berries, especially if you don't try to supplement with corn syrup based products. Our household has a budget line item for the Costco packs, but it looks like the Wandel house has standardized on this local blueberry farm.
Matthias, you were the first woodworker I started watching on RU-vid over 10 years ago when I was still in high school. I love your old school way of building things and that you still have the same style and spirit in your videos
Second edition for cardboard boxes looks much better! This type of shelf can be stored even in living room.. Excellent idea to glue front pieces to cardboard boxes! 👍
Always nice to see another woodworking video from you! I was thinking you might put those wooden fronts on the cardboard boxes….. then you showed that you did..!!! Thanks for the video Mathias!
And here thought he was making an Ikea Hemnes console table! But far from it! Pro tipp: Doweling is so much easier if you just pre-drill the large plates, then glue them on the dividers, clamp it all down and _then_ drill the holes into the dividers. I'm using small cast-iron angle plates to stabilize boards at right angles to one another during glue-up. Need a couple of those anyway for use on the milling machine et cetera. I'm absolutely loving it though that one of my woodworking heroes, who is god-tier when it comes to designing and making the most complex, precise and imaginative jigs and machines, resorts to brute force when it comes to this simple cubby hole thingy.
Cherry veneer on a cardboard box - I think Matthias just shattered my perception of reality. I know that I _should_ criticize it, but I can't because it is so functional and looks so good. I need to go reevaluate life.
Yes.. not enough cardboard boxes so just build drawers. Thats an equal amount of effort :) :) Thanks for years of videos, i made a few sinple projects because of you.
My dad's advice: if at first it doesn't fit, force it. He's a surgeon. You prove the woodworker's adage...can never have enough clamps. I really like that hole template, but I guess the issue is getting it to align straight to the piece. Love the design.
Dowels: Just go upstairs to the kids play area and pick up a pencil sharpener, then use the shallow & wide hole (for colored pencils) to put a tiny chamfer on the ends of the dowels. People making arrows have similar jigs, but they cost about 10 times what a pencil sharpener does, and they don't have a box to collect the shavings either. I might have both types in my collection.
Here’s a new avenue for research. Cardboard. I had a delivery some months ago and the cardboard was five ply. It’s remarkably strong, I wonder if one could use it to make simple furniture. You could make your own by gluing several pieces together and doing some testing. I would like to see what you came up with.
Wouldn't use it for furniture, although a lot of "woode" stuff contains cardboard on the inside, like cheap table tops, and inside doors. Core of them is just a cardboard honeycomb. Surprisingly strong considering the material.
Awesome. When doing something like this, in way you built it, I may have built one extra layer that wasn’t glued in for templates that could be used if needed short term until time I should glue and build the next template section.
@@matthiaswandel something I would totally do but as people grow, they need more space, or should I say businesses as even RU-vid videos is one. Teach us something different. I guess just giving you ideas for future content I guess. Still love your content. Weird as you are. You doing awesome. So happy for you. Knifes out on comments for next video. Lol
Hi Matthias, I guess it shows my lack of expertise in this but why would you trim the joints with the bandsaw if you were going to sand them after, instead of sanding them directly? Love your videos, keep up the good work.
At 2:30 when you were glueing the first layer together, how long did you let the glue cure for before removing the clamps to carry on the building process? Thanks!
@@matthiaswandel He maybe confusing those movies for Yojimbo. Where you are using your blade to to fight against storage and space. Though I think he just commented on the wrong video.
I'm trying to think why you would build it that way ? Surely vertical panels of pine, the full height, with grooves in them to accept the plywood horizontal shelves would have been simpler.
those verticals would have to be fairly thick so that once you have a groove from either side, it still has some thickness in the middle. And then you don't have much holding it together side to side. Also, the glue-up for that would also be challenging lining so many panels up in their grooves at the same time. I wish people only suggested stuff they actually tried!
Make shelf for boxes -> not enough boxes to fill shelf -> make drawers to fill empty spots -> too many drawers, now have extra boxes -> make another shelf for the extra boxes -> not enough boxes to fill shelf -> make drawers to fill empty spots -> too many drawers, now have extra boxes -> make another shelf for extra boxes ...
@@matthiaswandel I only say auto-generated because they are almost always more accurate and readable (due to the scrolling nature) than manual captions. I am thankful to have either. 🥰
