Furniture Forensics with a Craftsman End Table

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0:00 Intro
0:13 A Closer Look
3:19 When?
4:30 Why is it so strange?
6:33 What's inside?
9:34 The Story
11:34 Outro

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@RexKrueger 2 года назад

Since I published this video, many people have suggested the "repair theory" where the piece was built once and then fixed by another craftsperson later. I see a few details that conflict with this idea, but I've become persuaded that some amount of repair DID happen. Thanks to everyone who opened my eyes to this valuable idea!

@MaryAnnNytowl 2 года назад

Oh, yes, I was about to shout that to the four winds until I checked the comments, LOL! That front leg wasn't fixed by a craftsperson, though, but by... a handyman sort of person, maybe? Someone unfamiliar with how to copy any of the original stuff, at least. It's literally as obvious to me as the nose on your face! Maybe because I've cobbled together repairs when I didn't have the correct tools, or correct knowledge, I can see it clearly. I mean, aside from the fact that that paint isn't nearly as old as the other paint, and isn't even the same tint of white, from the look of it. I was a painter for a couple of decades, so that jumped out at me, too. Helps when I've got it on my big screen, too. 😄 Likely was also put together when lumber was scarce, and you used it up, wore it out, made it do, or did without. 😉 (Edited for clarity)

@billkramer6470 2 года назад

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@davidfuller764 Год назад

Thank you so much. That was a wild ride. Forensics indeed. So enriched by viewing this. Thank you.

@fred5480 2 года назад

A few years ago we had a chest of drawers that were built by my wife's grandfather in the 1930s. The paint was getting tired, so I decided to refinish it. Instead of adding another coat of paint, I opted to strip it and apply stain and varnish. I stripped the first drawer. SCORE! the false front was maple. I was mulling around stain options as I stripped the second drawer front revealing a beautiful piece of....pine. The third drawer was I think mahogany (best guess) and the last another pine. The chest face frame was red cedar and the top was some kind of mystery wood that I never figured out. (I guessed elm or chestnut because they were not species I knew but they had been common once). The sides were plywood. I learned that if my wife's Grandpa (a talented woodworker) painted a piece of furniture, there was a reason.

@RexKrueger 2 года назад

There's a reason for everything, right?

@TimRoyalPastortim 2 года назад

That's simply a great story

@Timothious_Maximus 2 года назад

Neat

@jasonm.7358 2 года назад

It does make me wonder what Frankenstein’s Dresser would have looked like stained though.

@suzesiviter6083 2 года назад

@@RexKrueger Rex, I bought a dovetail rig and whilst I can join boards edge to edge, I cant make right angle joints, it can clamp both boards at right angles, but the top board stencil is 1.5"' away from the board and no way to rotate it (Like you need a route bit with a very long shaft), any ideas what this type of jig is and what its use is? It looks to be quite old and made in England.

@allenwc 2 года назад

Consider, it's 1925, most American's aren't wealthy. Bob the Builder is a furniture maker, professional, but he's also a really nice guy. Things aren't going well for a neighbour, they need some furniture. The neighbour is a labourer, and he has gather a bunch of wood scraps, bits of broken furniture, included the base for a small side table (4 legs, bottom rails, no top at all). Bob knows what it's like to get started in life and he builds this table quickly, using the scraps Neighbour guy brought over. Or, Maybe Bob just needs a real quick side table to hold some stuff, he's busy, orders up the, so he knocks this out of scraps lying about in the shop in 1/2 hr and gets on with his orders. There are million stories in these furniture pieces. One of the things I like about old furniture. What stories they could tell! THis piece is really amazing. Thanks for showing it to us.

@RexKrueger 2 года назад

I think your story is likely the best explaination.

@ricos1497 2 года назад

Consider its 2022 and Bob's neighbour comes over with an antique table, made from the most beautiful hardwood. It has a loose tenon but Bob's neighbour knows that Bob is good with his hands and will likely fix it. Bob takes a look at it and says "well, I think could be difficult to fix without it being visible, do you think we could paint it white to hide the blemishes?". Bob's neighbour reluctantly agrees. Bob strips the table down for all its best parts, replacing with an old fruit box and some IKEA drawer fronts. He then coats with lead paint, leaving it to dry on some used graphic magazines that were a little sticky. As lumber prices soar, Bob is able to sell the salvaged timber for thousands, affording him a new boat. Bob's neighbour, intoxicated by the lead fumes, becomes increasingly detached and angry. His wife leaves him, taking the kids and the debts pile high. One by one, the debt collectors take every possession and eventually the bank foreclosure takes place leaving him homeless. He pleads with the bailiffs who come to throw him out and one takes pity on him, saying: "I'll tell you what sir, I know it's all you have left, but I'll give you $4 for that table in the corner and you'll be able to get yourself some lunch?"

@bknesheim 2 года назад

@@ricos1497 Lead do not fume. I think it would be some white paint salvaged from a boat yard that was meant to go on the bottom of a boat to keep the growth of algae away. Those can have pretty nasty fumes. :-)

@jonathanj8303 2 года назад

My first thought was "bitsa". A new piece made with a mix of parts. And the back apron and legs were originally from something better made. Even money says the top boards were from something else entirely, and they're now upsidedown specifically to hide the bevels. Could be a tale like you suggest, or someone with limited time/resources/tools/skills rebuilding the salvageable half of a table into something useable for themselves.

@phillk6751 2 года назад

1920s great depression... makes sense

@tomclevenger5668 2 года назад

My Grandfather started a furniture-making business in 1908 at the age of 15. His primary source of material was reclaimed wood. He would go around the neighborhood and collect unwanted stuff. When he was training me to take over the business, his first lesson is that no wood is scraped. You can always find something to do with it. I've just retired and passed the business of handmade furniture to my son and grandson. We continued with his business plan and are doing well at making a living, Good tip to the beginner, to keep the cost down while honing your craft, find unwanted furniture or any wood scrapes.

@dragonstonegemironworkscra4740 2 года назад

If only more people did exactly as you speak of here! Blessings Sir Crawford out 🙏🔥⚒️🧙🏼‍♂️

@bknesheim 2 года назад

Old wood is often also a mush better quality then new wood just because it has had a lot of time to stabilize.

@tomclevenger5668 2 года назад

@@bknesheim Yes, I know. For example, we stripped out an old warehouse about three years ago and got a ton of yellow pine that is 150 years old. And a lot of 100-year-old maple and oak out of there. Very tight grain structure you can't easily find anymore..

@bknesheim 2 года назад

@@tomclevenger5668 In the town where I live some years back they remove an 4 floors sea house build about 250 year ago. Beams nearly 2 foot (0,5 meter) in diameter and 2 inch thick and 15 inch wide was all dumped into a landfill. I was in the sea house just weeks before and all the wood was just fine. I could just cry when I heard what had been done.

@alysoffoxdale 2 года назад

_"You're not going to find a piece like this in most furniture books..."_ Why am I suddenly hoping that someday you'll publish a book specifically about pieces like this???

@matts.8342 2 года назад

I would buy it for sure!

@howaboutnoname 2 года назад

Someone made this, probably close to 100 years ago, with what they had and with what they could do. It is still here, it is still being used and now also being appreciated for what it is. It's like that quote "the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." Thank you for the video Rex!

@kz.irudimen 2 года назад

I think "what they could do" was pretty good to be honest, they made something out of scraps and leftover moldings and it lasted a century.

@howaboutnoname 2 года назад

@@kz.irudimen very true

@LYLEWOLD 2 года назад

Love that quote, thanks for that.

@bbiermanster 2 года назад

Thanks Rex. This has me written all over it. Hard times, tiny place. My wife and I needed a small table and a friend was getting rid of a massive 48 x 96" table with 2 pillars and chairs to match. I took it and cut the table down to 30 x 50" with a single pillar. You can see some differences between original joinery and my amateur effort to avoid disturbing things too much despite cutting the table down to a third its original size. There were too many chairs, so I turned one into a desk lamp and gave it back to my friend.

@mikecavanagh1898 2 года назад

“If somebody likes it and it works, then it’s good” was inspiring for me as someone who has just started woodworking and only completed a couple of projects. They haven’t been perfect but the people I made them for have been happy and it’s been very fulfilling.

@mrwood4557 2 года назад

What have you made?

@opabutterscotch5902 2 года назад

This is definitely true. My first piece of real useable furniture was a mobile island. My wife wanted an island for when she makes raviolis (a space taking process for dough and filling) so I did what I could, using pallets I had found around the city. Is it beautiful? Not really but it does exactly what she wanted and she loves it. It is good

@quantumleap8888 2 года назад

There have been so many times that I hope that people don't notice any of the little flaws that only I know are there in my projects.

@opabutterscotch5902 2 года назад

@@quantumleap8888 I did a job for a friend and they were praising me for my work. I saw every flaw and wasn’t as impressed as they were. But, like you, we knew every mistake made during production. They don’t see flaws. Not unless you point them out.

@emostorm7 2 года назад

@@opabutterscotch5902 which we will, by some subconscious force of guilt or something, gotta point out the flaws, or at least I do lol

@BurnsworthyII 2 года назад

Furniture Forensics (or CSI: Carpentry Scene Investigation) is my favourite series on your channel. I love this end table a lot as well.

@johnshufelt 2 года назад

Weirdo builds are the only builds I know how to do. Great archaeology, Rex -- informative and encouraging.

@RexKrueger 2 года назад

Many of my builds are pretty weird.

@psguardian 2 года назад

I just finished my first piece of furniture (a rolling night stand) and it shares some similarity to this. Maybe not show room stuff, but functional & I like it. We really are just hard on ourselves unnecessarily as crafters. Thank you for always calling out that being imperfect is acceptable.

@RexKrueger 2 года назад

You're very welcome!

@adm1nspotter Год назад

I'm struggling with that in the project that I'm working on (some small shelf units for storing LPs). I constantly beat myself up, which makes me lose motivation on the project, specifically because they *won't* be perfect. There are all sorts of smallish errors, they're not all constructed identically, and the finishing may end up somewhat variable, but they ought to be fine for their intended purpose.

@psguardian Год назад

@@adm1nspotter I try to consciously balance the automated complaints with intentional compliments. I spot a poor shoulder at a joint, balance with two areas i like on the piece. Helps keep me moving.

@pitsnipe5559 Год назад

We have an old record cabinet that my wife’s grandfather built for my wife’s mother in the 1940’s. It was made from whatever pieces of wood he had lying around yet the craftsmanship is superb. When we acquired it, it was in rough shape. I stripped it and uncovered an elegant piece of simplicity.

@sergiogonzalez17395 2 года назад

12:46 Thanks Rex. I recently (nine months ago) took up woodworking as a career, like, full on going to trade school and whatnot, and we have been making some bedside tables that featured a small cabinet. Wanted to gift it to my ma, since her birthday would be just around the corner when I had it finished, but man... it was plagued by mistakes, and self doubt was really creeping in. What you said here resonated with me, because I've shown the piece to my ma, and she loved it, even with all of its glaring flaws. Thanks. It meant a lot

@RexKrueger 2 года назад

Your mom is very lucky. I bet no one else can see those mistakes.

@seamus6387 2 года назад

A friend of mine has an old toolbox he got from the guy that taught him to be a carpenter. It's a beautiful wooden toolbox made entirely from recycled "junk." All of the drawers are stuff like old wooden produce boxes. It has old molding planes where you can tell every blade started out a handsaw. Was made in a time people acquired skills, not money. The old guy needed a toolbox and couldn't afford one. Was also a time when there was no shame in reusing stuff. Waste not, want not.

@RexKrueger 2 года назад

That tool box sounds amazing. I'd love to see it.

@charlesmckinley29 2 года назад

Yes please get at least some pictures of the tool box and contents if you can’t make a video.

@chevychris3819 2 года назад

The weirdos pieces are my favorite and the best in my opinion because they have character and it's more like something I can build. I never bought wood to work with because I'm still trying to learn and free wood is the best type of wood to learn with.

@RexKrueger 2 года назад

I totally agree. If it's free, it's me.

@genem2768 Год назад

When my friend and I were in high school we would make what we called leftover goulash from the fridge. Basically taking all the leftovers and arranging it into a good lunch. This reminds me of that. It looks like a competent woodworker that had some scraps of this and pieces of that and made it work. I love this kind of stuff. The craftsperson lives on in the quirks.

@noahfreeman8115 2 года назад

Very excited about this. I’ve been making furniture for about a year and have all the tools I need, so I feel like I’ve outgrown a lot of the content on this channel, which is sad because I love this channel. So seeing content like this makes me really happy because it gives me the opportunity to learn and grow for the foreseeable future from stuff Rex is publishing.

@addisonshinedown 2 года назад

Man... watching you nerd out over old furniture will never get old.

@specialagento486 2 года назад

I look forward to Rex Krueger III, 70 years from now, finding the end table I made as a way to hone my skills, and trying to figure out what I was thinking when I combined drawbore mortise and tenon with a wacky bespoke drawer slide system. Maybe he can come back in time and tell me, because I still can’t figure it out. Great video!

@OgreProgrammer 2 года назад

Sneak your name on it somewhere, and maybe a build date so someone can wonder about "The old timey person who made this... What was their life like? What were they thinking?" and one of your descendants might get a message, "I found an interesting piece of woodwork, and I think a relative of yours made it.... what can you tell me about Kevin?"

@gaminawulfsdottir3253 2 года назад

Fascinating forensics. I have a table that I built not unlike this one (though without the fancy joinery) with design decisions for much the same reasons. It was 100% salvaged lumber, and made for a special purpose: an aquarium stand that had to be a certain height, width, and depth, and had to withstand a heavy load. I'm very proud of it for its straightforwardness, simplicity, and a kind of rustic elegance stemming from my not wanting that sturdy table to look stodgy. I was very happy to see this video. (I also appreciate that you left the cracked paint intact.)

@mason.berlin 5 месяцев назад

love what you said right at the end of the video!

@lanceroark6386 2 года назад

When you’re a professional that makes things with scraps (scraps that have joints cut into them before the project is considered, much-less started), this is what you get.

@hohuy1469 2 года назад

We gotta call Rex as "carpentry detective" at this point. I love this series ❤ !

@cydrych 2 года назад

100+ years into it’s life and that table with a hodgepodge of joinery and wood from various sources that was who knows how old when reclaimed is still standing strong. It could probably use a new coat of paint but it looks great still. I thank your neighbor for letting us see this unique and interesting piece of history. I burn RB and the year into everything I make so in a hundred years if any of it is still around some antique dealer will drive themselves crazy trying to research what it stands for. 😂

@austininatx 2 года назад

Everytime I watch a new episode in this series, I'm just shaking my head at how ridiculously good it is. Seriously Rex, it's awesome

@jeffdutton1910 2 года назад

found/discarded/re-purposed wood: There used to be a furniture factory near my house. They always put their off-cuts into a 45 ft. trailer with a sign ("FREE FIREWOOD"). These little blocks and strips of wood were mainly maple until they started using particle board for their sofa frames. I collected piles of this stuff and made a lot of toys for my kids and nieces and nephews.

@ethanwong9950 2 года назад

Might be a high school shop student’s piece. I remember in shop I needed to make every type of joint to get the grade, so we all did simple stuff like this. One piece of furniture but displaying ever type of joint, easy

@nointegritydotorg 2 года назад

I love how Rex not only teaches you how to make tools, use hand tools and such, but he meticulously he takes you through the history of tools, furniture and joinery. A wealth of information that makes you appreciate woodworking even more.

@jeffreysmith6987 2 года назад

My wife’s grandfather served his apprenticeship in Iceland came to America in 1918. He was a master craftsman who was very frugal and repurposed parts of old furniture many times.

@alanshotts8344 2 года назад

Years from now someone like you will look at some of the stuff I build and scratch his head and ask, "what was this guy thinking?" Sometimes it is based on what wood I have available, sometimes on what works at the time and even sometimes on "I wonder if this will work?". Keeps things interesting.

@groermaik 2 года назад

This is a table that was fine in the back, and screwed up in the front, so the front was cobbled together as well as the newer carpenter could.

@mason.berlin 5 месяцев назад

love this series! great video!

@matesmichalec1972 2 года назад

I really loved this video. Thanks for showing us stuff you can't find in a magazine. Really shows that some dedication and skill makes a nice piece of furniture. Not just wood choice.

@1954JDR 2 года назад

Your theory on an amateur builder is the most logical. When my older brother was taking shop class in the 1950s, he would make things from old wood he would find lying around. I'm sure the person became a master craftsman, like yourself. I hope you refinished the piece for your neighbor.

@bradcummons7132 2 года назад

This is very interesting. My business does a lot of furniture restoration projects and watching your forensics videos trains me as to what to look for.

@ashex_int 2 года назад

Rex your vibe and way of talking about the things you enjoy makes my day so much better and inspires me to do things with the stuff i have in fantastic ways. Youre the best man.

@markp6062 2 года назад

This was EXCELLENT! Your forensics is astounding and very informative, not to mention on point! Thank you for this!

@woodworksbygrampies1284 2 года назад

Hola! 🖐 I really like these "forensic" videos. I learn so much from all the info you pack into them. Now I cannot drive home from work without scanning left and right in hopes of finding a little treasure. Keep them coming. Take care and have a good one, Adios! 👊

@ukype 2 года назад

Love these forensic videos. Also, if you build it, and it works, and somebody likes it, it's good. All beginners need to be told that. Too easy to look at all of your mistakes when probably no one else ever will.

@ArniesTech 2 года назад

Love woodwork forensics 💪🙏

@michaelthys4000 2 года назад

I do a lot of furniture restoration of this kind. Off the side of the road. Fix, clean and resell. I would love to see you clean this one up and show the joints without the paint. After it’s scrap it might be able to be stained or painted again but I think it would be clearer on film. Great video as always.

@KorvinST 2 года назад

Thank you for the words of encouragement at the end. I appreciate it. If somebody likes it and it works, then it’s good..

@RaccoonHenry 2 года назад

the only thing I've ever built is a headphone stand I made out of four random pieces of wood I found at my grandma's house. it looks ok - good, even - and does its job perfectly. what you said about a piece being legitimate gave me a greater sense of accomplishment than after I finished it. thank you so much!

@Dragon_With_Matches Год назад

I love these furniture forensics videos! And I appreciated your closing thoughts about our own amateur furniture making. If we like it and it works!

@beachsketch3531 2 года назад

I really enjoy this series. Thanks for taking us along!

@theonecalledstein 2 года назад

We have a few pieces that my great grandfather made that look exactly like this. Shelves, cabinets, and I think there's still a step stool floating around. He would save old crates and reuse the nails.

@claudiomenesesc 2 года назад

Love these old furniture forensic videos. Thanks for sharing.

@nolanstevenson3510 2 года назад

Love the positive notes near the end

@bobfisher2398 2 года назад

Thanks for this video. I was absorbed in your breakdown of the piece and the story you divined from it. I think half the reason it was such a fun episode is your clear enthusiasm for what you found.

@eloscuro704 2 года назад

In the early 1980's, my first big high school project was a cedar chest of drawers. I was making it for myself and used it for a few years before joining the Army. After I left, my parents took over my room and started using it. It has all of the hallmarks of a high school project - simple rabbit joints, drawers like in this project and so forth. My dad is in his 80's and as far as I know, he is still using it.

@nobuckle40 2 года назад

I think that you have to admire someone who is able to do what they can with what they have. As I consider the piece shown in the video, I think about how the individual struggled through various aspects of the project. I can picture them pondering, perhaps for quite a while, about how to solve some of the joinery issues. The need for a table dictated the entire build. This is often the case for many of us. I mean, who would have ever thought to use a piece of moulding in that way? Genius? No. Thrifty? Absolutely! Hats off to the creator of that table!

@andrewzanto8591 2 года назад

Thanks Rex, great story, thanks for sharing the journey with us.

@steveconlon8936 2 года назад

I absolutely love your forensic furniture videos. I look forward to the next one!

@AHagridLookalike 2 года назад

I really love these furniture forensics videos you do, Rex. Keep up the great work.

@HeywoodJablomie 2 года назад

A few years ago, i picked up a copy of a book called '500 More Things to Make for Farm and Home' from a used book store. Published in 1944, it was the companion to an earlier work called '380 Things to Make for Farm and Home' which had been published in 1941. Both were essentially compilations of things published by various Ag Extensions across the country with helpful tips on how to repurpose junk into useful objects for a minimum of cost, which was an essential skill during the Great Depression and World War II. I bring those books up only because this little nightstand has much in common with many of the projects shown in '500 Things,' and I think your appraisal of its origin being someone with some skill who fell on hard times is probably pretty close to the correct answer. The style certainly hearkens back to the 20s, but I'd guess the timeframe would be sometime in the 30s or possibly during the War. Anyway, great work as always. Keep 'em coming!

@AdvancedGeekery 2 года назад

Wonderful video and fascinating deconstruction. Thanks!

@Sawtooth70 2 года назад

Great representation, your analysis is keen and entertaining. Love this video.

@robertquiles7815 2 года назад

I'm sure other people have said it, but this is what I truly enjoy. The furniture forensics, it brings history to life. I appreciate the outro also. It hit home and made it real to me. Thank you for your videos!

@iliapetrov5761 2 года назад

Rex I'm not even that much into woodworking anymore but I still go back to your channel every once in a while, because your content is just so good. Amazing work as always, kept me interested through the whole thing. Bravo!

@thetcaseaway4306 10 месяцев назад

Thank you. Watching this is the motivation I need to continue. If someone like what I made and it's functioning correctly, it's good enough. Thanks

@craigsherrill7070 2 года назад

Awesome Rex. Love the series

@MortimerSugarloaf 2 года назад

These furniture forensics style videos are my favorite series of yours. My favorite of any creator, really. The first one with the drop leaf table was the single most influential woodworking video I've ever seen. It completely changed the way I approach woodworking both operationally and philosophically. I enjoy the craft so much more than I did before, and on more levels. Thank you for enriching my woodworking experience. Keep em coming!

@RexKrueger 2 года назад

I will!!!

@iurypiva8371 2 года назад

Really inspires me to build with whatever I've in hand and still give it my best efforts, Thanks for the video!

@LarsSveen 2 года назад

Those pieces are truly works of art. Weirdly built, but solidly built by a skilled craftsman. I have an old dining table that has similar weird choices, including some filler pieces made from horribly worm-holed wood. It's a lovely table though and solidly built -- it will easily last another hundred years.

@strongjohn10956 2 года назад

Love, love, love your analysis of old pieces. I think we are/will be seeing a lot of deconstruction and reuse of wood from old furniture with wood prices being what they are. I've several items I've bought cheap or scavenged for their value as just the wood. You are so right that vernacular, or folk, furniture, and architecture for that matter, are very interesting and informative. In some ways, those kinds of pieces distill the key characteristic of style to their essentials. Anyway, keep up these terrific videos!

@keithswoodshop1193 Год назад

Been watching your videos for a couple years, love the furniture forensics, great theories, I have to agree with the repair theory. Keep up the good work. You’re inspiring. Thank you.

@thiggy1249 2 года назад

Great video Rex. One of your best forensics!! Your videos are always learning experiences. Thanks again.

@dholtz3 2 года назад

I really enjoyed this video. One of my favorites that you have done. Thank you. Great work.

@hansangb 2 года назад

@11:00 So this is the OG pallet wood project of its time! 😁 Very interesting!

@dakistle Год назад

Superb breakdown. I love this series!

@pedrosarsama 2 года назад

There's a similarity of ethos with this kind of building and people snagging stuff like pallets or crates from the dumpster. Most of my early woodworking was nailed, butt joined stuff made form leftover building materials and stuff like pallet wood.

@scottcampbell4429 2 года назад

Thanks Rex, this is the only explanation that has ever summed up why I love working wood, going to antique stores and museums. Connecting to previous creators and seeing how they thought is simply joyous. This video is out of the park. You could do the same for a table from your neighbor, Tut's tomb or Versailles and it would be equally fascinating, bravo!

@Gshochet 2 года назад

In 1954 my grandparents bought a summer cottage, circa 1906, that is still my favorite place in the world. It is full of salvaged, wierdo pieces of furniture and bits of lumber that were clearly repurposed from whatever was to hand at the time. Some of them predate my grandparents, while others I know from family lore were perpetrated by my carpenter great-grandfather, or so my father says. When he enclosed the front porch he did an amazing, workmanlike job, while the enclosed back porch/bathroom is a marvel of creative reuse. The night tables in my grandparents’ bedroom (they are gone now but it will always, to me, be their bedroom) are the two sides to an Art Deco Vanity. From the front they look normal but each has one side that reveals their origin. That’s exactly what I thought when I saw the asymmetry in your salvaged table; that it was part of a larger piece. I love stuff like this. Shelves that were clearly once floorboards or part of a door. An outhouse that now serves as a tool-shed. And all these bits of vernacular furniture; step-stools, tables, benches, that clearly were cobbled together from whatever was readily available. When I built farmhouse benches for the dining room in my 1865 colonial, it was with this sort of vernacular furniture in mind. Simple, sturdy, unpretentious. I had the luxury of choosing whatever lumber I wanted but I still had my forebears in mind. I hope my son will love them, and I like to think my great-grandfather-whose tools and toolbox now are in my keeping-would have approved.

@theeddorian 2 года назад

When you need furniture and you don't have money, you use what you can. My wife and I had a nice old table, we obtained from a land fill, of genuine wood and still is a nice piece. The seating were stools we made of Prestone Antifreeze boxes, shored on the interior with vertical card board ribbing. We had a book case made of neon light tubes - cut down eight-foot boxes for the uprights and the top and base, four footers as internal vertical support and shelves. The entire book case was covered in free snake-skin patterned wall paper that give it added rigidity. It lasted three or four years at least, until we could afford nicer wooden book cases. We put it out, expecting to see it collected for trash, but it was quickly snagged by other needy neighbors in another apartment, and was still in circulation among the apartments when we finally moved out.

@zillaquazar 2 года назад

what an adventure, the stories this thing could tell, this was a very enjoyable video

@ScottCalvinsClause 2 года назад

Rex is the Steve Burns of carpentry. So uplifting and encouraging.

@mikeparker3865 2 года назад

Absolutely fascinating Rex. Very informative and just imagining the person making this is so cool.

@wiseoldfool 2 года назад

I'm only part way through, but my guess is re-purposed shop furniture. There is so much to learn from furniture forensics. I'm not sure if I coined this expression, but to me a big part of woodwork is "woodthink". Furniture forensics helps me to "woodthink". Keep 'em coming!

@ulrichminky9495 2 года назад

I have a similar table that sits beside my bed. It was made by my grandfather sometime between 1910 and 1930. Like most of the things my grandfather made it was created from scraps of previous projects. The major difference with my table is the paint is in better shape. Cheers from the left edge of Canada. ~ulrich

@RichardBuckman 2 года назад

I love these analytical history of technique type videos you do :)

@Chupetex79 2 года назад

Thanks Rex, halfway through the video, I realized I had a smile on my face, and kept it through the end. Great video.

@user-oi8hk8xt6b 5 месяцев назад

Right on, Rex. Thank you for saying that part at the end. Fanfare for the Common Man.

@coolthinghere6853 2 года назад

what a cool piece. id love to see it stripped down (except for the drawer bottom of course) and refinished so it will last many years more!

@alexlarson9101 2 года назад

My fav. Great analysis, Rex!

@Upsidedownorangejuice 2 года назад

This is the most fascinating series and real fresh spin in the woodworking YT landscape.

@irishshintoshi8213 2 года назад

Love this type of videos. All your videos are great

@lisakennealy1695 2 года назад

Enjoyed that video a lot, Rex. Thanks 👍

@antipodesman 2 года назад

Wow . . . great story. Thanks Rex

@J.A.Smith2397 2 года назад

Love these videos on this subject

@johnjensen5540 2 года назад

Excellent video and analysis!

@user-oi8hk8xt6b 7 месяцев назад

Excellent, Rex. You're the king.

@elterga6224 2 года назад

My great grandfather built his furniture out of particle board and plywood, then stained and varnished. It’s an odd choice, but they look surprisingly good!

@MrJono1999 2 года назад

I love these Furniture Forensics videos. Please make more, they are so interesting. Cracking job, keep up the good work.😀

@Dther99 2 года назад

I feel a kinship with this craftsman. He’s a gigantic cheapskate like me! Hope my pallet furniture ends up half as good as this dude’s, one day.

@kropjesla01 2 года назад

what a delight to watch! thank you

@orandilu989 2 года назад

I love these furniture forensics videos 😊

@jons2447 2 года назад

Thank you, Mr. Krueger! Interesting video, I'm 67, so I 'reuse' things, too. Have a GREAT day, Neighbor!

@Lambby 2 года назад

super cool episode. always something interesting in these furniture forensics, but this one was special. thanks

@MegaSuperJaBaTo 2 года назад

WSI: Krueger ... Wood Scene Investigations at its best 😉. Very inspiring look into a piece of craftsmen history. Regards from Germany 🖖

@leeh9420 2 года назад

I really enjoy these a lot! Your perspective makes this humble piece of furniture fascinating, and most of use would probably look past it if we saw it. Cheers!