is it CHEAPER to BUILD your own FURNITURE (diy style) or to BUY from a STORE  

Here's the thing: If you are as good as this guy, and have a lovely workshop, then yes, it is cheaper to build good furniture than it is to buy it ! But if you build a set of night tables with one drawer each, out of pinewood, and say it cost you $200 for materials, and you spent at least 10 hours on labor, do you think for a minute that if you tried selling them, someone will pay you $175 for each table ? No sir, they will likely offer you $75 each, if they even came to look at them !

Yeah, but how much did all those machines cost you?

Very cool piece. I'd rather build than buy. My Son and his Wife wanted a large butcher block dining table out of walnut, oak, and tiger maple. Over $3,000 from a store. I built them one for just under $500 by sourcing the wood from a local sawmill. You just proved you can make a show piece out of construction lumber. Fantastic job, thanks for sharing.

You have a lot invested in your woodworking tools. Any furniture making shop does as well. The cost of that equipment and workspace get included in the cost to make furniture. Also the cost of labor. People don’t work for free. Overall cost is more that just material cost.

I'm not sure how much it had cost me, but about 4 or 5 years ago I built my wife a rustic king-size bed for Christmas. (I found plans online.) It was my first major woodworking project. The thing still holds up and I've had complements on it.

Would I DYI it? If had all that equipment. But I don't think a lot of people would have access to kind of equipment you have.

Love this video, yeah DIY is so much cheaper, i used to think the opposite even with a really good salary that I would just buy services but even half assing DIY is so much cheaper and better than paying someone. Knowledge is so much more accessible now thanks to videos like this :) be careful you are basically putting yourself out of business... kidding i know you'll get tons of business from people watching as well :)

Great build. I loved the buildup of color. Massive saving too

I'd definitely DIY it, especially with all those professional woodworking tools!

For $5,000 that table at the store better come with a time share, cruise tickets for 2, and a set of Hidari Ichihiro oire nomi chisel set 😂

That looked awesome!!! Will attempt on a similar one with materials found free on iternet and the tools that I have! People need to understand such videos showcase a lot of techniques and give inspiration to yourself to find your way around with what you have! If you keep paying for expensive stuff they will keep getting more expensive, special tools are there just to save time!

Dude you are working with $30,000 worth of equipment to make a $5,000 table.

Good thing you already spent 5k plus on all those tools to pull it off.

When the time comes for the wife and I to buy a house I intend to make nearly every piece of furniture myself 👍 plus it'll give me excuses to buy more tools

Nice work! Finished product looks amazing!

Beautiful ! I would DIY it but it wouldn’t be as nice as yours . Great job man 👍

You don't tell the whole story. The raw material is cheaper than buying new. And it's more flexible, if you need specific dimension, colour, finish, you are in control. And there is that pride thing of having built it yourself which is a non neglectable bonus. In the equation, there is the cost of opportunity. It's awesome to have skills in life. The time you spend learning woodworking is time not spent learning electricity, 2nd language, computer coding, investment, etc. No one can learn everything and at some point you will need the help of others, sometimes at a cost. Any skills is a hell of a lot better than to become an expert at video games. In the equation, there is also the cost of space and tools. If woodworking is your business, you need it anyways. Otherwise, unless you furnish the whole house DIY style, the price difference is not that straightforward. And let's face it, not every weekend woodworkers are frugal when comes time to equip the garage. So yes, time, space and tools are not free. But some poor souls don't get to have a hobby in life. It's a blessing of having the luxury of having hobbies and I am grateful for it. And I can think of some hobbies that are crazy expensive comparatively.

"Since when in life did inflation get so expensive and through the roof to buy a simple table in a furniture store was going to cost 5000$? This is crazy but pushing these blocks through the planer..." Meanwhile me sitting in my rented 23m² apartment...

I built a steampunk sofa table using a chopsaw, drill, and sander. I won’t rag on you and over all your power tools because you use them on your job. I’d love to see more videos like yours doing copycat reproductions of high end furniture using basic off the shelf wood. Oh by the way, I built my sofa table using reclaimed, massive industrial pallet lumber so it already had the proper texture. I just added stain and iron pipe hardware. You rock sir, and I bet your wife agrees because size does matter.

Complaining about money when you have a 15000 planer and jointer! Priceless. Lol

Absolutely! I designed and built an entire dining room set complete with a 42” x 99” table, full length benches, end chairs, and a sideboard out of construction grade lumber for $500. Yo buy something similar would cost at least $10,000.

Can be done with less than $1k in tools. Standard hobby woodworking stuff. Just different techniques.

I did the same thing with an 8x10 Douglas fir beam that I bought off Facebook marketplace for $80. Took me about 3 hrs to make it. Only used a hand saw, angle grinder, radial saw, oscillating tool, and some chisels. Got a result that looks almost identical to the same picture you showed of the $5000 one.

Amazing work on this one, definitely giving me ideas for my next build.

The possibility of it costing more to do it yourself is there. However, the satisfaction, pride and experience you get out of making it yourself is priceless. That's something you will never have buying it from a store.

Stunning piece, Donnie! Truly amazing work! 😃 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

I thought you were going to say..... "I went to the dealership and saw inflation on car prices, so I went to the auto parts store bought the parts and made my own truck" 😂

Love the build! great video too, i like your editing style. Gosh i wish i had a jointer and planer of that size in my shop

industrial sand blaster will work well to remove soft grain and age the wood

Nice Shop, I couldn't do that in my shop without a "LOT" of Hours and Labor, all I have is a TableSaw and a Chopsaw and lots of cheap Ryobi tools for wood working, No CNC , No Planer, No Jointer, Its a Nice finished product I'll give you that

Great job point the table looks amazing. Could you please make a tutorial video on how to achieve that weathered look and the products that you use to achieve it. Thank you for this video.

Working class? Dude that is tens of thousands of dollars in industrial woodworking equipment. Not knocking you for having it or using it, but this is kind of the ship owner pretending to be a deckhand. Either way, seems like a cool project.

Great job and finished product! It helps “DIY” projects come out so nice when you have experience, a shop full of expensive Bessey clamps, commercial size planer & jointer, power saws, cordless plunge router & bits, Lexan templates, a shop or garage to work in, etc. Hopefully you won’t get any twisting, warping or splitting of that big-box dimensional lumber. Not being critical; I’m impressed!

have to admit...you did well! No nails used.

Depends on what you might buy at the furniture store, compared to what type of wood and how fancy you’re going to make it. Time is valuable too. You have to figure your labor just as you would for a customer build.

Beautiful work!

Greetings from South Africa 🇿🇦. Man you really nailed this project ✌️. Kudos to you for not getting caught up in this purchase world of high inflation. Definitely I would D.I.Y. it. Well done it looks amazing. Love the weathered old age look 👍

Most furniture these days are the carpentry equivalent of Taco Bell (barely functioning garbage). That said, sometimes an IKEA desk at $100 is everything that you need, even if it is pretty trash. It's sometimes neither economical nor practical nor time effective to do it yourself. Wire storage units have their place, too. As big box retailers continue to mindlessly drain value from their products, yes, you may need to DIY at some point in the future. But not everyone is suited to making something with their hands. Basic woodworking skills are no longer commonly taught at schools - just like Home Economics, Shop class became an "extra". The wife can't cook, and hubby can't build. I do not fault these people, as no one can do everything well. Let them hire out to them that can. And those of us that can, well, I like quick easy cheap effective solutions - when they are available, which isn't always.

I’ve built a few of these from 12x12 beams. Your’s looks just as good and looks way easier to build #awesome 👍🏽👊🏽

Dude. You can't just count your materials on thiis. Part of DIY is having tools. You have some big tools there and they factor into the build. Building a one off DIY piece of funiture, there's no way it's cheaper to build your own. If it's a life style choice and you intend you build ALL your own furniture and other things, then....mayyyyybe

Dude it looks so awesome!!👌

I'm going out right now to get all of the equipment I'll need.

You just need 20,000.00 in tools to do it.

Great Job!!!!😀

This looks great 👍

Awesome job! Very nice 👍🏻

Thanks for the wire wheel tip for weathering. I was wondering how to get that effect on some pine baseboard trim in my basement. I'll try that.

Looks awesome. What color was the paint you used?

But the finished work does look good dude congrats!

What about the machine you used? How much would that cost🤔 ??

If I had the luxury of a workshop space and all the fancy tools and equipment like you do, then yes, it may be cheaper. It certainly won't be cheap setting up shop to get to that point, so I guess for me, its cheaper and quicker to buy furniture from a store.

Knocked it out of the park! Looks awesome! If you don’t mind me asking, how thick did you make the legs? The proportions are spot on!

Ok "working class" how much $$$ for the tools in the shop???

Whether you have tools or not this table can be made for less than $5000 if you have an area to work. This table can be made with hand tools which will cost way less than buying

What were the dimensions of the legs and top? I have some reclaimed 6x12 cedar beam peices i want to build some similar things with.

You can do that project with a nice worker stanley #7 handplanes, sandpaper, titebond 3, franing square, decent handsaw and most expensive the clamps. Doesn't really take much to make furniture or even fine furniture. Having a nice laguna bandsaw, tablesaw, chopsaw and planner are nice but you don't need them. You really don't need 20 grand in tools to make nice things. Nice build Really like the design.

Very nice!

Can you give details or links on the two part stain that you used? Thanks!

And the cost of all the machinery used to make it? And that the ordinary householder might have ! 🤔 I would definitely DIY it but I would try and spend a little time in sourcing some used timbers not new finished stuff. Did the legs have to be solid? Using just the basic hand powered tools might have given it an old rustic appearance and more people might have agreed that "I can do that!" It is a nice piece though. 👍

do you use a cnc to build your templates

Very cool great job

I have not picked up anything useful to me. And I have a wood shop.

I’m a framer by trade his planner set up costs more than my 05 beater, he’s clearly an independent contractor writing off his tools and saving $- I can’t afford 4 days off of recovery after cutting in and sheeting a roof, love to see if he could bang nails on a rough frame in CO in the winter.

That's a hell of a tool kit, my friend! I'd think I could at least make a stool, if nothing else, with that lot!

Nice work. Can you please share the stain and paint colors you used?

What color paint and stain did you use? It’d be nice if you mentioned those!

What stain and paint did you use? I love the end color.

Nice !!

Yeah I hope with all your equipment you can build a basic table

Counterargument. If I'm just making $1000 worth of furniture in my home, is it worth it to sink $5000 into tools and machinery, and another $800 into wood, to make said furniture? I guess if i was making furniture for everyone else too and selling some it would be worthwhile.

Well done, personally i am the dark colour fan, so i would have made it darker but all in all, very cool project 😊

You have to amortize the cost of the machines and tools used as capital requirements. The more pieces you build, the smaller the cost of the tools, provided you use them. You provided the materials only - so not true cost. My guess, based on the tools used here, is that this piece (assuming you make 10 others over the 18 year life of a tool) is more in-line with $1200 than $120. If we factor in the cost of labor, billing you at a rate for your QOL, call it $20/hr, and it took you 16 hours of billable hours to work on this, you'd add $320 to that cost. So that is a total of $1520. This is still a substantial savings from $5000 still. My guess is that some of that cost is markup, and some of it is the wood used in the sold-piece.

Nice job.

Beautiful

Where I live (outside of the U.S.) unmilled hardwood is .92 cents per board foot for Cedar and Teak. Making all off my own furniture for the house I´m building. Couldn´t afford to do this if I still lived in America.

Looks great. Nicely done. I can tell you why that table cost 5 grand. Its a hand hewed beam from a log done with a broad axe. Close to 100 years or so ago. But very nicely done on the table that you built

I think the savings also depends on time. Obviously there’s DIY guys like us that love a good project and consider the time spent to be time we’ll spent. But how much do you pay yourself as a carpenter? And how long did it take? Buying it online takes seconds… so ya gotta include that math too.

Nice dust collector

Love it

If you have skills, have time and machines it is cheaper to do it yourself, but 90% of people don't have that.

Everyone crying about the planer and bandsaw price. I have a 10HP 24” planer that I bought from a high school wood shop for a few hundred dollars. Before I purchased that, I used a router sled to flatten anything larger than my 12 planer could handle. My shop is full of commercial grade equipment. The only think in my shop that purchased new was my sawstop table saw. If you can’t build this using inexpensive tools found at a big box store, you shouldn’t try it.

Just wondering where i can get the template you’re using????

Yeh it’s cheaper if you have all the woodworking tools but for the Normal person no it’s not.

i don't like the coat but otherwise looks nice, but we probably have different taste in furniture to begin with.

the reality of furniture store stuff you pay a fortune and its press board or worse. On a $2000 sofa they were delivering one of the structural beams broke it was cardboard wrapped in abs plastic, as long as it was never hit or bashed ya it worked but for 2k I was expecting wood. I got my money back found a used piece I liked and had it recovered with a fabric that made it one of a kind cost 1600 but its real hardwood and my kid could use it

How did you hide all those seams ?

Your truck is dirty, not to bad of shape, you should take better care of it

Came for the table. Stayed for the inflation rant.

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You go girl😂

Nice work….

Funniest moment on the internet…”Does size matter? Let’s ask my wife.” Wife s shown shaking her head yes! Too too funny!

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Awesome job I don’t have your talent I want to try some projects since I’m retired what’s the worst thing that could happen I’m a first time viewer and yes I hit the subscribe button

Cheaper to make your own, and you get to keep the tools

It's only cheaper if you have *1.)* the *Necessary Skills* (yes lots of people can do this but they are a tiny minority in relation to the general population), *2.)* the *Time* should be self-explanatory really but okay it'll vary quite a bit based on occupation and family, and *3.)* the *Infrastructure* to accommodate it... Millions of people don't have room for a basic wood bench, a lot of people don't even have a surface that they can affix a half decent vise to, hell a lot of people don't even have a box of basic tools (although it's very arguably a good investment for just about anyone).

The "working class furniture" is called IKEA or wayfair

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Everything’s 5,000 $ where ever you go!!…everyone wants to be Millionaires…😂😂😂😂😂..Nice job BTW!