Ruining a beautiful piece of furniture with one small detail 

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Not an artificial plant fan. I think it detracts from the piece. The piece itself is a work of art. Nicely done!

The greenery takes away from the coolness of the door disappearing into the void.

Was anyone else struggling to think of the word ‘epiphany’ when he was talking about struggling to think of a word? 😂

I really initially thought the full veneered 10ft sheet was unnecessary until you did it. Holy smokes that stepped the piece up. Great job!

I think the open curved end really adds a cool detail. I would leave it open personally. But man what attention to detail in this one. Dope as always

The way the curved open section combined with the face frame creates a mysterious 'where'd the door go'?' is brilliant. Finally, I am inspired to do a tambor door...

Art channel Jazza did a 'choose your own adventure' a couple years back, I think for the Jabberwocky poem. It was a lot of fun to play through, but a LOT of work for him to figure out all the paths, make all the drawings, upload all the videos, and correctly link them to each other.

What a story teller

this is closer to wood"artistry" than it is to wood"working". Great stuff!

When chamfering (the slats) use the fence; set the bit just in front of the fence. You get great dust collection, and it's way safer, since most of the bit is covered by the fence. You also get a surface to press the piece into, so you're not forcing the bit as much. You can also use a push stick/paddle to make is safer.

The greenery is a crutch. I know architects use it to soften edges when they should either own their designs or change them. Love the rest of this case though. So many interesting things to do. 25:30

If dimensions are NOT in metric I usually skip a video unless they're really great projects and people producing the video... Like you!

amazing as always, Shaun. Can't believe how well that veneer blended.

I love it! You also dressed like a plum for part of this video. ❤ And the word you were looking for waa: Eureka!

Yet another great design, presented in a thoughtfull, calm and wellcoming way. Your explorative style, designs and videos stand out above the crowd in the RU-vid woodworking space

As usual, this looks amazing! The greenery could go away, but it's not terrible. I love the organic look. I really don't know what would go in that cubby hole. Maybe a light feature? A stained glass piece? A stained glass piece with a back light? Anyway, it's a masterpiece no matter what! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and talent.

Dude, that planer tubing was absolutely unsettling. lol

I love hearing about the process and how your plans change as problems arise during the build. Your solutions are really good.

With all the different thumbnails and titles, I have to watch now! Thanks, Shaun for always being the man 😎

I like the end space, but I think I would add some dark mesh that I can mount a subwoofer in. Kinda like an added speaker storage taht blends in with the piece as a whole.

Honestly, between you, Chris from FourEyes and Jason from BourbonMoth this week has really been Rogue Router Week.

I like the green aspect, but the plastic ivy doesn’t quite do it for me, but I guess we all have to choose our own adventures

Geez Louise... pick the greenery or not. But the build? Geez Louise it was incredible.

Morgan Donner (mostly sewing related channel) made an absolutely amazing “choose your own story” video a few years back.

I grew up with the Goosebumps books and I loved the choose your own adventure ones they had.

I always enjoy your approach to design and humble builds. When comparing imperial to metric, I just find metric to be much easier to visualize in my head, especially when more complex divisions and angles get involved.

Very cool. It has a 1960's vibe to it. I can imagine something like this being built in the 60's, but it would be made out of plastic. All in all.. great work.

Looks great. I really like the aesthetic of the tambour doors behind the face frame

Enjoyed watching the process. Great project.

That is a straight ut wonderful piece! Wow!

I enjoy your narrative along with the wood working video

Love the look Shaun, great job!

Lovely piece, well done.

Shaun, this turned out beautifully! Love it.

Eureka, that's the words you're looking for to describe the moment where you finally figured how it's done.

i love this furniture ! well done

Nicely done love it

Beautiful, and you could take a nap on it. Excellent work as always, Shaun. By the way, I see some comments that don't like the greenery, and came back to say is a nice touch, and I wish it could be natural. I love it.

Love this build man. Great job. The greenery gives it a Brady bunch feel.

Loved this build. A lot of inspiration here.

Never disappointed watching your builds, informative and yet entertaining. Thanks for sharing.

Excelent. Congrats.

Great build and design

15:25 I believe the word you were looking for was epiphany. Great vid love the build 👍

Quality work, young man. As ever, your design and execution are on point. I'm imagining this being a floating media unit with curved voids, either end housing bespoke speaker.

Thanks for sharing 😁

Absolutely gorgeous design!! Thanks for sharing your process and teaching us all a thing or two!!

Another great adventure caught on video. Thanks for providing the inspiration!

The design is really nice. The build presentation is fantastic. Also I feel your encouragement to try something new in all your videos. Thanks.

Excited for the new project!

Great project Shawn! Really like how you come up with solutions when things don't go as designed. Always enjoy your videos! Thank you for posting, EXCELLENT

15:34 When you're yelling "epiphany" at your phone...

Always enjoy your builds, Shaun. Lots of great builders around, but rare to find both the design & build components like this. That's a really pretty piece of furniture.

A very unShaun type piece but I like it. I have never been brave enough to try tambour doors, but have always loved the roll top desk they suggest. Good video

I love seeing other woodworkers make the same exact mistakes that I would make. It gives me peace. Great job! I think if the greenery was real, it would look better.

Beautiful.

When using a vac bag for forming, try using material to direct the air flow to where you want it.

That piece is dope. Right on just leaning fully into the organic curves.

Excellent video as usual. And watching that bandsaw have no drift is stupid satisfying haha

This video came at the perfect time. I'm in the middle of a build myself and hit a bit of a "fork" on what to do next, each with it's own pros and cons. I realized after watching this video that ultimately it doesn't matter, because either one gets me closer to the final product.

15:30 Eureka moment! FYI...algo is weird lately. Just suggested this video 8 days after you published. Glad I didn't miss plum on plum. Love the piece...not so much the greenery. Looking forward to the next one!

The organic shapes of the frame, the stripes on the doors, the round part on the left and finally the green element fundamentally reflects the basis of biophilic design. Research that, will pay off. Perhaps we are talking about the beginning of a family of objects. It would be interesting to consider a set for a biophilic mood. As always it was spectacular. 👌 Congratulations

Wow nice Work

I think I agree with the consensus, not a huge fan of the greenery. I think the empty space creates a really cool effect at the end of the tambour door. Overall, very impressed by this piece and think the veneer and roundovers brought it together incredibly well. Very nicely done!

I’m old enough to have experienced the transition of the UK from yards, feet and inches to metres, centimetres and millimetres and Stones, Pounds and Ounces to Kilograms and grams - My opinion; Metric wins. But, for me though the change from old UK money of Pounds, Shillings and Pennies to metric money is by far the best thing to have happened. I never got the hang of how much change I should have got when I bought something with old money. Fortunately money decimalisation happened while I was still at primary school, so I didn’t have to do too much maths with old money. I watch American RU-vid makers working out dimensions having to use 3 and 18/32 of an inch plus 11 and 7/16 of an inch I always think - Metric is so much easier. The USA already has decimal money, go for it! Decimalise your measurements too! Keep miles if you like, we have in the UK 😂 Oh and yards too, many road signs still use yards and feet, hmm, we’re not fully metric… 🤔 But, at least our money system is fully metric 😃 …. and No to the greenery!

Shaun, thank you for always showing your creativity and willingness to create. You truly are inspiring me to become a better woodworker and take more risks. You make incredible things! Love your channel and the foureyes channel. Keep up the good work

I think you are very skilled and made some amazing decisions with this piece - that 10ft veneer obviously took so much extra time but it levelled up the piece in a way I just wasn't expecting. I don't like the plant - but only because it feels like a symbol of your own security and you are way above that. Seeing the door disappear because you are a craftsperson who is able to use your skills to create such an effect didn't need hiding. But, if you like it and it was a decision you were proud of, then own it. Thanks as always for sharing :)

never really thought about a door like that before, but this is very cool

I'd ditch the greenery too. Really cool though, and I especially like the face frame. Keep pushing your boundaries, it's seems to be working well for you. Oh, and the hose...kinda mesmerizing.

What a great video. Really got me hooked since the beginning. Plus i relate to having my project car in the shop 😂

I saw someone do a "CYOA" style RU-vid video, and it was pretty complex, but they also did it a decade ago, so... maybe it's easier now? Basically there's the "Start" video, and at the end the scene has links out to two (or more) hidden videos with the next part. I think that I was 8 videos or so deep when I finally got AN ending, and because my previous choices were hidden videos, I had to start back at the beginning to see other branches. You'd likely have to upload the videos in reverse so you have the URLs for the next parts, but something like building a piece of furniture means the end result would still be a linear video, just watched in a different order, so likely far less work than an entire CYOA book. Oh, and this was a pretty awesome cabinet. I remember my dad had a tv stand with those kind of doors after my parents split, but his was just a cheap ikea-quality design that didn't last more than a couple of years. I'm not sure if I like the plant on the curved end, but you do you.

un lujo !!!👍👍

Wonderful build. I hear you on the application of finish. I’ve been putting off applying finish to an acoustic guitar build for a long time. I think it’s got something to do with how the finish accentuates mistakes or maybe I’m just enjoying the build to much. Take out the plastic leaves. They detract from the piece.

Easy build. It would be fun to see the door close from the opposite side and shaped to the curve of the cabinet

Definitely inspired me. Have curves on both side and put speakers in it for a record cabinet.

cool job!

Hi Shaun! Tip for seaming long veneers: seam with a router and a long Festool track or straightedge (DIY out of a long, straight 2x4 if needed). Looks like the block plane worked but is a bit more tedious. Cheers!

11:25 Another Earth is a very underrated film. Glad to see it getting some love in your shop!

I love this whole build man. Personally love plants with wood. It makes everything feel very homely or cozy. The veneer was glued on so perfectly you dont even see a seam on the roundover. Really nice work. Im usually not a big fan of roundovers. I like more angular shapes, but this build looks perfect with them. Good call on that face-frame too, the tambour dissappearing behind them looks neat.

If you want a pop of color, a small potted plant on shelf in the curved side, would keep the coolness of the doors disappearing and do the pop of green too. Not a fan of fake vines or vines of any kind. Vines ate my AC unit which now requires a tech to come out and fix it.

Contact adhesive and veneer, plastic laminate like Formica, several other sheet adhesion exercises: been doing for 55 years on and off. Never had a problem except... make sure there's a lot of air flowing through the room and the adhesive is dryer than tacky - hence your sticks were doing it right but a roller to rub down each section before moving to the next stick. Lovely project, well done

Very cool! May I ask what finish you used to make it look as natural as possible?

OK, I am seriously loving this one. Took me some time to process, but I am entirely on board with this. (Well, almost entirely. Gonna have to figure out a different use of that curved section when I shamelessly copy - OK try to copy - this design.)

Eureka moment! Great vide😅. I enjoyed it. Thankyou.

I’m in the process of switching (or at least using it more) to metric. I’ve got a tape measure that has both and I just bought some squares that are metric only. We’ll see how it goes. I’m liking it so far, so I think I’ll keep inching my way towards it…

Wonderful piece - and the long veneer was a nice touch. Greenery? Er ... not so much.

You had me up to the green. Overall nice piece of furniture

Love the design and especially the rounded front. Did you secure the fabric with just glue?

awesome skills

It’s a stunner of a piece - no salad 🥗 required! Leave it empty

Amazing build. Style is level 10, skill level 10, greenery, level -1. Well done.

Love the color of lighter woods (Maple, Beech, etc) and agree they don't pop as much during finishing, but they're still beautiful woods. I love how Walnut gets a rich look, but the downside is you get less of a sense while building of the most beautiful parts unless you water pop. Lighter woods I feel like I can see close to the finished product, and make adjustments on the fly, while working it. What surprised me most was how the huge veneer elevated the piece. And it would be elevated even more if the door transition was hidden better, to give the look of a magic trick - a door sliding into a big empty space. I don't like the fake plant, but that's my take on fake...anything. Prefer that side just open, adds an air-y ness to it, and would greatly aid in the magic trick idea -- if that was a goal. I told my wife recently my dream vacation would be take a week off work, fly out, and apprentice under you for like a week straight. Just quietly soak up all I could helping you out, listening to you choose your own adventure, game out the build, see what works and what doesn't and how you fix errors. I guess that's my version of choose your own adventure. But since I don't think that's a course you offer, I'll stick with living vicariously through your awesome youtube vids. Yours are a favorite next to Frank Howarth and Pedulla Studio. Cheers!

Love the piece!! I'm personally not a fan of the greenery, so I wonder if a cap behind the faceframe with a geometry pattern in it could work? Add some of the brass into that cap in some way?

Fabuleux

Thanks for sharing, I always enjoy your videos! Every time I see someone cut veneer on a band saw makes me sad that my band saw is not capable of that! Needs a major tune up to be that good!

I only use metric greenery, and it's waaay cooler. Lovely piece Shaun, well done.

This is a beautiful piece and I love the way you tell your stories. I’m a plant addict so yes to the green touch. A real plant would be awesome instead of the fake one though.

I love your narration as much as your inspired designs and yes, that hose writhing gave me a shudder just a micro-second before you mentioned it. So, I was wondering would it be possible to create wooden Lego like blocks? That would be very bespoke and a great desktop or coffee table fiddling thingy... Not tiny ones but 3" to 6" (imperial, by the way) perhaps? OR... a choose your own design Lego like block table! Just a thought challenge.

Yes to your own adventure, no to green!😂