I can't believe the detail and precision on the dovetails and your chiseling. You make it look so easy. In a world of kreg pocket holes you keep alive the art of true woodworking Joey. I applaud you.
Hi Joey - you say long videos like it's a bad thing - it's not - it's a very good thing :) Every time I want to have a go at making something I watch one of your videos and it reminds me how much I don't know - lol. Good work sir - looks stunning
As always, superb craftsmanship. Your videos are never too long. To join what some of the other commenters have said, it's better to add all the steps in 30 minutes than to watch a 15 minute video and wonder how it was done. Thanks for posting!
Joey, thanks for taking the added time to make these videos. I look forward to them. I also like your style instructional speaking over the top of the video. It seems you have a good balance between the two.
Stunning piece. I love your videos. Don't worry about the length - there are absolutely no dead spots. Crazy (to me) that the client would opt for a huge color mismatch for a couple of spots of character, but they are the ones paying. Really awesome work, man.
Awesome! I love your blend of traditional joinery with your use of hand tools and modern machines. And I thought using the plane iron to layout your dovetail pins was brilliant! I was thinking to myself how are you going to get in that tiny space with a marking knife.
Great videos. Love the attention to detail. I only wish I had some of your skills. Keep up the GREAT work and don't worry so much about the length. Thanks
After a few years those mismatched pieces most likely will blend together. Considering the price of timber these days I can not really afford to cut out the "offending" bits. It took me a long time to accept and admire unusual colouring and blemishes in timber but now it seems I look forward to these irregularities. Nice build. Thanks. Cheers, David
Absolutely amazing work as always! I am always floored by how much meticulous work you put into every step of your pieces. You are an inspiration to me and make me strive to become more comfortable with all the different types of joinery you employ. Keep up the great work and don't worry a bit about the length of your videos. You have just the right combination of description and execution of your processes. It's always thoroughly entertaining to watch each minute of your hard work. I'm looking forward to the next project. Thanks for the great video.
Lovely work Joey , takes a lot of patience and of course talent to produce this dovetail work, wish I was half as talented as you , looking forward to the next one.
Two observations: a coping saw usefully removes wood between tails reducing chiselling; and leaving pins slightly proud allows planishing to fill the odd gap.
Beautifully constructed cabinet. Love that you still use time served methods. So many carpenters are using Festool Domino for making traditional joints and although that machinery method is faster, it takes away the craftsmanship which you have.
Joey.....regards the dovetailed partitions.....would a dovetail on one edge only be sufficient.....to save time and effort? Or do you require a full dovetail joint? Ta
could probably get away with the front and back, but thats probably about the same amount of work. the idea is that the long dovetails are also holding the side panels flat while letting them breath in width.
Wow, 'A LOT' of DT's.. And all done by hand; I'm surprised as a commercial shop,you have not got yourself a Jig, but very nice to see them done by hand. Having said that, I have the jig but never use it. Also a light bulb moment.. Using the plane blade to mark the Tails. Beautiful work as always Joey. Thanks again... BTW, how is the house build coming along????
With keeping such tigh tolerances, which was very impressive by the way. Will the season changes effect the sliding of the drawers?? Or does the polyurethane keep the moisture out and pervent expansion. Beautiful piece!!
+StonehurstKnives the trick is to use quarter sawn timber. So it will mostly expand in it's width not it's height. Relative to how it sits in the drawer. The fronts my change a little. So some small shaving may be needed over the first year.
Hi Joey. When you are using solid hardwood for a piece like this, how do you account for wood movement? Seems like your design has really tight tolerances with the drawers that would bind with humidity. Is the plywood drawer bottoms enough stability to keep everything from swelling? Curious, because I am thinking of making a similar piece. Thanks!
+Steve Mahr the trick is to use quarter sawn timber for the drawer sides . That way it will not really expand in it's height relative to the drawer. The front might move a little and may need the odd shave over the first year.
Joey, considerable time effort for all those dovetail joints in labour......did the customer specifically request (and paid) for the labour of hand cut dovetails or would machine cut dovetails have sufficed? Thoughts on this from a commercial perspective?
+SimopsAus unless they ask for otherwise up front I always quote a piece 1. I Want to make and 2. I think would be best. And let them know in the quote what all there money is buying them. They agreed with me right off. Sometimes like this you really can't charge every hour. But I still made what I need to every week.
what a lovely piece, amazing craftsmanship..... but I have a noob question, since the fit of the drawers and it's front is tight, would expansion /contraction of the wood be an issue in future , and the drawers get stuck?
+Ronald Khoo Kah Hock the trick is to use quarter sawn timber on the drawer sides. This way it won't really expand height wise relative to the drawer. The fronts will move a little and may need to be shaved a little over the first year. Keep in mind this is how quality furniture has been made for hundreds of years, the old boys really new what they were doing.
Definitely love the longer videos. Lets me see all the techniques I need to learn before taking on a project like this. Excuse my ignorance but those dovetails seem so tight.....so they don't need glue?
+aaron sailer sliding dovetails only need a small amount of glue at one end . These were a little too right really so didn't need any glue but it still got some.
Nice work. You could save quite a bit of time using a fretsaw to cut the waste between your tails and then chiseling the last 0.5 to 1mm to the line. Chopping all that out is quite time consuming and hard on the tools.
Nice job on those carcase dt's Joey. Were those tapered sliding dt's? Sometimes I gang up the drawer sides and cut 4 at once. Or are you familiar with using a 7° bevel blade on TS to do tails?
Hey Joey, love your videos. Just interested as a commercial furniture maker why you choose traditional methods for so much of your work? For example cutting the sliding dovetails with a plane. Does the traditional method appeal to your clientelle or is this a personal choice? Of course I appreciate the skill and need to keep traditional woodworking skills alive!
+Ross Merchant i guess my ethos is to charge what I need to pay the bills and the rest is me learning and having fun. I love what I do and would do it for free if i could. I don't get paid for every hour I work and think that would be unrealistic anyhow. This way clients get top notch work which as far as I know no one in NZ is producing for a fairly reasonable price. This really only works when you don't have the ambition to create a huge company.
Thanks Joey, your love for the craft is obvious and I am confident you will have a long and succesful career. A job that you love is hard to put a value on!
So the customer wanted the dark patch out and was willing to sacrifice the color match of the wood for it? It's one of those things that kinda makes you wonder. But the customer is always right, right?
I get why. When most non-woodworkers think of maple, they think of very clear, light-colored hard maple. I'm not a big fan of that. My kitchen is all wormy/ghost soft maple :)
+Daniel Legge thanks. About 2 weeks. The sides are quarter sawn so will not really expand height wise. The fronts may do a bit. During the first year it might need the odd shave
Must be one expensive chest of drawers bro?? How do you rate the capex over other chop saws?? Was thinking of getting one? Super expensive over here in the 🇬🇧!! Beautiful job btw👍
+Scott Green it's nice, but not much better than my old Makita. I do really like the dialed in compound angle at the back. Ok you might want to check out the new Bosch one too.
I noticed I can see pencil marks under the poluerethane @27:32, I assume you discovered this and sanded it off and sealed it again? Your client sounded a bit picky. Love your videos.
I'm trying to understand what those stops you are adding at 27:25 are for, to keep the drawer from going in too far? If so, then how do you insert the drawer with those installed, the fitment everything seems pretty tight. I'm not totally clear on how this works.
The drawer bottom sits up from the bottom of the drawer side about 6mm or so. That way you can route a groove in the drawer sides for the bottom to slide into. The drawer front covers all this. So you are left with about 6mm under the drawer as only the 2 sides slide on the carcass
@@KingPostTimberWorks Yes, I follow that completely. So since the drawer back does not have the dado for the drawer bottom then the drawer can slide in freely. The stop is to keep the drawer from closing too far? Got it. thanks.
Beautiful work. How long from start to finish did this piece take to make? I assume to make this commercially viable, the client paid a fair bit for this level of work?
+singe81 was somewhere around 2 weeks can't be sure as I was working on other jobs at the same time. They paid me for my time but not all of it. I can still feed the family which is the whole point
Nice job. I like some of the old style design ideas you use. BTW where did you find Maple in NZ? haven't been able to find anything like that here in Hamilton
I really get absorbed in watching you work. Before I know it the vid is over....too long?....not at all. Please just keep doing your thing. If it is too long for some, they can watch it in two parts, the video isn't going away. Don't suppose the customer would have liked a bow tie for the dark spot either. It still turned out excellent, nice work.
That's amazing work Joey. And those corner cuts for the bottom rolling piece is fantastic. Never seen anything like that. What kind of cuts are they? You're been doing woodworking for how long? Who taught you? Are ya self taught? Is the world really round? Questions, questions, questions. Oh my. Lol.
+Tony Bryce Perez hi it's a mitred through dovetail. Pretty old technique but I guess it's not done very often these days. I'm a third generation woodworker have been working wood since I was 4 or 5.
Such a shame you had to cut the piece out. I can't believe someone would rather have mismatched color then some small "imperfections ". At least those look natural and even good I would say. The mismatched pieces just look strange and cheapens the look. Some people! Great work
I can't believe the detail and precision on the dovetails and your chiseling. You make it look so easy. In a world of kreg pocket holes you keep alive the art of true woodworking Joey. I applaud you.
+Dan Barrett thank you
Excellent as always! I like the use of a straight edge to line up the dovetails.
Always a pure pleasure to see you working !! Don't make shorter. Excellent job. Tanks so lot From France.
+Heloïse Vernes merci!
Hi Joey - you say long videos like it's a bad thing - it's not - it's a very good thing :) Every time I want to have a go at making something I watch one of your videos and it reminds me how much I don't know - lol. Good work sir - looks stunning
^ This. I much prefer 30 min videos that show most of the process and design versus little 10 min things that skip all the good content :)
+edwardquan thanks good to know
+Nick Kropat cheers point taken
Ver good...i can see that this joining thechnic is very usefull...congratulatuons for more this beatifull piece
I found this inspiring! The length of the video is spot on. Fantastic work!
A BEAUTIFULLY accurate piece of cabinetry.I really like your use of a straight edge for the dovetail walls.
As always, superb craftsmanship. Your videos are never too long. To join what some of the other commenters have said, it's better to add all the steps in 30 minutes than to watch a 15 minute video and wonder how it was done. Thanks for posting!
great work, your skill set is amazing. I learnt a few things from watching. Thank you.
Absolutely incredible. Thanks for sharing!
Please don't go shorter on your vids I look forward to them every time, you do great work man!,
Best build idea I've ever watched. You hit the perfect sweet spot of details and content.
+Denise G thanks!
Love the long video format! We can learn so much just from watching it's great. Your attention to detail is inspiring, keep it up!
Great video, thanks. Really nice piece of furniture.
You do such an incredible job. It is a pleasure to watch Thx
+Frans Botes thank you
So glad I found this channel; your work is amazing. TY for uploading.
Beautiful piece of work, Joey. Love what you do.
Amazing joinery! Thank you for these inspiring videos.
Love your videos. The longer the better.
+Peter Hackett cool, duly noted.
Joey, thanks for taking the added time to make these videos. I look forward to them. I also like your style instructional speaking over the top of the video. It seems you have a good balance between the two.
+Jerry Johns cheers
Phew, you are an amazing artisan/craftsman - I'm jealous with envy
Hey Joey, I don't care if your video's are getting longer. For me. it's the enjoyment of watching you make stuff...a pleasure for me!
I don’t mind the long videos at all as long, like in this case, there is something to show / see! Thanks for sharing! :)
Absolutely gorgeous work mate! Keep the videos coming, the longer the better!
A true craftsman, such an enjoyable 30 mins.
I appreciate all the detail in the videos.
Beautiful work. Amazing dovetails.
Stunning piece. I love your videos. Don't worry about the length - there are absolutely no dead spots. Crazy (to me) that the client would opt for a huge color mismatch for a couple of spots of character, but they are the ones paying. Really awesome work, man.
+Mariano Aguirre cheers . Yes it's a bit shite
Beautiful. Liked every moment of this video. 👍
Awesome! I love your blend of traditional joinery with your use of hand tools and modern machines. And I thought using the plane iron to layout your dovetail pins was brilliant! I was thinking to myself how are you going to get in that tiny space with a marking knife.
+David St-Aubin thanks yea it works well
Awesome work and results. Love it!
Great videos. Love the attention to detail. I only wish I had some of your skills. Keep up the GREAT work and don't worry so much about the length. Thanks
Thanks a lot for this one! Great looking project!
After a few years those mismatched pieces most likely will blend together. Considering the price of timber these days I can not really afford to cut out the "offending" bits. It took me a long time to accept and admire unusual colouring and blemishes in timber but now it seems I look forward to these irregularities. Nice build. Thanks. Cheers, David
+DRMNZ cheers yea tend to agree
Your joints are the tightest I’ve ever seen. Love your work.
WOW, the way you chiseled that stack...man, I wanna grow up to be just like you.
Absolutely amazing work as always! I am always floored by how much meticulous work you put into every step of your pieces. You are an inspiration to me and make me strive to become more comfortable with all the different types of joinery you employ. Keep up the great work and don't worry a bit about the length of your videos. You have just the right combination of description and execution of your processes. It's always thoroughly entertaining to watch each minute of your hard work. I'm looking forward to the next project. Thanks for the great video.
+Sean Ehart oh cool, thanks
Como siempre tu IMPECABLE TRABAJO !!!!! Gracias
Lovely work Joey , takes a lot of patience and of course talent to produce this dovetail work, wish I was half as talented as you ,
looking forward to the next one.
+Phalim Maguire cheers
I love the design (very Scandinavian) which is fairly basic while full of wonderful details.
Two observations: a coping saw usefully removes wood between tails reducing chiselling; and leaving pins slightly proud allows planishing to fill the odd gap.
I like your honesty mate. Most In the industry wouldn’t admit to mistakes on video..
But a big part of reality
I love your videos doesn't matter how long they are
Brillante trabajo, como siempre espectacular!!!!!!!!!
Wow what a fantastic piece of work you my friend are a true pro Keep those videos coming And good luck from Ireland
Cheers
Beautiful chest of drawers!
Beautiful chest of drawers. It's a shame your client had you cut that piece out. The color match was painfully obvious. Gorgeous work.
Excellent vid, 1/2 hr. vids for content like yours is not to long for me. Keep the vids coming, I'll be watching.
Solid wood and building technique all the way around. No sacrifice. You don't see that much furniture built this way now a days.
Favourite RUclips woodworker 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Are you wizard of wood. Master work, simply perfect!
+Vanni D. Thank you !
Love your work mate, you seem to get some pretty special clients.
+One Man Band Woodworks yea thanks. Somehow they do come a knocking
Beautifully constructed cabinet. Love that you still use time served methods. So many carpenters are using Festool Domino for making traditional joints and although that machinery method is faster, it takes away the craftsmanship which you have.
Thanks , when clients are happy to pay I will make things as traditionally as possible.
Told you on instagram so telling you on here too, another work of art from a great artist
+Paul Lill cheers dude
Amazing work! How long did this take?
Joey.....regards the dovetailed partitions.....would a dovetail on one edge only be sufficient.....to save time and effort? Or do you require a full dovetail joint? Ta
could probably get away with the front and back, but thats probably about the same amount of work. the idea is that the long dovetails are also holding the side panels flat while letting them breath in width.
I like longer videos with more instruction in them. Thank you
Wow, 'A LOT' of DT's.. And all done by hand; I'm surprised as a commercial shop,you have not got yourself a Jig, but very nice to see them done by hand. Having said that, I have the jig but never use it. Also a light bulb moment.. Using the plane blade to mark the Tails. Beautiful work as always Joey. Thanks again... BTW, how is the house build coming along????
No sweat about length of vids, they're great.
With keeping such tigh tolerances, which was very impressive by the way. Will the season changes effect the sliding of the drawers?? Or does the polyurethane keep the moisture out and pervent expansion. Beautiful piece!!
+StonehurstKnives the trick is to use quarter sawn timber. So it will mostly expand in it's width not it's height. Relative to how it sits in the drawer. The fronts my change a little. So some small shaving may be needed over the first year.
Hi Joey. When you are using solid hardwood for a piece like this, how do you account for wood movement? Seems like your design has really tight tolerances with the drawers that would bind with humidity. Is the plywood drawer bottoms enough stability to keep everything from swelling? Curious, because I am thinking of making a similar piece. Thanks!
+Steve Mahr the trick is to use quarter sawn timber for the drawer sides . That way it will not really expand in it's height relative to the drawer. The front might move a little and may need the odd shave over the first year.
KingPost TimberWorks Excellent. Exactly the information I was looking for. Thanks so much for responding Joey!
great build!
Joey, considerable time effort for all those dovetail joints in labour......did the customer specifically request (and paid) for the labour of hand cut dovetails or would machine cut dovetails have sufficed? Thoughts on this from a commercial perspective?
+SimopsAus unless they ask for otherwise up front I always quote a piece 1. I Want to make and 2. I think would be best. And let them know in the quote what all there money is buying them. They agreed with me right off.
Sometimes like this you really can't charge every hour. But I still made what I need to every week.
As usual very nice built Joey! (y)
what a lovely piece, amazing craftsmanship..... but I have a noob question, since the fit of the drawers and it's front is tight, would expansion /contraction of the wood be an issue in future , and the drawers get stuck?
+Ronald Khoo Kah Hock the trick is to use quarter sawn timber on the drawer sides. This way it won't really expand height wise relative to the drawer. The fronts will move a little and may need to be shaved a little over the first year. Keep in mind this is how quality furniture has been made for hundreds of years, the old boys really new what they were doing.
good work. amazing joinery !
Definitely love the longer videos. Lets me see all the techniques I need to learn before taking on a project like this. Excuse my ignorance but those dovetails seem so tight.....so they don't need glue?
+aaron sailer sliding dovetails only need a small amount of glue at one end . These were a little too right really so didn't need any glue but it still got some.
Nice work. You could save quite a bit of time using a fretsaw to cut the waste between your tails and then chiseling the last 0.5 to 1mm to the line. Chopping all that out is quite time consuming and hard on the tools.
Well done! How long did this unit take you to make? If you don't mind me asking.
We love long format videos
Nice job on those carcase dt's Joey. Were those tapered sliding dt's? Sometimes I gang up the drawer sides and cut 4 at once. Or are you familiar with using a 7° bevel blade on TS to do tails?
+Robert cheers. Went meant to be tapered but some kinda ended up like that. Was thinking of gang cutting but they were all slightly different.
Beautiful! I don't mind the longer vids at all, but then again, I'm retired.
Esta muy bonito y sobre todo muy bien hecho, sin embargo me hubiera gustado que le aplicaras algún tipo de acabado. Te felicito.
Hi Joe. Great work. So much planing. How often do you need to sharpen your blades?
+Tony Lalama depends probably every 30min of use. Takes about 3 mins.
nice video. keep them up. that piece can't have been cheap.
Looks great!
nice and skookum. hey, where did you get the dovetail plane?
Those dovetails looked like a real pain . . . look lovely though, I got stressed just watching . . . great video.
+Rod MacKinnon cheers . They were ok really
Hey Joey, love your videos. Just interested as a commercial furniture maker why you choose traditional methods for so much of your work? For example cutting the sliding dovetails with a plane. Does the traditional method appeal to your clientelle or is this a personal choice? Of course I appreciate the skill and need to keep traditional woodworking skills alive!
+Ross Merchant i guess my ethos is to charge what I need to pay the bills and the rest is me learning and having fun. I love what I do and would do it for free if i could. I don't get paid for every hour I work and think that would be unrealistic anyhow. This way clients get top notch work which as far as I know no one in NZ is producing for a fairly reasonable price. This really only works when you don't have the ambition to create a huge company.
Thanks Joey, your love for the craft is obvious and I am confident you will have a long and succesful career. A job that you love is hard to put a value on!
So the customer wanted the dark patch out and was willing to sacrifice the color match of the wood for it? It's one of those things that kinda makes you wonder. But the customer is always right, right?
+GuysWoodshop hey guy, yea I know I was a bit speechless. Now he's not so keen on it!!!! So you can only lead a horse to water.
Yea go figure!!
The customer is not always right however the customer is still the customer!
Heaven forbid the natural wood material show some character..
I get why. When most non-woodworkers think of maple, they think of very clear, light-colored hard maple. I'm not a big fan of that. My kitchen is all wormy/ghost soft maple :)
You are my favourite RUclips channel. Every project is fantastic. Don't ever stop doing what you do! Instagram is a spoiler alert though :)
Very very nice job mate, simple clean lines & ergonomicsNot bad for a kiwi
Looks good mate, how long did this take?
The drawers are a nice tight fit, do you think these could swell and be hard to open?
+Daniel Legge thanks. About 2 weeks. The sides are quarter sawn so will not really expand height wise. The fronts may do a bit. During the first year it might need the odd shave
BTW Where did you get your mallet? Thanks
Must be one expensive chest of drawers bro?? How do you rate the capex over other chop saws?? Was thinking of getting one? Super expensive over here in the 🇬🇧!! Beautiful job btw👍
+Scott Green it's nice, but not much better than my old Makita. I do really like the dialed in compound angle at the back. Ok you might want to check out the new Bosch one too.
I noticed I can see pencil marks under the poluerethane @27:32, I assume you discovered this and sanded it off and sealed it again? Your client sounded a bit picky. Love your videos.
I'm trying to understand what those stops you are adding at 27:25 are for, to keep the drawer from going in too far? If so, then how do you insert the drawer with those installed, the fitment everything seems pretty tight. I'm not totally clear on how this works.
The drawer bottom sits up from the bottom of the drawer side about 6mm or so. That way you can route a groove in the drawer sides for the bottom to slide into. The drawer front covers all this. So you are left with about 6mm under the drawer as only the 2 sides slide on the carcass
@@KingPostTimberWorks Yes, I follow that completely. So since the drawer back does not have the dado for the drawer bottom then the drawer can slide in freely. The stop is to keep the drawer from closing too far? Got it. thanks.
i love the drawers aren't on sliders.
Beautiful work. How long from start to finish did this piece take to make? I assume to make this commercially viable, the client paid a fair bit for this level of work?
Perhaps scrap the last question - it probably comes across as a bit nosey!
+singe81 was somewhere around 2 weeks can't be sure as I was working on other jobs at the same time. They paid me for my time but not all of it. I can still feed the family which is the whole point
Nice!! Love your videos. What happened to your hand?
Nice job. I like some of the old style design ideas you use. BTW where did you find Maple in NZ? haven't been able to find anything like that here in Hamilton
+Kiwi Dustmite cheers bbs timbers. Have everything you could want.
Brilliant as always. Lots of detail video length is OK.
Beautiful simple piece, what happened to your hand?
Question. How thick is the material for that piece?
I really get absorbed in watching you work. Before I know it the vid is over....too long?....not at all. Please just keep doing your thing. If it is too long for some, they can watch it in two parts, the video isn't going away. Don't suppose the customer would have liked a bow tie for the dark spot either. It still turned out excellent, nice work.
+Rick Green I actually suggested that . He thought it would be worse. I think he might be regreting that now. Thank you
It looked better with the dark spots in the wood, some people don't appreciate nature's artistry
That's amazing work Joey. And those corner cuts for the bottom rolling piece is fantastic. Never seen anything like that.
What kind of cuts are they?
You're been doing woodworking for how long?
Who taught you?
Are ya self taught?
Is the world really round?
Questions, questions, questions. Oh my. Lol.
+Tony Bryce Perez hi it's a mitred through dovetail. Pretty old technique but I guess it's not done very often these days. I'm a third generation woodworker have been working wood since I was 4 or 5.
Such a shame you had to cut the piece out. I can't believe someone would rather have mismatched color then some small "imperfections ". At least those look natural and even good I would say. The mismatched pieces just look strange and cheapens the look. Some people! Great work
+Joel Harry cheers yea it's a shame.
Joel Harry those imperfections made the perfection in my opinion.
Love the chest of drawers :-) Hows the house build coming along? Tfs.
+Ms Teresa K coming along ok, lots of small boring things painting plastering. I'll get onto another vid soon
I like the plinth, it has become a feature which plinths are usually anything but.
+WhiteVanMan yea me too. My favorite part
Very nice work
Nice piece👌