@@woodworkchannel3353 Yeah! Most Amish kids only go to school through middle school (and have a legal exemption to allow that). Many young men and women get jobs in their community soon after their schooling ends.
Thinking about buying a bookcase from these guys. I'm not Amish, of course, but I wish I could feel the type of pride from knowing that the name my family is called evokes the ideas of hard work and unwavering quality.
Pocket screw joinery is not the traditional Amish style of making joints. Just the same as any other furniture company making mass produced inexpensive furniture.
Keith, you may be right that they don't use the traditional Amish style for all their joints. But from what we've seen in our 17+ years in the business, Millcraft bedroom furniture has VERY few customer service issues and a great track record for durable construction on all their products. And we don't think mass-produced inexpensive furniture could take this: ruclips.net/video/E1b0fzqrQ7U/видео.html so Millcraft has more than earned our trust. If they don't live up to yours, I'm not sure where you can go to find better solid wood furniture but I wish you luck!
Great walkthrough of your shop, love to see how shops run. I teach high school woodshop and do tree work on the weekends, I cut the trees down, bring them to the school where we mill them up and use the lumber for projects.
I'll be honest; it took some getting used to for all of us. But I can assure you, they've adopted power tools for greater precision, better quality. Not simply an effort to rush the process. Additionally, they stay off the grid, running electricity off generators when they need it.
@@Dutchcrafters It's ok to use power tools. It's just a little bit strange if the men are allowed to use modern power tools in their work shop, but the women have to stick to old fashioned methods of washing the work clothes. That's not fair...
Thanks for the feedback Kim! It took a little while to get to it, but we just added a normal speed version of the dresser assembly and ebony inlays sections in this new playlist: ruclips.net/p/PL6-Rck1EmeqrXxx7GJXwkqeG17ITsdQ_F
Those kids should be wearing a respirator while they're sanding. Hell, your finisher isn't even wearing one....spray booth or not you should be wearing one, those chemicals and dust will catch up to you.
There is an Amish furniture store here in Keller, TX. and the people that own the store say the place they get their furniture from don't have electricity
That may be true! As I understand it, there are Amish settlements where they don't use electricity even for business. There are shops that run on compressed air tools instead of electricity. But more often (such as Millcraft here), they use generators for electricity and aren't connected to the electrical grid.
I was stationed not far from an Amish community in Kentucky, we used to get vegetables from there. They embraced all the modern luxuries of electricity, even bought vehicles to do construction with, but had to hire people to drive them. They would however, drive tractors to Lowes, it was an interesting way of life for sure. I would imagine the "old" way of living is quickly dying off as the generations pass on.
Like many guidelines in the Amish faith, rules on photography vary across the country. Some local church bishops and their communities are more restrictive than others. We always ask first: some groups don't allow any photography, some are ok with hands but not faces, some are ok with candid shots but they won't pose, and some are ok with photography and video for business purposes but not in their personal life. Here at Millcraft in Ohio, they allowed video of the whole shop. Good question!
DutchCrafters Amish Furniture 1 second ago Just a creative decision. It's not for everyone, I'll admit, but we wanted to get you a glimpse of each phase of the work as quickly as possible. Thanks for watching!
THESE ARE NOT ACTUAL POWER TOOLS PEOPLE they are powered by a barn full of god fearing hamsters running on humble, handcrafted wheels using copper wire acquired through centuries of prayer, although the hamsters DO need their teeth worked on occasionally, so we fly them first class to dubai for their trimonthly dental appointments and each hamster DOES have it's own xbox and smartphone with wifi hotspot and pornhub account but that's just so they don't leave the wheel for rumspringa. how are you going to keep them on the megalolopis once they've seen fully automated luxury gay space communism?
Yea I saw that and my head dropped... I'm not amish, refuse to use that method and do the classic mortise and tenon. It's a few more steps with power tools ... I see one comment they arent using power for faster productivity but for accuracy. Well... a mortise and tenon is stronger, looks better and last longer. Pocket holes is for cheaper and faster productivity. Ikea.
I'm glad you learned something new about some Amish woodworkers from our video! Sorry if it doesn't match the image in your mind, but we don't expect that you'll find better-constructed solid wood furniture anywhere in America. The tools have changed; the final product has not. Amish communities evolve and change, just like the rest of us, but a little slower. Many shops, like Millcraft, have upgraded their tools to produce better furniture for more people. Other shops, in other Amish communities, still use older, more manual tools. What hasn't changed is their commitment to quality materials and construction techniques.
The speed of the video discredits Amish woodwork. It looks more like fast factory production, not furniture made with care and the love of God's wood source.
A well run furniture factory, but is it just the religious belief of the workers that makes it Amish furniture? I can’t see any other difference. Personally I am an atheist and have been making furniture professionally for 41 years, but I never thought of it as atheist furniture or branded it as such. The religious attitude of Shaker furniture makers really did affect the way they worked and the finished product, but I don’t see that here.
We think our CEO Jim Miller said it best when he said, "The Amish have this idea that all of life is sacred. It's not just what you do on Sundays that's important, it's how you work on Monday. They're not just making the furniture for their customers, but this is an expression of their faith." But you're right that "Amish furniture" is not necessarily any better than any other highly skilled furniture maker. However, to us, the term "Amish furniture" signifies a commitment to excellent quality craftsmanship, the best materials, and treating customers, employees, and business associates with dignity and respect. And those are values that we think everyone can support, no matter their spiritual belief!
Yeah, I’m confused…if the Amish use power tools then is it even Amish furniture? They are losing their skills too for the sake of what? Sales to people outside their community? Sounds like regular old capitalism to me.
I know lots of Amish and I don't think most of these Amish T shirts and jeans? Get real All the Amish wood working shops I've been used air powered tools
Simply a creative decision. Maybe the wrong one. But hey, it gets you through a long process in 5 and a half minutes! Thanks for watching. Subscribe for more (natural speed) glimpses into a shop.
And here you are with a real speed view of the Ebony Inlays section and Dresser Assembly section in this playlist: ruclips.net/p/PL6-Rck1EmeqrXxx7GJXwkqeG17ITsdQ_F
@@fscarp carpenter 27 yrs, boilermaker 10 years sheet metal mechanic 11 year and now i make furnituer with hand tools , so you think you know who i am , NO you dont , besides i only watched the video because i thought you amish boys shuned electricity i guess you dont take your faith seriously either
Sorry if you're disappointed by what you see! We think there's a lot that makes Amish furniture special. But if you can find well-designed, durable, custom-built, solid hardwood furniture at 1/10th the price of Amish furniture, we'll be shocked. In fact, you may not be able to find any wood shops that provide what Amish woodworkers offer at a better price, but if you do, enjoy your good fortune and your new furniture. Best of luck with your furniture shopping.
What are you most surprised to see in the shop? Power tools? Non-Amish employees? A basketball hoop?
the kid that looks to be 14
@@woodworkchannel3353 Yeah! Most Amish kids only go to school through middle school (and have a legal exemption to allow that). Many young men and women get jobs in their community soon after their schooling ends.
WOW....BEAUTIFUL WORK!!!!
They've got the tools and know how to use them! Awesome! 👍👍
Thinking about buying a bookcase from these guys. I'm not Amish, of course, but I wish I could feel the type of pride from knowing that the name my family is called evokes the ideas of hard work and unwavering quality.
Impressive but dizzy from watching it whiz by. ☺️
Pocket screw joinery is not the traditional Amish style of making joints. Just the same as any other furniture company making mass produced inexpensive furniture.
Keith, you may be right that they don't use the traditional Amish style for all their joints. But from what we've seen in our 17+ years in the business, Millcraft bedroom furniture has VERY few customer service issues and a great track record for durable construction on all their products. And we don't think mass-produced inexpensive furniture could take this: ruclips.net/video/E1b0fzqrQ7U/видео.html so Millcraft has more than earned our trust. If they don't live up to yours, I'm not sure where you can go to find better solid wood furniture but I wish you luck!
dAAAMN, need some YARROW for that BRIMSTONE???
Great walkthrough of your shop, love to see how shops run. I teach high school woodshop and do tree work on the weekends, I cut the trees down, bring them to the school where we mill them up and use the lumber for projects.
Wish that was available when I went to high school. Wood shop was cancelled the year before I started.
Wow they work so fast
Wow amazing kit and skills
nice video, but I was kind of sad to see all the power tools.
I'll be honest; it took some getting used to for all of us. But I can assure you, they've adopted power tools for greater precision, better quality. Not simply an effort to rush the process. Additionally, they stay off the grid, running electricity off generators when they need it.
MOST old order Amish dont use power tools unless English as they call us own the shop.If shop owned by old older wont see power tools
@@johnclark537 I don't know of any old order amish who don't use power tools and I have hook ups with many amish furniture shops due to my job
True, but if they were truly hand made amish, they would likely cost $4000-$8000/piece instead of $2000-$4000.
@@Dutchcrafters It's ok to use power tools. It's just a little bit strange if the men are allowed to use modern power tools in their work shop, but the women have to stick to old fashioned methods of washing the work clothes. That's not fair...
It would be awesome to work there!
I was really interested in what they were building - I didn't so much care for the "hyperspeed" - it made watching very difficult for me!
Thanks for the feedback Kim! It took a little while to get to it, but we just added a normal speed version of the dresser assembly and ebony inlays sections in this new playlist: ruclips.net/p/PL6-Rck1EmeqrXxx7GJXwkqeG17ITsdQ_F
Do I see eletric fans & saws, Mortise & Tennon cutters? Sanders? I guess the times they are a changing.
Very nice
Sir.my name is Abdul Salam I'm Indian I'm furniture carpenter wood worker i need job this company
Put a guard on that table saw ! Yes, I didn't so much care for the "hyperspeed" - it made watching very difficult for me!
Looks like a modern woodshed to me
where are the dust particle masks?!?!
Those kids should be wearing a respirator while they're sanding. Hell, your finisher isn't even wearing one....spray booth or not you should be wearing one, those chemicals and dust will catch up to you.
There is an Amish furniture store here in Keller, TX. and the people that own the store say the place they get their furniture from don't have electricity
That may be true! As I understand it, there are Amish settlements where they don't use electricity even for business. There are shops that run on compressed air tools instead of electricity. But more often (such as Millcraft here), they use generators for electricity and aren't connected to the electrical grid.
@@Dutchcrafters ahhhh... so how do they power the compressors?? 😂
I was stationed not far from an Amish community in Kentucky, we used to get vegetables from there. They embraced all the modern luxuries of electricity, even bought vehicles to do construction with, but had to hire people to drive them. They would however, drive tractors to Lowes, it was an interesting way of life for sure. I would imagine the "old" way of living is quickly dying off as the generations pass on.
Was I mislead into thinking Amish folk don't like their photos taken? Or is this shop a scam?
Like many guidelines in the Amish faith, rules on photography vary across the country. Some local church bishops and their communities are more restrictive than others. We always ask first: some groups don't allow any photography, some are ok with hands but not faces, some are ok with candid shots but they won't pose, and some are ok with photography and video for business purposes but not in their personal life. Here at Millcraft in Ohio, they allowed video of the whole shop. Good question!
So basically they build them the same as any custom builder except use automated dove tail machines and pneumatic jigs... LOL. Hey, whatever works!
The video is way too damn jumpy! Slow it down a bit so you can actually see what is going on.
Why are they using power tools? I thought they don't use those!!!
50% markup on all HANDMADE amish wood work! yeah right!!
Ther are zillions of misconceptions about Amish woodworkers.
way too fast for me to watch
Was there any need to run the video so fast?
DutchCrafters Amish Furniture
1 second ago
Just a creative decision. It's not for everyone, I'll admit, but we wanted to get you a glimpse of each phase of the work as quickly as possible. Thanks for watching!
Check out the new playlist for some real speed examples: ruclips.net/p/PL6-Rck1EmeqrXxx7GJXwkqeG17ITsdQ_F
The Amish and the old order are verry different groups this is definitely the old order or they would not even have a steel building
Amish would still have all this stuff
Makita amish ★★★★★
They were the normal ones after all...
THESE ARE NOT ACTUAL POWER TOOLS PEOPLE they are powered by a barn full of god fearing hamsters running on humble, handcrafted wheels using copper wire acquired through centuries of prayer, although the hamsters DO need their teeth worked on occasionally, so we fly them first class to dubai for their trimonthly dental appointments and each hamster DOES have it's own xbox and smartphone with wifi hotspot and pornhub account but that's just so they don't leave the wheel for rumspringa. how are you going to keep them on the megalolopis once they've seen fully automated luxury gay space communism?
Too fast to appreciate the workmanship. Slow down.! I'm looking for dowel joints and everything is flying by my eyes.
slow the camera down
.... TIP TOP ...........
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Power tools ok. Pocket holes r just plain junk not fine furniture.
Yea I saw that and my head dropped... I'm not amish, refuse to use that method and do the classic mortise and tenon. It's a few more steps with power tools ... I see one comment they arent using power for faster productivity but for accuracy. Well... a mortise and tenon is stronger, looks better and last longer. Pocket holes is for cheaper and faster productivity. Ikea.
You also catch they are using CA glue with a activator on extruded aluminum? ....
Perfectly acceptable on cabinets but yeah they are overused sometimes
This is not good old fashioned handicraft but modern industrial production. I expected something else from the Amish.
I'm glad you learned something new about some Amish woodworkers from our video! Sorry if it doesn't match the image in your mind, but we don't expect that you'll find better-constructed solid wood furniture anywhere in America. The tools have changed; the final product has not.
Amish communities evolve and change, just like the rest of us, but a little slower. Many shops, like Millcraft, have upgraded their tools to produce better furniture for more people. Other shops, in other Amish communities, still use older, more manual tools. What hasn't changed is their commitment to quality materials and construction techniques.
The speed of the video discredits Amish woodwork. It looks more like fast factory production, not furniture made with care and the love of God's wood source.
But the pace is just right for my low attention span 😂
A well run furniture factory, but is it just the religious belief of the workers that makes it Amish furniture? I can’t see any other difference. Personally I am an atheist and have been making furniture professionally for 41 years, but I never thought of it as atheist furniture or branded it as such. The religious attitude of Shaker furniture makers really did affect the way they worked and the finished product, but I don’t see that here.
We think our CEO Jim Miller said it best when he said, "The Amish have this idea that all of life is sacred. It's not just what you do on Sundays that's important, it's how you work on Monday. They're not just making the furniture for their customers, but this is an expression of their faith."
But you're right that "Amish furniture" is not necessarily any better than any other highly skilled furniture maker. However, to us, the term "Amish furniture" signifies a commitment to excellent quality craftsmanship, the best materials, and treating customers, employees, and business associates with dignity and respect. And those are values that we think everyone can support, no matter their spiritual belief!
I totally agree there is nothing unique about their work that could be associated with the predicate amish
No respirators? Shame on you.
what repirators honsetly?
Electric Amish!😂
Yeah, I’m confused…if the Amish use power tools then is it even Amish furniture? They are losing their skills too for the sake of what? Sales to people outside their community? Sounds like regular old capitalism to me.
I know lots of Amish and I don't think most of these Amish
T shirts and jeans? Get real
All the Amish wood working shops I've been used air powered tools
some of them are mennonite...they dress like everyone but they still speak german
Most of Amish I met the last 20 yrs. dont use air tools in their shops and would never be filmed.
@@johnclark537 yea no that isn't even the slightest bit true in Lancaster county maybe in New York
Fast forward is very annoying!!
Simply a creative decision. Maybe the wrong one. But hey, it gets you through a long process in 5 and a half minutes! Thanks for watching. Subscribe for more (natural speed) glimpses into a shop.
And here you are with a real speed view of the Ebony Inlays section and Dresser Assembly section in this playlist: ruclips.net/p/PL6-Rck1EmeqrXxx7GJXwkqeG17ITsdQ_F
Is it against their religion to not wear masks? They must all have some sort of COPD 😢
I thought the Amish didn't use power tools and electricity.... Big disappointment...
..so the people are Amish not the process. I feel betrayed
no skill just machines
@@fscarp carpenter 27 yrs, boilermaker 10 years sheet metal mechanic 11 year and now i make furnituer with hand tools , so you think you know who i am , NO you dont , besides i only watched the video because i thought you amish boys shuned electricity i guess you dont take your faith seriously either
@@richard3716 old older Amish dont use electric and wont be filmed
But not wearing masks to save their lungs!
Terrible video graphics
This is nothing more than ANY other wood furniture shop!!! Why pay ten times the price for it???
Sorry if you're disappointed by what you see! We think there's a lot that makes Amish furniture special. But if you can find well-designed, durable, custom-built, solid hardwood furniture at 1/10th the price of Amish furniture, we'll be shocked. In fact, you may not be able to find any wood shops that provide what Amish woodworkers offer at a better price, but if you do, enjoy your good fortune and your new furniture. Best of luck with your furniture shopping.