The author does like to from scratch, ruclips.net/user/postUgkxbnOKZBE4evMO5V2vroHeCjq6d_MV6wJO shaping and trimming wood from large blocks into fine finished products. As another reviewer mentioned, most projects require a lot of high-dollar equipment that most of us don’t have the room or budget for. But, knowing how to do these things, even if we won’t be able to practise the full stack project, is still great.
I think you got one of the best woodworking channels: just good craftsmanship and useful projects and no semi-professional blabla and idiotic toolporn like many other channels. Keep up the good work!
toolporn requires more than just using certain brands, it's all about bragging about the stuff you use, emphasizing the costs of it, comparing it with other (less expensive) brands etc.. Joey doesn't do this, he just uses the tools for what they are: tools. I watched every vid he made, and I can't remember he even mentioned 'Festool' once.
I’m just garage shop guy and I built something almost exactly the same as this piece minus the bow top. It was commissioned by my in-laws. They were shocked at my estimated cost of $1200 labor plus material. People are so easy to compare manufactured furniture to hand made. I told them they got a good deal seeing how long it actually took to make and then finish.
Love your work.could I ask what kind of router table you have there. Looks like it is well made with cast iron top and rugged fince and dust collection. Keep up the good work, thanks , Bob
Joey, I am always just in awe at your skill and artistry when I watch your videos. You are definitely one craftsman that I always look forward to viewing.
I’m so glad you included the challenge of the curved piece on top. It’s comforting to see other furniture makers get seriously slowed down by “head-scratching-how-in-the-hell-am-I-gonna-do-this” moments! Makes me feel better.
Beautiful piece Joey. I wouldn't worry about the naysayers. Sometimes the CNC is the right tool. I think most people just get frustrated with some of the RUclipsrs who look for reasons to use the CNC as entertainment for their viewers. Newsflash. Watching a CNC machine run for 20 minutes isn't very entertaining or educational. You did it perfect. You explained why you used it, (which made sense) and then showed a 25 second clip of the CNC and then back to showing us things from which we can actually learn to be better woodworkers. Great video.
Nice looking piece of furniture. When I saw the finished product at the beginning of the video, I sort of gulped at the amount of work required, but as you went through the various stages of the build it didn't seem so daunting. Great work on the CNC and how you did this. And BTW I agree will be so much better if it has a clear finish (and no stain) Thanks for the video. Cheers, David.
This is a very nice armoire and I really appreciate the way you built it. With respect to your comment on making the mouldings, I say this: You achieved a perfect outcome using the tools and techniques available to you in the time you had available. Enough said! Andre Roubo would have given blood for a CNC machine! Well done!
This is beautiful. I don't have the tools and room to do this but I have always wondered how some of the details like the curved top were made. I really enjoyed watching you make it!
Nice video. The closet looks great. I think it was a very nice and expensive job. For the shackles, there are shackles hole drills. This means that the drill hole is always in the middle
A superb piece of work - very well done I do hope it gets a clear coat finish after the time and trouble taken with the construction. Have you considered a few cedar slats in the shelving - a wonderful aroma for a linen cupboard Chris
Hi Joey, great work! .. I have a request. Would it be possible for you to specify a few things in new projects, such as how many hours it took, how much in materials, how much it sells for? Not sure if you would want to disclose that info, but I'd find it interesting. Thanks!
Loved watching this, great video as always :) Just a thought on the steam bending of the moulding I'm not positive on this but I'm pretty sure that the / one of the main reasons you had trouble with this is that its almost impossible to steam bend kiln dried timber. I think air dried can work but green is the best. looking forward to your next video.
yes thats what i have read too however i have done a bunch of steam bending with kiln dried timber and found it works pretty good, its just the tight radius i think that did it. plus not a super good set up. ,
Nice job. I would have made the top curved molding from solid wood thin strips then routed the profile but I do have quite a few large roman ogee carbide router bits. I have a lot of experience making curved moldings in various profiles from small to large. A shaper with a power feed will make short work of these things but many ways to skin a cat.
I ordered tiger maple bookcase from a craftsman in Vermont. 15 year ago it cost me 2500 USD. A bargain. Wood finishing and joinery is an art when properly done.
I'm not a fan of the CNC, but like all tools it has it's place. But you did a magnificent job as always. If I were gonna have someone build furniture for me I'd want it to be you Joey
At the risk of sounding a bit boring - loving your work Joey ! I don't mean any offence, but it's interesting to see the difficulties you encountered and how you overcame them. Given I specialise in IT, it's too easy to assume sometimes everyone has the solution to every issue - and that's not always the case. A lesson in life ! Good job sir
Nice work Joey have you seen Marc Sommerfelds technique of using tongue and groove to join cabs sides to front? Very slick. Also, I think bent molding is much prettier because there is no end grain exposed. I think if you rived the wood (split rather than sawn) it will bend much better. This follows the long grain fibers. I learned this from Curtis Buchanan chairmaker.
its from a local supplier, they found a bunch on a pellet stacked away somewhere. its a rubber bottle with cast aluminum top and brass nozzle. you can contact Access group and ask them . www.accessgroup.co.nz/
awesome job, I wish I could do similar projects for my clients, but since that 's not the case I make the most difficult things for myself. Question, do you use spiral router bits for pattern routing and if yes have you noticed differences in performance compared to straight bits, I saw you had to do some upwards cutting. And your router table seems to be almost a light version spindle moulder, I suppose it's at least 1600 W and holds 1/2 inch router bits or bigger, right?
+Bart Loncke yea I have a 3 horse router in that table and it will take up to a 60mm diameter cutter. That Patten bit is actually a straight cutter with top and bottom bearings and replaceable blades. I don't Have a spiral Patten bit but have found regular 12mm down cut bits to be very hungry in that they like to pull and grab heaps when grooving. Cheers
Hi Joe, good work once again and good idea for the CNC. I would just like to ask you a question concerning your pants CAT. What is the reference of the pants to CAT? Thank you
Wow, that last finish detail was complicated (don't try this at home) . . . beautiful work. There seems to be a green tinge to the French Oak, almost looks like our popular . . . maybe just the camera light . . .
Hi Joey that's a really nice job mate , the scotia you mentioned in the end of video , I actually did similar, but ,not as curved, I just routed off a template to a piece of maple already thicknessed with the curved front edge already completed and then cut the back with bandsaw and sanded and turned out a fair curved scotia curved , and may I ask Joey were did you buy the Green Glue bottle puffer ?
For a commercial shop a CNC makes sense. No, it was not luck with the doors, just good craftsmanship. If I get fed up with making furniture for myself, I'll be sure to come and see you (even with shipping costs ;0 ).
10/10Mate have you ever watched Norm make a tallboy in a two part video whereby much time is spent on making the crest.. "the New Yankee workshop" which is on air for free on the American PSB channel.....well worth a watch. Just as your videos are too. Regards, Rich.UK.
Did you try to soak the wood in fabric softener and water for 7 days before bending it as most wood nowadays is air dried or treated in some form or other it really need soaking
Most timber is infact kiln dried as it's a much faster process than the 3 years needed for air dried. The steaming process softens the lignin in the timber making it pliable. Interestingly kiln drying timber disturbs the lignin mening air dried timber typically bends better but is harder to find.
Just try the fabric softener our family made coffins with Kurf bends bending wood is fickle anything could put it out balance to fresh around to long to dry to wet got slightly damp you near get 100% results every time what's to lose
KingPost TimberWorks how much wood was used for this based on 12inches x 12inches x1... in other words, how much wood was used to build the armoire in feet
+Dave Van Meter they are veneered mdf panels so they won't expand/contact so gluing them in is no problem plus adds strenght to the whole panel as it add diagonal bracing.
Hello work wonderful if it was for yourself either for sale, I think furniture Damietta beautiful and this work a copy of furniture Dalmatia Greetings to your wonderful effort
The author does like to from scratch, ruclips.net/user/postUgkxbnOKZBE4evMO5V2vroHeCjq6d_MV6wJO shaping and trimming wood from large blocks into fine finished products. As another reviewer mentioned, most projects require a lot of high-dollar equipment that most of us don’t have the room or budget for. But, knowing how to do these things, even if we won’t be able to practise the full stack project, is still great.
I think you got one of the best woodworking channels: just good craftsmanship and useful projects and no semi-professional blabla and idiotic toolporn like many other channels. Keep up the good work!
toolporn requires more than just using certain brands, it's all about bragging about the stuff you use, emphasizing the costs of it, comparing it with other (less expensive) brands etc.. Joey doesn't do this, he just uses the tools for what they are: tools. I watched every vid he made, and I can't remember he even mentioned 'Festool' once.
well, Biff, if you watched carefully, you may have noticed he isn't a hobbyist but runs a professional shop...
GM p
This man does beautiful work
GM, toolporn! Haha, well said. I completely agree with you.
I’m just garage shop guy and I built something almost exactly the same as this piece minus the bow top. It was commissioned by my in-laws. They were shocked at my estimated cost of $1200 labor plus material. People are so easy to compare manufactured furniture to hand made. I told them they got a good deal seeing how long it actually took to make and then finish.
i keep telling, you are the best REAL woodworker on youtube, not just a youtuber, congratulations, beautiful work as always
thanks !
Love your work.could I ask what kind of router table you have there. Looks like it is well made with cast iron top and rugged fince and dust collection. Keep up the good work, thanks , Bob
I was gonna recommend Matt’s video glad y’all found it, that’s a beautiful armoire. Great job
Joey, I am always just in awe at your skill and artistry when I watch your videos. You are definitely one craftsman that I always look forward to viewing.
+Ryk Haviland thank you!
I’m so glad you included the challenge of the curved piece on top. It’s comforting to see other furniture makers get seriously slowed down by “head-scratching-how-in-the-hell-am-I-gonna-do-this” moments! Makes me feel better.
+Jeffrey Lonigro cheers, yea we are all just the same.
gotta be the best woodworker +woodworking channel on RUclips. absolutely stunning cabinet.
This is stunning! What an artist you are...beautiful!
Beautiful piece Joey. I wouldn't worry about the naysayers. Sometimes the CNC is the right tool. I think most people just get frustrated with some of the RUclipsrs who look for reasons to use the CNC as entertainment for their viewers. Newsflash. Watching a CNC machine run for 20 minutes isn't very entertaining or educational. You did it perfect. You explained why you used it, (which made sense) and then showed a 25 second clip of the CNC and then back to showing us things from which we can actually learn to be better woodworkers. Great video.
+Scott Clark cheers . God I couldn't watch a cnc run very long at all. After you have seen it once that's it.
Nice looking piece of furniture. When I saw the finished product at the beginning of the video, I sort of gulped at the amount of work required, but as you went through the various stages of the build it didn't seem so daunting. Great work on the CNC and how you did this. And BTW I agree will be so much better if it has a clear finish (and no stain) Thanks for the video. Cheers, David.
This is a very nice armoire and I really appreciate the way you built it.
With respect to your comment on making the mouldings, I say this: You achieved a perfect outcome using the tools and techniques available to you in the time you had available. Enough said!
Andre Roubo would have given blood for a CNC machine!
Well done!
+Jerry Stark thanks!
Very nice job Joey, thanks for sharing this with us. Really appreciated that you showed us your bending experiences.
This is beautiful. I don't have the tools and room to do this but I have always wondered how some of the details like the curved top were made. I really enjoyed watching you make it!
Your skill and accuracy are an absolute pleasure to watch. Thank you for great content
thanks for watching
Awesome build! Fingers crossed for the clear coat - it's such a shame to see expensive exotic timbers being stained or painted
Magnificent build Joey. I Like the approach to the bonnet and the molding.
Hey cheers Guy
must be the worlds best laundry cupboard. as always a great project well done.
cheers
Amazing, that is what you call true craftsmanship.
Channel is a hidden gem
Good stuff Joey. Very nice work. Thanks for the detailed video and showing your experimentations (failed and successful).
Fantastic project. I learn a lot from your channel. Looking forward to your next video. Thanks!
great work. You do whatever is needed to get the jobs done!
Beautiful work this piece is awesome and I'm with you clear coats show off all the grain. Looking forward to seeing the next video.
Nice video.
The closet looks great.
I think it was a very nice and expensive job.
For the shackles, there are shackles hole drills.
This means that the drill hole is always in the middle
A superb piece of work - very well done
I do hope it gets a clear coat finish after the time and trouble taken with the construction.
Have you considered a few cedar slats in the shelving - a wonderful aroma for a linen cupboard
Chris
hi thanks , yes i was going to add some cedar, but will run that by my client later.
Great work Mate .👍🏻🇨🇦
Imagine cutting the mitres short on those top mouldings! Beautiful work mate
As always, you're a great craftsman.
Turned out great, thanks for your time.
Very awesome job sir . Was amazing to watch .
Nice job Joe . Cnc is way to go if you make your leaving with woodworking. If you making for your self and have 5 months is a different thing .
thats true, even so i try not to use it very much at all. the set up times is almost always a killer.
I'm a mere neophyte....but this level of skill inspires me to try new things....
3 dislikes? Should be ashamed of yourselves! How could you not like this craftsmanship
Agreed. The dislike option should be removed as some people click that option just because they want to be negative. Sad
It was not an easy built but you always make the toughest job possible and easy, very nice built Joey! (y)
Hi Joey, great work! .. I have a request. Would it be possible for you to specify a few things in new projects, such as how many hours it took, how much in materials, how much it sells for? Not sure if you would want to disclose that info, but I'd find it interesting. Thanks!
Hi
Loved watching this, great video as always :)
Just a thought on the steam bending of the moulding I'm not positive on this but I'm pretty sure that the / one of the main reasons you had trouble with this is that its almost impossible to steam bend kiln dried timber. I think air dried can work but green is the best.
looking forward to your next video.
yes thats what i have read too however i have done a bunch of steam bending with kiln dried timber and found it works pretty good, its just the tight radius i think that did it. plus not a super good set up. ,
Nice job. I don't have a cnc for the crown molding. The rest of the piece looked pretty straight forward. Thanks for sharing.
Great video !.So many can learn from this. Good luck in your job.
Another beautiful piece of work Joey. I have to say if it was me I like the dark stains but I understand you hoping for a clear finish. Great video.
+Bill Hantzopoulos cheers man
Nice job. I would have made the top curved molding from solid wood thin strips then routed the profile but I do have quite a few large roman ogee carbide router bits. I have a lot of experience making curved moldings in various profiles from small to large. A shaper with a power feed will make short work of these things but many ways to skin a cat.
Beautiful work as always Joey.
I ordered tiger maple bookcase from a craftsman in Vermont. 15 year ago it cost me 2500 USD. A bargain. Wood finishing and joinery is an art when properly done.
Turned out fantastic brother great job
I'm not a fan of the CNC, but like all tools it has it's place. But you did a magnificent job as always. If I were gonna have someone build furniture for me I'd want it to be you Joey
whats wrong about the CNC? all it does is saving a lot of time in most situations. normally you cant see the difference.
I make my projects, not a machine. If I'm gonna have a machine make it I might as well buy it made out of pressboard out of a factory
cheers, i feel pretty much the same way about CNC
At the risk of sounding a bit boring - loving your work Joey ! I don't mean any offence, but it's interesting to see the difficulties you encountered and how you overcame them. Given I specialise in IT, it's too easy to assume sometimes everyone has the solution to every issue - and that's not always the case. A lesson in life ! Good job sir
+edwardquan thank you!
Nice work Joey have you seen Marc Sommerfelds technique of using tongue and groove to join cabs sides to front? Very slick. Also, I think bent molding is much prettier because there is no end grain exposed. I think if you rived the wood (split rather than sawn) it will bend much better. This follows the long grain fibers. I learned this from Curtis Buchanan chairmaker.
no haven't seen that technique , i agree about the molding timber.
gooseneck molding bud, its better than typical crown. Good job.
Really nice job mate. You are good, very good
Nicely done. I think noel abrams would be proud of that.
Excellent vid, thanks for sharing. I noticed the stock you tried to steam bend wasn't straight grained.
Pretty awesome job Joey. CNC's? Well, just another woodworking tool :)
Great work and great channel keep it up joeie
Nice work! Great Job. CNC is just another tool.
Hi Joey, Interesting Job. you have inspirid me to make a piece like this.
manuel fernandez
You nailed the back side. What if it shrinks?
Nice work! I love using my CNC machine (tool) when I can.
Question, are you not afraid that the base panel will open the joints on the side panels when it will expand? Thank you for another great video.
HI , i forgot to mention the base panel is quarter sawn , so the expansion will be top to bottom instead of front to back.
Beautifully crafted, respect.
+Steve Wood cheers
Looks great, where do you source your American veneer from?
Thanks
That squishy looking green bottle for the wood glue is genius what is it and where did you get it ?
its from a local supplier, they found a bunch on a pellet stacked away somewhere. its a rubber bottle with cast aluminum top and brass nozzle. you can contact Access group and ask them . www.accessgroup.co.nz/
Wow what a fantastic job well done Joe
+TheDublin47 cheers
That is a good job. I learned a lot. Hasta la vista boy!
Love your work mate, here's hoping you won't have to stain that.
+One Man Band Woodworks hope so. Cheers
awesome job, I wish I could do similar projects for my clients, but since that 's not the case I make the most difficult things for myself. Question, do you use spiral router bits for pattern routing and if yes have you noticed differences in performance compared to straight bits, I saw you had to do some upwards cutting. And your router table seems to be almost a light version spindle moulder, I suppose it's at least 1600 W and holds 1/2 inch router bits or bigger, right?
+Bart Loncke yea I have a 3 horse router in that table and it will take up to a 60mm diameter cutter. That Patten bit is actually a straight cutter with top and bottom bearings and replaceable blades. I don't Have a spiral Patten bit but have found regular 12mm down cut bits to be very hungry in that they like to pull and grab heaps when grooving. Cheers
awesome use of tools and time, its a utilitarian piece not a museum reproduction. Keep the videos coming.
Plyman for the veneer? How does the contact hold up for you? I have had issues using it when building speakers.
+jacobthellamer no got it through bbs who got it from prime panels
+jacobthellamer the contact glue is pretty shit for veneers , in this case though it's better than buying a vacuum pump kit thing.
Joe you're the man ! Amazing job.
Do you do courses or classes ? I'll be very interested for a couple of days with you in the shop.
+Fabien Le Gall yea there is some info on my website.
Hi Joe, good work once again and good idea for the CNC. I would just like to ask you a question concerning your pants CAT. What is the reference of the pants to CAT?
Thank you
+SPAWNY as In caterpillar tractors etc
Wow, that last finish detail was complicated (don't try this at home) . . . beautiful work. There seems to be a green tinge to the French Oak, almost looks like our popular . . . maybe just the camera light . . .
thanks, yea i think its my poor lighting. is a pretty normal oak colour.
Very cool, you have golden hands.
absolutely incredible job on this one. Very inspiring!
armoir dem
Omg it's a great piece of art
Joey, how do you design your furniture?
Hi Joey that's a really nice job mate , the scotia you mentioned in the end of video , I actually did similar, but ,not as curved, I just routed off a template to a piece of maple already thicknessed with the curved front edge already completed and then cut the back with bandsaw and sanded and turned out a fair curved scotia curved , and may I ask Joey were did you buy the Green Glue bottle puffer ?
+Tom Thumb huh cool, the glue bottle is from Access group here in Auckland it's New old stock so you will need to ask about it.
oh that's gorgeous! great job!
For a commercial shop a CNC makes sense. No, it was not luck with the doors, just good craftsmanship. If I get fed up with making furniture for myself, I'll be sure to come and see you (even with shipping costs ;0 ).
+Peter Compton cheers!
10/10Mate have you ever watched Norm make a tallboy in a two part video whereby much time is spent on making the crest..
"the New Yankee workshop" which is on air for free on the American PSB channel.....well worth a watch.
Just as your videos are too.
Regards,
Rich.UK.
amazing job as usual
what type of wood you prefer ..please specify the name , quality
Very beautiful👍👍👍
Cheers
Did you try to soak the wood in fabric softener and water for 7 days before bending it as most wood nowadays is air dried or treated in some form or other it really need soaking
Most timber is infact kiln dried as it's a much faster process than the 3 years needed for air dried. The steaming process softens the lignin in the timber making it pliable. Interestingly kiln drying timber disturbs the lignin mening air dried timber typically bends better but is harder to find.
Just try the fabric softener our family made coffins with Kurf bends bending wood is fickle anything could put it out balance to fresh around to long to dry to wet got slightly damp you near get 100% results every time what's to lose
Hi there from Portugal,
Nice Armoire :D
Obrigado(Thanks)
thanks
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Beautiful !
How many board foot would you say you used to make this?
I have no clue what a board foot is.
KingPost TimberWorks how much wood was used for this based on 12inches x 12inches x1... in other words, how much wood was used to build the armoire in feet
Well done mate!!!
Beautiful work.
I thought the panels were supposed to be free floating, but here I see you gluing them up. What's up with that?
+Dave Van Meter they are veneered mdf panels so they won't expand/contact so gluing them in is no problem plus adds strenght to the whole panel as it add diagonal bracing.
Very nice project! About how many hours do you have in it?
+woodaddict1 probably around 50 hrs
KingPost TimberWorks that's a beautiful project in the videos it seems like it only take me a few days.
aaaah....now I too, understand the pleasure of watching.... :)
С таким инструментом это сделает любой.
Hello work wonderful if it was for yourself either for sale, I think furniture Damietta beautiful and this work a copy of furniture Dalmatia Greetings to your wonderful effort
tedious job but really beautifull congrats...!!!
excellent job fab
Espectacular !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good job;
God bless you
Are you from New Zealand? I like your accent.
Great work!
Stupendo!