If you live in or near an apartment complex, you will have a never-ending supply of cheap discarded furniture, meaning TONS of particle board/MDF. I'm swimming in the boards I've found at the dumpsters and can't build projects faster than I find it. Thanks for giving me some ideas on practical projects I can make with the stuff!
Perfect example of "waste not, want not." Great video, a real eye opener once you realize how many dressers and other furniture you see every garbage day.
What a redemption story. A tree is cut down and then ground up and compressed into particle board for cheap furniture. Years later, Matthias finds it and incorporates it into a humble yet pleasing piece of furniture.
I live in a fairly new neighborhood and there are currently 4 houses being built within a 1 minute walk of my house. I am so happy to know that other people have no issue scavenging lumber and materials that people have deemed "worthless"
Very nice trash to treasure video. that will make an awesome addition to the shop offering plenty of storage and some working space or maybe a tool bench. Regards, Bob
I know you wanted to keep it all free and use only junk materials but with a nice contrasting wooden or other top that would make a really smart and sturdy piece of furniture. Lovely work as always.
That is sooooooo funny. I found an 8 drawer dresser someone put out for trash last week. It looks like it was the mate to this chest. It was in worse condition. I removed all the hardware (handles were missing) and saved it. I only got to save a couple of pieces of the particle board, the rest was too Bad. - - - Great job Matthias!
Awesome! I'm using your wooden pull handle pattern for a project of my own. Using scrap wood, not only will I save about $50 on the handles (12 of them), but it will look nicer being from the same material as the rest of the project. Thanks for posting videos like these! Incredibly helpful!
That is a dresser from IKEA, I have the same one in a darker shade in my room. All their furniture is flat-packed and goes together with the dowels and lockdown screws. I suppose adding glue when you build it wouldn't be a bad idea. Its not the sturdiest piece of furniture, but the one you found took some abuse to make it fail like that. Mine has held up fine for 10 years or so.
Did I hear you say that you do not have a pocket hole jig? And you have not made your very own Wandel Pocket Hole Jig? What are you waiting for? Way to up-cycle by the way. Nice work.
In a distant future, when the human race will be long gone, the first thing alien archaeologists will find on the surface of the Earth will be a joint made by Matthias. They will wonder how such an advanced race managed to get extinct.
Hi Matthias, Can you please do a video on how the drawers on modern furniture are built. I want to know how a drawers slows down toward the end of its journey and slowly settles into the cabinet, and also when one drawer is open the others in the cabinet can not be opened. Thanks in advance.
2:08 Who needs a nail gun when you can hammer that fast! Should do a video on speed hammering one day Matthias! ;) While you're at it, can you knock up a perpetual motion machine to power the table saw? You seem to be able to make everything else that pops into your head!
Hi Matthias, I wonder, could you let me know where you got THAT hammer from (at 2-08) MINE is a lot slower than that & it has got a tendancy to keep hitting my thumb? On a more serious note, keep up the good work with the inventions & videos, you are a REAL inspiration to me & a lot more woodworkers around the WORLD, Wishing you all the best from across the pond in England, Thank You.
Very nice videos in your channel, very instructive to me watching your "modus operandi", thanks for sharing. In this video, starting at 0 min 42 sec, you use a tool to guide the drill direction. What's the tool name? What material are the guides themselves? Thank you in advance!
ola sou do brasil e acompanho muito o seu trabalho e sua inteligencia, gostaria que você fizesse um trabalho sobre mesas redondas que se abri. um abraço.
Hi, I found 2 good furnitures on a sidewalk last night and they are 2 drawers dressers. This morning I went to check on those furnitures and the sun unglued the top part vinyl. It's like a fake marble vinyl that was made for the furnitures. I wish that I can show you the pictures of those 2 furnitures so you can see what I mean. Well I was hoping if you can please give me an advice how to fix the top part of these future. What can I do to replace the top of these furnitures?
Hello my fellow woodworkers and enthusiasts. I have a quick PSA for everyone: Over 90% of all pollution and waste is created by corporations, so nothing we upcycle (scavenge), or how many toilets we don't flush, will ever even begin to matter.
and those corporations produce pollution when they make products for you. So the fewer products you buy from them, the less pollution. It's not like they pollute for the sake of pollution.
@@matthiaswandel Yeah, I hear you, and you're right. I'm mostly talking about the people who think that any individual action or philosophy on waste will actually matter at all in any appreciable way. To ignore the fact that there will always be men willing to fell forests of giant redwoods is, to me, throwing out honesty in favor of a pleasant, if half-deserved, feeling that we're making real change in our own small ways. I prefer a hurt-box of truths rather than a safe-space of half lies, you know what I mean?
I have a question the glue you use in this video what kind is it, I am located in Amsterdam so something that is hopefully available in europe. Thanks for the great videos.
I think the reason glueing has gone "out of fashion" is because people move homes. At least here in Europe we do, a lot. So you have to be able to take your furniture apart and put it back together again.
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If you live in or near an apartment complex, you will have a never-ending supply of cheap discarded furniture, meaning TONS of particle board/MDF. I'm swimming in the boards I've found at the dumpsters and can't build projects faster than I find it. Thanks for giving me some ideas on practical projects I can make with the stuff!
I looked up the definition of upcycling in the dictionary, it had a picture of Mathias Wandel.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! Keep an open mind and you will have endless opportunities.
Maxwell Goodacre 👛👛
Should bring it back to where you found it and sell it back to them.
How I hate these excentre fasteners! Nice job turning something that was shit to begin with into something nice and useful!
Perfect example of "waste not, want not." Great video, a real eye opener once you realize how many dressers and other furniture you see every garbage day.
+1 for jumping on it at the end. That shows confidence in your workmanship. If I had to do it on my DIY job, that video might have gone viral :)
Awesome job! Wish i had the tools and space to do projects like this. Very nice result!
Your videos are so awesome! totally addicting. I've watched like 10 in a row today already.
+mytopfive I was going to sleep over an hour ago :S plus watched some earlier earlier today or technically yesterday
You're the man Mattias. Great job on that rebuild. Someone's junk is another's treasure/woodworking tutorial video.
Don´t waste, repair. Thats exactly what i preach. Good Work!
I love the way you "Re-purpose" discarded items into a new, useful life! Good job!!
What a redemption story. A tree is cut down and then ground up and compressed into particle board for cheap furniture. Years later, Matthias finds it and incorporates it into a humble yet pleasing piece of furniture.
Good to reuse old materials. A fine job showing what can be done with materials like that :)
I live in a fairly new neighborhood and there are currently 4 houses being built within a 1 minute walk of my house. I am so happy to know that other people have no issue scavenging lumber and materials that people have deemed "worthless"
Always making excuses for lack of pocket hole jig, but makes jigs for everything else. I love it
Nice job good to see it not going to a landfill
Very nice trash to treasure video. that will make an awesome addition to the shop offering plenty of storage and some working space or maybe a tool bench.
Regards,
Bob
Very nice work. That front banding you put on the top really makes a big difference to the look.
I love how in every video he says "I would use pocket holes, but I don't have a pocket hole jig" lmao
Matthias, you are great. You lessen the landfill issue.
I love how you celebrate by jumping onto the furniture
I know you wanted to keep it all free and use only junk materials but with a nice contrasting wooden or other top that would make a really smart and sturdy piece of furniture. Lovely work as always.
you are amazing and its interesting to see what people throw out
That is sooooooo funny. I found an 8 drawer dresser someone put out for trash last week. It looks like it was the mate to this chest. It was in worse condition. I removed all the hardware (handles were missing) and saved it. I only got to save a couple of pieces of the particle board, the rest was too Bad. - - - Great job Matthias!
Awesome! I'm using your wooden pull handle pattern for a project of my own. Using scrap wood, not only will I save about $50 on the handles (12 of them), but it will look nicer being from the same material as the rest of the project.
Thanks for posting videos like these! Incredibly helpful!
Your creativity and imagination are stunning! A tip from an old man, a rubber mallet instead of your hands will keep you on the job many more years.
great job as always
Robbie
I just love the things you do. Thanks for that one!
Great job, nice to see something reused instead of just junked.
You're a mad man Matthias, thanks for sharing.
Awesome dresser, nice job Matthias.
Nice job using reclaimed materials!
The first appearance of the shop apron. Hmmmm looks too good to have been rescued from the trash. Maybe it's your birthday or Christmastime.
A perfect project to unload on FB Marketplace.
Love it! I call those projects from trash to cash!
It is too nice to be a piece of shop furniture
That is a dresser from IKEA, I have the same one in a darker shade in my room. All their furniture is flat-packed and goes together with the dowels and lockdown screws. I suppose adding glue when you build it wouldn't be a bad idea. Its not the sturdiest piece of furniture, but the one you found took some abuse to make it fail like that. Mine has held up fine for 10 years or so.
Did I hear you say that you do not have a pocket hole jig? And you have not made your very own Wandel Pocket Hole Jig? What are you waiting for? Way to up-cycle by the way. Nice work.
Alot of piddeley work with great results
Thanks
In a distant future, when the human race will be long gone, the first thing alien archaeologists will find on the surface of the Earth will be a joint made by Matthias. They will wonder how such an advanced race managed to get extinct.
Great job. Looks better than new.
Hi Matthias, Can you please do a video on how the drawers on modern furniture are built. I want to know how a drawers slows down toward the end of its journey and slowly settles into the cabinet, and also when one drawer is open the others in the cabinet can not be opened.
Thanks in advance.
With regards to the drawer slowing down, search You Tube for "Soft Close Drawer Slides"
Very nice trash to treasure project.
0:55 "To use glue to assemble furniture seems to have gone somewhat out of fashion."
LOL!
That was beautiful. Keep up the good work!!!
i freaking love your videos man!
i'm slowly working my way through all of them.
after each video...i feel that wee bit smartera then before.
I love your time lapses!!! :D
2:08 Who needs a nail gun when you can hammer that fast! Should do a video on speed hammering one day Matthias! ;)
While you're at it, can you knock up a perpetual motion machine to power the table saw? You seem to be able to make everything else that pops into your head!
CodeFoxAus Love your joke.
the "knock down assembly" is called a cam and pin assembly and are used almost everywhere
4:40 haha, that could be your slogan: It's better than new !
(first it was new, than it was used, and now ...it is better than new)
"But I wanna keep this project entirely from garbage " haha sounds funny!
I really can't believe the things you can find in your dumpsters...you might as well find gold. In my town there is just...garbage... Nice vid.
Mostly garbage here too, but if you keep your eyes open...
I have found a few interesting things now and then, but hardly any to make a video with, hahaha.
+MaximusPayne Here in Sweden you can't just go there and take anything but you'd be surprised with the things people throw away.
Julio Oliveira true
Great Job. I really enjoy all of your content. Keep up the good work
Nice job Mattias.
That is beautiful thanks for recycling I'm sure any one with money would pay at least 200 dollars
Now you can put back in the garbage and someone can grab it and take it home. LOL
Nice build. How many clamps do you have anyway? :D
Hay! That's my dresser. I want it back.
you have all matreials and good imaginations
job well done, another piece saved from the tip
Excellent job.
Nice dresser for the right price.
That is the largest clamp I have ever seen.
Hi Matthias, I wonder, could you let me know where you got THAT hammer from (at 2-08) MINE is a lot slower than that & it has got a tendancy to keep hitting my thumb?
On a more serious note, keep up the good work with the inventions & videos, you are a REAL inspiration to me & a lot more woodworkers around the WORLD,
Wishing you all the best from across the pond in England, Thank You.
very nice recycle project. up next a wooden comb....lol
Good job, well done!
You are one handy dude.
Very nice videos in your channel, very instructive to me watching your "modus operandi", thanks for sharing. In this video, starting at 0 min 42 sec, you use a tool to guide the drill direction. What's the tool name? What material are the guides themselves? Thank you in advance!
wow Matthias is quite genius :)
Man you are a wood engineer
one man's trash is another man's treasure
Great work my friend!! I really enjoy your videos :)
I miss when Matthias would jump on things
no dislikes... good job
Great job!
ola sou do brasil e acompanho muito o seu trabalho e sua inteligencia, gostaria que você fizesse um trabalho sobre mesas redondas que se abri. um abraço.
Love it. Make old crappy shit better then before.
make usefull things from trash , everybody can buy a new product. i like the idea because i do it also
How much time did you spend reinforcing the cabinet and drawers?
Hi, I found 2 good furnitures on a sidewalk last night and they are 2 drawers dressers. This morning I went to check on those furnitures and the sun unglued the top part vinyl. It's like a fake marble vinyl that was made for the furnitures. I wish that I can show you the pictures of those 2 furnitures so you can see what I mean. Well I was hoping if you can please give me an advice how to fix the top part of these future. What can I do to replace the top of these furnitures?
+David Ortiz Have you tried vinyl floor covers?
it was definently an ikea furniture
It's time to get a haircut, Matth! :D Well done!
Very 60's look!
Something that looks like it was from IKEA or something yet can survive a nuclear blast hahaha
What's going on? That hair is going wild, man! haha. Great video, as ussual!
Honestly, does it get any better that making awesome furniture out of trash while wearing moccasins? I think not...
Dude you are so smart
Weird screws are used instead of dowels because hardly anybody has clamps, not to say about that big ones
What is the name of the instrument (not the cordless drill) what you use from second 43 to 53? I've never seen it before. Or did you make it yourself?
Hello my fellow woodworkers and enthusiasts. I have a quick PSA for everyone:
Over 90% of all pollution and waste is created by corporations, so nothing we upcycle (scavenge), or how many toilets we don't flush, will ever even begin to matter.
and those corporations produce pollution when they make products for you. So the fewer products you buy from them, the less pollution. It's not like they pollute for the sake of pollution.
@@matthiaswandel Yeah, I hear you, and you're right. I'm mostly talking about the people who think that any individual action or philosophy on waste will actually matter at all in any appreciable way. To ignore the fact that there will always be men willing to fell forests of giant redwoods is, to me, throwing out honesty in favor of a pleasant, if half-deserved, feeling that we're making real change in our own small ways. I prefer a hurt-box of truths rather than a safe-space of half lies, you know what I mean?
I pick the neighbor's trash too, but I do not and will not ever approach your degree of resourcefulness with what is obtained that way.
I have a question the glue you use in this video what kind is it, I am located in Amsterdam so something that is hopefully available in europe.
Thanks for the great videos.
Looked like standard wood glue--Like Elmers carpenter glue or Titebond
Thanks
I think the reason glueing has gone "out of fashion" is because people move homes. At least here in Europe we do, a lot. So you have to be able to take your furniture apart and put it back together again.
How to get bed bugs 101. lol, but love the video as usual.
Sounds like you're doing a $50 workshop like Izzy. Good job. Love the inspiration and try to recycle as much as I can as well.
We have seen the speed hammering before but not speed scraping before :-)
now the guy that thow that away wants it back will you give it to him
One mans trash is another mans treasure
Very nice.😌