When it comes to projects with precise dimensions and tight tolerances, never convert the units. There will be conversion errors, there will be fractions that get rounded up/down and add up to compound errors which will lead to headaches
Not to mention had he stayed with metric and just got a metric ruler he would have found out how easy it is to work with in comparison, I'm pretty sure it would be useful for future internet projects as well.
@@scratastic1you just don’t understand Americans. Getting them away from godawful fractions of an inch is like taking them to the dentist to get their teeth pulled. I’m Canadian so this is only partially true for myself.
The error also gets compounded if you are stacking conversions on conversions (working from the last part rather than a common zero) and multiplied by the number of parts. A single 1/16 is negligible for a lot of things, 60 1/16th is almost 4”
Another thing with the door he made that needed the plain, he could have saved a Lot of issues if he just cut a recess into the bit of the Handle he already had for the plain to fit into and then add two holes to it and three holes to the plain to keep the Handle level with the plain. Yes of course it might look a little off if he doesn't pretty it up but it wouldn't be too bad and the plain wouldnt have been "free floating" making him need to add a brace at the edge of the cabinet with Magnets (if he was afraid it wouldnt easily allow it to turn he could have made the three holes pin holes allowing the wood to still turn). Here is how the plain would look in this case: _ ° I l ° l l ° L l
I am a weaver... married to a woodworker/furniture maker. It is AMAZING how similar these fine crafts are! So much goes in to the planing and prep, tweaking, covering mistakes, etc, to ensure a beautiful, functional final product- literally hours and hours- and then once things come together, it seems to go so quickly. Bravo on the folding desk. I would use this in a second!
It really goes to show that tasks can use entirely different materials and tools, but at the end of the day it's problem solving, patience, and visuospatial imagination.
Build challenge: Chris draws plans for a project for John to build, one sheet of instructions at a time, so John doesn't know what it's supposed to look like until the last sheet.
Anybody who thinks these viral TikTok videos of folding desks are done in a day by someone in their shed is deluding themselves. They have obviously spent countless hours designing and perfecting the end result before shooting the final video. I love John’s videos for their honesty and genuineness showing warts and all. 😊
I bet the first guy who built it in his apartment was an engineer, not a woodworker. He probably built it in CAD, 3D printed a smaller scale prototype, and then replicated the design with wood.
Im a machinist so we use decimal measurements instead of fractional but we just divide or multiply by 25.4 for millimeters or 2.54 for centimeters to get our imperial sizes in decimal form. Im also canadian and spent my whole life using metric measurement to then join a trade that uses mostly imperial. But 1 inch is 25.4 mm or 2.54 centimeters and although its very rare to see .254 metres. A program helps for when you do lots of them but thats the basic conversion. And then if you have a drill chart its easy to find your decimal size in imperial and just convert to fractional
I only learned imperial for reading books in the original English and I mostly go by feeling but two inches are also like 5cm to useful amounts of precision and a foot is like 30
You guys also use equipment with crazy precision down the thousandths of an inch. With resolution that high, it almost doesn't matter as long as you make those conversions for the final measurements. I've literally seen guys use a Sharpie to draw a line around the outside of a bearing that was supposed to be a press fit, because it was close. Apparently, the thickness of the markings are a couple of microns thick, so when applied all the way around a bearing gave it double that, which was just what was needed.
The best thing about your demonstrations is you show the struggles you go through. Too many other channels show a perfect build which you can’t follow. Thanks for the screw-ups 😊
As a sewer, sometimes it's easier just to use inches. Sometimes cm. It just depends on the pattern 😂 it takes time, but simply using the measurements straight, if you don't need to adjust, follow the pattern and it will be fine.
It would be really interesting to see you do a project, just completely in the metric system. would be interesting to see where the challenges are, are they mostly internal because your just not used to it, or are there problems with getting wood only in imperial sizes or something or is imedialtly everything just plain better (unlikely). would love to see it!
Getting wood in imperial sizes is mostly a non-issue for this sort of work since it is very rare that you would make a piece of furniture without removing material, at which point you can easily just work your wood down to a nice metric size.
The bit that made me chuckle the most, finishing the two triangles... "That took two hours". We've all been there! "I'll just quickly make this thing..." half a day later and we're still faffing. Great vid John & Co.
I see you popped magnets for the door handle. It made me think you could pop magnets around the frame in all the edges that touch in both positions so when it gets close it gently snap pulls into a flat position, in both orientations. Just a thought.
My thoughts exactly. I’m thinking on the upper and lower right corners when its closed. So when it is opened, those two corners meet in the middle and snap together, making it more stable.
I'm Brazilian and I don't understand why Americans are so proud of a system that is pure bullshit, even England uses metric already. Imperial is bad even in the name...
I love this channel! Near the end though, John says "I'll do som tidying up", these are things I'd kinda like to see. He runs into problems early on, and moves forward, where the rest of us just throw it in the trash, being able to see what he does to fix it in flight would be super cool. Love this channel!
My favorite projects you do are the ones like this. You know... the super complicated ones where everyone, including YOU, is seeming shocked to find out what you made and that it works almost as planned. I really enjoy every Sunday. Great stuff as always, Thanks for a great start to the day.
Just accept it the metric system is better for anything that requires precision. Imperial is fine for rough work or stud walling etc but for any kind of precise carpentry/joinery metric is far superior
I’ll never admit it. I’ve seen some of the ridiculously stupidly simple tools that craftsmen have used for precision measuring, things that were used long before metric nor imperial were standardized. One isn’t better than the other except in which one you’re currently using
@@michaelyoung7261As an American, metric is the superior system. 10, 10, 10 vs 12, 36, however many feet a mile is because it's so arbitrary and stupid. Same for volume and weight. 10 vs arbitrary numbers with no consistency.
It has nothing to do with one being more precise than the other. Cus that's not even true. Each unit system has more and more precise units down to the plank length. It's all about the individual skill in making precise cuts and measurements and if you're converting between the two you will need to use sufficient significant figures to end up with an accurate conversion. That being said, the meteric system obviously makes more sense since every unit is base 10.
Some folding stuff is super cool. I have had a concept idea for a travel trailer/motor home this a fold out rooms ( you can google these concepts and products) as they add massive amount of square footage to a trailer where slide outs do not. The only thing is they offer no way for furniture in it. For example you can add a room about 8 feet wide by 7 feet deep and 7 feet tall in a standard size trailer with a ceiling height of 8 foot. When folded up it would only take up about 1 foot thick on the interior space and could offer a whole host of furniture option built in to the walls and stored in to the walls. If you account for the roof, floor, side walls and the front wall being 3 inches thick. Go a bit thicker for more storage spaces. You could pretty much get 2 layers of 3/4" plywood folding stuff out of it. Everything stored right in part of the wall and or folds out from the wall. The idea is there and while it might take you longer to set up you could very well have a 40 foot trailer that normally has around 300 square feet of area expand to nearly 900. This is the size of a small apartment. In theory you could have a 3 bedroom 1 bath and kitchen with dining room and living room in a trailer. The options are endless. Then if you were to put solar on the roof and then solar on the walls ( the walls become roof when you expand ) you could have a really nice solar array of nearly 15kwh.
It's not that standard units of measurement are useless for wood working, because most projects do not require more precise measurements using metric units of measurement, such as these very complicated mechanical projects.
Just want to say I appreciate you all for going through this. I'd have chucked it in the scraps bin and gone for lunch about halfway through. They look great at the end. Well done for superhuman persistence!
Seeing that you have sn international audience is there any way you can include metric measurements in you videos PLEASE. I struggle to visualise what 5 16ths of an inch is.
To be fair. For that cabinet they give about half an inch between the doors, and the cut the video between pulling to start opening it and pushing to finish opening it so they cut the part where it goes all wobbly and weird
@@bigchooch4434Soviets were first in space, and their automated mission were first on venus and mars. Also, what helped you in WWs is that you skipped the first half. Both times. Metric is superior
Yeah, absolutely not. He's in America. I'm in America. Most people watching are in America. I'd like to continue understanding what the hell he is saying when he's building. You think he's just going to restock his entire workshop with metric measuring tapes, squares, levels, lasers, table saw rulers, etc..?? That's the most asinine thing I've ever heard.
The secret to projects like the wall desk is that you don't measure or even plan for it to be a specific size. You build it and cut and drill each piece to fit as you go. Then you just show the final assembly like you had planned it all along.
Why didn't they just do it in metric, it's not that difficult. If the drawing says 152 mm then just find 15 on the measuring device and add two extra notches (out of the 10) shown between 15 and 16.
I love these videos, as not only is it just a cool project, but it shows that even professionals struggle to get things right every time. It is inspiring and goes to show you that the end product is cool, but the process of over coming an obstacle is the best thing you get from it. Great work!
I love how you uncover the perfectness of tiktok. The door opening looked alot smoother, but given the many pivot points, its quite janky to open, even when finished
28:35 FWIW, you nailed his last name! Unless you speak polish, you wouldn’t know that his first name is pronounced “Mah-chey” (Mathew). Just discovered this channel, and I’ve been really enjoying it!
I wish the Shop Shades could come with prescription lenses! Finding prescription safety glasses is a nightmare… then finding a pair that fits… horrible! The Shop Shades look like they’d fit great but I feel like I’m better off seeing what I’m doing then walking around blind lmao
I had just sat down, literally as he said it and got really weirded out that he could see me except I knew I had started the video before going to sleep paused and picked it up before walking into the bathroom...
Great job and love seeing all the struggle and fine tuning! I just wanna point out that your version of the twisty door is done with waaay less leeway inbetween the top and bottom halves compared with the reference video. Bigger gap I think would have solved the turning problem easier since you have more space to play with
Just found your channel for couples of days now, and ive been binge watching ur videos both here and in ur second channel. Always love ur enthusiastic attitude in every video!!!
Very nice build. Super entertaining video. Not the most practical table, but great fun to watch you build it. I have an idea for a build (or carve...), but I am not sure, I can explain it; from 1 piece of wood cut 3 (or more) interlocking/interlacing/interlinking pieces (each piece do what chain links do). Once cut, you should be able to tilt the 3 (or more) pieces out into a double cone shape, with the two cone tips on top of each other. When closed, they lie next to each other in the length of the original piece of wood - much longer than wide, for instance 20 " to 30" long, but only 4" x 4' square. Flipped out into the double cone shape it should be able to function as legs for a small coffee table. I hope, that makes sense. It might have a name, but I don't know it.
You should totally invite followers to the shop and have them go head to head building something with one person from the team as help. Whoever wins can keep their piece they build and you John judge the work.
@@davidwibben9886 agreed but it would be fun. Make a game of it, ask the contestant to say the price of the build and if it is within $300 or whatever they get to keep whatever John builds.
This sounds like fun in concept, but he has an actual shop to run. I guarantee there’s a ton of things being built for customers when working on RUclips content.
@@keithpovec6462 Just try it sometimes and you immediately find out why metric is so much easier,, only have to be able to count to 10. And in this use case with converting units it's almost impossible to get it right with such tight limits, too much lost with rounding numbers up or down.
The cabinet looks awesome, maybe a drawer handle might work better than a knob so you move both pivot points at the same time instead of dragging the bottom one along. problem would be getting to perfect length handle to matches the pivot points.
2 things: I feel like making the door a solid rectangular piece and then cutting out the triangles would simplify the joinery. Also, this would make a badass kit that you could batch out on a CNC and sell online. As someone who only makes things out of 2x4s and garbage scrap wood, this was mind boggling to watch.
Love these types of vids John I just tried my first ever epoxy river table at the age of 15 and hoping to get my first sale on Etsy so thanks for there types of vids they rlly help
When I clean the edge from lexan I always use tin snips, cut a small piece of sheet metal material and the natural curl from the snips makes a scraper that will clean up that edge nicely. No sanding needed.
Doesn't really help if they work with "monarchy worship" tooling and in environments scaled to it but maybe we should popularise that wording to help confused individuals to move away from those issues
It does not matter what units you use, what does matter is knowing how to use them. You can have decimilised imperial so fraction are just the common method. The only area where metric is actually better is in calculations with measurments and in scaling projects. As metric is base a 10 measure system.
John Malecki, hats off to you for taking on this woodworking challenge! It's clear you put your heart and soul into every cut and joint. Despite the ups and downs, you've emerged victorious with a masterpiece that speaks volumes about your passion and perseverance. Keep on making magic in the workshop, John - you're an inspiration to us all! ✨🪚 #woodworking #craftsman
I'll never understand the "I don't need a measurement system that makes sense, I'd rather use imperial" mentality. I grew up thinking that mathing physical items was something I'd never be good at. It wasn't until I got a 3d printer and started working in metric as an adult that I realized I'm not bad at math, American fractions are just unnecessarily confusing? Look, I don't know what all those lines on a ruler are in between the quarter inches, and now I'll never need to. Thanks metric!
John, I bust your chops A LOT in the comment section here but this time I’m just giving you props! Even if this didn’t turn out perfect I’m still extremely impressed. This was light years past anything I could do or damn near fathom! Lol
So quit talking bad or down about yourself you do a fantastic job. Nobody else is sitting here doing it. You’re doing a great job so quit putting yourself down.
Our system has advantages if you have the intellect to appreciate it. But you wouldn't know anyone like that, now would you? Not everyone can be a polymath genius I suppose. Pity that. Nothing worthwhile is ever easy.
Yup I think most of us agree but the problem is our brains are wired for imperial. And it would cost like a trillion dollars to change at this point so nothing will.
Thanks for making this video, i really enjoyed the longer one. Each of these projects could have been their own video, but I liked having 2 in one episode
I love that we see you progressively hate woodworking more and more throughout the video 😂 I mean I know you actually love it, but the frustration looks real!
Thanks for keeping it real and not just showing all the polished work. Sometimes, you just have to adjust things to move forward. Great job and they both turned out good.
The first time you make anything it is by definition a prototype. So you cannot expect it to come out perfectly. When a good furniture maker approaches a new project they will often build a prototype. So they can work out everything. They'll typically build the prototype in a lesser wood. It is the neophyte that expects perfection the first time out.
The second he said he CONVERTED from cm to inches instead of just using cm, I knew it wasnt gonna work. This kinda thing requires sooooo much precision and anytime you convert, unless you add every single decimal, it will be off. Surprised they didnt think of that beforehand.
Glad to see even pros have difficulties with things like this, loved the vid, end products were cool but obviously could be better which was a relief in some ways but also inspiring.
Replace the glass on the folding door with mirror and you would have such a neat medicine cabinet, like maybe not in the bathroom you get ready in every day, but it could be so fun in powder room!
You amaze me, John. "I don't know what I'm doing", well hell kid, you do a great job of faking it then! This was really enjoyable, and even though I still don't know how they work, they are really cool. Thanks for sharing.
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When it comes to projects with precise dimensions and tight tolerances, never convert the units. There will be conversion errors, there will be fractions that get rounded up/down and add up to compound errors which will lead to headaches
Not to mention had he stayed with metric and just got a metric ruler he would have found out how easy it is to work with in comparison, I'm pretty sure it would be useful for future internet projects as well.
@@scratastic1you just don’t understand Americans. Getting them away from godawful fractions of an inch is like taking them to the dentist to get their teeth pulled. I’m Canadian so this is only partially true for myself.
The error also gets compounded if you are stacking conversions on conversions (working from the last part rather than a common zero) and multiplied by the number of parts. A single 1/16 is negligible for a lot of things, 60 1/16th is almost 4”
Another thing with the door he made that needed the plain, he could have saved a Lot of issues if he just cut a recess into the bit of the Handle he already had for the plain to fit into and then add two holes to it and three holes to the plain to keep the Handle level with the plain. Yes of course it might look a little off if he doesn't pretty it up but it wouldn't be too bad and the plain wouldnt have been "free floating" making him need to add a brace at the edge of the cabinet with Magnets (if he was afraid it wouldnt easily allow it to turn he could have made the three holes pin holes allowing the wood to still turn). Here is how the plain would look in this case:
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The middle hole of the plain would be where the Handle would be
I am a weaver... married to a woodworker/furniture maker. It is AMAZING how similar these fine crafts are! So much goes in to the planing and prep, tweaking, covering mistakes, etc, to ensure a beautiful, functional final product- literally hours and hours- and then once things come together, it seems to go so quickly. Bravo on the folding desk. I would use this in a second!
It really goes to show that tasks can use entirely different materials and tools, but at the end of the day it's problem solving, patience, and visuospatial imagination.
Build challenge: Chris draws plans for a project for John to build, one sheet of instructions at a time, so John doesn't know what it's supposed to look like until the last sheet.
Oh that'd make him so mad. Should be fun to watch tho!
Great idea
206 pages later he realises he's been duped into building the shop-smith...
challenge with a twist: not a single thing is to scale, so John has to improvise every dimension
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!
Anybody who thinks these viral TikTok videos of folding desks are done in a day by someone in their shed is deluding themselves. They have obviously spent countless hours designing and perfecting the end result before shooting the final video. I love John’s videos for their honesty and genuineness showing warts and all. 😊
Everything on that platform is fake or staged. Once you realize that, it makes more sense.
On the tik tok, it doesn't show even the whole movement of the mechanism.
Or ya know call me crazy...........the video was just sped up fast so it can fit into a minute long format.@@thezfunk
Any normal person knows that
I bet the first guy who built it in his apartment was an engineer, not a woodworker. He probably built it in CAD, 3D printed a smaller scale prototype, and then replicated the design with wood.
Im a machinist so we use decimal measurements instead of fractional but we just divide or multiply by 25.4 for millimeters or 2.54 for centimeters to get our imperial sizes in decimal form. Im also canadian and spent my whole life using metric measurement to then join a trade that uses mostly imperial. But 1 inch is 25.4 mm or 2.54 centimeters and although its very rare to see .254 metres. A program helps for when you do lots of them but thats the basic conversion. And then if you have a drill chart its easy to find your decimal size in imperial and just convert to fractional
I only learned imperial for reading books in the original English and I mostly go by feeling but two inches are also like 5cm to useful amounts of precision and a foot is like 30
You guys also use equipment with crazy precision down the thousandths of an inch. With resolution that high, it almost doesn't matter as long as you make those conversions for the final measurements. I've literally seen guys use a Sharpie to draw a line around the outside of a bearing that was supposed to be a press fit, because it was close. Apparently, the thickness of the markings are a couple of microns thick, so when applied all the way around a bearing gave it double that, which was just what was needed.
The best thing about your demonstrations is you show the struggles you go through. Too many other channels show a perfect build which you can’t follow. Thanks for the screw-ups 😊
Amen. I agree. That makes it real
@@lewiskemp5893Their lack of skills is very real... and shocking.
Absolutely, almost makes him seem human. But he doesn't swear nearly as much as I do when I'm trying something new.
I do appreciate that, however, his stress actually stresses me out. Pros and cons
Poor guy didn't realize there are tolerance built in..😅
As a sewer, sometimes it's easier just to use inches. Sometimes cm. It just depends on the pattern 😂 it takes time, but simply using the measurements straight, if you don't need to adjust, follow the pattern and it will be fine.
Google sewer and see what you called a seamstress.
It would be really interesting to see you do a project, just completely in the metric system. would be interesting to see where the challenges are, are they mostly internal because your just not used to it, or are there problems with getting wood only in imperial sizes or something or is imedialtly everything just plain better (unlikely). would love to see it!
Getting wood in imperial sizes is mostly a non-issue for this sort of work since it is very rare that you would make a piece of furniture without removing material, at which point you can easily just work your wood down to a nice metric size.
Even if the metric size doesn't play nice, you have basically infinite granularity, if your wood is 54.67cm, you can still work with that
I think the machines themselves are also imperial though
The bit that made me chuckle the most, finishing the two triangles... "That took two hours". We've all been there! "I'll just quickly make this thing..." half a day later and we're still faffing.
Great vid John & Co.
Would love to see you compare the 10-in-1 type tools with the single use type tools and see if they are really worth it.
Best Malecki quote ever!! "I can't talk, I don't know what I'm doing!" 🤣
I see you popped magnets for the door handle. It made me think you could pop magnets around the frame in all the edges that touch in both positions so when it gets close it gently snap pulls into a flat position, in both orientations. Just a thought.
My thoughts exactly. I’m thinking on the upper and lower right corners when its closed. So when it is opened, those two corners meet in the middle and snap together, making it more stable.
I was thinking the same thing!
If for no other reason than to make it feel really satisfying to open and close.
As a German i find it so funny how you guys struggle and still stick to your imperial system.
Everything gets easier in metric.
The moment he said they had converted it to imperial I knew they had fucked up.
Yeah maybe thats why we dont have woodworking shops like this here in Germany.
As an American, I whole heartedly agree.
besides it's not just europe that uses the metric system. it's just the majority of murrica refusing to adapt to the rest of the world.
I'm Brazilian and I don't understand why Americans are so proud of a system that is pure bullshit, even England uses metric already. Imperial is bad even in the name...
I love this channel! Near the end though, John says "I'll do som tidying up", these are things I'd kinda like to see. He runs into problems early on, and moves forward, where the rest of us just throw it in the trash, being able to see what he does to fix it in flight would be super cool. Love this channel!
Hey thats me, excellent execution John!
30:55 love the candid reality of problem solving. It’s all part of the process of discovery. Great Video John!!!
My favorite projects you do are the ones like this. You know... the super complicated ones where everyone, including YOU, is seeming shocked to find out what you made and that it works almost as planned. I really enjoy every Sunday. Great stuff as always, Thanks for a great start to the day.
watching someone work on a project and hate every second of it and then love it at the end is truly the definition of art
Just accept it the metric system is better for anything that requires precision. Imperial is fine for rough work or stud walling etc but for any kind of precise carpentry/joinery metric is far superior
I’ll never admit it. I’ve seen some of the ridiculously stupidly simple tools that craftsmen have used for precision measuring, things that were used long before metric nor imperial were standardized. One isn’t better than the other except in which one you’re currently using
@@michaelyoung7261Metric is much easier and consistent, also more precise.
@@michaelyoung7261As an American, metric is the superior system.
10, 10, 10 vs 12, 36, however many feet a mile is because it's so arbitrary and stupid.
Same for volume and weight. 10 vs arbitrary numbers with no consistency.
Metric sucks! Woodworkers dont know thousands of an inch.😮
It has nothing to do with one being more precise than the other. Cus that's not even true. Each unit system has more and more precise units down to the plank length. It's all about the individual skill in making precise cuts and measurements and if you're converting between the two you will need to use sufficient significant figures to end up with an accurate conversion.
That being said, the meteric system obviously makes more sense since every unit is base 10.
Some folding stuff is super cool. I have had a concept idea for a travel trailer/motor home this a fold out rooms ( you can google these concepts and products) as they add massive amount of square footage to a trailer where slide outs do not. The only thing is they offer no way for furniture in it. For example you can add a room about 8 feet wide by 7 feet deep and 7 feet tall in a standard size trailer with a ceiling height of 8 foot. When folded up it would only take up about 1 foot thick on the interior space and could offer a whole host of furniture option built in to the walls and stored in to the walls. If you account for the roof, floor, side walls and the front wall being 3 inches thick. Go a bit thicker for more storage spaces. You could pretty much get 2 layers of 3/4" plywood folding stuff out of it. Everything stored right in part of the wall and or folds out from the wall. The idea is there and while it might take you longer to set up you could very well have a 40 foot trailer that normally has around 300 square feet of area expand to nearly 900. This is the size of a small apartment. In theory you could have a 3 bedroom 1 bath and kitchen with dining room and living room in a trailer. The options are endless. Then if you were to put solar on the roof and then solar on the walls ( the walls become roof when you expand ) you could have a really nice solar array of nearly 15kwh.
Aaaand this is why metric measurements are standard while weird unit (imperial) are not 😂
It's not that standard units of measurement are useless for wood working, because most projects do not require more precise measurements using metric units of measurement, such as these very complicated mechanical projects.
My thoughts exactly, metric is better when you are doing anything smaller than half an inch
Just use thousandth of inches. Because I am machinest
Ngl trying to figure out what eighths or sixteenth is bigger.
Makes fun about metrics. 🤣
38:58 minutes of examples, that the metric system is superior
Sorry, we don't value the opinions of people whose countries don't have flags on the moon
I really appreciate that you show the struggles. Makes complex projects like this seem less scary.
Just want to say I appreciate you all for going through this. I'd have chucked it in the scraps bin and gone for lunch about halfway through. They look great at the end. Well done for superhuman persistence!
Seeing that you have sn international audience is there any way you can include metric measurements in you videos PLEASE. I struggle to visualise what 5 16ths of an inch is.
To be fair. For that cabinet they give about half an inch between the doors, and the cut the video between pulling to start opening it and pushing to finish opening it so they cut the part where it goes all wobbly and weird
Petition to get John to abandon "bald eagle per square PBR" and start using metric for his furniture from now on
Hamburgers per AR-15 is what got Americans on the moon, and earned us the title of back to back World War champions.
Do better.
@@bigchooch4434Soviets were first in space, and their automated mission were first on venus and mars. Also, what helped you in WWs is that you skipped the first half. Both times. Metric is superior
@@bigchooch4434 they used metric to get on the moon....
Yeah, absolutely not. He's in America. I'm in America. Most people watching are in America. I'd like to continue understanding what the hell he is saying when he's building. You think he's just going to restock his entire workshop with metric measuring tapes, squares, levels, lasers, table saw rulers, etc..?? That's the most asinine thing I've ever heard.
The secret to projects like the wall desk is that you don't measure or even plan for it to be a specific size. You build it and cut and drill each piece to fit as you go. Then you just show the final assembly like you had planned it all along.
Awesome build, I love it when people get out of their comfort zone. I would love to see you building a guitar!
Why didn't they just do it in metric, it's not that difficult. If the drawing says 152 mm then just find 15 on the measuring device and add two extra notches (out of the 10) shown between 15 and 16.
I love these videos, as not only is it just a cool project, but it shows that even professionals struggle to get things right every time. It is inspiring and goes to show you that the end product is cool, but the process of over coming an obstacle is the best thing you get from it. Great work!
I love how you uncover the perfectness of tiktok. The door opening looked alot smoother, but given the many pivot points, its quite janky to open, even when finished
Making it real. Watching you make those was enough for me. Not a bit tempted to try those.
The Asian guy achieved that precision on his living room floor because he used metric. 😂
28:35 FWIW, you nailed his last name! Unless you speak polish, you wouldn’t know that his first name is pronounced “Mah-chey” (Mathew).
Just discovered this channel, and I’ve been really enjoying it!
Monday to Saturday, I think I am an ok woodworker; Sunday, I watch John and relearn that I am nothing. John, thank you for keeping my ego in check
I wish the Shop Shades could come with prescription lenses! Finding prescription safety glasses is a nightmare… then finding a pair that fits… horrible! The Shop Shades look like they’d fit great but I feel like I’m better off seeing what I’m doing then walking around blind lmao
The moment he said I know you’re on the toilet killed me. 😂😂😂 I had barely been on the toilet for a minute.
I had just sat down, literally as he said it and got really weirded out that he could see me except I knew I had started the video before going to sleep paused and picked it up before walking into the bathroom...
Great job and love seeing all the struggle and fine tuning! I just wanna point out that your version of the twisty door is done with waaay less leeway inbetween the top and bottom halves compared with the reference video. Bigger gap I think would have solved the turning problem easier since you have more space to play with
Nice having the sawstop but I still wouldn't have pulled that slice of wood out from the blade at 4:17 with it spinning.
Ya. I did a double take. Hack go rewind. I was like no way did he put his hand that close. You know better john!😅
I was wondering if that’s what I really saw, made my stomach cringe a bit🤣
Reminds me of the saying, You can't fix stupid.❤❤❤
4:15 - Holy workshop safety, Batman!
can you please explain what “Holy __, Batman!”
@Flintstoned223 It's from the original Batman TV series starring Adam West. Robin would always react to the situation by saying Holy ____, Batman!
Just found your channel for couples of days now, and ive been binge watching ur videos both here and in ur second channel. Always love ur enthusiastic attitude in every video!!!
Very nice build. Super entertaining video. Not the most practical table, but great fun to watch you build it.
I have an idea for a build (or carve...), but I am not sure, I can explain it; from 1 piece of wood cut 3 (or more) interlocking/interlacing/interlinking pieces (each piece do what chain links do). Once cut, you should be able to tilt the 3 (or more) pieces out into a double cone shape, with the two cone tips on top of each other. When closed, they lie next to each other in the length of the original piece of wood - much longer than wide, for instance 20 " to 30" long, but only 4" x 4' square.
Flipped out into the double cone shape it should be able to function as legs for a small coffee table.
I hope, that makes sense. It might have a name, but I don't know it.
Absolutely one of my favorites!!! I wish I found your channel sooner!!!
You should totally invite followers to the shop and have them go head to head building something with one person from the team as help. Whoever wins can keep their piece they build and you John judge the work.
You can't do that today in the sue happy world today. Sign waivers maybe but if someone got hurt for example
Too many liabilities.
@@davidwibben9886 agreed but it would be fun. Make a game of it, ask the contestant to say the price of the build and if it is within $300 or whatever they get to keep whatever John builds.
This sounds like fun in concept, but he has an actual shop to run. I guarantee there’s a ton of things being built for customers when working on RUclips content.
@@NaughtyShepherd understandable
i love this table
Most of the mistakes comes from not using the metric system
Nah. 😁
It’s easier for you since you’re used to using it. Inches work just fine.😊
@@keithpovec6462 Just try it sometimes and you immediately find out why metric is so much easier,, only have to be able to count to 10. And in this use case with converting units it's almost impossible to get it right with such tight limits, too much lost with rounding numbers up or down.
@@keithpovec6462fraction math is objectively more error prone than integer math, I still think in inches tho.
Fighting over measuring methods is just embarrassing. They both have good and bad and your not better for using either
enlighten me the good side of using imperial plz...
@@socks92
The cabinet looks awesome, maybe a drawer handle might work better than a knob so you move both pivot points at the same time instead of dragging the bottom one along. problem would be getting to perfect length handle to matches the pivot points.
Your persistence and resolve are amazing John. Great job.
If you can count to 10, you can use metric effectively
I want that folding desk you just made. 😢 ❤
It's so beautiful! 😍
Watched this so long my legs went numb and the toilet paper didnt work, so i had to take a shower. By far the best dumping videos.
Very cool projects! I have to say, though, that one short board on the desk is driving me crazy 🤪
So my whole life no one told me you could polish Plexiglass with a torch.
2 things: I feel like making the door a solid rectangular piece and then cutting out the triangles would simplify the joinery.
Also, this would make a badass kit that you could batch out on a CNC and sell online.
As someone who only makes things out of 2x4s and garbage scrap wood, this was mind boggling to watch.
Love these types of vids John I just tried my first ever epoxy river table at the age of 15 and hoping to get my first sale on Etsy so thanks for there types of vids they rlly help
The triangle thingy looks cool but will get rekt anywhere near children or drunk people.
The finger pincher 5000!
Almost everything gets wrecked when it is near children and drunk people.
When I clean the edge from lexan I always use tin snips, cut a small piece of sheet metal material and the natural curl from the snips makes a scraper that will clean up that edge nicely. No sanding needed.
Measuring in none freedom units is way easier and you don't have all the annoying fractions. Maybe it would help with accuracy in the shop😅
Doesn't really help if they work with "monarchy worship" tooling and in environments scaled to it but maybe we should popularise that wording to help confused individuals to move away from those issues
It does not matter what units you use, what does matter is knowing how to use them. You can have decimilised imperial so fraction are just the common method. The only area where metric is actually better is in calculations with measurments and in scaling projects. As metric is base a 10 measure system.
Awesome build John
Love the content brother!!
Always love a good John Malecki video!
John Malecki, hats off to you for taking on this woodworking challenge! It's clear you put your heart and soul into every cut and joint. Despite the ups and downs, you've emerged victorious with a masterpiece that speaks volumes about your passion and perseverance. Keep on making magic in the workshop, John - you're an inspiration to us all! ✨🪚 #woodworking #craftsman
and this is a perfect video to show why metric is better lol great vid tho
How do you figure?
thank you for show the struggles you go through.
I'll never understand the "I don't need a measurement system that makes sense, I'd rather use imperial" mentality. I grew up thinking that mathing physical items was something I'd never be good at. It wasn't until I got a 3d printer and started working in metric as an adult that I realized I'm not bad at math, American fractions are just unnecessarily confusing?
Look, I don't know what all those lines on a ruler are in between the quarter inches, and now I'll never need to. Thanks metric!
"Sometimes you got to just take a dump and watch the video" ..... exactly 💯...
Love your videos, super cool projects! 😍Congrats to 1M! 🥳 Much love from Germany, and happy Easter! ❤
Man you bring me down to earth again. I love the fact that you show how difficult it is actually
Why not print templates on an inkjet instead of trying to transfer such detailed measurements by hand?
My thought exactly.
Because that's as smart as using metric and we don't do that here.
John, I bust your chops A LOT in the comment section here but this time I’m just giving you props! Even if this didn’t turn out perfect I’m still extremely impressed. This was light years past anything I could do or damn near fathom! Lol
well, my chops thankyou friend. Much appreciated haha
Do a shot every time John says 'send it'
Least he admits his shortcomings. Props to honesty. I respect that. Love your average Joe type videos, though. You're entertaining as hell, dude.
Challenge idea: do a whole project using only metric! 😈
why did you not cnc it or laser cut it
Cabinet, I couldn't stop yelling the other guy had a gap between the top and bottom. 😂
Metric is logic AND works better...
So quit talking bad or down about yourself you do a fantastic job. Nobody else is sitting here doing it. You’re doing a great job so quit putting yourself down.
Yo table king you and the others across the pond are crazy. Surely it’s alot easier working in mm? (Metric)
Our system has advantages if you have the intellect to appreciate it. But you wouldn't know anyone like that, now would you? Not everyone can be a polymath genius I suppose. Pity that. Nothing worthwhile is ever easy.
@@1pcfred no one daft enough to use them measurements you mean?
@@DonnyRP what did I write that lead you to believe that is what I mean?
John didn’t want to let that fact that the dude made the desk in his apartment go 😂
Metric is superior in all ways
Ooh. Somebody's trying to start a fight. Don't get me wrong. I'm american and I agree. But still....
@@afg122602 nothing to fight about. metric is superior.
Yup I think most of us agree but the problem is our brains are wired for imperial. And it would cost like a trillion dollars to change at this point so nothing will.
Yeah yeah, metric clock, metric calendar… let’s go all in 🙄
For rocket science, sure. But for furniture, imperial and metric both have their benefits and drawbacks.
Both of these look great!.
Build challenge: metric.
You need a Ron Swanson Funko Pop for your shop!
As a Canadian that needs to use metric and imperial, let me tell you Americans metric is simply better.
Build Challenge: John works through an entire project with calm and patience.
Thanks for making this video, i really enjoyed the longer one. Each of these projects could have been their own video, but I liked having 2 in one episode
turns out old fashioned craftsmanship is a lot more hard work than pouring epoxy over everything. who knew?
I love that we see you progressively hate woodworking more and more throughout the video 😂 I mean I know you actually love it, but the frustration looks real!
Thanks for keeping it real and not just showing all the polished work. Sometimes, you just have to adjust things to move forward. Great job and they both turned out good.
The first time you make anything it is by definition a prototype. So you cannot expect it to come out perfectly. When a good furniture maker approaches a new project they will often build a prototype. So they can work out everything. They'll typically build the prototype in a lesser wood. It is the neophyte that expects perfection the first time out.
Other RUclipsrs make complex builds look easy.
John Malecki makes complex builds look EVEN HARDER.
its amazing how people even come up with these concepts. whoever made this first was 100% an engineer lol
The second he said he CONVERTED from cm to inches instead of just using cm, I knew it wasnt gonna work. This kinda thing requires sooooo much precision and anytime you convert, unless you add every single decimal, it will be off. Surprised they didnt think of that beforehand.
Glad to see even pros have difficulties with things like this, loved the vid, end products were cool but obviously could be better which was a relief in some ways but also inspiring.
Replace the glass on the folding door with mirror and you would have such a neat medicine cabinet, like maybe not in the bathroom you get ready in every day, but it could be so fun in powder room!
What is the difference????
Cranks out a complex, multidimensional mechanism at first try but 'i'm stupid' lol
This was incredible to watch! I love that you try stuff you've never done before.
Congrats on 1M! Waiting to see what you have planned. Keep it up!
Well I wasn't watching this on the toilet before, but now that you mention it... I should finish it on there. Thanks for the reminder.
You amaze me, John. "I don't know what I'm doing", well hell kid, you do a great job of faking it then! This was really enjoyable, and even though I still don't know how they work, they are really cool. Thanks for sharing.