Just wanted to leave a quick comment on how much I have always appreciated the audio mixing on your videos. Many youtubers put much less work into not ruining ears with routers, table saws and the like. The attention to detail shows through. Thanks a lot.

@CarlYota

Жыл бұрын

I agree. At this point in my life, not turning the power tool noise down on a video is a deal breaker for me. Put in the minimal effort to do that. If not then why are you uploading videos? This is something even amateur KZreadrs should be doing. There is no excuse that I will accept.

@Bobtheslob-bi9ng

2 ай бұрын

Every KZread video has a comment like this. Please don't be such a ball washer

@Bobtheslob-bi9ng

2 ай бұрын

@@CarlYota Keep quiet

I think that it's very important that you show re-using scrap wood to this day. I remember that stood out to me 10 years ago when I started following your videos and it still stands out to me today. Thank you!

@Mrcaffinebean

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree, Pask Makes is another great example. It’s impressive!

@c0ldc0ne

Жыл бұрын

@Jupp Schlabutt Not true. He often uses store-bought wood as well.

@woodsprout

Жыл бұрын

@@c0ldc0ne Yes, he is using more store bought wood recently, I think because he relocated, far away from the old garbage picking sources he frequented.

@Bobtheslob-bi9ng

2 ай бұрын

@@woodsprout How far?

@woodsprout

2 ай бұрын

@@Bobtheslob-bi9ng Don't remember. I'm not Canadian but it was a major relocation within Canada.

Hello Matthias! It's been a while since I stopped in to see one of your videos. You're setting an impossible example in all things engineering and woodworking as always! Thank you, for all you do and have done. I wonder if you would ever design the ultimate bee hive stand? :) I'd build that in an instant.

@mushin111

Жыл бұрын

A collaboration with Cody from Cody's lab about bees and beehives would be fun.

Over the years of woodworking I prefer wooden slides for draws if applicable. Thank You for sharing.

@matthiaswandel

Жыл бұрын

for heavy stuff, metal ones are better. though I have had a few metal ones fail after 8 years. wood ones just slowly wear out

@user-cq8kc5es9b

Жыл бұрын

@@matthiaswandel hi Matthias i had a message from someone with your name and profile picture saying contact me via telegram for a prize.i think this is not you so i just wanted to inform you.have a nice day

Very nice build. A simple, and elegant solution. I also like how much history that one drawer from your job has. Thanks for giving us some insight into that.

I have two drawers under my workbench using wooden slides. Mine have a groove cut into the sides of the drawers (1/2" plywood sides) and a tenon I guess to call it for the runners. Did the same wax thing you did and it's quite amazing how easily they slide even after 2 years and a decent amount of weight in them. Love wooden slides.

Nice video!! I have always opted to use wooden slides when possible. My dad taught me the candle trick for getting them to slide better. Glad you showed that.

Very pleased to see you use paraffin! When I was a child, my father always looked for wooded slides in furniture; he absolutely hated the metal slides you find in nearly every drawer (especially nowadays, although they are a lot more reliable now than they were in the 90s.)

@Martin-pb7ts

Жыл бұрын

I had metal drawer slide issues just recently. I don't think they're more reliable now. Everything is made as cheap as possible. Poor quality and metal drawer slides are a pain. I will be much more careful now when buying drawer units.

@LeesChannel

Жыл бұрын

@@Martin-pb7ts More reliable than they used to be. They used to be made out really thin stamped metal that would always bend/break/jam, plus they were always insufficiently attached and would come off. Maybe you don't remember, or you weren't around back then, but I certainly do. It's probably 15 years since I last experienced these issues.

@MrMega200

Жыл бұрын

My dad's Craftsman toolbox from the 90s would confirm. Pissed me off enough 2 years ago to pull the offending drawers since my dad didn't bother with it. The thin gauge slides bent with the thinner drawers.. Especially one of the lower taller drawers had more weight. I had to hammer some metal to get catches to work properly and I gave each slide a dose of WD40 and movement to break up built up dirty debris. Along with some quick brushing as well.

Thanks for the video, always enjoy watching!

I make my own slides too; I save the scraps of "Formica" left over from jobs and glue them to the mating surfaces of my drawer slides. They are super slick and last about forever, without any maintenace at all. SR

Always amazed when the old job gets mentioned, and then a sigh of 'what might have been'. Candles, eh? Old tricks are the best tricks.

@sparqqling

Жыл бұрын

It's an amazing case study, they had gold in their hands with BB messenger but wanted to sell hardware. Whatsapp took it and got acquired for 19B in 2014.

I love your wood work so much, great.

Love how you use old wood instead of new clean Baltic birch plywood when you can.

@matthiaswandel

8 ай бұрын

not store here that sells baltic birch, so I use it very sparingly now.

This gives me an idea. I use a ton of Sterilite 6 quart totes. Over 300. I've been wanting to build a shelving system for them by cutting dados into 2x4s that they slide into. But maybe I could turn them into see through drawers. I can fit at least five of them on my desk. Thanks for the inspiration.

👍It has been done like this for 200 yrs so it works. It needs almost no maintenance, is almost free [scraps will do] and it is durable.

Nice video, I always appreciate a project build.

Such efficient designs. Great work!

Getting your video notifications in the middle of the day and saving it for chill times in the evenings, is like saving desert for last

One of the reasons I always watch when you release a video is you never waste any of my time.

Simple and functional. Excellent outcome

Really excellent work, Matthias! Nicely done! 😃 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

An old trick I learned 50 years ago is to use thumb tacks on your drawer slides. Put a tack on the front end of the fixed slide and a tack on the back of the drawer slide. That way the drawer is only sliding on the head of the thumb tacks.

your ideas were very useful, thank you

Nice work. Amazingly easy open/closing with just wooden parts. Thanks for sharing. Weekend Stuff

You never cease to amaze me. I'm always thinking, "where can I buy...?" and you show me HOW to make it myself! Thanks sir! ⭐⭐⭐⭐👍👍

Thank you for a very informative and educational video, nothing was shown that was useless jibber.

Thank you - I was beginning to think I was the only person in the world who knew wax is the lubricant for wood! :o)

Wow, this is what I was looking for my desk that is basically a plyboard sheet on foldable iron angles. Will try it for sure.

I love drawers.

Very nice job 👍

I like when you tell stories about your life.

nice drawers!

Super vidéo !

I like full extension slides. Very handy.

Matthias, Sometimes the old simple ways are the tried and true ways that still work well!

Thanks a lot, Matthias, for showing me how to install a drawer under my kitchen table. I'm planning to do this for a long time. I would prefer to join the drawer parts with screws - thats easier for me to realize. Thanks for your hint concerning weight and the difference between wooden and metallic Auszüge (don't know the english expression). Greetings from Bremen/Germany sends Armin

@JDeWittDIY

Жыл бұрын

Auszüge == drawer slides

Fast and good solution! 👍

I really appreciate your nailing skills at 2:06.

Cool idea with wax plus oil. Results speak for themselves

Wow - you're onto the next project and I'm about the start drawing up the drawer in Sketchup.

you are a gem

Muy bueno, gracias!

Wow, saw that old Viewsonic on your work desk....remember how nice those were back in the day.

Not so simple, but cheap and effective - I like it :-)

Great work

this is going to help me soo much for my gcse project thank you very much

Nice work.

Brilliant simplicity, as always. Wyrmwood came up with a really cool wooden slide drawer stop. It's titled "metal hardware or wood on wood" and it's 9 minutes in. I would link it but KZread has been blocking them like crazy.

Very nice 👌

Creative man.

I love all of the custom tools, am jealous of your abilities... that box joint jig is really impressive. I will say though that I laughed that you box jointed the sides of the drawer and then simply glued and screwed the bottom on instead of cutting a groove or rabbet for the bottom. Not that there's anything wrong with that just that you chose one of the most complicated ways to join the drawer sides and the literal easiest way to attach the bottom 🤣

You are amazing

I have used left over pieces of arborite to cover the drawer slide contact surfaces which makes them slide surprisingly smooth.

Nice!

Your drawer from RIM reminds me of the one under my desk - made from two wooden channels (almost the same as yours) and a stainless steel steam table pan.

@xjustinjx

Жыл бұрын

What is RIM, and did he say blackberry?

@whojamacallit

Жыл бұрын

@@xjustinjx RIM is "Research in Motion", which is the name of the company before changing to Blackberry (long after he left)

Genius thanks for sharing

Very nice, thanks

Parabéns,como sempre um ótimo professor 😎😎😎👏👏👏

@c0ldc0ne

Жыл бұрын

No parabens were used in this project.

@luisfernandoduartefernande5497

Жыл бұрын

@@c0ldc0ne parabéns em português é = Very good ok !!!

@SantiagoLuz

Жыл бұрын

@@c0ldc0ne 🤣🤣🤣 as idéia

mathias ola vc e engenheiro que vc e muito inteligente igual nunca vi abraço

The desk drawer that outlasted the company.

you can buy thin UHMW tape that can be applied to the bottom of the drawer and it will slide super well.

@matthiaswandel

Жыл бұрын

have used it, not good long term. the glue eventually gets squeezed out and binds everything up. plus, it doesn’t slide as well as wood.

Candlewax is the best! It forms a really slick layer

I like your spatula-table-saw-pushers. I'm going to make some of these for my father before he loses some digits, like both my grandfathers!! 🤦🏼‍♀️

Iron on edge banding on the sliding surfaces works well with heavy stuff.

Brilliant

Nice video, I've found WD40 Specialist silicone spray to work better than wax for my wood drawers, I'll have to try your trick of melting the wax with a hot air gun

Saludos amigo desde michoacan mexico

i've seen people use a bar of soap to lubricate those as well! thanks for sharing.

@1pcfred

Жыл бұрын

Wax is better than soap. But soap is better than nothing.

For some reasons, I believe Matthias can be a great stock trader.

RIM office manager: "Who has been drilling in into all these desks?!"

Nice! I’ve always used bar soap for my wood slides, but I bet wax is a better solution.

I didn't realize you had worked for Research in Motion...that company did lots of great work, I was sad to see the Blackberry discontinued.

Matthias, I see that over in Canackistan the ubiquitous banana wood is also used to make the plywood base for that drawer! It seems like worldwide wood prices have increased by 3 and quality had decreased by the same factor.

@GabrielsLogic

Жыл бұрын

It's a shame. Wood is way too expensive to buy new right now. Just can't afford it.

@1pcfred

Жыл бұрын

What do you expect? While wood does indeed grow on trees it still takes a long time. We harvested all of the decent wood long ago now too. 170 years ago you could get wood a foot wide and 20 feet long without a single knot in it and grain straight as a laser beam. Then use it where you'd never even see it. I know that because I have seen it.

@GabrielsLogic

Жыл бұрын

@@1pcfred That wood was great but I'm glad we use the wood we use now. It was collected from trees hundreds of years old, through forest disrupting logging. It was really not sustainable. Now we use quicker growing trees almost like on a farm.

@1pcfred

Жыл бұрын

@@GabrielsLogic do we? I'd say we use whatever wood we can get our hands on. But now we go through the trouble to farm wood too. Because it's getting harder to get wood. Really if we don't harvest wood it just burns anyways.

I noticed articulated carpenter's rules, a RadioShack calculator, several protractors, a triangular engineer's rule, vernier calipers, ... but no SLIDE RULE? EDIT: at 4:32 Thanks for the content. Keep up the good work. bs'd

Melting candle wax into timber also makes for quite a good weather proofing solution :-)

Great job. I would prefer to dado a groove for the drawer bottom and let the bottom free float.

hi, my friend,from michoacan mexico

Hi Matthias Maybe a cnc build will be a nice series. Thank you.

👍👍👍

You were probably at RIM at about the same time as my friend Adam from highschool who had an enviable internship.

Seems like those almost work better then the metal drawer rails nowadays.

@matthiaswandel

Жыл бұрын

for light drawers, they often work better

Maybe it’s a little silly but I just admire you using a hammer and normal nails on the drawer bottom instead of an air nailer and brads like every other popular KZreadr would. Of course it’s better and doesn’t blow right through the thin material.

@1pcfred

Жыл бұрын

You can set the force on air nailers.

Since a very long time, I have used a dripping candle. Using a hot air gun to more or less impregnate the wood is a great idea.

I still want to see this wood elf make a wooden robot.

I'm going to be honest and say that I completely forget that waxing the slides was an option so I kept thinking that a drawer that big would get filled up with way too heavy equipment

Wow, Matthias! Wood screws without a pilot hole, are you feeling adventurous ;-)?

👍

but candle is from Paraffin, not from bee wax :p

I have a bunch of old oak flooring,,the real deal,thick ,heavy and strong. I dont know how old it is but it is the hardest wood I have ever seen. Is it petrified??? IDK?

Question on use of the jointer. I had always understood to keep pressure against the fence and downward on the outfeed to the flattened, jointed side remained flat and allowed the jointer to produce a flat cut. I see you using a pushblock keeping the material secure to the infeed table, is there a different method or have I misunderstood all of these years?

@matthiaswandel

Жыл бұрын

just press it down. if the tables are straight and level, it will be fine.

Everything Matthias dues "slides pretty good"

I am remodelling our kitchen, putting in new factory made units with ball bearing slides. Not sure if they will last as well as the wooden slides I put in 30 years ago, and show no signs of wear! (Parrafin wax candle lubricated)

@matthiaswandel

Жыл бұрын

nice thing about ball bearing slides is you can just buy new ones and install them

Did you say you used to work at blackberry?

@Rick-vm8bl

Жыл бұрын

He did, he left in 2007. All thats left of that company is some crummy security software, they were far too stuborn and slow and ended up destroying their own reputation with their crappy handsets in the later years after the clever folks like Mathias left.

@misinformationwithrandy

Жыл бұрын

Guessing it was in their heyday based on the frequent moves. That campus got big.

@matthiaswandel

Жыл бұрын

they got out competed bu bigger and more nimble companies Apple and google

would burnishing them (nothing fancy, just with another, harder piece of wood) make them slide even more smoothly or is it not worth the hassle?

@1pcfred

Жыл бұрын

Waxed the wood never really touches the other wood. It's all riding on a film of wax.

Refreshing to see someone actually use a hammer to actually hammer nails for a change.

Oh yeah

fancy joinery on that crappy piece of construction plywood, classic!

Its a long time you did not play with the pantograph

Your opinion on wooden ball bearings?

very nice. What if I want to make wide drawers (60cm) that are about 10cm deep. How to prevent them binding if I push them in?

@matthiaswandel

Жыл бұрын

bad geometry, like much wider than deep, makes them bind

@3dmazter

Жыл бұрын

@@matthiaswandel I know but there is no space for a deeper drawer. What can I do to keep it from binding?

@mikebond6328

Жыл бұрын

If there is a way, adding a center runner/slide under the drawer would solve this problem.

@3dmazter

Жыл бұрын

@@mikebond6328 I can make that. It should be tight but free slinding right?

@mikebond6328

Жыл бұрын

@@3dmazter I would think so. This should take care of one side trying to get ahead of the other as well as prevent any camber.