Making Oak Dovetail Drawers
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- In this video follow the process of making this batch of Oak Dovetail Drawers for my latest Kitchen. There will be 43 in total.
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#Joinery #Woodworking #Dovetail
Nice to see furniture that will last a lifetime is still being made.
Thankyou for that. Yes hopefully it will be a lifelong kitchen that will gain beauty with age and use.
Absolutely beautiful.
That is absolutely custom joinery ! I am a cabinet builder custom carpenter in the states and that was something I could watch 50 times in a row!
Ppl do not understand that as custom carpenter or as you call jointer we walk that fine line of “does he hv a mental illness or is he just meticulous” ?
I am in it to win it!
Haha Best comment ever!!! that made me laugh mate, top marks!
THe jig is great and dead quick! Well recomended,.
Nice shop lay out
Those drawers and dovetails look very nice and precise, just as they should be. Great job fitting as well. Enjoyed watching quality manufacturing. Tony
Cheers Tony, if i get a chance ill do a run though of how i install them
Another great video showing a real craftsman at work.
just amazing work,cant get enough of your videos cheers bud
Cheers Buddy Hope your keeping ok
I predict these beautiful drawers will last many many generations and will be considered valuable antiques in 100 years time
Hopefully that will be the case! haha
You are a class act sir👍. Eat your heart out Martin Moore!
Thankyou Neil 👍
😂 I'm not sure they will be worries 😂
Dovetail heaven! Tis a thing of beauty. Thanks for sharing. Yum.
Cheers Adam, They are lovely to look at arent they!
Keep em coming mate, loving the content and your work. Quality all round Ollie 👌
Well that's great to hear!! :)
Oh very nice. I could do with some of them for my desk 😜
Oah aye, you know where to look now then! :)
Someone is getting a beautiful kitchen ! Great work, thanks for sharing with us. cheers!
Yes it'll be a lovely kitchen when I'm finally finished! No worries happy to when I get such a good response!
😁 quality craftsmanship right there big man 100% and the workshop looks dope very peaceful tae dug havin a wee walk about 🤣😎
Thanks matey, i need a bigger workshop now haha. The Dog meandering about usually a sign he wants a bolt about for 5 minutes outside ha
Wow Ollie, they look fab...What a task having to build all those. I have the Leigh 12" Superjig. same principal as your but less versatile and smaller. I would love to see an in-depth video on how to set it up and use it on half blind and full dovetails. Wow you could see the difference in the finish on the sides against the front and back... Bet you are pleased with your cleaning station. Great to see you get a shoutout by Keith on the Rag 'n' Bone Brown CZcams Channel, hopefully you will get some additional well deserved subscribers. Cheers Paul
Cheers Paul, its not taken to long actually, one of those jobs you have to really knuckle down on and just get on with it. Ill do a jig video! I just didn't want this one to turn into a in depth technical video about the jig, more a good look at the overall process!!
Cleaning station is the dogs undercarriage!!!!! Love it.
Yeah Keith is a real Gent for doing that! Definitely added a few to the list, i reckon atleast 700 already.
Great job Mate, the perfection you can get with right prepping and machinery and a pro doing it, have a nice day & Stay Safe !!!.
Thankyou Brian. It's very satisfying to produce such results so easily
thanks for these videos fella I am now reliving my youth and workshop journey, so good seeing things done as I did them many moons ago, machines were a bit more dated in my time but your way of working is almost identical to how I was taught, old ways were always the best, great work fella keep them vids coming 👍👍
Thanks Baloo, Yes the methodology doesnt change much, careful planning and attention to detail at every step.
Not one comment complaining you didn't hand-cut the dovetails or die of old age trying?! What is the youtube comments section coming to 🤣 Lovely work, as always. I trust you're still in the honeymoon phase with that cleaning station - it'll certainly make that job more "enjoyable" if that's the word
Haha there wasnt until about a few hours after you mentioned it!!! uncanny. Haha its definitley not enjoyable, but, it makes it alot easier!
Beautiful work
Hello from Canada. I stumbled onto your channel recently and I'm quite enjoying it. The paint colour of your drawer faces matches what my wife chose for our kitchen.
Hi Wayne, thankyou for watching! Yes the golden oak colour is gorgeous isnt it!
yeah it looked nice and neat . thanks . jig looks nice its a fair few quid though !!
Corr! Jaw dropping work. A pleasure to watch. Thanks.
Cheers For that Norman, Always good to hear! :)
Absolutely beautiful work 👏 👌
Thank you very much!
One heck of a kitchen Ollie
Oh yeah!Cheers Doug! Mamoth job for me haha
Nice work 👍
Thanks 👍
Love IT....from German Carpenter to british drawers artist😍
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thankyou very much sir!
Love your work Ollie! Thanks fr sharing it with us and taking the time to make these vides - inspirational !
Hey Matt, hope you're well mate, Thanks for that! Cant believe the positive vibes ive received from the videos! Knuckling down on the edits now to polish them up a little so hopefully only up from here haha!
@@BradshawJoinery Great to hear that buddy, your subsriber numbers are going up steadily - i pimp your channel to anyone who'll listen. :D
🤣🤣 good to hear your pimping me out 👍🙌
Yes had a channel share from rag n bone brown which brought about 1k subs! It went really wild over Christmas! Steadied off again now but trying to keep the odd video uploading. It's a lot of work! ,🤣
Those dovetails look amazing!
Thankyou! Yeah they turned out lovely
Stunning mate, it was a pleasure to watch 👏👏👏
Cheers and thats good to hear :)
Flawless as always. Sure wish I had that talent. Great job
Cheers Jason, You could easily do it, just lots of simple process isnt it :)
Really superb production work!
Thanks mate :)
Well done, nice to see more if that great kitchen.
Thanks Mate, cant wait to do a full walk around tour
Dovetails look cool but i prefer pocket screws (on false fronts) for simplicity's sake. Awesome channel by the way.
Try the Leigh "Bear's Ears" dovetail and inlay attachment. I think you'll be impressed.
I'll check it out cheers
Stunning work 👌
Thankyou Matthew!
Excellent!!!
Davids been on the back catalogue! :)
Thanks for a great video. Really like your pace and the fact there is no distracting music. BTW, it sounds like your thicknesser drive has the same problem mine had (a flat on the slave wheel). I took mine off and gave it a quick smooth out on the disc sander and now you can't hear it. Keep these great videos coming!
Cheers Ian! Yes I take it off and sand it round every now and then! Terrible design! 😖 This last time I did it I think the next time I used it the piece I pushed through was tapered and it did it again haha!
How about showing how to make a kitchen cabinet with the d4r.
Wish I had this video 3 months ago. I bought an older version of the Leigh jig.
fair enough, i think the older versions stil do all the same features
Looks great , you could have set up the other end of the jig to do a set as well to speed things up a bit maybe.
Now then Nicholas, you go steady! 🤣🤣
Good idea, I'm not sure it'll be quicker with the VRS, parking the router makes change over nice and quick having to remove the router would slow it down and sitting it right in the miggle maybe difficult to slide the pieces under. I might try it 👍
Who doesn't like a little bit if waney edge🤔👍
No sticky drawers 😉🤭
Haha All the best stuff arrives Waney edged,
It my favourite joke, "just nipping out to ease Mrs Jones Drawers"
@@BradshawJoinery lol dad used to be a furniture retailer and l worked for him Saturdays from about 14 years old 50+ years ago. Anywho a woman came in and was complaining about her sticky drawers (Ercol Windsor) my aunt asked any reason? “No l always polish my drawers” 🙈🙉🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
still wondering what that Sherwin Williams paint is called???
Magnificent!
Thankyou David!
Great looking drawers - so much work goes into them but 100 times nicer than the standard drawer packs that are used in most kitchens now. What’s the name of the white stain you used to keep the oak looking less yellow when lacquered.
Thankyou David, yes they are a lot of work, but im suprised how quick you can actually make a drawer if needs be!
The stain was from Movac Group, i had them do a really thin mix on some white spirit stain, i then asked them to 1/4 of what they originally sent (still to white) so i asked for the thinning agent and mixed to my own quantities. Turns out very very little of the original stain (about 1%). will make all the difference and hopefully conteract the horrible orange oak can go.
Nice
Thankyou Neil 👍
Another stunning piece of work.
Thanks Paul 🙌🙌
Great job! I love your videos and you have inspired me to upgrade my skill considerably! I have a question: when sanding the inside of the drawers after machining why are you sanding the boards vs running them through the wide belt sander? Thanks!
Thanks Craig, you'll always get a directional grain from the wide belt and very fine grits will burn the surface so I like to use a random orbit sander to finish for pretty much invisible sanding marks
Great content - Thank you.. 🙂
Thank you John! :)
Amazing videos, better than meditation lessons. Why do you machine the front and back of the boxes when using a separate fronts? Blum runners need machining fronts only according to their instuructions. At the back only hole needs to be drilled.
The back sits on runner so needs machining. You could get away with not ma hinting fronts, but it pushes the runner assembly 15mm further back into cabinet meaning bigger cabinet required
Thankyou so much 👍
Gosh, that’s a lot of drawers!
Haha i think there were 47 drawers in the kitchen!!
@@BradshawJoinery Did you finish the Kitchen? Would love to see it completed
@@christinagracewhite yes, the client doesnt want the whole thing on any social media currently so I cannot share on here, I have a few pictures I will put on Instagram eventually!
@@BradshawJoinery Cool thanks. I thought it was your own kitchen. How long did it take to complete?
Mui 👌
Amazing work and video. Although I am jealous of your machines even though mine are perfectly good :) These are the struggles we live with 😂
HAha, i am jealous of other workshop machine trust me! lol
Awsome
Thanks Chris
Looking forward to seeing your Leigh Jig video now 👍🏻
Enjoyed watching your process and your attention to detail. The finished drawers are top quality. Good to see that you’re using a substantial bottom on the drawers as well.
Is this load of timber the order that you’ve been waiting for from France?
Cheers Mike, Yeah looks like i will deffo have to do one now haha. Yes they will be taking quite the load according to the customer.
Its not, this came from stock from Sykes. I was waiting on some Veneered Birch Plywood sheets. They arrived many moons back. I dont know where the time goes tbh.
Beautiful work, Ollie! Did you ever make the Leigh Jig video? I searched through your videos and didn't see it.
Thankyou! Now what did I say I would do? 😂
Qua - Li - Teeeeee.
Keep 'er lit Bro!
Haha awesome comment Ivan!!! yeeaaaah.
Hi great job, what white stain did you use
And that’s why handmade and real wood drawers are so expensive. You need skills, lots of expensive tools and serious Labour time to make them but they look the best and last a lifetime.
Very true! I absolutley love drawers in kitchens.
What size dovetail cutter did you use ? They look amazing
I think 120-8
could you add a sacrificial peice of wood to ghe dovetail jig to help reduce ghe breakout even further ? or would that not work ?
its not really necessary once you use it correctly to be fair
Amazing work and craftsmanship!! Your workshop is amazing too. Who do you use to purchase your timber from and how long do you store it in the storage container before using it to build the next project?
Thankyou Peter, the oak here is from Sykes, I shop around a bit but Sykes are probably the best quality of the main/joinery timber suppliers. .
There are a few small woodyards doing English timbers dotted about too
@@BradshawJoinery many thanks for the info and how long do you normally place it in storage for before you are using it for a project
Depends on the amount tbh, the 3m3 of tulip took about 4/5 weeks before the dehumidifier leveled out and stopped needing emptying. So a couple fomweeks would help if nothing else. Obviously as long as possible would get the core of the timber the most acclimated. 2 weeks would have a significant impact I think.
Looking great! Just wondering what white stain your sprayed on? Sorry if I missed it in the video!
Thanks, I didnt say as its a bit of a mystery haha! Its a White stain from Movac. Spirit stain about 1/100th of the concentration they originally sent me .
Really excellent work, love the knotty oak.And a wonderfully detailed explanation of process, many thanks . Curious as to how many hours of work does this represent?
Cheers Sean i think i made 13 drawers in 5 days during one of the batches. Not bad value when you consider birch ply bases and very nice timber, bespoke bevel edges etc.
Hi. Not sure if you are aware that you can cut half blind dovetail in one setup with that jig.
Yes it is possible, but at set spacings which aren't as nice/slender. It's also more faff trying to set both boards at the same time as just doing them individually so I don't tend to use it. 👍
That white stain is a great idea, what product do you use? I too use symphony coatings PU
Im not actually sure. It is a pigment in acetone basically haha, Make sure you stir it really well before mixing or applying
Great video! Do you get snipe on a planar like that? And you don't need to wear a ventilator with your belt sander?
Planer snipe depends on depth of rear bed and speed of cut, there is no snipe from the wide belt sander.
Lovely quality job, what brand of pu glue are you using? Cheers
Cheers Josh, this is the Wurth stuff, not my favourite, that is the 30 minute wood Weld from construction chemicals
great work, what whitening spray paint are u using before ur main spraying??
Its a solvent stain. basically a powder pigment in thinners. Very very thinned down. Im talking, i ordered a white stain then mixed 10-1 thinners stain. Just takes the honey effect out the lacquer, works a treat but stains are always a pain!
What's the difference between plaining n sanding? I've always wondered about that, especially since I've been watching videos of things being built on CZcams.
Hi Cathy, good question, so planing is a machine that uses sharp cutters to straighten and flatten the timber. A planed surface from a machine will generally have small ripples to the surface finish where each knife of the circular cutter takes its cut as you pass the board over it.
The sander is a constant contact with the workpiece and when sanded the surface is ripple free and flat/smooth.
The planer is great for getting a straight flat piece quickly and the sanding gives the best surface finish.
A planer will generally cut between 0.5 and 3mm each pass, my wife belt sander here will do maximum 0.2mm in a pass.
Very nice, the plywood drawer bottoms didn't look like oak, in fact one looked like a beech veneer. Is the veneered plywood you use A.C. grade?.
Cheers Colin, they are Quarter saw Oak veneered birch plywood. It's very good stuff but not cheap. Especially now!
Awsome work. What drawer runners are they?
Thankyou Blum Movento 60kg
Beautiful.
Are the bottoms plywood?
Yeah 1/4 sawn Oak veneer on a birch plywood
@@BradshawJoinery can I ask, what make you prefer lacquer to 2k PU?
Which PU adhesive would you recommend ?
Hi Nigel, probably the 30inute version of wood Weld from construction chemicals. 👍
What make is your rebate block?
Hi Ryan, it was a bit of an experiment, i bought it from Alibaba just to see what it was like. Its my favorite block now! hahha
@@BradshawJoinery thanks👍