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Dylan Barfield Furniture
Приєднався 15 сер 2012
I'm a furniture maker based in Brisbane, Australia. I started out about 10 years ago in a share house making furniture from pallet wood and random scraps I found on the side of the road, and gradually improved my skills and tools along the way. UA-cam has always been a big inspiration and learning instrument and for me, and I decided I would start to film some of what I do in the hopes of inspiring others.
Is Making Dining Chairs Worth It?
In this video I build a dining chair and discuss whether the effort of it is worth it in a commission context. To be clear, I think making chairs is the highest form of design and furniture making, and everyone who loves to build should give on a go at some point. But they're very hard, and unless you're a woodworking genius, take multiple versions before you get to one that's comfortable, strong and looks good. Usually one of those three, at least, falls short. But if someone is willing to pay, by all means do it!
I discuss how the hub at the heart of the leg structure is a bottleneck, and what I mean by that is the build really grinds to a halt as that part takes a surprisingly long time, and is hard to get accurate and neat and tidy. A half lap would be fine, plus I think I might use a thin steel plate on the underside to help stiffen things up, and remove the need for further support struts. Both of these things will take much less time and not detract from the strength. Anyway, I ramble a bit in the video, and I'm rambling a bit here! I hope you enjoy and let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks for watching!
Instagram | dylanbarfieldfurniture
Website | www.dylanbarfieldfurniture.com/
I discuss how the hub at the heart of the leg structure is a bottleneck, and what I mean by that is the build really grinds to a halt as that part takes a surprisingly long time, and is hard to get accurate and neat and tidy. A half lap would be fine, plus I think I might use a thin steel plate on the underside to help stiffen things up, and remove the need for further support struts. Both of these things will take much less time and not detract from the strength. Anyway, I ramble a bit in the video, and I'm rambling a bit here! I hope you enjoy and let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks for watching!
Instagram | dylanbarfieldfurniture
Website | www.dylanbarfieldfurniture.com/
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Making a Luxurious Walnut Lounge Chair
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In this video, I take some discarded Walnut and turn it into a super comfortable lounge chair. I learned a lot making a prototype of this chair, and learned even more making this one. If you have any questions about how I did anything or my processes, leave a comment and I'll be sure to get back to you. Thanks for watching! Instagram | dylanbarfieldfurniture Website | www.dylanba...
How to Make a Hybrid Workbench: Cheap, Easy to Build and Super Sturdy
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In this video, I'm making a small hybrid workbench out of MDF. It's really cheap, easy and quick to build, and has been a really great addition to my workshop. It won't replace a proper big workbench, but for the price and ease of building, it gets pretty close, and even improves on it by being more mobile. MFT Clamps used in this video. banggood.onelink.me/zMT7/r4hq8h1l Thanks for watching! In...
Making a Modern Coffee Table with Interesting Joinery
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In this video I make a coffee table out of Victorian Ash and Walnut. Stay tuned for the sexy joinery and my husky voice as I try and get over a cold. Thanks for watching! Instagram | dylanbarfieldfurniture Website | www.dylanbarfieldfurniture.com/
Building a Pair of Elegant Bar Stools
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In this video I build a pair of bar stools out of Tasmanian Blackwood. Thanks for watching! Instagram | dylanbarfieldfurniture Website | www.dylanbarfieldfurniture.com/ All music made by me
Building a Classy Dining Table From Wood Bound For Landfill
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In this video I build a dining table from some reclaimed hardwood I've collected from some houses being demolished around my neighbourhood. This will be one of the last projects in my workshop, which is a bit sad, but I'll hopefully end up in a nice workshop down the track for more projects. I finished the top with hard wax oil and the base with BLO, mainly because I didn't have enough hard wax...
Most Versatile Piece of Furniture? Building an Interesting Timber Stool
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In this video I turn an old crusty bit of recycled Ironbark into an interesting little stool. Tune in for the furniture building and stick around for the router based ambient music and my wannabe beat making at the end. Thanks for watching! Instagram | dylanbarfieldfurniture Website | www.dylanbarfieldfurniture.com/
Making a Mid Century Modern Chair From Garbage Timber
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In this video I make a lounge chair out of some recycled pine. I’ve never made a lounge chair, although I’ve wanted to for ages, and decided now was the time. It was a bit of an experiment, so some old recycled wood was perfect in case I mucked it up, ended up building something that looked bad, or was uncomfortable. Luckily none of these things happened (subjective on how it looks) and I’ve no...
Building a modern entry hall table
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In this video I build a modern hall table from Tasmanian Blackwood. I had a great time putting this video together, I'm still figuring out how to film and edit things which is great fun, but has really made me respect other woodworking UA-camrs much more, it's not easy! Thanks a lot for watching, if you've got any feedback I'd love to hear it. Cheers Dylan Instagram | dylanbarfiel...
Beautiful chair. Upholstery was standard. Should of had me do a custom cushion to match the style of the chair!
The hatred for any Festool product is all about jealousy , if people don’t have the money to buy these great tools they generally will hate them . The Festool system is the best wood working system of tools money can buy and when you use them you understand why , so don’t worry about haters just have fun doing the builds you love and let the haters do what they do .
ugh, that's a luscious chair, walnut is so beautiful! great work!
Beautiful is a drastic understatement. Keep going. You’re doing amazing work.
@@slymike21 thank you!
Beautiful ❤
I love the effort you went to, especially including a rebuild in the same video. A lot of people just say they might improve something but rarely they do. You talked the walk!
Top quality content in all areas! Another great video thanks Dylan!
Thanks!
Giving me a lot of ideas! Thanks!
Turned out great! Nice work Dylan!
I hope the buyer watches this and appreciates the effort you put in! Top quality stuff!
What a great final result! I love it!
Above and beyond with this piece!
Another great video!
Great work!
Incredible. It's one of those chairs that you just want to sit in as soon as you see it. Splendid work!
Chairs are a difficult build to make comfortable. When possible, making a template is very helpful. At least a paper one if you can. It shows whether your angles and other dimensions work. Very well done Danish MCM vibe.
the most elite woodworking tools are here in this guy's workshop..
Gorgeous
@@MatthewMcMillan-lx2he thanks!
beautiful work! I really like your shop, kinda simple, not too cluttered and the tools you have are quality :) just subscribed
@@sparrowhawk3422 thanks! It's small but functional
Very nice chair - mid century modern with a touch of mission - interesting design, well executed.
@@angeloc700 thanks!
Amazing! What kind of oil did you use?
@@coppulor6500 thanks! Just a simple beeswax and boiled linseed combo
@@dylanbarfieldfurniture thank you! Also, is that black walnut or english walnut?
@@coppulor6500 American Black
@@dylanbarfieldfurniture thank you good sir 👍
Beautiful chair! Ever think about selling them?
@@subieworx thanks! Yes I plan on selling them at some point.
All I See Is F1rst Class High Quality Craftsmanship Plus Skillet. Much Continued Future Elevated Success.
Excellent design process!
@@dylanmorris6560 thanks!
Awesome work dude !
@paulmichel2770 thanks!
Beautiful work - very cool!
It looks great. Is there e a plan?
@@garyfestarini9608 thank you, unfortunately not at the stage, maybe down the track
@@dylanbarfieldfurnitureI’d be interested in purchasing a lay out plan for this. I would love to make two for my office.
@marshallcarr maybe one day I'll make plans, but won't be for a while. Just copy the shape! It's not overly tricky.
This is the strangest order of operations I’ve ever seen for making a chair.
A nice spokeshave is awesome and the process of using it is enjoyable.
@@speciesofspaces I definitely enjoy spokeshaving, I'm not sure how I'd make use of one on the project though
@@dylanbarfieldfurniture well I use it instead of much routering or I router but only for the general rough shape then finish off with the spokeshave. All those curves in your design would be spokeshave. Perfect for chamfering any edges on that seatback too. The part I always like most is the immediate hand shaping process and the least favorite for me is basically what your process was up until that point. Everyone is different though. But the final shaping is the fun part for me but often not as much time as I would like which kind of sucks.
@@dylanbarfieldfurniture also wanted to agree on the profit margin for chairs. I have thought about it for awhile and unless the chair really is production oriented it is hard to sell it under that 1K mark. The quality out of Japan for handmade production chairs now is about 1.5K-2K and those are nice so hard to beat. I am no speedy maker either so it doesn't make sense for me to rush a bunch of chairs. The Pantorouter here would speed things up a bit but still not in a huge way. However a larger old school copy or duplicating milling machine would.
chairs are a tough sell because they take a lot and people can buy them cheap places, it's hard to get what they're worth,
@@oliver299d yep, unfortunately. You can buy pretty nice chairs for half the price of what I'd be able to make them for.
They look great, but no wooden armed chair is ever comfortable to sit in for any length of time. Why not pad them like on antique chairs.
@@f.kieranfinney457 it's pretty comfortable, perfect for a couple of hours sitting around chatting. Padded arms wouldn't suit the style at all.
No it wouldn’t. Somehow, No one values comfort any more.
Great work! Excellent chair!
@@thomasmcnamara9685 thanks!
Great design--and I tend to agree about chairs. For all the "empty space" around and within them, they really take a lot more lumber than one would expect... and the time required is truly significant. Batching them in sets makes more sense... but it's still a ton of work. I still can't get over my personal fear every time I sit in a chair I built. Solid every time... but I'm always wondering/worrying that it will break, even though I'm double-sure I've over-engineered the joinery!
@@joelwinter4956 haha, I know what you mean
So true. Chairs have the least amount of joinery surface area and experience far more stressful dynamic load than say, case furniture. It's a wonder they hold together for any length of time at all, especially when folks lean back on two legs.
Why a Philips Head on a Clearly Pozidriv screw? You are setting yourself to have a bad day.
As a furniture design/maker the beautiful attention to the walnut frame is sadly let down by the blocks of the seat pads which are almost an after thought. In fact your video got to 20.34 of 21mins before you mentioned that you got a couple of cushions and the chair was done. Good design requires the whole chair to be one. In this case, the frame is completely separate from the seat and back. Where was the original thinking in the design to make the whole design more than just the sum of its parts? Your video screams - I’ve got two cushions and some walnut - I know, I’ll make a chair. In that sense the finished product sadly lacks synergy.
@@iscadean6038 rude
@@dylanbarfieldfurniture maybe - but I meant to teach not to preach. Interesting you didn’t deny what I wrote. You just didn’t like the lesson. If you can’t take constructive criticism then don’t do the vlog in the first place. I have over fifty years of experience as a designer and the first thing you don’t start with is a couple of discarded blocks of foam as the basis for the design of a chair. You might have been honest at the beginning to lay your card out on the table and stated the frame was designed around these square looking block. The whole design needs to be greater than the sum of its parts. You could have designed the cushions to be more rounded or at least softer in shape to reflect the beautiful detailing of the chair frame. Sadly, you didn’t even reflect on the cushions. Am I wrong?
@@iscadean6038 I'll take the engagement with the video, but your opinion, not lesson, and definitely not constructive, is in stark contrast with all other feedback I've received. For what it's worth, I had the cushions made but an upholstery company after I made the chair as that's not my area of expertise. Pretty standard for a MCM lounge chair, I'd assume you might be familiar in your "50 years experience".
@ in line with your one word response - deaf.
For a better look at what a furniture maker needs, watch James Krenov discussing his life’s journey. I met him in 2004 (sadly he died a few years back) and discussed design proportion and scale in furniture making. His life’s work is renowned for its sense of design and proportion. ua-cam.com/video/g95kqXqTVtU/v-deo.htmlsi=yB6_Z5BY5q0k8Hug
As a retired furniture maker I have a couple pieces of advice. Make your templates longer for a lead in to the cut. Much less chance of your part kicking back or away. Reduce the exposure of your table saw blade. Otherwise nice work.
Wise advice. Thank you for sharing your insight.
lovely craftsmanship. Matt Cremona does chair kits, he (like you) realised tables need chairs, but he has done a system where they get made by others and batched out, and then people can buy the kit and assemble.
Excellent work! Your eye for design is impeccable, I love how you looked at the seat back and the seat itself and knew how to improve them in such a fluid way. I also really appreciate how you shared your thought process and iterations, mistakes and all! Bravo.
Thank you. It's definitely a process, and I unfortunately learn from mistakes!
I like your discussion about pricing chairs ... yes, they are complicated and people struggle to see the value. I like your design. If you land on the final design, I bet some development on your jigs and process would help your efficiency. For example, hold-down clamps would be much faster than double-sided tape. Also making 8 chairs would allow you to make all 16 front legs in one batch, all 16 back legs, etc. You would find efficiencies as you worked through them. Enjoyed the video!
Thank you. Yes I've been thinking a lot about ways of speeding things up, definitely making jigs to avoid double sided tape would help!
Maybe you should stiffen it up? 😂 Jokes. Well done man. I haven’t tackled a chair yet. A stool, but not a chair. Looks really cool.
Had time to watch second half. So right about $$ for table v $$ for good chairs. So much more critical work in a chair and there's at least 4 of them if not 6 to 10. No wonder the Japanese sat on floor matts.
Awesome chair 😊
Guess cross bracing the bottom half part of the chair might help
Looks good
Thanks for an informative, honest, well structured video on modern chair making. So many times it's more about learning what not to do rather than what to do. Well done.
Cheers. Yes thats very true, and then it's remembering to not do that thing next time
Beautiful chair. Is it comfortable?
Thanks. I'd give it 3.5 stars on the comfort scale. There's only so much comfort a wooden chair can deliver I think. I might make one with a cushion at some stage.
It's truly a beautiful chair. One of these days I'd like to make a chair of my own.
I really appreciated you taking us through the two iterations of the chair. When you were making the first I was wondering if it was going to twist and it did. Good save on version 2. Also, that's some mind bending, complicated angles there in the back rest. Kudos on figuring out that jig!
Thanks! Yeah it was a bit of a brain bender. Still some kinks to iron out but getting close
What a gorgeous piece! I often can't quite wrap my head around how the jigs and sleds work but you're a cleverer man than I! Given all these things you have to consider, I can see why you might say chairs are the highest form of design ... and also expensive to buy...! Useful info to remember as a customer
thanks! Yes custom furniture definitely isn't cheap, but will hopefully be a bit more timeless than an ikea piece!
dont sell yourself short bro, this IS a $1200 chair.
Thanks! Just have to find people willing to pay that much....
@ someone is going to do it the first time, for both of us, then again and again. Don’t worry, I it will come