Thanks Matthias. I've just completed my first ever project and followed all your instructions, turning it into an art table with a ratchet to angle the table top. It took longer than 8.27 but I got there and it worked perfectly. I spent 97% of the time thinking, planning, measuring, remeasuring and 3% sawing and drilling!
Kudos for the Video clip! Apologies for the intrusion, I would appreciate your initial thoughts. Have you heard the talk about - Rozardner Easy Food Reality (search on google)? It is an awesome exclusive guide for learning the trick to build great sheds and master woodworking without the normal expense. Ive heard some extraordinary things about it and my buddy finally got amazing success with it.
Would probably happen if I built one out of the palette wood that I use mostly for crates and planters and stuff for the garden or fire firewood if it's really bad unless I picked out only the best wood out of everything I got.
I have watched a number of these videos and I love how everything he does looks so easy. I know if I tried to make some of this stuff I would be left with a pile of scrap wood.
I'm actually quite proud that I built a table very similar to this a couple of weeks ago. To see you do everything I did, down to the rabbet and the dowels, using the same tools, makes me very proud of my work.
This has to be the simplest and easiest to understand informative wood work video I have EVER watched and I am a complete novice! I feel like I can build that table tomorrow. Thank you so much for your content.
thank you for a limited tools build. I've seen many of your videos as well as many of the other woodworker channels on UA-cam and it is good when someone shows a project like this for those of us just getting started. I have been a construction carpenter for many years and am transitioning to indoor woodwork, but don't have the money for a lot of new tools. Thanks again.
Thank Matthias, the tip I like most from this vid, is using a wooden sleeve for the drill bit, never thought of that! using tape is always a pain when drilling more than one hole! and you advocating using a Pocket Hole Jig...I don't believe it! :)
Matthias, I thank you for giving me an idea for fastening the legs onto a 5/4 decking plank round table top I have. I've been head-scratching for a couple weeks, and how you fastened the top is just the ticket!
much respect for using the tools people would most likely have for this video rather than your other, more impressive tools! Your videos are great and your practical ingenuity is amazing! Couldn't be a bigger fan.
The table looks great...... nice to see a build that uses the very basic of tools and how you can get the most from them... well done and thanks for showing
Your circular saw jig is too awesome! I could have used one of these decades ago. I'll be making one as soon as I get back to the shop. Thank you for a new subscriber. 👍🏼
Watched your videos for years now. I always end up coming back when I have a project in mind. I just wanted to send my thanks for all of the instruction and inspiration. You're awesome!!!
Love how this shows a whole bunch of basic, but essential, wood working tricks and techniques without a painful amount of preamble and bullshit. Also the confidence of the jump on to the finished table at the end 😂 Bloody love it.
You learn a lot with this video. Simple and useful technic, nothing fancy with thousand tools and some ''innovating hot water'', that you can see with fancy woodworking youtubers... This is simple and educative. That is what you need if you doing woodworking.
Matthias, as always I picked up some great tips and ideas on making wood projects. I have done similiar methods of joining w/o using my pocket hole template, and they do provide excellent joining strength and best of all they are simple. Thanks for continuing to share all you excellent ideas and methods (not C#, but you know what I mean :) ). The fun in woodworking is finding better and simpler ways to make something, at least it is for me.
Well done, with a minimum of tools. I like the way you work around problems. My dad used to use a timber depth stop for drilling holes - and of course I do as well. Works well.
Thank you! I will use this to make me a sewing machine table, with a compartment for the machine, so the working surface aligns with the table surface!
You are a marvelous genius Mathaias leaving legacy to the world without pride and your simple nature .. really we love u thanks sir for sharing your mind to the world. May God reward you.
Thanks!!! I'm going to use this same design to build a bathroom vanity almost entirely out of two by fours! I'm just going to gut the old vanity to make a shelf, keep the old cabinet doors and build a butcher block top out of reclaimed 2x4's.
I was sooo into your video when all of a sudden you said you don't have a pocket hole jig. That thru me off lol. This video came in just in time for me as I'm in the middle of building a dining table for Thanksgiving dinner! Gives me some good pointers for the leg joinery. Thanks man.
I was thinking the same thing. Usually he has some other hand made jig that he built to serve the same purpose. Maybe he was trying to achieve a table with the least amount of tools possible. :)
I appreciate this video featuring a minimal tool project! now this is something I can do. My take away is how you drilled pilot holes in the lap joint from the back side out, great way to make sure they end up where you want them. Thanks!
This was an amazing video, I loved the technique and the skill used in this especially with the pocket holes you make this look extremely easy although I can tell you have much skill in the wood working area -Jayden
Mr Mathias, your projects are very practical. I find that all your simple tool projects are interesting the way you tackle your joinery with simple tools. It would be nice if you every wrote a book with all you step by step projects would be great.
I truly enjoyed watching her videos they are great. They are good improvisers for different methods. They spur thought to be creative. You demonstrate how to do some things with the most basic tools and techniques which is good because a lot of people don't have the same equipment as professional carpenters do.
When you were using (and having some issues with) the doweling jig, would it not have been easier to use the jig to create 4 holes in an offcut, then use that offcut?
Found your videos while look for videos on the Craftex CT053. Great videos and easy to follow for a beginner. Nice to see you use tools that most shops will have and are not tools that all cost in the thousands of $$$. Oh the Craftex has doubled in price since you got yours but still a good deal at $279 plus $49 for the basic set up kit of cramps and a hose.
i so love watching your videos! i could totally do those stuff following your lead, too bad equipments are too expensive here. maybe in the future. keep on building! :-)
I love how Matthias builds useful things with reclaimed (or repurposed) materials and without a need for a massive shop. Shows you what you can do with just a drill and circular saw (and wood glue of course ;) ).
Such a great video Matt! Thank you! You really give people like myself so many ideas! Question: Could you achieve the same rigidity with pocket screws, or would you need to include a diagonal brace at all four corners?
Well that you certainly showed good confidence in your work with the way you jumped on that table. Clearly, you did a good job because it did not break.
Finally a video that its actually simple and with almost no fancy tools, thank you!
You learn more tips and info from eight minutes of this clip than reading all the woodworking books on the shelf. Thanks
Lol it's so true
Thanks Matthias. I've just completed my first ever project and followed all your instructions, turning it into an art table with a ratchet to angle the table top. It took longer than 8.27 but I got there and it worked perfectly. I spent 97% of the time thinking, planning, measuring, remeasuring and 3% sawing and drilling!
Seven years later, it's still back to Matthias' teachings whenever i'm in a bind. :))
Have you ever built a table and then completely smashed it with your jump-test?
+Pongjazzle so true i have this all the time
Kudos for the Video clip! Apologies for the intrusion, I would appreciate your initial thoughts. Have you heard the talk about - Rozardner Easy Food Reality (search on google)? It is an awesome exclusive guide for learning the trick to build great sheds and master woodworking without the normal expense. Ive heard some extraordinary things about it and my buddy finally got amazing success with it.
Would probably happen if I built one out of the palette wood that I use mostly for crates and planters and stuff for the garden or fire firewood if it's really bad unless I picked out only the best wood out of everything I got.
I have watched a number of these videos and I love how everything he does looks so easy. I know if I tried to make some of this stuff I would be left with a pile of scrap wood.
Ha, ha. Me too.
I'm actually quite proud that I built a table very similar to this a couple of weeks ago. To see you do everything I did, down to the rabbet and the dowels, using the same tools, makes me very proud of my work.
"But because I have clamps..." *Pulls out giant ass clamp*
A true woodworker is always prepared... go figure...
This has to be the simplest and easiest to understand informative wood work video I have EVER watched and I am a complete novice! I feel like I can build that table tomorrow.
Thank you so much for your content.
haha, never disappoints. Stumble on an old video , and Matthias is in perfect form, slippers and all . Woot !
thank you for a limited tools build. I've seen many of your videos as well as many of the other woodworker channels on UA-cam and it is good when someone shows a project like this for those of us just getting started. I have been a construction carpenter for many years and am transitioning to indoor woodwork, but don't have the money for a lot of new tools. Thanks again.
Love that Workmate. I think mine is somewhere around 40 years old. It has the character of everything I've ever used it for. What a great tool!
Thank Matthias, the tip I like most from this vid, is using a wooden sleeve for the drill bit, never thought of that! using tape is always a pain when drilling more than one hole! and you advocating using a Pocket Hole Jig...I don't believe it! :)
Matthias, I thank you for giving me an idea for fastening the legs onto a 5/4 decking plank round table top I have. I've been head-scratching for a couple weeks, and how you fastened the top is just the ticket!
much respect for using the tools people would most likely have for this video rather than your other, more impressive tools! Your videos are great and your practical ingenuity is amazing! Couldn't be a bigger fan.
The table looks great...... nice to see a build that uses the very basic of tools and how you can get the most from them... well done and thanks for showing
+Mark Evans haha random i was just thinking the same thing!
Love your workshop and your method making things happen with the basic equipment in a minimal space. Really need to apply that
This guy knows too much. He has evolved past all of us. He will create his own wooden utopia.
😂😂
This.
Cup hi
I keep randomly thinking of "He will create his own wooden utopia," and laughing 🤣🤣
😂
Your circular saw jig is too awesome! I could have used one of these decades ago. I'll be making one as soon as I get back to the shop. Thank you for a new subscriber. 👍🏼
The moment when you jump on the table made jump from my chair. You are very confident of your work, I like it!
Watched your videos for years now. I always end up coming back when I have a project in mind. I just wanted to send my thanks for all of the instruction and inspiration. You're awesome!!!
The best thing about this channel is that you can learn and have fun at the same time.
Love how this shows a whole bunch of basic, but essential, wood working tricks and techniques without a painful amount of preamble and bullshit. Also the confidence of the jump on to the finished table at the end 😂 Bloody love it.
This is my favourite woodworking channel...Respect man!
You learn a lot with this video. Simple and useful technic, nothing fancy with thousand tools and some ''innovating hot water'', that you can see with fancy woodworking youtubers...
This is simple and educative. That is what you need if you doing woodworking.
I just built my first table with basic tools using this design. What a brilliant work and easy to follow video. Thank you!
I like 2x4 and 2x6 projects. It's like these materials were invented for the cheap woodworking hobbyist.
unfortunately this comment did not age quite so well
Honestly one of the smartest guys I've seen in woodworking
Great for not so equipped hobby-workers like me. Thanks a lot for such easy projects!
After watch the video, really appreciate every creation of furnitures...
Matthias, thank you for sharing :)
I just learned so many hacks for doing things with tools I don't have. Thanks so much!
That table looks surprisingly refined for some old 2x4s. Good job
Nice, efficient build without a lot of expensive tools. Well-done!
Matthias, as always I picked up some great tips and ideas on making wood projects. I have done similiar methods of joining w/o using my pocket hole template, and they do provide excellent joining strength and best of all they are simple. Thanks for continuing to share all you excellent ideas and methods (not C#, but you know what I mean :) ). The fun in woodworking is finding better and simpler ways to make something, at least it is for me.
love the way you work stuff out.. very informative....thanks heaps
Well done, with a minimum of tools. I like the way you work around problems. My dad used to use a timber depth stop for drilling holes - and of course I do as well. Works well.
Matthias is a thug. He's the only carpenter on youtube wearing moccasins.
I wear an old but comfy pair of boat shoes when I build. It made me smile when I saw his moccasins.
Cabinetmaker*
hahaha this made me laugh
haha I like the sit jump approval on your builds, always makes me smile :)
Your problem solving ability is fantastic, great videos.
Thank you! I will use this to make me a sewing machine table, with a compartment for the machine, so the working surface aligns with the table surface!
Overall video is perfect, also your sense of fashion is badass.
I followed you from the year 2013 until now
I admire your great works
thank you my dear
I love the smirk on his face when he says the best way is with pocket holes. Hahahahaha hahahahaha
Good job Matthias ! For the small pasting I use a hypodermic needle, the glue is always fresh and it is more easer to full the small holes.
Corded drill, work table, and hand held circular saw. If you did this in a crawlspace, I'd be flashing back to my high school days.
You are a marvelous genius Mathaias leaving legacy to the world without pride and your simple nature .. really we love u thanks sir for sharing your mind to the world. May God reward you.
Great video, you makeit look so easy. Thanks from Argentina!
I liked the two tone wood look another great video maestro
Seems like it would have been worthwhile to make a one-time jig with four holes for your dowels???
Jim Fortune oo
Thank you! Was wondering how I could do this without owning a jig.
Thanks for showing that it can be done, and done very well, with simple tools.
This is like the asmr of woodworking man. You make it look sooooo easy ugh
I needed this about a week ago. Thanks anyway!
parabens!! muito bom os seus videos, cada video seu que eu vejo eu aprendo um pouco mais ! abraço do Brasil (i live in Criciuma, south of Brazil)
Good job,doweling jigs are great.good sturdy table.
Wow that is a surprisingly nice looking table considering what you made it out of. Those tapers look very nice.
Excelente maestro y gracias por los subtítulos al español, saludos. Luis de Peru
absolutely beautiful....simplicity of tools & technique!
glad to see another video from my favorite carpenter
awesome job. very creative use of tools. improvising is an underrated key to being a successful woodworker!
that's actually a really nice looking table. thanks for the video Matthias
Thanks!!! I'm going to use this same design to build a bathroom vanity almost entirely out of two by fours! I'm just going to gut the old vanity to make a shelf, keep the old cabinet doors and build a butcher block top out of reclaimed 2x4's.
I was sooo into your video when all of a sudden you said you don't have a pocket hole jig. That thru me off lol. This video came in just in time for me as I'm in the middle of building a dining table for Thanksgiving dinner! Gives me some good pointers for the leg joinery. Thanks man.
I was thinking the same thing. Usually he has some other hand made jig that he built to serve the same purpose. Maybe he was trying to achieve a table with the least amount of tools possible. :)
I appreciate this video featuring a minimal tool project! now this is something I can do. My take away is how you drilled pilot holes in the lap joint from the back side out, great way to make sure they end up where you want them. Thanks!
I didn't think of that when I built my first table of that style five years ago. Thought of that just while fiming it.
Excellent point... Even though it was 4 yrs ago lol
this is really good making a good standard as well as good look with less material... i mainly like your design mechanisms.
This was an amazing video, I loved the technique and the skill used in this especially with the pocket holes you make this look extremely easy although I can tell you have much skill in the wood working area -Jayden
Mr Mathias, your projects are very practical. I find that all your simple tool projects are interesting the way you tackle your joinery with
simple tools. It would be nice if you every wrote a book with all you step by step projects would be great.
I truly enjoyed watching her videos they are great. They are good improvisers for different methods. They spur thought to be creative. You demonstrate how to do some things with the most basic tools and techniques which is good because a lot of people don't have the same equipment as professional carpenters do.
parabens novamente pela sabedoria, projetos mais simples me fazem feliz, regards from south of Brazil
When you were using (and having some issues with) the doweling jig, would it not have been easier to use the jig to create 4 holes in an offcut, then use that offcut?
So happy I have found your videos ) Thanks for sharing )
Wow, good job. I arrived here thinking I would make a simple table....after watching this, I'll just buy one. :)
Wow You are amazing, never seen "Bad Ass" moves with a circular saw. I learned a lot :)
Thank you for this great video for us beginners! :)
Buen trabajo,mathias,esplendida exposicion..
Found your videos while look for videos on the Craftex CT053. Great videos and easy to follow for a beginner. Nice to see you use tools that most shops will have and are not tools that all cost in the thousands of $$$. Oh the Craftex has doubled in price since you got yours but still a good deal at $279 plus $49 for the basic set up kit of cramps and a hose.
I COULD WATCH THIS ALL DAY!
Great video and tutorial, thank yo for taking the time to share with us all.
Thank you. Greetings from Turkey... :)
I wouldn’t say simple.. but on the other hand so many techniques. Great video 👍👍👍
i so love watching your videos! i could totally do those stuff following your lead, too bad equipments are too expensive here. maybe in the future. keep on building! :-)
Молодец Маттиас! Все просто и понятно. 😁👍
I love how Matthias builds useful things with reclaimed (or repurposed) materials and without a need for a massive shop. Shows you what you can do with just a drill and circular saw (and wood glue of course ;) ).
Great work as usual Matthias , thanks ...Steve
Such a great video Matt! Thank you! You really give people like myself so many ideas!
Question: Could you achieve the same rigidity with pocket screws, or would you need to include a diagonal brace at all four corners?
Learned a neat trick for when my screws are too short. Thanks!
I love how you jump on every table you make haha!!
Well that you certainly showed good confidence in your work with the way you jumped on that table. Clearly, you did a good job because it did not break.
The way you test furnitures is very impressive.
Thank You Matt! I very like knock-down student deck, so good :)
Thank you very much, very informative...keep up the good work.
ur a good wood worker Matthias, keep up the good work
i could watch this all day
One of these days you're gonna hurt your butt jumping on all these sturdy builds. I recommend adding cushions to them
the level of precision is amazing
+Alvin Chang just makes you want to go back to carpentry school
That is a fantastic simple, little table.
Very good craftman ship / workman ship. Great job
Thanks for another great video.
Very cool man! thanks from Brazil.
Never doubt a guy that has a homemade tool box next to a dust collector.
I like that jig for circular saw: extremely simple and allow to use all possible depth.