A Simple Drawer Joint - The Half Blind Lock Joint

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[@onehandedmaker]

Great half blind joint video. Good to see the saw fence used as storage (like mine) and all the stuff piled up on the other side. Working my way through your videos and loving them. One Handed Maker - Australia

[@josh_watson]

Thanks! It sounds like something complicated and scary just by the name, but your explanation cleared it up nicely. Might have to give these a shot now. Cheers!

[@NWGR]

Excellent job with the demonstration John! You did a fantastic job working out the details for new woodworkers. This is one of those techniques that's far simpler in execution than explanation. Once you do it a few times, you just "get it" and it becomes second nature.

[@parillaworks]

Thanks! Exactly! Still takes me a few tries to dial in the fit but the process is so much simpler than the first time I tried it out.

[@ajamesdraws]

This video is extremely helpful to me as a beginner about to make my first set of little drawers. thank you so much.

[@onepairofhands]

thorough presentation - thanks for showing us

[@benjaqsonworkshop9974]

This is a really clean joint and works for me with various thicknesses - great explanation. If they're thicker I add cocktail stick "dowels".

[@MCsCreations]

Fantastic, John! Thanks a lot! 😃 As soon as I can I'm going to try it! Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@sapelesteve]

Nicely done & great show & tell John! 👍👍👏👏

[@joeprestoneoj]

Great video!

[@czimm2000]

Excellent info, thanks! 👍

[@scottb.2022]

Well presented tutorial on half blind lock joints. Thanks

[@parillaworks]

Thanks Scott!

[@andrewbrown8148]

Thanks for this video, John~! Great "zoomed-in" view of your drawer process. Love the level of precision~! I've got some mini apothecary cabinets to make~! 😀

[@parillaworks]

Thanks Andrew! Let me know how they go!!

[@johnniewalker39]

Thank you!

[@Mellaroch]

I built a small apothecary chest for my mom, it was her birthday last week. Thanks for the inspiration (and design too, because I basically copied yours)

[@parillaworks]

That’s awesome! I hope she likes it!

[@robcurran1566]

I like the fact that "an extra small smidge" works in both imperial and metric (for those of us at an age where we end up stuck between the 2 worlds) 😉

[@neilf4128]

Hi. Thank you for detailing how to work precisely. In 15 years of YT woodworking, I have never seen a KZbinr, show how to be exacting. It just something one has to make enough mistakes on, in order to learn. So thanks again for this video.

[@parillaworks]

Thanks a lot Neil!!

[@TWC6724]

They seriously need to have micro adjustments on table saw fences.

[@parillaworks]

For real! There’s ways to do it with one of those mag blocks and some feeler gauges. But it’s not ideal.

[@undefined40]

At the cut at 17:26 the audio suddenly switches to right speaker only

[@parillaworks]

Sorry about that! For some reason my camera isn’t producing the left side audio and I must’ve forgot to change that clip to Dual Mono.

[@undefined40]

@@parillaworks No reason to apologize. I am thankful for you providing such content. My post was not a complaint, but a bug report.

[@alanmatthews9260]

You say it’s simple lol - it’s cool though!