Britain's greatest furniture maker at work at his world-famous workshop

[@pierrecolin7856]

i feel this man is a genius. He is so articulate and composed

[@gee3883]

Stunning design, and a level of craftsmanship that the haters on here will never ever achieve.

[@Joefest99]

Wow! They didn't show anything!

[@keithweatherley4227]

he is truly amazing I adore his furniture . if he is Britains best ....well there is hope for us all who aspire to be furniture makers .

[@joelhall5124]

"Britain's greatest..." I must admit, Thomas Chippendale has aged wonderfully...

[@williammartin2593]

I liked the holly wood table. It is not useful to rate things the best and fuss over which is the best, as it just gets in the way of appreciating fine work. In my little world, I just might be the best. But looking around at craftsmen from around the world and in days of yore, I am humbled. He seems like a modest and nice man and I am happy these people get to make a living with their craft.

[@zacharypaul4932]

You think just like myself, God bless you my friend

[@bohemiansantiques4222]

Incredible craftsmanship, knowledge and style. a true artist and i am humbled.

[@ckobesko]

He's soo good even the planer shavings sell at auction

[@mariomendez6404]

C Kobesko actually is done by hand, that's a difference between a master, and a machine

[@stevengevirtz8992]

C'mon gimme a break grandpa. Look at the shoulder underneath. Even w/o my glasses the work is shottier than the rhetoric.

[@bobburger9515]

*shoddier

[@grenadillo1]

Composer and conductor, a lovely analogy, Clive though is more of a magician than a musician, fantastic work.

[@738polarbear]

Possibly the greatest CNC MACHINE user. Possibly.

[@DurzoBlunts]

Ishitani Furniture.

[@brendajames6075]

So impressive ❤

[@mojohn825]

The thing is with these “great” furniture makers is they are not doing any of the making. They’re just designers.

[@derrywalker7835]

Chippendale was a designer and businessman employing hundreds of people at the workshops height so ended up not making furniture

[@cesarvargas2416]

I am Mexican, now American permanent resident and carpenter son, and me wish is do something like that with my profesional life,

[@richardallred8326]

Howtomakeapplebrandy

[@philiptaylor9824]

Orale, busca gente y trabajo que te ponga cerca estas cosas y puedes!

[@ricardojuarez6713]

Mucho éxito, estas en un país donde puedes lograr tus sueños y metas, solo necesitas trabajo y constancia. Saludos desde Morelia.

[@ToddAndelin]

I wish you well, you can do it... you have the desire go for it !

[@cccaurora]

Animo Cesar y mucho éxito; la carpinteria es una de esas raras habilidades del ser humano que muestran su ingenio y a la vez la humildad conjugadas en una obra maestra, te deseo el mejor de los éxitos! Saludos y un abrazo desde China.

[@Charlie-te2tt]

Some dumb comments on here. Just accept that he has a depth of knowledge and skill you are unlikely to ever comprehend.

[@dodungjohnjohntv8626]

wow very visually impressive

[@safarygirl]

Who are these people ?The workshop doesn’t look like much work is going on in there. Anyway yesterday I bought what probably is a Restall Brown & Clennell Burl Walnut Occasional Table where a lot of effort was made to make it look 300 years old and an early to mid 1700s Queen Anne Chair. That is great furniture

[@guderian1570]

Very nice

[@fraidoonabdi4714]

Good job . And I am all so more experience for my job carpentery

[@neponsetriver]

So where's the finished piece? Not here.

[@roberth1328]

50fps looks quite odd.

[@danielwylie-eggert2041]

Britain's greatest furniture maker -- Where carpenters wear sterile gloves, and the rest of the staff is programming the CNC with a keyboard!

[@bighands69]

That furniture maker crafts everything personally. Each design is specific and to an individual point.

[@gbwildlifeuk8269]

@@bighands69 so does every designer. But note the commentary which states there will be jigs made for components and machining involved. Only the prototype is the one off, the rest are copies of that, produced by copying or machines.

[@JGilly-cp1tk]

@@gbwildlifeuk8269 not true

[@JGilly-cp1tk]

Nor always they are some people who only design custom furniture you gotta find em

[@gbwildlifeuk8269]

@@JGilly-cp1tk it is true! 2:30 "from those drawings we will set up the jigs and machinery"

[@davidmcivor2761]

Er who is this please ?

[@pgtips4240]

Who said he's Britain's 'greatest' furniture maker? I really don't think this is a logical, rational deduction to make. A bit silly really.

[@FarmLife818]

I knew that Pencil pusher as the beginning wasn't the one who gets his hands dirty. I just knew it.

[@jamesshott8077]

Edward Barnsley

[@alexpettigrew583]

No content!

[@6988kid]

Looks like giant crisscut fries.

[@bencaststeve]

Well... thay was a waste of my time

[@thecityofficial6367]

Right?

[@jacklarson6281]

i used to have more respect for British craftsmanship.., i see now that my opinion was unwarranted

[@jjdeville7884]

A lot of people have the same talent but live in the REAL world where we have to pay bills.. Most can’t afford to take 6 months to make a one off piece of furniture.. The greatest???.. I don’t think so.

[@OscarGonzalez-de9ny]

1.2.3.que precios .pagamos cuando de trabajo se trata el mas varato o el mas caro o el medio precio .bonito trabajo Sir.good job.

[@Kementze2014]

impressive!

[@charlesmaclelland891]

I wish that I could respect that garba...ge

[@claytoncanel7271]

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[@nasmader6953]

If he s the greatest furniture maker then How do we call a carpenter who work with minimum tools and do the majority of his works by hands..??¿??

[@bighands69]

His furniture are one of a kind that require specialist approaches to produce. Some of what he does cannot be done by hand. Go and have a look at what can be done with 3d printing and see what can be produced that cannot be done by hand.

[@BigHenFor]

A carpenter, not a joiner, or a cabinet maker. Just a carpenter.

[@musamor75]

Absolutely superlative workmanship and consummate mastery of a very noble craft. Surely Britain's finest.

[@matthewray6008]

You can tell he's old school since there is not a single Japanese pull-saw in sight. Oh, and the planning on paper - also that. :)

[@joshgamston5634]

There my saws! as I work for Clive. I didn't really get on with japanese saws tbh prefer the old school saws aha!

[@mastercarpenterltd]

Josh Gamston This bloody sheep mentality of amateur woodworkers using pull saws does my head in!

[@dontbelievethehype1583]

Would you consider taking a apprentice on? Giz a job

[@skirtvin]

Why would he Giz on a job?

[@Tameinsight]

There should have been a few more examples of his work. How can anybody assess anything through this video? This merely makes it seem like a mass produced overpriced object. I mean one is using a machine for the actual work. What will happen when cncs are cheap. Anyways saying that 'looking for grain movement' is interesting but it does not make up for actual pictures of his work.

[@bighands69]

Google his work.

[@brycemickler]

Beautiful work. However, too much emphasis on pricing based on cost. Price should be based on value to the customer, not labor & material cost. Commodities are priced based on cost. These are most decidedly not commodity items.

[@Offshoreorganbuilder]

" Price should be based on value to the customer." I agree, entirely. But in case anyone gets the wrong idea, this means that the price to the customer is probably going to be way in excess of the cost of production. As was once (rightly) stated by Sir John Harvey-Jones, the price of any item should not be based on its cost of production, but on what the market will stand. And he is correct. A flourishing business must make a good profit, or it goes under, its products cease to exist and its workers are out of a job. Price must be based on labour and materials cost + overheads and profit and probably a markup on the total, as well.

[@wadopotato33]

Uh, wood is a commodity...duh.

[@xw6968]

Bryce Mickler as a customer i think i really like to see the cost of labor and material as they are the moste expencive part.

[@brycemickler]

Hi xander witt, yes this is usually true. As a consumer I also want to know, whenever possible, what is the actual cost of producing a product. I don't mind a manufacturer making *some* profit, but i don't want to be taken advantage of. But what is *too much* profit? This will differ between buyer and seller, and even different Sellers and different buyers and even between different products in different markets. Some say that the price should be as high as the market will bear. As a buyer I would say their price is too high once it goes beyond the value that I assigned to the product. Products that are handcrafted like these can command a higher profit than commodities. The price becomes more a function of the uniqueness and the craft involved in making it, rather than the actual material and labor cost. Picasso painted some of his paintings in a matter of minutes yet they sell for tens or ven hundreds of thousands of dollars. The price is not correlated with the material and labor costs involved in creating them, but the artistic content and value to the buyer. From the manufacturer's point of view - which is where I was coming from in my original comment - it is generally not in the best interest of the manufacturer to share detailed cost information with a buyer. A price should generally be set as high as possible while still representing a good value to the buyer and making a profit for the seller. Too high and nobody buys it. Too low and the seller goes out of business cuz he makes no profit. When the buyer and seller agree that a price is acceptable a sale takes place and everyone is better off.

[@samuelluria4744]

Let's ask Adam Smith, ... he'll know...

[@krzysztofkardynal6415]

Sam Maloof - greatest furniture maker of all world

[@manicmute9440]

No he's not.

[@738polarbear]

NOBODY can claim to be the GREATEST . There is too much variety AND it is TOO subjective . I personally did not rave about Maloof's rocking chairs . They were excellent but come on dont wet your pants over them.

[@tinywrasher7923]

Jesus

[@xw6968]

Now only work with a mask for health and you can do it for a long time.

[@738polarbear]

I don't buy this Britain's greatest cabinetmaker ONE BIT.It is too subjective . Who produced this video some toady of the Royal family.?I will GUARANTEE with his posh accent he has contacts among the rich and wealthy ,it's not his skill . It's WHO he knows.

[@fatemehmoosavi8651]

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[@gbwildlifeuk8269]

"Britains greatest furniture maker"? "World famous workshop"? Never heard of him!

[@christiandolan4421]

gbwildlife uk 🤣🤣 then you obviously don’t know your trade. That is if you are in the furniture design / cabinet making trade!!

[@hiramangulonavarrete9758]

OH so in other words he will need to be known by you in order to be famous.... I see, your acknowledgement turns him into a famous carpenter. Who are you? I've never heard of you.

[@gbwildlifeuk8269]

​@@christiandolan4421i dont have to be "in the trade". Im not a musician but ive heard of paul mccartney! If this guy is only know within his trade hes hardly world famous is he? DUH!

[@gbwildlifeuk8269]

​@@hiramangulonavarrete9758read my reply to the other fool. You might use some common sense someday

[@christiandolan4421]

@@gbwildlifeuk8269 🤣🤣 that just shows your ignorance. Not a good analogy , everyone knows John Lennon was the genius. Showing your lack of knowledge I’m music as well. I’d keep quiet if I was you. Your just starting to embarrass yourself 🤣

[@iVironment]

absolutely overpriced and hideous furniture

[@nigelparish2631]

He's obviously very skilled but his work is actually not all that when compared to Japanese carpenters. The prices people pay for his work just proves plenty of folk have much more money than sense.

[@manicmute9440]

The Japanese carpenters are just repeating old designs, he's coming up with something new, and that's why his work demands a higher price.

[@rogerdodger8415]

Nigel Parish Years from now, they will be like a Stradavarius while others furniture will be in the junk heap

[@iancrossley6637]

Ever hear about all the Japanese homes that fall down during earthquakes? Nice joinery but no sense of structure.

[@BigHenFor]

Why do some people romanticise Japanese joinery? It's joinery after all. Yes, they work with precision and sometimes with great ingenuity, but it's still joinery. Both West and East can learn from each other but one better than another? That depends on context and taste don't you think? Each to his own.

[@ramiromoreno1631]

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[@paulgrader3898]

Beautiful craft, great skill, terrible design

[@xw6968]

Paul Grader not your taste of design you mean to say.?!

[@manicmute9440]

You not liking the design is not the same as it being a terrible design.

[@bighands69]

The designs are probably specific to the environment they are going into. SO while they may not suit any building or room you know of they probably will suit some high end architure that you have not actually seen because it is one of a kind.

[@dejupp]

bla-bla-bla-bla

[@samuelluria4744]

If you don't have patience for the shop talk, you probably don't have the patience to do the work either.

[@starkaran8390]

I prefer to build with Stodoys plans.

[@738polarbear]

Possibly the greatest CNC MACHINE user. Possibly.