Building fancy wooden boxes

Building another version of my milk crate inspired wooden boxes that I last built back in 2009. The idea of the project at the time was to use all my fancy hommeade tools. This time, I used even more homemade tools and machines!
More details on this build, and links to machines used
woodgears.ca/milk_crate/again....

[@snaggletooth14]

You are the most scientific and technical woodworker on KZbin. Great video, as always.

[@d.k.1394]

Agree

[@kinkjarfold3816]

My kids are 34 and 37 now and they still have things I made for them when little. Believe me when I say the time you spend on things for them is NEVER too long. They deserve every second.

[@michaelzdanis3979]

Mine are a bit younger, but still closer to 30 than 20. It's really unfortunate that you need to be this age to truly appreciate the meaning of the old saying about parenting, "The days are long but the years are short."

[@kinkjarfold3816]

@@michaelzdanis3979 Well, on the 31st I will celebrate three-quarters of a century on this earth, and with C-19 raging, I'm doing my best to wake up each morning. I told Wifey that for any reason should I go into a coma, keep me alive on ventilators so you still get my social security check. Then ignore the bills. We do what we can.

[@badaphooko02]

This man puts more precision in a milk crate than any project Ive ever built.

[@nickoakley69]

I agree, Heaven forfend he has to make a living from them

[@passwordpassword2199]

and he uses more different routers to make a milk crate than times I've used a router

[@thefirsted]

Dude worries about a thousanth of an inch as much as I worry about a 64th.

[@The.Pickle]

It's lovely watching parents make things for their children, instead of buying. Making things for your loved ones requires so much more conscious effort and devotion and displays a really thoughtful expression of love and appreciation. Those boxes are wonderful.

[@d.k.1394]

Well typed

[@spadgefox684]

Hey Matthias, good to see you uploading again. Hope the family and the new addition are well!

[@IsaKocoglu]

I love that you are back and building stuff. No matter how _simple_ it may seem! Great to have you back Mathias 🥰👍

[@ianc4901]

You said that was a crazy amount of work for a couple of boxes but those will probably last for over 100 years ! That's the kind of thing that will stay with your kids until they are adults and they'll keep them in the attic filled with favourite things. They may even get passed down to your grandchildren and when they get older they will truly appreciate the value of homemade wooden utilitarian boxes from the beginning of the 21st Century ! That's not 'just a couple of boxes' that's a couple of heirlooms !

[@aserta]

Aye. Grandpa made me and my brother, apple boxes, because we were too short to reach the book cases in the house, we both have them, he has his own electronic creations inside, and i keep our family heirlooms in there.

[@turgin9098]

I came to the comments to express the same thought but you beat me to it and did a better job!

[@darinnetherland3466]

That’s the woodworker’s dream, but reality is usually quite different. Maybe if they grow up to be hipsters.

[@colemanadamson5943]

Ian Clarke ...... point well made.... point taken. Keep making comments on videos because you think and speak well.

[@ianc4901]

@@darinnetherland3466 I remember as a kid (around 5 or 6) I loved wooden toys, I used to play for hours with a wooden train set that had beech wood track on a block wood floor, I also remember really enjoying some wooden dolls that fitted inside each other and smelled fantastic ! I always preferred wooden items to metal or plastic but they only ever made wooden toys for small children so as I grew older I learned to make things from wood, I love the warm soft feel and the smell of wood. Anyone growing up in an environment filled with natural wood will appreciate the look, feel and smell of it and they will especially appreciate any items that were made for them.

[@sephalon1]

"And for that I'm going to use my other pantarouter" - things only Matthias Wandel can say.

[@GMan7800]

Good to see you back and that you are well.

[@dwightbauer6705]

There's a company that makes them to his specs, you can buy one if you like. (I think the steel one he was using today is the machine you can purchase)

[@RDhali]

@@dwightbauer6705 do they still have it for sale? I thought it was discontinued

[@MisterKisk]

​@@RDhali Well, they're still available on the website.

[@Mr2at]

Lol

[@maxwang2537]

It’s so much fun watching you work. You are a genius.

[@vdefilippo]

I'm not sure why, but this might be my favourite one of your videos. Maybe because it's a gift for your children, the attention to detail and labour-saving tips, and the cool homemade tools you use. Just great stuff.

[@Sludgepump]

Now this is the amazing wood gear craziness that I Love to see with a Matthias video. Thanks for bringing on the familiar deluge of woodgear exactitude that we all hold dear. Loved it... Thanks!

[@bigburlymikesmswoodworking]

Those boxes will probably last your kids lifetimes and beyond. Beautiful work. I especially love the use of the pantograph for engraving their names.

[@seanfyodorovich5230]

The original video for these crates was the first woodworking video I ever viewed on youtube. Seems like it was at least 10 years ago. It was also my first exposure to Matthias and it put me on the road to learning more than I ever thought I could from an internet website. In a sense Matthias is why I'm a woodworker.

[@truebluekit]

"Harriet, why doesn't your dad comb his hair?" "He does, but glue-ups always gets to him, ya know?"

[@nicolaspillot5789]

Every time i feel the same when looking at your videos... i tell myself, let's go build a box joint jig, lets buid a pantorouter next, lets go build a bandsaw, man you tickle my desire to build things, and i thank you for this. Great motivation !

[@AKLINTMURT]

really appreciate the way you do things, Mathias !

[@daviddevillers6790]

your children will be able to keep these for the rest of their lives. beautiful job!

[@DFSqu]

I remember watching the original. It's amazing how time flies. All the best to you and yours.

[@MakingSawdust]

I love the projects that take a crazy amount of time, at least when someone else is doing the work. Definitely a labor of love. Your kids will enjoy these for years and probably pass them on to their kids one day.

[@AerickSteno]

Hey Matthias! I'm a long time fan, and I'm currently a stenography student (mostly just a hobby for now) and I like to practice captioning to your videos. I see that you don't have community translations turned on (if I remember correctly, it was your decision due to KZbin's new policy or something like that), but I want to caption some of your videos if possible. I already have a transcript of this video and I'd love to add captions to some of your videos. Thanks, and I'm glad to see that you begun to post more and more videos!

[@ASMROW]

He no care

[@markforrestsm]

A coupla boxes!... and Matthias creates furniture! Respect and great to see you back! Regards, Mark (South Africa)

[@gregmislick1117]

A Tour de Force of the shop tools ! Nice to see you back in the shop Hope everyone is doing well.

[@cesarmautinoterry4202]

I don't have the slightest idea about carpentry, but I enjoy watching your videos!!!

[@ComfortablyLost2020]

Your ingenuity is absolutely astounding, I love how you make these other machines

[@hurtinbombs]

I love how strong and well made these boxes are , I always get joy from seeing well crafted things .

[@daveweigle4090]

I feel so inadequate after watching this genius at work. Great video, as usual, Matthias. You are amazing. God bless you and welcome back.

[@louel9272]

Clicked for the fancy wooden boxes but got flabbergasted by the fancy woodworking setup you have! 🤩👍🇵🇭

[@thomasloven]

Yay! Router pantograph! Haven't seen that in AGES!

[@palewriter1856]

I can't believe how refreshing it was to come in out of the sun for a break from my hacking today's woodworking project to find THIS beautiful piece of work. Clearly I am NOT ALONE in taking great delight in watching you work! Unfortunately, I have never been able to figure out how to put MY projects on Fast Forward in the boring, repetitious places. I still get a kick out of watching yours fly by, though. Small mind - easily distracted. SQUIRREL!!!!

[@KawaiiArcadeMasters]

I’ve always wanted to build something like that!! Awesome worf👍🏻

[@BosisofSweden]

You know, this is so brilliant that one don't even know where to start. You might be used to this since you have lived with yourself your whole life but to me this is a genius doing genius stuff with genius tools.

[@hugopoldervaart2305]

Great work Matthias!!

[@wasimsaleem961]

YOU'RE ALWAYS GENIUS MATHIAS. GOOD LUCK.

[@fiveifrenzy]

Appreciate your discussion of maintaining quality while looking for efficiency! Watching you I believe makes me a better woodworker!

[@Wordsnwood]

Excellent job showcasing your different tools.

[@matthiaswandel]

That's what the original box was all about. But now I have even more tools than back then!

[@Wordsnwood]

@@matthiaswandel well you could have resawed on your Bandsaw, and maybe somehow worked in your tilting router lift, but otherwise I think you covered pretty much as many as you could!

[@brandonjohnston4033]

I've been watching these for years, and I barely own a tool. You're very good at your craft! Appreciate the simple to the point editing 😎

[@erictheviking672]

I love watching these videos, everything is so well thought through and then beautifully executed.

[@Gun5hip]

Nice sturdy boxes that'll last for years.

[@MrElBenno]

Matt, what should i say... You are awesome, beautiful work. Its engineering!

[@sansiniestro]

my dude is like a mad scientist of woodworking

[@RingoWild]

Crates to pass on to your great-great grandchildren. Stunning work!

[@Naiemaa]

The kids will enjoy them and we enjoyed watching them being made. 👍🏻

[@Sam_596]

"That way they get a little bit more height" You're a good father

[@chrispagobo]

you're really a genius matthias, those wooden machines, they're awesome.

[@JA-tg7ej]

Highlighting the names with black paint (or their favorite color) could be a nice touch in my opinion 😉

[@1pcfred]

You burn it with a torch. Then belt sand the flat part. I've routed lots of signs.

[@wgriffith4520]

I’m thinking green...

[@buddyclem7328]

@@1pcfred That's a great idea!

[@1pcfred]

@@buddyclem7328 it is funny how I came up with it. I was sanding a sign I'd made and I got a splinter doing it. So I thought I'll show you, you dirty so and so. Then I grabbed a torch and burnt all of the splinters off it. I was like hey this is not bad. And yeah waving a torch in the letters is way easier than trying to paint them. It's a good look. Since I came up with the idea I've seen that some others do it too. Wood burning is a legitimate technique. Unburnt the letters do barely show up.

[@hitechpoint7276]

That splinter had it coming.

[@pascalzuercher9943]

Deine Projekte sind sehr cool. Ich bin immer wieder fasziniert von deinen Ideen und deren Umsetzung. Nicht nur die Holzboxen alleine, sondern auch die Maschinen mit denen du arbeitest.

[@jimsjacob]

Blast from the past! Always great to see you make things.

[@jmtx.]

Awesomely systematic way of making the boxes!

[@WorkFromHomeFriday]

Whenever I start to feel proud about completing some simple project, I can count on Mr. Wandel to put me back in my place. I just built some simple barn doors that look pretty good. Then Mattias gets out his HOMEMADE WOODEN GEAR COLLECTION and HOMEMADE PANTAROUTER...

[@Lillfot]

Crazy amount of work, but sure will survive a long time! Most excellent!

[@charleyl264]

Very nice boxes and construction methods. I'm always impressed with your videos.

[@allluckyseven]

Loved the way you did the engravings!

[@tonysfun]

I love your videos, you and your MACHINES!!! I wish you are my neighbor! Have a great week, month... Just make more videos!

[@trishblakely3476]

Those boxes will be holding all kinds of crap for your kids’ entire lives. 👍 😂 Another great project.

[@brodystowers8092]

So glad to see a new video from you. I have been waiting to see the genius of your work again!

[@edmundandrada]

Just amazing. I've learned a lot of woodworking by watching your videos! =)

[@kiltymacbagpipe]

It’s amazing how these tools make such short work of these repetitive tasks.

[@1pcfred]

I think it is the time lapse filming that does that.

[@kiltymacbagpipe]

Paul Frederick no, cutting all those slots and tenons and whatever would be a long and tedious job with conventional tools, and even more so with hand tools. Watching Paul Sellers make this would be a multi part video series.

[@1pcfred]

@@kiltymacbagpipe when Sellers is making instructional videos he slows it down for the newbies. He was a working woodworker earlier in his career though. So don't think what you see in his videos is his only speed. Watch his videos about cutting mortises. He gets a bit rambunctious in some of those.

[@TerryPullen]

@@kiltymacbagpipe I use floating tenons. You need a homemade mortising jig and some tenon stock cut from plywood. You size the router bit to the thickness of the plywood cut the plywood into Domino shaped strips so they will fit the mortise and start cutting mortises. Goes very fast.

[@matt3642]

11 years ago!!!! 11? How long have I been watching you!!! Thats terrifying

[@lwoodt1]

Ah , a video from Matthias makes it feel like the old days.

[@DrChop01]

Simply Amazing, especially your workshop!

[@Asaadomar]

Nice to see you again. I remembered good old days 👍🏻

[@guillermosolanorosa1805]

Aleluya! Ya era hora de que volvieras a utilizar esas maravillosas máquinas caseras! Como siempre un trabajo perfecto.

[@IEnjoyCreatingVideos]

Nice job on the fancy wooden boxes Matthias! Thanks for sharing the video with us!💖👍👌😎JP

[@thefilthelement]

The box is nice, but your tools have me watching every one of your videos!

[@smaug1234]

got lots of Homemade toys in this one :) Kids do love boxes, even the cardboard kind

[@alterbratzi5037]

Masterful work and thought of everything as always. Greetings from Kiel 👍

[@k13ehr]

Lovely to see you making again Matt

[@mikecorrado4971]

Amazing! So enjoyable to watch! 👍🏼

[@samclemens2353]

Matthias- I’ve been watching your videos for years. As a fellow engineer, I love how you build everything like a brick shit-house! Awesome! Keep it up!

[@lavejim11]

Good to see Mathias on youtube again...

[@fulableism]

These look really nice. Well done!

[@michaelmcdougall8868]

I love watching your method Matthias.

[@louscannonmagoo9989]

This is an epic build. The level of epicness, epicicity, epictude awesomeness let's say that yes. More awesome is the fact that he built the machines that he used to make the boxes. Epicsome 👍

[@JustanOldfart01]

Wow, I've always had a fascination with boxes and crates and wanted to make my own. After seeing all the stuff you have had to make to do that i think I'll decide against doing that. I don't have the shop space anyway. Good work by the way. Always enjoy your videos.

[@1pcfred]

Those are real fancy with the box joints and mortise and tenon joinery. You can make crates more easily than that.

[@ronaldwoolacott9176]

Awesome. Been watching and enjoying your videos for a few year. I wish I had your talents. I generally just produce sawdust. lol. Keep the awesome videos coming.

[@jmsjms2735]

Rather impressive, but... This is an insane amount of hi tech gsdgetry to put together a simple milk box - that I am sure 90%+ woodworkers out there neither have nor would even heve use for. Albeit a self-taught carpenter myself, I should be able to do it just with a table saw, planer and a few basic handtools. May take more time but those gadgets must have taken quite some weekends to design and assemble. One of its kind, no doubt. Bravo.

[@mohamadhamada1395]

I am very impressed with your Work 🤗

[@holdemNE1]

Very nice build. Thanks for posting.

[@sanjaysami4315]

This guy is a bloody genius !

[@steviemarchantswoodshop3279]

Long time no see 😁 glad to hear you voice again... And see your woodworking of course! Nice crates 👍👍

[@s-t-f]

Beautiful pieces of art!

[@javierbarradasindo4253]

Excelente trabajo... gran idea... gracias por todos tus vídeos... y compartir...

[@xedasxedas]

You are one of the originals. Never forget that.

[@Wrockyy]

I've added "build a 2nd Pantarouter" to my list of things to do, right after I build my first one! Great video.

[@donnastanley6030]

Thats like working on your second million before the first is made. That would be me.

[@benjaminmellingen5340]

woooow, this was such a cool project! and the boxes turned out great :D

[@josephdurish2315]

Absolutely beautiful

[@garlicbad]

It's been a while, Matthias!

[@rootstudio247]

Kids...

[@gregmize01]

The way your mind works...you are a true genius❤

[@edejamircosta]

Show........esse é um vídeo que muita gente precisa ver, para valorizar o trabalho de um artesão!

[@TerryPullen]

These would make great Christmas gifts and there is plenty of time to get them done.

[@andreiradu1945]

The subtlety and finesse of this comment are out of this website

[@jeremyspecce]

But... I’m still going to start it on Christmas Eve. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@tajz1]

GREAT JIG BUILDER, AMAZING IDEAS

[@Mrcaffinebean]

Love the boxes! I think might do something similar for my son.

[@ron827]

Furniture quality wood milk crates. Love it.

[@maehay4065]

I really like these wooden boxes for your children and the extra step of adding their names on is really cool looking! I was subscribed to your channel but I didn’t have the little bell on so I wasn’t getting the notifications when your next video was available.. duh. Have a great evening with your family ✅👍

[@MrRuizi]

Joyas de madera. Excelente!!

[@valiany]

AMAZING MATTHIAS WANDEL THE TRUE PURE MAKER. THE ONLY MAKER

[@joethompson11]

Missed seeing Matthias projects in my feed! Love these

[@vosifle]

Fantastic work!

[@wseejattan]

Really admire your skills.

[@sapelesteve]

Only Matthias can make family heirloom storage boxes! Nice......👍👍