Cubbies for cardboard boxes and drawers

[@bilz0r]

Man, I love this channel. I'm so sick of being recommended videos of guys with $30k of festool equipment working on $10k worth of walnut to make tables for people who make $10k a day.

[@giova21111]

you forgot to mention the $2K epoxy resin

[@Reprint001]

@@giova21111 Beat me to it. 😄

[@UnarmedZombie]

I was thinking this the other day. There are so few woodworking KZbinrs left that haven't upgraded to a 10,000 square foot custom shop with industrial equipment, CNC machines, and epoxy resin.

[@williamreinhard]

Yeah, much more realistic to custom engineer and build your own tools out of scrap wood and motors you found on the side of the road.

[@trunkmunk3y]

A NEW SHEET OF PLYWOOD?!??!??! How will you ever recover financially? ... j/k

[@monstertrucklt]

*morally. :D jk adore this channel.

[@kinarism]

And then glued it to cardboard 😂

[@WangleLine]

lol

[@MikelNaUsaCom]

yeah, concrete and bricks are much cheaper than wood right now... but it's really difficult to keep a plane sharpened when flattening concrete with it... =D

[@roncooper6302]

Born frugal stay frugal. Although I have made a few pennies in the last 84 years, I still enjoy re-cycling.

[@Tsa12343]

Matthias swearing when doing glue-ups never gets old 😂

[@klausnielsen1537]

And it is so relatable!

[@ruaridhwatson2630]

Yep I don’t think I’ve ever made anything without needing to swear when glueing

[@MrMoosefire]

Only you would cherry veneer a cardboard box! Haha I love it

[@kevola5739]

Only Mathias would cherry veneer a cardboard blueberry box!

[@woodsprout]

🙂My guess is he's thinking that those veneers could be easily switched to a new wooden drawer at a later date.

[@matthiaswandel]

Exactly, if cardboard a box breaks, I could glue on a different box, or make a wooden one. But a lot of these drawers get opened just once or twice a year. For the stuff I access more often I used all wooden drawers.

[@gorak9000]

I mean, cardboard is just processed wood after all, and it saves a TON of time making solid drawers... seems pretty ingenious to me :) Just wait until Ikea sees this

[@wobblysauce]

Just like most things made and sold... give it a nice finish and no one asks any questions.

[@YSHRHA]

Love the veneers on the cardboard boxes!! Lol

[@hermanni1989]

Dont give Ikea any ideas

[@BrandCJC]

Such a great example of scope creep.... I love it.

[@luisotero2632]

found the pm nerd

[@JDeWittDIY]

As a software engineer, this was my comment too

[@hypnolobster]

This is my favorite kind of Matthias project. The storage solution ones are always the best.

[@terminsane]

Watching an expert struggle to put together a cardboard cubby box makes me feel better about struggling with everything else

[@d.k.1394]

Me too

[@robertpearce8394]

Where was the swear jar?

[@Not_TVs_Frank]

Seriously, it was like watching myself struggle in the garage but with better lighting and a real plan. Beating on parts with a mallet, clamps falling off, scraps and clamps laying all over... SO relatable.

[@digitalpracticeroom409]

I have an entire panel of microwave TV dinner boxes from Trader joes, where the plastic container is the drawer and the box it came in is taped/glued to pieces of foam-core poster board. Nearly 50 containers to hold small items like pens, pipettes, hardware etc. The construction is similar to what you've done but using hotglue and tape instead of dowels and glue. I find that reusing plastic containers is super light weight and quite durable. If one breaks, I just replace it with recycling from my groceries. The boxes are rectangular enough and gluing bits of foam core to top bottom and sides is adequate support to stack 10 of them, even if they are filled with hardware. it cost about $3 for the foamcore + glue and a roll of tape. Finished in less than an hour. Would have taken all day to build it with wood.

[@randall4876]

I don't think I've ever seen anything wooden built with that much internal stress... actually let's call it "preload". Whole thing probably has enough potential energy to send itself into space if you could harness it somehow. Great video Matthias!

[@brucemccreary769]

Bravo for a great economical design. I love the veneer drawer fronts- even on cardboard. Thanks Matthias!

[@wasdaletimelapse7658]

You must eat a whole load of blueberries. Great job.🤣

[@d.k.1394]

Hehe

[@username34159265]

Small children can eat an incredible quantity of berries, especially if you don't try to supplement with corn syrup based products. Our household has a budget line item for the Costco packs, but it looks like the Wandel house has standardized on this local blueberry farm.

[@kevinbowker2385]

Always entertaining! Thanks for sharing yet more knowledge, Mathias!

[@d.k.1394]

Agree

[@galhillel100]

Don't know why yours video are very motivating me to build things in my garage thank you for that

[@d.k.1394]

Me too

[@MarkDurbin]

Enjoyed all the little surprises along the way :)

[@TechnikJens]

This is how IKEA started🤓🤣 Of course I like your well done work a lot. Thanks for sharing💪

[@F0XD1E]

Your stick with screws dowel jig just blew my mind. Time to make one of those.

[@warrenwerks]

Matthias, you were the first woodworker I started watching on KZbin over 10 years ago when I was still in high school. I love your old school way of building things and that you still have the same style and spirit in your videos

[@artursmihelsons415]

Second edition for cardboard boxes looks much better! This type of shelf can be stored even in living room.. Excellent idea to glue front pieces to cardboard boxes! 👍

[@txkflier]

There were several very useful nuggets in this one. Thanks!

[@MRrwmac]

Always nice to see another woodworking video from you! I was thinking you might put those wooden fronts on the cardboard boxes….. then you showed that you did..!!! Thanks for the video Mathias!

[@timmyB147]

Using the shop vac to pull the doors is a great solution. I've used tape before, but this can be faster without residue.

[@fxm5715]

High storage volume efficiency, too. Nice.

[@zaprodk]

I love the feature creep on the drawers. Good job Mathias!

[@heyitsthatdude17]

Sometimes the objective with personal projects is just "Fuck it, I'll make it work"

[@IndianaDoug]

Always something useful here👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@alecclews]

Fine Cabinetry right there 🙂

[@Cancun771]

And here thought he was making an Ikea Hemnes console table! But far from it! Pro tipp: Doweling is so much easier if you just pre-drill the large plates, then glue them on the dividers, clamp it all down and _then_ drill the holes into the dividers. I'm using small cast-iron angle plates to stabilize boards at right angles to one another during glue-up. Need a couple of those anyway for use on the milling machine et cetera. I'm absolutely loving it though that one of my woodworking heroes, who is god-tier when it comes to designing and making the most complex, precise and imaginative jigs and machines, resorts to brute force when it comes to this simple cubby hole thingy.

[@MCsCreations]

Amazing work, Matthias! Really well done! 😃 I might make something inspired on your design! Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@weldabar]

Cherry veneer on a cardboard box - I think Matthias just shattered my perception of reality. I know that I _should_ criticize it, but I can't because it is so functional and looks so good. I need to go reevaluate life.

[@matthiaswandel]

actually most of the cardboard boxes have a plywood front that has a very thin veneer of just the right color.

[@James-un6kx]

So many nice ideas, thank you for your inspiration.

[@recklessroges]

I love how this escalated from, "this time it will be simpler" lol

[@artswri]

Nice project as always, thanks!

[@alibronx2112]

Just like jimmy diresta but totally different. Love both of your channels!

[@Muhovc]

Yes.. not enough cardboard boxes so just build drawers. Thats an equal amount of effort :) :) Thanks for years of videos, i made a few sinple projects because of you.

[@BernardSandler]

My dad's advice: if at first it doesn't fit, force it. He's a surgeon. You prove the woodworker's adage...can never have enough clamps. I really like that hole template, but I guess the issue is getting it to align straight to the piece. Love the design.

[@honeyforce996]

that's a pretty cool design

[@atomicsmith]

I’ve been considering something similar with a bunch of the small Amazon boxes that pile up. This ended up beautiful with those cherry fronts!

[@markduggan3451]

They look good enough to use in the house.

[@douglascrowder]

Awesome video as always from Matthias!

[@dundasjunctionmodelr.r-jam8267]

Great build , like your marking jig very cool

[@feedbackzaloop]

Not so hyped about the shelves, but _daymn_ those boxes look neat

[@Oscar-xj1xk]

"sucking out those drawers..." 😂 hilarious!

[@69dblcab]

Looks like a big case of project creep. Ha Ha. Matthias Thanks for the video. Great as usual.

[@odiesclips7621]

Pretty damned cool!!❤

[@markraisner9000]

Very nice job!

[@coxsj]

very cool!! thx for all your efforts in sharing this.

[@PadmaOzer]

Matthias is as good as ever...

[@wadecarson3386]

Matthias, singlehandedly keeping Tuddenham Farm in business... I thought MY family liked blueberries!

[@Uncle_Buzz]

Matthias Wandel = The Batch Master.

[@brucelee3388]

Dowels: Just go upstairs to the kids play area and pick up a pencil sharpener, then use the shallow & wide hole (for colored pencils) to put a tiny chamfer on the ends of the dowels. People making arrows have similar jigs, but they cost about 10 times what a pencil sharpener does, and they don't have a box to collect the shavings either. I might have both types in my collection.

[@matthiaswandel]

belt sander is faster, cause I don't have to turn it very hard. Also no risk of splintering -- bamboo is very prone to splintering.

[@JohanLarssonKiruna]

Those earmuffs just vanished! 0:56

[@awjaaa]

"Dry fit twice; glue once."

[@ronthacker211]

Great job

[@alfastur6833]

The video left me little depressed. Your scraps are better than my nice wood!

[@Nix6p]

Matthias over here making his own custom Kallax.

[@andrewslater6846]

I would love to see you and John meet up at Jimmy Diresta’s Compound for a colab project!

[@mergrew0110]

Here’s a new avenue for research. Cardboard. I had a delivery some months ago and the cardboard was five ply. It’s remarkably strong, I wonder if one could use it to make simple furniture. You could make your own by gluing several pieces together and doing some testing. I would like to see what you came up with.

[@TheRainHarvester]

In Texas silver fish would eat the paper.

[@matthiaswandel]

Wouldn't use it for furniture, although a lot of "woode" stuff contains cardboard on the inside, like cheap table tops, and inside doors. Core of them is just a cardboard honeycomb. Surprisingly strong considering the material.

[@0xbaadf00d]

10:13 looks like something IKEA would do :)

[@TheCarpenterGirl1984]

Video hay cám ơn bạn đã chia sẻ ❤🎉

[@horatioswrld]

We are a planer away from a completely self made workshop. I know it’s been done, but my completionist ways really want to see it.

[@enzopriesnitz5521]

this is great! I wonder if spraying a few layers of poly on to the cardboard would make them a little more resilient?

[@matthiaswandel]

maybe, but you also risk getting it too wet, so very light coats. Might be easier to make wooden boxes.

[@ryanomac27]

Always a great day when we get a Matthias video

[@Markhamlife]

I can see that soon all cardboard box will be replaced by new sheet of plywood😂 it’s more beautiful that way. Cardboard wood drawers done

[@aaronblackford981]

Awesome. When doing something like this, in way you built it, I may have built one extra layer that wasn’t glued in for templates that could be used if needed short term until time I should glue and build the next template section.

[@aaronblackford981]

But love how you work and think

[@matthiaswandel]

I just used an extra layer for a template, but then applied glue and actually used it as a layer in the project.

[@aaronblackford981]

@@matthiaswandel something I would totally do but as people grow, they need more space, or should I say businesses as even KZbin videos is one. Teach us something different. I guess just giving you ideas for future content I guess. Still love your content. Weird as you are. You doing awesome. So happy for you. Knifes out on comments for next video. Lol

[@memyselfandeye1234]

Simply .... Quality ... peace

[@hamed8555]

Impresive

[@virtualfather]

More horizontal space 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😂

[@petek210]

Guerilla carpentry. The best kind of carpentry

[@patprop74]

lmao Must be a Canadian thing cuz i been building cardboard box drawers for years now, I mostly use the boxes that my 3d printers filaments comes in.

[@RobertBoerner]

I loved that he kept the cursing in....

[@pierredelagrave]

If you came up with merch I would buy a t-shirt, this is not a joke.

[@Sceme1991]

Cherry fronts on cardboard boxes - that's hilarious

[@Eddie.Mootsen]

So glad its not just me - every time I do a project like this there is also lots of "oh sh*t !"

[@davidt8438]

Roll those sleeves up around spinning sharp things!

[@d.k.1394]

Lovely

[@MikelNaUsaCom]

for cheap drawer pulls, you can just drill a finger sized hole in the front of the drawer... =D

[@heikovanderlaar3780]

Nice rack.

[@Uncle_Buzz]

Adam Savage has spent at least $40k on storage box systems. Wandel... less than $40.

[@MrPhoenix1138]

Hi Matthias, I guess it shows my lack of expertise in this but why would you trim the joints with the bandsaw if you were going to sand them after, instead of sanding them directly? Love your videos, keep up the good work.

[@matthiaswandel]

less sanding

[@xavierxi9348]

Sure beats dados. 🧐

[@rupertthomson]

At 2:30 when you were glueing the first layer together, how long did you let the glue cure for before removing the clamps to carry on the building process? Thanks!

[@matthiaswandel]

about an hour

[@rompdude]

I often wonder when doing these big glue ups, is it not easier to just screw it? Could quite easily do each layer with a pilot drill and screw.

[@matthiaswandel]

You would need a screw that screws in on both ends, and turns itself in all by itself

[@rompdude]

@matthiaswandel good point! Or a really really long screw 😀

[@johngregg5735]

It this a remake of Sergio Leone's 'A Few Dowlers More"? lol

[@matthiaswandel]

how does that relate to a western movie?

[@ignilc]

​@@matthiaswandel for him it does i guess

[@LeesChannel]

A Fistful of Dowlers, starring The Man With No Plane

[@ironnam8107]

​@@matthiaswandel He maybe confusing those movies for Yojimbo. Where you are using your blade to to fight against storage and space. Though I think he just commented on the wrong video.

[@burtreynolds3143]

@@LeesChannel High Planing Driftwood ?

[@FlightSimDude]

👍

[@mastasolo]

Cutting on the backstroke makes me nervous, I'd never do it, but in your experience what's the chances of kickback ?

[@matthiaswandel]

I don’t cut backwards freehand, ever. never had kickback on the back stroke

[@gavinhay6627]

I'm trying to think why you would build it that way ? Surely vertical panels of pine, the full height, with grooves in them to accept the plywood horizontal shelves would have been simpler.

[@matthiaswandel]

those verticals would have to be fairly thick so that once you have a groove from either side, it still has some thickness in the middle. And then you don't have much holding it together side to side. Also, the glue-up for that would also be challenging lining so many panels up in their grooves at the same time. I wish people only suggested stuff they actually tried!

[@tkorkunckaya]

That sleeves...

[@skippylippy547]

Where is your Festool panel saw and Festool dust extractor? 😋

[@davidcahan]

If you can't build it, force it! 😂😂😂

[@Peter_A1466]

Can you squeeze out too much glue with a very tight box joint?

[@davidwostrel]

Cherry on cardboard, thumbnail defeated!

[@jiraph52]

Make shelf for boxes -> not enough boxes to fill shelf -> make drawers to fill empty spots -> too many drawers, now have extra boxes -> make another shelf for the extra boxes -> not enough boxes to fill shelf -> make drawers to fill empty spots -> too many drawers, now have extra boxes -> make another shelf for extra boxes ...

[@rootvalue]

Hey Matthias, would love auto captions enabled on this video. Thanks! ❤

[@matthiaswandel]

edited captions not good enough?

[@rootvalue]

@@matthiaswandel thank you for the captions!

[@rootvalue]

@@matthiaswandel I only say auto-generated because they are almost always more accurate and readable (due to the scrolling nature) than manual captions. I am thankful to have either. 🥰

[@lake258]

that's a lot of blueberries

[@farazin_choob]

🙏🌱🌺

[@ericperkins3078]

Only Canadians save Milk Bags. As far as I know.

[@TheKnightArgent]

I laughed like an idjit at @1:09

[@antraxxslingshots]

Still less cardboard in that then IKEA 🤣

[@Ray-r5j9u]

🖖