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[@pitsnipe5559]

You could also put a slight chamfer on the bottom of those blocks so they don’t splinter when moved across the floor. Neat idea, makes perfect sense.

[@FranksWorkbench]

Absolutely! Great idea and I will do that! Thanks man!

[@plainnpretty]

I agree good idea

[@johndalessandro6433]

Pit I was gonna say the same thing, it's an awsome idea, great job! I keep those around for different things. Thanks for the idea!

[@pmdinaz]

I just looked at my heirloom cedar chest (over 70 years old) and it's built very similarly! Great advice

[@lindac5189]

I can't begin to tell you how many of these videos I've watched over the last couple of years, but I can say that I've seen numerous people who are remodeling furniture and not a one of them so far seem to realize this is a issue or will be at some point in the near future!!!! When watching your video just now I swear it was like I had a little light bulb click on above my head as I was thinking well that's just smart 🤓!!!! Luckily, I'm still just trying to learn 😅😅, I bought some tools around the beginning of fall and then it's like it turned cold and I haven't gotten to use any of them yet 😅😅, but I will definitely remember this when I do!!!!❤❤❤❤❤

[@EricHonaker]

Very good points about not letting your trim become part of the structure.

[@davidpaddock5395]

Nice process. Simple, but highly functional.

[@Offshoreorganbuilder]

I had a commercially-made chest of drawers and fitted similar blocks, but these were to hold heavy-duty wheels, recessed so that they don't show. This makes it so much easier to move the thing out, when you want to vacuum underneath it. Thanks for the upload.

[@profcah]

Great glimpse at how to! Thanks

[@RCake]

What a beautiful piece! I mean both the furniture and the video 😊

[@FranksWorkbench]

:)

[@mikeking7470]

Good tip, and if you wanted to get extra fancy you could install leveling feet into your glue blocks for a tall chest or bookcase. Now I need to find my bag of popsicle sticks [edit]!

[@FranksWorkbench]

I like it!! Floors are never level anways

[@awakeonearthone5546]

Great job man, don't let anyone get you down

[@trstquint7114]

Thanks, very useful for my running project.👍👍

[@vmoutsop]

Great tip. Learn something new everyday.

[@michaelcarson4840]

Beautiful work 👍

[@whomadethatsaltysoup]

Lovely, I made some tall bookcases to house the tomes from my own, long gone student life. I went for solid and rustic, so no skirt, and the scaffold planks are all one piece. However, in the real world, nothing is plumb, square or level, so once I’d lifted the bookcases into position, I had to shim up the front - didn’t fancy being squashed by my past life. Well, if I’d known this nifty little trick, I could have attached feet to the sides with lollipop sticks and something a bit more substantial at the front. Thanks for sharing.

[@darrensmall4313]

Thanks for the video and the good tip.

[@ronmiller682]

Great idea and video. Thank you for sharing

[@mr.shellcracker9161]

I learned something. Makes sense to me. Thanks

[@charlier7711]

Nicely done! Thanks for sharing.

[@FranksWorkbench]

Thanks man!

[@deborahf3738]

excellent, I may need to try that soon so this video was right on time. Thanks.

[@FranksWorkbench]

Glad to hear it, thank you!!

[@thomashverring9484]

Great video!

[@MCsCreations]

Fantastic tip, Frank! Thanks a bunch! 😃 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@FranksWorkbench]

Thank you!!

[@jsmxwll]

I'm just a hobbiest, and an idle one at that so take this with a grain of salt. After looking at a fair bit of 19th century furniture, I developed the impression that the trim board is there to hide the legs. I've seen a ton of cases that have some sort of leg on the bottom and are then wrapped in trim so it looks more cohesive. I've pulled a few of those pieces apart to repair them and several of them have definitely had the trim added later. Might be replacement or just something added that couldn't be afforded originally. It's interesting though. I don't know if it's just me, but without the trimboards, it looks okay on some floors, but not on hardwood floors. Somehow the naked legs looks wrong.

[@Wastelandman7000]

Plus it saved them having to do any fancy dressing of the feet. Looking at claw and ball feet they did fancy feet back then.

[@brucewelty7684]

Great idea.

[@HGANGHONY]

Very cool. Bravo!

[@drivebyquipper]

Good tip!

[@AustinDWoodruff]

That is so good!!!!!!! 😮

[@TheSMEAC]

Great effort in pointing to how trim should be used in furniture 👍.

[@FranksWorkbench]

Thanks man!

[@walterrider9600]

thank you

[@lincolndickerson1293]

Thanks!

[@georgeballentine1045]

Good information

[@alessandrosuppini943]

Great video Frank, I like the way you explain different design solutions with their pros and cons, would love to get your homa made recipe for hide glue 😉

[@FranksWorkbench]

Thank you! Check out my last video it has my glue recipe

[@jack002tuber]

Ok that was hide glue? Neat

[@dpmeyer4867]

thanks

[@thomaskila3801]

Nice joinery, sir!

[@FranksWorkbench]

😃

[@coreychafin14]

Any chance of a video of that chest build? Thanks for your videos, I always learn so much.

[@carlogle6207]

Very clever!

[@FranksWorkbench]

😃

[@BatCaveCreations]

Love this! Great work! Yes EVERYTHING is controversial these days hahah

[@FranksWorkbench]

Haha so true man

[@ericnicastro]

3:53 😂 this is an awesome line!

[@FranksWorkbench]

😂

[@fabricemenoud3296]

Très bonne explication 👍

[@Wastelandman7000]

Nice. I'd put some nail in or screw in chair slides on the bottom of your support blocks. This will make sliding the box a lot more easy and will place even less stress on the trim. Especially under load.

[@FranksWorkbench]

Love it great idea thanks man

[@mattelias721]

Funny that of all the wooodworkers I watch, you're the only dude who's highlighted this trick, which is spot-on...'This is the Way.' Added benefit of this approach is that it also reduces the number of points upon which the furniture piece must sit on the floor, allowing a better 'rest' on uneven floors (which all of them are). Last, agree that college educations are overrated - source: college education-haver, I'm the most highly-educated idiot I know.

[@anselmomartinezjr-xt1yv]

Awesome

[@yabman1317]

Very nice tip! I couldn't help thinking of the actor Owen Wilson as I listened though........

[@DonsWoodies]

In the words of a famous general from some European country - "Veerry Nice." Good tip. something I'd never thought of. I'll remember that one.

[@seanflanagan2441]

Great tip; I'm sold! However, the distressing info I've taken away is that I hafta have a college education or it won't be easy! 😅😂❤

[@Bibliotics]

Thank you for sharing. Just out of curiosity, why not just set it up so that there are leveling legs in the support blocking? I live in a home were level floors are not always consistent, so I kind of made leveling legs a standard practice in the furniture I make.

[@TadTheTinker]

In some cases the trim is decorative only. Other times the trim piece is for sure intended to carry the weight.

[@e139439]

I kind of liked the notes on the screen, don't know, not sure, but it's a change. I'd also prefer some build up video but someone has to underline using aesthetic parts as aesthetic parts and not structural units also, so I'll keep waiting :) No bullshit, clear talking, showing what's being done, neat work channel, keep it up man

[@rebeccaledford8202]

Wondering why not put solid block feet on the bottom of the chest? The trim is just the dressing. A piece that will be heavy fully loaded, I'd put a fifth foot in the center. No weight on the trim at all, even on carpet or a rug. I do like the spacer idea for joining the trim.

[@joey7422003]

I'm curious, how do you plan to attach the wood block/legs to the chest?

[@cferrara1125]

Really enjoying this channel. But does this help on carpeting?

[@WorkingViews]

Could do cleats like on the joiners chest from Paul Sellers. Looks really good though! Chests are magical. I was thinking of doing non marking hard rubber feet on my next chest and tool tote. Having options is always nice.

[@nickbrutanna9973]

This is what we call HRF support, closely related to LRF support. If you want to test a sales person, ask them if something comes with LRF support. If they smile, they're a Dilbert fan. If they fake it, you know you can't really trust them (you can still BUY from them, just be more wary of trusting their honesty). LRF stands for "Little Rubber Feet". Hence, HRF support means it sits on Hard Rubber Feet. 😛

[@lindac5189]

​@@nickbrutanna9973😂😂😂😂

[@brucegibson8053]

Great video Frank, but I gave a like and decided to subscribe to your channel not only for the content of this video but (more important to me) the question of how much does a roof load of shingles weigh? This is a "loaded" question. To answer this question you would first need to know how big is the roof, what kind of material is going to applied, be it 30 yr. - 40 yr. - or life time shingles (50 yr.) assuming the the term "shingles" is meaning asphalt composition shingles. so, the answer(s) should be, (based on a dimensional shingle) 30 yr. = 210 lbs. , 40 yr. = 240 lbs. & "life time" 50 yr. = 260 lbs. These answers are at a per square weight. The "average" size of a home in the U.S. is 1,500 sq. feet of living space and to "average roof pitch is a 4/12 so you would times the size of the roof area and times it by the amount of weight of desired single selected. Also you would need to know how many valleys & hips to account of waste in those areas. I feel that I must apologize if I bored some if not all of you, but this is how this question would be answered. If it isn't apparent by now, I spent my entire working career (50+ years) in the building trades. Now, back to our show :)

[@BatCaveCreations]

First time ever I was able to say first, is this something we still do? lol

[@FranksWorkbench]

Hey man let's go with it! cuz I have no idea lol

[@GregorShapiro]

Perfect amount of offset for spiders to make their home ;-)

[@heystarfish100]

I like the tip you demonstrated. Your chest looks great.

[@FranksWorkbench]

Thank you!

[@andrewbrimmer1797]

Hey everyone sticks to their favorite adhesive😅

[@FranksWorkbench]

LOL 😆

[@HBSuccess]

Looks pretty good and I like the concept, it certainly simplifies building the case vs having to incorporate legs there and then wrapping them... but your pins/tails are the opposite on the chest and the base :-( . If intentional, OK, but aesthetically I always run them all the same orientation. I'd also knock the edges off the "foot blocks" - your 'touch' points on the floor... they *will* splinter uncontrollably with time if you don't. FWIW shrinkage across the grain and not "compressive strength" is the reason to orient the blocks the way you did. Not sure however that you're not creating a cross-grain condition that will make your trim skirt boards split over time. We'll see.

[@killiemon]

He's right about the compressive strength, but I was reading the comments for someone to finally point out that he glued those pieces cross-grain, which could easily create a bummer of a split later on.

[@brucemartin5510]

Not a huge deal, but I might have oriented the support blocks with the grain parallel to the front trim board.

[@OORAH659]

can you install wheels to the blocks? To move the chest around more easily. ..... good job and that was a manly moo... OORAH!!

[@FranksWorkbench]

Haha 😂 wheels are a good option sometimes

[@watermain48]

Love your channel in spite of the fact that you're costing me money in terms of hide glue and a warming pot from Lee Valley Tools.

[@chuckschilling7422]

Hi Frank. Question: what if you turned the glue blocks 90 degrees? Should be as strong, less likely to split (end grain does that) while moving and its now running with the grain of the chest and trim. I really enjoy your channel. Chuck

[@FranksWorkbench]

Your sure could! I think I'll just chamfer the bottom, but def more than one way to skin a cat. Cheers man!

[@johnaustin635]

Lovely jewellery box your missus will be real pleased, rather than blocks to support the base if you had bashed in four 6” nails as legs that would have looked real purdy.

[@joeleonetti8976]

Thanks Frank. That is a good trick. So, your glue blocks are creating a cross grained situation. Hmmm, wonder if that will generate any comments. :-) I'd do it that way myself and wouldn't worry about it either. I want to make a blanket chest in a few years out of tiger maple to replace the inexpensive toy chest we currently use. Will use this trick for sure.

[@FranksWorkbench]

If the cross grain glue up doesn't personally offend somebody then I'm not doing it right 🤣🤣

[@douglashopkins8070]

Go9d idea

[@JAJohnsIP]

Hey man! The electrical inspector saw this video and is mumbling something about clearing access to a panel in the back?? That person is clearly bonkers, you're obviously working on the base. 😜

[@fxopl6041]

you should never glue 2 blocks of wood against the grain together. If the wideness of one or both of the glued blocks changes, the glue or the wood will get tiny cracks every time and at some point it will fail. you shold design the big box itself so that is stands on the ground an the base can then be glued around with the grain. at least dont glue the block againt but with the grain so it has the same tunktion but is not glued against the grain

[@machomanOOOOHYEEEAH]

My assessment- jumped up big head

[@surfaceten510n]

We call these legs

[@kamleo1685]

No need to make the glue blocks proud of the skirt. There are things such as furniture pads that you can stick onto the glue blocks/feet to raise the entire chest off the surface. For a non-marring and waterproof pad I screw on pieces of plexiglass.

[@FranksWorkbench]

Plexiglass is a cool idea... I've wicked in epoxy before for waterproofing and durability and plexiglass sounds less messy

[@steveschultz300]

Hm...where and when did you learn this trick?

[@FranksWorkbench]

Old chest I've got, will have to show it in future video there's some interesting stuff about it

[@JeffMartinez648]

😂😂😂 “college education common sense”, which class was that & did you get a student loan for it? 🤣🤣🤣. Good work, I like you channel, thank you for sharing.

[@FranksWorkbench]

Haha thanks man!

[@scottnever8732]

what has rabbits got to do with it?

[@FranksWorkbench]

Who said anything about rabbits? 😜

[@BatCaveCreations]

first :D

[@gbwildlifeuk8269]

Make the cabinet as free standing supporting itself, then trim round it. Trim is decorative, why all the science trying to convert it to structural?

[@mikeclark2720]

Dado….not rabbet.

[@Lccastaldo]

80 pounds.

[@jennessalynam7682]

Great video and beautiful chest!

[@FranksWorkbench]

Thank you much!

[@iainb1577]

When you said rabbit did you mean rebate?

[@FranksWorkbench]

Rabbet. Same thing just what it's called in USA

[@iainb1577]

@@FranksWorkbench Thanks.

[@jamesmaybury7452]

Please know that no rabbits should be harmed in woodworking. Vowels should be pronounced as spelled to avoid any harm and any grove cut should be referred to in the same way as a tax refund as a rebate! !

[@terryharris3393]

Nice joinery but if your going to put that much effort and skill into a project upgrade your materials.