Lathe tool drawer for my mini lathe

Adding a drawer to the stand for my mini lathe so I can put it away easily together with the tools. I have already accumulated a few extra bits for the lathe, but hopefully I will be able to keep the accessories to a quantity that fits in the drawer.

[@davidadaur5163]

Matthias: I don't know how many years I have watched your videos and I still think you are one of the most clever or thoughtful woodworker on youtube. In this instance I was really imressed by your fool proof dowel jig. I would never have thought up such a clever and simple jig to use for perfect alignment of the dowels. Thank You david adir

[@NicoSmets]

Matthias is always making an effort to make me look stupid buying expensive joinery tools.

[@hiandrewfisher]

Ironically, he invented what turned out to be one of the more expensive ones

[@ykkfamily]

Hahahaha. I was noticing his drill. I have good Makita and always it use $30 black and Decker

[@jimthesoundman8641]

@@ykkfamily It's not the tool, it's the way you use it that's important. Cheap tools can get the same results as the expensive ones if you are careful and conscientious.

[@ykkfamily]

Totally agree. Love his imagination and problem solving

[@NWGR]

Don't feel stupid; those expensive jigs often have features and conveniences integrated into them that are designed to save you time and work more efficiently. The jig Matthias made and used in this video works great for a few drawers, but after that I'd start to worry about accuracy from wear. I say all this because I build my drawers similarly but I use a dowelmax, one of the "expensive" joinery jigs. Not cheap, but it's saved me a lot of time since I got it.

[@enrico_sbf]

I knew it, the moment you showed the lathe, that videos of lathe furniture and addendums would follow, which is my favourite part, woodworking for organization and mimi boxes within boxes within drawers. Your approach is always inspiring. A big hug from Brazil, a prosperous new year!

[@peterwilhelmsson4168]

Yes, organization and jigs are my two favorite things to watch unfold on KZbin!

[@tracybowling1156]

My fav part is at the end when you're super happy with yourself!

[@profile5]

Neat use of hot glue as a sticky surface for the feet.

[@Benjamin_4052]

What a genius way to build a drawer. Without the use of a complex machine like a panta-router. That’s awesome. Thank you for sharing that great and simple method to aligne the Holes perfectly 🙂

[@OldAndGettingOlder]

Very nice. The DIY doweling jig is very clever.

[@MattWestwick]

I made a similar drawer on my mini lathe. I used square tube for the "sides" and bolted them to the bottom of the casting where the feet originally mounted (and I moved the the feet to the bottom of the square tube). I folded some diamond plate into a drawer box and used some cheap ball bearing slides to mount it to the square tube. Works really well!

[@matthiaswandel]

sounds really solid. Just I'm more into working with wood -- much cheaper.

[@jjenn050]

I can't believe you still have the HItachi (Metabo!) 12v drill. That is impressive. Mine gave out a few years ago.

[@capnskustomworks]

Skewer dowels are the best! That turned out really nice, I’m sure it’ll be a useful drawer!!!

[@JonnyDIY]

Nice job Matthias I'm gonna have to watch again as I'm not as engineer minded as you on the jig setup, but seems pretty slick 💕👍

[@Iowa599]

Idea for the Pantorouter is to use legos (or something similar) for the pattern. With a large lego panel held on the pattern board, so turned 90° from normal. Pieces could be attached or relocated to make any changes. With a tracing wheel that is large enough rolling over corners won't be an issue, so the pattern doen't need to be an exact replica of the intended form. This could be actual legos, but that may fall apart. Maybe something more like a peg board, and smaller wood pieces to be attached, & used together to represent various products.

[@mahmoudomara5421]

I really liked your explanation for the the simple yet ingenious dowel method.

[@peterwilhelmsson4168]

That "Ha!" at the end ❤

[@AngelLuisTrinidad]

You make things look so easy.

[@Vyker]

Literally love this guy! Look how happy he was when he was finished! Ha!

[@harlanbarnhart4656]

"HA!" The satisfaction of successful organization.

[@xl000]

The nice thing with a lathe is that you can store the chuck key on the chuck itself when it's not operating. That's so convenient

[@matthiaswandel]

I'm also coming to realize that I should keep the lathe on a very soft surface and not bolt it down for the very same reason -- viewer engagement!

[@KipdoesStuff]

My instructor would throw you out of the class for leaving the chuck key in the chuck. Store it properly.

[@gshingles]

@@KipdoesStuff same with a drill press, or anything that can spin up faster than you can think "oh, the chuck key is still in it".

[@StartupChuck]

I was going to yell but then realized it was very intentionally placed for maximum comments. Well done sir.​@@matthiaswandel

[@ron827]

I like the preheating of the wood when using hot glue. Have you strength tested preheated hot glue joints versus not heating?

[@BigBlack81]

I would watch videos on that subject. Not just one but related tests.

[@miketabar2327]

Matthias, I have been looking into one of these mini lathes. I will be eager to see the videos that you make on yours. Thanks for all you do. Happy New Year.

[@markred4112]

I'm very happy you have started with a metal lathe :)

[@davip5876]

always good to see some simple but clever tricks !

[@BTSensei]

Happy New Year, Matthias! Best wishes to you and yours in 2024! ⭐🙂👍

[@josephgreen8008]

Nails are so often underrated Matthias!

[@ciberbri59]

Some great tips and tricks as always and that “ha!” At the end. I know that feeling. Happy 2024

[@MrUltimate49er]

You just made a home made a DIY pano router jig set up with your doweling jig to make this drawer! Very cool!

[@AB-C1]

Excellent job! 👌🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

[@axa.axa.]

That lathes best, if not only justification is its mobility. Its just got less mobile

[@johnford7847]

Timely. I need to make some drawers for a workbench. I'll probably use dowels rather than skewers, but your doweling approach is really good, IMO. Thanks for sharing.

[@crackyflipside]

Love this channel. Thank you for the content.

[@csehszlovakze]

glad to see I'm not the only one who pre-drills for some nails. (mostly ring shank nails in my case)

[@gtgarage]

This is a nice addition. However, my first concern would be the expansion and contraction of the wood base (and the wood bench) changing the leveling and or twist along the length of the bed. I'm sure this effect is minimal with a small lathe, but if you find that you have a taper in your work that extends to several thousandths, this would be the first check.

[@burtlade1705]

Nice job!

[@isacsahlen6049]

I rly love egen you use scrap or junk and makes something useful out of it 🤩

[@bigdirtystinky6783]

so nice to see a good old wooden construction episode again. why did you (he, if someone else can answer me) make 2 pieces for the doweling jig, would one not suffice?

[@matthiaswandel]

for the answer, please watch the video, but pay attention this time.

[@ingo7867]

Best regards from good old Germany

[@krenwregget7667]

that's a slick little dowel jig.

[@billj5645]

That's an interesting concept for creating an on the fly dowelling jig. I would really like to have the expensive Dowelmax jig but I don't do much doweling. I'm a little surprised you didn't use the pantarouter and floating tenons for this.

[@jamisonlm3]

I foresee an small rolling table made for that little lathe in the future.

[@davidcahan]

"Bits and bobs"... Are those technical terms 😂😂😂

[@johndate1776]

What a technique! Just threw away my dowel jig. Ok, I didn’t. But I could!

[@JoseSilveira-newhandleforYT]

Nice jig 🙂

[@TonyHammitt]

Somehow, I just knew you were going to do this 😁

[@jimthesoundman8641]

Nice!

[@shafikhan7571]

very good

[@truebluekit]

Hah! You rock, Matthias! 😁

[@Captainwonderlad]

Another mini lathe video for me to watch.

[@debramcknight]

I love a good drawer…

[@coreoncrack]

Love the celebratory Ha

[@greentjmtl]

I've tried the hotglue anti-skid feet before, they work great initially, but lose effectiveness quickly when dust start to sticking.

[@matthiaswandel]

that is true for pretty much anything sticky

[@dfabeagle718]

Saints be, a place for the chuck key. :)

[@Manigo1743]

Just leave it in the chuck, then you know where it is. :-)

[@KipdoesStuff]

@@Manigo1743 never leave it in the chuck, store it properly.

[@martinsvensson6884]

Nice to see an actual drawer... without the cheating double front solution everyone makes.

[@travisfinucane]

2:22 I guess the jig could be flawed if the holes aren't drilled perpendicular to the block face, since the width of the kerf could leave them offset enough that they don't line up any more. In case somebody tries to repeat this using a hand drill to make the jig.

[@matthiaswandel]

if the angle is that far off, you wouldn't be able to thread the dowels into the holes in the first place

[@billb825]

I'd make the top of that drawer opening flush with the bottom of the lathe platform or you'll be digging chips after every use. Good luck.

[@dpmeyer4867]

thanks

[@MCsCreations]

Fantastic work, Matthias! Nicely done! 😊 Happy new year! And stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@dougdavidson175]

Welcome to 2024. Take care & stay safe!

[@TheAndrewChild]

Did you choose to use dowel joints primarily as a way to showcase that method, or do you think its a better option in this case than other joints that you have the machinery to create easily (i.e. slot mortises or finger joints)?

[@KipdoesStuff]

probably because it is fast, easy and cheap.

[@Reprint001]

I think it's because Matthias has shares in a bamboo skewer company 😂

[@keithbaker8212]

I got a vevor lathe one year ago so I know what you are going through

[@y.r.h.8459]

Why did you make two doweling jigs? would it not have been enough to make just one slimmer piece with through holes and use both sides of it? Or do you not want to risk having not perfectly straight holes?

[@matthiaswandel]

Can't count on all the holes being perfectly straight

[@Manigo1743]

@@matthiaswandel You used a drill press. How can they not be straight?

[@balaclavabob001]

Let the Yak shaving begin ! lol

[@genericsixtynine]

Came here for the pocket hole joinery comments!😂

[@ahbushnell1]

Nice. Metal cuttings in your drawer? :)

[@matthiaswandel]

I will just have to remember to close it

[@ahbushnell1]

@@matthiaswandel My drill press has a drawer that gets saw dust even when its closed.

[@FlightSimDude]

👍

[@cpobyrne1]

I'm pretty sure Matthias has stock in a Chinese bamboo skewer company😂

[@esaalvi3763]

veri nice ustaz gi

[@robertdominiczak6523]

You’ve mounted your lathe on wood? That’s a bit dumb? I have the same lathe but mine is bolted down to a steel work bench, won’t move can’t twist.

[@lettersandnumbers81]

make some wooden ways for it, that will get you engagement.

[@KipdoesStuff]

lol, the horror

[@matthiaswandel]

I need to balance it on something soft and squishy. Machinists are so easy to engage that way!

[@worstuserever]

​@@matthiaswandelHang the lathe from scissors brackets attached to the ceiling. That way it can be stored overhead and just pulled down to dangle at a comfortable working height when required, with no annoying bench in the way! 🙃

[@darkwinter6028]

Be sure to throw a couple of coats of polyurethane on that - eventually it WILL get cutting oil in it and you don’t want that soaking into the wood.

[@matthiaswandel]

it is varnished, except for the dividers cause I made those later. That will wait until I need to varnish something else

[@rickculpepper709]

Nice..I ta man

[@pocket83squared]

Ha! The crappy black-and-yellow toolbox! Mine is nearly the same lathe, and that toolbox is like the worst one ever made. Yet I still use it.

[@matthiaswandel]

Maybe I would use it if it didn't arrive with a broken handle!

[@shafikhan7571]

Yor vry good

[@bassamatic]

that lathe should stay in the corner until garage sale. :-)

[@Manigo1743]

And what 20 times more expensive lathe do you suggest he buys instead?

[@Produkt_R]

Scrapwood challenge Oh wait wrong channel

[@davidparra9580]

What happen yo your pantorouter?

[@lohikarhu734]

i guess I'm not allowed to put links to Amazon for the clamping/mounting ideas... let's see if just the description is ok? Bicycle Aluminium Quick Release Or M5-M12 Clamping Lever or Clamping Nut or Clamping Handle (M8 x 50 mm)

[@matthiaswandel]

Please stick to ideas you have actually tried out

[@enderozsar5152]

🖐🖐

[@winandd8649]

That drawer will be way to small very soon 😎

[@lohikarhu734]

Matthias; I'd like to suggest that you set up a more rigid mounting of the lathe to the table... I would use maybe the cam locking system, or those "nut with handle that can be moved relative to the nut", something that you can lock the lathe down when using it, but just take a couple of minutes to unlock to remove the lathe from the table, but You will probably find that you are using the lathe too often to be mucking about with storing it, putting it back, taking it off ..

[@davidshaper5146]

Could have used pocket holes

[@jimbarchuk]

Mmm... bulk tool steel blanks.

[@Manigo1743]

Jump test.

[@johngreystokeclayton]

Rigidity is everything in machine tools. I believe the platform (and drawer) make your machine just about unusable. There are many videos on the importance of rigidity in the usefulness of mini lathes. As an experiment, simply make the same cuts you made on the connector nut from the last video with the lathe sitting on a massive and rigid surface.

[@petehincenbergs8614]

Mate you have the chuck key left in the chuck 😮 very bad

[@richardebbole1]

audio is ruffled

[@C.Rig21]

Can you do a video on how to make and use a router sled please.

[@johnhawkinson]

Once again, what metal lathes need is RIGIDITY. It helps reduce chatter and supports higher rpms and better surface finish. The setup from before was already problematic, adding feet (3:46) is only going to make it worse :(. I had high hopes that the drawer addition was somehow going to add cross-bracing to help stiffen the lathe mount so it would be like it was solidly bolted to a stone table (or as close as one could get), but I fear this goes in the wrong direction. Alas!

[@b2dmastersniper]

Its a chinese made lathe that you can pick up by yourself, you are expecting too much.

[@johnhawkinson]

@@b2dmastersniper2 ways to look at it: 1) Every iota of rigidity is more important on these tiny hobby lathes, or 2) It's hopeless, give up, they are terrible. I prefer to go with (1), but I'm not sure I'm right! (Also, of course, people are going to learn from Matthas, so that is a little different than if he were a guy with no followers.)

[@matthiaswandel]

you are free to look at it that way. To me, being able to move it is more important.

[@johnhawkinson]

@@matthiaswandel Yes, I'd hope for rigidity improvements that allow mobility without too much compromise. E.g. replacing the blocks with taller ones, adding cross-bracing across the back of the blocks, etc. I was not, of course, serious about the stone table! Although you are a master of creative solutions…

[@larrybud]

Yeah, he's be much better off drilling 4 holes though the tray of the lathe and bolting it to his table with some T nuts, so that he can still move it if necessary. He'll find out when he need to do some precision stuff.

[@Gopherdave1]

It's too clean, need to mess it up with chips.

[@reinholdu9909]

*HAH* ...🤣

[@benkilgore]

I am absolutely not the safety police and I respect that you know exactly what you're doing but pucker factor for me would be very high at kzbin.info/www/bejne/j4CTm56CfdKEpdk

[@Stevenpwalsh]

Have you incorporated AI into any parts of your workflow?

[@matthiaswandel]

why would I use fake intelligence when I can use real intelligence?

[@KipdoesStuff]

@@matthiaswandel not your biggest fan but that reply moves you up A LOT.

[@worstuserever]

Did ChatGPT write this question?

[@Manigo1743]

AI is for people who don't know anything.

[@Stevenpwalsh]

@@matthiaswandel I've integrated AI into a lot of my new workflows, and have been finding a lot of value in it.... but I can't deny this reply is hilarious.

[@Oldiesyoungies]

cool

[@highway4275]

И накуя ты снял такое видео ни о чем 🤯🤬💩🔥?