Early Access Video: The No-Clamp Cabinet
Added 2020-04-11 11:01:00 +0000 UTCFriends:
The slow and over-burdened internet cannot keep this channel down! I bought a portable hard-drive and Nate and I just traded it back and forth. It may be a low-tech solution, but it worked and this video is ready to go!
I've often struggled with cabinetry: the need for precision, the nerve-wracking glue-up, it's all too much. But in any craft, you have to go head-long into the skills you lack. We need a cupboard in my house, so I built one. Along the way, I focused on approachable, hand-tool methods and I figured out a glue-up technique that takes NO CLAMS at all. I know many of you don't have a pile of big clamps, so this is a project for you. This is the first cabinet I've ever tackled with only hand-tools and it came out alright.
Hope everyone is staying safe!
--Rex
Comments
You get used to it!
Rex Krueger
2020-04-14 17:56:57 +0000 UTCI'm so glad you made this video. I've been wanting to make new shelves for my apartment kitchen, but couldn't quite wrap my head around how to do it. Only other problem is that I don't have space for the joiners bench. I'll have to figure out another way to hold everything I place while I work on it.
James Anthony
2020-04-14 16:09:28 +0000 UTCI've got a top built like the Roman low bench out of laminated 2x6's. I DO NOT want to have to replace that. Lol. You should come post your bench on the discourse forum. Everyone has been showing what they did, or mods they made over there! It's a fun community.
Nic Beurskens
2020-04-14 09:49:02 +0000 UTCMy bench is so much uglier and worse than Rex's but I still can't bear to drive nails or screws in the top
anon2
2020-04-14 01:59:44 +0000 UTCIt's not easy!
Rex Krueger
2020-04-14 00:04:09 +0000 UTCI came close to doing the same thing, but it's not a big deal. Oh and I mentioned it here because I DID make them the same and I had to re-make one end. Drag.
Rex Krueger
2020-04-14 00:04:00 +0000 UTCWow, that is an AMAZING story! I'm impressed that you were there then.
Rex Krueger
2020-04-13 23:46:49 +0000 UTCPeople use those as a cheap alternative. Apparently, they work great!
Rex Krueger
2020-04-13 23:45:33 +0000 UTCI'm just not that good at it and all the clamps in the world won't fix that!
Rex Krueger
2020-04-13 23:44:57 +0000 UTCReally like the project, because I have the same problems building cabinetry. Not enough clams. ;)
Eric Woerner
2020-04-13 10:28:20 +0000 UTCRex, Thanks for another great video. Your comment about early American style made me think. Our local big box sells cut nails as masonry nails. They're available in a couple fairly small sizes (#4 & #6 - I think). They might be an option for cabinets that aren't to be painted. The nails might provide a way to "celebrate what can't be hidden." In its heyday, Arts and Crafts was as much a social movement, as design style. Your Woodwork for Humans series recaptures some of that original sensibility. Thanks so much! Here's wishing safe times for you and yours.
Mark L
2020-04-12 20:02:47 +0000 UTCYou woodwork during a pandemic with the closet you took into that pandemic. Team *keep the shirt*
Paul Thoma
2020-04-12 15:36:38 +0000 UTCFunny that sharing hard drive trick is how we built the popular mechanics website in 1994. We would fedx drives to Washington DC where our server lived. With a 28.8 modem (soon replaced with a 56.6!) uploading all that stuff would have been impossible. True tale from nascent days of the commercial internet.
Bill Rhodes
2020-04-11 19:03:04 +0000 UTCAnd even though that was an April Fools joke it was implemented in Bergen in 2001 if I recall correctly.
Eduard Thamm
2020-04-11 18:27:12 +0000 UTCBTW thanks for clarifying the "mirror copies vs. Identical" distinction here. This was an annoying error in my Joiners bench build.
Paul Thoma
2020-04-11 18:06:29 +0000 UTCGreat video man! I've been in the middle of making 2 big bookcases for.....awhile now. I've got one glued up, and it was a nightmare. I feel you on these cabinets!
Braden Mabry
2020-04-11 18:00:52 +0000 UTCIf you put the timestamps in the description, YouTube has a new feature coming out where it will interpret them as named chapters
Matthew Leigh
2020-04-11 17:22:06 +0000 UTCThere's an official standards document for internet protocol over carrier pigeon, RFC1149
Matthew Leigh
2020-04-11 17:21:12 +0000 UTCThat is on the list, for sure, but it's taking a lot of research to come up with truly good clamps that can be made with hand tools and are cheap. If I can't get all those things, it's not really worth it.
Rex Krueger
2020-04-11 17:20:39 +0000 UTCI will forward this comment to Nate!
Rex Krueger
2020-04-11 17:19:03 +0000 UTCI'm really terrible when it comes to clothes, computers and cars. I use things until they disintegrate. I'm good at saving money, but I often look homless.
Rex Krueger
2020-04-11 17:18:38 +0000 UTCThat's a good point! I do use the traditional face/edge system and find it invaluable.
Rex Krueger
2020-04-11 17:17:44 +0000 UTCHe really is a creative fellow! Nate earns his money every single week.
Rex Krueger
2020-04-11 17:17:01 +0000 UTCThat is HILARIOUS!!!!
Rex Krueger
2020-04-11 17:16:27 +0000 UTCMan, it was late at night when i wrote that! Incidentally, I am also a vegetarian.
Rex Krueger
2020-04-11 17:15:59 +0000 UTCAnother possible set of videos for you, is how to make clamps for this kind of work, out of wood — both the hows and whys.
Andrew Watt
2020-04-11 15:18:24 +0000 UTCLONG LIVE SHIRT!
Tater Schuld
2020-04-11 14:28:10 +0000 UTCQuestion for Nate: Can you edit the video or make certain time code points "sticky" so it's easier to replay from the beginning of the sequences where Rex does voice over while showing a series of steps? Those go by fast and I replay them many times to catch little details. (Bonus: I think this will drive up YouTube view counts too) Maybe at least put links to time code points in the description? (clunkier, but would help too)
Paul Thoma
2020-04-11 14:23:22 +0000 UTCI second this.
Paul Thoma
2020-04-11 13:51:43 +0000 UTCHere in South Africa, a company did the same test by sending a 4 GB thumb drive across to a different city by using a carrier pigeon. The telecom provider here was so atrocious that the carrier pigeon arrived many hours before the transfer was completed.
Matthew Odendaal
2020-04-11 13:39:24 +0000 UTCI say this in all kindness, Rex, but it's time to let that shirt go. The glue stains are one thing, but the torn sleeve distracts from an otherwise awesome build. Great work!
Todd Fox
2020-04-11 13:13:52 +0000 UTCVery cool! You should do a video focusing on the use of registration faces (I think I saw the edge mark on one piece). It's such a crucial part of the work and I think a lot of people forget about it.
Mike M
2020-04-11 13:12:30 +0000 UTCBut I'm a vegetarian!
Pinkmouse
2020-04-11 12:10:53 +0000 UTCI remember a time when someone in Canada proved their mail system was faster than the internet by shipping a 1TB drive. One of my favorite anecdotes.
Ira Romfh
2020-04-11 11:21:36 +0000 UTCWell done Nate. Turning Rex green was a nice touch.
Ira Romfh
2020-04-11 11:18:31 +0000 UTCThere is a saying in network engineering. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truckload of tapes.
Eduard Thamm
2020-04-11 11:09:23 +0000 UTCYou can do woodworking with no clams, but you'll still need mussels
Matthew Leigh
2020-04-11 11:01:50 +0000 UTC
