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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
Rex Krueger
You get used to it!
James Anthony
I'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.
Nic Beurskens
I'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.
anon2
My bench is so much uglier and worse than Rex's but I still can't bear to drive nails or screws in the top
Rex Krueger
It's not easy!
Rex Krueger
I 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
Wow, that is an AMAZING story! I'm impressed that you were there then.
Rex Krueger
People use those as a cheap alternative. Apparently, they work great!
Rex Krueger
I'm just not that good at it and all the clamps in the world won't fix that!
Eric Woerner
Really like the project, because I have the same problems building cabinetry. Not enough clams. ;)
Mark L
Rex, 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.
Paul Thoma
You woodwork during a pandemic with the closet you took into that pandemic. Team *keep the shirt*
Bill Rhodes
Funny 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.
Eduard Thamm
And even though that was an April Fools joke it was implemented in Bergen in 2001 if I recall correctly.
Paul Thoma
BTW thanks for clarifying the "mirror copies vs. Identical" distinction here. This was an annoying error in my Joiners bench build.
Braden Mabry
Great 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!
Matthew Leigh
If you put the timestamps in the description, YouTube has a new feature coming out where it will interpret them as named chapters
Matthew Leigh
There's an official standards document for internet protocol over carrier pigeon, RFC1149
Rex Krueger
That 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
I will forward this comment to Nate!
Rex Krueger
I'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
That's a good point! I do use the traditional face/edge system and find it invaluable.
Rex Krueger
He really is a creative fellow! Nate earns his money every single week.
Rex Krueger
That is HILARIOUS!!!!
Rex Krueger
Man, it was late at night when i wrote that! Incidentally, I am also a vegetarian.
Andrew Watt
Another possible set of videos for you, is how to make clamps for this kind of work, out of wood — both the hows and whys.
Tater Schuld
LONG LIVE SHIRT!
Paul Thoma
Question 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
I second this.
Matthew Odendaal
Here 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.
Todd Fox
I 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!
Mike M
Very 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.
Pinkmouse
But I'm a vegetarian!
Ira Romfh
I 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
Well done Nate. Turning Rex green was a nice touch.
Eduard Thamm
There is a saying in network engineering. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truckload of tapes.
Matthew Leigh
You can do woodworking with no clams, but you'll still need mussels
