This space-saving dressing stand will transform your bedroom
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In this video, I guide you through the creation of a versatile dressing stand with built-in drawers, perfect for organizing your daily essentials. I carefully select and assemble solid boards, paying attention to grain patterns and colors for an aesthetically pleasing result. From preparing for the glue-up to crafting the legs and drawers, I share valuable tips and techniques to make the project a success. This dressing stand complements other furniture pieces in my previous projects, and you can customize it to suit your needs. Detailed plans are available here: shopwwmm.com/p...
Step-by-Step Guide:
Select and Arrange Boards: Choose and arrange solid boards, considering grain patterns and colors for an attractive appearance.
Prepare for Glue-Up: Ensure all components, including clamps and flattening cauls, are ready before applying glue.
Create Leg Assemblies: Cut and assemble the legs, incorporating lap joints for added stability.
Join Leg Assemblies: Connect the leg assemblies using crosspieces using pocket screws.
Construct Lower Shelf: Create the lower shelf, making notches as needed for a perfect fit.
Craft Shoe Rack Slats: Cut out 16 thin slats for the shoe rack.
Attach Shoe Rack Slats: Glue down the two outside slats, two inside slats, and four in the middle of the shoe rack, ensuring they are evenly spaced.
Add Drawer Runners: Glue and attach small drawer runners in place, ensuring they align with the legs for smooth drawer operation.
Craft Drawer Boxes: Cut out and assemble drawer boxes with rabbit joints for strength and durability.
Measure for Drawer Faces: Measure and cut drawer faces to the appropriate size, adding chamfers for a finished look.
Attach Drawer Faces: Secure the drawer faces to the boxes, leaving a lip underneath for easy pulling.
Customize and Enjoy: Customize your dressing stand to meet your needs and style preferences, and enjoy the finished piece. Detailed plans are available on my website for reference.
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Three more! $$$
Probably the number one thing I appreciate about your videos is that after all these year’s, you still keep it simple. Woodworking For Mere Mortals has never lost its meaning. Thanks Steve!
Years*
Yep, dumb auto-correct.
Same here. Nice simple explanations. Love it!
Well said lol his videos are satisfying and much like the old auto restoration and modification shows like with stacey David, Steve makes it look incredibly simple and easy, but when I try it I run into some sort of complication
Agreed!
And that you finally prepared for a glue up.
Steve, i am glad you are still running these project videos. I always enjoy watching the work. Thanks.
Great job Steve! Design seems very Japanese, or maybe that's just me. I love it! Simple yet elegant. Was all the wood cherry? Even the legs? 🤔
Thanks Steve. I am enjoying these longer project videos.
Thanks David. Always appreciate you watching early!
Your sense of humor never ceases to catch me off guard and make me smile! Great project
"You want it tight, but not too tight." Agreed, Steve. Agreed.
Great build! I love the comedy in the beginning. I watch these as i do my exercise bike & actually burst out laughing a few times haha
Everything I ever do is always perfect… and you can too.
I just love that. Thanks for being a humble and humorous human.
SOOOO, I just did my first glue-up... and wasn't pretty! Now that I watched this video again I came to realize the cauls should be tightened BEFORE the compression clamps AND the compression clamps don't need to be so tight they nearly leave an impression on the wood!! Lessons learned and hopefully one day I'll be as perfect a woodworker as you :):):) Great video and thanks for keeping it down to earth for us mere mortals! :)
I so glad i found your channel again. For some reason i was inscribed to your channel, just remembered the first video i watched from your channel and try to found by the title, ( 11years ago)anyway nice !!!💪
Another great video from the man himself. I love Steve's approach to woodworking and his narration. One thing that really stuck with me is his line, " No one is going to take a tape measure and measure it". Over the years one of the things I learned is to be precise when needed and relax and not be when not needed.
Thank you!
@@SteveRamsey always, dude.
That came out beautiful!
i got into your videos during march 2020 when u started the lockdown series. your videos feel more like hanging out with you in your workshop than a tutorial. it was true then n its also true now. thank u for having us over!
Nice, I missed the old-new-new-old-new Steeve! lol
This looks really good! Congrats!
Awesome project and great video. I appreciate how you focus on woodworking and the processes you use; like you mentioned in your recent newsletter, way too many woodworking TH-cam channels have morphed into ads for various tools and gadgets. Your channel is a breath of fresh air.
Steve, after i believe 10 years of being a subscriber i still learn something from you. Especially since i was planning a custom night stand right now :)
All ways love your honesty…And your woodworking
I haven't seen your videos in like 5 years. Good to see you again! You do such good, educational videos.
Glad to have you back!
shades of lockdown woodworking times with the humour, good stuff
That dresser stand turned out great Steve & I see that you survived the recent zombie apocalypse! 👍👍
Love the content Steve, thanks for the video.
I learned most of what I know in woodworking from you. I'm a few years in now with ~50-70 projects under my belt. Watching your latest video now, I'm proud to say I'm following along completely, and the comments that you pepper in throughout the video are still teaching me things! =)
I really like how you lean towards glued joints vs screws. It looks great and really strong. One of the features I hate about store bought cheaper furniture is all the screws/bolts. I made your stool design and it's super strong but light weight. Obviously pocket screws are sometimes necessary, but substituting with dowls and lap joints just look cool.
Nice little project Steve! It's a project that could be done in a day or over the weekend cool!
👏👏👏👏
Very detailed build. I much more appreciate the long form videos. Thank you.
Thanks for the design Steve. It served as inspiration for a coffee bar for our breakfast nook. Built ours out of red oak (to match our other pieces) and rearranged the drawers and shelves. I also followed your lead on the drawer construction. Another great tip. Long time subscriber and really appreciate your videos!
I LOVE your sense of humor 😂
Yes, a project video. Thank you Steve.
Nice wee project. I may have to practice building a few to reduce my 'inventory ' of pallet wood. Take care & stay safe.
Love the addition of a shoe stand. Great idea.
Thank you!
Nice stylish project, thanks Steve, I particularly enjoyed your humour around the first glue-up, great fun !
Really like how you get everything perfect the first time...😅
Great looking stands, Steve. I love watching your build videos. I'm gonna build one of these for the right side of my wife's bed.. Thanks for the video.
I love your painted tools. It is so refreshing not to be bombared with Green/Yellow/Red™ sales pitch. You're one of the only wood workers I watch anymore and certainly the only one I trust.
Great project for someone just starting out. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for this video. It’s a build us “mere mortals” can accomplish. Not a jointer, planner or cnc in sight, fantastic. I can do this.
You can reaaaally tell you're a rock climber lol. Something about the associated personality just shines through. Thanks for these videos. I can't have a shop right now but I always feel so inspired watching you and can't wait until I can try some of these projects myself.
Haha thank you! 🧗♂️
02:00 When gluing & clamping the boards, I guess biscuit joints or dowels joints should work best here (instead of only gluing).
Never ever disappointed! Your videos since day 1 have been super informative and most importantly soo simple!! Thanks
Turned out great!
That swooping glue up shot was epic!😳
Right?
This is really good!
Nice job Steve!
Hi Steve , Great video as usual. However a word of caution in regards to expansion and contraction. I built a Carlyle Lynch hooded cradle out of air dried cherry. I cut the through dovetails on Saturday. The next day I went out to the shop to find my dovetails were misaligned by about 3/16 inch. I had to totally remake the headboard from scratch. Lots of extra work. I found out the hard way when connecting wide panels with dovetails make sure all grain is running the same direction.Duh!!!. Lesson learned. Great project . Love your channel.
Fine work, as always😃The design is functional and clean👍
Ah man, this was a great video. I'm laughing so hard watching that glueup. You reminded me of myself. Even with the sweeping shot at the end :D Cheers and thanks for sharing.
Thanks Steve. Always enjoy your unique projects. The only problem is I showed this to my wife, and she loved it. She said she could see it in our bedroom. Wanted to know if I could make it😮. Told her I am not quite this building stage yet.
Sure honey. I just need a jointer, a planer and a Domino 😅
“You following me camera guy?” -Sham-Wow reference? Love the project videos, Steve, thanks!
Haha! I was wondering if anyone would get that refence!
Nicely done Steve.
Thanks!
Nice functional design. Great video
I’ve never seen that type of a clamp before. I believe they’re Kreg brand. Are they just a wider/longer version of the similar clamp but they only have about 4 or so inches of clamping width?? I looked in your info section, didn’t see a link. Nicely done tho!
THANKS FOR THE VIDEO
Steve, Another great video that both demonstrates and explaines every step of the build. Something you have ALWAYS done well !
That 4' clamp is why I bought around 30 of the harbor freight 6" clamps.
Neat project.
what time do you release your videos i never see them in my feed. was scrolling way down today and found it. you must post at a very popular time
Hi steve great job you've been doing you are a very good teacher. Question where do i find the food can dispencer plans the site keeps giving a 404 error, thanks have a great day salty dog
Steve - Question for you: Making that same glue-up board, what situation would you use dowels to reinforce the glue joints?
At last a return to doing projects - great
Thank you. I've pretty much been doing nothing but project video this whole year.
He's all pumped up on horror movies from Halloween 😱
"Everything I do is always perfect, and you can too!" 😂❤️
Friday wisdom lol
10:35 Banshee and contraption?
I was watching some older videos, and noticed some tools spray painted different colors. Any reason for that?
Always a treat to see Steve build a project!
Thanks!
I love your videos, but I'm a little confused. At 15:25 you appear to use the fence with the gripper to do a long cut. I thought that was a no-no? Isn't it better to use a miter gauge or crosscut sled (or miter saw?) for a cut like that? Genuinely curious if there is some mitigating factor that means this is safe.
Yeah I think he has just enough material to keep it flush against the fence, but it’s borderline to me. Never used a grippr so maybe it give enough consistent force against the fence in this case, but wouldn’t attempt that cut guiding it by hand the same way.
You can always have the exact amount you need.....catchy!
Stunning piece, Steve! Fantastic work! 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Can you wear the mask in this video for long durations without fogging up your glasses?
For 30 years, I've tried many mask / safety glasses combinations and my glasses will fog up in the middle of the cut if I'm also wearing a mask.
The mask in the video looks like it might have exhaust ports pointing far enough away from the glasses to mitigate fogging?
When you do a glue up like this the boards are in direct contact with the pipe clamps does the glue squeeze out that comes into contact with the bar clamp and the wood cause black marks on the wood and if so how do you get them out?
It can definitely leave black marks that can be difficult to sand out. I try to leave a slight space between the panel and the clamps. You can also place a sheet of waxed paper over the pipes.
This is great and always love all of your project videos! I will say, when you said, “Are you following me camera guy?” I was expecting a cut to dead AI camera man Steve on the floor.
Great 👍
Project video!!!
7:48 I thought you were always supposed to orient the grain of the dowel to match the grain of the wood it was going into.
Not sure if that level of detail is noticeable to most people. It reminds me of electricians who like slotted screws on outlet face plates to all be horizontal lol!
The gel blaster pistols in the $35 range all have rechargeable batteries included, feels that should make the jump to rival, kind of feels weird it hasn't.
Are your projects in metric ?
I was secretly hoping this was gonna be another Halloween video, but this will do 👍
I really like the look of this! The one thing I really aspire to is having this sense of understanding each step of the way. When I build things, I tend to see something after the fact that I completely neglected- grain running the wrong way, etc. But these videos help give me the third person view I need. Thanks Steve!
I think we can all improve our skills just by slowing down and being intentional with every step. It's always the smallest details that have the biggest impact.
I was thinking the same thing! On his podcast he talked about having "extra body parts". It would have been awesome to dedicate a 17 min video to do a 8-second blood-scene at the end.
I like to sand my drawer runners and the bottom side edges of my drawers to 400 grit and wax them... makes them slide really well :)
Definitely! Makes a HUGE difference. 👍
Great project, and I think your hand made drawers are the closest to old ways of making them using modern glue and nails. This is a perfect beginner project too. This is the kind of furniture that is so refined down to the basics of form and function that it's just a few pieces of wood, and does everything it can with that wood very efficiently, and therefore becomes almost... perfect!
Does anyone else hate those stupid stickers on the wood?
stickers are ok.. but our local store attaches them with 50 staples like a lunatic.. Im always woried i missed one.. i don't use a table saw but still having a miter saw hitting one of those turns it into a bullet.
I don’t use box store wood. No stickers. Look for some s4s if you don’t have a jointer or planer. Good luck!
They're less annoying than all the ads in this. I didn't bother watching the rest of the video after the second one. I think I'm heading toward being done with youtube.
I'd happily deal with stickers if I could buy CHERRY! in a DIY store (the only place that's going to put on a bar coded sticker) in the UK 😂
We're lucky to get warped, rough sawn pine with stickers.
Ya
Merch idea: “They’re just drawers. It doesn’t really matter. And, I’d rather use this scrap of wood.”
"yeah that's flat perfect, everything I do is always perfect" you're ready to replace Steve Butler on PBS!
Love the sarcasm and jokes.
I'm sorry Steve but I have to say: you reminded me of the old-Steve as in you were less serious and more jokey in this video. Which I highly appreciate :)
drawer guides?
You could certainly buy them, but making them is more rewarding and less expensive. And traditional!
@@SteveRamsey thanx
There's more than one way to give a cat a haircut. ;-)
Now you just need to make a men's valet to complete the set!
2:40 there is no camera guy 🤗
steve how come you started charging for your plans,,,,that was one great thing i thought that set you apart from all the others on you tube,,,the plans was free unlike the others,,,,
I still have pay-what-you-want plans. There's even a free option if you find no value in them. 👍
I especially like the simple, minimalist design of this. 'Essential', even 'elegant' comes to mind. Light, airy, no cumbersome, wasted wood, all chunky and clunky. This is as refreshing as a glass of lemonade on a hot day -- the opposite of trying to choke down a bowl of heavy beef stew in the summer heat. And I'm certain that if I think real hard, I can come up with even more metaphors.... 😎
I also like it tight.
2:26 spoke too soon 😂!!
Steve, I kinda miss the ol' "Grippper" intro's.
Is that a Slipknot mask on the wall??😳🤘
I heard that a man once used pocket screws and that actually caused his whole house to collapse in a lack of theoretical woodworking integrity.
That was a very nice and intructional build. However, somehow I was expecting more clone murdering.
🤣 I considered it
Any woodworker who says he has enough clamps is either lying or a rookie.
Just need a beard and some flannel and BAM! Norm A
wow flimsy
Great project Steve. Always appreciate you talking through the thought processes!
Great job Steve. Always enjoy your videos. Keep everything simple so anyone can follow along and make it.