I love all your content but this truly is old school Matthias content. From the style to the project. And laughed so hard at the thumbnail photo shoot. Cheers!
If Matthias ever does a traditional TH-cam style thumbnail we will truly know the end times are upon us. Doubly so if we are instructed to smash that like button.
I would say modern day thumbnail instead of traditional. Because historically YT wasntn flooded with that trash. Old school YT rocked. I miss those days.
Given that you're in Ottawa, this literally could have been my dresser from childhood -- that glue splotch was the kind of repair my dad was famous for. I'm pretty sure this was from Ikea from the late 80s/early 90s -- when Ottawa's Ikea was the smallest in the world. A trip down memory lane!
Very entertaining! You should do more restorations, they're always very satisfying to watch. I'm interested in seeing how long it takes for the new drawer to darken to a similar shade as the others, or whether it will ever get there.
I had stopped using wooden knobs as over time the screws tear-out and the knobs become useless. This is brilliant, i’m always learning new techniques from Matthias.
My sole reason for not using glue is the practicabillity of taking them apart when you have to move again. Not the best solution, but it worked for me so far.
My wife and I got an Ikea-style butcher block for a wedding gift. We like it, use it almost daily. But those knock-down joints couldn't hold up to the stresses of rolling it in and out from under the kitchen vanity. Got pretty sway-backed. So I took it apart and redid it with proper mortise and tenons, and enclosed the underside of the cart to keep dust out. Functions so much better now.
Much like your dresser build with the non-matching drawer front a few months ago I like really how this one turned out - it just shows how effectively a discarded piece of furniture can be repurposed to be a useful item again with a bit of effort. Oh and the last 30 seconds or so of the video were magnificent!
The majority of my woodworking is repairing dumpster furniture, largely bc of your influence. And the one thing that always amuses me about knock-down fasteners is that you can periodically give your furniture a "tune-up" if they start to get rickety
I have been watching you forever and I swear you find a new (old) dresser like every month. Your house has to look like an IKEA! Keep on finding dressers and I'll keep watching you fix them!
Thank you for sparing us the "Hook" to get us to watch. As for myself I love most of what you do. Not a fan of the computer stuff or the complicated electronic videos, but I never complain because I'm sure there are a lot of folks out there that really love that sort of video. Great video Matthias thumbs up.
I like the modern style of ikea stuff (and the price!). I always glue it together when I’m assembling it, but like Matthias said I have the glue, clamps and experience.
More than learning carpentry, it shows some of the weaknesses of contemporary lifestyles, in which it is easier or cheaper to put in the trash than to respect the materials until the end of their life. Congratulations is for that and not only that it has so many subscribers.
What the... I clicked because I saw something similiar to what I had in my room as a kid. I had EXACTLY THE SAME dresser, since ~1994 or 1995. In Poland, to boot. I learned few cool tricks from you, like putting wood under drill. I always used painter's tape, in MOST cases it was enough, but not always. Makes way more sense!
About 30 years ago I found exactly the same one on the street. these are from IKEA. I stripped it and made a toy cabinet for our daughter with different colored drawers. Now she's in her own apartment and has painted it black with white Draw Puls. this is how you make new things from old things. environmentally friendly.👍👍👍👍👍
My grandma would have loved you. She had a shop building full of broken chairs and whatnot that she picked up for a buck, with plans to fix them and sell them.
I've had trash picked dresser fall completely apart when I put them in my truck but that piece looks solid. In the days before flat pack furniture we could buy unfinished furniture, usually pine, that was pretty fair quality. I have a bookcase in my bedroom that my parents bought when I was 12 (almost 60 years ago) that was finished with an "antiquing" paint kit. Flat paint and glaze. Had to replace the skirting and the bottom shelf has cracked but it's still pretty good shape.
I have been watching Matthias pick the most amazing wood from the "Trash" for years... He says he only drives around the neighborhood... Maybe, I should move a bit closer 😛There is no wood in the trash around my neighborhood. Hahaha Thanks for the video Matthias!! It is always a pleasure to watch you work 😀
Damn…….I was hoping you would have shown how you finished the perfect matched drawer you made. I know matching colors is difficult, but not for you and your finishing abilities. Love the project! Recycling is the very best! Love from the USA. More videos like this one…PLEASE! Thanxz
Using the stem of the draw-pull as a dowel to glue it in with is a neat idea, now I know a good way of re-attaching them after the screw has pulled out of the draw-pull
Hi, Matthias.. for things like this, i often use several coats of Coffee or Tea to give the wood that needed Patina, befor i put Varnish on.. Greets from Germany
My wife was given that exact dresser as a girl in the mid 80s - it's not just flat-pac, its THE flat-pac, it's old-school Ikea. Her dad glued it together, my daughter is using the same dresser today, it's held up fine over almost 40 years.
I'm so glad you don't do click bait thumbnails. They are such a turn off and makes me mad that they work. Hopefully someday we'll move past the 'clicks for money' incentives.
I never glue my Ikea furniture. Holds well enough and I've moved residences with them multiple times and it's super handy to be able to partially disassemble
A man after my own heart. I did a salvage project like this quite a long time ago. I did have to do a bit more work on the drawers though. In the end it turned out pretty good. Nice save.
I always appreciate how to save money taking a free dresser, or old used furniture I can get for a buck or two, and using the machines and tools in a shop worth 10's of 1000's of dollars, make the item just like new.
Great refresh of an old dresser. I also found the identical one out in the street to take for free. I didn't have the space for it, but ended up cutting the drawers down to half width and making two sets of drawers to go under my workbench .
Damn I just loved the subtle jab at imperial @5:40. As a metric loving 'Murican I approve. Give us another hundred years and we'll get there. Metric is working it's way into the culture very gradually.
Looks great, I don't imagine it'll ever happen but if you end up sanding down the varnish on the other drawers (or anywhere there is a scratch) try running an iron and a damp cloth over the scratches. I had a bunch of dents on a toolbox made of pine and was honestly amazed by just a bit of steam popped all the dings right out, even the ones from my planer!
Sanding the the finish off would work but it'd be a lot of work. You'd be better off scraping or planing it off. If you were good as scraping or planing, that is. Shavings > Dust. There'd still be some sanding involved but it'd be a lot less. The less you have to sand the better too.
I've assembled flat-pack pieces that come with dowels coated with a film of water soluble glue. You dip them in a bowl of water before using. I don't remember how well that worked though.
The last few of that type of furniture I bought actually specifically recommended gluing joints and included some glue. Thought it was nice that they put enough faith in the consumer to trust they wouldn't screw it up.
I always enjoy your videos and want to thank you for including closed captioning. My hearing is poor, and the captioning makes the videos more enjoyable.
I love watching you do wood working you always just make something work shows that not everything has to be perfect for it to look and work great and the thumbnail but was the best part of my day so far lol that was great thanks for that
I love the two sides of this channel: "Today we're reviewing a $5000 industrial strength battery backup", and "Today I found this dresser in the trash" =D
Love the style of this video. Very well put together with the voice over and editing is spot on. Always loved your channel, thanks for putting this together for us and oh yeah great job on the dresser!
After going to the effort of making the spare drawer, I wonder how long it will be before you stumble upon another identical dresser on the curb with at least 1 good drawer :P
I assembled a flat-packed over-the-toilet style medicine cabinet recently. The instructions did not mention anything about gluing the dowels. How they expect that to last more than a year or so, Idk. I used some Titebond 3 since it was going in a bathroom right next to the shower. As far as clamping goes, I actually just used the clamping force from the hardware, it held with plenty enough pressure to get the job done while the glue dried.
I love all your content but this truly is old school Matthias content. From the style to the project. And laughed so hard at the thumbnail photo shoot. Cheers!
Glad I'm not the only one who recognized his frugal tendency.
Troy 😎
Loved the dumpster dives he use to do. 100% classic
I love watching matthias adopt stray neglected furniture and give them a whole new life.
Exactly what I was going to say!
Cue Sarah McLachlan
@@davidhealdjr.513in the aaaaaarms of an engineeeeer~
I wonder where he can store all of those furniture.
Makes me smile every time Matthias jumps on the furniture at the end. I need a supercut.
The thumbnail making really got me. Pleasure watching you make stuff, as always.
I absolutely love your disdain for the TH-cam thumbnails, clickbait titles, and algorithm. Way to go sir, you are truly amazing.
If Matthias ever does a traditional TH-cam style thumbnail we will truly know the end times are upon us. Doubly so if we are instructed to smash that like button.
"Turn that like button on your homemade lathe and cut a hole for it using the pantorouter you invented"
Lmmfao, right!?
Troy 😎
I would say modern day thumbnail instead of traditional. Because historically YT wasntn flooded with that trash. Old school YT rocked. I miss those days.
@@PawsAndKeys Needs more box joint.
Given that you're in Ottawa, this literally could have been my dresser from childhood -- that glue splotch was the kind of repair my dad was famous for. I'm pretty sure this was from Ikea from the late 80s/early 90s -- when Ottawa's Ikea was the smallest in the world.
A trip down memory lane!
I'm so glad you don't do the clickbait thumbnails. They put me in a negative mood before I've started watching the video.
I never watch soy face videos and immediately block channels that uses it
Very entertaining! You should do more restorations, they're always very satisfying to watch. I'm interested in seeing how long it takes for the new drawer to darken to a similar shade as the others, or whether it will ever get there.
Classic Wandel. Seeing a pro take on a simple project is just as satisfying as complex ones.
I had stopped using wooden knobs as over time the screws tear-out and the knobs become useless. This is brilliant, i’m always learning new techniques from Matthias.
Break off a toothpick in the hole and screw the knob back on? 😊
My sole reason for not using glue is the practicabillity of taking them apart when you have to move again. Not the best solution, but it worked for me so far.
My wife and I got an Ikea-style butcher block for a wedding gift. We like it, use it almost daily. But those knock-down joints couldn't hold up to the stresses of rolling it in and out from under the kitchen vanity. Got pretty sway-backed. So I took it apart and redid it with proper mortise and tenons, and enclosed the underside of the cart to keep dust out. Functions so much better now.
Much like your dresser build with the non-matching drawer front a few months ago I like really how this one turned out - it just shows how effectively a discarded piece of furniture can be repurposed to be a useful item again with a bit of effort. Oh and the last 30 seconds or so of the video were magnificent!
The majority of my woodworking is repairing dumpster furniture, largely bc of your influence. And the one thing that always amuses me about knock-down fasteners is that you can periodically give your furniture a "tune-up" if they start to get rickety
I have been watching you forever and I swear you find a new (old) dresser like every month. Your house has to look like an IKEA! Keep on finding dressers and I'll keep watching you fix them!
Turning the knobs on your homemade lathe was the highlight for me. Very cool refurb.
Great job, love the way you made the knobs like dowels.
PS- the thumbnail shenanigans at the end had me rolling 🤣😱👍
Way to rescue that pretty neat old dresser! [and BONUS for no particle board!] Great job.
Thank you for sparing us the "Hook" to get us to watch. As for myself I love most of what you do. Not a fan of the computer stuff or the complicated electronic videos, but I never complain because I'm sure there are a lot of folks out there that really love that sort of video. Great video Matthias thumbs up.
I like the modern style of ikea stuff (and the price!). I always glue it together when I’m assembling it, but like Matthias said I have the glue, clamps and experience.
More than learning carpentry, it shows some of the weaknesses of contemporary lifestyles, in which it is easier or cheaper to put in the trash than to respect the materials until the end of their life. Congratulations is for that and not only that it has so many subscribers.
Always a pleasure to watch your smily face doing these tutorial for people like us. These gives us guidelines to take care of our honey do list. :)
The perfect slot on the first go. For the wrong plywood. Relatable.
What the... I clicked because I saw something similiar to what I had in my room as a kid.
I had EXACTLY THE SAME dresser, since ~1994 or 1995. In Poland, to boot.
I learned few cool tricks from you, like putting wood under drill. I always used painter's tape, in MOST cases it was enough, but not always. Makes way more sense!
Using the compass to get the corners to match the saw profile is something I'll certainly use in the future. Great as always, thank you
I have a bed side table with drawers from the goodwill 10 years ago, same manufacturer, nice wood but weak joints. Thanks for sharing Matthias!
The most honest TH-camr but you are also among the first to start these diy and build videos. Kudos to you.
About 30 years ago I found exactly the same one on the street. these are from IKEA. I stripped it and made a toy cabinet for our daughter with different colored drawers.
Now she's in her own apartment and has painted it black with white Draw Puls.
this is how you make new things from old things.
environmentally friendly.👍👍👍👍👍
Oh, I hate it when people paint stuff. At that point, its beyond repair to me.
Dresser looks pretty good! And I like the look of the mismatched noncentered drawer.
Ahh wonderful. This just reminded me why i used to enjoy TH-cam so much.
This is why you are my favorite TH-camr. This dresser has been in a barn for 35 yrs. Will drive home 500 miles!?
This is the first time I've heard of two circular saw blades used in lieu of a dado stack. Great tip.
Great video! I rellally like your style of video making.
And the thumbnail is great! plain and simple and not clickbaity!
Awesome project. Always nice to see new life breathed into items thrown out before their time.
The master editor at work. A storytelling masterpiece.
I love the way your turned knobs attached to the drawer fronts requiring less hardware.
The thumbnail bit at the end - I am crying 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I could never do that either
My grandma would have loved you. She had a shop building full of broken chairs and whatnot that she picked up for a buck, with plans to fix them and sell them.
Don't ever change mate. Sod the algorithm. You know what's best.
Ahhh the classics! Complete with the Matthias jump of approval!
I've had trash picked dresser fall completely apart when I put them in my truck but that piece looks solid. In the days before flat pack furniture we could buy unfinished furniture, usually pine, that was pretty fair quality. I have a bookcase in my bedroom that my parents bought when I was 12 (almost 60 years ago) that was finished with an "antiquing" paint kit. Flat paint and glaze. Had to replace the skirting and the bottom shelf has cracked but it's still pretty good shape.
This dresser really doesn't look like flatpack furniture. Much more of a quality look than it should.
I have been watching Matthias pick the most amazing wood from the "Trash" for years... He says he only drives around the neighborhood... Maybe, I should move a bit closer 😛There is no wood in the trash around my neighborhood. Hahaha Thanks for the video Matthias!! It is always a pleasure to watch you work 😀
Matthias, entertaining as per usual. Good morning Sir. Troy 😎
The video felt like the old channel from many years ago. Thank you.
Damn…….I was hoping you would have shown how you finished the perfect matched drawer you made. I know matching colors is difficult, but not for you and your finishing abilities. Love the project! Recycling is the very best! Love from the USA. More videos like this one…PLEASE! Thanxz
I missed videos like this one, nice one Matthias
Using the stem of the draw-pull as a dowel to glue it in with is a neat idea, now I know a good way of re-attaching them after the screw has pulled out of the draw-pull
I love these curbside find restore videos.
Simply WONDERFUL! I love how you restore stuff! Great job!
Love the thumbnail ... and the work. Great to see you back at it.
Really nice work, Matthias! It looks great! 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
"try and figure out which drawer was the one I replaced! YOU WONT BELIEVE THE RESULT!!!"
Hi, Matthias.. for things like this, i often use several coats of Coffee or Tea to give the wood that needed Patina, befor i put Varnish on.. Greets from Germany
My wife was given that exact dresser as a girl in the mid 80s - it's not just flat-pac, its THE flat-pac, it's old-school Ikea. Her dad glued it together, my daughter is using the same dresser today, it's held up fine over almost 40 years.
I'm so glad you don't do click bait thumbnails. They are such a turn off and makes me mad that they work. Hopefully someday we'll move past the 'clicks for money' incentives.
I never glue my Ikea furniture. Holds well enough and I've moved residences with them multiple times and it's super handy to be able to partially disassemble
A man after my own heart. I did a salvage project like this quite a long time ago. I did have to do a bit more work on the drawers though. In the end it turned out pretty good. Nice save.
I always appreciate how to save money taking a free dresser, or old used furniture I can get for a buck or two, and using the machines and tools in a shop worth 10's of 1000's of dollars, make the item just like new.
Great refresh of an old dresser. I also found the identical one out in the street to take for free. I didn't have the space for it, but ended up cutting the drawers down to half width and making two sets of drawers to go under my workbench .
Damn I just loved the subtle jab at imperial @5:40. As a metric loving 'Murican I approve. Give us another hundred years and we'll get there. Metric is working it's way into the culture very gradually.
The different wood colour adds character and uniqueness
The fact that it's the middle drawer makes it look intentional.
Actual lol at the end. Nice work!
Ikea dresser, had one and it served me well over many years.
Great idea using varnish as a thread lock.
Looks great, I don't imagine it'll ever happen but if you end up sanding down the varnish on the other drawers (or anywhere there is a scratch) try running an iron and a damp cloth over the scratches. I had a bunch of dents on a toolbox made of pine and was honestly amazed by just a bit of steam popped all the dings right out, even the ones from my planer!
Sanding the the finish off would work but it'd be a lot of work. You'd be better off scraping or planing it off. If you were good as scraping or planing, that is. Shavings > Dust. There'd still be some sanding involved but it'd be a lot less. The less you have to sand the better too.
I've assembled flat-pack pieces that come with dowels coated with a film of water soluble glue. You dip them in a bowl of water before using. I don't remember how well that worked though.
Mathias is my spirit animal.
The last few of that type of furniture I bought actually specifically recommended gluing joints and included some glue. Thought it was nice that they put enough faith in the consumer to trust they wouldn't screw it up.
Haha, the little thumbnail sketch at the end was great 😆
Great save and thanks for the closed captions!
I always enjoy your videos and want to thank you for including closed captioning. My hearing is poor, and the captioning makes the videos more enjoyable.
Relying on the cam-lock fasteners never seems to work. Very satisfying to rescue a cast-off!
Entertaining and informative as always, Matthias.
This was such a joy to watch. Thank you, as always, Matthias!
I love watching you do wood working you always just make something work shows that not everything has to be perfect for it to look and work great and the thumbnail but was the best part of my day so far lol that was great thanks for that
I love the two sides of this channel:
"Today we're reviewing a $5000 industrial strength battery backup", and
"Today I found this dresser in the trash"
=D
Both stuff he gets for free
Good work. Nice humor at the end.
Love the style of this video. Very well put together with the voice over and editing is spot on. Always loved your channel, thanks for putting this together for us and oh yeah great job on the dresser!
you're awesome Matthias
Great video! It's been a while since I watched. Very nice work.
I love the pointing at the end like how a toddler points at something. Perfect for a YT thumbnail! hahaha
The thumbnail bit at the end was priceless!
Matthias- what did you need the calculator for? Also, did you have the hardware / runners for the missing drawer laying around?
Thank you for adding subtitles 👍
Great job, and I actually picked up a few tricks too, so thanks
That "you just can't do that style of thumbnail" is one of the reasons you're my first choice of youtube vids to watch.
Love the Knipex "Hammerzange"
Love the editing on this one, great pacing
After going to the effort of making the spare drawer, I wonder how long it will be before you stumble upon another identical dresser on the curb with at least 1 good drawer :P
Loved the whole video but the thumbnail ending really made me LOL.
Excellent find.
hallo mathias , trima kasih , video kamu sangat membantu kerjaan sy ,👍👍👍
Finally! TH-cam allowed automatic captions in One video of your channel!
Idk why
Varnish as thread locker, Nice.
Absolutely brilliant.
Varnish thread locker is genius. Is this an experiment or have you done it with success in the past?
I like your wry sense of humour
I assembled a flat-packed over-the-toilet style medicine cabinet recently. The instructions did not mention anything about gluing the dowels. How they expect that to last more than a year or so, Idk. I used some Titebond 3 since it was going in a bathroom right next to the shower. As far as clamping goes, I actually just used the clamping force from the hardware, it held with plenty enough pressure to get the job done while the glue dried.