As a life-long furniture maker myself, from a furniture making family, I have to say that is an excellent design, manufacture and assembly process. Excellent trade tricks used in there, like letting the seat expand/contract by leaving them whole and cutting allowances in the legs for movement.
Just bought the plans and I really do intend to make them. I have watched many chair making videos and there is a skill level required that is above mine, at the moment. That is to knock your design. On the contrary, it is a compliment. You have shown how to make a good looking chair that is functional, strong and more simple to make. Thank you.
something about the VO on this one was very reminiscent of your older videos for some reason, but I couldn't put my finger on it. Nice build, nice design!
I think it comes from the longer format of furniture builds. More pauses between spoken parts to wait for one scene to end and the next to begin. Plus mixing the voice over top of different kinds of machine noises.
I noticed it too. His older videos have him talking on camera just using the camera mic, then the VO using some cheap mic. That's what I heard on this one too.
I love your 'old' website. I have spent quite a bit of time over the years reading all the old articles and looking at all the pictures. If you find more please let us know on here!
Seeing your fantastic workshop makes me feel a little depressed ... I need to update mine for my upcoming projects. It's always a pleasure to see your videos anyway.
Great to see to tackling projects again, and something new and difficult. I've made a couple of simple barstool style Adirondack chair which were difficult enough, they have nothing on doing chairs with bent backs, and many mortises.
I've been watching Matthias' videos for years. They're always interesting and no nonsense. I'd love to see someone pay him to do some Norm Abram style woodworking shows one day.
You showed a trick I always do on the jointer - bracing your wrist against the fence. The wood could kick out violently and your fingers still wouldn't touch the cutter. That pantorouter dust collection is impressive. When I use my pantorouter, it turns my shop into a snow globe!
Your Dad was quite the craftsman. I've enjoyed all of the creative things he made that you have shown us over the years. Looks like the acorn didn't fall too far from the tree either!
From what I’ve seen over the years, you are a man of function over form. It’s nice to see you build these beautiful chairs your father designed. I’m sure your children will learn to make them just as well. Thank you for sharing Matthias.
Those are very nice chairs. I can't tell how many chairs you have or have made. I know if I made a chair my wife would ask me to make 8 more. Then when I finish the 8 chairs she'd ask me if I can make 2 more! I trust these chairs have Rachael's blessing!!
Well, its not a surprise at all, but again here you have made a wonderful tutorial. And its also a huge editing work from your side, for all of us to know the techniques, tips and tricks... In a very condensed result. Many thanks. I truly appreciate it. 👏👏👏👏Most complex seemed builts turns affordable for me with these videos.
Beautiful construction, and I love the design. The attention to the back support for tilting is a great idea! I've had to fix that joint on a few chairs more than a number of times, and I'll try that next time. A personal opinion on the seat, it feels a little too bulky/square against the really nice curves you managed to work in everywhere else.
I love how honest you are about some things....."to be honest, I was surprised it works at all". This is a good project. I haven't been brave enough to build a chair, yet.
Beautiful chairs Matthias. The last few projects I have done I have also made a prototype out of spruce, it cuts down on mistakes in the more expensive hardwoods, and helps sort out order of operations and joinery techniques for me.
it also wouldn't be Matthias if it weren't for making high quality furniture that you can jump on, but it's stuff that's in your grandma's house with a complete absence of aesthetics. He has no clue. A dork to his core.
@Harry M There's also something called a "trope". Basically the most obvious, the most stereotypical, the thing you've seen a million times. There's nothing wrong with that. But it's like furniture you would get at Ashley furniture, or any other chain in middle america. And you're right, aesthetics is subjective... but I think in this case it's the lack of aesthetics... he's literally not thinking about aesthetics at all, and therefor ends up with the banal, commonplace, every-kitchen .... just "chair". My best friend (who's no longer with us rip Carlo) was very matthias like. A fricking genius. But didn't really think outside of the box with aesthetics.. or think about that subject much at all.
That's really good furniture! While watching this video I have been trying to imagine the methods your father may have used for this. He definitely had no pantorouter, but I guess he could have used a horizontal boring machine.
Matthias, I wished your dad could watch this. Excellent work! Only the seat could be more formed by nature… but that stops visitors hanging arround too long…
I can't believe you didn't use pocket holes lol lol. After seeing your Dads tools and seeing what you do with wooden tools homemade he definitely lives in you
Nice chairs, thanks for posting. I made some and they came out WAY too heavy (30 lbs) I have studied yours for where to cut out a few pounds. Nice job, great build.
Good looking chair you made there, Matthias. The angle for the back leg would be of interest to me as I'm builsing a desk chair for my 3 drawer red oak desk.
Pretty fantastic work, Matthias! The chairs look amazing! 😃 About cardstock, I totally agree! I've been using it for a while already! Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Great build, you made it look effortless. Making the little blocks for the seat reminded me for some reason of the door latches at your dad's camp. I found those locks fascinating. Anyway, the orientation of the oak grain on these chairs looks great. Though please tell me you're considering making cushions for them. Old bones will complain.
I love the practical way that you test the construction of your projects. Your father would be proud. I was wondering if Big Print is still available for purchase. Nice work.
I see there have been quite a few suggestions for a copy lathe and the idea has been brushed of as slower. Given that this is a round simple peace though, if the chissel was moving on a slideway centered like on a metalworking lathe and connected to the first piece with a depth stop ( pieces can be positioned like in the video with the depth stop just going over or under the turning piece to the example piece) i could imagine that working quite well and fast. Maybe there would have to be one example piece a bit bigger to make up for the cutting edge depth of the chissel though.
@@natalieisagirlnow it's not a critisism or anything towards him, just an idea that could maybe be made to work quite easily and would be interesting to see worked out
Glad to see you back it again Matthias! ! missed not see your expertise and fun videos, always learn things and get entertained at the same time. (end chair Gymnastics) thanks for sharing
Great work! I've been enjoying all of the random stuff like the mice experiments, legos, builds etc. However when it comes to wood working, have you considered buying a CNC router? It'd replace most of your tools (bandsaw, table saw, routers, etc). I think it would have also costed less in comparison. You can also make a DYI one and make a video series on it?
Hey Matthias, I have to tell you that I am a bit proud of it to have a copy of your plans from your Dad's chairs. Not just to support you a bit ;-). I actually will build those nice chairs and if you don't mind I will send you some pics from the build. Stay save Tim from France P.S. Ich meine diese art von Stuehlen schon mal im Schwarzwald gesehen zu haben. Die waren da aber schon 50 Jahre alt und super in schuss.
I think this is the first video where I’ve noticed him pronouncing his name. I’ve heard multiple different pronunciations by other youtubers and never knew what was right. Thanks for doing that.
I have always appreciated your jump tests or stress tests at the end. That is something I always question about something I make: how strong is this really?
around 8:30 when you're assembling the back - I notice you don't use any sacrificial pieces when you clamp for the glue up. I know oak is hard, and you probably don't clamp real tight, but aren't you worried about marring the surface?
What do you think about long term failure of the glue? Right now I know it's stronger than the wood itself, but the wood and the glue will inevitably age differently. Someone needing to glue some joints back together in a couple decades is normal wooden furniture maintenance, but having the legs split seems like it could be more a problem.
I have had the chair I patterned it after for 25 years now with no issues. There's actually quite a lot of chairs like that my dad made, and only one ever failed, from keeping it in a wet basement.
@@matthiaswandel Interesting, thanks. They all had parts face glued together like the legs and back on these? They turned out nicely, I like the more elegant style of the second two.
One way would be a cove cut on the table saw, I think Matthias has a video about the technique itself if I remember correctly. Here is someone else making seats th-cam.com/video/5SveP71RLs4/w-d-xo.html
"Just so you know, I noticed that too." lol
Classic Matthias...i love it :D
loved that comment, haha
This comment along with "Got 4 legs that are vaguely similar." Good stuff! HaHa!
The loose fitting open shirt is what I noticed lol
I notice that Mathias is one good looking man...
As a life-long furniture maker myself, from a furniture making family, I have to say that is an excellent design, manufacture and assembly process. Excellent trade tricks used in there, like letting the seat expand/contract by leaving them whole and cutting allowances in the legs for movement.
Those chair gymnastics at the end really give confidence toward your craftsmanship, good work as usual!
Gorgeous chairs. Really like the design of these
Just bought the plans and I really do intend to make them. I have watched many chair making videos and there is a skill level required that is above mine, at the moment. That is to knock your design. On the contrary, it is a compliment. You have shown how to make a good looking chair that is functional, strong and more simple to make. Thank you.
Sorry, I mis-typed. That is NOT to knock your design. I need to better edit my emails. Sorry.
And when I thought 2020 ran out of surprises, I see Matthias using a lathe.
In next video, how to make the same chairs with pocket holes.
@@SamoMalo2 that would be interesting, just to see how easily it fails to the testing.
@@SamoMalo2 I don't think we, as a society, are ready to handle something like that yet
Atleast he is doing some wood working again. That's suprising
something about the VO on this one was very reminiscent of your older videos for some reason, but I couldn't put my finger on it. Nice build, nice design!
I think it comes from the longer format of furniture builds. More pauses between spoken parts to wait for one scene to end and the next to begin. Plus mixing the voice over top of different kinds of machine noises.
I noticed it too. His older videos have him talking on camera just using the camera mic, then the VO using some cheap mic. That's what I heard on this one too.
I love your 'old' website. I have spent quite a bit of time over the years reading all the old articles and looking at all the pictures. If you find more please let us know on here!
The most amazing thing “besides the actual work” is making the video with original machines sound, no bothering music
Thanks
Seeing your fantastic workshop makes me feel a little depressed ... I need to update mine for my upcoming projects. It's always a pleasure to see your videos anyway.
Great to see to tackling projects again, and something new and difficult. I've made a couple of simple barstool style Adirondack chair which were difficult enough, they have nothing on doing chairs with bent backs, and many mortises.
Nice work, I think a lot of people would like this type of content, hope it will be recomended more often.
It isn't because "subscriber interest is lower than usual" for this video, according to analytics.
It's always nice to see a professional at work. It's quite relaxing and you can always learn something from each video.
Probably one of the most interesting woodworkers on youtube i think. I enjoy coming here👍
I've been watching Matthias' videos for years. They're always interesting and no nonsense. I'd love to see someone pay him to do some Norm Abram style woodworking shows one day.
Return wooden chairs & walkers RM RM 237 i need my wooden chair ASAP!
One of the finest carpenters on the fence. I love your channel very much because it taught me carpentry
You showed a trick I always do on the jointer - bracing your wrist against the fence. The wood could kick out violently and your fingers still wouldn't touch the cutter. That pantorouter dust collection is impressive. When I use my pantorouter, it turns my shop into a snow globe!
Amazing work on the lathe. Pretty unbelievable.
Making a chair looks like a lot of work, but some of your custom made tools seem to make it a bit easier, nice work!
A lot of work, yes. Just the varnishing and sanding.. Phew. And I'm amazed the pieces all fit together.
It's notable (and perhaps a bit sweet) how so many of Matthias' special tools allow him to rapidly produce his father's style of furniture.
No no : “rapidly” is relative.
Your Dad was quite the craftsman. I've enjoyed all of the creative things he made that you have shown us over the years. Looks like the acorn didn't fall too far from the tree either!
From what I’ve seen over the years, you are a man of function over form. It’s nice to see you build these beautiful chairs your father designed. I’m sure your children will learn to make them just as well. Thank you for sharing Matthias.
Those are very nice chairs. I can't tell how many chairs you have or have made. I know if I made a chair my wife would ask me to make 8 more. Then when I finish the 8 chairs she'd ask me if I can make 2 more! I trust these chairs have Rachael's blessing!!
Yes, and the kids now insist on sitting on *new* chairs at supper time.
I’m really grad your shoulder issues of a few years ago appear to have subsided. Thank for sharing your showtime with us.
Well, its not a surprise at all, but again here you have made a wonderful tutorial. And its also a huge editing work from your side, for all of us to know the techniques, tips and tricks... In a very condensed result. Many thanks. I truly appreciate it. 👏👏👏👏Most complex seemed builts turns affordable for me with these videos.
Beautiful construction, and I love the design. The attention to the back support for tilting is a great idea! I've had to fix that joint on a few chairs more than a number of times, and I'll try that next time.
A personal opinion on the seat, it feels a little too bulky/square against the really nice curves you managed to work in everywhere else.
Thank you for walking us through the entire process. That includes you changes mid-construction changes and the reasons why you made the changes.
I love how honest you are about some things....."to be honest, I was surprised it works at all". This is a good project. I haven't been brave enough to build a chair, yet.
Beautiful chairs Matthias. The last few projects I have done I have also made a prototype out of spruce, it cuts down on mistakes in the more expensive hardwoods, and helps sort out order of operations and joinery techniques for me.
it wouldn't be a Matthias Wandel youtube video if he's not jumping/standing on the furniture :D
it also wouldn't be Matthias if it weren't for making high quality furniture that you can jump on, but it's stuff that's in your grandma's house with a complete absence of aesthetics. He has no clue. A dork to his core.
@Harry M There's also something called a "trope". Basically the most obvious, the most stereotypical, the thing you've seen a million times. There's nothing wrong with that. But it's like furniture you would get at Ashley furniture, or any other chain in middle america. And you're right, aesthetics is subjective... but I think in this case it's the lack of aesthetics... he's literally not thinking about aesthetics at all, and therefor ends up with the banal, commonplace, every-kitchen .... just "chair". My best friend (who's no longer with us rip Carlo) was very matthias like. A fricking genius. But didn't really think outside of the box with aesthetics.. or think about that subject much at all.
I love all the various jump tests, really shows the strength and quality of the work.
That's really good furniture! While watching this video I have been trying to imagine the methods your father may have used for this. He definitely had no pantorouter, but I guess he could have used a horizontal boring machine.
hoiraontal boring machine (langlochbormaschine) and tenon cutting on the shaper.
Matthias, I wished your dad could watch this. Excellent work! Only the seat could be more formed by nature… but that stops visitors hanging arround too long…
I can't believe you didn't use pocket holes lol lol. After seeing your Dads tools and seeing what you do with wooden tools homemade he definitely lives in you
That's an amazing way to honor your Dad. Really nice Matthias. Cheers! C
Nice chairs, thanks for posting. I made some and they came out WAY too heavy (30 lbs) I have studied yours for where to cut out a few pounds. Nice job, great build.
Building chairs was not the project I expected when you're operating on limited shop time. Nice job, looks great!
well, it took long enough!
Nice work I like the look of the oak back chairs the best.
Amazing job i love that Cahir, hope to see more of this type of project.
Beautiful work Matthias! thanks for sharing
Wow I'm glad to see you bust out the lathe, and glad to see some fun projects as well.
The chairs look great. Well done.
Great job on the chairs. You never fail to amaze me o the different ways the same job can be done, definitely thinking outside the box.
Great video Matthias, It feels like the old days.
Very nice chairs Matthias!
Great design. Great chairs.
Good looking chair you made there, Matthias. The angle for the back leg would be of interest to me as I'm builsing a desk chair for my 3 drawer red oak desk.
As always, very nice work. Your homemade power tools amaze me as do your shop drawings.
Awesome job. Very well designed and constructed.
Beautiful work !!! ....that loose shirt made me a little nervous, it could get caught !!! Great craftsmanship Matthias !!!!
Pretty fantastic work, Matthias! The chairs look amazing! 😃
About cardstock, I totally agree! I've been using it for a while already!
Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
What's that attachment on your router table fence @7:30? Does it support the floating end of the round-over bit?
Great build, you made it look effortless. Making the little blocks for the seat reminded me for some reason of the door latches at your dad's camp. I found those locks fascinating. Anyway, the orientation of the oak grain on these chairs looks great. Though please tell me you're considering making cushions for them. Old bones will complain.
I love the practical way that you test the construction of your projects. Your father would be proud. I was wondering if Big Print is still available for purchase. Nice work.
Sure is . . .
woodgears.ca/plans.html#machines
I see there have been quite a few suggestions for a copy lathe and the idea has been brushed of as slower. Given that this is a round simple peace though, if the chissel was moving on a slideway centered like on a metalworking lathe and connected to the first piece with a depth stop ( pieces can be positioned like in the video with the depth stop just going over or under the turning piece to the example piece) i could imagine that working quite well and fast. Maybe there would have to be one example piece a bit bigger to make up for the cutting edge depth of the chissel though.
except in almost 20 years and hundreds of videos he has maybe 3 or 4 lathe videos
@@natalieisagirlnow it's not a critisism or anything towards him, just an idea that could maybe be made to work quite easily and would be interesting to see worked out
@@Hangarable having seen hundreds of his videos, and his comments, i don't think he would think it's worth the effort.
Glad to see you back it again Matthias! ! missed not see your expertise and fun videos, always learn things and get entertained at the same time. (end chair Gymnastics) thanks for sharing
Awesome work! They really look beautiful! 🤍❤🤍❤🤍❤
Great work! I've been enjoying all of the random stuff like the mice experiments, legos, builds etc. However when it comes to wood working, have you considered buying a CNC router? It'd replace most of your tools (bandsaw, table saw, routers, etc). I think it would have also costed less in comparison. You can also make a DYI one and make a video series on it?
see woodgears.ca/faq
Why would he do that, he has already demonstrated that his CDC (Canadian Digitally Controlled) Bandsaw made gears faster than a CNC Router. 🤣🤣🤣
I especially liked the quality control in the end.
Very nice project, i m wondering how did your father used to build this chairs without skech up and one to one plans.?!
Hey Matthias, I have to tell you that I am a bit proud of it to have a copy of your plans from your Dad's chairs. Not just to support you a bit ;-). I actually will build those nice chairs and if you don't mind I will send you some pics from the build.
Stay save Tim from France
P.S. Ich meine diese art von Stuehlen schon mal im Schwarzwald gesehen zu haben. Die waren da aber schon 50 Jahre alt und super in schuss.
Looking forward to seeing the pictures.
Outstanding effort.
Amazing work, Matthias! No small feat. Respects from Guelph.
great to see you back building things.
I'd trust a Matthias Wandel tested chair with my life
I missed videos like that from you. Greeting's from Poland!
Mathias, I don't think any of us will ever get bored of watching the famous Mathias Wandel strength test...
You are amazing Matthias!
I bet someone from the year 1890 would love to have one of these chairs!
Looking so sturdy
Excellent work!
Good to see you building again! Always great projects and videos
That's so much work. Wow.
Glad you are back,
Love the chairs, keep up the good work!
Awesome brother!! Glad to see you doing woodworking. I know your tennis elbow/joint pain bothers you.
I think this is the first video where I’ve noticed him pronouncing his name. I’ve heard multiple different pronunciations by other youtubers and never knew what was right. Thanks for doing that.
Yeah, and cool chairs.
It's a pleasure to watch you work, Matthias! "Like" button is not even close, it should be - "love it"!
Great job on these!
Beautiful work! Enjoyed every minute.
Great video. I love how those chairs look.
I like to think Matthias has a special printer that prints out those long templates, just like a reciet printer
Just a regular printer.
@@matthiaswandel and some smart diagonals on the paper ;)
I have always appreciated your jump tests or stress tests at the end. That is something I always question about something I make: how strong is this really?
around 8:30 when you're assembling the back -
I notice you don't use any sacrificial pieces when you clamp for the glue up.
I know oak is hard, and you probably don't clamp real tight, but aren't you worried about marring the surface?
yes I am, but I only have so many hands and so much patience.
I loved this build, really beautiful.
What do you think about long term failure of the glue? Right now I know it's stronger than the wood itself, but the wood and the glue will inevitably age differently. Someone needing to glue some joints back together in a couple decades is normal wooden furniture maintenance, but having the legs split seems like it could be more a problem.
I have had the chair I patterned it after for 25 years now with no issues. There's actually quite a lot of chairs like that my dad made, and only one ever failed, from keeping it in a wet basement.
@@matthiaswandel Interesting, thanks. They all had parts face glued together like the legs and back on these?
They turned out nicely, I like the more elegant style of the second two.
You make woodworking seem so easy.
You are awesome. I've learned so many things from you. Thanks for uploading videos.
Great chairs and a great design from your father. Seems like he brought it from germany because I have some similar looking old chairs here. 👏🏻👍🏻
So good. Matthias you rock!
Nice chairs. I'd love to see how you might go about a Pantagraph-Lathe adaptation for repetitive cuts like those legs. Great video!
Turning by hand is actually faster.
How would you make a curved a chair-seat? I find bent seats much more comfortable than flat ones.
One way would be a cove cut on the table saw, I think Matthias has a video about the technique itself if I remember correctly.
Here is someone else making seats th-cam.com/video/5SveP71RLs4/w-d-xo.html
That’s a good looking chair!
I liked your router table fence setup !!
This is the kind of videos I missed from you...
You need to work with someone who can market your pieces to be sold. Those are quality pieces right there!
Great stuff. Thanks for sharing, as always.
As always , great stuff .
Beautiful Matthias
honest question: if it had broken when you jumped on the armrests, would you have edited that out?
no, would have left that in cause it would be funny
Wow! That's a nice Chair...