The undertaking of this huge beauty held my interest. I have dabbled in woodworking for 40 years. I can appreciate the level of planning for something like this. Well done! New subscriber, Odie.
People tend to make platitudes and exaggerate compliments on the internet, however this really is a work of art. The ability to shape natural materials into a functional and beautiful piece of furniture, cannot be ignored.
Fantastic work 💪 had a look through some comments? don't let the negative comments put you down 👍 you could build this with 2000 year old tools and no modern tools insight for 100 miles.... certain people would still hate, disagree or have there own opinions. Reality is you can't please everyone. As long as your customers are happy (clearly they are or you wouldn't have repeat sales) that's all that matters, trolls gonna troll and haters gonna hate. Imagine a world in which everything was done the same way? Where everyone had the same tastes, like/dislikes. Now that would be a sad world. Luckily we live in a world full of versatility. Not everything will be to everyones taste but kudos to you for the time, effort and craftsmanship in not only your furniture but the youtube content you share also. Keep up the great work 👍
13:06 - DANGEROUS crosscut. You're just ASKING for kickback. 19:18 - Beautiful end product, great job on continuous grain across the drawer fronts. Make sure you number your drawer backs.
Thank you! That cut at 13:06 is just cutting a 9”x9” square. The main force pushing the board is from my right hand. The left hand is just gently guiding the board.
LOL! Lesson learned? Since dominos aren't adding any strength to the joint, two to three would have been plenty since they are really mostly for alignment in that use. Don't know how you did it even on the loose setting, lol. Love the pine on the drawer box. The tiny round over on the drawer boxes and case looks sooo good. Cool to see how your experience has led you to a process that would render this next to impossible without it.
It is so rewarding to have children in the workshop. They get to learn what woodworking is all about and you get to spend time with them. Mine used to help me assemble my pens. Stay safe and enjoy.
I have been wanting something like this for many years. Going to get tons of pallet wood and going to get my hubby to help and make me one.. thank you for sharing
Seeing the screwdriver go into a solitary drawer with the voice over of "that's it" immediately made me think the front reveal would be something to behold, but even moreso, it completely floored me. The pracision craftsmanship that went into this piece is astonishing and visible on every meticulously and gorgeously refined surface. I'm in awe and inspired by your planning and execution.
Those are truly beautiful. From an old woodworker to a craftsman. Use a mallet instead of your hands. In 30 years when you are playing with your grandchildren, you will thank me. Great build !!
Amazing cabinet, quality workmanship. If you give the sides of the domino's a rub of some 80 grit, they don't catch as much-saves some time during the glue up.
I love how you paid attention to the boards' grain continuing over the front panels. I also love the matt finish that makes said grain stand out. It's the details that make a difference. There's little room for the drawers to deform (expand, contract, curve) over time. Aren't you worried some drawers might get stuck or become very tight?
Another excellent result. Very good work and very good video production. It’s sometimes nice to see large pieces produced in small shops. I’m a (sometime serious hobby and sometime business) woodworker for over 45 years. I’ve therefore seen the introduction of ground breaking equipment such as dominoes, widely-available routers for the normal person. Revolutionised the speed at which high quality pieces can be made. Timber prices on the UK are, I believe, higher than the USA. I’ve been paying around £3,600 per cubic metre (including taxes but excluding delivery; roughly $4,200) for European walnut that is kiln dried but waney edge. With that, I expect to get up to 30% wastage. So, it’s certainly not cheap. With a business, you are always balancing cost of materials against labour input. Now that I’m almost retired, cost overwhelms the labour consideration. If I were building the same cabinet, I would a lot of veneered board. I would either buy ready veneered (easier option; thin veneer; no great grain explosion) or make my own veneer (6mm?) and attach to MDF or plywood. That has the advantage over solid timber of avoiding future timber movement. I would then obviously edge band with solid timber. If my boards had to be quite thick (50mm and over), then I tend to make torsion boxes which are so much cheaper than solid timber; so much lighter and, again, no movement. But that takes time. I firmly believe that Festool, when developing the domino system, went all out to see how stressful they could make a glue up. Trying to align more than a few dominos at any one time! When I am attaching two substantial pieces at 90degrees, I have gone over to routing dados in each and insert a single loose tenon. Glues ups are much easier amd I don’t think the loss of the additional glue area of a domino makes any real difference on the thicker boards. I do think that, in those situations, the dominos are much more for alignment than strength. None of this is, in any way, a criticism; just insight into another way. There are many right ways to get an excellent result - only outnumbered by the number of ways to get a poor result.
Hey thanks for the comment. I appreciate your thoughts. If I did the conversion correctly, I think I paid slightly less for my walnut but typically it would be in that range. For this build, the weight of everything was the real tricky part. I’m not sure veneered plywoods or MDF solved that. The torsion box would but then there’s a lot of veneer to worry about which I’m not we’ll versed in. I usually stick to 3/4” thick cases; this one at 1.5” was a bit of an anomaly. This was my first project with the Domino. Like many have commented, I definitely used too many. The glue up became very stressful. But luckily the epoxy bought me plenty of time to get it all together. No offense taken by the way. I appreciate insight like this. Thanks a lot. Take care!
@@parillaworks I agree about the weight - mdf particularly probably weighs more than the equivalent solid wood. Although I can make veneers down to 0.5mm thick(slow on a bandsaw with new blade and rollers as feather board), I tend to cut mine much thicker. So, if I want a 18mm board, I would use 12mm mdf with 3mm “veneer” each side. That gives me meat so that I use a rebate joint at the corners. Uses a lot less solid timber but saves nothing on weight. I’ve seen how you cut thin slices and you’ve shown it is very achievable although a good drum sander definitely helps. Jointing them onto the substrate is no more difficult than joining thin pieces of solid - and, again, you’ve shown how that is done with very good results. If you are sensible, you are always learning and that learning can sometimes mean going back to something you did years ago. I must admit that I fell out of using dowels - for no good reason. Thanks to you, I am now back to using them as an alternative to small dominos or small loose tenons. Style is personal; quality ought to be universal. For me, your clean aesthetics resonate. After function, they show the timber to be king. But customers are the decision makers on this. What they want and can pay for, they get. Even if the aesthetics grinds personally. Good saying - the customer is not always right; but they are always the customer. I’m personally pleased at the lack of overt joints. There does seem to a prevalence to regarding dovetails as somehow the pinnacle of fine woodwork - it seems almost macho. As you know, with practice, they are fairly standard to make but I wonder why they are used. Dovetails really originated at a time when fastenings (mechanical or adhesive) were poor. And so a mechanical joint was needed. It took time but labour was cheap then. Now that we excellent hidden fastenings and adhesives stronger than the timber, do we need dovetails? I tend to think it’s only woodworkers who want dovetails as a sign of their skill. I’d offer the comment that in pieces like yours, dovetails are not only unnecessary for fastening but would seriously detract from the clean aesthetic. I would ask proponents of dovetails whether they thought that Chippendale, if he had the use of those modern day fastenings and adhesives, would have wasted money on having dovetails made. I think the answer is fairly easy - the makers of past generations made pieces to the best standards they could using the best equipment, fastenings and adhesives available to them - in their time. I’ve only ever had one customer comment on dovetails - I had designed a keepsake box with dovetails and she asked me what those ugly things were and could I make the box without them. Very happy to. Apologies for the long response. Result of not being able to get out to the workshop and do things. I hope you, your family and all your subscribers keep safe and well in these quite unprecedented times.
Ya it was a beast. Really heavy and hard to move. The initial request was for 2” thick casework but I suggested 1.5”. Looking back, 1.375” would’ve been worked too and saved a lot of lumber.
Beautiful work. Absolutely beautiful I envy you because I have to wait for grandchildren to get myself a cute little helper like yours. She's adorable.
Magnificent work. You had me flinching at 1:27 though...that left hand was getting scary close to the "invisible" part of that circular blade. Do NOT treat it like you would a band saw, where the blade portion above is identical to below. Again, beautiful work, just be safe.
That is beautiful. On a side note the M12 installation driver with the selectable clutch settings with pre-drilled holes that size you go to four and you won't over tighten anything and it is so soft that it won't even cam out, it just won't turn.
I love your work. I don't know why it took me so long, but I subbed today! I really appreciate your understated presentation ... letting your gorgeous work speak for itself. A true craftsman!
What a beautiful cabinet, and the level of skill and foresight to maximize your economy of movement is possibly even more impressive. Meticulous, sharp eye for detail and the willingness to not take the easy route but rather go for perfection (fitting the drawer faces by hand, and have the grains line up with each other, times 21 is massive addition in complexity and workload!) is really inspiring! The rounded edges are definitely giving it the high-end finish it deserves, again perfection over short-cuts, willing to go the extra mile, and it shows! There is one thing, but that is solely personal taste: the front is quite massive, as it all has the same texture and intensity. I would have opted for a different finish of either drawers or the cabinet to create some air in the visual impact it has. But that is really utterly irrelevant as it is a gorgeous furniture piece. Even with my preference as a side note, it is honest, both in design and materials and lasts a lifetime or longer. Well done mate!
Nice work, beautiful result. I'm using SV-SYS D14 (for the D700) or KV-SYS D8 (for the D500) when assembling structures like that. Plenty of strong and less stressful.
Thanks! That’s a great suggestion. I had considered it briefly because I had another lady project in the queue that could use them. I might have to try them next time.
The wood surfaces look so silky smooth and the grain is amazing. Cool place to store everything and look great in the space too. I can’t wait to do spray lacquer. Brush/wipe poly is fine for small stuff but I’ve always thought lacquer is better protection for surfaces that get touched or could get dirty. It maybe bonds to the wood better or even soaks in to it a tiny bit.
Ya this new (to me) finish worked pretty well. I was very close to using lacquer but wanted something with less VOC and easier cleanup. But from I can tell, a lot of the pros go with a pre-cat lacquer.
Plenty of useful tips that I have never seen anywhere else. Fantastic! The wood grain on the drawers also ligns up perfectly. I do hope the wheels are just a temporary measure to transport the cabinet.
“No thanks, I’ve got too many clamps already.”, said no woodworker ever. Great work and great problem solving!
Holy mackerel. The front of that is incredible. Beautiful work.
Holy... you could park a truck on that... matching the grain across the drawers is very clean. awesome work
The undertaking of this huge beauty held my interest. I have dabbled in woodworking for 40 years. I can appreciate the level of planning for something like this. Well done! New subscriber, Odie.
Thanks Odie!!!
How could anyone thumbs down this video? I’m thinking it must be the folks who have zero skills.
Beautiful craftsmanship.
People tend to make platitudes and exaggerate compliments on the internet, however this really is a work of art. The ability to shape natural materials into a functional and beautiful piece of furniture, cannot be ignored.
That cabinet will last for multiple centuries
Fantastic work 💪 had a look through some comments? don't let the negative comments put you down 👍 you could build this with 2000 year old tools and no modern tools insight for 100 miles.... certain people would still hate, disagree or have there own opinions. Reality is you can't please everyone. As long as your customers are happy (clearly they are or you wouldn't have repeat sales) that's all that matters, trolls gonna troll and haters gonna hate. Imagine a world in which everything was done the same way? Where everyone had the same tastes, like/dislikes. Now that would be a sad world. Luckily we live in a world full of versatility. Not everything will be to everyones taste but kudos to you for the time, effort and craftsmanship in not only your furniture but the youtube content you share also. Keep up the great work 👍
Thanks a lot Bryan. I appreciate your comment.
What a build! Beautiful work and hope you were paid handsomely for all of that effort! You make it sound easy...but we all know it is anything but.
Thank you!
13:06 - DANGEROUS crosscut. You're just ASKING for kickback.
19:18 - Beautiful end product, great job on continuous grain across the drawer fronts. Make sure you number your drawer backs.
Thank you! That cut at 13:06 is just cutting a 9”x9” square. The main force pushing the board is from my right hand. The left hand is just gently guiding the board.
Those fingers were pretty close to that happy spinning saw blade looking for lunch!
LOL! Lesson learned? Since dominos aren't adding any strength to the joint, two to three would have been plenty since they are really mostly for alignment in that use. Don't know how you did it even on the loose setting, lol. Love the pine on the drawer box. The tiny round over on the drawer boxes and case looks sooo good. Cool to see how your experience has led you to a process that would render this next to impossible without it.
When the finish goes on Walnut there's a magical reaction that takes place.
What comes to my mind.....Traditional Chinese Pharmacy Cabinets .... nice 👍
Cute that your daughter got to put in the last screw there at the end!
Great job! I learned that you can never have too many clamps!
This is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen
It is so rewarding to have children in the workshop. They get to learn what woodworking is all about and you get to spend time with them. Mine used to help me assemble my pens. Stay safe and enjoy.
Those should have been golden handles! Really great looking anyway, can’t get enough of that finish
This is heirloom level, my dude. Strong work.
I have been wanting something like this for many years. Going to get tons of pallet wood and going to get my hubby to help and make me one.. thank you for sharing
You deserve way more views for this. Holy cow it's a beautiful piece.
Watching this made me miss being in a shop.
the woodgrain flow on the front of the drawers is incredible and really grabs the eye.
The matching draw fronts are gorgeous and that finish looks great too 👍🏻
Thanks Morgan!
Seeing the screwdriver go into a solitary drawer with the voice over of "that's it" immediately made me think the front reveal would be something to behold, but even moreso, it completely floored me. The pracision craftsmanship that went into this piece is astonishing and visible on every meticulously and gorgeously refined surface. I'm in awe and inspired by your planning and execution.
WOW!!!! What an amazing piece!!!
I love this build. My favourite part was watching your daughter help. Amazing talent and obviously a good father.
Thank you!!
Ohhh wow thats a work of art
I'm stunned
That is so beautiful
My name is Gean, I live here in Itaquera, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
I admit you did a wonderful job, congratulations
Those are truly beautiful.
From an old woodworker to a craftsman.
Use a mallet instead of your hands. In 30 years when you are playing with your grandchildren, you will thank me.
Great build !!
I love watching you build these cabinets. You are masterful.
Thank you William!
This is one of the most beautiful pieces of furniture I've ever seen!
Thank you!!
What a beautiful piece.
Amazing cabinet, quality workmanship. If you give the sides of the domino's a rub of some 80 grit, they don't catch as much-saves some time during the glue up.
Thank you!! And that’s a great tip. I’ll give it a shot
I love how you paid attention to the boards' grain continuing over the front panels. I also love the matt finish that makes said grain stand out. It's the details that make a difference. There's little room for the drawers to deform (expand, contract, curve) over time. Aren't you worried some drawers might get stuck or become very tight?
I do dislike you as you are SO talented - awesome build and you have a beautiful daughter.
Wow man, as a fellow woodworker and furniture designer I really appreciate everything you put into this, beautiful!
Thank you!!
Oh wow, I've always been a fan of your work but this is really something special. Hoping I can own something like this one day!
Thanks so much!
Every shop should have a little person with a big hammer. 🙂
hands down, my favorite cabinet style! great build!!
Thanks!
That's a beautiful apothecary drawer!
Another excellent result. Very good work and very good video production. It’s sometimes nice to see large pieces produced in small shops.
I’m a (sometime serious hobby and sometime business) woodworker for over 45 years. I’ve therefore seen the introduction of ground breaking equipment such as dominoes, widely-available routers for the normal person. Revolutionised the speed at which high quality pieces can be made.
Timber prices on the UK are, I believe, higher than the USA. I’ve been paying around £3,600 per cubic metre (including taxes but excluding delivery; roughly $4,200) for European walnut that is kiln dried but waney edge. With that, I expect to get up to 30% wastage. So, it’s certainly not cheap.
With a business, you are always balancing cost of materials against labour input. Now that I’m almost retired, cost overwhelms the labour consideration. If I were building the same cabinet, I would a lot of veneered board. I would either buy ready veneered (easier option; thin veneer; no great grain explosion) or make my own veneer (6mm?) and attach to MDF or plywood. That has the advantage over solid timber of avoiding future timber movement. I would then obviously edge band with solid timber.
If my boards had to be quite thick (50mm and over), then I tend to make torsion boxes which are so much cheaper than solid timber; so much lighter and, again, no movement. But that takes time.
I firmly believe that Festool, when developing the domino system, went all out to see how stressful they could make a glue up. Trying to align more than a few dominos at any one time! When I am attaching two substantial pieces at 90degrees, I have gone over to routing dados in each and insert a single loose tenon. Glues ups are much easier amd I don’t think the loss of the additional glue area of a domino makes any real difference on the thicker boards. I do think that, in those situations, the dominos are much more for alignment than strength.
None of this is, in any way, a criticism; just insight into another way. There are many right ways to get an excellent result - only outnumbered by the number of ways to get a poor result.
Hey thanks for the comment. I appreciate your thoughts. If I did the conversion correctly, I think I paid slightly less for my walnut but typically it would be in that range. For this build, the weight of everything was the real tricky part. I’m not sure veneered plywoods or MDF solved that. The torsion box would but then there’s a lot of veneer to worry about which I’m not we’ll versed in. I usually stick to 3/4” thick cases; this one at 1.5” was a bit of an anomaly.
This was my first project with the Domino. Like many have commented, I definitely used too many. The glue up became very stressful. But luckily the epoxy bought me plenty of time to get it all together.
No offense taken by the way. I appreciate insight like this. Thanks a lot. Take care!
@@parillaworks I agree about the weight - mdf particularly probably weighs more than the equivalent solid wood. Although I can make veneers down to 0.5mm thick(slow on a bandsaw with new blade and rollers as feather board), I tend to cut mine much thicker. So, if I want a 18mm board, I would use 12mm mdf with 3mm “veneer” each side. That gives me meat so that I use a rebate joint at the corners. Uses a lot less solid timber but saves nothing on weight.
I’ve seen how you cut thin slices and you’ve shown it is very achievable although a good drum sander definitely helps. Jointing them onto the substrate is no more difficult than joining thin pieces of solid - and, again, you’ve shown how that is done with very good results.
If you are sensible, you are always learning and that learning can sometimes mean going back to something you did years ago. I must admit that I fell out of using dowels - for no good reason. Thanks to you, I am now back to using them as an alternative to small dominos or small loose tenons.
Style is personal; quality ought to be universal. For me, your clean aesthetics resonate. After function, they show the timber to be king. But customers are the decision makers on this. What they want and can pay for, they get. Even if the aesthetics grinds personally. Good saying - the customer is not always right; but they are always the customer. I’m personally pleased at the lack of overt joints. There does seem to a prevalence to regarding dovetails as somehow the pinnacle of fine woodwork - it seems almost macho. As you know, with practice, they are fairly standard to make but I wonder why they are used. Dovetails really originated at a time when fastenings (mechanical or adhesive) were poor. And so a mechanical joint was needed. It took time but labour was cheap then. Now that we excellent hidden fastenings and adhesives stronger than the timber, do we need dovetails? I tend to think it’s only woodworkers who want dovetails as a sign of their skill. I’d offer the comment that in pieces like yours, dovetails are not only unnecessary for fastening but would seriously detract from the clean aesthetic. I would ask proponents of dovetails whether they thought that Chippendale, if he had the use of those modern day fastenings and adhesives, would have wasted money on having dovetails made. I think the answer is fairly easy - the makers of past generations made pieces to the best standards they could using the best equipment, fastenings and adhesives available to them - in their time. I’ve only ever had one customer comment on dovetails - I had designed a keepsake box with dovetails and she asked me what those ugly things were and could I make the box without them. Very happy to.
Apologies for the long response. Result of not being able to get out to the workshop and do things. I hope you, your family and all your subscribers keep safe and well in these quite unprecedented times.
That is massive and absolutely gorgeous! Looks great. Thanks for sharing?
Beautiful attention to the wood grain detail placement on the front of those drawers. They all line up together. 😁
Beautiful cabinet. I tie flies and would love to build one to organize my materials. Thanks again for sharing.
Very Nice Result and it looks fantastic regards from Sydney Australia
Thanks Michael!
wow. What a superb cabinet.
WOW ! Just amazing ! Okay it's walnut but it's so beautiful ! Good job.
A very beautiful cabinet. You do very good quality work.
That is absolutely gorgeous!!! Enjoyed watching this video.
Thank you Myra!
That is a crazy project. I can't believe how thick you milled the case components. Thing must weigh a ton. It's a beautiful piece.
Ya it was a beast. Really heavy and hard to move. The initial request was for 2” thick casework but I suggested 1.5”. Looking back, 1.375” would’ve been worked too and saved a lot of lumber.
@@parillaworks my word? I personally wouldn't have gone thicker than 3/4"-1", but I am amazed at the piece. Beautiful work!
Beautiful work. Absolutely beautiful
I envy you because I have to wait for grandchildren to get myself a cute little helper like yours. She's adorable.
Thank you James. She’s a great shop buddy :)
Beautiful artwork. Congrats
Supporting, encouraging, impressed, thanking.
Absolutely stunning. Your work makes me swoon. Beautiful craftsmanship; right up there with Henredon and Stickley.
Thanks so much!!
Impressive work, especially in a small garage, well done
Drop dead gorgeous. Excellent work.
Thank you!!
Magnificent work. You had me flinching at 1:27 though...that left hand was getting scary close to the "invisible" part of that circular blade. Do NOT treat it like you would a band saw, where the blade portion above is identical to below. Again, beautiful work, just be safe.
Thanks! Sometimes the sped up video makes it look worse than it really is. But noted, it’s good to be reminded to stay safe. Thanks!
I was going to comment that you have outdone yourself but all your projects are superb! This one is just bigger. :)
Remarkable work. Let’s also give some credit to the beauty and workability of walnut.
Gorgeous. What a catch you are for some lucky person….
So freaking good!!!! Wood baby yeah!!! 🤘🏼
Greeting from 🇩🇿
Good craftsmanship .thanks for all the tips.
can't even begin to imagine how heavy that is, but wow, it looks great.
That is beautiful. On a side note the M12 installation driver with the selectable clutch settings with pre-drilled holes that size you go to four and you won't over tighten anything and it is so soft that it won't even cam out, it just won't turn.
That’s a gorgeous beast
this is a beautiful master piece...great craftsmanship!!
Really impressive work. Hope your client paid well.
That’s looks amazing. It is wonderful that the patterns on the front of the cabinet continue across the entire surface. Amazing job sir.
That is some damn fine woodworking, sir.
I love your work. I don't know why it took me so long, but I subbed today! I really appreciate your understated presentation ... letting your gorgeous work speak for itself. A true craftsman!
I really appreciate it!!
What a beautiful cabinet, and the level of skill and foresight to maximize your economy of movement is possibly even more impressive. Meticulous, sharp eye for detail and the willingness to not take the easy route but rather go for perfection (fitting the drawer faces by hand, and have the grains line up with each other, times 21 is massive addition in complexity and workload!) is really inspiring! The rounded edges are definitely giving it the high-end finish it deserves, again perfection over short-cuts, willing to go the extra mile, and it shows!
There is one thing, but that is solely personal taste: the front is quite massive, as it all has the same texture and intensity. I would have opted for a different finish of either drawers or the cabinet to create some air in the visual impact it has. But that is really utterly irrelevant as it is a gorgeous furniture piece. Even with my preference as a side note, it is honest, both in design and materials and lasts a lifetime or longer. Well done mate!
Absolutely Amazing!!! Just stunning!!
That is absolutely beautiful.
I recommend extension tables for the jointer/planer, they make a huge difference with longer pieces.
And there’s always a place for extended family to sit and eat at gatherings….! :D
Wow the grain match on the drawers is amazing
That is art, amazing work
Beautiful work man
Nice work, beautiful result.
I'm using SV-SYS D14 (for the D700) or KV-SYS D8 (for the D500) when assembling structures like that. Plenty of strong and less stressful.
Thanks! That’s a great suggestion. I had considered it briefly because I had another lady project in the queue that could use them. I might have to try them next time.
Wow. Really beautiful.
Dá uma inveja. Nos EUA as ferramentas são baratas. Aqui no Brasil nem nós profissionais conseguimos ter estas ferramentas
First video I came across of yours. Within 3 minutes I gave you a subscribe. I enjoyed your content. Very well put together informative video.
Thanks Stephen. I really appreciate it!
wow man, you make it look easy
That came out super nice. Looks like a real beast to move around though
Dude! That is beautiful! I can't help but wonder how heavy this is.
That's a cute little supervisor ya have there. I had 3 girls that I taught woodworking as they grew up.
Beautiful piece. New sub! You got a little too excited with the new festool. 😆
Such a beautiful job. Obviously a lot of thought and care went into the final product. 👍🏻
Very nice cabinet, well made! 👌🏼Nice video
You work so nicely! Just wow! How much are you asking for a job like that? It’s a lot of work!
beautiful work.Congratulations
The wood surfaces look so silky smooth and the grain is amazing. Cool place to store everything and look great in the space too.
I can’t wait to do spray lacquer. Brush/wipe poly is fine for small stuff but I’ve always thought lacquer is better protection for surfaces that get touched or could get dirty. It maybe bonds to the wood better or even soaks in to it a tiny bit.
Ya this new (to me) finish worked pretty well. I was very close to using lacquer but wanted something with less VOC and easier cleanup. But from I can tell, a lot of the pros go with a pre-cat lacquer.
What a beautiful piece~
Plenty of useful tips that I have never seen anywhere else. Fantastic! The wood grain on the drawers also ligns up perfectly.
I do hope the wheels are just a temporary measure to transport the cabinet.
Thank you! And yes the wheels were just to help me move it around in the shop. 🙃
Beautiful. Great work.
My daughter also wants to help me in my workshop. Mostly with glue :)
Absolutely love this build! All that labor was worth that finished product. The walnut was a great choice it looks gorgeous.
Really really nice work!
Gorgeous work my brother!
Thank you!