Want to build this project yourself? Consider grabbing a project pack from our store! 🪚 mattestlea.com/projectpacks 💥 These are pre-machined packs that we process in bulk, meaning we can offer them at an affordable price while still maintaining the accuracy and quality we're known for. You'll also find material for all the previous projects we have taught such as: 👇 The Dovetail Box Project: th-cam.com/play/PLJZTXsmiGZKcVjT6S-0fHGoyH4y7W6riT.html The Cabinet Project: th-cam.com/play/PLJZTXsmiGZKeNp1Uz0VK0mGbBSCq918w9.html The Toolbox Project: th-cam.com/play/PLJZTXsmiGZKeYDArPg29SkaJSdXMz8w9P.html Finally, don't forget to use the links in the description if you want to purchase one of the tools/consumables I recommend in these videos. Most of the time, this allows us to get a small commision from the sale at no extra cost to you and is what helps us continue to post these videos for free. Thank you in advance! :)
I'm honestly shocked on the amount of measurements needed. I love the systematic process! Great video. I'll definitely be subscribing. Thanks for making great content and easy to understand. I really appreciate it!
Great first episode, I can only imagine the effort that has to go into all of this. Maybe just me, but when this showed up in my feed I wasn't sure why or who I'd subscribed to some months ago. Could be an idea to include the trade mark "Estlea" silhouette somewhere in the thumb-nail. And perhaps plug this channel from your other one(s).
Super inspiring. I started choping by hand but was too close to the edge and got bad cracking, not enough material left for strength as you rightly stated here. So, pissed off, I used my bench top mortiser for the first time (I've had it for a few years). It worked but not nearly as satisfying as hand tools. I'll probably sell the bench top and refine my hand tool skills. Thanks for the video.
17:28 suggestion: you've mentioned several times to always measure from the reference faces. But here you're marking from the bottom. I know this isn't a problem for the tenon, but you might want to put a card up explaining why not.
The marking gauge you're using looks really good. I've looked at your tools list and the one you’ve recommended looks like it only has one blade but the one you're using in the video has two. Am I missing something? Are they the same one?
The face edge (see around 12:30 for example) is the edge that the cursive "f" symbol "exits" from. This mark indicates firstly that the face with the mark is the one we want to be visible in the final product, but also that the edge indicated is known to be square to that face. Keeping these two consistent as the beginning of our marking up a given piece of material, we aim to avoid introducing small errors that can have compounding effects as you base other measurements off those initial errors. If Matt found that his registration face/edge were not square, he would address that before proceeding. Of course, he's pretty good at this stuff and uses nice equipment to process his material, so he didn't have any nasty surprises in that regard 😏
Want to build this project yourself? Consider grabbing a project pack from our store! 🪚
mattestlea.com/projectpacks 💥
These are pre-machined packs that we process in bulk, meaning we can offer them at an affordable price while still maintaining the accuracy and quality we're known for.
You'll also find material for all the previous projects we have taught such as: 👇
The Dovetail Box Project: th-cam.com/play/PLJZTXsmiGZKcVjT6S-0fHGoyH4y7W6riT.html
The Cabinet Project: th-cam.com/play/PLJZTXsmiGZKeNp1Uz0VK0mGbBSCq918w9.html
The Toolbox Project: th-cam.com/play/PLJZTXsmiGZKeYDArPg29SkaJSdXMz8w9P.html
Finally, don't forget to use the links in the description if you want to purchase one of the tools/consumables I recommend in these videos. Most of the time, this allows us to get a small commision from the sale at no extra cost to you and is what helps us continue to post these videos for free. Thank you in advance! :)
I'm honestly shocked on the amount of measurements needed. I love the systematic process! Great video. I'll definitely be subscribing. Thanks for making great content and easy to understand. I really appreciate it!
So happy to see your back.
There is something extremely satisfying about the layout stage. Picked up lots of new tips too.
Great JOb.. Nice to see you back online.
Glad you're producing content again. Well done. Great, detailed instruction as always. Can't wait to see the whole process. Thanks!
Great tutorial! Thanx Matt!
Great first episode, I can only imagine the effort that has to go into all of this.
Maybe just me, but when this showed up in my feed I wasn't sure why or who I'd subscribed to some months ago. Could be an idea to include the trade mark "Estlea" silhouette somewhere in the thumb-nail. And perhaps plug this channel from your other one(s).
Great to have the school back Matt!
Exceptional explanation on layout and video of your process. I'll be following your work loosely in the future.
YEEAAAH! Level 4 Baby!!
Absolutely perfect project. I so wanted to make this table. Welcome back and greetings from Oregon.
Top stuff! Awesome new content and really pleased to see that your enthusiasm is as ever super high! Great to see you back!
Super inspiring. I started choping by hand but was too close to the edge and got bad cracking, not enough material left for strength as you rightly stated here. So, pissed off, I used my bench top mortiser for the first time (I've had it for a few years). It worked but not nearly as satisfying as hand tools. I'll probably sell the bench top and refine my hand tool skills. Thanks for the video.
Woahhhhhhhhhh so pumped for this!!!!!!!
17:28 suggestion: you've mentioned several times to always measure from the reference faces. But here you're marking from the bottom. I know this isn't a problem for the tenon, but you might want to put a card up explaining why not.
I'm super excited for this project, this is top notch content!
The marking gauge you're using looks really good. I've looked at your tools list and the one you’ve recommended looks like it only has one blade but the one you're using in the video has two. Am I missing something? Are they the same one?
Great video! Really helpful thanks 👍
Great explanations.......
Whoah, this is a beautiful project and it's great to see you back teaching, Matt!
However you should definitely find a Jesus white pencil.
Great work as always 👍👍
Great stuff
Where do you buy those white pencils?!
So excited for this series! Glad everything is going well Matt!
Could you explain the "reference face and reference edge" thing a little better? I think I'm missing the basis
The face edge (see around 12:30 for example) is the edge that the cursive "f" symbol "exits" from.
This mark indicates firstly that the face with the mark is the one we want to be visible in the final product, but also that the edge indicated is known to be square to that face.
Keeping these two consistent as the beginning of our marking up a given piece of material, we aim to avoid introducing small errors that can have compounding effects as you base other measurements off those initial errors.
If Matt found that his registration face/edge were not square, he would address that before proceeding. Of course, he's pretty good at this stuff and uses nice equipment to process his material, so he didn't have any nasty surprises in that regard 😏