Just wanted to leave a quick comment on how much I have always appreciated the audio mixing on your videos. Many youtubers put much less work into not ruining ears with routers, table saws and the like. The attention to detail shows through. Thanks a lot.

I think that it's very important that you show re-using scrap wood to this day. I remember that stood out to me 10 years ago when I started following your videos and it still stands out to me today. Thank you!

Hello Matthias! It's been a while since I stopped in to see one of your videos. You're setting an impossible example in all things engineering and woodworking as always! Thank you, for all you do and have done. I wonder if you would ever design the ultimate bee hive stand? :) I'd build that in an instant.

Over the years of woodworking I prefer wooden slides for draws if applicable. Thank You for sharing.

Very nice build. A simple, and elegant solution. I also like how much history that one drawer from your job has. Thanks for giving us some insight into that.

I make my own slides too; I save the scraps of "Formica" left over from jobs and glue them to the mating surfaces of my drawer slides. They are super slick and last about forever, without any maintenace at all. SR

👍It has been done like this for 200 yrs so it works. It needs almost no maintenance, is almost free [scraps will do] and it is durable.

Thank you for a very informative and educational video, nothing was shown that was useless jibber.

Always amazed when the old job gets mentioned, and then a sigh of 'what might have been'. Candles, eh? Old tricks are the best tricks.

An old trick I learned 50 years ago is to use thumb tacks on your drawer slides. Put a tack on the front end of the fixed slide and a tack on the back of the drawer slide. That way the drawer is only sliding on the head of the thumb tacks.

Love how you use old wood instead of new clean Baltic birch plywood when you can.

I have two drawers under my workbench using wooden slides. Mine have a groove cut into the sides of the drawers (1/2" plywood sides) and a tenon I guess to call it for the runners. Did the same wax thing you did and it's quite amazing how easily they slide even after 2 years and a decent amount of weight in them. Love wooden slides.

Thank you - I was beginning to think I was the only person in the world who knew wax is the lubricant for wood! :o)

This gives me an idea. I use a ton of Sterilite 6 quart totes. Over 300. I've been wanting to build a shelving system for them by cutting dados into 2x4s that they slide into. But maybe I could turn them into see through drawers. I can fit at least five of them on my desk. Thanks for the inspiration.

Very pleased to see you use paraffin! When I was a child, my father always looked for wooded slides in furniture; he absolutely hated the metal slides you find in nearly every drawer (especially nowadays, although they are a lot more reliable now than they were in the 90s.)

You never cease to amaze me. I'm always thinking, "where can I buy...?" and you show me HOW to make it myself! Thanks sir! ⭐⭐⭐⭐👍👍

Nice video!! I have always opted to use wooden slides when possible. My dad taught me the candle trick for getting them to slide better. Glad you showed that.

One of the reasons I always watch when you release a video is you never waste any of my time.

Wow, this is what I was looking for my desk that is basically a plyboard sheet on foldable iron angles. Will try it for sure.

I love drawers.

Getting your video notifications in the middle of the day and saving it for chill times in the evenings, is like saving desert for last

Thanks a lot, Matthias, for showing me how to install a drawer under my kitchen table. I'm planning to do this for a long time. I would prefer to join the drawer parts with screws - thats easier for me to realize. Thanks for your hint concerning weight and the difference between wooden and metallic Auszüge (don't know the english expression). Greetings from Bremen/Germany sends Armin

I like when you tell stories about your life.

Thanks for the video, always enjoy watching!

Really excellent work, Matthias! Nicely done! 😃 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

nice drawers!

I love all of the custom tools, am jealous of your abilities... that box joint jig is really impressive. I will say though that I laughed that you box jointed the sides of the drawer and then simply glued and screwed the bottom on instead of cutting a groove or rabbet for the bottom. Not that there's anything wrong with that just that you chose one of the most complicated ways to join the drawer sides and the literal easiest way to attach the bottom 🤣

I really appreciate your nailing skills at 2:06.

Nice video, I always appreciate a project build.

Matthias, Sometimes the old simple ways are the tried and true ways that still work well!

this is going to help me soo much for my gcse project thank you very much

Not so simple, but cheap and effective - I like it :-)

I love your wood work so much, great.

you are a gem

Iron on edge banding on the sliding surfaces works well with heavy stuff.

Simple and functional. Excellent outcome

Cool idea with wax plus oil. Results speak for themselves

Brilliant simplicity, as always. Wyrmwood came up with a really cool wooden slide drawer stop. It's titled "metal hardware or wood on wood" and it's 9 minutes in. I would link it but KZfaq has been blocking them like crazy.

I like your spatula-table-saw-pushers. I'm going to make some of these for my father before he loses some digits, like both my grandfathers!! 🤦🏼‍♀️

I like full extension slides. Very handy.

Nice work. Amazingly easy open/closing with just wooden parts. Thanks for sharing. Weekend Stuff

Wow - you're onto the next project and I'm about the start drawing up the drawer in Sketchup.

I have used left over pieces of arborite to cover the drawer slide contact surfaces which makes them slide surprisingly smooth.

Wow, saw that old Viewsonic on your work desk....remember how nice those were back in the day.

your ideas were very useful, thank you

Such efficient designs. Great work!

you can buy thin UHMW tape that can be applied to the bottom of the drawer and it will slide super well.

Super vidéo !

Very nice job 👍

The desk drawer that outlasted the company.

For some reasons, I believe Matthias can be a great stock trader.

Your drawer from RIM reminds me of the one under my desk - made from two wooden channels (almost the same as yours) and a stainless steel steam table pan.

RIM office manager: "Who has been drilling in into all these desks?!"

Candlewax is the best! It forms a really slick layer

Matthias, I see that over in Canackistan the ubiquitous banana wood is also used to make the plywood base for that drawer! It seems like worldwide wood prices have increased by 3 and quality had decreased by the same factor.

i've seen people use a bar of soap to lubricate those as well! thanks for sharing.

Fast and good solution! 👍

Parabéns,como sempre um ótimo professor 😎😎😎👏👏👏

mathias ola vc e engenheiro que vc e muito inteligente igual nunca vi abraço

You are amazing

I noticed articulated carpenter's rules, a RadioShack calculator, several protractors, a triangular engineer's rule, vernier calipers, ... but no SLIDE RULE? EDIT: at 4:32 Thanks for the content. Keep up the good work. bs'd

Muy bueno, gracias!

Melting candle wax into timber also makes for quite a good weather proofing solution :-)

I am Not A Professional.but still I was planning to Add a Keyboard drawer to my Table.But. Because of lack of Idea.I was reluctant to try..now It's time to give it a shot

Very nice 👌

Nice video, I've found WD40 Specialist silicone spray to work better than wax for my wood drawers, I'll have to try your trick of melting the wax with a hot air gun

Great work

Creative man.

Nice!

Nice work.

Saludos amigo desde michoacan mexico

Ive been watching you since early 2010s.. and i dont think ive missed a video of yours. Thanks for your work Matthias

I didn't realize you had worked for Research in Motion...that company did lots of great work, I was sad to see the Blackberry discontinued.

Nice! I’ve always used bar soap for my wood slides, but I bet wax is a better solution.

I'm going to be honest and say that I completely forget that waxing the slides was an option so I kept thinking that a drawer that big would get filled up with way too heavy equipment

Great job. I would prefer to dado a groove for the drawer bottom and let the bottom free float.

hi, my friend,from michoacan mexico

Since a very long time, I have used a dripping candle. Using a hot air gun to more or less impregnate the wood is a great idea.

Maybe it’s a little silly but I just admire you using a hammer and normal nails on the drawer bottom instead of an air nailer and brads like every other popular KZfaqr would. Of course it’s better and doesn’t blow right through the thin material.

Very nice, thanks

Genius thanks for sharing

Brilliant

👍👍👍

I still want to see this wood elf make a wooden robot.

but candle is from Paraffin, not from bee wax :p

Hi Matthias Maybe a cnc build will be a nice series. Thank you.

Seems like those almost work better then the metal drawer rails nowadays.

Another great tutorial on drawer ideas! thanks Matthias! ECF.

You were probably at RIM at about the same time as my friend Adam from highschool who had an enviable internship.

I am remodelling our kitchen, putting in new factory made units with ball bearing slides. Not sure if they will last as well as the wooden slides I put in 30 years ago, and show no signs of wear! (Parrafin wax candle lubricated)

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Everything Matthias dues "slides pretty good"

Refreshing to see someone actually use a hammer to actually hammer nails for a change.

Very nice build! But am I the only one bothered by the square box joint fingers going into the rounded holes?

Oh yeah

I have a bunch of old oak flooring,,the real deal,thick ,heavy and strong. I dont know how old it is but it is the hardest wood I have ever seen. Is it petrified??? IDK?

Did you say you used to work at blackberry?

Its a long time you did not play with the pantograph

Wow, Matthias! Wood screws without a pilot hole, are you feeling adventurous ;-)?

What I use as material for covering the slides is a strip of Clorox bottle otherwise know as HDPE. Lasts a long time, and very slippery.