There is something about Tom that makes me wanna build something. He's an exelent educator, very knowlegeable, sincere and fun to watch.

It takes a true artist to not only possess knowledge, but to convey it to students with such ease and comfort. I think I may just continuously loop Tom for my form of mediation. Superb.

Always a pleasure to watch Tom work. Teaming up Tom and FineWoodworking, can’t think of a better pair. I look forward to every episode.

Always enjoy watching Tom’s methods, he does an excellent job of explaining not only how to do it, but why. One of the best to learn from.

An absolute pleasure to watch and listen to this Tom, thanks.

First let me say that it is a joy to watch a real furniture craftsman; One who does not use plywood, biscuits and pocket screws. Also, one who appreciates that the design of solid wood furniture must always accommodate seasonal wood movement. That having been said, I have two comments: First: If you watch furniture restoration videos (i.e. Thomas Johnson Furniture Restoration) most of the non-veneer repairs seem to be caused by designs that did not accommodate wood movement. Your design, therefor, is far less likely to need repair at some future date. Second: I always glue in the back drawer dividers. It makes the case far stronger and it provides a horizontal nailing surface for appropriately sized horizontal back planks. If the back planking is drawer sized, it need only be 3/8 thick and can be shiplapped at each drawer divider to account for wood movement.

I have a four chests of drawers and a dresser on my projects list in the next year. I'm an amateur and am replacing my master bedroom furniture and my guest bedroom furniture (one full size chest of drawers and a dresser for the master, one smaller chest of drawers and two "mini" chests of drawers that are only bed high and act as night tables on either side of the guest bed). This video is so valuable to me I feel like I should pay you for it. Before this the internal construction of the chest was a mystery to me and I was going to have to wing it or buy plans, and I never buy plans because I haven't the patience to read them and they never explain the intricacies anyway. You give me confidence that I can build something that will last, though I hate any sort of mechanical fastener. Then again, I am going to build them out of white oak, so I do want them to be heirlooms that may require repair some day many years from now. What material do you recommend for runners?

Beautiful work Tom! Thank you for sharing!

Wow what a great video you do Tom, probably one of the best I’ve ever seen, great instruction.

Outstanding craftsmanship!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

Brilliant take on web frames!

thanks

Love the videos. Sick to death of the Liberty Mutual interruptions.

Lots of great pointers!

Very nice! Thank you for sharing!!

I like watching this for a reason I don’t know.

So the thought I had when he was talking about seasonal expansion and contraction was that large, main propulsion, diesel engines, grow and shrink with heat and the General Motors EMD engines have the fwd footing bolts only torqued to 75 ft./lbs. (there's a story there, but this is a short post) because you don't want the engine to "grow" into the gearbox. I know, unrelated, but you know, related in a way.

You don't need dovetails anywhere on this project. They're merely decorative. Even for drawers, modern adhesives make any edge grain to edge grain joint way stronger than it needs to be.

Hi Tom, love these videos. are this screws going into slotted hold on the runner?

Did you give any thought to using hide glue instead of white/yellow glue? Your design allows for future repairs and hide glue would also give a future repair person a chance to take things apart for some kind of repair.

Nice, nice, nice

This is really nice. One question though, if you are screwing the runners in how are you allowing for wood movement on the runner compared to the sides? Or are the screws in elongated holes?

Full size plan link says not available

I noticed that while cutting tenons, you trimmed on the table saw in two passes. Was that to make sure the offcuts had enough clearance to avoid kickback?

What r the odds the furniture repairman knows the back runner isn't glues in place 😂😂

Left handed bandsaw?