Finally a video that its actually simple and with almost no fancy tools, thank you!

Thanks Matthias. I've just completed my first ever project and followed all your instructions, turning it into an art table with a ratchet to angle the table top. It took longer than 8.27 but I got there and it worked perfectly. I spent 97% of the time thinking, planning, measuring, remeasuring and 3% sawing and drilling!

You learn more tips and info from eight minutes of this clip than reading all the woodworking books on the shelf. Thanks

I'm actually quite proud that I built a table very similar to this a couple of weeks ago. To see you do everything I did, down to the rabbet and the dowels, using the same tools, makes me very proud of my work.

Seven years later, it's still back to Matthias' teachings whenever i'm in a bind. :))

This has to be the simplest and easiest to understand informative wood work video I have EVER watched and I am a complete novice! I feel like I can build that table tomorrow. Thank you so much for your content.

haha, never disappoints. Stumble on an old video , and Matthias is in perfect form, slippers and all . Woot !

Love that Workmate. I think mine is somewhere around 40 years old. It has the character of everything I've ever used it for. What a great tool!

I have watched a number of these videos and I love how everything he does looks so easy. I know if I tried to make some of this stuff I would be left with a pile of scrap wood.

thank you for a limited tools build. I've seen many of your videos as well as many of the other woodworker channels on KZfaq and it is good when someone shows a project like this for those of us just getting started. I have been a construction carpenter for many years and am transitioning to indoor woodwork, but don't have the money for a lot of new tools. Thanks again.

Thank Matthias, the tip I like most from this vid, is using a wooden sleeve for the drill bit, never thought of that! using tape is always a pain when drilling more than one hole! and you advocating using a Pocket Hole Jig...I don't believe it! :)

You learn a lot with this video. Simple and useful technic, nothing fancy with thousand tools and some ''innovating hot water'', that you can see with fancy woodworking youtubers... This is simple and educative. That is what you need if you doing woodworking.

Matthias, I thank you for giving me an idea for fastening the legs onto a 5/4 decking plank round table top I have. I've been head-scratching for a couple weeks, and how you fastened the top is just the ticket!

much respect for using the tools people would most likely have for this video rather than your other, more impressive tools! Your videos are great and your practical ingenuity is amazing! Couldn't be a bigger fan.

Love how this shows a whole bunch of basic, but essential, wood working tricks and techniques without a painful amount of preamble and bullshit. Also the confidence of the jump on to the finished table at the end 😂 Bloody love it.

"But because I have clamps..." *Pulls out giant ass clamp* A true woodworker is always prepared... go figure...

This guy knows too much. He has evolved past all of us. He will create his own wooden utopia.

The table looks great...... nice to see a build that uses the very basic of tools and how you can get the most from them... well done and thanks for showing

Have you ever built a table and then completely smashed it with your jump-test?

Love your workshop and your method making things happen with the basic equipment in a minimal space. Really need to apply that

I love the smirk on his face when he says the best way is with pocket holes. Hahahahaha hahahahaha

Your circular saw jig is too awesome! I could have used one of these decades ago. I'll be making one as soon as I get back to the shop. Thank you for a new subscriber. 👍🏼

The best thing about this channel is that you can learn and have fun at the same time.

The moment when you jump on the table made jump from my chair. You are very confident of your work, I like it!

Honestly one of the smartest guys I've seen in woodworking

I just built my first table with basic tools using this design. What a brilliant work and easy to follow video. Thank you!

I just learned so many hacks for doing things with tools I don't have. Thanks so much!

Corded drill, work table, and hand held circular saw. If you did this in a crawlspace, I'd be flashing back to my high school days.

I was sooo into your video when all of a sudden you said you don't have a pocket hole jig. That thru me off lol. This video came in just in time for me as I'm in the middle of building a dining table for Thanksgiving dinner! Gives me some good pointers for the leg joinery. Thanks man.

Watched your videos for years now. I always end up coming back when I have a project in mind. I just wanted to send my thanks for all of the instruction and inspiration. You're awesome!!!

I appreciate this video featuring a minimal tool project! now this is something I can do. My take away is how you drilled pilot holes in the lap joint from the back side out, great way to make sure they end up where you want them. Thanks!

Wow, good job. I arrived here thinking I would make a simple table....after watching this, I'll just buy one. :)

Are you Canadian? Thank you for centimeters and millimeters instead of inches! So refreshing to hear the metric system!

Thanks!!! I'm going to use this same design to build a bathroom vanity almost entirely out of two by fours! I'm just going to gut the old vanity to make a shelf, keep the old cabinet doors and build a butcher block top out of reclaimed 2x4's.

Great for not so equipped hobby-workers like me. Thanks a lot for such easy projects!

I truly enjoyed watching her videos they are great. They are good improvisers for different methods. They spur thought to be creative. You demonstrate how to do some things with the most basic tools and techniques which is good because a lot of people don't have the same equipment as professional carpenters do.

I love how Matthias builds useful things with reclaimed (or repurposed) materials and without a need for a massive shop. Shows you what you can do with just a drill and circular saw (and wood glue of course ;) ).

This is like the asmr of woodworking man. You make it look sooooo easy ugh

Matthias is a thug. He's the only carpenter on youtube wearing moccasins.

Overall video is perfect, also your sense of fashion is badass.

Seems like it would have been worthwhile to make a one-time jig with four holes for your dowels???

You are a marvelous genius Mathaias leaving legacy to the world without pride and your simple nature .. really we love u thanks sir for sharing your mind to the world. May God reward you.

I like 2x4 and 2x6 projects. It's like these materials were invented for the cheap woodworking hobbyist.

I wouldn’t say simple.. but on the other hand so many techniques. Great video 👍👍👍

I followed you from the year 2013 until now I admire your great works thank you my dear

One of these days you're gonna hurt your butt jumping on all these sturdy builds. I recommend adding cushions to them

Found your videos while look for videos on the Craftex CT053. Great videos and easy to follow for a beginner. Nice to see you use tools that most shops will have and are not tools that all cost in the thousands of $$$. Oh the Craftex has doubled in price since you got yours but still a good deal at $279 plus $49 for the basic set up kit of cramps and a hose.

Nice, efficient build without a lot of expensive tools. Well-done!

That table looks surprisingly refined for some old 2x4s. Good job

This is my favourite woodworking channel...Respect man!

Never doubt a guy that has a homemade tool box next to a dust collector.

When you were using (and having some issues with) the doweling jig, would it not have been easier to use the jig to create 4 holes in an offcut, then use that offcut?

Well done, with a minimum of tools. I like the way you work around problems. My dad used to use a timber depth stop for drilling holes - and of course I do as well. Works well.

Mr Mathias, your projects are very practical. I find that all your simple tool projects are interesting the way you tackle your joinery with simple tools. It would be nice if you every wrote a book with all you step by step projects would be great.

Thank you! I will use this to make me a sewing machine table, with a compartment for the machine, so the working surface aligns with the table surface!

Good job,doweling jigs are great.good sturdy table.

Thanks for showing that it can be done, and done very well, with simple tools.

I liked the two tone wood look another great video maestro

glad to see another video from my favorite carpenter

7:11 HOW DID HE GET OUT

Well that you certainly showed good confidence in your work with the way you jumped on that table. Clearly, you did a good job because it did not break.

After watch the video, really appreciate every creation of furnitures... Matthias, thank you for sharing :)

For a simple pocket hole tool, I use a spade bit of 3/4 - 1" (18-25 mm +/- ) and drill a shallow hole canted slightly away from the joint. Then start the screw through the wall of said hole, roughly half way from bottom to face. Obviously, you can also drill a body hole for the screw. Crude, but it can be almost as good as Kreg.

Good job Matthias ! For the small pasting I use a hypodermic needle, the glue is always fresh and it is more easer to full the small holes.

awesome job. very creative use of tools. improvising is an underrated key to being a successful woodworker!

Matthias, as always I picked up some great tips and ideas on making wood projects. I have done similiar methods of joining w/o using my pocket hole template, and they do provide excellent joining strength and best of all they are simple. Thanks for continuing to share all you excellent ideas and methods (not C#, but you know what I mean :) ). The fun in woodworking is finding better and simpler ways to make something, at least it is for me.

Matthias, thank you for not using a pocket hole jig. Your solution was elegant, and it means I don't have to buy one either, because I saw how you did it. Thank you for keeping me from "needing" another tool.

Upvoted for that last jump.👍

That is a fantastic simple, little table.

Thanks for another great video.

love the way you work stuff out.. very informative....thanks heaps

I love how you jump on every table you make haha!!

i could watch this all day

i have never seen anyone use a circular saw to cut a dado like that , im gunna do that, nice work man definately subbed

Great video and tutorial, thank yo for taking the time to share with us all.

please make more videos like this,one of the most practical video, making stuff with basic tools... unlike like others who bring out more complicated and expensive tools to make the same thing...

this is really good making a good standard as well as good look with less material... i mainly like your design mechanisms.

absolutely beautiful....simplicity of tools & technique!

Your problem solving ability is fantastic, great videos.

Actually a simple elegant design and nice reuse of materials.

I COULD WATCH THIS ALL DAY!

Wow that is a surprisingly nice looking table considering what you made it out of. Those tapers look very nice.

Excelente maestro y gracias por los subtítulos al español, saludos. Luis de Peru

The way you test furnitures is very impressive.

That certainly looks far better than just a government issue office desk especially with the legs.

Learned a neat trick for when my screws are too short. Thanks!

I like how in 2022, the handplane is now the fancy, expensive tool that is out of reach for most beginners.

I needed this about a week ago. Thanks anyway!

im 14 and im into these things ive been watching these kind of videos the whole day hahaha

Simplicity at its finest.

Such a great video Matt! Thank you! You really give people like myself so many ideas! Question: Could you achieve the same rigidity with pocket screws, or would you need to include a diagonal brace at all four corners?

Mine works too. I used WoodPrx plans and made it without any problems.

Thank you. Greetings from Turkey... :)

Хоть ты и нерусь, но мужик похоже работящий !

parabens novamente pela sabedoria, projetos mais simples me fazem feliz, regards from south of Brazil

I like that jig for circular saw: extremely simple and allow to use all possible depth.

That's the perfect Christmas dinner kids table.

Simple and elegantly shot video.

Wow You are amazing, never seen "Bad Ass" moves with a circular saw. I learned a lot :)

You're very skilled.