Over the last week I have watched all of the videos you have posted these past 2-3 years. watch a lot of KZfaq videos about fine furniture making and I have to say that the diversity of your skills sets are likely to be some of the most extensive anywhere in the world. It makes me proud to be a Kiwi and know that there are craftsmen like you down under. Well done Sir.

Thank you Joey! Hard enough to master the design and fabrication, let alone the audio/video production. You have quickly become my favorite channel for woodwork because of the clear logical explanations of what you are doing, why, and what you learned. Best wishes to you and yours!

A very nice and challenging project. It is great to see a New Zealand craftsman contributing on the KZfaq fine furniture making medium. Thank you. Paul from Auckland

Great work !!! I actually like the accented black joint lines, it gives some character to a "one colour" piece.

great stuff joey. dark coloured objects are difficult to film so no doubt it shows up even better in person (tableson?). when making a torsion box i have stuffed the cavities with rockwool insulation to reduce hollow sounds or knocking. there is special dense acoustic insulation that would be well suited to this pupose.

i love that joint you used for the leg. lots of cool approaches here!

Joey, I sure miss you videos!

Regardless of the issues, this was still a beautiful build and demonstrates why pieces like this cost so much compared to Ikea factory line pieces. The time and effort you put into your work is amazing.

I Truly admire your craftsmanship

You are truly a master carpenter. Just discovered your channel, and its exactly what i'm interested in watching. Lots of pretenders on youtube who can pour some resin between wood slabs and call themselves carpenters, but you show them what the term really means. I have been learning veneer, laminate, edge banding at work for the past few weeks and seeing some of your videos made me jump out of my seat to my girlfriend "thats what ive been learning!!" haha. Awesome stuff man.

I don't often watch things and say "I would like to try that exact build" ...but this is one of those time.... minus the Purple Heart ;)

Nice one, Joey. Hats off on account of you persevering with the "purperhart" (as it is called in the Netherlands).

When you were cutting the veneers on the band saw, I expected the feather board to be the other way around.

always impressed with your work Joey - and in particular to this video the summary you gave at the end. hope you and the family are managing to keep safe

DANG! That's mighty fine sir. Thank you for sharing and inspiring.

Purple aside this is brilliant.

Unbelievable skilled woodworking! you must/should be very proud about the result... congratulations!

I thought the rebated veneers to hide the seams was inspired! Great idea, and taught me a new technique!

Can't decide if your level of skill is inspiring or demoralizing.

Joey, I am so impressed with your videos. I patiently wait for the next one... in the mean time I am rewatching most of the ones on your channel. Cheers Mate!

Thanks Joey for putting the effort into the video whereby you explain your choices and challenges - it really makes you think about your own processes. Being in Australia and using mainly Eucalytpus sp. I'm not so keen on veneering given the grain goes every which way. Having said that, I've found the Laguna bandsaw fence useful as you don't have to resurface after each cut as you can wind the fence over a set number of turns and get consistent slices. Also a thicknesser with a helical cutter and carbide knives is more forgiving with wild grain patterns (IMO). Again great work by you - your willingness to give it a go is inspiring. Cheers

The best part about your videos is that there are always tips & techniques learned that can be exported to other projects; I still think you've got the best woodworking channel on KZfaq!

Great video Joey - speaking of using torsion boxes in furniture. I just did it on a commission for a sectional where there was an XL length trundle that wanted to sit under the 'long section' - 85" of un-supported span that could also host several adults sitting on it. This was the only construction method that made sense to me especially since I was also constrained on Z (height) by the thickness of a rolling frame with mattress and 'seating'. While I enjoy following you on instagram, the videos are the best...

I've made similar structures on benches - torsion box with quarter inch thick veneer cladding the whole thing. Somehow i never really considered this method for a table, presumably because i'm dumb. I wish i had thought about this when i built a kitchen table for myself. I was using some really cool blue streaky pine harvested near me, but i couldn't get it flat - i ended up gluing it down to some MDF and veneering the edges. But that still didn't quite fix the flatness, and of course it was incredibly heavy. Mostly salvaged the project, but i wasn't happy. If i had simply planned to do a torsion box from the beginning, it would have been a much better project. Anyway - great video. I've used only small amounts of purple heart, so i didn't discover the planing and tearout issues you mention. But i was considering using it as part of a heavy interior door - so i appreciate the lessons! Great piece, thanks for sharing this.

Purple Heart is a challenging species to work and I agree sanding is the best way to fit it.

Hey man thank you for all that you helped me with I hope to one day follow your path of being a carpenter and with all of the skills you have showed me, I hoped to pursue that career.

Great work Joey👍

Hi. So glad Auckland has now moved to level 3 like the rest of NZ. Hope your business can recover. I’ve only ever used Purple Heart as an accent piece - never thought to use it for a whole project. Looks like a good result

That was a great video. We all learned a lot watching you.

Nice work Joey and a very informative video, I really appreciated the evaluation at the end as I believe it's a critical part of the design process. And yes, Purpleheart is a sod to work with. Chris

Excellent build, as usual !!

I definitely like that torsion box approach - I expect you could achieve an adequately stiff table top with many fewer cross pieces, maybe as few as a half? I must give this a go sometime. Thanks for the idea and link to Nathan's work 🖒

Nice mate. Both yours and Nathan's work is inspiring! I used this construction for a big entry door and it's worked great for that

Great project, and yes super interesting how you put it together

I like it. Has a nice minimalist look to it.

Imagine the persistence that took. Great look. Lock down a woodworker -- he'll figure out something to do. I'm sure you learned a lot. Now, for that hollow sound ... grrrrrr. The suggestion of rockwool is interesting but a real nightmare to control while veneering/gluing simultaneously. Maybe boring holes in the bottom and sprayfoaming it -- then adding a second veneer to cover the holes? Or doing it before veneering -- just level it off.....

Great work and beautiful table

Thanks again for another great video

Hey Joey just checking in and hoping everything is going alright. Take care brother.

Nice job as usual. Interesting project. Cheers from England

Interesting experiment, thanks for sharing!

Amazing job. Thanks for sharing!

Very cool Joey

Well that was interesting. I learned heaps from that

Still a beautiful table I would be pleased as punch to own Joey.

Great video Joey. I've never done a torsion build before though I have wanted too. I think you might have just inspired me just the same as you were lol.

i found this interesting as i had never considered using this type of construction for a table (retired now). yes wood in nz has gotten ridiculous. i thought i had found a new supplier recently and ordered a batch of furniture grade lumber from them. furniture grade my backside. half of it was unusable except in areas where it would never be seen.

Beast mode cutting those veneers. Stuff smells awful. There's a time and place for torsion boxes, but I think they should be used more frequently for table builds. Excellent work as always

Very, very nice. Thanks for posting. I would have loved to see how you matched the outside radius of the legs with the inside radius of the table corner for the joint.

Very nice work. Well done

Amazing work mate! Just one pointer...looks like your feather board is wrong way round when you're cutting veneers on band saw.

Damn, you do some nice work. Nice job Joey. Hope you all in NZ are doing well.

Thank you!

I miss your content. I understand life can be more important than this. Just hope you’re well and I’ll keep checking to see if you produce anything more.

Im so jealous of your table saw..... Lol

Amazing 👌👍👏👏👏👏❤️

Excelent. Congratulations.

Thanks Joey. Great watch

While elegant looking, this table would greatly benefit from some aprons and/or stretchers and diagonal structural parts. Our ancestors definitely knew what they were doing when invented those structures.

Purpleheart is one of those odd woods, It doesn't work well, but it has a beautiful purple color, until it turns brown.

@5:05 think that finger board might be backwards

Thank you, looks great.

Love the build. Not sure I like the colour. I will try out the leg joinery on my next table Thanks Joey, At least you found something to keep you busy ( for awhile) . We are so luck here in West Oz. No Covid problems 😊.

Yes!

It would probably be a little easier to cut veneers if you put your feather board facing in the correct direction

Your featherboard is backwards at @5:19 . Might be why you were getting so much resistance

Where is Joey?! Hope you’re doing ok

Always good, thanks.

Pretty cool build... We are now out of LV4 and into LV4 with KFC. :). Keep up the great work and posts.

I'd never heard of a torsion box, now I'm looking at the table I made and wishing it didn't have stringers in it now.

Nice work

Good job 😀😀😀😀

Cutting your veneers would have been easier if you wouldn't have had the featherboard backwards. You were fighting the pressure from that too. ; )

King post timber works held together by blue tape

Nice clean design and a great way to efficiently use material. Great job! I’ve used purpleheart for many projects; as the tearout, splintering and dull blades piled up, I vowed never to use it again. But purpleheart can look so awesome after good sanding and finishing, my memory gets short and I go right back to it. Check out the Sampson Boat Company KZfaq channel. Leo used MASSIVE purpleheart timbers for the keel for Tally Ho, joined with scarf joints tighter than any joint I’ve ever been able to make.

Were the veneers hard to cut, or was the feather board backwards? Love your vids. No frills, just building stuff

Hello Joey, those are some great techniques! I especially enjoyed the leg joinery. What I was wondering: isn't there a risk of the veneers on the top splitting apart due to wood movement? I've had it happen to hardwood veneers I glued to multiplex and would like to avoid this in future. Cheers!

Purple heart is very hard we have lots here in the Caribbean

That featherboard being backwards on the bandsaw probably didn't help with veneers either. Was that intentional?

4:46 Isn't the finger guide press thingy situated the wrong way round?

Are you done making videos

Would make a nice executive desk.

The table looks stunning! I am a hobbits woodworker in Auckland and most of the stuff I make is our of Mac as I only know about Cypress Sawmill, could you give me a few pointers on where you source some of the more exotic woods you use?

less then $500 for all that wood is amazing. Want to ship some to me? The Veneer cutting looks painful. Both in time and concentration. How bad was the splintering and tearout? Purple Heart is notoriously hard to work.

why do you use your featherboard backwards on the tablesaw?

Brilliant design & the technique is very inspiring to me as I am about to build a table out of mohagany and would like to avoid waste. That said, I have a couple questions for you: 1) Are you concerned about the expansion of the wood having glued it all to the torsion frame? 2) You used epoxy and I plan to use wood glue... would the project have the same structural integrity with glue as you have with epoxy or should I consider epoxy? Thanks again for sharing such great content!

Anytime Ive ever worked with purple heart I cuss the hell out of it. Seems like whatever I do I end up with tearout that I have to sand the shit out of.

Joey, we talked about your Baltic Birch sheet flooring experiment a few years ago. Can you give us an update?

good

Perhaps sanding with a Rotex and a hard pad instead of running it through the planer?

i learned the hard way with epoxy in glue lines...its sooo thick you have to clamp the $hit out of it to get a "wood to wood" joint. frustrating.

Hi! you had not put new jobs. Greetings from Nicaragua.

All that tear out can be artfully repaired with hard wax. Repairs might show over time with the darkening of the wood... I started using it years ago and I've been able to unclench my *ss cheeks when doing all kinds of joinery. That is an awesome table though! I love that you're willing to try new things and your pieces run the gamut of style. Torsion boxes are amazingly strong! I learned DON'T us Purple Heart to make a table🤣

Where the hell have you been

Awesome build, turned out looking nice. Random question: what is the brand of your pants? I'm looking for some something similar.

Finnageling for the first piece. So the tool used is a finnagle then? Nice table btw.

I was wondering if you could put thin copper strips where the leg glue lines are. Make what you don't like into a accent.

Maybe I'm wrong, but it looks like the featherboard at the band saw was completely working against you. That might have made it harder to push through?

WALNUT in Australia is 11+ thousand a cube. I paid 375 for a 3.5 meter by 400 by 55!!!

What make of glue do you use???