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!

Joey, I sure miss you videos!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

I Truly admire your craftsmanship

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

Excellent build, as usual !!

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

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

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

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.

Amazing job. Thanks for sharing!

Nice job as usual. Interesting project. Cheers from England

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...

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

Great work and beautiful table

Thank you, looks great.

Great work Joey👍

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

Interesting experiment, thanks for sharing!

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 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

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.

Thanks again for another great video

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.

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

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

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.

Always good, thanks.

Thanks Joey. Great watch

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

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

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 🖒

Very nice work. Well done

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.

Well that was interesting. I learned heaps from that

Purple aside this is brilliant.

Excelent. Congratulations.

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.

Very cool Joey

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

Nice work

@5:05 think that finger board might be backwards

Yes!

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

Thank you!

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 😊.

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.

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!

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

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.....

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

Amazing 👌👍👏👏👏👏❤️

Good job 😀😀😀😀

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.

Would make a nice executive desk.

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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

Where is Joey?! Hope you’re doing ok

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

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.

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!

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

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

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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!

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

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

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.

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

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

why do you use your featherboard backwards on the tablesaw?

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🤣

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

Are you done making videos

Torsion boxes are interesting... How much thinner do you think you could go before the strength wouldn't be acceptable anymore?

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

Does being a torsion box make much of a difference to the weight of the piece? If that was solid timber it would be very heavy.

That stuff is pretty savage on tool edges, no?

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?

What make of glue do you use???

So how do you make sure the Purple Heart retains its color over time?

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