This guy puts a ruler under his pillow to measure how long he sleeps for

As a carpenter, this comment section did not disappoint lol.

This guy looks up and down before crossing the road

This was worth watching for the comments alone😂

This is ideal. I've always wanted to make furniture that falls apart.

Comment section is almost unanimously shitting on this guy 😂

The blood blister under that second fingernail just makes this whole thing that much better.

well there's 20 seconds of my life I'll never get back.

Nice trick. I'm going to use this to fix my car.

He forgot to add vape residue and Red Bull to the dowels to reinforce the joint.

no one mentioning the janky checkmark at the end. 😅

垂直に穴を開ける技術がなければ 実現しないテクニックである…

Was it an Ikea Carpenter?

I couldn't wait to get to the comments 😂

Or.... you could use a set-square, set to half the width of the timber , mark intersections with a pencil, pre-drill a 3mm hole at each intersection and then drill a (correctly sized) dowel hole - like a real carpenter would.

when does the trick start?

You can always tell an old carpenter. You just can't tell him much.

Gordon Bennet. The dowel holes are so close to the end one of them started to blow out before he'd finished drilling them. Just don't bother.

No carpenter has ever done this.... ever! Particularly as the holes were about 2mm too big for the dowels!

How to make furniture that kills you, fixed your title

Just think of the load that can be supported by the remaining 3 mm of wood between the dowel and the end of the work.

A solution for a problem that never existed. 😂

When you get your carpenter from Wish

Which one of the Carpenters was this, Karen or Richard ?

I think this guy is confusing a handyman for a carpenter.

Ya know? A scribing tool does the job with a lot less margin of error.

This guy puts his clothes in a washing machine to dry them.

An eight year old carpenter.

An old carpenter wouldn't have made a joint like that lol.

That may be the best use for phillip's head construction screws.

This technique literally and inadvertantly caused the Titanic to sink. You know, on account of it being built like an icecube tray.

Newsflash: The man that showed you this wasn't a carpenter. He was a man that was pretending to be a carpenter.

My IQ just drooped eleventy %

That join is ready to FAIL

I lovVe thiS awesome idea for uS beginner carpenters as thiS idea would woRk well for makinG some really cool taBles to put my plantS on!👍Thanks deeply foR sharinG!!!✌😍🌷🌻🌷☕🍵☕

ニトリの家具はこうやって作られてたんやな……

A unemployed carpenter 🤭🤣

Inside an IKEA factory

Like John said before me.... An Ikea carpenter. LMFAO

You know what also works, a tape measure they had those too

If they can't measure it right with their thumb and one eye squinted, they're not the one

POV: you’re assembling IKEA furniture

Thank you so much! I was wondering yesterday how I was going to line up holes. 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

This guy must be an EX-IKEA employee

Well…I am sure this will work for projects that require no precision and where looks are secondary. If you build a chicken coop or a hamster cage and that is your set of circumstances then by all means go for it. But there is no way this would fly in, say cabinet making where precision in your joinery is crucial. If you tried this there, you will end up wondering why you suddenly find that you have a huge gap in one corner and can’t get anything to line up properly. That is incredibly frustrating. My tip: Use a jig for that. Does not have to be anything fancy or expensive so long as you have consistent results with it. Signed, a maker who never learned a trade and learned through (sometimes expensive) trial and error and who figured that only maybe 10% of the time you spend making stuff go into the actual sawing, drilling, chiselling etc - the rest is mostly planning and setup.

The first drill hole cracked/split the wood, you can see it split on the end of the bottom piece

The hard part is drilling parallel holes in the end of the upright part. That's the main advantage of a jig.

日本ではダボ穴サイズはダボより0.5～1.0ｍｍ小さく開けます。ガタ付・抜け防止・強度の観点からかもしれません。

We use tape measures now.

So don’t hire you to make my furniture. Got it ✅

Did I miss the trick?

The blood blister on the guy's left middle finger nail! 😂

I tried this and the holes didn't line up. Also, I severed my pinky finger. What am I doing wrong?

all the old carpenters i know use dovetail or at least box joints instead pins that dont line up

This is a fine way to line up dowel holes. Physical measurements like this, as a rule of thumb 😉 are more reliable than numerical ones. You can fiddle around with squares and scales all day long and Human Error can still confound the result. The tricky part here is holding the piece flush; basically it's not gonna happen. You will end up with a slight ridge or twist. This is fine for quick 'n' dirty applications with .125" precision tolerance: country furniture, utility furniture/simple machines(shop shelves, workbench, stitching pony, weaving loom, etc), or structures. A dowel is technically a "slip tenon," like a biscuit, which can actually be stronger than proper mortise and tenon. Definitely stronger than a 🐰 rabbet, of course. The holes drilled in this video are the correct size for the dowels. They go in snugly with finger pressure. If you plan on using glue, never make joints so tight they must be pounded in hard with a mallet; the glue will squeeze out (this is called a "glue-starved" joint). Only problem here is he has drilled the holes a bit too close to the end of the board, I think. Maybe needs smaller dowels. It's probably fine, though, honestly. Basically these physical measurement-type old carpenter hacks are ways to streamline a process where TIME IS MONEY and you simply don't need 100% precision and accuracy. Very few customers wanna pay for pristine craftsmanship just for its own sake.

The old carpenter would've just nailed it together

? how can you make sure the 2 pieces align well when there is a big gap caused by the screws ?.

Just wait till he discovers what screws are actually for

This old carpenter likes his furniture with a product lifespan of 10 seconds

*insert hotdog in a hallway metaphor here*

I hope Mr. Old carpenter has enough patience to deal with the unemployment lines and phone calls

The old video poster told me these videos are strictly for clickbait. Get the views and comments for the algorithm.

1000 years of thinking! Thank >You!

Супер! Просто, легко, сумеет любой. Спасибо!

Or I can use a ruler, a pencil and a 1mm drill bit then the required drill bit.

You'd have to pay me to buy something of such quality.

The hammer screw trick is the most valuable lesson here...

Was dying to get into the comments - they haven't disappointed 😂

How did the holes in the other piece let the edge line up perfectly. Did he mark a line half way? How did anything line up with his haphazard drilling? The result was far to good. I believe that this is a fake. If I'm wrong, he will include the whole process.

This is laughable. If you don't care what it looks like, go for it. But this will never line up for too many reasons to list. This is handy-hack information, for those hacks who produce sub-standard work and then pat themselves on the back and invite their friends to see it. Signed, another "old carpenter" but I actually know what I'm doing.

He was so old that he had demensia. He forgot his pen and measurement tape at home.

I liked the tick at the end XD

師匠や先輩の技を見て感動して、真似て いつの間にかオリジナルや応用で何気なく使っていた知恵を後輩達が見て、それを真似てくれる。 職人業や製造業ってそんなループなんだろうなぁ〜！

loving these comments 😂

An old carpenter would do nice dovetails

That definition times checkmate shows how much he tried

I've done this before, but I used two flat head push pins glued together. That way, I get a precise point rather than a notch. But if I didn't have that available, this method would be more than good enough.

こういうのって知らず知らずのうちに全国的に伝わり後世に継がれていくんだと思う。

God that is so effing clever 👍👏👏👏👏👏

This guy has a smashed fingernail for a reason. ✋ 🔨

何が凄いって真っ直ぐ穴を開けられるところ。それができないとこんなに綺麗にくっつかない。

I know a trick too - I call it measurement.

Whos else is just watching this because it's satisfying

To be fair, he said it was an old carpenter, not an old cabinet maker.

どれが技なのか理解できない俺がヤバいのか

He hit his middle finger with the hammer recently, I feel his pain.

okay but how would you make sure that the wood is lined up with the other peice? surprised it's not crooked

what a legendary carpenter🤣

He forgot to tell you to glue those plugs.

He told you not to glue your dowels?

Gosh everyone on KZfaq is so brilliant

Little does this guy know that pencils exist

Lol, I will use that joint to light my forge and bend some steel plate into shape. It may weigh 50x as much but it's not going anywhere!

先人の知恵って感じ

I've been a trained joiner for 32 years..my dad was a joiner all his life...I've never once seen this technique used..much easier and better ways than that.

Love it. Thanks

How did drilling the holes in one piece make holes in both? AMAZING!

I could hear balloon knots clinching tighter than a snare drum without even opening the comments section. My god I'm never disappointed by the "experts" 🤣 🍿

I'm not a carpenter, but this is really gonna come in handy next time I need to mark four completely randomly spaced indentations on two pieces of wood in half the time!

Wasted two screws for that… 🤦🏻‍♂️ 😉🤪🤣