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Great to see project videos again!

I know you often focus on the tools used, but this seems incredibly efficient in terms of using just enough material to make it good (and make it look good), without assuming you have an unlimited supply of hardwood. Really fantastic project video.

Losing your "clamping" bricks back to the yard had me rolling 🤣 we can all relate to that. Nightstands came out great. You going to add any type of stop to them, to prevent pulling out all the way 🤔

I so appreciate how you don't over complicate your explanations. I've really enjoy your videos.

Great seeing you in the shop again Steve! They look lovely as well

You are the reason why I know so much about woodworking. Thank you for this.

Wanted to thank you specifically for your comments on wood movement, how to deal/thank about it, and why you chamfered the inside edges of the corners. I know you've covered it before, but this was very helpful and relevant. Love these project videos.

I miss these videos, great watch!

Steve, you’re a credit to the craft. Wonderful creations with “mortal” tools. Keep up the good work

Great project & very nice work on those nightstands Steve! 👍👍🔨🔨

Wanted to give you a big thanks! With your courses and even your free content, my skills have gotten to the point where I can build some furniture for my slightly immobile mother. So far I've made her a towel shelf for the bathroom that has shelves only at arms reach (so no bending or reaching), and now I've made her a trash cart so that she can wheel all her heavy trash bags to the curb instead of having to carry them (she was close to using a wheelbarrow!) I'm so happy to see her happy and in less pain!

I know that feeling of "Oh no I glued this to the bench!" Haha Great video - I love watching these!

This is exactly the layout/design my wife asked for. For end tables, anyway. Thank you for saving me a bit of design work.

I love watching your builds and listening to your instructions. I refer folks all the time to your videos to help them get started.

I like the way you demystify the wood movement thing, in fact, the whole process. It makes me less hesitant to have a go. Thank you Steve.

Thank You, Steve, simple yet elegant design. I really like how you attached the apron to the top. I always look forward to your videos.

Glad to see more simple projects. Ill ne adapting this to make a kitchen for my RV.

Loving the simplicity here - I’ve been nervous to start using the kreg jig but know it’ll be easy once I get going with its

Absolutely beautiful. Elegant simplicity.

Thanks for making all of these videos, Steve! It's too hot for me to start woodworking outside (my garage isn't spacious like yours) but I've been living vicariously through you since the pandemic started 😆 Hopefully it will cool off and stay dry soon so I can practice what you've taught me and make these end tables!

It's just like Wood Working for Mere Mortals is back again! Glad to see you in the shop.. thought you might have forgotten us.

Love the project and your channel, Steve!

Thank you for reminding us what woodworking is all about ❤

Lovely tables! Looking great!

It's really helpful how you walk us through every little process and details.

I have found the wetting the burned areas first and then sanding it works really well.

Oh no! He snapped the tape measure closed! If only we knew the consequences...

I tried your brown paper rubbing technique on some meranti finished with wipe on poly and it came up a treat. Oh, and a blackbutt table top as well. Thanks very much.

Thanks Steve, another great video!

Simple yet - LOVE IT!

I love this build. It's always great to see you pop up on my feed, sir. All the best

I love your videos. It is great to see what is possible with essentially basic shop tools. A suggestion for cutting panels. Norm Abrams had a simple panel sled he used on many projects. I made one some 20 years ago and still use it to this day. Keep up the great work.

Thanks for teaching the techniques.

Straightforward. Good-looking. Tables, too.

Nice to see you making projects adain Steve

They look great and functional!

Another beautiful project Steve!!!

Those tables turned out beautifully! Your setup and techniques make me feel like I could do this too.

Really nice tables Steve! Thanks 👍 for the inspiration. 😊😊😊

Steve, I love your videos so much, they inspire me to become a woodworker, thank you :)

So happy to see your “more back”. Miss your videos.

Thank you for a good project video Steve!

WOW, simple, elegant WOW

These are so lovely!

You never fail to impress me Steve. 😀

Those are nice! I may have to build a set. Keep these hardwood builds coming.

Beautiful tables Steve! Inspires me to build a couple pairs for our guest rooms.

beautiful job Steve!

They look awesome.

Those turned out great!

Great end table, Steve. I can see one on either end of the couch that my wife has staked out and homesteaded as hers. I've been watching and building your projects for years. We have your coffee table in the living room. We have your paper towel holder in the kitchen and my granddaughter who lives with us sleeps on a bed built from your plans. I guess if I had not found you, it would be pine boards and cinderblocks throughout my home. Thanks for this video and for all of the ones in the past.

Looks great as usual!

Nice build, as always! Great that your orange home center has hardwoods. The ones in Dallas only have red oak, poplar, and select pine.

Those are nice tables. A simple, pretty design. I like many types of wood, but cherry is a favorite for furniture. I think it is pleasing to the eye. At least, to my eye. It also feels good and is durable. I guess I am telling you what you know. Thanks for the fun.

I hit like @ 21:11 when Steve acknowledged gluing the drawer to the workbench. Great video & project !

Great video, always enjoy your project videos.

Thank you Steve

Those are beautiful 😍😍😍

Thanks for making the point that woodworkers stress about wood movement too much. I think one of the other things that’s good to do, and you didn’t mention, is to use the alternating grain pattern, or “sunrise, sunset”. That is, when laying out the table top pieces, alternate the direction of the endgrain- if a board points up, its neighbors should point down. That way, the expansion / contraction occurs, but it works as a force agains the neighboring boards, and helps keep the top in one piece and reduces splitting. I do this with all the tables I’ve built and I’ve never had an issue, even with relatively green wood.

you're awesome thanks man

More hardwood furniture builds please! Great stuff, thanks!

Beautiful design 👌

Great looking tables

I think the project is attainable for this MM!

Next century modern. Nice.

Very nice work looks great.

Always winning Steve!

Hola! 🖐Really cool video and awesome tables. Thanks for sharing this. Take care and have a good one, Adios!👊

Nice build.

Really beautiful work, Steve! Amazing looking nightstand!!! 😃 BTW, for plywood does the kind of pocket screw matter? Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

Idea request: I loved the knitting box you made for your wife (yay Covid lockdown playlist) - I seen myself eyeing the older wood sewing boxes that kind of accordion out but I’d love to build it myself instead of paying out the nose for something in an unknown state. Any hope for a simple/intermediate level one of these? It’s certainly smaller than your normal stuff but would make good presents… hint, hint 😆

I know someone who veneers over solid wooden legs with no issues. There's simply not enough width across the leg for the fractional wood movement to effect the veneer.

Great project, if you do more hardwood projects I would love to see your take on the hard wax oils

THANKS FOR THE VIDEO

Steve, Thank you for your persistency and consistency with your championing for the rest of us "mere mortals". Your work and teaching is superb. I have a question - when you are building two (or more) of the same piece, what is the order of operation? Do you build both at the same time or assemble and finish each separately? I know that videotaping the whole process for your viewers probably alters what you would normally do. What is your experience?

Very nice project.

Good stuff 👍

I use gravity to clamp stuff all the time, expecially since I don't have LOTS of clamps. Usually there's a 5 gallon bucket around that I can fill with water and seal the lid on. That makes for plenty of weight.

I see you like to have the cherry on the top!

15:09 also the way the board was cut (quarter sawn = better) effects the way it will naturally contract and expand.

Love from India ❤

Looks better and is better than store bought. JimE

It was great running into you at Open Sauce!

Nice!

That stop block setup on the drill press looks pretty sweet, do you have a video on that anywhere? FYI this is the project that finally got me heading over to buy one of your plans instead of just mooching off your KZfaq content like I've been doing all these years. Cheers from Ohio!

Thank you for all the videos you've made. I always learn so much. Question about when you cut that panel I half. I always thought a cut like that was too dangerous for a table saw against the rio fence like that because it results in a near square and the off cut is so long. What additional safety considerations need to go into making a cut like that to do it safely?

Hi Steve! Thank you for the new video. I noticed you aren’t using a crosscut sled anymore and just a miter gauge with a fence/stop. Is this the general preference now?

very nice thnx

Steve, The used bricks was funny! Yes, I got used to seeing them over the many years of watching you. BTW, Nice Project! (no mistakes?)

Great video Steve. Not the biggest fan of pocket screws but that's a personal preference as they are not easily available where I live e.g. not stocked in by the merchants

At 21:04 you sounded just like Homer. I was expecting a D'oh! Great work Steve!

Nice

Hey Steve, great video as always! Question for you…if the panel hadn’t fit on your miter gauge, what would you have done for that crosscut?

If you want to eliminate burn marks depending on if you are a lefty or righty offset the back of your blade a couple micro meters to the right or left of the front of your blade but make sure your rip fence isn’t pinching whatever stock is in between blade and fence

Is there any discount on the plans purchase price for members who have taken your on-line course such as the "Weekend Woodworker"?

You need to get yourself some sandbags, my friend. Also maybe a melamine top for your glue up station 😂

I use pvc pipes to hold my boards for the glue up. Glue doesn't stick, so there is no hurry to remove or just leave then on.

Ive been looking at wodworking channels latley and i ran across yours. When i saw you open the garage door and kick a chunk of wood under a tablesaw leg to keep it from wobbling then i knew i found a regular garage woodworker without a $3500 dust collection system and several thousand dollars worth of jointers, planers, tablesaws etc. THis little night stand looks like something i might like to try. The plans are $27.00?

I use gravity clamps to guarantee a regular upper-body workout.