Making wooden nails with conical heads using my dowel makers. These allow sealing up the urn without tools and without metal fasteners.
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Making wooden nails with heads that sit flush
Making wooden nails with conical heads using my dowel makers. These allow sealing up the urn without tools and without metal fasteners.
Open this video on MatthiasWandel4 coats of varnish in 10 minutes
My technique for doing a really fast varnish job for small objects
Open this video on MatthiasWandelWhat I learned from making 150 dowel makers and shipping them
All sizes back in stock as of Jun 9 2026 https://woodgears.ca/dowelmaker/buy.html Carvera Air from Makera (affiliate link): https://makerainc.sjv.io/nXxLd6 $100 coupon code for Makera / Carvera Air: matthias100
Open this video on MatthiasWandelYour Dowel Maker sucks... Unless its one of these!
These dowel makers orient the blade to cut tangentially, making for easier and smoother dowel cutting. You can buy my dowel makers at: https://woodgears.ca/dowelmaker/buy.html More about future metal dowel makers: https://dowelmaker.carrd.co/
Open this video on MatthiasWandelWood bending: If at first you do succeed, try and fail again!
Making a "walking stick" that is part bent lamination, part solid. My first test worked perfectly, but then I got too confident and decided to try bending with heat alone, resulting in failures. Then back to plain old steam bending and success again.
Open this video on MatthiasWandelThis wall lamp was much easier than planned
Going through design iterations, in the end making a simple adapter to turn a desk lamp into a wall lamp -- the most elegant solution.
Open this video on MatthiasWandelHacking a chocolate tempering machine with Pi Pico
Taking a cheap chocolate tempering machine and adding a microcontroller and display for precise temperature control, display and graphing
Open this video on MatthiasWandelHomemade slot mortiser after 17 years
I noticed it wasn't as tight as it used to be, figuring I'd damaged it. So 17 years after I built it, I opened it up (not easy) to check up on the mechanism, lubricate it and tighten the screws. More about the slot mortiser: http://woodgears.ca/slot_mortise...
Open this video on MatthiasWandelBuilding a king size bed
Building a king size bed from construction lumber, dealing with various defects in the wood. I also made it so the mattress is oriented sideways, giving us slightly more width, as we really don't need the length. The doweling bushings (or dowel sleeves as I...
Open this video on MatthiasWandelThis chest of drawers starts life as doll beds
The kids wanted doll beds, I wanted them to have drawers to put their stuff away. I found a way to address both with one project. Lots more about drawers at: https://woodgears.ca/drawers
Open this video on MatthiasWandelMaking an accurate doweling jig using steel drill bushings
Amazon listing for packs of 12 of these dowel sleeves (drill bushings): USA: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQ473DG3 Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0FQ473DG3
Open this video on MatthiasWandelDrawers box out of cardboard, holds my weight
Playing around with making a simple drawer box, using some vaery sturdy cardboard. Doweling sleeves (drill bushings) USA: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQ473DG3 CA: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0FQ473DG3
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