Builditlikebecker (@builditlikebecker)
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00:00I drove 630 miles for this piece of furniture.
00:02Was that dumb of me?
00:03Probably.
00:03But I've done dumber.
00:04And I bet you have too.
00:05So come on, we're making bad decisions together.
00:07Here's the deal.
00:07This thing is very broken.
00:08If you would direct your attention to the side
00:10and use some deductive reasoning,
00:11you would notice that it's not supposed to be like that.
00:13So we're gonna fix it.
00:14And step one of that is tricking my dad into doing all the work.
00:17Dad!
00:17I offered him pizza.
00:18It works every time.
00:19See, when I said this thing was very broken,
00:21I wasn't just talking about the base.
00:22Yeah.
00:22That's not supposed to do that.
00:24Especially considering this is what holds up the lid.
00:26If you couldn't tell, this chest is old.
00:27And when I say old, I mean older than your mama.
00:29And your mama's mama.
00:30And possibly your mama's mama's mama.
00:32If I was guessing, I'd say late 1800s, early 1900s.
00:35And after 100 years of holding things up, she's tired.
00:37Honey, I'd be tired too.
00:38I'd be pissed if I was still kicking after all that time.
00:40But thankfully, this is an inanimate object that has no feelings.
00:43And it's also a family heirloom.
00:44So whether it likes it or not, we will resuscitate it.
00:46Which unfortunately requires a bunch of surgeries.
00:49Like simply gluing and clamping.
00:50Or fully detaching limbs.
00:52What year do you think this dust is from?
00:53Detaching limbs very carefully, I might add.
00:55Because this whole thing is made out of hand-cut nails.
00:57And though hand-cutting nails is very impressive,
00:58if you look at them wrong, they will split your wood.
01:00And we need to salvage what we can so we can replicate it.
01:02Which means doing what you gotta do sometimes.
01:06To truly fix things, you gotta make it worse first.
01:08Kinda like cleaning.
01:09There's gotta be a little chaos involved or I'm not doing it.
01:11In this case, the nails are loose.
01:12So to fix it, we need to make it loose.
01:14As well as scrape out 100 years of dead skin cells.
01:17So that we have some space for the glue to penetrate.
01:19Get down in there.
01:21Get down in there.
01:22The more surface area there's glue, the better.
01:24So put that on everything.
01:26If it's not popping out the seams when you clamp, then you need more.
01:29And then second rule of woodworking, you can never have enough clamps.
01:31And just like that, you fixed it.
01:32Ta-da!
01:33Now that the major surgeries are over, let's do some cosmetic ones.
01:36This chest had extra mortises for hinges.
01:38If you don't know what a mortise is,
01:39it's a fancy word for hole that you put stuff in.
01:42In this case, a hinge.
01:43Which holds up the lid.
01:44Or it did at one point in its life.
01:45Until it failed.
01:46And someone cut a new mortise into it to hold up the lid.
01:48So since this one's not really doing anything,
01:50I'm gonna make it disappear.
01:52Meanwhile, Dad's cutting down some rough sawn walnut.
01:54Which we will be using to rebuild the base.
01:55Eeeeeeee!
01:57Cutting the pieces for the sides was quite simple.
01:59The front piece, however, not so simple.
02:01We traced what we could and very precisely guesstimated the rest.
02:03Then Dad cut it out with the bandsaw.
02:05Everybody say good job, Dad!
02:07Then we had to figure out how to match the profile of it.
02:09Since the original was slightly beveled at the top.
02:11Unfortunately, this task threw Dad for a loop.
02:13Usually, if we're not doing the most, then what are we doing?
02:15But this time, Dad was doing too much.
02:17And was making it way more complicated than it needed to be.
02:19Thankfully, I'm a genius!
02:20And told him all he had to do is flip it upside down
02:22and set the blade to a complimentary angle.
02:23And basically, that he was wrong and I was right.
02:25And then he finally did it!
02:27Then we had to figure out how to match the routed detail.
02:29I gave dad back the power of being the brains of the operation for this one.
02:32Since we didn't have a router bit that was an exact match.
02:34Dad had to improvise a little bit.
02:35And in case he messed up, I didn't want to take any of the responsibility.
02:38Which thankfully for him, he didn't mess up.
02:40If he did, I would have been very grumpy.
02:42Time to sand!
02:43ZZZZZZ
02:46A lot of sanding was required.
02:48And even after going up the grid, there were some stubborn scratches.
02:50So we had to take it a step further.
02:52Let's get it on!
02:53Any imperfections I couldn't get with sanding, got filled.
02:55Like this giant knot.
02:56Which I'm sure has been a lovely home for dust for the past many years.
02:59Or this missing chunk.
03:00Which of course had to be made worse, before it could be made better.
03:02If you haven't figured it out by now, we were obviously hired to restore this chunk.
03:05Usually you'd make it look the exact same as the original.
03:07But that wasn't good enough for dad.
03:09So he insisted on making the sides look better.
03:10Now we just have to put it all back together!
03:12And in dad fashion, we're gonna make that better as well.
03:14By adding a lot more support.
03:15Some glue, some screws, some adjustable feet, the whole shebang.
03:18But that's not very antique of us.
03:20So we're gonna hide the screws with the head of the nails we pulled off from before.
03:23No one's gonna know.
03:23How would they know?
03:24Now give everything a good clean with
03:25TOXIC CHEMICALS
03:27Oil that baby up.
03:28Wow.
03:28Then add the sparkle and the shine.
03:30Which normally I would do by deep cleaning the brass.
03:31But this isn't brass.
03:32Because brass is not magnetic.
03:34So instead we had to add the sparkle and the shine with some Rub and Buff.
03:36But now it looks like this.
03:37Wow.
03:38It's not crooked anymore.
03:39In case you've forgotten.
03:40I sure didn't.
03:41Because even though it might not be the biggest furniture, it was a lot of work.
03:43Antiques always are.
03:45I haven't even showed you the best part yet.
03:46No, it's not this beautiful walnut.
03:48Surprise!
03:49We added soft-close hinges.
03:50So now it can stay open by itself and not slam closed.
03:52How luxurious.
03:53I hope they like it.
03:54Especially because I drove 630 miles to deliver it.
03:56I'm just kidding.
03:57I didn't drive 630 miles just to deliver this chest.
04:00That'd be silly.
04:00I also visited my sister.
04:02Which is a human.
04:03Not a dog.
04:03That's my niece.
04:04Which is a dog.
04:05Not a human.
04:06And I know I'm not fluent in dog, but
04:07I'm pretty sure Nala approves of the chest.
04:09Isn't that right, Nala?
04:10Isn't that right?
04:11Oh, not the face.
04:12Not the face.