I Tested Viral Folding Furniture

how the am I going to build this at some

point I think every woodworker wants to

try and build folding furniture and I've

never really done any so I super stoked

for this video we've got two folding

projects today that I'm going to try

first one being this desk that went

absolutely bananas on the internet with

tens of millions of views Chris and Joe

love this thing and they've been begging

me to build it for months so we're going

to crush this thing out first then we're

going to dive in to the folding door

that has been taking over the Internet

for years specifically this little

cabinet that has this awesome little

folder I think I can do a really cool

rendition of it let's dive right into

the first project so as I look at it

this desk is a lot more complicated than

it looks in order to get that thing to

kind of pull off the wall you've got to

have a pole or something going across

inside of it there is a video out there

that shows how it's built so I think we

can get this done we've got to do a glue

up of the base first that's going to be

the actual desktop I like the light wood

color and uh I have a bunch of maple

left over from when we built this this

bench so I think we're going to dive in

Mill up some wood and then I'll get the

entire base kind of glued up and all the

parts that are going to go into it

there's a lot of moving Parts here and I

am definitely afraid that if I screw up

one the whole thing could go

catastrophically wrong so let's give it

a try so let me move this out of the way

first and foremost because we haven't

given it away yet if you didn't know you

can win this table and take it home with

you right now all the information you

need is linked down below pretty awesome

giveaway we're running right now on the

website so I think to make this

efficient I want to pick my parts rough

cut them and then I'll just go through

like standard Joiner and planer

situation on this little diagram that

Chris came up with we're looking at a 40

1/2 in by 21 and 1/2 in panel I don't

know how he thinks I'm going to be able

to do this stuff got to love the

computer drawings so we're going to cut

enough Parts give me a glue up that's

going to be stable wideboard I think I

can fix it after if it's

broken do a little glue panel glue up

here keep these out of the way so I can

get working on all the rails I'm going

to do these in two parts just because of

the width of them I don't want them to

Bow I'm actually going to let these uh

set and then I'll come back later today

and I'll glue them together hopefully

stays nice and flat always going to be

concerned when you're gluing up a

panel that's wider than it is long or

whatever you know usually you go the

other way but for the sake of what we're

trying to do here and that look with the

rails on the wall this is the way we got

to do it

let's go gam plan on these strips all of

these are a 1 in thickness which isn't a

problem but we're ranging from 39 to 24

and then there's a bunch of just random

numbers in between I think that'll be

easier to cut after we're kind of

assembled so we just need one kind of

square side material y these are all one

and a got to love that 1 and

516 why oh well all right let's cut some

strips

so while the panel's dry we're going to

dive into project number two because I

need to cut the base for the desk before

I can start doing any of the joinery cuz

a lot of the joints are predicated on

the distance off of where it's going to

land on the base so let's dive into that

so while I'm looking at the folding

cabinet window box door thing there's a

bunch of different variations on how

this can work my buddy Johnny Lambert

Over Johnny builds has done some very VI

versions of this that are like full

scale there's also a ton of videos out

there I really like how simple this one

is and I think it'd be really cool to

put all of our snacks in there's a ton

of YouTubers out there making awesome

and delicious snacks and the guys say I

don't provide them with enough snacks so

we're going to build a snack Depot using

this cool door here we've got a pretty

cool design that we've come up with

Chris actually dove into like the

nuances of how these doors work so we've

got all of that kind of prepared here

first thing I need to do is build a box

for the cabinet and Mill up all the

parts that are going then go into the

door I think I'm going to do glass or

plexiglass on the door so we can see

into it maybe back light some LEDs

French cleat I am a French get crazy

with it I don't know I might even throw

a dovetail in there for shits and

giggles who knows but first I do need to

Mill down some materials and then get

that box glued

up the question becomes shelf does Joe

want a

shelf no Joe just wants me to move the

project

forward that is what we're looking for

butthole tight fit we'll get some clamps

glue on this clamps and then tomorrow

I'll reinforce all these Corners with

splines that are going to match the door

which we're also we're going to make out

of Walnut well we put a shelf in cuz the

the door is essentially two parts and

it'll go down the middle and we have two

essentially 15in boxes here so this glue

up should go pretty smooth and by that I

mean probably terrible all right do it

for these like inside Corners cuz

they're kind of a pain in the ass we're

just going to throw a piece of tape

across all of them help with that clean

up the squeeze out we're trying to be

quick here so I don't want to have to do

a ton of work on the inside of the box

once we're ready to rock and roll cuz I

feel like I'm going to be spending a

shitload of time trying to get the door

to

work said you think I'd learned my

lesson with these pieces of I keep

going back to them cuz they're fast but

God do they suck

approximately 10 hours later all right

so while the box is drying we're going

to hop back to these panels now

initially I wanted to have my full desk

panel glued up but after looking again

at the drawing Chris made based on the

Tik Tok it's going to be a lot easier if

I just cut this sucker in half and then

tape my panels together and make these

Cuts one time to get all these separate

spacings then I can flip it and glue it

back together instead of having to do it

on both sides so I'm going to clean

these the glue off of these and then

we're going to get these cut down to

size on the table saw kind of show you

how I think I can maybe do

this so this is going to be the panel of

our desk and I think it'll be easier if

I cut all these parts but there's all

those measurements that need cut so

instead of doing it in one piece what

I'm going to do is just throw some

double-sided tape on it which should

allow me to fairly easily cut the exact

same mirroring sides for all those

notches that need to go into this sucker

which you uh don't get to see on camera

for this part is the probably like

multiple hours that Chris had to put in

in Fusion to get this thing to work

there was metric measurements on the

video itself but I'm not a European I'm

an American so Chris actually put it

into a model and got the thing like kind

of functioning and working if I want to

do this correctly I'll start out by

marking what it says here so it'd be

nice if it was one measurement so this

is 3 and 70 7/8 2 and 3 16 2 and 76 13

16 and 2 and 7 16 1 and

5/8 and then I think every Gap is going

to be an inch and A4 or one 516 and this

part sucks this is the most precise

measure drink I think I've ever done on

anything how the hell am I going to do

that H cuz I'm a hack the easiest way

for me to do this is to just Trace these

lines all the way up find this the lines

on both sides set the fence make a stop

cut onto the next one kind of thing and

cut the grid out on the band saw now I

think I can cut the grid out something

vitally important when you're cutting

like precise lines like this you need

Crystal Clear Vision which is why you

got to grab yourself some shop Shades

these things the clearest and most

comfortable I wear you're ever going to

wear in the shop and don't take my word

for it Joe the guy on the camera he's

wearing them all day long too he put the

camera down just to show you all day

Comfort I never take them off I'm always

wearing them Andy's nervous now let's

make some precise

Cuts now this is where things could get

squirly I've got a few options here I

could trace these around which is what

I'm going to try to do and then I'm

going to see if I can go back over to

the band saw and flip the board over

because I ran out of fence and throat

and uh I'll try them that way and if

that doesn't work I'm gonna have to do

these by hand which I'm not looking

forward to I was like how far do I go oh

there's a line there Jag ass these

aren't that bad I'm going to just try

this that wasn't too bad the worry is

that I'm not straight but that doesn't

look bad okay Mark the next one the dude

who built this built this in his

apartment so like if I can't do do this

in a full wood shop I'm a schmuck I

guess we already know I'm a schmuck

but the dude did it in tongs and it is

apartment like got absolute

G I think I got offline on that one I'll

fix it in post these are getting

tight yeah we're going to Chisel it

we're good in sharp

here and grain maple exactly what you

want to be chiseling it's not

nerve-wracking or difficult at all that

tight angle too really no

pressure I'm pretty happy with how this

thing's looking I guess now we can uh

layer out see what we're going to look

like here oh so satisfying just don't

snap

damn

bastard was stuck so there is our

tabletop solid let glue it up so this

will set up in a couple hours I can

start working on all the slots cuz

there's a butt ton of them so we're dry

enough that I'm going to start messing

with this I do need to clean up this

edge here because like I when I in my

cut I was a little slightly off made a

few marks on this side yeah and I should

just be easily able to to get that

the entire Mort or is that a mortise

slot whatever we want to call it with a

smaller bit so then I can come over here

and finish it with a 38 bit a little bit

nerve-wracking I wish I could just do

the holes like the guy did but I'm

getting terrible results because my

router and for multitude of issues these

two just get holes the rest of them I've

got to Mark the center line on all of

them and then I'm going to drill out all

of the holes where everything's going to

land and then we'll uh cut some

slots oh sweet Mother of God the last

one these were such a pain in the ass

the bit got dull like 3/4 of the way

through started having ridiculous tear

out so I had to start taking less and

less passes which means like some of

them I was doing like four or five

passes on just to get the pocket to cut

they don't look great but thank God

they're going to be hidden that sucked I

don't know how this dude did it on the

floor of his apartment and just made it

look so damn Flawless cuz that was like

three straight hours of just Milling ho

this glue up did not go to plan one I'm

out of practice cuz I built and

not real woodworking anymore I think

because I had that Center divider in

there usually everything will come

together and those picture frame clamps

just were not adding enough pressure

took us a minute but I got I got her

glued up so let's see how I did took me

like 40 minutes to glue this thing up

when it should have taken me five we're

looking pretty solid yeah we'll give it

a quick sanding and then um make sure

it's

Square we're really damn close to square

looking at the drawing now see I'm wild

crisk off this what the is

this we got 3/4 in stock so that's going

to be the probably the first thing that

I need to do is Mill down a bunch of 3/4

in stock because the way this is going

to work is I will more or less band the

door with triangles so this will have a

triangle and then this one will be a

nipped triangle that'll have another

smaller triangle here and when I open it

it'll pivot from these two corners so

we'll have to figure that out I think we

just need to go get some Walnut Mill it

down to 3/4 and rip ourselves some

strips and then I'll start roughing out

parts and seeing how I'm going to put

this thing together I think just by the

way Chris designed it I should be able

to use pinned techniques it'll make

sense here in a minute I got to get over

the fact that this is going to look

stupid you can't fix stupid I have to

build the first triangle like this for

both of these sides in my head I'm like

the best way to do this is going to be a

lap joint on all the corners here's part

that sucks how the am I going to build

this I'll do it on the table saw I just

won't use a do St then we're going to be

good and I'll clean them all up by hand

first part I'm going to work on is these

two triangles create two mirrors where

essentially I could take this cut that

part out and then do the same thing on

this guy and it'll be one setup I'll be

able to do the four parts that need this

so the cross member will get tricky but

I can do the same thing I can make the

Mark I can use the gauge on the base on

the table saw angle it cut my

establishing shoulder come back through

Mark I don't have any opport opportunity

to explain what I'm doing so I'm just

going to do

it and so these joints need cleaning the

pivot point for this door will go

through there which will help lock it in

so next I need to figure out how the

hell I'm going to do the cross bark

Chris made it pretty clear that in order

for these to work properly they have to

be exactly square at least the way he

designed it up obviously I'm just going

to do whatever I want I'm going to try

to follow his guidelines it is new hats

baby grab one you can also get entered

to win the giveaway that we're still

running on the table I built in my last

video if you want to take that home

check out our new hat or anything else

on the website so that at the moment is

my plan you probably ask yourself why

didn't you put a domino in like I got to

do a domino there but I can't do a

domino here be super short to make sure

that I'm super precise I'm going to

clean up my joints

first all right so I could

destroy and ruin everything at this

moment that I've worked so hard for the

last 45 minutes to lay out the only way

to see if I'm going to do that though is

to grow a set and send it so I will say

I need to transfer a few marks cuz I

didn't transfer my edges just to make

sure when everything lines up and

they're 45° angles Chris just pointed

out so they're not terrible to add even

more anxiety to this I just realized cuz

I forgot that I can't cut all of them

from the same side so what I'm going to

need to do is cut four of the cuts on

this side and then four of the cuts on

the other side um which means I'm going

to have to adjust the blade which could

lead to to micro issues and yay this is

going great I'm so

happy all right not too shabby so far

everything's kind of long and loose

still but boom clean those up a bit and

then I will have two triangles and it

only took me 2 hours do you have to do

more those are going to be even more fun

here we go these are our two door parts

so I'll get these and I'll get these

glued up and then I'll bring bring them

down to like final size I'll start now

I'm going to start working on this other

which is going to be these

really freaking weird looking bat

somehow I got to do that in the real

world it's going to be great it's his

fault in order to make the little Gap in

the triangle on the next one I'm going

to start there I have to cut the angle

which is 22 1/2 so I took that

measurement I set the angle here I have

to cut this with an outside width of

four and 1516 in and then make two of

them it's fun is that right that can't

be right let's see 11 and a half I can't

talk I don't know what I'm

doing now we got to do these little I'm

going to do a domino in here I think I

have super super small ones a little bit

of TLC should be looking pretty good for

the glue up sake like not shabby not too

shabby at all this actually look really

nice thanks man thanks I try hard you

can't have it I don't want it I was just

like yeah you do Joe was just professing

off camera how much he wants it I never

said

that okay so I'm going to use CA glue to

clamp this which will just help me get

the Domino in and then I will use a

little dab of CA to hold everything kind

of tight that'll hold it while I get a

I'll get the strap around it once I have

the lap joints glued up cuz those get

glued vertically which is a little bit

more uh surface area and an easier thing

to glue

up it's definitely a hack like you

definitely want to come back can

reinforce

that so everything should be dry and

ready to get fitted this has been quite

a little adventured here I feel like

I've gotten nothing done cuz it's all so

small and tedious we should start making

some heavy Headway now that I have

triangles built so I still need to build

the last two pieces I'll get these

squared and shaped up and then I'll get

into it touch these up with a sander and

then like there we go that little piece

there it's looking cool now let's finish

the damn desk now we get to drill all

the hinges in woo so they need to be

facing us so that way this piece can go

like

this make sense makes no sense to me I'm

very scared 30 hinges this sucks this is

not what I like to do I just really hope

these Rinky Dink little Chinese screws

work teamwork like I said how did a dude

do this on the floor of his apartment

zero help we'll never know I guess we'll

never know can't wait to take it apart

and sand it as mention you got to put

like little

racks where the is that in the drawing

yeah I did I read all 37 Pages where's

that in the drawing it it wasn't in the

drawing I was going to tell you it it

was just the one I mean I don't think

the Asian guy did it but he definitely

didn't do it yeah but the guy I watched

was like I was having weird cuz your

drawing didn't have any curvs in it

either so I had to adjust and then

change everything yeah you had

everything fit and was there was no gaps

in anything so none of it there were

gaps between the slats now yeah why we

put our cards in the table

here all right guys we have the whole

team out here and I have this much

confidence this is going to work oh no

this one's wrong who put the guys who

put a hinge on upside down that's just a

straight up Miss and I know I did

it I was going to say I wasn't here I

100% did it no I did the first uh 20 of

them Sam caught up to me on the last

seven go get my shop Shake so I'm

protected and look good and they're

comfortable yeah you look like up

until 2 minutes

ago go to your home are you too good for

your

home this thing

is what some might call the josa r it's

pretty baffling to me how much more

difficult this is than than I was

anticipating that one's too short for

like the whole thing how that happen

they all needed to be this long damn

it oh it's sliding it's sliding yes it's

sliding keep going hey keep going that's

it no we're almost there there's a

little bit more to go what yeah oh

goodness I'm scared no I think that's it

no he's like Chris is like no no why

what no so I think this is where the

measurements got dramatically off if we

look here we're touching in some a bunch

of these so my guy's drawing with a

on the floor all of these were up see

this line came up to go straight so

these slots were like super long for

some reason but I mean hey it works

though it kind of worked now we got to

see how the hell we can get that thing

to mount to the oh I see what you're

saying it still has to come back I mean

not really cuz it hinges on these last

two yeah but it needs to that needs us H

90 with the top okay well let's solve

that issue after we can cut that top

flush the tracks off already it up like

already severely moves the

track

two of them were too short then or we

could make it a radius and get real

fancy with there n Chris is like I

didn't build a single thing on this but

I don't want to do that everything

happening in my life right now I don't

like mostly this grab that give me that

level just another feat of like how the

did our dude do this on the floor

of his

apartment left hand oh it's was terrible

it looks kind of like

stupid hanging it's hanging great so you

do

this

oh that actually went kind of smooth now

this is

the damn

it I put so much work into this thing

for it to not work that one that one so

these three it's bottoming out in which

is interesting to say the least 7 8 9 10

well no 9 8 and 7B wonder why we're

almost home we're going to tweak this

slightly and then we'll give you a

little bit of a final

reveal right so we want this sucker

opening left to right and the parts to

kind of all align just to make sure

before I get too far down the rabbit

hole that screws something up I can't

fix it so we're going to make sure

everything's aligned for super goofy to

like get all this stuff to be square

they're close to square but it all kind

of still take some don't these go Yep

they're completely wrong we're probably

going to need a little bit of play just

for the sake of like movement be careful

what you wish for cuz a hinge goes in

here and here and here and here you

obviously can't have things be like

super butthole tight but that's looking

that's looking kind of neat huh yeah all

right next part this and this more or

less it's like two pieces of Walnut that

are 3 and 1/2 by 3 and 1/2 we're going

to have a pin attached to the bottom of

one and the top of the other is going to

float so that it can spin across I don't

know how I'm going to make that yet but

these two pieces need to go like this

this is going to hit like I'd have to

find a way to overlap them like cut one

into the other I just need to think of

how how can I do that and then have the

top one sit I think I'm just going to

cut these two parts come on follow me my

brain I don't know where I'm on a

different planet right

now I'll just cut them together and then

I can cut a lap joint like I've done on

the other ones in the part that's going

to have the curl to it so if that makes

sense I can I can cut I think I can do

that relief joint that should allow me

to get this to work and like I said I'm

going to have some play because of the

way this is built or for needing to have

a hinge in

it this is probably so hard to follow on

camera I'm sorry where am I I'm

literally just making up as I

go so this should kind of show you what

I'm thinking because obviously at the

moment it makes no sense if you look at

it from here I need these to line up

perfect and be 90° and then I need to

make half laps on the top and the bottom

because when you pull it up the top one

stays fixed and the bottom one rotates I

think so the theory in my head so far is

that so I'll clean these up a

bit there something that I think I just

realized I screwed up on you know as you

pull this these will pivot and then when

I get to this side they're not going to

like I I don't have enough room room for

it to open the whole way so I have to

have straight edges I can't have the

edges the way I have them now wonder if

that's an easy fix looking at it I think

I'm going to have to recut these these

holes got off

centered that's what we needed to do

though now that we know be a little

easier to do this time let's try

again they're still off damn it I'm

pretty sure so the mechanism works I

pull it out these hinges go down here

these hinges go up here and so I'm going

to use the same hinges we use on the

folding desk might just attach them and

see if it works and then come back and

mortise them in commence time lapse of