Keith Johnson Custom Woodworking
Building furniture can be accomplished in many different ways…these are some of the methods and techniques that I use.
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Series
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14 Episodes
Starring
Keith Johnson
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Bending wood to build one-of-kind furniture
So, the big question is…do you prefer curved lines over angular or straight lines? Countless studies have been done on this topic for centuries and…
How to turn boring wood into heirloom furniture.
As a general rule, I don’t work with highly figured woods. They don’t usually align with my design aesthetic, and I’ve never been commissioned to…
Fine Furniture in 48 hours – is it possible?
It’s no secret I love expensive tools. But in this video, I’m shoving them all to the side and I’m going to show you how…
The floating desk that almost never happened.
Has this ever happened to you?? For once, I planned ahead on this project and grabbed 50BF of rift-sawn white oak at $8/BF. Unfortunately, it…
I spent over $5000 building my dream office.
Last time, I built a custom floating walnut desk for my new office/studio, however, I still had a lot of work to do to get…
A closet door with cat access and privacy glass!!
Picture this: a door that’s not just any door, but a door with a personality! Electrified privacy glass?! Yep. Oh, but wait! There’s more! Brace…
I should have said NO to this project.
Do you remember those walnut desks I did recently? Well, there was this little nook in the corner of the podcast studio that was begging…
How to build a dining table that will last forever.
How to build a dining table that’s heavy AF. There’s no getting around it…this was a heavy fu*kin table. The tabletop itself for this white…
Don’t make THIS mistake with your furniture business. #liveedgetable
Never EVER buy materials for a commission without a deposit or a payment in full upfront. I dropped almost $1500 on a pair of 1-½”…
The UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTH about building custom furniture.
Have you ever lied to a client? Let me rephrase…has a client ever asked for something and you said “sure, no problem”, BUT you had…
100+ HOURS of work…was it worth it?
Walnut desk legs, BUT with a secret 🤫. The amount of work and details that went into these desk legs was too much to not…
Overbuilt…but why? Vanity PART 2
Is it cabinetry or furniture? A hybrid building approach to a white oak bathroom vanity…In part 1 of this build, we covered various joinery methods…
True cabinet makers will NOT like this. Vanity PART 1
Well, I may have finally lost it. I’m pretty sure I went off the deep end with joinery on this white oak vanity. I had…
How to bend wood and build a floating desk.
If you remember in the last video, we overbuilt an awesome door for my new closet studio with electronic privacy glass and a custom walnut…