How to Make a Shiplapped Back Panel
Tips and techniques for making an elegant, traditional cabinet back.
Apr 25, 2017
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Videos in the Series
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All About the North Bennet Street ToolboxJanuary 24, 2017 -
The History of the North Bennet Street ToolboxJanuary 24, 2017 -
Easy Way to Glue up PanelsJanuary 24, 2017 -
Dovetailed Toolbox Case Needs Careful LayoutJanuary 31, 2017 -
Hand-Cut Dovetails: Pins FirstFebruary 7, 2017 -
Hand-Cut Dovetails: Tails SecondFebruary 14, 2017 -
Finessing the Fit of Case DovetailsFebruary 14, 2017 -
Cutting Joinery for the Toolbox CaseFebruary 21, 2017 -
Gluing Up a Toolbox CaseFebruary 28, 2017 -
Making Dividers for the ToolboxMarch 7, 2017 -
How to Attach Dividers to the CaseMarch 14, 2017 -
How to Make Dovetailed Drawer Partitions: Dado FirstMarch 14, 2017 -
How to Make Dovetailed Drawer Partitions: Dovetail SecondMarch 14, 2017 -
Laying Out Dovetail Joinery for the DrawersMarch 21, 2017 -
Cutting Half-Blind Dovetails for DrawersMarch 28, 2017 -
How to Fit DrawersApril 4, 2017 -
Cutting Joinery for a Frame-and-Panel DoorApril 11, 2017 -
Make a Raised Panel for a DoorApril 11, 2017 -
How to Assemble a Raised-Panel DoorApril 11, 2017 -
How to Hang the Door and Add a LocksetApril 18, 2017 -
How to Make a Shiplapped Back PanelApril 25, 2017
Comments
Thanks Matt! I learned a lot!
Could you please share the plans for this project ?
What an excellent series. Presented to us by a modest, humble and down to earth guy who commands respect and is obviously an expert in his field. The students are incredibly lucky at that school to have such an excellent tutor. Thanks Matt and Fine Woodworking. When is the next one out ?
Matt - great series!!
will the plans be available?
This video series ranks among the finest instructional work FWW has ever done. It has been a tremendous value add to the magazine and I hope there is more to come. Matt is a talented craftsman and an outstanding communicator. Ben Strano and production crew, are you kidding me? What a fabulous eye for production, process and presentation. Whoever from FWW that brought Ben onboard is to be congratulated. Fine work all around!.
Thanks, Matt! Epic series! Can't wait for more.
Thanks Matt. The best wood working series I have ever seen. I learned a lot.
Can't tell you how inspirational and educational this series has been. The way Matt shares his thinking process, as well as the methods of work, is phenomenal. I was genuinely sad to see it end. Give us more like this, and more of Matt in general - he is a gifted teacher
This series, along with Matts teaching has inspired me to not only take my woodworking to the next level, but gave me the skills to do so. Thank you Fine woodworking and Matt. may God bless you.
Very nicely done! Congratulations to all and I hope many series like this are still to come.
73 ES GOD BLESS U ES URS
Thanks! Amazing series!
This was an amazing series. Kudos to all involved and Matt for sharing his wealth of knowledge. It was so inspiring.
Hope there are plans - I'd be happy to re-watch this (probably 1000x times, pausing and rewinding lol) and build my own.
Thanks Matt. The series was brilliant and well produced. Your section on dovetails was one of the best I've ever seen.
Looked forward to every installment.
Thanks and look forward to more!
Thanks to all that have participated in this production, watching a true craftsman that has mastered their skill is always a joy to behold, especially when they are as picky as hell (that's a compliment), will leave flawless results, it's been a pleasure to watch the series, Thank you.
Great series. I look forward to more from Matt.
What a fantastic series! You have set a new standard for the woodworking teaching community. Thank you for all the expertise Matt, Ben, and I'm sure many more unnamed talents.
Thank you Matt and Ben and everyone else connected with this series. Best series ever. Great job.
I agree, the best video series I've had the pleasure to watch. Good job Matt and great production work Ben (and others I'm sure). You two make a good combination. I wondered at first if the length and number of episodes would become a little boring, but just the opposite happened and that made it all the more interesting. Thanks FWW for letting them do this.
Fantastic series! Fantastic project! Fantastic workmanship! Thanks much, Matt, I learned so much!
Excellent video and a great example of how a "simple" cabinet involves so many steps and different techniques, right down to the last episode. The cross grain chop out of the corners! Exactly the way I would have approached my second corner. Thank you Matt, the remarks during the construction were spot-on. Ben, very Scorsese of you. Thank you all.
Well, I completely agree with everybody's comments on the superb technical woodworking information, Matt's presentation, and Ben's video production. Thank you all.
Committing to and achieving this level of craftsmanship on a tool box only means equal or better results when applying this to furniture or the like. Wow!
Great series, one of the best I have ever seen produced by Fine Woodworking!
Thank you Fine Woodworking for taking a risk and producing this long and involved series. I agree, it was one of the best because of the craftsmanship on both sides of the camera. I was eager to see each new segment. Well done.
Awesome Series! Looking forward to the next !? Thanks Matt and Fine Woodworking
Loved it, looking forward to more in depth video series. Thanks !
Matt Wajda's teaching here has been fantastic. Very detailed and tons of helpful tips. This has been the best video series yet! Thank you.
No, say it isn't so, Matt. This is like a loved novel, that when the reading is complete, I feel a deep sense of loss.
You are a master teacher. I hope you will do more tutorials in the future.
Thanks.
Spectacular - great teacher; clearly born to pass on his knowledge. Very well done FWW.
Awesome.
Very well done! Matt's teaching and demonstration were illustrated nicely with excellent videography. I'd judge myself to be intermediate-advanced skill level in casework and I learned many things watching Matt. I'll watch this series again for sure. Matt does more than just show how to build this toolbox. He drops many pearls of technique wisdom that everyone will find useful.
great series please do more with Matt. This whole series was extraordinary!!! Jabe
Thank you Matt and FWW for an informative, detailed instruction series. I've been glued to it since the first episode and look forward to more in the future.
Thank you so much to all, awesome series and I second all the above comment
Wow! Thanks. What's next?
An excellent project for illustrating a wide variety of techniques and setups. As one who is sometimes too eager, I appreciated the planning and patience that goes into every 'move.' Matt, you showed me a lot, dividends will be paid for years to come. Many thanks to you and FWW for an excellent series.
Excellent, excellent, excellent. Sad to see it end. This will be re-watched . Thanks to everyone evolved.
Thank you so much to all involved. I learned a lot and will definitely be rewatching. It was an awsome program! I too hope there are more projects coming like this one. Well done Matt!
A huge Thank you to everyone involved!
It's already been said many times here, but truly exceptional work both from Matt and from FWW. I really appreciated Matt's calm, confident approach and his clear mastery of the craft. I also really appreciated the video work, although it is a world I am not involved in it was clearly well done. Nice, easily digestible segments. Great detail.
To the editors at FWW, this series has been a home run. Please do more like it. What a fantastic gift to the craft and to generations of woodworkers to come.
Thanks,
DS.
This was a terrific course. I learned a lot, much of which will find its way into the arts and crafts chest of drawers I'm working on. Many thanks to all who contributed to the course, with particular thanks to Matt for sharing his skill and his approach to the work. dlbfw
Outstanding project, outstanding series, outstanding teacher! Thanks Matt, thanks FWW, and thank you to the North Bennet Street School! I'd love to see more like these.
Wow! I feel I have just been to school.
Thanks.
This was an amazing video series. The instruction and camera work were first rate. In addition to using this video series to build this tool chest, I will use it as a reference on how to cut dovetails, drawer making and fitting, case work and on and on. Thanks to all - please make more of these videos. (Watch out Wood Wisperer)
Outstanding series. Hope you produce more of these. Love the level of detail and time taken on every process. Great Job, Matt.
Excellent series.....drawer reveals - a lesson for me ......slow, methodical and patience in the effort to produce each piece is also a rewarding lesson. Camera work couldn't be better. Thank you Matt and FWW.
Excellent series. Liked the emphasis on using both machine and hand tools. Also the "tips" on when Matt liked to do something a certain way to emphasis the "custom" appearance of the piece were good. This piece has a bit of everything (hence the use as a first project in the teaching I assume). Also fun to see the wonderful tools the shop has, especially liked the mortiser machine--wow what a giant with excellent control.
Also appreciated the tips on the high feather board and the many, many explanations from Matt as to "why" he was doing something.
Would have been nice to have an episode on the finishing. Hand finishes are a section unto them selves, granted, but the simple sanding and finishing would have completed the project. I suspect some inside surfaces were finished before assembly and the explanation of this, etc. would have been instructive since Matt is obviously a woodworker first and a finisher second his perspective would have been useful.
Thanks Matt and Fine WoodWorking.
I would really like to see many more full length builds just like this one with the associated plan available for sale(which I bought)
Well worth watching. Thank you!
This is such a great series. Like others have said, I'm saddened to have reached the end of it, but I will come back to it I'm sure. I wish I had gone to a school like NBS when I was younger, but videos like this allow me to learn from a great teacher nonetheless. I'd love to see as many more videos by Matt as you can convince him to do. I especially appreciate the way he shows us how and then explains the why of what he is doing. That helps to cement the knowledge, the hallmark of a great teacher. Thanks Matt, Ben, FWW, and NBSS for a great series!
This was done so well. I think I learned how to avoided making most of the mistakes that I typically make in case building. The demonstration and explanation of dovetails was invaluable.
Thanks Matt
What an excellent series. I have been binge watching and really learned so much. Thank you for doing this.
I watched all segments. What a perfect and meticulous work of Art woodworking project. Matt, at times I was getting a bit impatient how meticulously and patient you went about perfecting the your work, but when you finalized the project and seeing how perfectly the project was finalized I understood why you were so detailed in every aspect of it, and I will keep that in mind when I am doing my project. What a lesson to learn.
You are one hell of a furniture maker. Thank you for your time and efforts and appreciate your patience completing this project in such a perfection form.
Thank you.
Ed
G'day,
As an educator myself, Matt is outstanding. His attention to detail is very professional and especially illuminating.
Thanks,
dfr
Professor of Aerospace Engineering (Emeritus)
This series alone is worth the price of membership! I have watched this twice and I think I learned as much the second time as the first. Great series taught by a great teacher.
Cleaning up the rabbet for the backboards in the final episode really caught my attention. I can see myself doing that in 1/3 the time and getting acceptable results. But look what I would lose. Watching Matt, I could experience the visceral sensation as he chopped gently but thoughtfully across the grain and shy of the line, and even more so watching and hearing the sharp chisel slice a precise and clean corner, where a less perfect result would suffice. It is that extra bit of care and precision with a sharp handtool---even in a corner that would probably go unnoticed by most---that gives so much satisfaction to the one fortunate to be doing the work.
this is why i subscribe. depth not usually found in youtube land. Thanks Matt, Ben and team
What a master!!!! The level of detail and the explanation as to why it is needed is just oustanding. Thanks Matt and hope to see you soon in another series.
A wonderful experience watching a master at work. Watched from another part of the world. I learned so much. Thank you Matt!
I was so sad when it finished..... the quality of this series is just beyond words. the professional Matt is a master. the chosen project is very complete and beautiful.
I wish I could find more of these out there. The only thing missing to really complete it is the drawings to make is 100%perfect.
pls try to do more series like this with North Benett pros.
This was probably the most informative half day of woodworking instruction I have ever experienced. I've been doing casework pieces for about 20 years and thought I knew a lot about the subject but there was not one since episode that failed to relay a significant new lesson or insight. Having watched this series (which I'll certainly wath again) has undoubtedly improved the precision of my work. This series alone is worth the price of admission!
Thank you Matt. Just viewed the project in 2019. The most informative and valuable tutorial I’ve seen, and thanks to Finewoodworking. Reading the previous comments, please do it again!
Great learning project. Matt’s pace of instruction is superb - he is quick enough not to lose my interest and methodical enough to make his point clearly. Great teaching skill.
Watched this when it first came out and just rewatched the shiplap section as I’m about to do it on a project and wanted to reacquaint myself with the process. Glad I did. As many have said, best series ever. Thanks Matt. Thanks Ben and all others involved in producing it.
Learned so much! Excellent instruction. One of the best so far! I can’t wait to build my own.
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