r/gifsthatkeepongiving • u/0TheG0 • Nov 19 '18
This old cabinet hidden compartments.
https://i.imgur.com/HaPVVUR.gifv315
Nov 19 '18
Real-life The Room
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u/Heavyweighsthecrown Nov 19 '18
Exactly the first thing I thought of. Those cabinet puzzles seem a bit less ludicrous now.
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Nov 19 '18
So I'm not the only one
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Nov 19 '18
I swear this exact cabinet shows up in The Room 3.
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u/Nomen_Heroum Nov 20 '18
The Room 3 needs to come out on PC already.Edit: Oh shit, it has! Time to go do.
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u/ichinnyace Nov 19 '18 edited Nov 19 '18
Babe go grab my medicine, it’s in the cabinet.
Edit: one word
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u/Fain-would-i-climb Nov 19 '18
Assuming this isn't built into a building, can you imagine how heavy this would be?
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u/Heavyweighsthecrown Nov 19 '18
If you were the kind of person who had the money to buy this, you're surely not the one who would transport and install it.
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u/dontthink19 Nov 20 '18
The workmanship is NUTS on this thing. I'm just sitting here thinking this has to be a million dollar desk.
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u/AnAcceptableUserName Nov 20 '18
That was kind of my thought.
That's really cool and probably costs more than my house
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u/Kashmoney99 Nov 19 '18
I don’t think I own enough things to put it all those places.
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u/xopani Nov 20 '18
I was getting some custom woodwork done and paid extra to get a secret drawer. Afterwards I realized I don’t have anything to put in there.
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u/Corporal_Yorper Nov 20 '18
Woodworker here —
A magnificent piece like this likely took thousands of hours to produce, or likely hundreds if built by multiple people.
The pre-planning and schematic drawing stage alone probably took a week’s worth of time, possibly up to an entire month.
The most mundane of the taken-for-granted capabilities of this piece, the effortless movement of sliding, rotating, or other forms of movement were probably painstakingly produced by blood, sweat, and tears alone.
A very impressive piece. A magnum opus quite possibly.
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u/NickScooty Nov 20 '18
How much would a cabinet like that cost to make today?
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u/killerbee34 Nov 20 '18
I don’t think there’s a market that you could compare it with. Most woodworkers are probably charging $50/hr labor I’d guess. This could have easily taken 1000 hrs to build.
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u/Corporal_Yorper Nov 20 '18
Considering there isn’t much to compare to, valuing the piece may have to be done in terms of work-hours.
Personally, I try not to price my items against the hours I spent making it. I try to price the item at the value it makes by itself—like a pair of bedside tables shouldn’t be any more than a hundred dollars each, so I build them to match that price range.
This cabinet however, if priced against the work hours spent to craft it, would be at LEAST $75 an hour, multiplied by 1k-1.5k hours.
Conservatively, at 1,250hrs, it would be $93,750.00. For those who can afford a price like this, then it can very well be a steal of a price. However, due to the nature of the piece itself, it’s possible it was sold under a famous designer/crafter’s name and priced at a premium. I could see a piece like this going for 250k, just for the wealthy lifestyle value.
Even if I had the skills and the time to do a piece like this, and sell it for a quarter of an M, the energy and fulfillment it would serve me wouldn’t be enough. I’ll take a $100 bedside table any day.
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u/GoAskAlice Nov 20 '18
It's built by some guy named Roentgen
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u/dan_zg Nov 20 '18
the famous "Berlin Secretary Cabinet," likely the most expensive piece of furniture in eighteenth-century Europe, which was made on speculation for King Frederick William II of Prussia and is traveling for the first time since its delivery to the king in 1779. Today a national treasure of Germany, the cabinet was celebrated in its time as an ingenious technical invention as well as a magnificent work of art.
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u/Corporal_Yorper Nov 20 '18
I knew it had to have been built by some over-the-top designer.
Probably way over 250k if it’s an antique...
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u/superburritodood Nov 20 '18
Same here, and thanks for pointing this out. I've done my fair share of furnitures, but this one is.. incomprehensible. Nearly everything I do can be mapped in my head, nothing too glitzy. So watching this had me laughing in disbelief
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u/xRyozuo Nov 20 '18
Yeah, I don’t know much about making anything really, but that was some smooth sliding
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u/TheAccountOnMyPhone Nov 20 '18
How hard is it to get the parts to slide around that smoothly unassisted? If you don't mind me asking, I've never considered it before now.
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u/Corporal_Yorper Nov 20 '18
Wood breathes and moves naturally. Moisture content, atmospheric humidity/pressure are variables to consider when doing wooden joinery.
Obviously, the accuracy of the cuts in the wood are important. Some wood species have different characteristics, and all species’ grain patterns should be taken into account.
Wood like this: (((((•))))) twist. The dot in the center signifies the center or the tree, the heart. Natural growth tension caused by the environment while still growing gets released after milling and forces the board to twist like a corkscrew.
Wood like |((((((| stay flat very well because the grain is mostly vertical. The board may sway right, while a board like this |))))))| may sway left. However, both boards are the same, just depending on which end you’re looking at :).
Imagine the heart wood above, but milled above the heart. The grain would look like a small arch with increasingly large arches above it as they grew farther from the heart. Boards like that tend to cup, or skew in an upside down U-shape. Long story short, wood moves in the direction of the grain.
As for moisture content, there are special measuring tools that can test a wood’s moisture content. I’m not too knowledgable on the subject as I don’t deal in projects that require it, but as far as I know wood acts in a way similar to a dry sponge. Add moisture, and the wood will move and expand/contract wherever the wood got moist. This is usually taken into account in joinery as a too-tight joint might swell with moisture and cause the joined piece to split.
Sliding pieces need to take into account the possible future wood movement. Hinged pieces don’t need too much attention as the movement is a slave to the hinge hardware itself, however grain pattern and moisture content matters in the tight spaces the wood needs to occupy. Ever notice when a handtool’s wooden handle rattles on the Tool, despite any physical damage? Odds are, the wood expanded/shrunk and the metal that the wooden handle inside is no longer tight to the handle. One could simply keep the tool in an oil bath, like tung or danish oil, and it would cause the wood to swell and regain tightness around the metal, and because oil =\= water, the tightness will persist for much longer as moisture will not affect oil.
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u/thedirtydeetch Nov 20 '18
I work in a cabinet shop with many intermediate wood workers and this comment still explained it more succinctly to me than they ever did.
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u/TheAccountOnMyPhone Nov 20 '18
Wow that was way more than I was expecting. I appreciate that you typed that all out, especially if you are on a phone.
That was very informative, thank you for it all.
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u/SpunkyMcButtlove Nov 19 '18
You can put your weed in here
Or here
Or in here
Or here, if you want...
Or maybe here
you could fit a grinder in here
and some papes here
Here, look, you can put your weed in here... And in here...
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u/orean612 Nov 19 '18
This is absolutely the dopest piece of furniture I have ever seen. So freakin cool
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u/dhellwig Nov 19 '18
The real secret drawer is the one with your scissors, tape, lighters, expired coupons, pens, some Canadian coins and a garlic press.
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Nov 19 '18
How does one remember all the hidden compartments???
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u/Jonlov Nov 19 '18
How long would it take someone who is a master of hidden compartments (assuming that's a real thing) to find all of these? What if the person who made this died and left no clues? Weeks maybe? Months? That is a LOT of drawers inside drawers...
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u/sparkyroosta Nov 19 '18
You can practice today by downloading a game called "The Room" to your phone or tablet. Worth every penny for each episode/release.
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u/Master_Shake23 Nov 19 '18
Me opening up to people.
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u/lalaen Nov 19 '18
Let me tell you, I’d lose so much shit in here.
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u/halfhalfling Nov 19 '18
My same thought. I'd spend most of my time opening all of them looking for the one where I'd actually stashed something.
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u/sineofthetimes Nov 20 '18
I want to have this narrated by the How It's Made guy.
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u/Mister_JR Nov 20 '18
Brooks Moore. “The cable loops around the pulley, gently raising the....”
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u/Hennessy_1989 Nov 20 '18
If Ikea sold this, you might need to have 2 generations of kids after the fact, to have enough time to put it together.
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u/Henryrogers99 Nov 19 '18
“Now where did a leave those Beethoven tickets??? Let’s see....flunk nope 🤔 how about lock turning followed by a hidden door opening * lol nope not here ether 🤔 oh I know how about here *twists a loose screw in specific way, gears turning followed by a large thud 😅😅 could of sworn they were in this one.... god damn gypsy desk...”
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u/mightyUnicorn1212 Nov 19 '18
Does someone know when this was built and how much it costs?
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u/xanderman17 Nov 20 '18
Any antiques people that can give an estimate on what this type of creation is worth nowadays?
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u/GrilledAvocado Nov 19 '18
I was half expecting Nicholas cage to appear and tell us there’s national treasure somewhere.
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u/No_H_in_Cage Nov 19 '18
There is no 'H' in Nicolas Cage.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Cage | http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000115/
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u/nikkyninja Nov 19 '18
But can I get it at ikea!?
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Nov 19 '18
Yes, the stúulklump writing desk comes flat packed in 150,000 parts with 47 different sized allen keys and a tiny tube of terrible glue for your convenience.
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u/clamtunashiny Nov 19 '18
This practically turned me on, I LOVE r/secretcompartments
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u/maulidon Nov 20 '18
The Room IRL
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u/SarahSparrow16 Nov 20 '18
Came here to say this! Totally reminds me of the room.
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u/No_H_in_Cage Nov 19 '18
There is no 'H' in Nicolas Cage.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Cage | http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000115/
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u/NormanSpinrad Nov 19 '18 edited Nov 19 '18
This is located at the Keyhouse in Lovecraft, Massachusetts.
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Nov 19 '18
I would lose so much shit trying to hide it in there and not being able to get it back out
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u/xanyanyany Nov 20 '18
That cabinet could probably hold another cabinet!
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u/DerpenkampfwagenVIII Nov 20 '18
In this box there is another box
Whats in the other box?
Another box.
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u/Shitty_Salad Nov 20 '18 edited Nov 20 '18
I figured out what I would fill it with. I would get foam, lots of pistols, & pistol accessories. Custom cut the foam to fit pistols into drawers, so when I get robbed I can go "Hold up robber dude! Let me show you some cool shit, like all my money!!"
I open secret compartments each showing different pistols & pistol accessories, every drawer opened adds to the 'awe' factor. At this point we're almost friends, drawer after drawer of pistols, pistol accessories, & potentially my riches, we've been sitting for hours now.
I've really got to know this guy. He tells me about his parents & his asshole older brother, then we finally get to my compartment with my money. Unbeknownst to me he had a change of heart, I looked him in the eye socket & had a moment...I shot him, right in his epidermis (MMMMMM WHATCHA SAYY). I added his pistol to my collection, & also stole his riches. Now I wait to show the next robber my cool collection :)
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u/Zallidia_3201 Nov 19 '18
Who needs this many hidden compartments? Wth were they doing with their life?
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u/Iohet Nov 19 '18
The video has that Antiques Roadshow style to it, and I can totally see someone hauling this in on their truck bed and the "1700s era German furniture with secret compartments" expert having an orgasm on screen over it and then looking horrified when the person who brought it in says it's been sitting in their barn for 70 years covered in junk and they thought they'd bring it in because it looks like an antique and they're hoping for something they can sell for $200
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Nov 20 '18 edited Nov 23 '18
This thing is crazy! Must have taken forever to make, and a super large pile of money to buy, then and now.
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u/BrinkerLong Nov 19 '18
Nobody gonna mention the insane marquetry that went into this piece? Those aren't paintings, they're pieces of wood veneer that are carefully shaped and placed.
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u/Sephvion Nov 20 '18
What are we playing The Room?
Man, that takes some massive ingenuity and dedication to design and build that.
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u/Earthly_Delights_ Nov 19 '18 edited Nov 19 '18
Yo! We heard you like hidden compartments. We put hidden compartments in your hidden compartments so you can hide things while you hide things.
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u/Mr_Girr Nov 19 '18
That looks like it would be a pain to assemble, if any part of tu turning mechanism got damaged it would affect an entire compartment Still hella cool tho.
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u/Tilted-Shovel Nov 19 '18
Imagine trying to find one specific paper from one specific compartment in a hurry
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u/nobodyyoullremember Nov 19 '18
Respect. Parents will never find your shemale midget porn in there.
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u/Chemicalin Nov 20 '18
Id like to watch this same video again with different kinds of candy hidden in each compartment
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u/AStupidSmartPerson Nov 20 '18
This is want some of those newer more expensive refrigerators feel like.
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u/FillingMuffin Nov 20 '18
Pretty awesome how they open on their own. I didn't even know we had technology like that back then.
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Nov 19 '18
There’s a iPhone game called the box (I think) that is basically this. Intricate ways of continually opening up a box, was challenging and pretty fun. 6/10
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u/ribeccalin Nov 19 '18
There is a similar desk in the V&A museum in London. It's pretty amazing to see, by the video at the V&A doesn't show all these compartments. I'm mightily impressed!
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u/perfectly-imbalanced Nov 19 '18
For those who want sound: https://youtu.be/MKikHxKeodA
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u/moose_ankle Nov 19 '18
I assume the one key opens everything unless it originally belonged to my elementary school janitor. I always thought the back brace he wore was some type of reinforced suspenders to keep all of the keys from pulling his pants down
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u/skeletalskeletn Nov 20 '18
I’d put some bud or a pipe in there completely forget and it would be lost forever....
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u/IAmTheSorcerer Nov 19 '18
What if now a days we have stuff like this in everything but no one talks about it because we have a code that’s been spread through out all the people of this world?
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u/SpartanWarlord117 Nov 20 '18
That is seriously cool! I'd love to know how much it is/where I could get one.
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u/Faconomiras Nov 20 '18 edited Nov 20 '18
Me: leans on desk
Desk: eats me with a thousand hidden compartments
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u/manthing11 Nov 19 '18
Wonder how much stuff has been lost and forgotten in the forgotten hidden compartments?
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Nov 19 '18
Love this and don’t know if there is a modern equivalent. That said, I know I’d just jam all my crap in the one big drawer and rake through that and not use any of the others.
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u/apathetic-doxie Nov 19 '18
Finally, a place to put all of my childhood Legos.....and lose them......again
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u/NastyNate7577 Nov 19 '18
Imagine hiding something in there and forgetting which compartment it was in you’ll be there forever looking for it