- Hey guys, quick shout out to Vincent Ferrari
and Ethan Carter from "Because We Make" podcast
and also Michael Alm for the idea for the patterned plywood.
The link for his video will be in the description.
First thing I wanna do is set my blade to 60 degrees.
That's the wrong knob.
The first cut we're gonna make is just 60 degree cut.
The first cut will just be scrap.
Then after that, we're just gonna keep making
60 degree cuts.
The cut thickness
is gonna be the same thickness as the material
that you're using, so for me, I think its about 19 degrees
but in Michael Alms video he shows me a little trick way
to make sure it's the right thickness.
I'll show you that too.
(chill music) (saw whirring)
Alright, so there's my first 60 degree cut.
What we're gonna do, while I put my sunnys off,
the first thing I'm gonna do is get my 60 degree cut,
have that flat against the table,
I'll zoom in on a second,
undo my fence, tap that, (tapping on tool)
all the way until you hit the blade.
You don't wanna be pressing up against it too hard.
Make sure there bottom is flat on there,
until you've got that there.
Press it down,
and that should be pretty good.
I'm gonna make three cuts and make sure that
after those three cuts it's a perfect 60 degrees
and it should make a nice pattern.
(saw whirring) (chill music)
All right, so once you've got your pieces,
there's a few different ways you can make the design.
The design I'm gonna do is this.
That kinda looks like a cube.
So basically I'll end up gluing those all together
but first I gotta cut out a boat load of these
then I'll glue them all up
and once it's all dry I'll start cutting into discs.
(saw whirring) (chill music)
Once you got all your pieces cut
I'm gonna start gluing these all up.
There's no real wrong way you can do this.
Join the pieces together and you get that square shape.
To clamp, you don't need any clamps,
that's probably there only good thing.
Just buy a bag of rubber bands, I've got heaps here,
and just keep twisting 'em over until they're tight.
It's gonna take me a while,
so I'm gonna put in the timelapse.
I've left this for a day,
now I'm gonna take off the rubber bands.
Awesome, happy with that.
Alright so, I'm gonna cut this the same thickness
as the material.
So to do that, I've got a piece of scrap,
I'm gonna put this scrap, hold this back,
put this down, make sure that piece is
hard up against the blade.
You see how I've left about a millimeter,
or I don't know what imperial measurement,
just a little tiny bit.
I don't want it exactly the same thickness as the material
because I'm gonna have to sand this down
when I glue it all together
'cause I know it's not gonna be perfect,
so I'm leaving a millimeter to sand down
to get it down to the same thickness as the plywood.
Sweet, and I've clamped that down
so that's gonna be my stop block.
(saw whirring)
Oh man, it's so crisp.
It's gonna turn out awesome.
(saw whirring) (chill music)
I ended up doubling it up so I could cut two at once
'cause it was taking ages to cut all the pieces.
(saw whirring) (chill music)
All right, that took me ages.
Now it's time for glue up.
I've got this piece of melamine
so the glue doesn't stick to it.
I've got this scrap piece of timber that I'll cut
and screw to the edge because it's straight.
So basically I can butt the pieces up against
these two corners.
First one I'll wedge in the corner like that
and then I'll make sure that it's the same pattern
and keep gluing them together.
(chill music)
I don't want the pattern to be like a block,
I actually want it to sort of merge into the plywood
so I'm gonna make some peaks, probably three peaks.
Probably one here, one there
and one on the edge or something.
Kinda random, I don't want it to be like
three exact diamonds.
I'll just make it up on the fly
and hopefully it looks good.
Alright, this is the next morning.
I wanna see if this ended up getting stuck to this.
I put down that paste wax and that should hopefully
make it break free.
Ha, sweet!
And once it's all dry I'll start cutting 'em into discs.
Cautious about this.
Oh wow, look at that.
Whoa, there's a few gaps in it but
I'm not too worried 'cause I'll fill those in later.
Now I'm gonna grab the rest of the plywood
that I'm gonna merge this in with.
All right that's all done.
Now I'm gonna get this piece.
So on this plywood it's actually A and C sided
so on one of the sides it actually butterfly patches.
Basically it's like a, I'll show ya.
Can you see it?
Butterfly patch right there.
So I gotta make sure that's on the bottom.
Now I gotta choose which side I want the
patterned plywood to be.
I think I'm gonna choose
the left side
but I want it to be lined up so that
this pattern is still going in the same orientation.
(chill music)
All right now all the sanding's done.
Now I'm gonna a get my track saw and cut a clean edge
so that means when I put it through the table saw
I'll just use that clean edge against the fence
and I'll cut the other side.
(saw whirring) (chill music)
Now I'm gonna throw it through the table saw
with that nice clean edge on this side.
I'll just take a little bit off,
just enough to get past the jagged edge from the pattern.
I've got these really cool bent plate steel metal legs
from Taylor's Collection.
It's an Australian company that
makes things like these.
I don't know if the make them in Australia
but it's definitely from Australia.
I'll put a link in the description.
They're very well prices and super easy to install.
They've already got six screw holes or bolt holes
or anything, whatever you wanna use it for.
This project took me quite a while
so I didn't really wanna spend time designing the legs.
It was sort of more of an experiment
on how to do patterned plywood
so I just chose to buy legs for this one
but purely up to you.
Build legs if you like but for me,
I just wanted to muck around with the patterned plywood
and them get some legs to make it a coffee table.
All right, to install these I'm just gonna screw them in.
The same distance in and maybe 50 mill offset from the side
and do exactly the same on the other side.
82, looks like 82 mill is the number.
I'm gonna go,
70 mill from the edge.
I think 50's just a little bit too close.
(drill whirring)
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Right, now to finish this piece I'm gonna use
Cabothane Clear I believe it's called.
We'll go with that.
It's a water-based polyurethane.
Basically I'm gonna use a foam brush to apply it.
It's pretty dirty but that's all I got.
(brush swiping)
Damn, that looks good.
Not gonna lie, I could have done the
joining to the plywood a lot better.
There's bit where I had to gap fill but nothing's perfect.
Overall I still really enjoyed doing this project.
I think it looks pretty cool.
Thanks for watching my video.
This is the first time I've experimented
with patterned plywood.
It turned out great and I'm probably gonna use it
more in the future.
See you in the next one.