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00:04 Speaker 1: Gidday, Knuckleheads, Uncle Knackers here.
I think it's just about time that I made myself a pallet wood...
E table.
Get it?
Cough, E table, coffee table, work with me.
Coffee...
Tough crowd.
Now, as well as using pallet wood, I'm also thinking about using this old painter's plank
for the top of the coffee table.
Now, I absolutely love it, and I've been saving this piece up for ages to build a bench or
something out of it.
Now, well, it looks like coffee table top, here we come.
Now, let's cut that to size.
To get the width that I need for the coffee table top, I need to cut this into three lengths.
Each length is going to be 900 millimetres, which is about 35-1/2 inches.
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01:20 S1: How easy was that?
Now, all we need to do is join these boards together using my trusty, old biscuit joiner.
Now, the overall width of the coffee table top is 480 millimetres, which is about 19
inches, and the total length is 900 millimetres, which is about 35-1/2 inches.
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01:53 S1: It's now time to glue the top together, and you may have noticed how I've doubled
up on the biscuits, because this is a pretty chunky bit of wood.
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02:14 S1: Now, don't be shy with the glue.
You can always wipe it off.
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02:32 S1: That's going in beautifully.
I'll just tighten it up a little bit more.
Don't wanna do it too tight 'cause it may buckle the top.
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02:55 S1: And now, I'm just gonna put a couple of weights on top of the toffee...
Toffee?
On top of the coffee table top to keep it nice and flat until the glue dries.
Done.
03:12 S1: Okay, it's 24 hours later.
It's time to check this thing out.
I'm pretty excited.
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03:20 S1: Okay.
These are heavy.
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03:29 S1: Alright.
That's looking pretty good.
I'm happy with that.
With the top done, it's now time to frame up the legs.
Now, I have a set for either end of the coffee table, and the length of the leg is 385 millimetres,
which I think is about 15 1/4 inches.
And the long one here is for the back of the coffee table, and I've already biscuit joined
that together.
Now, the front's going to be a little different, 'cause that's going to have a drawer.
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04:41 S1: And again, just put some weights on the legs to keep them flat, and you'll
also notice that I've put a block between the two legs.
That prevents these legs from squishing in when I'm clamping the whole thing together.
While I'm waiting for the legs to dry, I'm going to make the drawer.
This is the drawer face, and all we need to do is cut a couple of rebates into the back
of it, so that we can insert the sides of the drawer.
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05:35 S1: Beautiful.
And now we need to cut the rebate for the drawer base.
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05:50 S1: With the sides and the back of the drawer all done, it's now time to cut the
base of the drawer.
Now, I'm just using this old cement sheet, which I had lying around the shed.
And cement sheet is very easy to cut.
All you need is one of these score and snap knives.
Just mark out the piece that needs to be cut, get a straight edge, put it along the line,
like that, and then with your score and snap knife run that along the edge of your level
or your straight edge.
Then just position it on the edge of your bench, and just snap it down, like that.
Too easy.
And now, to simply put the drawer together.
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07:04 S1: Now, how easy was that?
I think it turned out really well.
I like it.
With the bits and pieces all built, it's now time for the fun part: Assembling the coffee
table.
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07:42 S1: This is the front of the coffee table, and it's open because the drawer is
going to fit in, in a second, like that.
So, all we need to do now, is run a piece of timber from the front to the back on both
sides to support the drawer.
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08:06 S1: Now, I've installed metal runners to the inside of the carcass on both sides
and also to the underside of the drawer.
And the reason why I chose metal runners is because this drawer is gonna be opening and
closing a lot, and I wanted a smooth, hassle free operation.
Alright.
Let's give it a go.
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08:33 S1: Love it.
And now all we need to do is put the top on and cut the angle on the legs.
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09:00 S1: With the top down, let's cut the legs.
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09:08 S1: Gee!
Time's getting tight.
I'm painting at night time.
Now, I wanna make it a bit more rustic, so I'm adding some paint.
I usually paint a white coat first, followed by the other colours, and when that's all
dry, we'll sand it back where required, and that will give it that nice, old, rustic look.
Now because the top of the coffee table is made up from an old painter's plank, I want
it to look like an old painter's plank, and to create that effect, I'm just going to splatter
some paint across the top by flicking this brush.
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09:50 S1: Now, also remember that when painting, if you do a colour that you don't like, don't
stress about it.
You can always just sand it back.
It's no big deal.
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10:21 S1: With it all sanded, it's now time to give it a couple of coats with my clear,
satin varnish.
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10:46 S1: And here it is!
What do you reckon?
I absolutely love it.
Great tips, Knackers!
And you may have noticed how the paint colour is a bit different to earlier on.
That's because I wasn't really happy with it, so I just sanded it back and repainted
it.
Like most of us, I fell for the old trick of doing too much to it to make it look rustic.
You should just stick to the principle of like making a really good pizza where less
is more.
11:16 S1: Well, I hope you enjoyed that and found it useful.
I had an absolute ball making it, and it's amazing what you can do with a couple of old
sticks of pallet wood.
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Now, don't go just yet.
There'll be a few photos going backwards and forwards of the finished product.
Alrighty, I think it's time for a cup of tea.
So, till next time, I'm out of here, Cheers.
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