I needed to make an extension for the round dining table
we have in the kitchen And I already marked the arc
they need to cut out of this used piece of plywood
to make it fit around a table.
And then I wanted to use that arc to actually extend again
so that the extension was also round.
and to make those fit flat together,
I actually passed them over the jointer
to get the edge nice and flat for gluing them together
this is such an oddball project it wasn't really worth filming it
but I set up an i Pad with some time lapse software on it
and so now I'm just kind of adding commentary
to all those time lapses a shot.
I'm using a dowel jig to help reinforce the joint between those two pieces
and also help align it.
I'm using a couple of three eighths inch dowels towards the edge
and then some half inch dowels closer to the middle
to really help stiffen that up.
I'm just using my cheapest cordless drill in there
and shortly after that actually I ran out of battery.
And after that I switched to my Ryobi Makita Franken-drill
which isn't any better actually but it's got a charged battery
so that's why I'm using that one.
And now checking that all the holes are actually of sufficient depth
and I found a couple of them were not deep enough,
so I just drilled those out a little bit more.
and now I'm getting the dowels in there
I'm gluing them into the smaller piece first,
and then figuring out what length of half inch dowels I need
by measuring all the holes and cutting those to length,
and then tapering them on the belt sander
and I like to sand them a little bit because any old surface
has usually got a bit of grime on it and with a bit of sanding
you get better glue adhesion.
And now putting glue in the holes,
and then glue along the edge of the board
and then glue onto the dowels of the other piece
and along the edge of that too and then I can mate them together
and then using a big rubber mallet to press them together
and then two clamps back to back
because I didn't have long enough clamps in the shop.
and now I'm taking out the leg for a table extension
I actually built in 2008 for my old dining table
but we're not using a table anymore
and I needed to make that a tiny bit shorter to fit on this one
and in the bracket I've got for mounting that to the table
I'm figuring instead of always screwing it to the bottom of the plywood
that I should actually attach it with hinges
so I've got some piano hinge and I'm cutting some short lengths of that
cause I don't have enough to go for the whole length across it.
And then I need to find some screws to attach those hinges with
and in this shop I don't have quite the same assortment of screws
so I'm just sort of going through my random screws
but eventually I found some screws that were just about the right length
although turns out they were actually made out of mild steel
so I stripped a lot of screw heads on them
and also adding some screws to where this bracket now attaches
cause I moved it down by about a centimeter to make it fit
for the right height and I want to have some kind of diagonal
support for this thing so that it folds in
and I have a big chunk of hardwood that I'm just cutting a strip off of
and I realize I should probably make that a bit wider on the end
so I cut a curve on it on the end with a band saw
so that the stick gets a little bit wider towards the end
you can see that here on the jointer
and cutting the end square.
And unfortunately I didn't re-aim the camera there
so I'm not sure what I was doing.
Um. Hmm.
And now getting back to attaching that I think I attached
a piece of plywood to that there.
Again I'm a little bit out of frame because I wasn't paying attention
to where I had the camera aimed. And now sanding all the corners
to measures of this diagonal brace
I use the belt sander for odd jobs like that a lot.
And next I grabbed a short piece of two by four
from making the pieces that attach the main part of the table
turns out that was a little bit crooked so it was a bit of work on the jointer
and now I cut that into two halves
and then cutting the ends square into the same length
and at this point I decided I should have the air cleaner on
cause I made all that dust. Now those pieces that attach
to the main table actually need a step cut into the end
because the table top on the main table
is about 36 millimeters thick whereas this thing is only 18 millimeters thick
so I cut that step with a table saw and then cleaning it up with a bandsaw
to cut that step square and I decided to bevel the other end
and now rounding the corners a little bit with a small hand plane
I think at this point the glue is sufficiently dry
that I can manipulate the top so I'm cutting the corners a bit round
to make that a continuous curve and then using a small hand plane
to bevel and round the edge a little bit
and then sanding it by hand but then I decided that that wasn't enough
and I just put it on the big belt sander which made that curve much smoother.
Now going over the edges again with a piece of sandpaper
and cleaning up the glue squeeze-out on the table
and now figuring out where 'm going to mount everything
I want the leg not to stick out too far beyond the table when it's folded down
so there decided where I'm going to put the hinges
and I made a little guide so that
I could drill not too deep because I don't want to drill through the table
and now putting the screws in
and these turned out to be very soft screws so I had to
take one of them out with a vise grip because I totally stripped the head
and I ended up crushing a screw with a vise grip
this is when I realized they were made out of mild steel
but it's like well they will hold and this is getting rid of them
I'm gonna toss out the rest of those screws
and now figuring out where that brace is gonna mount
and rounding it some more and cutting to length
and sending it some more
and you can see there's a piece of plywood mounted to it
just bottom right on the frame there
that plywood makes it wider so I can put more hinge on there
and cutting another piece of the piano hinge to just the right length
and it only had two holes in it after I cut it
so I drilled a bunch more holes into that hinge
so I could have more mounting points on it
and now pre-drilling holes for the screws.
Here's marking then drilling
I could call that drilling pilot holes
but the advantage of calling it pre-drilling
is it really annoys pedantic people.
and now adding a couple of screws that reinforce that glue joint
just for good measure and now figuring out
where it's gonna go and how this is gonna work out.
So here I've worked out where I need to join with the leg
and I'm gonna put a dowel into this piece here
and glue that in and that dowel is gonna stick out
and go into a hole in the leg I'm just gluing a dowel in right here
and then working out where that dowel needs to go
in the hole in the leg and drilling that
and I'm just using a drill guide to line up that hole and get it square
it would have maybe been better to take it off and put on the drill press
but I just didn't feel like taking those screws out again.
Now I cut a slight relief cut in there so that the brace would fit better
against the mount for the main leg
and now I've decided where it's gonna go and pre-drilling the holes for that
and then screwing that part on and conveniently that way it's mounted
it kind of presses the dowel into the leg
so I don't need any way of locking that in there
so next I'm working out where the screw holes are gonna go
for the pieces that join up with the rest of the table
and I'm drilling those on the drill press
and once again I'm slightly out of frame as I'm doing this.
More drilling and counter-sinking and running the edges a little bit
with a small hand plane, not sure how many holes in drilling there.
And now I'm looking for a nut driver thingy
that goes on the end of a drill
because I want to use that to cut a thread into those things
so I can put the mounting screws into those
I'm pretty sure I brought that into the shop
but I just could not find it.
Looking, looking, looking a lot of time is wasted that way
or at least it seems like it's forever
in the grand scheme of things I guess it's less than ten percent
of the project time but it's just so frustrating looking for stuff
eventually I gave up but I decided to just use a nut driver by hand
to top those holes. So those holes are essentially
to have a spare place to put the mounting screws
when the top is not mounted onto the table.
And now screwing those long things on there just with drywall screws
but unfortunately they weren't quite long enough to go
significantly past the joint in the wood
so I decided I should reinforce that a bit
so I made two shorter pieces of wood that just span across the joint
to help stiffen that up. I think I'm drilling right there
Now I'm counter-sinking, smoothing the edges a bit,
cutting the corners round, sanding a little bit,
and got some screws ready,
and I don't know what I'm doing right there
but there I'm finally screwing those in.
So next thing I took the table exception upstairs
to actually try it on the round dining table and I brought it back
and then I decided to sand it in a few spots
just to make it fit against the round table a little bit better.
and then I had an idea for locking the support
flat against the bottom of the table
just by putting a little pan head screw
against that support which fits into a hole on the leg itself
so that it snaps in place and stays flat against it
when the extension is put away.
And now I'm Sandy the edges and corners smooth and round
so that I can next put some varnish on to the areas that I have freshly exposed
The top of the table is still finished
in fact this piece of plywood used to be a table extension
that I used at my old place when I invited lots of people
before that it was part of some cabinet that I actually bought very cheap
at a surplus sale specifically for the plywood.
and now I'm using it again so this is the third usage
that this piece of plywood has got.
And here's applying varnish to all the edges
And I'm done with it putting the varnish away the rest of it
and finally cleaning up some of the clutter in the workshop.
And I was just adding voice overs to the time lapse when I realized
this video kind of needs a conclusion.
So here is the extension on the table
braced in right here
this part just kinda pushes itself against there.
Um. There is a screw right here
which fits into this thing here and that latches the whole table
up against the extension when I'm putting it away.
And it attaches with these big quarter inch wood screws
which I do need another driver to get on and off.
Like this. And the holes for these
I just tap these with a homemade wood thread tap
and that makes the screws
Relatively easy to get in so I can actually kind of
twist it most of the way in there by hand.
So the round table on it's own comfortably seats seven
eight is a squeeze with this extension I figure
ten should be comfortable eleven would be a bit of a squeeze.