what is up guys I'm Dave this is the brothers workshop and today we're gonna
show you how to DIY make a custom modern coffee table with just a few things
in this project the tools you'll need are a deep well drill bit paddle bit
power drill socket set wood glue and an angled drill guide will come in handy
because we will be lag bolting these two pieces of wood together we want to make
sure that your paddle bit is smaller in diameter than the width in the wood but
also larger than the washers we will be using we pick this angled drill guide up
at Harbor Freight for about twenty dollars inside came the angle drill
guide itself as well as an instruction book this angled drill guide will come
in handy verifying that we are creating straight holes so that we don't end up
poking out one side or the other with any of these bolts we use the first step
of this project is to lay out any markings we need for drilling the holes
once the location for the drill bit has been marked we're gonna go ahead and use
our paddle bit our angle drill guide to create what will essentially be a
countersink for the head of the bolt
once we've created the first countersink we'll go ahead to the other side of the
same board and create our second counter
now that we have the holes
done on both ends of the board pretty cool we're gonna go ahead and do the
same on this one so we'll play these things together
there's two holes on this side and two on that side just going to be an
aesthetic thing really the strength is going to come from bolts so long to be
before it doesn't really matter but let's get to it
and now that we finished all over countersinks as you can see
we've got two on each board
we're gonna go ahead and move on to create our pilot holes now what we're
going to need is a drill bit long enough to penetrate both boards while they're
stacked together so we get that continual drive and we're going to make
sure we have something that's small enough that it's not wider than the
threads on it what we're going to use but also not too
small and it's not pulling off a little material out of
in creating our previous countersink holes it was important that we made sure
our holes are straight at this point it is essential that we make sure our holes
are straight so that none of the bolts end up poking out of the board's to do
so we attach the deep well drill bit to the angled drill guide and went ahead
and did our pilot holes following up the first pilot hole we move the opposite
side of the same board into our second pilot hole once we have the board's Lag
together we want to add lip and do the opposite side for the pilot holes and
then flag both of them together on that side as well
this step we went ahead and begin driving two bolts in with a regular
socket said it became quickly apparent that we needed more force and we moved
to a breaker bar to help do that at this point
coffee table top is done I'm ready different shirt it took us a couple of
days to get this thing done but we're gonna head down to our budding new shop
he's gonna help us clean up our Stoops feel get it ready for utilizing as the
base of this piece understanding that not everybody's gonna like the idea of
using tube steel as the legs or the face for this table but once you understand
that it is a modern piece of furniture and so we're really trying to get that
clash of a wooden steel and to go a little deeper into this it is wood from
hundred-year-old house and steal from a brand new house and so really want to
have that clash that understanding same reason why we didn't put a finish on the
wood we really wanted to be broad and you know the basic building blocks and
so at this point we're gonna head down in this shop without hanging out under
his truck getting a little dirty
yeah with Luke's help we were able to clean up the tube steel sections we're
using for the base here is using grinder to clean off any burrs and straighten up
the edges
once you finish that up we took the two steel sections outside is gray painted
them with rust-oleum primer so as to stop any rust or corrosion
once the two layers of primer is dried we went back to our shop take care of
the last two layers of paint
once the painted drive we brought everything back inside and began marking
on the bottom of the tabletop with placement of the steel
once that was finished we began marking the steel where the bolt connections
beginning with first ones moving on to the second one and drilling the holes
out as we went
at this point we were almost finished all we had to do was clean off any
excess steel burs place the pieces of wood place the steel where it needed to
be bolt and lag bolt everything together
there you go a super simple project easy to do we ended the footage a little soon
only thing you guys have missed was bolting everything again we had some
corrupts footage on our RM but otherwise we achieved exactly what we set out to
do creating a modern piece of furniture simple elegant design if there's any
takeaways it's the use of metal and wood to create that modern style don't worry
about what we chose to use a certain base feel free to go ahead and do
anything you want we'd love to see if you guys take this advice and run with
it we'd love to see what you guys have created feel free to put that in the
comments below if you want to see something else similar to this
I know Shawn's coming out with a video about a coffee table soon and feel free
to take a look at that one it's a different style it's more of a rustic
look with hairpin legs if you like what we do
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