(bouncy bluegrass banjo music)
- Good day knuckleheads, Uncle Knackers here
and welcome to Part Two, the final part
on how to build a table.
Now let's get stuck straight into it.
As you can see, I've got a couple of old fence posts here
which are four by fours and they're hardwood,
and I'll be cutting these up for the legs.
The table itself currently has a raw edge
which I want to cover up.
So, I've just got that off-cut from the fascia
that we ripped down and I'll place that on the side
and join it up just like that.
And that should finish the edge of the table off
quite nicely, hm.
And underneath the table it will simply be a rail,
which will be attached to the tabletop
and then the leg will just butt into that rail,
just like that, very, very simple,
just how I like it.
The first thing we need to do is cut the outside trim
for the table and then nail it on.
(buzzing, whining)
Now, a little bit of glue on the trim
and just simply nail the trim on.
(jazzy instrumental music)
(snapping bangs)
Now, just turn the tabletop over and I'm trying
to work out the position of the leg and the rail
to the outside edge of our tabletop.
For the leg on both faces, I'm thinking 20 millimetres,
which is a touch over three quarters of an inch.
And from the face of the rail to the outside of the table
I'm looking at 40 millimetres, which is a touch
over an inch and three quarters.
I think that should work out quite well.
It's now time to start cutting the legs for the table.
I'm cutting mine to a length of 735 millimetres,
which is a touch under 29 inches.
(jazzy instrumental music)
I've got my stop block set up so that all my legs
will be cut to the same length.
And once those legs are cut, the overall height
of the table, which includes a top, which is one inch
or 25 millimetres thick, it will be 760 millimetres,
which is a smidge under 30 inches.
(jazzy instrumental music)
Now, before I attach the legs, I just want to give them
a bit of a touch-up with my planer.
So I'm using my trusty magnet once again
to locate those nails, because I don't want to destroy
my brand-new planer blades.
(humming, whining buzz)
Okay, the legs have now been prepped
and now it's time to mark the position
of the rail to the leg.
The leg's in the right position on the tabletop,
and from memory we've gone 40 millimetres
from the edge of the table to the face of the rail.
Now, I've already put a mark and squared it up on the post.
You may or may not be able to see that.
So, we put it back in place like that
and then line the rail up with your mark.
And then just trace around it
(scratching) like that, that's beautiful.
Go grab your chisel and let's house that out.
So, when it comes to housing out this rail bite,
you can either use the trusty old chisel
and trust your judgement to get a nice straight line
along those two pencil marks there.
Or, what I like to do
is grab a circular saw and run the blade
up those two lines.
I get a nice, straight cut and you also get
some depth to the cut, which makes chiselling out
a bit easier.
It might be a bit scarier for some,
but for me that's my preference.
(jazzy instrumental music)
(buzzing)
(pounding)
Now hopefully, with a bit of luck these should fit
(snapping crack)
very, very nicely.
Ah, that is absolutely beautiful,
love it.
Now, the last thing we need to do to this leg
is to cut a 45 on this face, just slightly lower
than the top of these rails.
Now, you might be able to see it a bit easier
on this finished post.
And you can see that flat section there.
Now the reason for that I want to be able
to put this cross-bracing just like that,
screw it to those rails and to the post
which will hold everything together nice and snuggly
without having to use any glue.
Because I do want to be able to pull this big behemoth
apart, so transportation is that little bit easier.
(rollicking jazz music with percussion)
Okay, I've got a handful of screws, four cross-braces.
Let's put this bad boy together.
Before we start working on our leg,
we need to attach the table top to the rail.
And I've done that simply,
attaching these L-brackets to both surfaces.
Once the table is attached to our frame,
the next thing to do is to set up the legs.
And you want the legs to be sitting nice
and square to the table.
So all I do is get a builder's square and clamp it
to the leg and to the rail.
On the other side I check it with my combination square
and at the moment this leg is sitting
absolutely beautifully.
And to finish the whole process off,
go and grab your cross-brace, this piece here,
and just simply attach the cross-brace to both rails
with two screws on either end.
And to attach the leg to the cross-brace,
just drive two 75 millimetre or three inch coach screws
through that brace into the leg, job's done.
Too easy.
Now just a quick tip, to make driving these long screws
into that hardwood leg a bit easier,
I like to get the screw and just lightly coat it
in some grease.
Ooh grease, grease is good.
And finally to help strengthen up the tabletop,
I'm going to instal (banging) a couple of braces.
Because if history is anything to go by,
I can definitely see some dancing action
on top of this old girl. (smacking)
It'll happen, trust me.
(jazzy instrumental music)
(snapping)
Okay, the legs and braces are now in place
which means one thing,
and that is the most exciting part of the whole job.
And that is to finish the big beast off.
So what we'll do is we'll pick it up,
take it outside, give it a plane,
a bit of a sand to get ready for varnish.
I love this stage and I apologise if the sand
is a bit dodgy at the moment,
but it is pouring rain outside.
So once again, I apologise in advance.
(jazzy instrumental music)
So, what do you think? (rattling raindrops swishing)
I absolutely love it.
And I love the light colour.
And because of that, I don't want to play around
with the top too much, because the more you take off
the darker that timber's going to get.
Anyway less talk, more action.
(jazzy instrumental music)
And remember to either punch or denail those boards
before you start planing, because you don't want to destroy
those beautiful planer blades.
So basically, all I'm doing with the planer is taking off
those high spots, which is generally where the boards meet.
Once that's been done, it's time to pull out the sander.
Now I'm just a little bit excited,
because I had to go out and buy a brand-new tool.
My old sander just packed it in
when I was sanding down that table.
So I went out and purchased myself a Bosch
PEX 400 AE Random Orbit Sander.
I've had two cheaper sanders in the last 12 months
and they've both packed it in.
So, I lashed out and purchased this model here.
I've read some good things about it
(clacking and banging) and hopefully.
Ooh hoo, there she is.
It'll do the job on my brand-new table.
I'll let you know how it goes.
Ooh new tools, love it!
Looks good!
(humming, buzzing)
(jazzy instrumental music)
Now the tabletop has a couple of big chunks taken
out of it, which really needs to be repaired.
So, I'm using a two-part epoxy.
The epoxy being the R 180, and the hardener being H 180.
And you mix these two together in a ratio of five to one.
And you really want to get those ratios spot on,
'cause if you don't, the product won't harden correctly
which would make finishing off quite difficult.
Give it a really good stir
and you're done.
Now, all you have to do after you've taped up around
the repair, is to pour the epoxy in.
Ah, it looks good, doesn't it?
It's 24 hours later and that epoxy (tapping)
has gone rock hard.
And it also has a clear, glass-like appearance,
which we'll dull off when we sand it.
And you can see here, this rough section.
As an experiment I got a utility blade and tried
to peel some of that off.
And as you can see, it wasn't that successful.
Anyway, the epoxy's gone off, let's get the sander out
and finish this table off.
(humming, buzzing)
And that's the sanding all done.
And it feels absolutely amazing.
And the Bosch?
So far, so good.
I like it.
And now, to finish off the table with a couple
of coats of hardwax oil.
Let's do it.
And this is the product that I'm using
to coat the table.
It's a hardwax oil and it's in clear matte.
Now this stuff is usually used for coating timber floors,
but I'm going to give it a go on my new table,
and see how it turns out.
Cross our fingers, let's give it a crack.
And away we go.
And I'm just using a foam roller, that's what I recommend.
(jazzy instrumental music)
(swishing, scratching)
All right,
the first coat's been down for 24 hours.
It's dry and ready to be sanded.
And for that I'm just using a 240 grit sandpaper
and giving the whole job a very light touch-up.
With the hardwax oil, they actually recommend
that you use one of these Scotch Brite scouring pads.
The maroon color's the best, but I could only find
the blue one in my local hardware store.
But the problem was, that when I was using it
it was leaving behind too many fibres in the nail holes,
splits and cracks.
So as a result, out goes the Scotch Brite
and I'll finish it off with the 240,
then give it a second coat
and come back with the finished product.
It should be good.
(scratching, scraping)
Okay are you ready?
I'll just cover your eyes for a second
and here it is.
What a beauty!
I absolutely love it.
It's heavy, solid, looks great,
and that hardwax oil that I used to finish
the table off with, magnificent.
And I think the secret was that after the second coat dried
I gave it a hit with a 320 grit paper.
The finish is just so silky smooth and soft.
I love it and I only wish there was such a thing
as feeler vision.
That way you could reach through that screen
and just touch it.
Oh, it's beautiful!
Okay, the first thing to do tomorrow morning,
invent feeler vision. (squeaking, scraping)
Done, it can't be too hard.
So that's it folks.
I really hope you enjoyed that two-part series
on how to build a table.
And please, don't go and do shit,
because coming up there'll be a series of photos
going backwards and forwards of the finished product.
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(slamming) Ooh, after all that,
I think I need a good, strong cup of tea.
So till next time, I'm having here, cheers.
(slurping) Ooh, that's a good cuppa.
See ya.
(rollicking country instrumental)
(clacking, tapping)
Oh!