Hey, I'm Sam. Welcome to Urbn Goods. Today, I'm going to make this shou sugi ban dining
table. Let's go.
Hey guys. For this project, I'm going to use pine. It's really easy to get, and you can
get it at your local hardware store. When choosing my timber, I chose ones with a little
bit of blemishes, so when you do the shou sugi ban, the burning of the wood, you can
really nice contrast in between the grain. I chose to get 135 by 35 millimeters. It's
a perfect thickness for a table. You don't want it too thick. Otherwise, it's too heavy
to carry around.
First thing I'm going to do is throw it through the thickness planer to reduce these ridges
on the timber. These ridges are about half a millimeter thick. It's unfortunately one
of the things you have to deal with if you deal with construction lumber. I'm using my
Ryobi thickness planer. You can get it at your local hardware store. It's an awesome
little thickness planer. I really recommend it.
I'm hooking up my Milwaukee little vacuum here. It's a bit of a ghetto setup, but anything
to get rid of a little bit of dust, I'll do. This part takes quite a while, but definitely
worth it to get some really nice flat timber. I'm using my Bosh planer just to take off
the edges, so I can get a really nice, sharp edge. This is the kind of edge you want — perfect
right angle, really flat, great for making a table.
After that, I got all my timber, laid it all out, and designed how I'd like my table to
look. I spread out my blemishes, so that everything would look even. I've got my doweling jig
and I drilled in the center of all the sides of the pieces of timber to put my dowels in.
Using a biscuit joiner would be so much easier, but I didn't have one, so dowels it is. Now,
for the glue up. I used heaps of glue. Make sure you put glue on the dowels when you insert
them into the holes and start joining them.
Next, I took all my clamps off. After that, I flipped the table so I could start looking
at how I'm going to reinforce it. I chose to use aluminum C channel. I chose it because
it's super light, really cheap, and I didn't want anything too heavy. I drilled holes all
the way throughout the channel, so I could screw them down to the timber. I chose to
get some 25 millimeter screws to screw the aluminum down to the timber.
I used 80-grit sandpaper to start sanding down the lift between each join. After that,
I used my Ryobi orbital sander, and I did 120-grit, so everything was nice and smooth.
I grabbed my circular saw and I trimmed off all the edges, so I got a nice, crisp line.
I used my trim router to get a nice curved edge. To do my shou sugi ban, I decided to
use a weed burner and those portable butane gas cans that you use for camping. They're
super cheap — $4 for three cans.
Firstly, I started burning the underside of my table. You won't see this, so I'm not too
fussed on how this looks. All right. Now, we're on our pretty side. Firstly. I started
burning the edges and working my way to the center of the piece. I didn't go too dark,
because I wanted just to get the right amount of contrast in between the grain. This is
super fun, but make sure you be careful. You are using a flame.
I chose a nice blue stain to stain it after I did my shou sugi ban. Start applying the
stain to the edge. I'm using a little foam brush. It worked great. After waiting a few
minutes, I wiped down the whole table. I really liked how this turned out, and I really like
the amount of blue that stayed and how much of the actual charcoal stayed.
To seal it, I used a water-based sealer. Super easy to apply just using a foam brush. The
tin says I only have to do one coat, but I chose to do two. Hairpin legs are so easy
to use, so I purchased some on eBay. They arrived the other day, so here we are. To
affix my legs, I just used my square, and I set it to 60 millimeters. I just went 60
millimeters in from each corner. Super easy trick is just to grab the edge and keep pushing
the leg towards the center until you hit that 60 centimeter mark. You don't even need a
pencil. How great is that?
This is what all the legs look like at the end. I'm super happy how this turned out.
Looks so great. I love the contrast between the blue and the black, and also the pine.
Thanks for watching the video. I really appreciate it. If you liked it, please give me the thumbs-up
and maybe subscribe as well. There'll be heaps more videos like this coming out soon. Thanks.