scott brown here i know i said in the last exciting episode that i'll get back to building
but now we're building a coffee table on wheels this is the same living room where
we did the plywood wall part of an eye and the floating shelf and they're both looking great
still all these years later we renovated this whole house we did the kitchen the bathroom
extended out the back it's all on the channel um i'll chuck a link below
and this is like the last pieces of the puzzle that laundry was kind of the last big thing and
we've got some off cuts from the laundry so the client asked me to make a little coffee table so
this exciting episode i'm continuing my furniture making so the plan roughly is to duplicate
this one here but instead of that shoddy mdf we're going with this beautiful hpl laminate plywood
that we used on the laundry and the layout is slightly changing to look a little bit more
like this this was the original layout here and this here is what we're going for now
all right we might need a few things that i don't usually keep in the van
oh um i'll explain what's going on in here in a future exciting episode big changes
so i was trying to figure out how to do the main support the other day um client doesn't want the
same sort of partitions as that coffee table he wants four in each corner so what do we make
the corners look like that's what i was trying to think the catchers we're not going to use this um
laminate plywood here we're going to use the other laminate plywood that looks more like a wood grain
so we might not need to do this miter there's going to be edge plywood all the way around the
top and the bottom and also if that's your corner here you can have edge plywood showing there
anyway and the edge is the same color as the face of the plywood so having said all that
oh that's so strong having said all that is so strong we're gonna butt the corner oh there we go
i put a biscuit in there as well
so
so this is the same material as there's a bench over there that uh bench on the laundry that
i did is made from this very same sheet this is the offcut so i figure because it has this
wood grain on it if i could somehow cut miters in a way that the grain goes around the corner
i'm going back to the miters by the way i figure it's worth trying now the reason i got the festool
out is because i know from experience that cutting miters wide miters like this um i
get consistency with this one not that i don't get consistency with the makita 40 volt i haven't had
problems in that regard but i know this one's good plus it gives me excuse to use it right
i'm using the tape just to hopefully prevent chipping on the laminate
oh yeah that's gonna work
let's get in there biscuit in there yeah yeah
and that's the legs of the coffee table
look at that grain i think this is gonna work guys now this is where the clamps come on
what's up
all right there's your legs it should be dry over the weekend
might need a little bit of gap filler in there maybe
i also glued this one and this one is like a it's a test i want to try something
it's a coffee table right so i'm slightly concerned that that edge there you know when you
kick your feet out maybe your feet's beside the coffee table and you could probably potentially
you know cut yourself on the corner it's a bit sharp so what i'm thinking is this quarter round
bit here take the edge off and it might show a bit of that plywood grain but that could look cool
but i'm doing it on a tester because i'm not sure if it's going to look any good or not
i think this is gonna work look at that i put a bit of this filler here and there timber mate
and i put a bit of oil over the top of it it's like the best of both worlds right
it doesn't interrupt the grain too much but it takes off that sharp edge so you don't cut your
socks and then i've done the same on this edge here now i can do it on all four legs
are they legs if this thing's on wheels uprights supports should just get on with it
so
check it out the biscuit jointer makes its triumphant return by no means am i a expert
on this stuff but this biscuit jointer is working a lot better than i would have guessed it's not
been painted not being sealed and therefore i can't screw or nail into it and then fill
it later so we're going to put some biscuits in here that's going to be the main way that we're
going to attach this to those supporting right angle legs and i had another idea i'm going to
i'm gonna try right now what the biscuit jointer is helping me do is get glue onto surfaces that
are attached to both the platforms and the legs that separate the platforms
there you go so with the biscuits and the glue it should hold
so
next day scott brown here that glue would have sit now so i'm just calling into placemakers to get
some masking tape i want to seal the edges of the top and the bottom platform um just so that raw
timber doesn't get exposed to any spilled drinks or anything like that that could um stain the
timber you know the queue goes around the corner you can't even see the whole queue because we're
still in lockdown here in order to get into the merchant you have to have a trade account and they
check you at the door and on top of that there's a material shortage and people kind of rush in here
to grab what they can i'm lucky i'm just doing cabinet making at the moment temporarily i just
need masking tape anyway why don't we jump ahead to future scott brown and see how this gluing went
so reduce we use recycle these are the old wheels that were on the last coffee table
g'day pretty good how are you hello hello i've got an apprentice are you videoing now i am
so there you have it plywood coffee table thing that's uh that's my last job here
in auckland for well the foreseeable future and um not to be a tease or anything but
i'll talk about that in the next exciting episode big changes big changes
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