we recently dragged a whole bunch of tables into the living room for a party
and I thought it'd be cool to make a sort of knock-down table to use for
events like this and I'll start by building these leg frames and I can get
two legs out of one piece of two by six
and I drew this layout on the legs except it's slightly backwards because
I'll have to cut this with the line facing down on the table saw. And now
I'll trim it to those lines on the jointer it would have been easier to cut
with the line facing towards me but I need to cut out of the grain not into
the grain so I have to face the pieces with a line away and now cutting the
mortises in the legs using the pantorouter
cutting tenons is really messy but it's also kind of satisfying to really see
those chips flying . Though I used mortise and tenon joints you could just as well
built this table using dowel joints. I still need to cut some notches to the
top of the legs for how that fits with the rest of it
and I'm adding a quarter inch roundover to the legs. I'm sanding the edges on the
ends of the legs because those don't need to be quarter inch and I also don't
want to have to chip out. And the strip sander comes in handy for those hard to
get at corners
now I need to make these parts which glue on to the long rails like that and
I'll start with a little wedge here and that wedge is 2 centimeters wide on
the long end and to get the taper I just put a little block on here
there's our rear layer to this bracket and I cut one already and hopefully I
have enough to cut four out of this piece of plywood. oops! These two pieces
go on here around the leg and I need to cut an incline off of it here so I can
put that wedge in here and lock it
leg goes here a with an angled one on one side and the straight one on the
other side. Now I'm just going to glue them together I just glued a straight
side on all four brackets two of those are mirror images
now withthe glue dry on the first half, I can use that to line up the
second half with the table leg and the wedg. I haven't done a great job of
aligning the layers on these things but I'll fix that now by trimming them to
size
and now look at how perfectly these line up now I just need to pass straight to
my forest to go along here and I've got some too by far is here but it turns out
only one of these is even close to being straight so I went back to the Home
Depot where they had all kinds of shapes of two-by-fours and I found these two
that are quite straight. Before going any further I varnished the legs and the
brackets. I was gonna glue these brackets onto the two by fours but I'm not that
confident that those two by fours will stay straight so I'm just screwing them
on. That table seems stiff enough I started with a four by eight sheet of
baltic birch, which I had cut in half at the lumberyard and I need to trim them off a
little bit to get at one meter or 40 inches wide
I'm cutting these corners backwards to avoid tearing the veneer on the top and
then I rounded and smooth the edges with a belt sander
after that I finished the top with three coats of water-based polyurethane I have
to be really careful laying out where the holes go so that they'll line up
with the holes on the base for marbles serve as alignment pins for each half of
the top. So satisfying to click it in place it can take a jump test but
without the top fastened down the top itself jumps a little bit too and if you
want to build this table I have a nice set of plans for sale on my website see
the link in the description