Welcome to make something
with me, David Picciuto today, we're going to make this half
oval curved front hallway table. Today's video is brought
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to do is make the four legs and I'm going to use this piece of Walnut
right here, which is not thick enough. So we got to do some milling and gluing. So I've got my four sets here
that I got to glue together. I've got one good face on each set, and I don't really care
about the back so much. So now we're just going
to glue this together. So I'm going to take off the clamps
and then go run this on the jointer.
So now I'm cutting the tapers on the
legs and I'm going the easy route, not using any jigs, just drawing my
line and cutting it out on the bandsaw. I started off with a taper
jig at the table saw, and then just realized the
angle isn't super important. Just draw the line and cut it out on the
band saw kind of cut those two tapers and I want the front to remain flat, but I'm going to go ahead and draw
and cut one more taper in the back. So it's got a taper on three sides. So the legs are all done and
sanded for this rount part, I drew this up on the computer, but you can also do this on paper
with the pencil and string trick. And I'm going to make a quick little
short video for my Patreon people so they can see how I did that for this apron.
I made this little template here, so I can kind of visualize what
everything is going to look like.
Now we're not gonna do any wood bending.
We're not going to do any kerf cutting. I just need a piece of wood.
That's thick enough for this curve. And then we can cut that curve out on
the bandsaw. And as you can see here, this board is not thick enough. So I'm going to double it up and
glue these two pieces together. Then we can get that curve out of that
and cut that out over on the bandsaw.
It's funny. We cut down a tree
and we slice it up into slices. And then here I am putting the tree
back together to get thicker boards is what it is. Respect the Walnut. I'm just going to trace my
templates onto this. And again, if you are on my Patreon page, you can figure out how to make the
templates by drawing on a piece of paper. I did this on the computer, but
like a lot of things in woodworking, there's multiple ways of
doing nearly everything. I haven't kind of rough, assembled,
we cut out the curves on the band saw. I don't know if you can
see that on camera or not, but that is going to look really good. I'm going to have the legs
stick out a little bit. So there's a little bit of
a little bit of a reveal. So that band saw blade on that tiny
little band saw that is a four TPI skip tooth blade and it works well.
It does leave a rough surface.
So now we've got lots of
sanding to do. That is sanded. Now I have the challenge of connecting and I think I'm going to cut a slot with
the slot, cutting bit on the router, and then use a piece of one eighth
inch plywood to connect everything. Hopefully this works. I've got a
slot cutting bit in my router here, and I'm going to run this through this
way, but because of the curved surface, I'm kind of freehand in it here. So I have one of the cutoffs
and I'm going to hot glue it to there to stabilize it and
then run it throught. Scary. That was a little scary, This one should be a little bit easier, cause we don't have that
curved surface to work with, but I have it marked where I want
that slot to be on this mating piece.
So I raised up the bit to
that point and I need to stop. So that tenon is not revealed. So I have a piece of tape on here and
I'm just gonna run this through until I fall just short of that tape. I should be able to make a 1/8" spline
out of some plywood to connect those two pieces together, I've never done
this. Everything is an experiment. I didn't even research on
the best way to do this. We're just having fun people. Is
it okay if we just have some fun? I got the one side done going
through there and stopping. So now I got to get the other side
and I can't raise my bit up high enough to get that. So I have to come in
from this side and uh, Dan suggested that I do a plunge
and then pull it through instead of trying to run it through this way, because
it will grab it and throw it at Dan.
We're not ready to hurt Dan, just yet. His feelings I don't give a fuck about.
Physically. I don't want to hurt him. I gotta be honest. The router is
my least favorite tool in the shop. I'm so glad I'm done with that. There's that little plywood tenon.
We're Just going to glue them and place. I haven't figured out
how to clamp this yet. We're winging it quite a bit.
I might not even clamp it. It feels pretty tight. I've got
some masking tape on the front. That's kind of stretched and stuck on
there to kind of pull the pieces together. Once this is dry, then I can put a board along the back
here and that's going to give it some strength. So that really sturdied it up.
I'm putting it on my table, saw to see how much wobble
I got. And I do have a, a little bit so that one's off there.
So I just got to take a little
block plane, take off that one. So now we're going to make the top
and I'm going to do it on the CNC. Of course you don't need a CNC to
do this. I just want to get fancy. I got a brand new machine from
Stepcraft and I am loving this guy. I'm not going to get into the details.
This video is not about CNC stuff. So I'm just going to
breeze right through this. I've got some upcoming videos
on this Stepcraft machine, which is pretty darn cool.
So let's cut out this top. It looks like a pizza slice. I've got a bunch of pieces slices
that I'm going to put together. It's going to have a little inlay
right here. It has three tabs on there. So this piece doesn't become loose. So I just need to cut this out on
the bandsaw and sand those down.
So now I've got five more of these
to make that was in real time, that took four minutes and 54 seconds
to cut through that is seven eighths inch walnut. And to create that
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that are going to be joined together. Before I do that, I'm going to
cut out these pocket pieces out.
Of English walnuts. This is black Walnut English Walnut is a
little lighter and I thought maybe that would look Cool. I made the insert a little bit too big. So I'm just sending it
down on the drum sander. You can do this on a planer or by hand, or make your insert the same
thickness as the pocket. So I'm using the domino joiner. You can do this with biscuits as well,
just to kind of help line everything up. It's going to be hard to clamp this up. So the dominoes are going to
kind of hold it together for me. Suppose you could do pocket holes
underneath and that would work as well. Oh, so we had to get a little creative
with our clamping, but this is working. We're getting some good squeeze out. Yeah. So we got that guy all glued up
kind of rough sanded right now. It looks like a half an orange doesn't it? So now I gotta go clean up this
edge and then clean up this edge. I think I'm going to use,
I know I'm going to use my, I don't know what it's called? My straight edge guide
sled jig on the table saw sled.
So basically this is just a big
board that rides up against my fence. This straight edge, lets me know how
much I'm going to take off right here. Normally I would clamp the piece
down, but I'm not going to this time. I've got some grippy sandpaper on
there, Hold it down and run it through Our orange slice is looking good.
It's
currently seven eights of an inch thick. And so I'm going to put a chamfer on the
bottom to lighten it up just a little bit. And I think I'm going to put
a tiny little chamfer on the top. I want to do the bottom
first to see how it flows. I am oiling up this before
attaching it to the base. Just because it'll be easier. I like the contrast between the
English walnuts and the black Walnut. It's not too much. It's not, uh, like sometime you want a lot
of contrast and you use maple, but this has a nice pleasing look to it. Sometimes when you put oil on there, you can reveal where glue dried on
there and it's not getting this dark. So I'll just take a piece of sandpaper
and just sand that until it goes away, You can put some more oil on there.
I'm sure some of you are wondering
why I didn't put a drawer on there. And the honest answer is I've made enough
drawers and we didn't need one for the hallway. I don't even know
what I would put in there. So no drawer simplifies the project. You might also be wondering how
did I attach the top to the base? And that is using one of these little
figure eight desktop fasteners. So this goes onto the
base, it screws on there.
And then you put another screw
up here to hold the base. And that also allows for
wood movement across the top. I'm going to use these fasteners again
on an upcoming project where we make an entryway table. I'll go over
a little bit more detail then, but it's really simple. Basically this hallway table has one
purpose and that is to hold this lamp to use as a light light. You might remember. We made this lamp here on the channel
about a year ago and this piece of art up here. We also made that a couple of years
ago where we found this rotten piece of Walnut from Kencraft and we saw it
split it in half and then made this background and it has
this really cool design.
So a couple of older videos you might
want to go check out the finish on. There is a wipe on polyurethane. I
think there's like four coats on there. So that is going to wrap it up. We'll see you next week with a
brand new project as always be safe, have fun stay pasionate
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