Assembling a Waterfall Table Miter

[Music] I am so excited about this project I've got a waterfall table I'm working on and it's ready for the waterfall park The MITRE to get glued together so up to this point here's what's cooking the bottom of this piece and of course the bottom of the leg have been mitered so that when the joint gets put together which we're going to do right now and the leg folds under waterfall look at how the grain is going to flow from top to leg top to leg top - like it's gonna be really really neat so cut the miter got the joinery ready now to glue it up a couple of tricks to this this piece is the piece that came out of here when I cut the miter I then took it to my miter saw and I cut it into individual segments what happens here what's going where we're going next is that when we go to clamp this together but we need plant blocks on here so we can pull the miter close here's what's gonna happen like this and we're gonna do this with CA glue because yeah just trust me we're gonna do this with CA glue and when we get to the very last step you're gonna see why CA glue works so well for this what I'm doing is just taking the corner the clamp block holding it a little bit back from the knife edge of the miter and then I've got them lined up like this because the clamp blocks have to be opposite each other little bit of accelerator don't go crazy with the accelerator you don't want to overuse it because it causes the glue to crystallize so a light-duty application on the accelerator and I'm using a medium viscosity CA glue that ball thing is just beautiful here's where we're going next I got to reposition my stuff get glue get the Domino's there and go into the joint so in other words I'm gonna get stuff move things around then we'll come back and start getting everything put together left sides ready now and this one will do the mortises and the mitre with glue now in the perfect cartoon bubble that's all fists together and one of the things I'm paying attention to before I get too deep on those dominoes is to get the edges aligned here because it's easy to move now while I'm not fully engaged it's going to be harder to move stuff later alright and for clamping now what I'm going to do is just kind of sneak up on this little bit of pressure a little bit of pressure I'll tell you what you know it's a big miter and when you get to this step and it closes like this that's so cool to see alright boy that looks good I'm really happy with that now a good question would be yeah I don't really want that feature on top of or on the leg of my table once the glue is dry on the miter we'll come back and I'll show you what we do at a deal with those clamping blocks easy peasy glues dry so these guys come on and then what to do with these clamp lights here's the thing with CA glue it's got strength to it but it doesn't have a lot of shear strength shear strength is when sideways pressure is put on something like this kind of incredible huh how those blocks can hold so well while we're doing the clamping but they pop right off when we give them that sideways pressure last step for this sanding and then I can't wait to get finish and what I think is going to be an absolutely beautiful waterfall table [Music] you

Channel: WoodWorkers Guild Of America

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Length: 8min 45sec (525 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 06 2019