Best Results for Woodworking with Pine Wood

hello everyone i'm colin connett today's video is about how to use pine to get better success with your woodworking projects and i am going to build a little table but we're going to skip a lot of parts on it because i want to concentrate on how you can best use pine to your advantage so let's get started [Music] a lot of new woodworkers start off using pine and the reason is it's a relatively inexpensive wood compared to many others it's readily available almost anywhere it's a fairly soft wood it's light it's easy to work with depending on where you shop you may be able to get different thicknesses it comes in glued up panels sometimes you can buy it as single board so there's lots of different ways you can buy it but it has one disadvantage it's very soft and because of that it doesn't always stand up to the rigors of day-to-day usage but today i'm going to show you some of the things that you can do to overcome that okay let's get started on some fun stuff and start making this build working with pine so i'm pre-cutting everything to save us some time because we're focusing on the actual wood and right here i have the legs i'm going to put those together in a moment here i have the apron and here i have the lower brackets i'm not going to use anything here right now we're going to concentrate on the legs right now so i'm about to start gluing up the legs and in a perfect world we'd be able to get wood that was the exact width that we need but sometimes we need to make it and so i'm going to be using these thin strips and gluing them together but when you do that you really want to try and match the wood as best you can now to stop these from sliding around i'm going to put on a couple of these clamps and that's going to stop them from sliding around and i'm going to do the next glue up here and then i'm going to clamp them all together now i don't have enough clamps to do individuals so i'm going to be clamping them in sets of two so this will be one set and then i'll do another set off camera so there's all the gluing and clamping and that wood is good and stable and i should mention the other reason that we do sometimes when we don't get the right wood we have to glue it but there's another reason for doing gluing and something you should always keep in mind and that is that laminated wood that is two boards that are glued together are much stronger than a single board of the same thickness so that's another really good reason why you might want to do some glue up so okay i'm just taking the clamps off now it's about two hours later and i'm taking all of the clamps off both of the legs that i've glued up now the reason i'm taking these clamps off is because i want to take a moment to scrape this glue off before it gets really super hard on there well now that we have all of our components the next thing we need to determine is how are we going to join everything together and that's why we're talking about joinery now there's basically three options um or common options for joining things like this together and the the most common and the most used is probably the mortise and tannin but you could also use pocket holes and we could also use dowels and the question is what's best for pine so the best way to find out what's the strongest joint is to actually test some joinery on pine wood so today i'm going to have a look i'm going to compare the pocket hole system and i'm going to compare it with the dowel system now i'm not going to use mortise and tannin today because all of the testing that i've done i've discovered that the dowel system is equal or stronger than mortise and tanning so there's no point doing two of them that are almost equal or or basically equal the other thing i've discovered is that you can test till you're blue in the face with this stuff so what i'm what i'm going to do i'm just going to do what i believe a normal person would be doing if you were putting together a little table like this what would most people probably do and some people would have a little bit different take on it but it's just a testing thing anyway so let's have a look and see what this looks like and where the needle stops going up is where it will fail there it's failed there at uh oh what is that 200 about 250 pounds and you can see that it's just sliding down the screws are sliding out of the main let's crack the side here see how it's cracking the side now i expect in this one it's going to pull the dowels out i don't think it's going to snap there it's failed at 400 and about 450 oh it's going yeah it's about 450 pounds and you can see the wood is cracking actually the wood is failing before the dowels are failing now i know there's a lot of people out there that use biscuits so just for fun i i decided to make one with biscuits but the biscuits continue to disappoint me we'll see if they'll change now so there's 200 well about looks like about maybe 275 it might have got two and there's and it again it pulled out of the wood the wood failed in this case the wood failed before the biscuits usually the biscuits will fail uh but it looks like the the wood failed okay i've come to that point in the build where i need to start working on the joinery we've already established that we're going to do if you don't have a doweling machine or something similar we'll be doing a mortise and tenon i'm going to be using my doweling machine and one of the advantages of the doweling machine because you're adding dowels to each side is when you measure from side to side the the wood that you're going to be putting in there it's going to be the base and this will be the top you don't have to worry about adding a little piece of wood so you don't when you measure your wood you measure exactly for what it is because the dowels go in there so that's really nice and it means you can get nice straight flat corners and that's really what sold me on this machine now i'm not going to show you the drilling of all the holes i'll just do this one set and then i'll drill all the holes off camera now i've drilled all the holes in my legs the next thing i need to do is drill some holes for the dowels in my apron and my rails and never ever be afraid to mark your wood so that you don't get mixed up i always use blue tape on the face of all my boards in this case i'm using a t for the top as well so i'm going to go like that so that you can see that and now for this one i'm going to take out that little spacer in there because i've already spaced one you don't space two of them you only space one and now this will go on like that now i align my face this is always the face of my doweling jig to the top of the board and tighten that down and that will be where i will drill the matching holes okay there's that little table all together it looks very good all the joints are nice are going to be nice and tight of course it's loose now because the dowels that i use are loose i've had to sand them down otherwise they're too hard to get in and out it's such a nice tight fit i didn't time myself for drilling all the holes i think it maybe took me 15 minutes to drill all of the holes for this entire carcass of this little table the next thing i'm going to do is finishing i'm not going to make you sit through it i'm going to tell you what i'm going to do and why so let's get on with that the next thing we need to talk about is the finish that we're going to use and typically a lot of people complain that pine gives you blemishes and it does depending on the product that you use i always try and do all of the finishing before i do the final assembly and that way you're able to get all the little nooks and crannies so you can get a much better job and a much more thorough job so i'm going to be doing that there's and there's a few things back in the day when i used to use stain and stains are typically oil based the best way to finish pine was to use something called a pre-stain or a conditioner and that would get in most cases that got rid of the blotchiness then i would put on a stain and then i would put on a varnish i abandoned this system over 20 years ago what i use now what i've been using for a long time for those of you who've been following my channel you'll know that i use dyes now and i'm going to put a video that little thing that just popped up right there on the screen that's a link to a video that i made where a video called dyes versus stains and it's a good idea to have a quick look at that these are water soluble they come as powders or concentrates and they coat you don't need to pre-stain with these these coat pine just fine i've never had a problem with it you can see there's some mixed up right there and it's a very watery it dries in a half an hour so you can actually start stain or start finishing now this is a var varathanes and varnishes lay on top of the surface about 20 years ago i switched to this product it's called osmo this is called a hardening oil and if you're watching any of the other woodworking shows on youtube you notice a few guys using something a product called i think it's called rubio i've not tried that product yet but i understand they love it because it's a hardening oil guess what that's a hardening oil i've been using that product for 20 years so i know exactly the finishes that they're getting with it and why they're so in love with it because hardening oils are a great way to go so i'm going to go ahead and take this apart sand it down put on a die of the color of my choice and one coat of this because i'll do a second coat after it's assembled so i'll do one coat of this too and when we come back you'll see where i've got to okay this is the top i thought i'd take a quick minute and we'll go through this quickly just to show you what a die looks like when it goes on it basically paints on it's very watery and it just paints on like a any any kind of a paint or something and just very very light i'm going to give you a very quick um overview on applying this osmo product and basically you use these white pads you buy these at the automotive store they're used for body shops use them but basically all you do is just put on a very thin layer and you let that lay down on your product on your project that you're working on and just let it soak in for a few minutes the main thing with any of these hardening oils and basically the oils that harden overnight is that put it on very very thinly and i generally put on two sometimes three coats and pine is very porous wood that's why it's so light and sometimes when i'm finished with it i see that it needs a third coat so well now comes that time of the project build the best time at all when you get to put everything together and i'm not going to make you sit through the construction but when it's all done it's going to be complete so when it all comes together that's the finished product now basically what i'm going to be doing just to give you a bit of a heads up first of all i'm going to be inserting dowels in all of the holes that i've drilled and i'll put i'll do all of the pieces first of all so i'll insert all of the dowels and all of the pieces then i will take the individuals that have the dowels already in them and put them that way and put them together once the all the with the dowels are inserted that way so that's the way i'm going to put it together i might show you a quick a quick clip and i'll speed that up but basically the construction here pretty simple it's just a matter of putting it all together now the one thing i will mention about dowels or if you're using mortise and tenons always air on the side of larger when you're working with pine because you need more wood surface to wood surface because that gives you more glue surface to glue well that concludes my video today working with pine and of course pine being such a soft wood the real key is making sure that you have bigger gluing surfaces so longer mortise longer tenons deeper mortises longer dowels for example all of those things are going to give you bigger longer gluing surfaces and that's really the key to working with pine is bigger surfaces that you can mate your pieces to and that will make a strong project for you and one that'll last a lifetime i'm colin kanet for woodwork web thanks for watching you

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Id: 99QFrOVzMK0

Length: 16min 35sec (995 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 06 2020