DIY Waterfall End Table — How to Woodworking

[Music] hey this is cam with black tile studio this is my walnut waterfall end table build if you don't know what a waterfall table is first off it starts out as a single slab and then it's cut in such a way allows the green to flow to 90 degrees like a waterfall which a little unique about this one is we have a single leg in fact that we did a waterfall joint on as well so the grain continues 90 degrees on the leg which was actually my wife's idea and as it turns actually decided to keep this table so this one isn't even getting sold this was my first waterfall build it went really well I'm gonna go through all the steps I did to make it I'm gonna go over how I got the joint the glue I used most importantly for me was the finish I used how to get a actual perfect finish in your garage and in dusty environment and a finish that's gonna not water ring get spot things like that so I'm gonna go through all the steps if I left anything out please let me know in the comments I'll get to all them that I can and enjoy so you can obviously do a live at waterfall table for this particular table I didn't want a live edge so the first thing I did was square it off next thing I did was make my first 45-degree cut and after that I flip it around and I cut the other 45 and this is what gives you the waterfall edge so that looks like the grain is continuous on that 90 degree joint so there's a few different ways you can make this joint and the easiest for me is gonna be to use my Festool Domino if you don't have access to a domino and I understand most people don't you could do dowels with the little dowel pit and centers and there won't be quite as easy but you can definitely get the job done whichever method you decide to use always do a test fit before you glue it up and when you are ready for the glue up it's always a good idea to add this painters tape to that joint that way the glue won't sit in that corner making it impossible to sand out you can see here I'm also using an epoxy instead of a traditional wood glue and the reason I'm using in epoxy is because there's not gonna be a ton of clamping pressure on this joint so the epoxy is gonna give you a little better adhesion on a joint like this you can see here I'm using my Bessy parallel clamps they're a nice clamp but really any clamp will do a pipe clamp would be just fine for this type of joint just make sure you keep that joint at a perfect 90 after the epoxy is cured overnight you ready to start sanding it just don't try to focus on that corner so much I know that's where the messes and you're gonna want to spend all your time just standing that but you want to keep the top very very flat so I go back and forth and I use this scraper here to help get a little bit of a high spot and just nice and even pressure across the whole top there until that epoxy disappears so the process I did to build the leg was essentially the same as the top I did a five and a half inch rip right here to get my straight piece and from the table saw I went over to the planer this piece was already very flat I didn't need a joint it so I just ran it through the planer till I got the thickness that I wanted and you can see here just checking for flatness perfectly flat on both sides here I'm gonna set up the 45-degree cut so I zeroed it out on the table base and there is a point to margin of error in this so as long as I'm within that it's as close as that gauge can actually get and from here I'm gonna do the same process as I did on the top where I want to make my initial 45-degree cut I don't I'm going to come over make my second 45-degree cut and with this miter saw it's always a good idea to make these shallow short passes it'll prevent the blade from binding now I'm going to use the Domino again to set up that 45-degree waterfall join [Music] I decided to experiment with a house rap tape here which I use on the forms for my epoxy River tables I didn't really like it quite as much I left a bit of a residue behind where the painters tape didn't it does provide a little bit better protection from that epoxy seeping in I think really wrong with it I'd probably use painters tape again though if you do decide to use an epoxy don't use one that's like a five-minute cure time give yourself one that has at least 20 minutes or so to work with that way you can really take your time with this joint you see here I had to adjust it a couple times I'm using a pipe clamp there on the top joint checking for square it's still not quite there you can see I didn't have my parallel clamp parallel which was part of the problem but once I straightened that up squared it right up a good tip is to remove this tape before the epoxy is completely cured but after it has set up if you wait too long the epoxy will have completely encapsulated the tape making it nearly impossible to get off even if your epoxy has say at 12 hours free time I like to give it a full day before I start really applying pressure to it and I decided to sand this entire piece to 320 grit before gluing the leg on this is gonna be really hard to sand into those joints and the steps I used is I start off at 100 150 to 23 20 you can go higher with this finish I'm using but 320 is the look I was going for on this one and I also like to make a pencil mark between grits and that way you know you don't miss any spots if you really want to set yourself apart from most di wires is good buy yourself a 1/32 round over bit most people just hand sand that corner and this round over big gives you a really perfect really professional look opposed to a hand sanding [Music] for gluing the leg on I'm gonna use epoxy again and the end grain soaks up that any type of glue of epoxy or regular blue is soaks it up like straw so I like to let it set for a few seconds check the dry spots and then apply a little bit more you can see here I set the tape outline up to prevent that same glue from seeping out making it hard to sand off will really save you a ton of time in the end again with the domino joints just clicked into place and you don't need to over clamp the epoxy you actually can squeeze too much of the epoxy out and make the joint weaker so just nice snug pressure is all you need [Music] [Music] you can see here I'm just taking the tape off again before the epoxy completely cures I've made this mistake before and I'm really going to try not to do it again so a lot of us on social media like to pretend like we never make mistakes but we all do and I'm gonna show you a quick and easy way to address one of these common mistakes is this is just CA glue or commonly known super glue I mix it with a little baggie of walnut dust that I just keep on hand and you're gonna see some tiny little gaps in this joint and this CA glue and walnut dust is gonna help fill those tiny little gaps making it appear like it's just a perfect joint and once that glue is dry you ready to sand it just to make sure again not to focus too much on the corner just like you did on the top there and when you do go in there just give really really light pressure with a pretty high grit I think I did 320 grit here if I hadn't used the tape that I experimented with here I wouldn't have to do all this cleanup of the tape lines it wasn't too bad to get off since I did sand the entire piece to its final grit all I had to do is clean that off and then blown it off here with an air nozzle getting ready for finishing I used to dread the finishing process but since I've discovered Odie's oil I absolutely love it it's my favorite part of the entire build when you get your o DS stir it up real good just scoop a little bit on that's probably even more than I need and I'm using a bondo trowel here to just spread it out let it soak in nice and even not really a wrong way to do this you can see just how pretty this looks you don't have to apply it with one of these trowels somebody actually use a credit card you can even use just a cotton cloth or one of those white floor pads just cover the entire piece with it before you wipe it off [Music] here's the white pad I was referring to and for this sides and corner is hard-to-reach spots I like to use these white pads because they really get in there nicely I left it oil sit on there for about an hour and I use these cotton terry cloth those are the only thing you should really use to remove this odious oil don't use the lint-free cloths they actually don't work as well just make sure you get every last bit of it off totally optional but if you want to add the Odie's wood butter I feel like it adds a little bit of extra protection and also gives a little bit more of a sheen and you apply this in the same way you see I did this on my way out to the gym is how easy this stuff is to apply same as before waited about an hour maybe just a little bit longer this time and use the cotton terry towels and wiped it every last bit of it off you can really use it pretty soon after applying it I like to wait at least 24 hours three weeks before you want to start dumping red wine on it and here are some of the finished studio shops I did of this table it's pretty pleased with it for my first waterfall table - I am definitely not a professional photographer but I've learned to take some pretty decent photos in my garage with a white photography paper backdrop if you have any questions about a camera I use or the backdrop or anything like that be sure to ask me in the comments I'm happy to give any tips I've learned along the way okay that's my whole build thanks so much for watching if I left anything out please ask me in the comments I'll answer any questions you may have and as always if you enjoyed this video please subscribe thanks

Channel: Blacktail Studio

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Keywords: waterfall table, Blacktail Studio, walnut end table, diy end table, walnut waterfall, goby walnut, odie's oil, how to, diy, diy furniture, woodworking

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Length: 13min 22sec (802 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 22 2018