DIY Wooden Counter Top

hey guys welcome to the workshop but today's video i'm going to make a butcher block kitchen countertop so stick around so i first went to lowe's and bought some 2x10 lumber that way when i would cut these down later i would end up with something that was roughly about eight and a half to nine inches and i had pre-measured every length in every dimension i needed three solid butcher blocks and so i ended up cutting them just a little bit longer than each one just so i had enough if i needed to trim a little bit off the ends i would have some extra now once all these were cut it was time to start cutting the round overs off if you don't already know when you buy lumber from most hardware stores there is a round over on every corner and that's to prevent chipping while it's being moved around and in my case i do not want those so i had to scrap about a quarter inch to half inch of it and i did that on both sides on every single board and after running it through the table saw then i wanted to skip playing it with my planer just to make one smooth side wasn't highly concerned about the other side so i just kept doing the same side over and over just to get most of the saw marks off now like i said i had three of these to do so i'm really going to just show you how i put together one of them and then you'll know how i did the rest now some of these boards had a little bit of a bow in it so i had to hand plane those so that by the time i would put them all together there was no gap between any of the boards and this took a good bit of time so then i would i had a little dilemma i did not have enough clamps to clamp this whole thing together the width of this thing is about 25 inches and i only had 24 inch bar clamps and they only opened with 22 inches so i had this idea of gluing the first two together clamping them together and then extending it upright and screwing these boards to the back of each board and that would in turn give me the ability to have that clamping it together and then by the time i added the third board i could use the two clamps that i had to glue these together foreign so now that all the glue is dried on all of the different boards that i put together it was time to knock all of the really high glue squeeze outs off then i went over it with a low surface plane to get rid of some more of the glue and then i'm going to cross it at an angle with my number seven hand plane to smooth it out because there was a little bit of a cup that happened and when i did this it also gave it a really neat effect and then the most fun part of every job is the sanding and this took a long time because i had three different ones to do [Music] now after i sanded it before i was applying my stain i still wanted to put pre-stain conditioner on this just to level out some of the high and low spots when i would do the stain if you're doing this video so far please consider subscribing to this channel because on this channel i do a lot of things just like this everything that i do is diy i also do a lot of projects and then i do a lot of tip videos so if anything like that interest you please hit the subscribe button and make sure to click the little bell icon to be notified of every future video that i put out now after rubbing off the excess pre-stain conditioner it didn't soak into the wood then i went ahead and used my new rust-oleum stain and if you watched one of my videos previously i tested this against the minwax and this was my favorite so if you're interested in that video you can click the little card up at the top right corner and watch that video so now it was on to the demo now i didn't record a bunch of the demo because this video it was not about remodeling the kitchen this was about the butcher block so just going to show you a little bit of what i ended up doing i had to remove my stove i had to remove the old sink we were not going to reuse the old sink we ended up going with a 8 inch depth farmhouse sink that we purchased and really like it a lot but we reused the same stove that we had before so i just begin by laying these all out just to see how everything fit see if i needed to trim anything and i did end up making one a lot longer than it should have been i'm in fact about a whole foot longer so i'm not sure how that happened but at least it wasn't shorter so then i just stuck a ruler underneath and hit once i would touch the sink i would make a line and that would be giving me the mark where i would then take this outside and cut it now i ended up lining my line with painters tape and that is a little trick that you may want to do just to avoid any splintering that could potentially happen on the top side of the counter top so i ended up having to do this for both sides of the sink also ended up doing it for a piece of wood that was behind the sink and then this is a part that went right in front of the stove i ended up having to piece together a couple other peaches to make this all work out and here we have it all the countertop is installed it's all screwed in from below so all of that is nice and secure now so then i used the minwax polycrylic on this and when this whole project was done i ended up with about eight coats of this on there i really like the water base i just think it gives it a better look it doesn't yellow or tint any of the stain it looks just as good as it did when you applied it but in between every coat i did a little bit of a light sanding and then applied more and this thing would dry in about two hours so i was able to get a lot of coats on in a short amount of time to fill up all of the wood knots and some of the um defects in the wood i wanted to maintain the look of it so i ended up filling it with maz epoxy epoxy resin and if this is a product that you really like you can get this and the link down in the description of this video that will take you to the website to be able to buy this stuff and after letting that dry and cure overnight i ended up putting probably several more coats of poly acrylic on there so like i said about eight coats when it was all said and done put the faucet in and put the stove in and then my wife did her thing and the kitchen looks spectacular very happy with how this turned out and i know my wife is too as well okay guys so i hope that you enjoyed that video if you did please give me a thumbs up and to consider subscribing if you already haven't hit that button now all the products that i used in this video are going to be linked in the description of this video so if there's something that you don't know where to buy it or you're going to do this and you just want to quickly buy this stuff you can follow all those links add them to your cards buy the stuff and get it sent right to your house so guys thank you for watching this video please tune in for the next one and as i always say thank you for watching this video i'll see you next time right here in the workshop [Music] 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Channel: B&O Craftsman

Views: 1,547,029

Keywords: diy butcher block countertop, diy, butcher block, diy butcher block, butcher block countertop, countertop, mas epoxy, epoxy resin, diy wooden countertops, wooden countertop, wood

Id: isePFmQtJNw

Length: 11min 35sec (695 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 17 2020