Easy DIY Round Table

this week in the shop we're taking this pile of white oak and we're gonna turn it into oh this white oak entry table round little xbase going on I'm gonna show you how to do the entire thing so watch the video follow along and if you haven't already subscribe right down there and click that little bell too that'll let you know when I release new videos okay enjoy the first thing we have to do is prepare some wood of which we can use to make our table so it's a typical cut it to size run it through the jointer to get a straight edge stick it on the table saw to cut it to the correct width and then finally run it through the planer to get it all to the same height I'm saying height I said height and a few other videos and people got really mad so hope you're happy now with all of our pieces milled up for this we're going to need approximately a 40 inch by 40 inch square so that we can cut out a 40 inch diameter circle for our tabletop we clamped the entire thing together with some glue you could use biscuits or dominoes but I tell you what if your wood is milled correctly you just don't need it just put some glue in there and clamp it together but this all clamped up we're gonna set it aside let it dry and start working on our base now our base is basically a base basically gonna be made up of two slabs that are going to be half-laps together to make a giant elongated plus sign now instead of trying to glue up two slabs and cutting out our half flaps I thought it would be way easier just to glue them up with the half lap already in place so I cut a piece roughly the length for my top half lap and then I also cut an additional piece that I put in the bottom just for glue-up purposes I didn't glue it in place it's just to make sure that my bottom doesn't get pinched when I'm clamping everything together so I clamped up both pieces again with one top piece glued in place and another bottom piece that's just a spacer and then while those dry I decided to hop back over to my table top which is now all glued together and we can start prepping it to cut our circle the first thing you want to do is flip your slab upside down the circle jig I use leaves a tiny point in the center and we don't want that on the top of our table surface next you want to sand your entire slab smooth so that our circle jig can ride along the top without running into any bumps or cracks then I use these little dog hole spacer block thingamajigs to raise the slab up off my work surface you don't want to cut into your tabletop which really won't be a problem because you'll see in a second we're not even gonna cut all the way through our slab next I get my circle jig this is a Rockler circle jig I'll leave a link for this in the video description below or you can make your own out of plywood if you click the little tab in the upper corner you can see a video that I showed on making your own circle jig with our circle jig in place we begin cutting out our circle well we're not really cutting it out all we're doing right now is actually just cutting a groove in a circular shape that we are going to use basically as a template for our router some people will cut all the way through their slab with the circle jig but that means making multiple passes around and round and in my experiences the more passes around you make with a circle jig the more likely you are to screw things up so I make one pass about a quarter to a half inch deep and then I cut the excess off with a jigsaw no I am NOT cutting it flush to my circle this is going to leave a very rough edge around most of your tabletop but we are going to take care of that clean and simple first you want to sand the top around the perimeter to make it nice and smooth so you have a nice smooth area for your router to ride on then you're going to take one of these little spiral down cut bits with a bottom mounted bearing now that bearing is going to ride on our initial pass from a circle jig and basically our tabletop is now a template to clean up and make our perfect circle just like this I know I'm probably gonna get some hate in the comments section from people saying that's a dumb way to do this just cut the whole thing with the circle jig well all I have to say to you people is you do whatever the heck you want this is the way I like to do it after cleaning up the entire circle I just go over the edge lightly with the sander and then sand the top and get it ready for finish with my top done I can now hop back over to my base which is all glued together and dry as you can see I'm just removing those little spacer pieces that I put in to keep everything nice and even next we need to cut our base pieces to the appropriate length so you want to measure out and make sure that the void in your glued up piece is the exact same length as the solid inserted piece thingy majiggy that you made to create your half-life so you cut both ends just making sure that the void and the spacer are exactly the same length so you cut one side and you cut the other and then you do the same thing to the other piece so that they're both nice and even some people are like hey how do you make sure they're both nice and even well you use a flip and tape measure seriously it's not that hard just you know take your time measure twice cut once all that garbage with all of our base pieces cut to the right size you can just hook them together now I didn't use any glue on this it's a pure friction fit the top is actually going to help hold the pieces in place so I just stuck them together and harness my inner flash started just banging away now if they don't go together easily you might want to sand a little bit to make sure they go together but you want them to be a nice tight fit hence the friction fit nothing is worse than a sloppy half Lapham all right I imagine right now people are giving me high-fives but this is a video so you can't do that but at this point you can pretty much see what our table is going to look like so the only thing we have left to do at this point is sand everything to prepare it for finish in hindsight I probably should have sanded the base a little bit before I put it together because this was kind of an awkward way to sand it but with the base all sanded we have to figure out a way to hook our top on to our base now to do this I decided to just fabricate some quick little brackets out of eight inch steel strap so I cut four pieces they're gonna hook onto the base somewhat like this and then I grinded them all smooth to make sure they weren't sharp and ouchie and then I drilled some holes to attach them to my base now I used a larger drill bit for the center holes that are actually going to hook it to the base and I drilled about 3/4 of the way through my steel strap to create a little crater to countersink my screws and then I drilled all the way through with a quarter-inch bits through the center as well as the outsides so that I could hold the bracket to my base and in turn my base to my tabletop it looked something like this I then went back to the grinder just to get rid of any burrs that may be on there I didn't want to slice open my finger as you can see these screws are counter sunk down in so that it will sit nice and flush against the top of my table with my brackets all made I then attached them to my table base making sure to pre-drill these are going in to end grains so you do not want to split out that wood pre-drilling is a must and then I hooked each bracket on with two screws again countersunk into those brackets now if I was just to leave it like this once I set the base on my tabletop it would float an eighth of an inch off of my table top due to the 8 inch brackets now you could leave it like this if you really wanted to if you want to be that guy I however did not like that so I traced each one of my brackets and decided to sink them down into the bottom of my tabletop so after getting all of my brackets trace I marked one of them to make sure that I could get my base lined back up correctly I then removed my bass just drew my lines a little bit better so that I could really see what I was doing and then I took a router with a simple spiral down cut bit I spaced it to the correct depth of my bracket and I went to work cutting out the profile of each one of my brackets now these aren't going to be absolutely perfect because I am doing it freehand you could make a little template but that would take quite a long time and it's under a table so I thought it might be okay then with all of my holes cut for my brackets I put the base back on to make sure that it fits which it did very nicely and then it was time to attach that base to the top so first I pre-drilled every hole again this is very important when dealing with hard wood you do not want to split anything out and then I attached the base to the top with a one-inch cabinet screw and got rid of my tape don't need that tape and just like that our table for all practical purposes is complete both base and top sanded and ready for finish yes finish the bane of all woodworkers but that's what's next so here we go I finished the entire table with rubio monocoat cotton white which is a product that i have come to love when dealing with white oak in my opinion it gives the nicest finish and leaves the oak looking very natural and untouched so first I finished the bottom of my table top followed by my table base and last but not least I finished the table top itself I feel like this is one of those really visually pleasing moments in a video so I'm just gonna stop talking for a few seconds and just let you enjoy this cinematic pleasure [Music] how pretty oh sorry I'll shut up and [Music] with that the table is complete well there you have it a round entry table just like that now what you need to do is click that subscribe button right there and subscribe to my channel also you might want to check out some videos there's one right 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Channel: Bourbon Moth Woodworking

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Length: 13min 18sec (798 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 18 2020