Frank Lloyd Wright Inspired Sofa Table - Woodworking Projects - How To Woodworking

hey this is cam with blacktail studio and this week i have the very last video that was shot in my old shop and coincidentally it is actually for my new house stay tuned depending on how much you actually watch my videos this slab might look familiar to you it was a kind of an oversized slab that i had to buy to make that tiny little left piece for this desk i did a couple videos back so at the end of cutting off that small little sliver i was left with a slab that was over eight feet long and i think about 16 inches wide which was actually going to be perfect for this console table because the new house we got is a lot bigger than our old house and we can't afford regular furniture to go in the whole thing especially eight foot long tables so my wife asked if we could make a console table out of this leftover piece of wood and it's not the most remarkable piece of wood but it's pretty cool and i think it'll fill up a pretty large area in the new house pretty nicely this slab was pretty close to being what's called a jacket cut which means it was almost on the outside of the log which is why we have these big recessed areas of natural live edge and they really aren't something you normally look for when you're making a table like this but since i had this lab it was already free i really wanted to lean into it because i thought they were kind of cool and we'll embrace that kind of jacket aspect to it if you're new to my videos one thing you'll see me do a lot is make mistakes and normally i make several shallow passes and this one time i thought i could make one single pass and save some time and here's what happened that festival track saw got stuck in this piece of walnut so it became quite the mess i can't remember how long it took me to fish this thing out of there because you're trying not to bend the blade you don't want to hurt the machine so you got to try to kind of get some wedges in there and it was just my mistake it's not a super powerful saw it's a super accurate saw just not made for making deep two inch cuts like that so i had to jockey with this for quite a while bent it probably a little bit more than i should have eventually got it out so i like to include that my videos you guys may make fun of me and you're probably right to do so in this case because i knew better i should have just made a few half inch cuts instead of trying to go all at one time the sanders that i use are really expensive and i think they're worth it but most people aren't going to be able to justify the cost of one of these let alone three of them or more like some people have so the question i get a lot is if you can only afford one of these sanders which one would you get and it actually wouldn't be the rotex you might think it would be the rotex because it has kind of a regular mild mode and then that heavy duty rotex mode that removes a ton of material i don't think it's worth it their fine sanding mode really isn't that good of a pattern so i would recommend getting this festool ets ec150 not a very catchy name but it is as far superior sander when it comes to delivering a really nice finish and if you put 100 grit and a firm pad on it it doesn't sand quite as fast as the festival but it is really really good so i'll include a link to all the sanders below but the one that i would get is that ets ec150 speaking of tools you do not need you do not need a trim router if i was only going to have one router it definitely wouldn't be a trim router it is handy for some really light duty tasks like this but i did an article a little while back in my blog about kind of the best tools for the money and i think the one that i liked was the bosch plunge router with the fixed base it's really versatile and i would probably rather have that over my festool if i could only have one router if you follow along closely you know that i've been using a lot of rubio monaco lately and i always like to emphasize that i am not sponsored by them i've even had some people on instagram that are tagging me and rubio saying that i should be sponsored and they very politely say that they do not offer sponsorships at this time so it is just a finish that i really like i'm always exploring new finishes and i am prepping this the same way as i do my wood and epoxy tables that i do the rubio finish this is their rubio raw wood cleaner i don't know that it's necessary i know guys that use rubio without doing the raw wood cleaner they kind of got me on their scare tactics of saying you could have problems if you use mineral spirits so i went ahead and used their raw wood cleaner and then i'm applying this rubio pure 2c right here rubio is generally a very matte finish and i kind of like a more satin finish and so i found a way to do two coats of rubio without any of the ill effects that they say you can have with applying two coats of rubio so if you want kind of an in-depth dive to that i'll include a link to my blog that also has a link to a video with a step-by-step process on how to apply two coats for the purpose of this video i'm gonna kind of rush through it so i don't have to kind of show you what you've already seen if you've already watched that video i take instructions from clients all day long every day so i feel like when i'm making something for myself i am maybe not the most open to suggestion so this time i decided to allow my wife to design the base and she generally has a fair amount of input but i'll be honest i do veto her a lot when it comes to making these decisions so she came up with a really cool design that i'll be honest is not the most stable but it is pretty cool looking in the end and we came up with a pretty good solution to make it a little bit more stable one of my goals for this table was to make everything out of wood that i already had i didn't want to spend any money like i mentioned we're buying a house or we just bought a house so we're trying to kind of control our finances during this but we're also trying to fill it with a bunch of pretty nice furniture so all of these were essentially offcuts i don't want to market this like a table i built for free because most everybody out there is not going to have these kind of offcuts but this is why i save a ton of these scraps from these big slabs because you'll see in the end this is actually some really really nice wood that i used on the legs and ended up making a pretty cool pretty unique base for really no cost to me you'll see in a little bit that i used some really cool wood that had some crazy figuring and really great grain that goes every which direction and i can't wait because the joinery police is going to give me a stern lesson in the comments on saying you should only use straight grain quarter sawn plain old bland wood when you're making legs and while that is probably best as far as joinery goes it just doesn't look that cool and you know what this is not a table that i'm planning to hand down to my grandchildren it's kind of a cool table that i guarantee will last many many many years but yes this is not probably the really authentic way to make a table that will last for two centuries after i get everything together in a dry fit process so i know it will glue together nicely i take it all back apart then i sand everything to 120 grit and this just saves me a lot of sanding that i would have to do while the table is assembled it's a lot harder to sand into the corners especially that lower grit you don't want to kind of dish into the piece that it's glued to so sand everything up to 120 grit and then a good trick to do if you don't do this is you should use the painters tape any time you're gluing something up and this is just an old woodworkers trick this is definitely not something i invented but man it can save you a ton of time and frustration of trying to get the glue out of the cracks there is not a lot to it i just use a good quality painters tape and a nice sharp razor blade and cut right along the seams you'll see here in a second that i also use a little japanese marking knife but the razor blade is best because it really is just that much sharper and then i get my pieces kind of dry fit again together so i know when i make my cuts it's going to be exactly where that glue line is going to be so i use just my finest little eighth inch japanese marking knife come through make all of my cuts making sure not to scar the wood and it's pretty easy just make a couple nice light passes take everything back apart and then just kind of gently peel apart those cuts you made a couple videos ago i mentioned that i had a discussion with a local woodworking company that's been in business for about 40 years and they told me that they do not recommend using titebond 3 with walnut and that was news to me because i'd been only using type on three for a while and i've never had a problem with it but they do a lot more gluing than i do so i have switched over to titebond original i got a fair amount of comments from people i had a handful of people that said hey i've never had a problem with it i don't know what they're saying but i did have quite a few experienced woodworkers that say yeah we've been in business a long time and we do not use type one two or three and some people said they use two but not three so i do recommend using the titebond original especially with walnut now when you're removing the tape from your corners you want to wait about 30 minutes so it's just starting to set up and then peel it off and that'll make it easy to get those tiny little bits just like that that the tape didn't catch if you go too soon it'll leave more that if you wait too long then it can make the tape really hard to remove and kind of bond to the wood itself depending on how closely you're paying attention you might have been wondering how i was going to attach this kind of funky looking base to the flat slab bottom and i did a similar mounting system on a table a couple years ago so i'm kind of mimicking that one and it's just some kind of shallow c channel that i had laying around from a couple years ago marked a couple holes made a couple cuts and then i'm going to take it over to the drill press and kind of embarrass myself with my metal working skills these drill bits are awesome my steel guy turned me onto them i think they're available on amazon and i'll have links to these and everything else in the video description but here is how good of a metal worker i am can't even drill a simple hole but eventually i got a few holes drilled and you might be seeing how this is going to go together already and if not it'll make sense here pretty quick essentially all that i am doing is i'm drilling four holes in each of these and i will mark a couple spots for threaded inserts and these are just the same threaded inserts that i use in all my tables and then i will take my router and kind of recess these into the underside of the table allowing myself to put a couple bolts in the bottom and keeping everything totally hidden and again if it doesn't make sense yet we'll pretty soon i promise if you haven't watched my videos before first off welcome i really appreciate you watching and one thing you should know is that i am super good to responding at essentially every single question and comment in there and if you stick around to the end of the video you'll really see what i mean because i respond to even the trolls because i feel like they need attention more than anybody so at the end of this if you watched it all and you still don't understand why i did it this way or if there's a better way or maybe you have a suggestion for me of kind of a simpler cleaner way that you would have done it i would love to hear it i will read it and i will respond to it the only thing i ask is that if you get something from this video if you enjoy watching it just hit that little subscribe button because that's what enables me to keep making videos just like this one this acrylic plastic is a little bit more of a pain to work with it doesn't cut super well but it does make an awesome jig it sticks really well to that double-sided tape the tape comes off it really easily and the router slides along top very very easily so i go get these little scrap pieces from the excess bin at tap plastic and they make an awesome jig all right a quick test fit i know it's going to work and now i can sand the legs just like the top up to that 180 grit i did the same process i did the same water pop same router 1 8 edge profile and this was really nice to actually have the trim router here and you can see i didn't attach the steel to it just yet to enable me to get all the way up the one problem was i had to use kind of a little hand file hand rasp to get in the corners right here so the 1 8 inch trim router was an awesome tool to have for getting in these tight spaces but still not the only tool you always need something else one of my favorite things about having a page that has a pretty good following now is that i have a lot of increased brain power because there's a ton more of you than there is of me so i want to hear what you guys want me to make what do you guys actually want to see do you want to see more high-end projects do you want to see crazy expensive tables that i make for clients or would you like to see more realistic stuff or maybe just stuff that you might be able to do yourself more experiments with that burnt wood and epoxy or just something totally different altogether so let me know in the comments what you think what you want to see because like i said there's a lot more view than there is of me so we can come up with a lot more cool ideas of things to bank in the future because like i said i'm gonna see all those comments i'm gonna read all of them and they're probably all not gonna be winners let's be honest but i bet there's a couple of you out there that have a really cool idea for project coming up all right here is the first look at how this rubio looks on this black walnut you can see some really pretty color some really nice grain some really nice figuring yes it is not plain straight grain quarter-sawn walnut that is probably ideal but i am very confident that it's gonna hold up and feel free to hit me up in a year or five years and ask me how it's holding up all right for the record i'm gonna say do not do this in your house this is not a substitution for anchoring something to a wall we don't have any kids i'm not that worried about this table falling over i just wanted to be a little bit more secure if somebody set something heavy on one end so i just added a little bit of painters tape to the floor and to the table added a little bit of hot glue and then i just press it on there firmly and that painters tape is going to allow this to be removed easily instead of just putting hot glue directly on the wood that's the only reason for the painters tape and it does make it a lot more secure but not a substitution for anchoring something to a wall do not do this if you're worried about kids this will topple this will hurt your child after getting it centered on my recesses there just added a few furniture bolts and it was super snug also i didn't add any finish yet in the underside and i didn't realize that until this point i meant to add some finish it's not going to hurt anything but i don't like leaving raw wood unfinished like that so i will go back and add a little bit of finish after this that seems to be the new normal these days is kids and pets getting in the way when you're trying to work but i actually really like it when he works alongside of me and i think i'm gonna use some photos that i took of him laying there next to the table in this cover photo and i guess you'll know by the time you watch this if there was a dog on the cover photo because he just decided to lay down and join the photo shoot but here is the overall look of the table how it's attached how that grain looks how that color turned out how that finish looks all in all i want to hear what you guys think of this design it is not the most stable i want to be very upfront about that you do need to kind of baby it or better yet attach it to a wall but it is pretty cool looking kind of a cantilever design kind of a frank lloyd wright look i like the way the live edge looked let me know what you guys think if you would have left those kind of jacket cut corners on there i like how the sapwood that lighter wood looks on the edges the grain actually turned out a lot nicer than i thought it was nicer than that little offcut that i used on the other table so overall for a free table i am pretty happy with it all right if you watch my videos you know that every week i like to give a little bit of credit to the people that make it all the way to the end of the video and whenever possible i like to confuse the people that don't make it all the way to the end of the video so start your question or comment with my dog's name riggs r-i-g-g-s and that way i will know you made it all the way to the end of the video and i promise i will answer all of your questions or comments first and as an added bonus will confuse everybody by all the random comments that start with rigs so thank you so much for watching please subscribe for more videos just like this one have a great week

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Keywords: frank lloyd wright, frank lloyd write, frank lloyd wright furniture, how to, how to woodworking, diy projects, diy woodworking, diy sofa table, walnut sofa table, walnut console table, entlebucher, how to make live edge table, live edge table, live edge furniture, slab table, diy live edge, live edge slab, jacket cut slab, cantilevered table, cantilevered, three leg table, how to make a console table

Id: UycUZTWqxzA

Length: 15min 24sec (924 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 15 2020