How to build a butcher block table out of 2x4

[Music] all right i'm going to attempt to take this and replace this with it so this table yeah the table that wobbles and i'm going to take this turn this into a butcher block table and it's going to serve two purpose one is my workbench and the other one is going to be the patio table in the back so hopefully it turns out well so the wood comes with with factory curves when i eventually put this up together i butt this up together there's gonna be a little groove there which i don't want so what we're gonna do is we're gonna shave off a piece of it and then eventually when i clamp this together that little valley that little valley isn't gone so it's nice and flat [Applause] [Applause] now on with the making the tabletop so to make the tabletop i have four four feet clamps and i'm laying down the board with the help of ethan so we're spreading on the glue using a spatula and a silicone brush to brush it little did i know this was taken too long and the glue was drying up faster than i expected so what i ended up doing was i lay down all the boards pour all the glue on the wood and then use my hand to rub all the glue into the wood and stack them all together and took about about a minute to do it so it's a lot quicker that approaches a lot quicker than using the brush and then here there's a little slight bow in the tabletop as expected so what we decided to do was lay down some paper and then put some forty five pound weights on them four forty pound pounding weights to uh even up the weight to push it down so here that's how it looks like underneath with all the glue dripping and on the edge i had to clamp up some wood because they were starting to go whatever direction they wanted to go so i took the 4x4 this is actually not 4x4 or 3x3 it's actually not 3x3 either it's really small took that broken down the pieces so we have the bottom piece we have the bottom piece and everything's cut 45 degree angle with that piece and then i have a notch now like that left bottom this left top like this what is this uh alright bottom maybe something like this okay video it looks like that so here's the assembly of the legs so the step is pretty much the same for all pieces it's pretty much wood glue pre-drill the hole into the wood and then apply the lag bolts into it the lag bolts were used on the center piece but on the supporting pieces i just use a four inch decking screws so here's the bottom right i believe just glue that on spread out the glue top and bottom and then just screw them on but you know before screwing them on whatnot i made sure i drew a line to mark it where it's supposed to go what happened is the wood even though to the naked eye looks straight but actually not you know there's a little twist when um when i start cutting the three by three i noticed that uh the wood would slowly twist so in order to untwist it i have my wife standing on top of it and while she's on top of it i can glue and screw the support beam on tightly as possible so that it doesn't twist any further there is still a little twist but that little twist is removed later on once i assemble the table so last supporting piece to the beam so what i actually learned from the first leg i applied to the second leg so instead of having her stand on top of the um legs i would use my clamp and just clamp them tight enough where it's a snug fit between the supporting beam and the leg or the top piece or the bottom piece whatnot and that worked out even better because she didn't have to stand on it and the clamp just do all the the work so with all the holes i took all the saw dust and reused them just put in some wood glue mix it up with the sawdust and then just shove it back inside the hole let them dry and eventually i'll sand them out so here is a dry fit of the table both legs and the middle supporting beams and here they are ready to be sanded so they are a mirror image of each other the legs are and time to go sand these guys out so the sanding process took a while because i had to do two legs and the support beam so i started off with a 40 grit sandpaper rub it out and then went down to two no went down to 190 and then 280. so here is the two legs and the supporting beam glued together with me standing on top of it so you can handle the weight here i'm working on the table top what i'm doing is i'm i'm shoving in glue between the gaps and then shoving the sawdust inside the gap with the glue and shoving it in as much as possible so that it fills in the gap and this part here is awesome i did not have a planner for this project i was so disappointed with how it looked without the planer so i went out and bought a planer and it was night and day it removed all the glue and it remove all the imperfection of the 2x4 and it just made everything smoother or smooth and the table there is a slight bow but with the hand planer i was able to remove the bow on top of that the edge of the table what you're seeing right now i was going to cut that with the circular saw to make it nice and clean but we decided to just sand it down and leave the the the roughness alone to kind of remind us that the beautiful tabletop came from some junky old 2x4 so so yeah so with the planner it produced a lot of sawdust and it so happens to be windy the day before and the same day of the planing so planning the tabletop i started off with um 180 grit sandpaper getting all the valleys out getting all the dips out and then finishing off with a 220 but while i was sanding the table i wanted to make sure that it was flat so what i did was i took a 24 inch plate and then just place it all over the table to make sure that it did not rock if it did rock then i would just sand that part off so here's the table completely sand ready for prep or yeah ready for staining but before i stain i would use this um what do you call it tack cloth and then just wipe out any of the fine sawdust that's that's not visible on the table this way when i put the slack on i don't see any bumps you don't see any bumps and all that jazz so this process went by fairly quick i actually like the color of the table top right now i think it looks pretty pretty neat but uh after putting on the shellac it actually brings out the color of the table so here's a product i'm using uh slack i bought a whole gallon because i thought a quart would not be enough because the court they wanted two coats and that would be 250 square feet and whatnot so i just went you know on the safe side and use this thing i'm using a five inch brush horse hair is very fine it's very soft um to apply the slack and as you can see the color completely changed which is pretty cool some wood or dark red some are i guess white or blonde but the outcome looked pretty awesome i thought this part didn't take as long because of the five inch brush i did apply a thin coat with every layer i suppose that's what's recommended in the can so i ended up putting on layer one wait for a few minutes apply layer two i end up applying five layers of slack so here are the casters that i'm using the table itself is super heavy um if if i ever want to move around i would need someone to be around to help move it around so to uh sacrifice to look for convenience of moving the table i decided to buy these casters where you can step on them and it will push the or lift the table up and it's it's rated at 400 pounds per caster so uh it's yeah it's it's pretty awesome uh once it was installed because prior to the installation i would have my wife help me pick up the table and move around and we would move the table maybe inches because it was or it is that heavy so with the casters it's they give you a template to center the the bracket all you do is follow the template i pre-drill the the holes and then drive in the phillips screws that they provided and then once all four screws are installed you would just shove the caster in and finish it off with a nut to secure the the caster i didn't i don't like the look of it but you know i got used to the look of the caster so here is the table completed and i'm about to attempt to move this table without the help of anybody all you have to do is step on those pegs it lifts up the table with ease and then you can just move it around so yeah if you can if you can avoid seeing the casters then i don't know i think the table looks great but um now i can move the table anywhere i want so the table again we're going to use it as a patio table but when i need to assemble stuff that i'm building i will use it as my workbench if i have to use my vise grip or grinder i will attach i will clamp those uh devices to the table and clamp them and then use them as is on a table which i have already tried and it actually is solid which is awesome so i hope you like this video give it a thumbs up if you like it try to build it um you will need some specialty tools such as the planer thanks for watching bye

Channel: Im Making It

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Keywords: How-To, DIY, Wood Working, Build, #ATWE

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Length: 14min 44sec (884 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 29 2021