How to Build a Modern Trestle Table

what's up everybody uh my name is nick sawyer sawyer design uh this week we are building a trestle table this design is an iteration of something i've been working on for quite a while um and a tailored to this specific client's house design it's going into a tudor home there are a few touches like arts and crafts details green and green that i wanted to add in to really complement the style they've got going uh the house is a lot darker so we brought in some ash to really lighten up the space but then brought in a few mahogany accents to tie into the rest of the room so um yeah thanks for tuning in all right so this little bow thing is called a fairing stick super handy for laying out curves the lower stretcher and upper stretcher as well as the feet on this particular piece integrate curvature just add a little interest to the to the piece cutting everything out on the bandsaw i used a longer mdf support just clamped onto the bandsaw table and then that gets pretty close to the line and we're taking everything in by hand start off with a spoke shave work into a number four smoother low ankle jack and there's all of the pieces right now we're going to get on to the joinery for the legs cut joinery first then cut the tapers and all that so here is the mortise and there it is all together [Music] all right so there's a panel that sets inside the legs and what i'm doing here first i marked it out to prevent tear out and using a slot cutting router bit take out that groove that the panel will sit in alright these are the panels i decided to go with one piece re-saw it and book match those pieces i just thought the effect of the grain kind of gathering there at the center on either side of the table would look cool i'm using a carbide tooth blade and then this is a helical hammer joiner stinks sweet you should probably use a guard should probably use push sticks and the safety police can just rest easy tonight knowing that i know that i should be doing something different but i'm not and it's okay it's not okay because if you're new watching this you shouldn't do what i do do what i say got it cool all right after it's joined we get a reference face reference side and we'll go through the planer to thickness everything and that usually takes a couple of passes to get it down do super light cuts it reduces snipe and at the bottom the feet have they hit the ground at an angle and to do this all i've done is tipped up the bandsaw table taken that bevel out of the bottom and then i'll take that in by hand as well all right now we're going to get on the panels we've glued them up i'm going to cut the like taper using just a super simple jig i like double sided sticky tape spec makes some good stuff once you get it clamped down it does not move so we get the taper out of it and then what i'm going to do is rabbet the edges so they'll sit into that groove we cut on the router earlier what i found is that the slot cutter wants to tear out especially when you're going the wrong direction green direction on the panel so what i like to do here is all first cut the shoulder on that groove on the table saw and that is going to uh then the slot cutter is really just to remove waste and it's not making that shoulder cut this will end up with a lot cleaner lines all the way around the piece and then i'm using that same slot cutter to remove that little chip out the waste and create the tongue that rides in that groove on the ends of the table right moving right along [Music] marking stuff out keeping track of everything since everything's hand fit to one another um i don't um you know one one thing fits one thing and it probably won't fit anywhere else so i like to keep everything straight in using a taper on the legs i was able to take the panel and the geometry there if you try to stick those together doesn't really work but the taper allowed it to this little gadget right here is the panto router it is the sweetest thing in a girl 10 inch just like that um and here's taking the taper on the spindles uh the spindles didn't fit the curve obviously uh so what i did was i just scribed that line so they would fit right onto the curve and there you go there's the uh subframe now it's time to fit those panels in uh so the lower stretcher has uh kind of the appearance of going through both end panels which i thought would be cool and just using some some cross joinery to get those together you saw that i drilled out some of the waste for half blind joinery that helps a lot and bringing everything in by hand that's uh the way to go just get a lot more control i don't always do this uh sometimes use a a uh sander it's just a little quicker there's no finish like that off of a sharp hand plane all right now we're gonna get into the breadboard ends got the top all laminated all the staves together i just use a track saw to square everything up and then mark out my mortise depth and then using a router i'll take two passes and those will be almost to depth what i found is my router it just isn't as reliable as bringing everything in with a hand plane then i'll clean up the shoulder down to my baseline that i've marked out with a marking knife with a shoulder plane and then this is going to be the haunch mortise and drilling out the bulk of the waste slowly stepping up a router um the the router bit up to the three inch depth for the larger tenons within the breadboard so we've got the bulk of the breadboard tenon cut into the top and now what i'm going to do is notch out the sections that will be draw board into the breadboard all right now we're uh the on to the top everything's drawboard uh tapered the the pins uh the draw the uh breadboards get a little bit of a spring in the middle so the center tenon is holding all of the tension which allows the outside pins to float as seasonal movement moves cross grain across the table you notice some slots in the end uh we're going to go we're going to fill those next just the upper part of the outside pins gets a little bit of glue and the center tenon and the center pin get glue also draw boring the base you see smaller pins in there too those are really more for aesthetics and flushing getting all ready for finish i used osmo on this piece two coats 3054 hard wax oil blend and i'm gonna go ahead with a little touch of green and green that arts and crafts i could have stopped the dados in the breadboard for the haunches i saw this little this little detail and i really liked it so i decided to integrate it on this piece all the pens are mahogany so these splines or i think technically keys are also mahogany and what they do is set in these little dados and i've taken just a little bit off of the side that sits in the breadboard so it'll float with the seasonal movement as well you'll see the breadboards are a little bit proud that's all about movement it's so it's never inside the table it's always just a little bit proud so yeah just a nice touch my maker's mark yeah that's me each piece i do one of one um i'm not in this for production and there's the finished result thanks for watching

Channel: Sawyer Design

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Keywords: furniture, fine furniture, custom furniture, furniture construction, modern design, furniture design, unique furniture, bookmatched, heirloom furniture, furniture making, artisan videos, craftsman, Trestle table, breadboard ends, ASH, DINING TABLE, TABLE CONSTRUCTION, HOW TO BUILD A TABLE

Id: DiJx28-8daA

Length: 11min 3sec (663 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 11 2020