How to Build A Picnic Table - Detailed Step By Step Guide

hey guys welcome back to Montana mate today we are going to be working on turning all of this wood into a picnic table I have eleven two by sixes one two by four and a couple eight three and a half inch carriage bolts with all the nuts and washers and everything you'd need so hopefully this project should realistically only take you about a weekend to do if not quicker less all the staining and finish work so I'll break it down all the cuts everything in the assembly and even the finish work on this one the very first thing that I do is lay five two by sixes facing down I'm going to build this table laying on its tabletop because it's easier to manage and just the assembly is easier with it sitting this way and then what we want to do is get our two-by-four which is over there and we want to make four cuts we want to cut four lengths of our two-by-four at 23.5 inches and what those will do is I'll make those cuts and show you but the leg crossed these two by sixes at different locations and tie this tabletop together and then it'll also give some points for the lower bracing to attach to so what I'll do is set up my saw and make those four cuts now that we have our bracing two-by-fours cut on each side of the table we'll put two of them in place and so the way that these are designed is to overlap these side boards enough to give enough bite from your wood screws to hold this all in place so that these side boards don't flex so it's all this one rigid piece the first board face so the face of the tables here the first board face is where I've got to measure it is about 2.5 inches so what you do grab your tape measure make a mark at 2.5 inches grab your street and draw your line and that will be our number one and then word number two I have this line is it 13.5 inches from the face of the table so come back 13.5 inches draw your mark line up your board and you know with these boards Center um side to side on the table so it's two inches on each side we'll get in close so each side of this board should be two inches just so it'll Center out for your boards might be a little bit different depending on how these all sit together but yeah that should senators boards up and get them at a good distance now we'll run wood screws into these two screw him down first always add a little bit of wood glue and then flip it over make sure everything lines up with all of your marks then run all your screws into place and I am using on the size of these wood screws it's two and a half inch just to make sure that these don't sink all the way through the support board and through the tabletop and then I usually use offset two screws per board this is how the tabletop should look at this point before we start anything else so you have all your bracing in place it's all screwed down wood glued down now we are ready to move on to building the benches and the bracing now that we have the tabletop framed up we will move to framing up our bench seats so what you'll need for this portion is a two by four and then two of your two by sixes by eight long and what we will do is cut this 2x4 for bracing on the bottom of these seats and those are cut at 62 inches long so you'll need two two by fours for this and you'll need four two by sixes for the seats so I'll get these two by fours marked up and we'll make our cuts and I'll show you how to measure these install them on the bottoms of these seats [Music] with the 2x4 now cut 62 inches long for the bottom of your actual bench seat bracing what you want to do now is measure you want to find the center point from the face edge of your bench so we can get this 2x4 centered between these two boards and the actual distance with this cut 62 inches is 17 inches from here to here I made my mark and similar to the bottom of the table what we'll do is would glue the bottom of this and then run our wood screws down into it hold this in place all the way across and we'll do this twice because we have two benches but in the interest of time in the video I will just do it on one [Music] now that we have one side screwed down always take a clamp because obviously these boards are a little bit warped so brings them together and then when you screw this down these will be tight next we want to cut out the four legs these four legs are 30 inches long at a 25 degree pitch so what that means is this point this first line right here to the edge of this board down here it's 30 inches and then also when you cut right up here this mark should be 30 inches from here to here so and then I will zoom in and show you guys how to do the 25 in there a 25 degree angle on these boards in order to cut a 25 degree angle you can obviously use your miter saw and if you have a speed square how to use this is put your pivot point right up to where your 30 inch mark is and then spin your square and then this twenty five degree line should be lined up with your board and then what to do just do that and then get to your 25 degree angle so now we'll go ahead and cut these off so at this point you should have your tabletop framed up you should have your four legs cut out and then you should also have two benches with the support installed I'm gonna get one native and pick up the other one but we will get on to cutting up the final pieces of this puzzle and then on to assembly now we need to cut out the supports for the actual seats they are 59 inches long so with your two by sixes you need two 59 inch long boards so I'll cut those out and show you the detail on those so with the detail cut for these benches these are the bench supports come down find the midpoint so about 2.75 use my speed square and I come down to four inches till it intersects and then I'll cut this off and I'll do the exact same thing on the other side so when he readies up cut these out and then I'll show you kind of what that detail looks like here is the detail on the bench seat support so one of the benches will sit here this will go under the table and the other bench will sit here so that is the detail for the support and we'll add some detail on the seats just to make it look like it fits in with this cut as well so anyways you need two of these and we'll move on to the final 2x4 cuts for this table next thing after you've made your mark where your drill marks are going to be on the table legs what you want to do is make two marks so we'll make one at two and four inches and what those will be is where we drill the holes through the legs for the carrier bolts now we want to drill the holes in the table legs so you're gonna need a drill bit and these holes will be for the carriage bolts so your drill bit should be similar diameter to your carriage bolts these carriage bolts that I'm using are three and a half inches long you can see about three and a half those will be enough length to get through the leg and the table and also tighten the table down so I will move to drilling the holes in the table legs and then we we'll get to assembly in the table now that we have one board already drilled you want the other three to be exactly the same so the easiest way to do that is to stack your legs perfectly Center them and then take a vise grip and if I script the legs together and then use the holes that you already drilled to drill down into the next board and then you do the same thing for the other two now we are ready to test mount the legs that we just put our holes in so that our holes in the legs ready to go and the way I measure these is these sit on the inside of your boards for your supports for your tabletop and then your ground two wood screws right into the face of that and this will hold this in place until we can get the main supports on it the easiest way to hold this in place obviously a good vise grip and my measurement for it is two inches from here to here so two inches from this face to this board looks good and then I just take two wood screws now we want to mount the seat supports and what we need to do is drill the holes that we to match up to where we just drilled the holes and the legs for our carriage bolts and the easiest way to do that is to take your if you have one framing square and then line that up directly in the middle of the inside hole kind of hard to do on camera and then what you want to do is Center your support side to side and I measured from the side of the table to the edge of the board and it was 15 and 5/8 so it's 15 and 5/8 on that side as well so I get to say measurement and then with that drawn you come around to the back side make a mark where your approximate Center is and then when you fold this board down drill a hole directly in the center of this board at this dimension and you'll be you'll be lined up with this hole on each side okay we have our first bolt through on each side this one I got to punch through the rest away but now with this installed you should be able to take your drill and drill out each of these other two holes because it should be aligned and then you can just run your bolts through and crank them down and then you can do the same thing on the other side now we want to take the two by fours that were left over from the seat bracing so the two chunks that you cut off from your seats save those and what we want to do is forty-five the ends of them so I will set these up and show you how to make a proper 45 on these and these will end up being support bracing for the final little legs those two so to make a 45-degree cut on the ends of these just line up your speed square to the end this is a 45 degree angle and draw that across flop the board down then we have our position two cuts we want to do the same thing on the other side so we'll set this up just like that okay and then we will get our circular saw you've got right here and it is set up to cut at 45 so I will get these one of these vices down and make the cut real quick now we need to install the final brace which is these two by fours that I was talking about on the last segment these are the leftover pieces from again the bottom of the benches and what you use these for is to square up the actual legs of the table so if I throw my level on here check your side to side pretty good man front to back I could use a little bit more this way and you can adjust that by moving this board forward and back I always mount these first into the face and then use this board to polar push the level to make it to make it square and you do that I'll do that on this side but that's how it should look in the framing so I'll get the other one mounted up and we'll flip this table over and I'll show you how to mount the benches at this point with the table flipped over this is exactly what it should look like very sturdy so far so good I chose 8-foot boards and an 8-foot table because for a bunch of these boards you don't even have to cut them you can just put them in place and screw them in place so what we'll do is Mount our benches because we're missing benches so I'll get the camera set up and I'll show you how to mount the benches installing the seats is very straightforward all you want to do is take the seat you already made and place it in between the two supports and then the edges of your seat align like so and then you just run screws or screws down into it to hook the actual bench to the table and that will finish up your table [Music]

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Id: e5f4eMRiOa0

Length: 25min 11sec (1511 seconds)

Published: Tue May 29 2018