How to Build an Octagon Picnic Table | PART 2

W doggy that sun is cranking hey guys welcome back in this video we're going to continue working on the Octagon picnic table now in part one we went ahead and built the table and the seat cross frames and in part two we're going to start off with the seat assemblies and see how far we can get now if you haven't seen part one you can click right here and watch it and uh that'll get you caught up to now uh one of the things I'm working on for you guys and I should have out shortly after this video is posted is a set of plans and this plans will be it'll be a full set of plans with diagram and instructions and a cut list for you to Aid if you decide to build this particular project a couple of shout outs I want to give I want to give a shout out to Grayson Grayson is Robert blandford's daughter she's a little woodworker she's always out in the shop turning something with her dad and uh she watches my videos so Grayson how you doing I hope you're having a good day and uh second thing is guys you know Clear View cyclon is one of my sponsors and they have uh offered a savings out to you if you guys are interested in purchasing a clear view Cyclone all you have to do is go to their website at www.vw.com enter in the coupon code Laney L NE y it's just that simple and save 5% so uh Penny saved is a penny saved all right guys with that being said let's go ahead and uh get started all right so earlier in the video while I had my chop saw set up I went ahead and I cut my seat bases and my table legs down to length it so I could bring them into the shop now the seat bases themselves they are out of the 5 1/2 in in uh material so they're 1x6 and um they have a 22 1/2 Dee angle cut on them and from The Long Point to the Long Point they're 24 in long and you need four of those now the table legs themselves they are also from the uh 2x6 and they are 33 and8 in Long from the Long Point here to the Long Point up top here and they have a 30 60° bevel on them a 30° uh angle cut on them and if you notice the angles are running parallel with one another so you need four of those as well now I rough cut these down to size uh to break down the the long 8ft boards that I had before I brought them into the shop and I want to go ahead and I want to finish cut them on the table saw and then to help me do that I went ahead and I made a sled uh this sled is uh was quick and simple to make and it allows me to move this fence from 90° to 22 1/ 12° to 30° to 45° because we are using you know we're making 90° cuts on this project we're making 22 and 1 12 degree cuts on this project we're making 30° cuts on this project and we are making a 45 degre cuts on the project so this allows me to be able to use this one sled for all of the parts that I need to cut to finish cut them down to size and I'll take a minute quickly and show you give you an overview of the sled and then we'll get on to cutting these down to their final size so we can start the assembly so the sled itself is quite simple it is a total of 29 1/2 in in length and 14 in in width now I have a long fence uh running off of it and in that fence I've got a Groove here as well as a Groove here that allows me to move the fence into different positions and I went ahead and laid out my layout lines and I'll turn this around so you can see I went ahead and laid out my layout lines for 90 Dees 22 and a half 30° which it's set on right now and I've got it set perfectly so I don't want to move it uh and then up here uh at this angle here 45° and on the sled I've got two little cams that I made uh that allow me to lock the fence down to keep it from moving and I also put a toggle bolt here that allows me to hold my material in place while I'm cutting on the back side I've just got a single runner in here uh that'll allow me to put it into the table saw and the edge of the sled is perfectly in line uh with my uh blade and what I did is I made my sled just a little bit long put my runner on and then I cut it down to its final size so now I can take my parts and I can lay them up against the fence can lock them down into place and make my cut and then what I'll do after I cut one side of everything I'll be able to put a stop block on here to cut when I flip it over it'll allow me to cut these pieces to their final Dimensions with the proper angles on each side so that is an overview of the sled and if you want more details on the sled or maybe some dimensions on how to make it and where the grooves and stuff are let me know and uh I'll put something together for you hey guys just a quick note you see me using a sled that I made for my table saw to help me cut some of the parts of this picnic table well it was a very handy jig and it helped with cutting some of those parts down to their finished final dimensions I'm going to include the plans in a diagram for that sled within the picnic table plans themselves all right well I'm going to set the seat bases aside for a moment because they have a 22 and 1/2 degree angle on them and I want to go ahead I've got my fence and all all my sled set up for the 30 60° angle so I'm going to go ahead and start my uh cutting my parts down to length for the table legs and uh again they're 33 and 1 e in long that's the finished piece [Music] [Music] [Music] for all right so off camera I went ahead and I trimmed down my four seat bases as well and they again were 24 in in length and they had a 22 1/2 degree bevel on both ends um now before I changed the fence on my sled to 90° to cut the seat legs because we need eight seat legs that are 14 in Long and they're just square cut on both sides I want to go ahead and make a couple of spacer blocks uh to help me in the next step now these spacer blocks my magic number is 9 and 1/2 in to the Long Point and they have a 22 1/2 Dee uh bevel on them as well so I've already got my fence on my little sled set up for that so I'm going to go ahead and just I've already cut one I'm going to cut the second one and those I'll show you what they're used for in uh The Next Step so let me go ahead and do this this now all right so now that I have my two two seat spacers uh we'll use those in the next step so what I need to do now is I need to go ahead and straighten my fence out for a 90° cut and I need to cut eight 14in legs all right again we need eight of these 14-in seat legs I've got a stop block set on my fence here that will allow me to butt up against it to get my 14inch uh cut off and that way the stop block is short so I don't have to worry about the fallof piece getting caught between the blade and the fence so we'll go ahead and get these cut [Music] out [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right well we're moving right along I've got my 8 14in in length uh seat legs done and now we need to go ahead and attach those to the seat bases um once we get those attached then we're going to attach the table legs that we made earlier as well and that's where these spacers are going to come come into play that we made uh so let's move over to the clamping bench and I'll show you the layout and setup for assembling these next few parts right now at the clamp bench I've got one of the seat bases the 24in seat bases here I've got one of those 14-in legs and I've got one of the 33 and 1 E table legs out and what I need to do is I need to lay out some lines on my table leg that will be used in the next steps so the first I want to do is I want to take my seat base and I want to clamp it to the side of my bench and then I want to take my table leg and I want to put it right up against that seat leg on that angle how it would lay out you know when it's assembled and then take one of my seat legs this is the table leg this is the seat leg and I want to use the seat leg the 14-in seat leg as a ref reference to lay out a line across my table leg now that I have that line I want to do that on all four of the table legs and I want to continue that line all the way on all four sides and you'll see where it comes into play uh in just a moment so we'll go ahead and grab the next seat leg Table leg should I say and repeat that for all four legs all right so now we're ready to attach the seat leg to the seat base and we want to make sure that the leg is flush with the side of the seat base and on the Long Point here you you want to make sure that the front I'll call this the front of the leg that these two corners here are flush with the side and the front so you make sure that those are flush and that your leg is flush all the way across the side and that's where you want to attach the leg and you want to use 3-in screws from the bottom side uh up and we're going to use 3-in exterior screws in some counter sunk holes so I'll get this all set up and we'll get those attached all right you using another one of the legs to support this end over here I've got the leg and the base clamped together making sure that I'm flush on the sides here and that my two corners are flush with the front and the side here that's the position I want the leg at and now I can go ahead and I'm just going to pre-drill and counter sync two holes for two 3-in [Music] screws make this one a little bit [Music] deeper and the one thing that uh I'm going to take this clamp off here because I actually forgot to put some glue in so and I'm using 3in exterior grade screws all right with that done I can go ahead and repeat the same step for the other side not to forget my glue this time all right once you have the legs screwed to the seat bases you want to go ahead and repeat the step for the other three seats and on the four holes uh and screws and everything those counter sunk holes if you wish you you can go ahead and plug those with some 38 in plugs all right so I'm going to move on and I'll get the other three seats done and then we'll move to the next step which is attaching the table legs all right so now that all the seat bases are done and the seat legs are attached we want to go ahead and attach the table leg and the table leg will attach right in the center and it will go out in the direction of these angles so you've got both the 22 and 1/2 degre angles coming in and this is the short side the back is the long side your leg is going to come in that direction there now this is where the two spacers come into play that we made earlier and these spacers are meant to help you when clamped into position they will allow you to take that table leg and position it exactly where it needs to go so you can screw everything together together so those spacers are are very handy now earlier in the video I said that my magic number was 9 1/2 in uh my spacers I had to once I attached the legs wanted to see if that changed or anything and it only Changed by about a 16th of an inch so what I did was I went ahead and once I had my base and legs together I went ahead and took a piece of my uh 2x stock and I found the center and my Center Mark between the long points on the back side I used the long points here and I found my Center Mark and I went ahead and got my measurements for each of my spacers to where they needed to be so that's how I made my spacers all right so now what we need to do is remember that line that we drew all the way around all four sides of the table Table leg well now that comes into play because we're going to clamp this table leg to the side of the bench right on that line so it lays in the perfect angle that we need it uh and that way we can turn the uh table legs upside down and screw in from the bottom so let's go ahead and get set up for that all right I've got the table leg clamped to the side of the bench here and that reference line allows me to uh clamp this table leg in the proper position and I've got my spacers clamped to the bottom side of the seat base and legs and now I can just slide them right over this table leg and get it positioned I want the back side of my table leg I want it flush with the back side of the base here um and now I can glue and screw everything together so first I'm going to set this aside and get some glue on here and then I'm going to take this that reference line using the leg the seat leg to mark that reference line allows the seat base and everything to sit right onto the bench uh and perfectly and everything is you know uh aligned so now I can just uh make my holes and install the screws and let's see all right so now that we have the table leg attached to the uh seat base um that assembly is done we just need to go ahead and repeat that for the next three [Music] sets

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Length: 19min 34sec (1174 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 12 2014