- Hey guys, quick shout
out to Vincent Ferrari and Ethan Carter from
"Because We Make" podcast and also Michael Alm for the
idea for the patterned plywood. The link for his video
will be in the description. First thing I wanna do is
set my blade to 60 degrees. That's the wrong knob. The first cut we're gonna
make is just 60 degree cut. The first cut will just be scrap. Then after that, we're
just gonna keep making 60 degree cuts. The cut thickness is gonna be the same
thickness as the material that you're using, so for me,
I think its about 19 degrees but in Michael Alms video he
shows me a little trick way to make sure it's the right thickness. I'll show you that too. (chill music)
(saw whirring) Alright, so there's my
first 60 degree cut. What we're gonna do,
while I put my sunnys off, the first thing I'm gonna
do is get my 60 degree cut, have that flat against the table, I'll zoom in on a second, undo my fence, tap that,
(tapping on tool) all the way until you hit the blade. You don't wanna be pressing
up against it too hard. Make sure there bottom is flat on there, until you've got that there. Press it down, and that should be pretty good. I'm gonna make three
cuts and make sure that after those three cuts
it's a perfect 60 degrees and it should make a nice pattern. (saw whirring)
(chill music) All right, so once you've got your pieces, there's a few different ways
you can make the design. The design I'm gonna do is this. That kinda looks like a cube. So basically I'll end up
gluing those all together but first I gotta cut
out a boat load of these then I'll glue them all up and once it's all dry I'll
start cutting into discs. (saw whirring)
(chill music) Once you got all your pieces cut I'm gonna start gluing these all up. There's no real wrong way you can do this. Join the pieces together and
you get that square shape. To clamp, you don't need any clamps, that's probably there only good thing. Just buy a bag of rubber
bands, I've got heaps here, and just keep twisting 'em
over until they're tight. It's gonna take me a while, so I'm gonna put in the timelapse. I've left this for a day, now I'm gonna take off the rubber bands. Awesome, happy with that. Alright so, I'm gonna cut
this the same thickness as the material. So to do that, I've got a piece of scrap, I'm gonna put this scrap, hold this back, put this down, make sure that piece is hard up against the blade. You see how I've left about a millimeter, or I don't know what imperial measurement, just a little tiny bit. I don't want it exactly the
same thickness as the material because I'm gonna have to sand this down when I glue it all together 'cause I know it's not gonna be perfect, so I'm leaving a millimeter to sand down to get it down to the same
thickness as the plywood. Sweet, and I've clamped that down so that's gonna be my stop block. (saw whirring) Oh man, it's so crisp. It's gonna turn out awesome. (saw whirring)
(chill music) I ended up doubling it up
so I could cut two at once 'cause it was taking ages
to cut all the pieces. (saw whirring)
(chill music) All right, that took me ages. Now it's time for glue up. I've got this piece of melamine so the glue doesn't stick to it. I've got this scrap piece
of timber that I'll cut and screw to the edge
because it's straight. So basically I can butt
the pieces up against these two corners. First one I'll wedge
in the corner like that and then I'll make sure
that it's the same pattern and keep gluing them together. (chill music) I don't want the pattern
to be like a block, I actually want it to sort
of merge into the plywood so I'm gonna make some
peaks, probably three peaks. Probably one here, one there and one on the edge or something. Kinda random, I don't want it to be like three exact diamonds. I'll just make it up on the fly and hopefully it looks good. Alright, this is the next morning. I wanna see if this ended
up getting stuck to this. I put down that paste wax
and that should hopefully make it break free. Ha, sweet! And once it's all dry I'll
start cutting 'em into discs. Cautious about this. Oh wow, look at that. Whoa, there's a few gaps in it but I'm not too worried 'cause
I'll fill those in later. Now I'm gonna grab the rest of the plywood that I'm gonna merge this in with. All right that's all done. Now I'm gonna get this piece. So on this plywood it's
actually A and C sided so on one of the sides it
actually butterfly patches. Basically it's like a, I'll show ya. Can you see it? Butterfly patch right there. So I gotta make sure that's on the bottom. Now I gotta choose which side I want the patterned plywood to be. I think I'm gonna choose the left side but I want it to be lined up so that this pattern is still going
in the same orientation. (chill music) All right now all the sanding's done. Now I'm gonna a get my track
saw and cut a clean edge so that means when I put
it through the table saw I'll just use that clean
edge against the fence and I'll cut the other side. (saw whirring)
(chill music) Now I'm gonna throw it
through the table saw with that nice clean edge on this side. I'll just take a little bit off, just enough to get past the
jagged edge from the pattern. I've got these really cool
bent plate steel metal legs from Taylor's Collection. It's an Australian company that makes things like these. I don't know if the make them in Australia but it's definitely from Australia. I'll put a link in the description. They're very well prices
and super easy to install. They've already got six
screw holes or bolt holes or anything, whatever
you wanna use it for. This project took me quite a while so I didn't really wanna
spend time designing the legs. It was sort of more of an experiment on how to do patterned plywood so I just chose to buy legs for this one but purely up to you. Build legs if you like but for me, I just wanted to muck around
with the patterned plywood and them get some legs to
make it a coffee table. All right, to install these
I'm just gonna screw them in. The same distance in and maybe
50 mill offset from the side and do exactly the same on the other side. 82, looks like 82 mill is the number. I'm gonna go, 70 mill from the edge. I think 50's just a little bit too close. (drill whirring) While I've got you here,
if you like the video why not hit subscribe. Right, now to finish
this piece I'm gonna use Cabothane Clear I believe it's called. We'll go with that. It's a water-based polyurethane. Basically I'm gonna use
a foam brush to apply it. It's pretty dirty but that's all I got. (brush swiping) Damn, that looks good. Not gonna lie, I could have done the joining to the plywood a lot better. There's bit where I had to gap
fill but nothing's perfect. Overall I still really
enjoyed doing this project. I think it looks pretty cool. Thanks for watching my video. This is the first time I've experimented with patterned plywood. It turned out great and
I'm probably gonna use it more in the future. See you in the next one.
