No Epoxy Required.

in this video I'm going to make a dining table entirely out of wood no epoxy I've got these Walnut slabs and originally I had purchased them for my Wormhole table build but I couldn't stop thinking that those would make a nice dining table and it would be a shame to cut them down into a bunch of small pieces and now a year later I found a nice design for dining table and I'm ready to start making it and to do so I put together a quick flattening [Applause] jig if you're interested about this design it's basically a simplified version of Mario's hornburg design I'd put a link down in the description here making sure the slab is already as flat as it can be so I don't have to take off too much material and using some wedges to make sure it doesn't Rock back and forth this is the sled where the router will ride and as you can see if we push in the middle it works fine but if you need to operate it from the side it kind of get jammed and I'm going to have to do a lot of flattening for this project so to make it work better and be more comfortable to use I quickly put together a jig with some py turned on the LA and a few pieces of string here you can see how it works but I was worried that the vibration from the machine will just unwind the strings so I added this little ratchet wheel I used a big heavy duty flattening bit and set up some dust collection although I wasn't expecting it to capture a lot of dust so I still had to wear the [Music] mask the first path didn't remove material all the way so I reset the jig and made another one I think I ended up making three passes on each side of every board [Music] I added some tape on the sides to help contain the chip inside the sled and hopefully improve the dust collection a little better it helped a little [Music] bit I did the first side on the two boards and I actually introduced the third one and proceeded the same way and I'll tell you later why I ended up flattening three boards and here adding some plexiglass to further improve the dust collection and this really [Music] helped now that one side is done I put the slabs back on The Jig and set my depth of cut so every stab is the same [Music] thickness this left quite a mess but I'm a wood turner so I'm used to having lots of Shaving on the shop floor I flattened three slabs because I couldn't figure out which one I wanted to use and now that they're flat I spend quite some time trying to figure out which combination would work the best the decision was kind of hard to make and you'll see why later in the video I removed the tool Mark with the B sender and lightly sanded the live edges but at this point I was sure I liked the look and you'll see later in the video that I actually went back and sended the live edes much more one of the reasons that this project took so long is because I didn't work off of any physical plans I had a basic idea for the design but all the dimensions and positioning I figured it out as I went and kind of let the wood speak to to me if that makes sense my idea was to kind of Stitch the two slabs together and after marking everything I drilled the start and end of every strand to transfer the pattern on the other side I used the wood turning L again for about 5 seconds and it's funny because based on some of the videos I see on YouTube that are labeled as woodworking where the person almost entirely works with epoxy resin or some other materials so if I follow the same idea I could have called this video wood turning after the first slot I checked to see if there was any tear out and I was pleasantly surprised to see that the cut was actually super clean I started with the underside of the table and I made all the slots the same length to make it simpler and faster and also this will make sure that the two slabs are fully secured to each other for this build I had to flip over this big and heavy tabletop by myself a few time but luckily I used to work for a semi-industrial wood shop where I was making windows and doors much bigger than this and even though I had co-workers you don't want to bother them asking for help every five minutes because they have their own thing to do so you quickly learn techniques to handle large work on your own for the top side every connecting piece will be of different lengths and I was going to just stop my slots at the pencil marks but I realized that I had just cut 25 slot where I had a physical stop and the chances of my muscle memory just pushing that router till it reach a stop that wasn't there and mess up was just too high so I took the time and set up a stop for each slot this is when I decided to send the live edges much more and you can see the difference in this next shot and at that moment I wasn't sure about my decision but I had no choice them to send all of them the same way but overall in the end I'm super happy I did it because the end result looked perfect the reason it took me so long to decide which lab to use is because one of them was badly damaged probably by a forklift Fork but I went with this one anyway because the grain was just too pretty and the defect being mainly on the underside of the table I could do a patch easily that wasn't too visible I did such a good job at matching the grain that if I hadn't shown this to you you would have probably never know it was there only maybe a kid sitting at the table would notice because it's more at their level and kids never pay attention to what they're supposed to anyway now if you were paying attention you would probably have noticed that there are some spots on the slabs where the worst creature on the planet left a bunch of small holes in gallery now this Lum was cut a long time ago and I had this slab sitting in the same place for more than a year and I have never seen any wood dust next to them or any increase in the number of exit holes So based on my experience I was about 90% sure that they were no longer infested but just to be on the safe side I treated the wood with a product that kills all the remaining larvae and actually protects the wood from any future infestation now I'm sure some of you tofu readers are sitting like this in front of your screen ready to scream at me because I use some chemicals and whatnot but when it comes to getting rid of something that can literally destroy houses I trust this more than essential oils and windchimes while I was explaining all of this I was cutting down all the strips that I need to make the connecting pieces I needed to round over the ends of the connecting pieces and you could just use a belt sander and do it by hand but I had more than a hundred of them to make so I made another jig to do that if you couldn't tell I love making Jigs and templates it is probably my favorite thing about Woodworking and making stuff in general this is why I refer to myself as a Craftsman or an artisan as opposed to an artist because to me what I do is more about problem solving and the whole process of how can I Engineer something sort of speak to make this task faster better and easier or to get a technical challenge that I face that is keeping me from building this thing that is in my head which is what it all comes down to when it comes to why I build things is getting them out of my head because as long as I haven't made it it just won't leave and believe me it started to get really crowded in there I get called an artist often and I have a hard time accepting it as a compliment I know that's what people mean but it has become such a widely used term that now taping a banana to a wall or defacing a historical monument is considered being an artist by some and I just don't want to be associated with these people to me art should just be about making beautiful harmonious things that require some Talent OR skills and not just throwing a giant drape over the Arc of Triumph and circleing about how it symbolizes recycling or some but anyway sorry I got a little carried away let's get back to woodworking me where I am sanding and prepping the connecting pieces as well as the inside edges to apply the Finish now that I have easy access to it I'll talk about the finishing product I use later in the video If you have a loved one who is into woodworking I would advise you not to gift them tools or Machinery without consulting with them because chances are they know what they want and it's pretty specific what you can gift them in instead is clamps because as a woodworker you can never have too many clamps and even if you buy them shitty clamps they will always find some good use for them in one of his recent video Chris from forze furniture talks about his inability to visualize things in his head and how he needs to fully draw meul ly the things he makes beforehand this sounded very weird to me because I'm the complete opposite and I always believe that everybody could picture things in their head but apparently it's something called aphantasia which is the inability to form mental images of objects that are not present that was the first time I've ever heard of this and Chris says he also just found out about it when I say I'm the opposite is because unlike Chris I have a really hard time planning things and making drawings or sketches I do make technical full scale drawings when I need to but it's mostly to figure out dimensions and Joiner positioning so when it comes to designing and working out the Aesthetics of a piece of furniture it mostly happens in my head so I have to say although I wouldn't trade off my way of thinking I'm very jealous of Chris's ability to plan everything because working from plans can be very enjoyable and end up making your time spent in the workshop much more efficient anyways I thought that was pretty interesting depending on when you are watching this video I'm not sure what the title is because YouTubers often change the titles and thumbnails after posting a video to try and get get better engagement but it's probably some kind of anti- epoxy sentence I don't necessarily hate epoxy some people make beautiful furniture with it a good example would be cam from Blacktail Studio but I think we've seen enough River table built on YouTube for now this is where a lot of dining table videos would be almost over the guy would apply finish and put some pre-made or custom built metal base and call it done there's nothing wrong with that sometimes the marriage between wood and metal looks amazing but I knew it wasn't the move for this one and I wanted to make something truly unique so I designed a wooden base that matched the ID of the tabletop I use extra slabs I had flattened to cut the legs which barely fitted so I had to cut them in a funky way I also needed some extra pieces for the base and I use the rest of the slabs I had by the way all the wood for this table came from the same walnut tree except of course for the connecting pieces which are made of syore maple this is where I use my joint planer combo and it is a type of machine that I rarely see in North American shops especially in the DIY community and I don't know why it is not more popular there because it is cheaper than buying two separate machine and takes less space which most of us never seems to have enough in our Workshop I made another template for the legs to shape them precisely and make sure all four of them are the exact same size size and shape to do so I used another machine that you don't often see on YouTube It's called The shaper and it's basically a bigger version of a router table but instead of router bits it uses much bigger tools that allows you to remove material much faster and create all sorts of profiles and even Tenon like you will see me do later in this [Music] video what you saw me do there was cut a notch for the lower rail and a slot for the floating tenant that will join the two legs [Music] together the idea for the base was to add a few connecting pieces to join the legs to match the tabletop it's basically the same process as before so we can quickly skip over this part because I don't want this video to be too long but I'll just show you here I had to cheat a little bit and reshape the natural edges so that the two legs meet perfectly in the middle just like on the tabletop I apply the finish on the inside edges before gluing everything together if you are new to my channel you might not know that I usually don't narrate my videos I don't know if that's something I want to do every time and I'm not sure what people prefer so for the next few minutes I'll just let you relax and enjoy the sound of the tools and the footage is pretty self-explanatory so I don't need to explain to you what I'm doing I will talk to you again near the end of the video but remember I will know if you skip forward [Applause] [Music] [Music] he w [Music] now sh [Applause] it's [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] watch [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right let me know in the comments what you prefer narration or no narration or a bit of both I needed to waigh the table for shipping and for the base it's pretty easy normal scale works but here for the tabletop I had to kind of jig something up to wait for the finish I used a hard wax oil called Rubio mono coat and unlike the name suggest I appli two coats because on Walnut a second coat really makes it looks better and adds a lot more Sheen I learned this from cam of Blacktail studio and I won't get into the specific of this finishing process but if you are interested cam has a a video explaining everything and it's the exact same process I use for this table I will leave a link for his video down in the description this table is for sale and it's important for me that the customer and everyone else knows that this finish or any type of old finish is not 100% Bulletproof and what I mean by that is that it is water resistant and not waterproof so if you spill something you have enough time to wipe it down and it will be fine but if you leave an icy drink for too long it might leave a ring that is a problem of varnish finish could solve but a varnish doesn't even come close to looking as good as what I did here here's an example and that is because an oil finish penetrates and bond with the wood and really makes the grain pop whereas the varnish just leaves a film like coat on top of the wood and it can often look like plastic this is a wipe on wipe off finish so after applying it and buffing it in I waited 5 minutes and removed all the excess with a cotton Terry towel if you don't know anyone named Terry you can also use a Larry or Gary towel I think it's time I address the elephant in the room which is the fact that this table is full of holes in the middle but hear me out this is a dining table and what do you usually put in the middle hot pots and pans and you'd never put them directly on any table without trivets underneath and I spaced the connecting pieces in a way that any normal size trivet will always rest on at least two of them also I designed this table to be entirely made out of wood but adding a thin glass top on the middle part is something that can easily be done by the owner if he or she wishes to make this table a bit more practical for the tabletop I added an extra layer of protection this is a ceramic coating used in the automotive industry and it's an extremely good water repellant this whole finishing process took 15 days but now that everything is finally nice and dried I can glue the legs together and assemble the table this is when YouTubers would ask you to subscribe and leave a like but honestly I don't even know if it makes a difference so do whatever feels right for you what matters is the watch time because YouTube is a business and what it wants is for you to stay on its platform as long as possible so if I manage to keep you there for 30 minutes then it's a win for them and a win for me I managed to do everything on my own up until this point but right there I needed some extra hands to set the tabletop it's kind of tricky to convey the size of this table on video so here's a few example of how many people can sit at this table and I think it can easily sit up to eight people but before I leave you with the final reveal I will still give you the dimensions the table is 75 cm tall 94 cm wide and 2.08 M long now about 20% of my viewers are from America so I will will also give you the measurement in Freedom Units the table is 3 ft and 9 in wide the wingspan of one Bal Eagle long almost as tall as one washing machine and the tabletop is exactly one Big Mac thick all right enough Shenanigans here's the finished table thank you for [Music] watching [Music] [Music]

Channel: Olivier Gomis

Views: 2,326,322

Keywords: woodworking, maple, walnut, segment, ASMR, woodworking ASMR, scrap, scraps, offcut, woodturning for beginners, woodturning for beginners videos, hot, table, coffee table, space, dinning table, tabletop, slab, wood slab, epoxy, resin, no resin, amazing woodworking, best woodworking, wooden table, slab table, river table

Id: O96DaY03oiI

Length: 31min 21sec (1881 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 25 2024