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this video was sponsored by skillshare this week in the shop i'm making a shuffleboard table but i'm not making it alone i got some help some guys flew in from out of town kj sawdust and nick key at key woodwork so they're going to be around you'll see them from time to time helping me build the whole shuffleboard table so follow along subscribe down below go follow me on instagram there's a link in the video description to all the tools and supplies and a link to my patreon page so yeah enjoy it's not every day that you get a build with your friends let alone friends that normally reside thousands of miles away yep that's me and then we got my boy keith johnson you might recognize him from the collaboration we did earlier this year where we built an outside bench for neil patrick harris and then bringing up the rear after just wiping his rear it looks like is nikki in this ragtag group of builders i like to consider myself somewhat of the morale booster and then you got keith well he's obviously the brains of the operation then you got this random homeless guy that followed us home from the taco shop and well nick he's just a little confused about everything the goal for this week is to build a high-end shuffleboard table out of solid black walnut the purpose behind this build well there isn't one we really don't have a reason but do you need a reason to build a sweet shuffleboard table now this is one of those videos where you're going to want to watch till the very end because i'm telling you right now i've seen this video already and this thing turns out sweet kind of like keith's morsels over there squeak squeak squeak now because we got rough sawn six quarter black walnut the first thing we had to do was get a straight edge on all of our pieces they were a little too long being between 11 and 12 feet to put on the jointer so we got a straight edge with the track saw and then we took them over to the table saw we decided to start building the butcher block section of the shuffleboard table first this is just a big hunk of butcher block together wood that the little shuffleboard puck things are going to slide on so after getting our straight edge we started ripping down pieces to just about two and a half inches that we're going to glue together to make one giant sliding surface with all of our pieces cut we took a little time to move them back and forth and get the best look for our butcher block then i got out a skill saw and i cut off the excess waste that we didn't need this sliding surface is going gonna be nine feet in total so we cut a good about oh two feet off the end of the boards fortunately my skill saw wasn't quite big enough to make it all the way through the two and a half inches i tried switching to a japanese pole saw and quickly decided that was a terrible idea and reached for more power with my bosch reciprocating saw that did the job nice and quickly and this isn't our finished edge so i wasn't too worried about it being a little rough so with all the pieces for our butcher block now cut to the correct length we went over to the planer and we ran them through on both sides to get a nice smooth side as well as a great gluing surface then we plopped them in some clamps and just kind of applied some pressure to see how easily these were all going to go together there were some bows and twists in a few of the pieces so we were a little skeptical about how this was going to all turn out but we decided to forge ahead and just get some glue between the boards we probably should have thought this through a little bit more but we didn't we just slapped the glue on and started clamping everything together then after the glue set up i got my favorite chisel and started scraping off all the excess in no time we managed to get two sections of our butcher bot glued up and then it was time to clamp them both together into one giant butcher block shuffleboard surface well that's after i finish working out in order to clamp them together and get the alignment just right we decided to do this last glue up with just a few dominoes in between the two sections this would alleviate the stress of trying to get that seam perfect because the dominoes will take care of all that headache for us so we just mortised out some holes plopped in our dominoes grabbed a small thing of glue and started squeezing it on our seam well squeezing it on the seam between the two pieces not our personal seam anywho it was great having keith and nick in the shop it's always a treat to have an extra set of hands keith was a huge help and well nick did a great job watching and in no time we managed to get our full butcher block glued together and in clamps and we were ready to move on to phase two what's phase two you ask well the butcher block just can't be a freestanding butcher block cause when you slide those little metal discs they'll just fly off into no man's land so next we had to build a trough or a tray or a border that the butcher block will sit down in and keep the pucks up on the table and not landing on your toes so we grabbed some more six quarter black walnut and we started milling it down until it was nice and smooth and cut to the correct dimension once that was done next we had to add a inch and a half by three quarter rabbit on the bottom of all of our border pieces this is going to create a nice little lip for us to insert a piece of plywood up from the bottom to create a well to create a bottom for the butcher block to sit onto so we did this in two passes over on my dado saw one passed at three quarters of an inch and then we moved the whole thing over and did another pass getting us our inch and a half this is a hard job because those are long pieces it took all three of us to feed that unwielding walnut through my dado saw but boy we got it done in the end with all of our pieces rabbited out on the bottom it was time to start cutting the ends for our mitered corners we first started by cutting two mitered corners on our end caps this would give us the total width of our border and then we cut one mitered corner on our length pieces but just one because we weren't exactly sure how long we needed it to be yet first we needed to cut our piece of plywood for the bottom and that will determine how long the sides need to be so i special ordered this 10 foot piece of three-quarter inch birch 10 feet yeah that's a lot to wrangle through your table saw but keith and nick were kind enough to pretend to help while i pushed the whole thing through by myself no not really they're actually pulling pretty good i just was pretending to push with our piece of plywood cut out for the bottom we took it over to our dry fit partial frame trough thingamabob and we dropped it down into that pre-cut rabbit now we didn't even have to cut this plywood to length because we wanted it to be as long as possible ideally we wanted six inches on the end of our nine foot butcher block but it being a 10 foot sheet of ply and having to go into the rabbit it wound up being more like five and a half my point is we left the plywood as long as we could we used the plywood to measure out our lengths and then we started connecting our miters with dominoes even the foreman came out to take his own footage for his personal blog which you can find on i'm just joking he's six i don't let him have a blog yet whenever i'm doing a box or a frame like this with mitered corners i like to use the domino joiner if at all possible it just takes a lot of the guesswork and headache out of the whole glue up process because it aligns everything nice and clean geez i stay nice and clean a lot or nice and easy or clean and simple but hey how else am i supposed to describe these beautiful mitered corners in no time we had all of our corners mortised out for the dominoes and keith and nick i think maybe they went to grab a beer or take a nap but they left me to do all the sanding by myself i hate sanding now i'm about to show you two very different glue ups the first one which you're about to see right here is the wrong way to glue up mitered corners it was the result of us just being really excited to put this together and giving absolutely no thought into how we were actually going to get clamping pressure on these corners it was a chaotic mess that we did not think through and as you can see by the jumbled rush of excitement nervousness and pure terror it was not a great time we did manage to get it all together in the end with the use of about 5 000 clamps and a bunch of little blocks and calls screwed here or there but it was a pretty ugly job and we were pretty ashamed of ourselves i mean look at the disgust on keith's face he hates himself right now ugh i hate you too buddy but the next morning the mitered corners were dry now we just did one side we figured we'd glue up one side let it dry and then once that was nice and secure we'd worry about the other side so after showing you the wrong way to do it let me show you the right way to do it but first why not a close-up of keith's posterior because for some reason i captured that footage on my phone all right the right way to glue up mitered corners this time we thought ahead and we made up a few little 45 degree clamping calls and then we just glued them directly onto the outside of the frame on both sides of that mitered corner those will pop right off when we're done using them with these clamping calls we just put a little glue in the seam pushed it together a little tap tap here tap tap there one clamp at the top one clamp at the bottom and we're done this is the way you should do mitered corners not that stressful garbage we tried to do at the very beginning but anyways let's put the past and the past and move on let's recap we've got our butcher block for our sliding surface all glued up and in clamps and now our frame is all glued together as well so the next thing we had to start working on was our leg design and assembly now you might have seen me use the shaper origin a few videos back where i made a round dining nook table well we're going to use this magical machine on this project as well to cut out the shape for our legs we're cutting the shape out of a piece of quarter inch oak veneered ply there's nothing special about oak veneer ply except i had some extra laying around and this will become the template for our leg i designed this whole thing on the computer and then with the shaper origin i just magically uploaded it to the machine and threw it on there and cut it out that's actually a total lie remember that strange homeless guy that was helping us at the beginning yeah his name's sean and he actually works for shaper and he helped me get the design on the machine because i don't quite know how to use it yet and i feel like i should give him credit and i feel a little guilty and now i'm telling you anyways after getting our template all squared away we started roughly cutting out pieces that we could glue together for leg blanks we used the template to trace out the general shape of the pieces we needed onto pieces of six quarter black walnut then i rough cut them out over on the bandsaw we're going to have to glue basically two chunks of wood together to get our overall shape and then we'll use that quarter inch template over on the router table to cut it down to its final exact size so while i cut out all the pieces on the bandsaw keith and nick glued them together six quarter plus six quarter equals so around three inches somewhere in there anyways we were just going for big beefy thick leg blanks and many hands make light work so in no time all of our leg blanks were glued up and ready to be set aside while we waited for them to dry speaking of waiting for them to dry we decided to take this opportunity to pull our butcher block out of clamps and see how much work we were going to need to do to this thing to get it flat we started by using the old eyeball me at one end keep it the other you know it honestly doesn't look too terrible at this point but we decided to test it we grabbed a piece of scrap ply left over from our 10-foot piece of birch and we plopped it down onto my workbench which is somewhat flat and then laid the slab down on top of that what we're looking for here is if there is any twist or wobble in it that would be enough to prevent us from just running it through the planer surprisingly there wasn't it didn't rock or wobble at all and that was all the confidence i needed to take this giant piece of two and a half inch thick black walnut and shove it through the gnawing teeth of my 20 inch planer so with the help of nick and keith we started feeding this thing through and in no time we had a perfectly smooth and flat surface on the top and bottom with that done we brought it back over to the workbench and plopped it back on this plywood the plywood doesn't really have a purpose at this point we just were too lazy to move it and with that the shuffleboard table is complete no not really next we pulled out the track saw and we cut it down to its final length of nine feet chopping just a little bit off one end and the majority of our material off the other end then keith and nick went somewhere again and i found myself alone in the shop sanding i hate sanding with our butcher block sanded down and all flat it was time to start adding a little flare to this baby so once again we pulled out the shaper origin and we started carving now the image we put in the middle of this table has absolutely no meaning i just found it on a google image search and then later i found out that it's actually the logo for a fly fishing guide service in new mexico long story short i am set to appear in small claims court in july of next year anywho with our random center image taken care of it was time to start working on the important elements of this table which are the numbers and lines at either end so that you can actually score the game so with the shaper origin once again we carved numbers on one side and then went to the other side and well carved the identical numbers over there because you want it to be fair on both sides with our numbers and random fish image all carved out we grabbed some total boat two-part epoxy and pigment dispersion in white and started mixing it together we had thought about using a brass powder mixed with the epoxy to make it look like inlaid brass keith even brought some with him and we experimented around with that and although it looked really cool the brass matched the color of the walnut a little too well and it was hard to see the numbers from the opposite end of the table so in the end we went with white and i gotta tell you i don't regret it i will of course leave a link for all these products in the video description and you might even find a coupon code down there as well the next morning after the epoxy cured i was left again by myself to sand fortunately for me sanding was a terrible idea and was gonna take forever to get that epoxy all sanded off so we just grabbed the entire slab and once again just made a light pass over on the planer to produce a perfect finished surface well as perfect as it can be coming out of the planer i'm sure i'll have to sand it all again by myself as soon as nick and keith wander off somewhere but this is what it looked like straight out of the planer not too shabby looking crisp and clean this video was sponsored by hi oop yeah okay um skillshare skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of inspiring classes for creators explore new skills deepen existing passions and get lost in creativity one class that i think you'll love is finding fulfillment with emma gannon i think making a pivot in your life can be hard and scary because you're putting yourself out there but on the other side of the pivot you can find more fulfillment and feel like you're being more of yourself it's a super interesting class that shows you how making small pivots can power your creative career another class i recently took that hit quite close to home was youtube success with marquez brownlee hey what's up i'm marquez brownlee aka mkbhd on the internet i make youtube videos about tech products i'm excited to share my process which i haven't really done before because i identify as a self-taught filmmaker i didn't go to film school hey that's just like me what do you know they do a really good job of curating skillshare specifically for learning meaning that there are no ads and they're always launching new premium classes so you can stay focused and follow wherever your creativity takes you and here's the coolest part the first thousand of my subscribers to click the link in the description will get a one month free trial of skillshare so you can start exploring your creativity today now it was about this time that we realized our leg blanks from the day before were now all dry and ready to start being worked and shaped into beautiful legs to fit under this table so the first thing we did was cut one end to just a nice flat uniform size i use the template on top of the blank to draw a nice straight line then i passed that to keith and he just trimmed a little bit off it was a good little teamwork situation we had going on there then keith and i just made this super simple jig out of a piece a quarter inch ply with some glued down stop blocks to hold each leg in place while we ran them through the table saw and cut a nice flat surface on that little arm jutting out there we needed a perfectly flat uniform surface to add the next piece of the leg before we use the template over on the router table so after running each initial leg part through the table saw we plopped the template down on top just to make sure we had a nice overhang around the entire outside and we weren't going to have to shrink down our template at all as you can see in no time we had all of our pieces cut and ready to hook together so we used a combination of the keith clamp and the patented hip thrust basically keith holding the wood while i thrust my hips against the domino jointer and flat out like a lizard drinking we got all of these pieces mortised out and ready to be hooked together with some dominoes if you want to know what that seam looks like well here you go i'll just shove this in your face so you can see now as you will see in just a second nope not that if you look closely we actually left a clamping call as a permanent part of our little leg extension we knew we were going to have to clamp in an awkward angle so because of our original clamping faux pas we decided to just think ahead on this one that'll get cut off later with the band saw which i will show you after these are all glued together but it made a nice flat surface to get a clamp on and get these things glued up in no time flat me and keith worked very hard getting the glue on while nick you know well he was encouraging very very encouraging with all of our rough leg shapes and clamps nick and keith went for a walk on the beach and i was left to once again sand all by myself gosh i hate sanding but on the upside by the time they came back from their lovers jaunt on the sandy shores our legs were ready to be taken out of clamps and finally cut to their actual end size and shape so the first thing we had to do was cut off these little clamping calls that we left as part of the leg itself remember i told you those were pretty handy when it came to clamping things up with those cut off it was time to apply some double sided tape to the top of our legs and hook on our quarter inch template that we cut out previously using the shaper origin now our leg blocks were a little too thick for any one router bit to do it in a single pass but luckily we were able to use two separate bits from bits and bits both flush cut bits one coming in from the top and the other one coming from the bottom that got the job done in no time and don't you worry i will leave a link to all of these bits down in the video description and there might be a special coupon code down there as well to help save you a little moo la after keith performed the first pass with the template he handed it to me and then i just used his pass as the template and finished it off with this spiral up cut down cut bit on the router table and in no time all of our legs were templated out and looking pretty fly now all we had to do was cut them down to our final length both on the top and the bottom so we just took the template and used it as a template traced out a little line on the top of our legs and then using a rockler crosscut sled we set it to 18 degrees and just trimmed down the top of each leg as you can see though the saw blade just barely was tall enough to almost cut all the way through but not quite but it was a thin enough amount left over that i literally just trimmed the rest of it off with a razor blade by hand so close then to ensure that our legs were nice and sturdy and would not rack we decided to throw a little stretcher piece connecting the two legs on either end so we just mortised out some holes for some dominoes in the stretcher as well as the legs plopped the dominoes in there for a dry fit assembly and boom we had a beautiful set of legs one for one side and one for the other side then before actually gluing our leg assemblies together with that stretcher we decided to soften all of our edges just with a nice half inch round over bit once again over on the router table this was a little tricky and awkward to get in every tiny nook cranny and crevice but i just went slow and in no time every leg was rounded over and looking beautiful and next all i had to do was sand each leg down by myself without any help they literally just stood around and watched while i sanded this is my life people once i begrudgingly finished all the sanding it was time to glue our leg assembly together with our stretchers now we went minimal on the glue for this glue up we just wanted enough to hold that stretcher in place without a crazy amount of squeeze out that we're gonna have to clean up off my not keith and nick's my freshly sanded legs i'm claiming them because i was the one that actually sanded them they didn't help me for one second at least that's my story and i'm sticking to it as you can see we didn't need a lot of pressure to clamp this up just one clamp plop and we were done then because we love a good round over we took out a router and just using an eighth inch roundover bit we softened the edge of our butcher block playing surface itself and believe it or not with that all done it was time to start adding some finish on this thing now you're going to be really proud of me i am using rubio monocoat but because this is walnut i didn't reach for the cotton white this is rubio monocoat pure looks great on walnut and super easy to apply so with keith filming my every movement i started spreading that thing all over our butcher block playing surface a little bit here a lot of it there and while i did the butcher block nick and keith finally got to work and they added rubio to our entire frame assembly once we were both done with our designated tasks of buffing polishing wiping and stroking that last word was probably not the best descriptive word we all joined together in a communal stroke of the legs um wipe down of the legs we wiped oil on the legs we wiped we coated the legs with oil yeah let's leave it at that and we also put a coat of rubio on the bottom of our piece of plywood that will be inset inside of our frame structure the next morning we had to start putting everything together it was assembly day and that started with drilling 60 countersunk holes on the bottom surface of that plywood so we could attach it inside of our frame now before you freak out and say what the heck are they doing that's the ugliest piece of fabric i've ever seen in my life yeah we thought so too we originally bought it thinking the leather and walnut would look good together and we hated it but instead of just throwing it away and not using it we decided to use it as a cushioning layer underneath our actual fabric choice so after cutting our ugly hideous faux leather down to size we smeared some titebond 3 all over the piece of plywood and once that was done we carefully lifted our ugly piece of leather into place set it down on top of the plywood nice and easy and then just using our handsies we smoothed it all out and set it aside and waited for the glue to dry while we were waiting for the glue to dry nick was hard at work on a custom little project transforming these store-bought pucks into customized ones with walnut tops he used the shaper origin and looked quite good doing it if i might say so when the glue was dry on our ugly leather layer it was finally time to put the actual fabric choice that we ended up with which is this olive green canvas we just all really loved the way that this green color looked right up against that dark brown walnut so after applying more glue this time i used an iron to really smooth out the fabric getting rid of every wrinkle and imperfection once that had dried up a little bit i just took an x-acto knife and cut it tight against the plywood underlayment all the way around until we had a nice crisp edge then with our crisp edge fabric covered plywood all we had to do was slide our pre-oiled frame over the top nice and neat just like this dang if that does not look good but just wait it gets even better with the frame very carefully set on top of the plywood we took the whole thing over to another set of sawhorses and very gingerly rolled it over upside down this gave us access to the bottom and those 60 pre-drilled countersunk holes that we will use to attach the plywood to the frame itself those screws will just go right into that rabbit that we cut at the beginning of the video over on the dado so you're not going to see any of them and you're also not going to see me actually screwing it in because for some reason i forgot to turn my camera on for any of that but rest assured the plywood bottom is now securely attached to the walnut frame now it was time to set our butcher block playing surface into place and hook that down as well the first thing i did was just cut a few spacer blocks out of rigid foam the correct distance from the side and the end this allowed us to just know pretty much exactly where the butcher block needed to go as we set it down it's super heavy and we didn't really want to drag it around on that canvas and scratch it all up so very carefully trying not to squish any of our fingies we set it in there and just pull our fingers out real quick because that's how professionals do it and then because nick and keith are so helpful thoughtful kind nice people they made me climb down on the floor underneath the table and hook the entire butcher block to our plywood with some countersunk screws through the bottom and just like that our entire table top assembly was done now all we had to do was figure out our leg assembly to do this we carried our playing surface over to one of my work benches and flipped it over upside down on top of some moving blankets everything is all finished and oiled up at this point so we really didn't want to scratch anything up and have to touch up the finish now you're probably asking how the heck are they going to hook those legs to the bottom of the table well one thing i didn't show you was that at some point during this build i ran up to my steel fabricator and had him cut us out four solid steel quarter inch thick plates with some strategically placed holes basically we're going to hook the steel plates to the bottom of the table with lag bolts and hook the steel plates to the top of the legs with some wood screws so first we drilled out our holes for the lag bolts directly into the table and then after adding some double-sided tape onto the plates we very carefully set our legs down exactly where they needed to go then once we pushed down and made sure our tape was nice and firm we very carefully okay it's enough pushing we very carefully lifted up the legs keeping those steel plates right where they needed to be and i mean very carefully double-sided tape doesn't hold quarter inch steel very well but nick and keith do so keith laid down on the floor nick sat on a stool held those plates where they needed to go and i screwed them in place with some counter sunk wood screws right through the top with our plates where they needed to go now it was time to insert our lag bolts into the underside of the table we decided to go with lag bolts so that should we need to it would be fairly easy to take the legs off the table this is one flipping heavy table so that might be necessary when it's time to move it around i just used a little five minute epoxy on the tip of each lag bolt and a ratchet with a locking nut to wrench them in place while i did that keith added some leveling feet to the bottom of each leg just in case this table happens to sit on an uneven surface we will have the ability to get it perfectly level which apparently is kind of important when you're playing shuffleboard and with our leveling feet and our plates on there all we had to do was slide the plates over those newly inserted lag bolts just like come on you thing get in your hole are you too good for your hole all right there we go now we could only put lag bolts on the inside row of holes because well the outside's just a three-quarter inch piece of ply so we put a total of six lag bolts on the inside of each plate and just a few one-inch wood screws with a washer on the outside but believe you and me that was plenty strong when it came to the last bolt we knew we were close to the end so all three of us hammered it home together all three of us if only there was all three of us sanding but i'm not mad i'm not bitter i'm not angry but i will get even with that last nut on that last bolt are four or five i lost track a time day build had come to an end a beautiful walnut shuffleboard there was just one final touch custom walnut pucks to match a custom walnut shuffleboard table sometimes you meet friends that are more than friends they're more than just people you talk to at christmas or vacations they're people that enter your life they affect you in a real way they become a part of your day-to-day nick and keith are not those type of friends they're the type of friends that will stick you with all of the sanding and make you do it by yourself alone until your fingers hurt real bad and then they'll play shuffleboard without you when your back is turned yeah enjoy it guys hope you really like that silky smooth surface hope you really appreciate the hours of painstaking hard work that went into getting it that way all right guys that's it i was able to build this entire shuffleboard table in just five days and it looks well i mean i helped a little bit well that's true hey i watched and you did a good job bud it's a good watcher all right so now what you're going to want to do is click that subscribe button down below make sure you check out the links in the video description for all the tools and supplies we use the link to my patreon page and definitely go over to key woodworks page and kj sawdust's youtube page subscribe to their channels and they're also going to be putting out their own videos mine will be the more accurate one and better quality video but you will want to check out theirs as well so do that oh that's a nice one what the heck man

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Length: 37min 28sec (2248 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 15 2021