Tile Top Table

welcome back to the oregon makers channel um today we're going to do a tile tabletop and here's the process of breaking down the legs it's cherry i started with a quarter so i cut it a little fat like a 30 second wider than i need and then [Music] i make a pass with the cutoff on the joiner just to give me a nice straight edge again and then i cut that again to get my four pieces and i do the uh vacuum shuffle here between the joiner and the table saw and then i just run the cut face across the jointer i have the jointer set just to it 30 seconds so now i've got all the legs square and i'm laying out the mortises so the rails are going to be in set with the mortise and tenon here and i pretty much really mark out one and i set up my mortiser to this one but i do put pencil marks on everything just so i know where i'm at and i put a little triangle at the top so they're all oriented i kind of kind of i'll keep them in the direction they need to be and i am fortunate enough to have a mortising machine i built a lot of craftsman furniture like uh eight chairs for a dining room so it's nice to have the mortiser so i just have a little stop block set up there uh to kind of give me my width of my mortise and then i have to put the top block on the other side to do the other mortise and i'm getting a piece ready for uh the aprons i just joined one edge i basically cut it to my width plus the length of the tenons and it's pretty much going to be the same process here where i rip it down join it and rip it again i think this time i probably gave myself enough room to join both edges to the vacuum switcheroo and clean up all the edges so here's my layout for my tenon i just did that with a marking gauge using a stop block uh which is a one two three block and my miter gauge and cutting the shoulders in the faces [Music] stop block wanted to go for a ride and then i make an adjustment to the blade just raise it up a little bit and then doing the cheat cuts here [Music] and the tenoning jig kind of a old-school tool here this thing weighs i don't know 20 pounds it's heavy duty cast iron so i just kind of set the a lot of adjustments on this thing i just kind of dial in the fit here for the width i can move this back and forth and here i am kind of double checking the fit and it's which is good okay now i'm gonna cut the little ears off the tenon here i used to always do this uh with the miter gauge and uh just kind of nibble at it with the saw blade and i saw somebody use the tenon engage and i was like huh never thought to turn it sideways like that so that was new for me so now cleaning up the mortises um the mortiser does a really good job if um i was doing like i did with the dining room chairs years ago i didn't really have a whole lot of cleanup because i kind of didn't make everything it's quite as tight but i'm just trying to sweeten this up a little bit and fitting the tenons so i marked all the apron so each tenon went to the right mortise and that's this is me just kind of the process of fitting one of them and i do that eight times so now i'm cutting the tapers i have an old tapering jig and just kind of set up what i want i wanted about an inch at the bottom two inches at the top and here is where i make a mistake i'm smart about which face i'm cutting but i have the piece in the saw backwards and i don't realize it quite yet but i'm about to cut right through my mortise and here comes the point of realization so minor step back about turning the camera off and going for a walk but i was like no i'm just gonna power through i can fix this having the legs being tapered was the only reason i could really fix this and then do those uh the taper a little fat and then give me enough room to run it through the treader so it's important to start your taper an inch or so below where the apron meets the leg that way it's still square there and you don't have to deal with the taper against the apron because then it looks like your pieces don't fit so that's kind of how i set that up and now is the time to sand so i'm showing the sanding processes along the way here this is kind of my first fine furniture build um future builds i'll probably skip this part because it's not exciting but i wanted people to know what it takes to build fine furniture versus shop furniture garden furniture um there's a little bit more of an effort that you put into it pretty much 220 is what i'm saying to here i really like the wood off of the jointer but the oil finish likes it a little better if it's sanded and for some reason i did not film the actual glue up but here it is you can see i kind of taped on the shoulders for the glue squeeze out and i have clamps at the bottom just to make sure that the table is square so the outer dimension of the table is the same top and bottom the tapers go to the inside so now i'm cutting down a sheet of plywood that's going to be the base for the tile and getting the apron for the table top same process as before joint cut joint some more cutting the miters first time i've used this miter sled i usually do this on my miter table but i thought i'd give this a shot fitting everything up so now i'm going to lay out biscuits [Music] pretty much more for alignment than anything i'm just doing it flat on the plywood here i cut the thickness of the apron to allow for the tile in the plywood so when the tile is on the plywood it's going to be level with the apron here so um at the bottom for the plywood and then halfway through for the miters and then gluing everything up so mostly for alignment a little bit for strength and cutting that the plywood base to be the width of the tiles plus the grout on all four sides it was a little bit of math involved and second guessing of course so just kind of cleaning up the glue with an old credit card but in that cure and then sanding so as you can see the bottom pieces of the wood aren't great so when you're at the lumber store and you see pieces that aren't perfect you know you don't have to pass them by you just have to plan your project around it and that's what i did here i made sure it was really good on one side because you're only going to see one side so you know it's not necessarily cheaper it's just you know you're not going to see it it doesn't really matter and sanding everything here kind of leveling it out and then giving it a final sanding miters went together really well by the way i was i impressed myself on that one and the table um i already sanded all the pieces before i glued it up but i'm just kind of giving it a final clean up there getting rid of my pencil marks and a little of the glue squeeze out and just kind of give it a once over [Music] the blue chair in the background that's another video that was out last week you should go check that out a little renovation and then this is the detail work this is what makes uh furniture better you know with you if this was a shop project i wouldn't be doing this little tiny detail work here making sure that all the joints were perfect i'm kind of beveling the feet here so if this table slides across the hardwood floor it's not gonna splinter out always a good idea just a little bit of a bevel that's all it takes all right hand sanding just to kind of break the edges this is going to be a side table to my customer's reading chair and uh waco danish oil i love this finish for interior projects it really looks good on the cherry it'll allow the cherry to age a nice color and it's renewable so if you do scratch it or nick it or something you can just sand a little bit and put more oil on and you'll never see the damage it's awesome i use this finish pretty much everything interior and one good coat to start with and then a couple days later i'll give it another coat and then if i still have the piece around which this one i will about a week later i'll give it another coat and that should do it flipping this over just to get the bottom there and just kind of wipe everything down you'll know when it won't take any more oil this um this took the oil pretty well i didn't have to like keep pouring it on like i do on something giving the top another coat so that top will definitely get more coats than the base and wiping it all down okay now time for the tile i have never done tile before so this is new to me and i have my glasses off because i see better with up close without them and i found this is was really kind of intimidating to me um without ever having to tile before but i found a product that's both tile and grout and i thought that was kind of cool so i used that and was the color i wanted and i just used a notch trowel to get the uh kind of the thin set set down and then these are little quarter inch spacers i have my level on there making sure it's flush with the tabletop and i'm going to let that dry overnight and then time to grout so same material i don't know if this is the way you're supposed to do tile this is the way i did tile i did some research um and i have watched people do tile before i knew uh so 45 degrees with the rubber float to kind of get it in there and i just wanted to make sure that my edges to the wood looked really good and then kind of more of a 90 degree the trowel to the tile to to pick it up i'm noticing some spots that didn't work out so well so i'm fixing it getting the major goop off with the spatula or not spatula whatever that thing is called scraper do that and then uh i had a bucket of water down here i use warm water it makes things a lot easier it's ezra in the background the bengal cat um cleaning it up until it's not so goopy anymore trying not to touch the grout lines with the towel but only the sponge and then the sponge you can kind of use it to shape the grout a little bit it's getting the major fuzz off that's the one horror story is the hazing on the tile so my customer made these tiles it's a crossroads pattern and it's kind of meaningful for her she's had some life changes this year and i think she made the tile to kind of reflect that and she asked me to build her table for her new house so that's the story of the tile and this is how i'm going to attach the top to the base is i'm using my plate jointer and i'm going to make two passes at it changing my depth to give me a little slot you'll see in a minute and laying my oregon state quarter which is kind of my trademark here's the little buttons i kind of made a little l out of the scrap wood and i have a little screw i use a stainless steel screw here and just kind of lining the top up and then these little guys will allow the top to move independently from the base if the weather changes where this is going it gets hot and it gets cold so this will be good and here it is finished still a little haze on the tile i'm going to give that one more go with the uh like a glass cleaner to get the final fuzz off turned out really good level uh her coffee cup will be very happy sitting there and her book i really like this project i was intimidated to do it but glad i finally did and that's how we made it

Channel: Oregon Makers

Views: 6,891

Keywords: Woodworking, DIY, How To, furniture, building, Woodworking Tips, Easy Woodworking, weekend woodworking project, tile top table, weekend woodworking, oregon makers, cherry wood, tile project, end table, bed side table, table, side table build, end table build, how to, woodshop, woodshop projects, woodworking projects, easy woodworking, grouting tile, mortise and tenon joint, mitre joint wood, side table, crossroad, crossroad pattern, fine furniture, fine furniture woodworking

Id: -jtlXYL3sSI

Length: 18min 38sec (1118 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 18 2021