White Oak Stool build with a soap finish.

as the saying goes don't give me the bath water just give me the baby uh if you don't want to see the making of the stool you can skip to this part of the video and that's where I mix up the finish and do the application hi everyone welcome back to my shop in my last video I made this new shop stool uh it's made out of white oak I used a dovetail it's a sliding dovetail technique for the joinery and I finished it with Danish oil which is basically just tung oil and polyurethane and I'll leave a link to that up in that corner or that corner wherever it goes if I can figure out how to do it and I want to make another one because I want to try a soap finish and I've always wanted to try it apparently it's got a very soft texture to it so I'm going to give that a whirl I've got more Oak here to do it and I'm going to use more of the Tenon joinery on this one I need to cut some rabbits or rebates into the top and I'm going to use this little jig here I think it's called a kerf maker I bought this off banggood a long time ago and I'll be kind of detailed on how to use it because it's a bit of a reference for me to go back because every time I go to use it I have to learn how to use it again so let's get started by getting these pieces squared up foreign now that I've got my pieces to their approximate size I need to cut a rabbet or a rebate into the bottom of the top there's a variety of ways of doing that I don't think any of them would be particularly wrong but I'm going to use this jig because I'm going to build some cabinets soon to do a miter saw station behind me so I think this might come in handy for that so I'm going to be fairly detailed so I can refer back to this video later there's a link below to this on banggood it's not an affiliate link but it'll get you in the right spot first thing we do is we get the kerf of our blade you don't even need it turned on at this point just lock it in place we set the curve of the blade with The Jig just on the end there by tightening the thumb screw and then we set the width of our material now that the jig is set up with the kerf of the blade and the width of the material we're just going to use it as a stop block as we pass our material through the table saw [Music] foreign [Music] a little loose this side turned out pretty good but this side over here it's tighter up here at the front or the back than it is at this end I could have used this jig better where if I clamped a stop block on the fence where the fence rides along the table saw where the tape measure is if I put a block on there and then brought the fence up to it uh and then flipped it to get my my measurements or my where I ran it I would have been able to run the top against the fence which probably would have made it a bit more accurate so live and learn [Music] I use my mortiser which is over there to make the mortises in the top of the stool I didn't film it because it's not a bad problem at the moment but I can't even move around my shop uh uh some friends and I bought out a retiring cabinet maker of his Hardwood Supply and it started out just buying about 45 sheets of plywood but then uh we ended up making a deal for all of his hardwood and this is just half of it so it's not a bad problem to have but right now I can't really move around my shop until we divvy it up which should happen in the next few days so thank you foreign [Music] [Music] thank you foreign [Music] thank you [Music] thank you foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] before I take this outside and put the grinder to it I'm going to give it some shape with the Wrath uh because it's about 30 degrees outside right now and I'd like to limit my time out there there's a bit of conflicting information some people say do it one to one by volume by weight and there's also four to one so I'm going to do a small batch of each and see how it comes out I've got my soap here so I'm going to measure that out and we'll get started that's one cup and I'm going to do another cup let's see how much that weighs that remember where oh there it is 3.2 ounces and we'll do one more by or by volume but four to one I got a little whisk here and let's get this started here foreign that looks pretty cool all right uh let's do the by weight and we're going for 3.2 ounces that's hardly anything thank you and the four to one by volume not on the scale how am I gonna mix my epoxy oh all over my workbench let me get a rag okay with my rag again with spilling it everywhere sure one to one by volume it looks like uh I'm gonna say whipped cream and the one to one by weight uh much denser and looks kind of like cottage cheese and the four to one it's mostly water well that's just water probably hot water too yes ow but will it harden up overnight and we'll see what happens all right time to apply some of this soap finish for my first coat I'm going to use the one that looks like it's cottage cheese and which was mixed one to one by weight I am going to use a Scotch Brite pad for the application and I'm just going to grab it it's very very dense oh and we'll see how that comes out oh there's blacks going everywhere or wax soap still going everywhere it darkens the wood slightly but I think that's because of the water that's in it I think you're supposed to give it a bit of a buffing but it already it does feel quite soft no doubt it's the cleanest my hands I've ever been but I'll let it dry for a couple of hours and see how it looks and then give it another coat I'm going to give it a second coat I'll use the other one the one I did that's one to one by volume and it it whipped up quite a bit so it has a different consistency not nearly as hard waxy like the first one but there's still a bit of a bit of a shine to it it looks nice but I think this one I'm just going to reach in and grab it oh and I'd seen where people said that you had to knock down the the grain because it raised after they put this on there because of the water in it but uh I didn't find that maybe because I used the application pad it didn't seem to raise the grain much at all but it does feel quite smooth for the third coat I'm going to use the one that I made that's four to one by volume and I think this is kind of a mistake that's out there because I think it should be four to one by weight it does feel kind of watery I'm going to use it though but I think for the final coats I'll go back to the the one-to-one by volume again I'm going to use my little white Scotch Brite and just kind of rub it in with that now it's always felt very soft and I never felt like I needed to take sandpaper to it to knock down the grain or anything so maybe it's because I'm using the scotch Sprite there's a lot more water in this one I don't really like this one yeah this is more sudsing up than anything else I only feel like I take a step backwards with that one uh it almost felt like it sudged up because just the volume was not right so I think I'll do the last two coats with the one to one by volume which is the kind of the whipped cream puffy one but it does have a very nice texture to it and I think I'll stick down here one more time tonight give it a coat and then give the final coat in the morning foreign I put five coats of the soap finish on here so the good and the bad let's start with the bad it's not a hard wearing finish it's not going to protect the wood from water water stains or spills you'd have to redo this probably every year but on the positive side it has a real nice texture to it I really I really like that I wasn't expecting that I think part of it is that I normally don't do any grain filling before I put a finish on wood and I think the soap does a really good job of that but it feels very nice I started this project thinking I would I just wanted to try it because I'd seen it on YouTube and now I'd like to actually put it on something other than a stool um and the color wise it I mean here's a piece of the Oak and I'll do some side by sides uh but it darkens it but it gives it just a nice little Sheen which is just a satin which is it looks it looks quite good I did some cherry and some Walnut as well I just sanded it down to 220 and then put a bit of tape across it and you can really feel where it built up a finish and it just kind of mutes the color a little bit and again just a slight satin look to it and a very nice feel if you're looking to do something like this I would recommend you do two mixtures uh one to one by weight and one to one by volume of the soap the one to one by weight works really well as the initial uh finish and then do a one to one by volume which is all the consecutive coats the four to one by volume that's two that's like slime it's just it's too wet and it seemed to soap turn into soap so that's no good I'll put a link to the soap in the description but yeah hope you enjoyed this if you have any questions put them down below hit the like button if you enjoyed this 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Channel: HillbillyChic

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Id: GXXPBa2JklM

Length: 17min 58sec (1078 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 22 2023