I found this $10 ugly table
at the Goodwill and we're
gonna transform it into a beautiful piece of fine furniture. And this upcycle is brought
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with this ugly eighties oak table. If you been
following this channel, you know that I hate oak. I consider it practice wood. So
we're gonna redo the entire top. Something fancy, something modern,
maybe mid-century modern. Who knows? There'll be a modern in
there. We gotta uh, the legs. I mean we were real careful driving
home, so I don't think we did that. So we gotta tighten up the legs. I think the first thing I need to do
before we fancy this guy up is take off the top and then start working on the
legs, sand off the finish, and uh, come up with a game plan. No fancy
woodworking, joinery in there. So the legs come right off, which is
gonna make them a lot easier to work with. They are solid pieces of oak. The apron is not. The apron is veneered. The top is veneered, but
the legs are solid oak. That gives us a lot more options
to work with. Oh yeah, there we go. Quickest way to get off that
face was over on the jointer. It still has these massive
round overs on there. I'm not a big fan of round overs, so we're gonna cut off the round
overs and then chamfer everything. So everything has a nice clean 45 edge. This is really going to help
with the look of the legs. Got rid of all the round overs. We've
got some nice chambers on there. Each piece has a cove cut in there.
It's just like a little decorative cove. And I'm gonna get rid of that
by cutting in a dado that we can then inlay a piece in
there for a nice effect. And that is how you get
rid of the eighties. So now I am just going
to dye these legs black, cover up some of that red oakness. Second coat on here just
to make sure there's no oak showing hot tip. You don't
want any oak showing in your projects. The top doesn't overhang
actually the, the stile, what do you call these? The apron
sticks out further than the top. I don't think I like that.
I want the top to overhang. So my thought is just
to take all of this and then just make it a little smaller. I could chop everything is
just screwed together. Nothing. There's no glue on this anywhere. So I
could, uh, unscrew these corner pieces, make these side pieces
smaller on these apron pieces. It's not solid oak, it's, it's veneered. So I'm trying to be very careful
and sand down just the finish and not all the way through to the, the crap particle board that's inside there. And then I think I'm also
gonna dye this black. So the apron and the legs
all have this uniformity. This is so nice. This is, this is my favorite thing in the shop. It's so nice. And now we're just dying the
apron pieces to match the legs. The legs are dry. We've got
these two dados in here. So now we're going to make an inlay
piece that's going to fit inside those dados, but this is looking so much better. We've got 45 chamfers on
there. There's no round overs, there's no oak showing.
Got rid of the eighties. Now we're gonna glue in these strips. I sanded them first because I didn't wanna sand away any of the dye that
we have on the legs here. Legs are dry so I can
cut off the excess here. That is back together.
Everything. There's no glue. Everything is just kind of screwed
back together. It's the way it was. I think that's gonna work fine. And
it's sturdier than what it was before. But those legs look good. What do you
think, Daniel? Looks pretty cool. Yeah. All right, let's work on the top. The current top here has this oak
veneer herringbone pattern and we're gonna honor that. We're
gonna use this as our substrate. And I've got a bunch of walnut and hickory
here that we're gonna cut up in the strips, glue them together, cut that
into strips, flip some things around, glue that together. And we're just gonna keep doing
that until we get a cool pattern. This is gonna look good. This is
gonna be real good. Check this out. Milled up a bunch of walnut and
hickory. Now we're gonna glue them up. I'm worried this isn't
enough wood for this, but I've got a plan if it's not. So we'll just let that sit and dry for a
few minutes and then we'll cut that up. We got that sanded down flat. I'm gonna cut one 45 with the track saw
and then do the remaining 40 fives at the table saw. I think this first
cut is just easier this way. Here's where we can get crazy and you
can get an infinite amount of designs. You could do a checkered pattern like
this or you could do a chevron pattern like this. But I'm gonna cut this
one more time after this glue-up. My brain can't comprehend what it's
gonna look like when I'm, we're done. We're just having fun
and we're experimenting. Is it okay if we just have some fun?
Can we just have some fun? Daniel? Kind of a tricky glue cuz you wanted
to line everything up Perfect. Wipe off the excess and let that
dry. That's gonna look good. That's gonna look real good. So
now we take this out of the clamps. We're gonna sand this down flat
once again and repeat the process. I don't have any idea what
this is going to look like. My brain can't visualize the next step, but I just know it's gonna be cool. So now I'm drawing lines going
this way for the final cut pattern and um, I've never done this. I think it's gonna look cool
or it's gonna look chaotic. So I'm gonna connect to
this point, to that point, I am kind of rearranging
this into this new pattern. And look at this weird
freakiness that we get here. You can play around with this and
do different types of, of patterns. Uh, it's just we trying to find what
works best. So that looks really cool. We started out with this huge board
and now we only have this area right here just to get a little bit more yield. I think I'm gonna take these pieces to
the bandsaw and cut them in half and that's gonna give me twice
as many pieces to work with. Also that's going to give, it's
gonna make this much thinner, which is going to make it more
like a veneer. And then we can, it just gives us more options down
the line. So let's get to resawing. This is gonna be so cool. I think we got it. I got the pattern
that I want. It is all looking. That looks so cool. I never would've guessed that
that was going to be the pattern. Unfortunately we got some knots in there, but we'll just have to fill that with
epoxy and that'll be part of the design. I ain't mad at it. I ain't
mad at it. Yeah. <laugh>, that looks so cool. I've
never done this before. How many times am I gonna say that? But
I know that I'm gonna do this again. Somehow when I cut this on the table
saw this was not perfectly straight. So I'm gonna try to joint an edge on here. I don't know how it's gonna do with all
this funky grain. Gotta take chances. So jointing in that work. So now I'm
trying to glue all these together. This is gonna be a little tricky cuz they're so thin gonna
wanna pop up when we start to clamp. So we gotta get
clamps on top first. And again, we just let that sit
and dry. Got that outta the clamps. Looks like the space invader guy that's
looking so cool when we get that stand of flush. Woo, I'm excited. So we're gonna glue this onto this board, but we still got a little bit
more eighties to get rid of here. So we'll remove this. It looks like
brass inlay, but it's it's plastic. Daniel, you can take that home. Oh man. When did those come into style? This is going to get glued on to here. So now I need to make my outer frame
that's going to get glued on to this. I'm thinking walnut. So we sanded down the top. We're
getting ready to glue on there. It's cool that we hardly have any
waste from the original table. We're just giving it a new facelift.
And while I was sanding that down, I could smell like perfume and alcohol. <Laugh>. Well that was the eighties.
Yeah, that was the eighties. It smelled like cocaine and Magnum P.I.. Just gonna use a pin nailer
to hold things in place. Um, I. <Laugh> it's. I nailed it to the bench. Um, yeah, I nailed it to the bench. We put some tape on top of there so the
glue doesn't come up through the knots. Make a sandwich. This goes into the bag. Close up the vacuum bag. So that'll sit in the vacuum bag
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edge banding on this tabletop. I'm just using some solid walnut strips
that we're just going to cut the length And the final piece. So we've
gotta fill in some of these knots This is my favorite moment of any project. <laugh>. Oh my gosh that look
so good. Last thing I gotta do, screw it back to the top. As long
as you don't look underneath, it's gonna look handmade. You can see where the old screws
went into this chippy particle board. And we used all the same screws. Very resourceful. Next up I take this cheap plastic
lamp and turn it into priceless fine furniture. And you can
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