Early Access Video: Simple Table Pt. 2
Added 2021-03-13 12:01:01 +0000 UTCFriends:
Our Shaker end table is done! You might have thought all the action was last week, but you'll be shocked at how many details remain and how those details transform the piece.
This week, we shape, bevel, taper, glue, trim, and finish to arrive at an elegant little table. I hope a lot of people try this one. It will give your craft a real boost!
As usual, the plans are being drawn right now and they will be posted here (and on the Discourse Plan Archive) on Wednesday morning.
Happy Saturday!
--Rex
Here's the link for viewing on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY-twrQh0Rs
Comments
Thanks for the great video, but would like to make a comment about the Scotch Brite scouring pad you use. You can compost steel wool, but Scotch Brite is forever, and fragments into micro plastics, so for me that's the clincher, I'd rather put up with cleaning up the fragments of fine steel wool which will eventually become iron oxide and join the rest of the iron oxide in my soil. Carpentry is a very sustainable craft if done right.
Laurie Savage
2021-03-20 23:52:18 +0000 UTCDefinitely going to try building this. Beautiful and will fit into our home nicely. My daughter just scored a pickup truck worth of hardwood lumber including Walnut, Cherry, Oak and some other exotic wood so I will use these to build it. They are all rough sawn so I'll get to put everything Rex has posted into practice. I have gotten some hand planes, chisels, a shooting board, etc and only thing let is building the English workbench and then it's going to be time to build this beautiful table. Thks Rex
Thor C. Ritz
2021-03-20 09:19:15 +0000 UTCThe CC/Transcript on this looks like it's bugging out. Thought I'd leave a comment here cause youtube comments can be a flood :)
Merlyn Morgan-Graham
2021-03-17 19:01:55 +0000 UTCI've been in the hospital again, missed the last two sets of pdF drawings - how do I get them as a Patron, like usual?
Howard Tuckey
2021-03-15 21:48:39 +0000 UTCMy pleasure. More beginner projects to come!
Rex Krueger
2021-03-15 12:02:22 +0000 UTCThis was my first time with buttons, and I was pretty delighted with the they worked.
Rex Krueger
2021-03-15 12:02:05 +0000 UTCThank you for taking your channel in the direction of beginner projects! I'm slowly learning and practicing and have really benefitted from your woodwork for humans series. Thank you for sharing your work!
Colby Buelow
2021-03-15 00:38:56 +0000 UTCOne of the great things about shellac. If you want to you can go over it with a darker layer and it will melt into the other layers. I won't quite look the same (it doesn't penetrate all the way down to the surface), but I think it'll still look great.
Michael Bennett
2021-03-14 20:57:47 +0000 UTCOk, I just am not sure how to do that. I play around with the controls on my account and see if I can make that happen.
Sean O'Neill
2021-03-14 17:40:14 +0000 UTCI just finished a hobby table for the wife and I wish I knew about the buttons. I don't think I have seen them before. I used another technique from some guy name Craig or Greg. (something like that) Luckily I can go back and use buttons.
Skully Wood and Metal
2021-03-14 12:43:32 +0000 UTCAnd a good thought, too. I'll probably be tackling tool storage in May.
Rex Krueger
2021-03-14 12:21:40 +0000 UTCGlad you liked it. I might do more in this style!
Rex Krueger
2021-03-14 12:21:08 +0000 UTCMine is next to the couch!
Rex Krueger
2021-03-14 12:20:32 +0000 UTCIf you feel like changing your forum name to your real name, we encourage that. (But it's not required.)
Rex Krueger
2021-03-14 12:20:18 +0000 UTCI wanted to tint the maple, but I just didnt' have time. It's pretty bright.
Rex Krueger
2021-03-14 12:19:35 +0000 UTCOh, yeah. I did that, but it didn't seem super important so it didn't make the edit. You're right, though. That bevel does matter.
Rex Krueger
2021-03-14 12:18:12 +0000 UTCYou make it look so simple. Thank you for that. It always seems daunting to make a table, but now I'd be a little more inclined to try it. I was just thinking maybe in the future you could have some videos about making a simple but nice tool wall behind you, a-la-Rex style. Maybe looking at what the early craftsmen would do if they had a tool wall which they probably didn't. But then you could have all the wood work for humans tools on display too. Just a thought.
John Hiemstra
2021-03-14 00:41:29 +0000 UTCThat table looks beautiful. The figure on the maple a show stopper. At the end of the video I had to look twice to see if you chamfered the outside corners of the legs. Then I realized that the light reflecting off the grain of the two pieces the make up the leg blanks highlighted the different grain directions in the finished legs. Nice detail. Thanks for sharing this project. Also enjoy the short multipart videos.
Matt Evans-Koch
2021-03-13 23:39:35 +0000 UTCA lovely table Rex I really want to try building a small version to sit between my couch and chair, thankyou for the inspiration
Wayne
2021-03-13 21:57:38 +0000 UTCfoot - to prevent splintering when dragging across the floor. (not that I would expect a lot of movement with an end table)
Rick Prosser
2021-03-13 20:40:29 +0000 UTCHey, Nic! Thanks for the invite, my friend, but I’m already a regular on there and you and I have talked quite a bit. Sean O’Neill and Paterdux5173 are one and the same, bud!
Sean O'Neill
2021-03-13 20:06:28 +0000 UTCHey Sean, Swing by the forum and show off what you're working on! We have a really good community of brand new to old timer woodworkers there that you can bounce ideas off of and ask questions. We would love to be a part of your journey, and offer some encouragement! rexkrueger.discourse.group
Nic Beurskens
2021-03-13 20:00:48 +0000 UTCA great video, as always. I think I would have put a layer or two of a light amber down first to mellow out the "brightness" of the maple and finished it with clear, but that's me. Regardless, it came out great.
Michael Bennett
2021-03-13 18:57:50 +0000 UTCYou're very welcome! Good luck with all your projects!
Rex Krueger
2021-03-13 18:55:27 +0000 UTCThe one thing about western red cedar is that it is frangible. It breaks easily along the long grain. Hence its use in shakes. You would have to plan your cuts and pressure points accordingly.
William Allen
2021-03-13 17:58:20 +0000 UTCRex, I greatly enjoyed both of these videos. I learned a lot that will help me finish a table I was working on months ago for my shop, but haven’t yet finished. Part of that was I got down on myself for messing a few things up on it and want sure how to fix them, plus I didn’t have a decent bench to work on-I’m solving that issue now-and not really being confident in doing mortise and tenons. I used dowels and holes fir the leg/apron joinery, but that’s actually harder because the holes all have to line up. Some other details like squaring the tops of the aprons and the buttons are things I will employ once the Roubo is done and I decide to revisit my table. Thank you again for these vids!
Sean O'Neill
2021-03-13 17:08:24 +0000 UTCI think that would be fine, but you wouldn't want to make the shelf until the table is mostly done. My legs are not perfect nor perfectly parallel, so you'd want to make the shelf to suit the actual legs, not what you planned.
Rex Krueger
2021-03-13 17:03:45 +0000 UTCI hold mine pretty close to the head. It's a bit heavy.
Rex Krueger
2021-03-13 17:02:31 +0000 UTCIf it's got a big mouth, then it's not alone in my shop!
Rex Krueger
2021-03-13 17:01:57 +0000 UTCFor sure the drawer is the next step. I totally made this one as practice for a more complex one down the road.
Rex Krueger
2021-03-13 17:01:33 +0000 UTCThanks! Ive generally avoided multi-part videos, but I might do more.
Rex Krueger
2021-03-13 17:00:51 +0000 UTCI've read a book about it. I like it, but it's pretty far away from what i usually do.
Rex Krueger
2021-03-13 17:00:29 +0000 UTCYou mean at the foot, or where they meet the top?
Rex Krueger
2021-03-13 17:00:05 +0000 UTCIt's funny how much you can leave until "later".
Rex Krueger
2021-03-13 16:59:43 +0000 UTCI love this table and I think I'm going to make one. What do you think about adding a shelf underneath? I'm afraid of it looking to bulky or taking away from the tapered legs
Colin McKenna
2021-03-13 16:25:32 +0000 UTCLove the figure in that maple, tres nice eh. Gotta love the leg vise, it's the only vise I occasionally put on my bench (and then take off again). Top buttons eh? I will use them on the table I'm building now. Simple, elegant, can't go wrong. One comment on the hatchet, If people are having difficultly controlling the axe, try chocking up on the handle. Bearded axes allow you to get your hand right up to the head and behind the beard for very precise control. I love axes for wood work. I have three for different jobs, but the single bevel bearded axe is the clear winner, it will do every job. That table is just simple, elegant and truly beautiful.
William Allen
2021-03-13 16:06:53 +0000 UTCCome on, Rex, there's no need to call your planes names. Sure, it talks a lot, but there's no need to call it a big mouth.
Chris Ottenberg
2021-03-13 15:34:11 +0000 UTCGreat table - reminds me of my first pieces of furniture. It's so amazing to actually do something like this with your own hands! A thought for a "Pt 3" video - maybe talk about how to make one with a drawer? Regardless, great pair of videos.
Evan Van Dyke
2021-03-13 15:30:35 +0000 UTCI really like this format of shorter videos in a sequence. A whole world of furniture project opens up! I can't wait to see what comes next.
O A
2021-03-13 14:51:28 +0000 UTCBeautiful final product. Have you heard of kumiko? I started with simple stuff but the accuracy is mind boggling. I seem to not be able to cut a straight perpendicular cut to save my life...
Thomas Danaher
2021-03-13 14:48:54 +0000 UTCNice job, and looks pretty simple and easy. The only thing I would add is a bevel on the ends of the legs.
Rick Prosser
2021-03-13 14:43:47 +0000 UTCLove this project and your comments about not sweating the final details until later. I am making a bookcase and am adding the final design and trim elements as I go along. I was really nervous about doing that but it's coming out nicely.
Hal Songer
2021-03-13 14:31:39 +0000 UTC"Satisfying." I like that.
Rex Krueger
2021-03-13 14:28:20 +0000 UTCI'm glad you think so!
Rex Krueger
2021-03-13 14:28:08 +0000 UTCYou totally can build it....and I hope you do!
Rex Krueger
2021-03-13 14:28:00 +0000 UTCThis is a great project, can’t wait to build it once my EJB and vises are finished. I’m learning more about wood than ever before by using only hand tools. Very satisfying. Thank you Rex!
Pete seddon
2021-03-13 14:08:18 +0000 UTCThat looks really nice Rex. Simple but elegant.
Robert A Carbo
2021-03-13 13:52:25 +0000 UTCNice table that I could build. Thank you Rex.
Jerry Kingzett
2021-03-13 13:29:39 +0000 UTCThanks! It's surprisingly easy to make the table look nice once you have the basic structure.
Rex Krueger
2021-03-13 12:58:53 +0000 UTCI'm glad you liked it!
Rex Krueger
2021-03-13 12:58:19 +0000 UTCI hope you do!
Rex Krueger
2021-03-13 12:56:56 +0000 UTCThanks! I don't like to make long videos.
Rex Krueger
2021-03-13 12:56:42 +0000 UTCIt's really not very hard if you take it in steps. Just do one thing at a time and focus on getting each part right. I actually made 5 legs so I'd have an extra to practice on.
Rex Krueger
2021-03-13 12:56:25 +0000 UTCThis came out very nice. Love the way you showed the details transforming the raw "completed" table into a "finished" table that's beautiful.
Bill Smithem
2021-03-13 12:43:15 +0000 UTCJust finished the video after walking the dog. Great stuff and technic for building it. Keep it up and look forward to your next builds. It’s 830am when I got the ‘ding’ a new video is in.
Jason Ransom
2021-03-13 12:27:40 +0000 UTCTable looks great Rex! Can’t wait to give it a shot!
Marty Ford
2021-03-13 12:27:18 +0000 UTCExcellent. I loved how you covered all of the details, including mistakes, but kept it relatively short. It is a beautiful piece. Great level of project too.
Robert Bullock
2021-03-13 12:27:16 +0000 UTCI don't have enough experience with cedar (almost none), so I can't say, but tables like this were often made from pine, so I don't see why not.
Rex Krueger
2021-03-13 12:25:41 +0000 UTCI like this table, it looks complex but the way you described it and the processes you used make it sound like anyone can do it. I hope to try it out once I refine my tenon and mortise skills.
Jacob Downing
2021-03-13 12:24:29 +0000 UTCLooking forward to trying this one out. By the way, do you think this project would work well in Western Red Cedar? I've recently taken a real liking to this wood. By the way, literally stayed up past 11pm (local time here) waiting for this video to drop!
Martin Hartley
2021-03-13 12:19:25 +0000 UTC
