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About the orientation of the huge floating tenon... Yes, it does matter. If it's a few inches then okay, the movement of the wood with changes in humidity won't be great enough to split a joint. But you could easily have 1/8" of movement in that joint. You could have used a smaller tenon centered in that spot, and also just turned the tenon 90 degrees so that it lines up with both sections that you're joining. A foot long tenon is a bit silly, but a foot long tenon in the wrong orientation is a ruined joint waiting to explode.
It's nice to see someone show their mistakes and "break the third wall" when you talk about you reading the comments. To see something genuine like this is what makes me sub and watch all new videos. I have the same experience when trying a new project. You make mistakes, you move along and learn something on the way. Keep up the good work 👍
you're probably going to hear this from a lot of people, but one of the beautiful things about floating tenons is that you don't have to glue both sides at the same time - you can glue the tenon in on one side, and come back later
I love your concept of a small kitchen in Canada. We live in the UK in a five bedroom terraced house that is spread over 3 floors. The kitchen is in an extension and while it is much bigger that the original kitchen from the 1930's, there is no shot we could put a table and four chairs in our kitchen.
Amazing table and kept simple fits the coffee vibe perfectly. Congrats on the new shop/studio. I can't wait to see what projects come out of it. Your skills as a craftsman are definitely improving and can tell you take a lot of pride in your work
Great video and love the whole story and build up. I really liked the look on her face when you mom said that she really was thirsty for a coffee now! Thanks for sharing!
They do make really long router bits, I have some for my door lock router from the 50s. Made for those square lock inserts. I bought some old growth from a 100 year old flour mill they tore down in Nanaimo. Made stairs out of mine and haven’t checked or moved in over 10 years. My wife will not notice something new for days.
Your studio is awesome. Your creative mind is so amazing. You and your wife are a breath of fresh air. Congratulations. I'm glad she loves your surprise.
To help speed up the finish spray process what I do is use a pop up tent that has 4 sides enclosed on it, takes 1-2 minutes only to set up and it collapses down. I got mine on Amazon for around $80. Just have to throw something on the floor and you’re good to go. Only down side is it’s not massive I have a 10x10 tent and it fits just about everything I finish.
This table definitely gives some vintage vibes - and that's great 👌 Your new workshop looks amazing, but what really caught my attention was this great workbench. I think you should make another video on how you built it 😉
Wire wheel finish really drive home the rustic look ,I found when finishing some rush and get the bubbles due to heavy coats especially with lacquer the liquid settles in the valleys and bubble bubble but you nailed it she's happy and new skill unlocked 👏
First time I arrived right when the video was uploaded! What a nice woodwork, a simple and effective design with a lot of personality! Morley, in a few weeks I went crazy with your videos, the way you explain what you are doing like a tale, the video edition and your vibe!! I look forward to seeing more videos in that epic new studio! Greetings from Argentina!
Mate I really like the way this came out the only change I might've made would have been to slightly replicate the angle of the legs on the ends of the top beam so it doesn't look so chunky and square but that's just personal preference. Loving the new studio too. Oh and was Emma invited to the cocktail party I need to know this lol
15:25 You should make the table move up and down so you can move the table so its almost flush with the floor and you can get builds off there easier. Just an idea!
I love the way you shoot your videos. I hope to make videos as good as yours someday too. You asked if the grain direction of the floating tenon makes a difference, and in theory, it does. As you mentioned earlier, the grain of the wood is held together with lignin, which means the strength of your floating tenon is the strength of the lignin holding the fibers together. Traditionally, you make the tenon along the grain so you can rely on the wood's full strength. That being said, this probably won’t be a problem with this table since there is so much space for the glue.
Your mom retired so here's an interior design tip: the warm color, grain texture and the large, rectangular shape of the coffee table will go great with one of your 3D printed spiral vases - the clean cream white, curvature of the lines, the sharpness of where they stick out and the bulby shape of the vase + and adding some (slightly dark) green (plant) on there will go great together
About the grain direction, I feel like it's not much about the cross grain glue up, rather than the direction of forces the floating tenons are resisting. The floating tenons who are going inside the top are actually side grains opposed to the direction of force that they should be resisting (twisting the top sideways in this case). Theoretically that should be a weak point, but since you made them so thicc you'll probably be okay 😅
Hey, Morley! I heard you said you read 99% of comment so I just wanted to say I love the 3D printing videos! You encouraged me to bye one myself! I bought the Bambu lab a1 mini and it is shipping and will arrive soon. That you for making such good videos!
Hey Morley, just wanted to say Eden is an absolute keeper-and so are you! Wishing you both all the best. Why not treat her to her favorite meal again? If I had someone like her, I wouldn’t hesitate to do it all over again! 😄By the way, have you seen the 3D printing project 'Gridfinity'? I'm currently printing it for myself, and it's so much fun designing the inlays. Thanks for all the inspiration!
Maybe this is just my perfectionist mind, but I think it's time for a slightly shorter coffee machine, one that doesn't overhang the table. That table certainly looks like it will outlive us all!
Hey man, great videos, love them. However, can you please, use a push stick? One mistake and you lose multiple fingers. I know you could probably 3D print a replacement, but I don't think it will be as good as the original. Cheers!
My thoughts on the grain orientation on the mortise and tenons are: who gives a shit? That joint is already gonna withstand 500x the force that the table is ever gonna receive, who cares if it's slightly stronger with the grain one way vs the other?
Great video again, and a really cool table! I'm curious though Morley... If you would have sold this table, for how much do you think it would have sold?
You could've hung the table the long way off the edge while supporting one side and gently lowered it down. The table easily looks long enough to touch the floor while the other end is supported by the benchtop edge.
On the cross-grain tenon I would be worried about how wide it is… feels closer to a breadboard table end situation than a traditional tenon. But hey, it is in your house, so you can try it out and I’m sure you know someone who can fix it if it cracks 😅
Because you said you read the comments, ill leave this here; get yourself a cup and a brush to apply the glue. Even a little paint roller where it works, it makes the application eay faster and cleaner. also, put glue on both surfaces. The bond is better and it actually buys you more time in a way. It keeps the skim on the glue from not bonding to the mating piece
I feel like it would have made more sense to have rotated the blocks 90 degrees cuz the way the grain is laid right now would be like pulling apart a deck of cards but if you rotate the deck and try to rip it in half its very hard to do.
@MorleyKert yeah I agree unless you're really trying those ain't going nowhere. It's such hard wood it probably is stronger in that orientation than pine or something turned the other way anyway
isn't wood moving across the grain? so worst that could happen is that your tenon swells and creates a little gap between tabletop and legs i guess. being as rustic as the table is that shouldn't ruin the looks though :)
I'm really bad at making stuff not sound mean but this is all intended to be helpful advice.: It's very easy to tell that your trying extremely hard and trying to use all the techniques to make good UA-cam videos and it's very obvious to the average viewer. I'm not saying your videos are bad at all in fact I enjoy them very much but you could try less hard and just make your videos feel more natural. You don't need as much music or as much scripting, take a page out of Blacktail Studio or Foureyes Furniture and include less music and more natural feel. Also stop talking about mortise and tenon joints like they are some sort of ancient magical joint. When you talk about an extremely simple mortise and tenon joint like it's some sort of higher level woodworking technique it is extremely obvious to any actual traditional or highly skilled woodworker. Today unknowledgeable and easily fooled people view dovetail joints as "the cream of the crop" or as some sort of extremely high end joint used in only the finest furniture. To a real traditional woodworker and in traditional woodworking dovetails are simply viewed as nothing but a structural joint and they have no sort of craftsmanship value and in fact were often intentionally hidden because dovetails were not viewed as special. What I'm trying to say is that I advise against talking about the simple mortise and tenon joint like it's it some sort of fine traditional joint used in fine woodworking when in fact even a joint such as the dovetail is not actually viewed specially at all. There's a reason the mortise and tenon is referred to as the butter and bread of woodworking. There's nothing special about a mortise and tenon joint. Trying to impress a real traditional woodworker with a mortise and tenon joint would be like trying to impress an extremely experienced power tool woodworker by making a cut on a 2x4 with a miter saw. Joinery is simply a part of real woodworking and should be viewed as nothing more than that.
I’m familiar with the disappointing gift reaction. I bought my wife a car as a Christmas gift (sitting in the driveway Christmas morning with a giant bow on it) and i got her to look outside and she’s like “woowww. 😐” After the fact she actually was quite thrilled and loved the car, but in the moment it was pretty anti-climactic 😂
Do you happen to know the moisture level of the beam? Im working with a pine beam thats at about 20% moisture, but I'm worried its going to move at the joints. Im very very new to wood working so unsure if I should wait for it to dry more
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About the orientation of the huge floating tenon... Yes, it does matter. If it's a few inches then okay, the movement of the wood with changes in humidity won't be great enough to split a joint. But you could easily have 1/8" of movement in that joint.
You could have used a smaller tenon centered in that spot, and also just turned the tenon 90 degrees so that it lines up with both sections that you're joining. A foot long tenon is a bit silly, but a foot long tenon in the wrong orientation is a ruined joint waiting to explode.
These sloppy tenons not going to explode, but the glu is so gonna fail over time. So be careful when u move this furniture in the future
Ahhh so stoked to see how the table came together! Lovely work. And thanks for featuring my butt so prominently 😂
Haha thanks for the help, man!
It's nice to see someone show their mistakes and "break the third wall" when you talk about you reading the comments.
To see something genuine like this is what makes me sub and watch all new videos.
I have the same experience when trying a new project. You make mistakes, you move along and learn something on the way.
Keep up the good work 👍
Eden spelt out LOL rather than just laughing? And Morley called something “clutch”? FML I’m old.😂
Whaaat, that studio looks amazing. Can't wait to see what you're going to make next!
you're probably going to hear this from a lot of people, but one of the beautiful things about floating tenons is that you don't have to glue both sides at the same time - you can glue the tenon in on one side, and come back later
lol fantastic point.
@@MorleyKert thanks!
I love your concept of a small kitchen in Canada. We live in the UK in a five bedroom terraced house that is spread over 3 floors. The kitchen is in an extension and while it is much bigger that the original kitchen from the 1930's, there is no shot we could put a table and four chairs in our kitchen.
Amazing table and kept simple fits the coffee vibe perfectly. Congrats on the new shop/studio. I can't wait to see what projects come out of it. Your skills as a craftsman are definitely improving and can tell you take a lot of pride in your work
Didn't think I'd like the result when I saw how thick it was going to be, but when finished it ended up looking amazing
i love the wholesome bond between you and your wife bruh. hope yall flourish
Anyone else hear "PIVOTTT!!! PIVOTTTTTT!!!!" when they were carrying the boards down the stairs?
Congratulations on the new studio! Can't wait to see what you are able to accomplish in it. The table is beautiful.
That’s awesome! Love the studio. Love the table. Love your amazing family. Looking forward to all of the new projects
Happy to see you back in a studio making beautiful pieces!
Great video and love the whole story and build up. I really liked the look on her face when you mom said that she really was thirsty for a coffee now! Thanks for sharing!
I can just imagine how much more content and amazing creations you can do in your new studio! Kudos Morley! Congrats Eden!
They do make really long router bits, I have some for my door lock router from the 50s. Made for those square lock inserts. I bought some old growth from a 100 year old flour mill they tore down in Nanaimo. Made stairs out of mine and haven’t checked or moved in over 10 years. My wife will not notice something new for days.
Your studio is awesome. Your creative mind is so amazing. You and your wife are a breath of fresh air. Congratulations. I'm glad she loves your surprise.
What an awesome piece. The studio looks great too. Exciting times now your back making full time.
its so amazing to see you get better at your craft through the years. fire table.
Great finish, good looking table. I like it Morly, keep up the good work!
To help speed up the finish spray process what I do is use a pop up tent that has 4 sides enclosed on it, takes 1-2 minutes only to set up and it collapses down. I got mine on Amazon for around $80. Just have to throw something on the floor and you’re good to go. Only down side is it’s not massive I have a 10x10 tent and it fits just about everything I finish.
Crazy how it fit perfect and didn’t cover the plug for the coffee machine. Good work dude!
Nice work Morley! I like how you continue to learn and be better each time. It is inspiring! Super cool to see you have your own studio!
Such a wholesome video absolutly loved the coffee table how it turned out and the joy in your Family Morley.
This table definitely gives some vintage vibes - and that's great 👌 Your new workshop looks amazing, but what really caught my attention was this great workbench. I think you should make another video on how you built it 😉
You're an incredibly entertaining and talented creator. I hope you do read this and know you're appreciated!
wow the coffee table looks AMAZING
Wire wheel finish really drive home the rustic look ,I found when finishing some rush and get the bubbles due to heavy coats especially with lacquer the liquid settles in the valleys and bubble bubble but you nailed it she's happy and new skill unlocked 👏
Super cool project, man! Keep at it-you are really going somewhere!
Such a great video and the science behind the details just sounds so good!
So glad you finally have some own space to work at your projects!! You well deserved it!
its so nice when a partner appreciates a handmade gift.
You know it's a good day when Morley kert uploads
First time I arrived right when the video was uploaded! What a nice woodwork, a simple and effective design with a lot of personality! Morley, in a few weeks I went crazy with your videos, the way you explain what you are doing like a tale, the video edition and your vibe!! I look forward to seeing more videos in that epic new studio! Greetings from Argentina!
You should make a handmade loft in your studio next! For storage or decor
since you read your comments I just wanna say Love the woodworking content keep it up!
I'm really happy for your new lab man! Nice work as always!
Thank you! I'm stoked :)
Mate I really like the way this came out the only change I might've made would have been to slightly replicate the angle of the legs on the ends of the top beam so it doesn't look so chunky and square but that's just personal preference. Loving the new studio too. Oh and was Emma invited to the cocktail party I need to know this lol
congratulations to your mom on retiring!
Yooo I was waiting for another vid drop. W table W vid man always enjoy seeing your designs
Congrats on your new Studio/Shop!!!
15:25 You should make the table move up and down so you can move the table so its almost flush with the floor and you can get builds off there easier. Just an idea!
I love the way you shoot your videos. I hope to make videos as good as yours someday too. You asked if the grain direction of the floating tenon makes a difference, and in theory, it does. As you mentioned earlier, the grain of the wood is held together with lignin, which means the strength of your floating tenon is the strength of the lignin holding the fibers together. Traditionally, you make the tenon along the grain so you can rely on the wood's full strength. That being said, this probably won’t be a problem with this table since there is so much space for the glue.
what a simple, amazing design! Good work!
I don't even know ABC of wood working, neither do I plan on doing in near future. But I just love watching your videos❤
I am so excited for this new studio!!!
Watching you get distracted while you were in the middle of a glue-up gave me so much anxiety 😅
Love your videos ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
You just gained a subscriber love this video gonna watch another one
cant wait for the svo8
Your mom retired so here's an interior design tip: the warm color, grain texture and the large, rectangular shape of the coffee table will go great with one of your 3D printed spiral vases - the clean cream white, curvature of the lines, the sharpness of where they stick out and the bulby shape of the vase + and adding some (slightly dark) green (plant) on there will go great together
that table looks like it can survive anything, great work!
About the grain direction, I feel like it's not much about the cross grain glue up, rather than the direction of forces the floating tenons are resisting. The floating tenons who are going inside the top are actually side grains opposed to the direction of force that they should be resisting (twisting the top sideways in this case). Theoretically that should be a weak point, but since you made them so thicc you'll probably be okay 😅
Been waiting for another video!
I found VHS based on your past videos and very happy that I joined. Looking forward to visit your studio some day.
that's awesome to hear!
Thank you so much for making yet another great video
All I can hear is Jenna going "Go Morley, go Morley, go Morley!" like she does for Nick as you built this entire table.
Hey, Morley! I heard you said you read 99% of comment so I just wanted to say I love the 3D printing videos! You encouraged me to bye one myself! I bought the Bambu lab a1 mini and it is shipping and will arrive soon. That you for making such good videos!
Thank you! New 3D printing video coming soon :)
You really improved your craftsmanship and that new studio looks awesome!
She's gonna hit her shins every morning on that lower beam though... :P
Thanks! Haha been a week and no shin hits yet 🤷♂️
@@MorleyKert Then I have to apologize for my early judgement. Keep it up!
Hey Morley, just wanted to say Eden is an absolute keeper-and so are you! Wishing you both all the best. Why not treat her to her favorite meal again? If I had someone like her, I wouldn’t hesitate to do it all over again! 😄By the way, have you seen the 3D printing project 'Gridfinity'? I'm currently printing it for myself, and it's so much fun designing the inlays. Thanks for all the inspiration!
came out really cool!
Thanks man!
I love all your content man, keep up the wonderful work
I'm missing the soundtrack for sanding. Still great videos. Thank you!
It would be cool to do one of the catch it make it videos. were you catch a fish and then make that fish out of wood
Maybe this is just my perfectionist mind, but I think it's time for a slightly shorter coffee machine, one that doesn't overhang the table. That table certainly looks like it will outlive us all!
Hey man, great videos, love them. However, can you please, use a push stick? One mistake and you lose multiple fingers. I know you could probably 3D print a replacement, but I don't think it will be as good as the original. Cheers!
Romance is not dead!
“Babe, hurry, Morley has uploaded again”
🔥
One of my favorite channels!
Good job, I commented on the last video to make a table for her with that wood. Glad I was able to contribute a brick to your sack of bricks.
Always looking forward to your videos :)
You have the best wife
not the coffee maker hanging off the edge 😭 nice table though
Great video and table. Mahalo for sharing! ❤
Nice work man 🎉
Purple fingernails are badges of honour. Even though they hurt. A lot. Btw, the table turned out awesome!
My thoughts on the grain orientation on the mortise and tenons are: who gives a shit? That joint is already gonna withstand 500x the force that the table is ever gonna receive, who cares if it's slightly stronger with the grain one way vs the other?
I love your videos so much! I recently got a 3d printer and you've been super inspiring to me. your best, great video.
Omg thanks for the heart!
FINALLY a video without a thumbnail of the creator smiling wildly into the camera! That shit is getting so old (and reminds me of Mr. Beast)
Damn with those kinds of beams I was hoping to see it used for more…load bearing purposes. Oh well, guess that’s just the engineer in me 😅
Great video again, and a really cool table! I'm curious though Morley... If you would have sold this table, for how much do you think it would have sold?
Thanks! Not sure... couple thousand? Curious what others have to say in this thread 👇🏼
Youre a great guy Morley
You could've hung the table the long way off the edge while supporting one side and gently lowered it down. The table easily looks long enough to touch the floor while the other end is supported by the benchtop edge.
Good idea!
On the cross-grain tenon I would be worried about how wide it is… feels closer to a breadboard table end situation than a traditional tenon.
But hey, it is in your house, so you can try it out and I’m sure you know someone who can fix it if it cracks 😅
Because you said you read the comments, ill leave this here; get yourself a cup and a brush to apply the glue. Even a little paint roller where it works, it makes the application eay faster and cleaner. also, put glue on both surfaces. The bond is better and it actually buys you more time in a way. It keeps the skim on the glue from not bonding to the mating piece
Great tip, I don’t know why I never do that!
That sucker looks HEAVY!
Great energy 💪💯
I feel like it would have made more sense to have rotated the blocks 90 degrees cuz the way the grain is laid right now would be like pulling apart a deck of cards but if you rotate the deck and try to rip it in half its very hard to do.
In terms of optimal strength, I think you're right, but it's hard to imagine a loading scenario where these joints would actually fail like that.
@MorleyKert yeah I agree unless you're really trying those ain't going nowhere. It's such hard wood it probably is stronger in that orientation than pine or something turned the other way anyway
isn't wood moving across the grain? so worst that could happen is that your tenon swells and creates a little gap between tabletop and legs i guess. being as rustic as the table is that shouldn't ruin the looks though :)
Nice work, did you happen to take inspiration from blacktail studios new bench design?
Cam is a big inspiration in general, but this happened to be parallel thinking!
Say goodbye to your finger nail! Black finger for next few months lol!
I'm really bad at making stuff not sound mean but this is all intended to be helpful advice.:
It's very easy to tell that your trying extremely hard and trying to use all the techniques to make good UA-cam videos and it's very obvious to the average viewer. I'm not saying your videos are bad at all in fact I enjoy them very much but you could try less hard and just make your videos feel more natural. You don't need as much music or as much scripting, take a page out of Blacktail Studio or Foureyes Furniture and include less music and more natural feel. Also stop talking about mortise and tenon joints like they are some sort of ancient magical joint. When you talk about an extremely simple mortise and tenon joint like it's some sort of higher level woodworking technique it is extremely obvious to any actual traditional or highly skilled woodworker. Today unknowledgeable and easily fooled people view dovetail joints as "the cream of the crop" or as some sort of extremely high end joint used in only the finest furniture. To a real traditional woodworker and in traditional woodworking dovetails are simply viewed as nothing but a structural joint and they have no sort of craftsmanship value and in fact were often intentionally hidden because dovetails were not viewed as special. What I'm trying to say is that I advise against talking about the simple mortise and tenon joint like it's it some sort of fine traditional joint used in fine woodworking when in fact even a joint such as the dovetail is not actually viewed specially at all. There's a reason the mortise and tenon is referred to as the butter and bread of woodworking. There's nothing special about a mortise and tenon joint. Trying to impress a real traditional woodworker with a mortise and tenon joint would be like trying to impress an extremely experienced power tool woodworker by making a cut on a 2x4 with a miter saw. Joinery is simply a part of real woodworking and should be viewed as nothing more than that.
Poor Emily just wanted to say hi 😂
Giant table, giant beams, giant saw, good call not going with "giant wife"
I’m familiar with the disappointing gift reaction. I bought my wife a car as a Christmas gift (sitting in the driveway Christmas morning with a giant bow on it) and i got her to look outside and she’s like “woowww. 😐”
After the fact she actually was quite thrilled and loved the car, but in the moment it was pretty anti-climactic 😂
hahaha
Do you happen to know the moisture level of the beam? Im working with a pine beam thats at about 20% moisture, but I'm worried its going to move at the joints. Im very very new to wood working so unsure if I should wait for it to dry more
I love these videos
Dude this is sick first time watching and think your great
GIANT