Beech Waney Live Edge Slab Coffee Table - Table Top (part 1 of 2)
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2018
- In this video I flatten, re-shape and finish a beautiful waney edge slab of beech hardwood for a coffee table that I'm making.
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That piece looks fantastic Keith :) A day and a half is more than worth sacrificing for what will be a beautiful table that you will enjoy for years :) Waiting for part two :)
Great job! It's good to see a UA-camr using tools everyone could one and not only those with a big shop.
A lot of people seem to be saying you should have made a router sled here. Yes, it would have been easier, quicker and gives a great result but, the points you make in the video explain it. That you persisted with the power planer and hand plain shows you have what it takes to be a good craftsman. There are things we'd all do differently and professional touches you'll pick up but, I love that you share your journey, don't hide mistakes and explain your process. Top man.
Bisch Basch Bosch a professional would have done the more efficient and accurate way.
You were not joking about the time. Thanks for all the info!!
lovely slab of wood; it makes a beautiful table top. Looking forward to seeing the legs go on. Best wishes
Once again good video my friend. Huge patience to work the wood. Looking forward to the rest! Thanks Keith!
Thanks Henry!
Great video. I think the power planer was a good choice. I'm only adding this comment to suggest how to tackle the task if all you had was a hand plane. A scrub plane can cut through material very quickly as well. Any plane can be converted to a scrub plane by canbering the blade. I keep a second blade handy that i can easily switch. If you work across the grain or at 45 degree angles to it the material will come of fast. At the end of the process you'll be left with a relatively flat surface that has grooves left by the cambered blade. Easy enough to smooth those out with a smoothing plane or that second straight blade. Not sure if this comment is useful to anyone, but hope it is.
Thank you - great idea and one I didn’t think of while I was working on it. Maybe I’ll pick up another secondhand Stanley or Record and convert it some time. Might make a good video!
I appreciate the amount of elbow grease that took. A router would have been a lot quicker. Well done. 😀
Definitely should have made a router jig,even if you had to disassemble it afterwards, it would have been so much faster
Great job. I like beech, I think it is an underrated wood and doesn't get the respect it deserves. Waiting to see what you do for legs. Thanks
Nice bit of work. I’m looking forward to part 2. Watch those makita batteries, they don’t like being charged when hot, they can fake a duff cell and become unchargable. I lost one chopping loads of thick oak with the circular saw. Love your videos, thank you
Hi Keith,just watched the Beech Waney Live Slab Coffee Table part 1 again,and you really did have to do a lot of work to get it flat,but you stuck at it it and it turned out very nice,I'm sure its going to be a beautiful piece of furniture anyone would be proud to have in their home,I'm looking forward to the finished article very much,take care and stay healthy and happy.
I have to take my hat off to you for getting this flat using planers. I am far too lazy for that, I would have bought a wide flat router bit and used a simple shop made slot jig. The jig is simple to make and can be deconstructed easily after use. What you done requires much more time, patience and and skill.
Great job! And a million thumbs up for your patience to get the wood surface so straight. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful! Love watching the process.
Hooray! Another good reason to look forward to Fridays
A gorgeous piece of wood. What a great job!
Wow Keith! What a gorgeous piece of wood... stunning.
lovely piece of wood. I bet this table will sell very quickly. Keep up the videos :)
So much work!
Beautiful Keith, simply simply lovely.😉
Looking good Keith!
Super job. I enjoyed watching that. Thank you.
The wood looks great! Awesome job again! can't wait for part 2. :)
Another great video looks well mate keep up the good work
awesome! turned out really nice, cant wait to see you finish this up with a nice frame 👍
Beautiful piece of wood
a very nice piece of wood Keith,im hoping the finished piece of furniture is going to be well worth the effort you have put in to the project so far,im looking forward to the next part and hoping you have a really good design for the legs,don't forget to take care.
Looking good already Keith !
thank you so much for great instructiv videos keep them coming
Good stuff...looking forward to part 2!
Thats gonna make an awesome table. Cant wait to see the end result
lovely job
Beautiful!
Great work so far my friend, I bet a brought a few beads of sweat....lovely wood and can’t wait for part 2.. 👍🏼😊
Great video.. Was nice to see a bit of classic timelaps (i only say that as i seem to be the only person to use it of late ha ha ha) the finish table is going to look great when its done.. I bet it smells fantastic! Nice one
Great video as always!
Nice top good job
I have taken to watching your videos in half speed so they don't end as quick, only thing is, you sound positively ankled. Looking forward to part 2. Whoop!
Ankled. .. haha I'm going to use that!
A lot hard work paid of Keith
Great vid dude. Lots of patience.
Nice job Keith that was a lot of work .
Thanks Michael
Great job (as usual)
Nice job flattening that piece. It should make a very nice coffee table. Perhaps we'll see a matching end table with the other piece?
Possibly if I find somewhere to put one :-)
hey, matching pieces sell well! good job -- looking forward to part 2!
A good scrub blade in your hand plane and it would be even faster than the power plane :)
Great video though, I like those big slabs :)
Can't wait to see the finished table :)
I did this once and took the 'build a router sled' route........Think its definitely the way to go...but if you cant store the jig i understand. Mine has been hung on the wall ever since.....but im glad i have it for future if needed.
we i finnaly watched all youre videos =p, love youre work keith! just the simplicity of youre work is what inspires me, to go out in the shop! thanks bud for the great work u do ! cheers!
Thank you!
I personally would have gone the router route (wow that sounds weird), but I get your reticence given that the bit required is expensive and I've not been here long enough to know if you've got a 1/2" router. On the next piece, try using some shims on the underside so you don't have to remove quite so much stock - it's beautiful wood and it would be great to keep as much of it as possible! Well done, and I'm looking forward to part 2 now
Nice project! But a router sled really doesn't take up as much space as you might think. You just need something in which the router can slide snugly in - the walls don't have to be very high. I've planed down my first slab a few months ago with a router sled made from MDF, with a (cheapish) 25mm bit, on a flat table. I used two straight 2x4's as supports, which I levelled to each other. The 2x4's (or wider if you need it) can be used for other projects, so you don't have to store those. All in all it took me about 4 hours to plane down a 270cm twisted slab on both sides - setup included... sanding not included ;-) (You do need some horsepower though. A trim router won't do.)
Might've taken a day and a half but it was completely worth it, looks great Keith, cant wait to see it finished.
Cheers Clint
I agree, check out router milling jigs 😊
Yes! Beech.... so called "rotbuche" in germany (red-beech) ....
Nice Work as always...... 😉
Freakin awesome wood!!! I love beechwood, it's by far my favorite hardwood. I recently made a cutting board out of it and Maplewood.
It’s very nice. I think sapele is my favourite though... I use it to make the frame for this table
Rag 'n' Bone Brown
I have not had the pleasure of working with sapele. If I do I might very well change my mind! LOL
I'll be honest... I've been waiting for you to attempt a live edge project...Sounds like such a rewarding project for you...That wood looks incredibly luscious! I bet you can't help running your hands across it and having a big Cheshire cat grin on your face?...Anyway, well done! Most on here appreciate your effort ...I look forward to part 2...
Thanks. Haha, you may be right !
Hey Keith maybe this is just me being novice wood worker but would it not have been easier to cut the board in half lengthwise to then be able to put it through the thicknesser then glue it back together. Another thing I've found with the few live edge slabs ave done is wire wheels that attach to drill work really well for clearing up the live edge there about £3 from Toolstation for pack 3 they work quite well. 👍🏴
That beech looks great, well done. If you get any more of them, a router sled and large diameter bit are well worth sorting. The time spent making a sled will be paid back very fast when surfacing slabs. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to the second installment.
o bez I believe you in making the router sled. It for sure pays off in time. But Keith also mentioned the problem that he hasn't where to store it.
If you know a way (or link) how to make a router sled what can easily be build up and taken apart many people would really appreciate that.
My sled is just a 1200mm strip of laminate flooring with a 70 x 20 hardwood batton screwed to each edge. The router is fixed in the middle of the length ( it does not slide within in the sled).
The slab is wedged so it does not rock, on to a piece of flat sheet material again with two hardwood runners screwed either side of the slab. I make these runners about 5mm deeper than the thickest past of the slab.
The sled then just rides along these runners as if the router has a huge base.
I just use it outside on a workmate as its very messy and when im done unscrew the components for storage. Its not very sophisticated but it works well.
Hope that all made sense, sorry im useless at explaining stuff.
That sounds good! I clicked at your name but you do seem to have a You Tube channel. Do you have a web-site? I'd love to see some pictures of it.
Nice piece of wood and you did it justice. What about the other one - thought about resin pouring? (Manor Wood)?
Damn, there's that much oil in the slab that America will invade your house next week.
🤣
r.b.b. you doing a fine job 8/10 bob in derby
Thanks Bob
What about ripping into 3 or so planks, then surface and thicken and rejoin?
sweet
Great job. I did the same with my belt sander and 24 grit paper. Took around 3 hours, but I suspect your slab was more twisted.
I didn’t even know 24 grit existed... wow, wouldn’t want to graze me knees on that!
Rag 'n' Bone Brown haha it’s like a saw. I just did a quick search on amazon uk, and there are 24 grit belts available on your side of the pond.
Had to chuckle about your router sled comment being to much hassle, not long after saying it took like a day to plane it 😀
No-Ones Home he also said he had nowhere to store it.......
Should have used your nicely restored spokeshaves to soften the edges :)
You should have used the other side of the wood as the top. Because the edges angle off it. Just made more sense.
NIce job mate
I have a question that is doing my heading
Does beech has to be steamed/cooked to build furniture or it just for a color
Can one build with normal beech
Have your slabs been cooked/steamed
Tanks
What finish do you suggest for an outside, high volume, bar.. And there will be stickers, paint, coins, bottle tops. Epoxy is not good for outdoor, but im stuck on what to use. HELP!!!!!
Scrub planes are incredibly fast. You owe it to yourself to try them out. They are amazing for this sort of thing.
Nice job Keith, lovely how it turned out. Are you going to Maker fair in may at NEC ?
Thanks Dave. I don’t think so, but not sure yet
Hi Keith. Great work and dedication there my friend. I assume you didn't think you would be planing for a day and a half before you started. I was wondering if you would go the same route again if you did a second one or maybe make a router sled. You mentioned issues storing one, aren't they basically disposable? Made of MDF or chipboard?
I tend to always think of a router as a last option for everything to be honest, it’s not a tool I enjoy using particularly. If I were to do it again I might try it though just because it would be fun to try it a different eay
Great video.... but I don't think I would attempt this one. A lot of work.
Nice work and what a beaut piece of wood, this is not a criticism but just putting out there, would you not have been better wiping it over with some poly varnish, I only say this as the wind was up when you applied the spray lacquer and can only assume that you ost more than you got on the slab. Nice work so far!
Thanks! Wipe on poly is very expensive and I just tend to use whatever I have in the shop
Does using the large quantity of boiled like seed oil used cause an increase in the moisture content? If so does that increase the risk of wood movement and cracking as it re-dries?
I have no idea... I’d be interested to know too!
Most use a router and sled for this task. I think the planer is a much better option. I just see killing one's router using it in that way on such a scale. Depending on your leg designs you can adjust their length and focus more on a flat top.
You're dumb. One, most people don't have a huge 20" planer. Two, a planer will not flatten a slab like that- the router joints it by referencing the side supports it rides on.
You're dumb as you don't understand that most antique tables were flattened using a hand plane. You know the non-power version of what he used here. You didn't read as no one said anything about using a 20" thickness planer. So yeah he's using the tool in an intended application unlike putting a huge straight but in your router that it's motor wasn't meant to run on this scale unless you have a very heavy duty router which most home shops don't.
You can flatten slabs with a trim router and a 1/2" bit easily! Clearly you are just scared of power tools.
Clearly I'm not in the least. But I value my tools not to use them in such an irresponsible manor where I'll have to replace them constantly.
Also a power hand planer takes a 3 1/2 inch wide area with each pass. but you think a trim router and a 1/2 inch bit is better? Yeah I'll see you in a few months and several burned up bits and routers later. I'll use the same tools as this video with faster and better results every time!
I always thought, varnish on top of oil isnt that a good idea. Does it work out well?
Boiled linseed oil soaks in to the wood so it doesn’t form a seal, therefore varnish over the top works fine. Works well for me. May not work so well with Danish oil though
Nice slabs. Did you find them as part of your walk/wood scavenging excursions?
No, I was lucky enough to hear of a redundant wood store that needed to be cleared so I took as much as I could
Rag 'n' Bone Brown win.
Way to work hard and not smart Keith. Woukd have taken you a lot less time to route it. But hats off to persistence and dedication to accuracy.
off topic but what radio station do u listen too
great video
Any old crap usually! Just find it nice to have something on in the background. Tend to listen to radio 6 or capital xtra
ahh right oi listen to smooth north east
I think the router sled would have been more fun lol
When is the next video please
Videos every Friday 5pm
Rag 'n' Bone Brown ok and can I ask you a question I would like to know the measurements of the Jewellery Box you made out of pallet wood a while back for your girlfriend
I notice in some of your videos you don't wear safety glasses, like in this one when your planning that slab..... tut tut!! lol
My 3 year old thought it was funny when you looked down the slab with the two strait edges.
Peekaboo!
Hi Keith. In my opinion you pick wrong tool for this job. If I would like to flatten such a big and nice piece of wood I would use a router. I rather use Stanley no 8 hand planer than electric planer
That’s fine each to their own
If you are that dedicated and spend 6 hours flattening the board, why not just use the routuer thrick where you run a router along two flat boards and all over the wood?
Sorry, I didn't realise you mentioned it in your video.
you could have flattened it with a router jig
Explained in the video!
Yes I saw almost as soon as I'd posted. A sled would have been quick and easy to make and it would have taken you hours less to get it flat.
doobedoobedo1 Alternatively he could have bought a £20,000 thicknesser that is about as big as his shed and just popped it through - simples.
A router flattening jig can be made in 15 minutes with some scrap ply or MDF.
But he has no need to store it. Make it, use it and burn it. Low cost low effort job done quickly and efficiently