Awesome rustic look! Although, I am actually always amazed how nice wood can look even when it's all worn out, many years old and weathered. You just put it on a saw or a planer, and it's like magic happening right in front of you. Btw, I would recommend using some kind of primer next time on metals. It's just a bit more durable that way.
I will never manage to make anything so nice with the couple of scaffolding boards I have lying around. The yellow legs are excellent, well done and as ever, thanks for sharing Keith!
I really love this. You’re very good at explaining what you’re doing and why. I genuinely look forward to seeing what you’re making next. I hope you have a great weekend. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
When allowing for wood movement you can make a hard connection in the center of the legs with two verticle screws while using the washers on the end. The center screws act as anchors keeping the table squared and centered on the legs while the wood is allowed to expand and contract through the other connections. Good job though. An amazing amount of maker channels don't account for wood movement. And the worst thing that will happen to your table is it might get a little out of square and skewed with the legs, which is easily fixed and better than cracking and warping.
I wasn't sure about the torch method Keith but it really worked well. I hope you enjoyed your vacation. California is beautiful this time of year especially during harvest.
Another easy to view vidio,certainly not over the top,and to use scaffold boards for a table is spot on,your video is well worth my 5 ☆ rating, take care and be happy
That water based poly does have a quite a sheen to it, esp as the layers build up. Knocking back every coat with wire wool does help a lot. Neat little table and the paint job stopped the 'legs' from looking too techy against the nice rustic top. Good 'n'
I love the tabletop it is gorgeous and to be honest i didnt expect the legs to be nice thinking that yellow would be too much , but i like them a lot and they much nicely with the floor . Nice job !!!!!!!
Over the past year I have found enough enough abandoned scaffold board and sleeper logs to build 30ft + of counter-height heavy-duty work bench. It looks beautiful, as i have carefully chosen each price for it's appearance. None of it has been treated in any way, yet has been sanded from coarse to fine. I love how it looks. For me, plaining the wood below a millimetre and then sanding after has only aided the natural beauty of the timber. Yet it is bare and prone to stain. I do not recommend wax personally as putting a hot mug of tea on a scaffold board after it has been waxed has in the past resulted in a permanent mark. I bought five litres of Danish Oil, tested this on under sides and I am greatly unhappy with the results to use this as it seems (to me) to exaggerate the colours of the original wood. Some pieces look an awful unripe-banana green and others a beautiful sight. Without the oil the counters are a nice uniform tone, and having tested the undersides with a small dab are then distinct as different woods from different places. So I've decided I don't want to use oil. I was thinking a thin coat of varnish and after reading a lot, I decided shellac was generally recommended. I am no expert, yet my work, carefully measured and re-measured, planed and sanded, speaks for itself; it as all level and exactly as I designed it to be. I'd like to protect these benches yet keep them looking as they naturally do to as great an extent as I can. Can I get a clear shellac that will do the job without discolouration? Is shellac for me? Any suggestions would be massively appreciated as I have to soon move past this construction phase and use these counter-tops day in and day out for the next few years
@@RagnBoneBrown What do you reckon on the Ronseal Interior Varnish? www.wickes.co.uk/Ronseal-Interior-Varnish---Matt-Clear-750ml/p/117953 It says it's non-yellowing and touch-dry in 20 minutes
Great looking table Keith. And the splitting of the boards to remove the cup worked very well. Forgive me bragging, but I had to remove slight gaps in a bar top I finished recently. 4 boards, 3 joints.. 4.2m long. Now that was frustrating.
Interesting video and nice end result. I’ve been curious about scaffold plank builds as I have a few kicking around so in the highly unlikely event I get some free time I’ll knock something up 😉
Great video. I saw the other day, on the Sprowston road, the old factory office shop, thats being turned into houses a skip with a load of good looking wood, I remember thinking I wonder if you've seen it. Keep seeing loads of pallets, but I chicken out of asking if they are needed.
Great vids. I did attempt a table of slightly larger and found that I’m getting a lot of cupping. Even tho I allowed the wood to dry out before using. Any tips on how to stop this happening. Thanks
Always like and learn from your videos. Did you show how the bottom of the feet are finished e.g. did you make provision for adding "Ikea style" felt pads or similar so that it won't mark a wooden floor as the leg uprights look like they (slightly) overhang base? In this age of digital choice (and effects), could you offer it for sale on etsy.com showing different coloured legs e.g. also white and cream and see what actually sells (as opposed to generating interest)?
You went back to your roots! Very informative video and a beautiful end result. Thanks for sharing. Which burner do you use for aging/blackening the wood? Last week I was looking for something similar but was disappointed. Burner costs 15€ but the gas bottle (one time use/disposable/) costs 9€ for 250 grams or so (refillable a small 2 kg propane butane tank costs 7€ and iwould be much more ecological, if only I could find a safe way to connect one to the other)
I bought this one on Amazon. Still on the first gas canister they seem to last really well! Bond Hardware® Blow Torch Butane Gas Kit Cooking Catering Creme Brulee Culinary Tarts Pies Tool + 4 Refills www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0761Y3FV1/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_oOuWBbS6NHXZ6
An interesting video, Keith. I work with scaffold boards (making furniture) in my current line of work. I like your method for 'flattening' the boards without planing them. To some, a 'hollow' between to mating edges is desirable. Cabinet makers (as I was taught at college) will deliberately do this to allow for the expansion and contraction of each board... Which is something I've never understood as surely, a glued up panel expands and contracts as one component, right? :-) I find it make a glue up easier. More so than having gaps where the ends of boards meet. We also use the same sander. Have you had any trouble with velcro backing pads wearing out and discs flying off? All the best.
Ah, yes, we seem to go through a few of those... But then, we're sanding quite vigorously at times and often with 40g. :-) It's a great sander, isn't it? Almost like an air-powered tool.
Very nice table Keith, never thought of old scaffold boards to make a table? where did you get those legs from?, they look too good to be found in a skip. Barry (Wirral, ENG)
Thanks Barry! My workplace was throwing away a bunch of coffee tables because the melamine tops were badly worn so I salvaged the legs from them before they went in a skip!
Nice job Keith.
Excellent video yet again... I was thinking yellow yuck.. until I saw the end result... Bloody good job
Rustic is the way to go. ....so nice. Well done.
It's a pretty looking table. Love the bit of scorching the table to give it some character (back). Great tip I recon.
I love what you did with scaffold boards.
Fantastic! That was a great idea of how you overcame the cupping of the boards. REM playing in the back round, awesome!!!
Love simple designs like this! Anyone with a bit gumption could make that type of table in a day...
Great use of skip wood.. very nice👍
Thank you!
Hi Keith,I really like the coffee table made with old scaffold boards,it's very well made and will be used by whoever buys it,it's earns my 5 ☆ rating
Awesome rustic look!
Although, I am actually always amazed how nice wood can look even when it's all worn out, many years old and weathered.
You just put it on a saw or a planer, and it's like magic happening right in front of you.
Btw, I would recommend using some kind of primer next time on metals.
It's just a bit more durable that way.
I will never manage to make anything so nice with the couple of scaffolding boards I have lying around. The yellow legs are excellent, well done and as ever, thanks for sharing Keith!
you can for sure
I really love this. You’re very good at explaining what you’re doing and why. I genuinely look forward to seeing what you’re making next. I hope you have a great weekend. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you!!
I recently found your channel & love it.
I can watch your videos all day.
I HAVE watched Keith all day!! LOL. Greetings from Canada 🇨🇦
beautiful job retaining the rustic appearance on the top
Awesome build really cool design. Take Care
Loved your solution to the cupping
Great to see this waste wood come out of the skip and to become something so attractive. Excellent video. Best wishes
When allowing for wood movement you can make a hard connection in the center of the legs with two verticle screws while using the washers on the end.
The center screws act as anchors keeping the table squared and centered on the legs while the wood is allowed to expand and contract through the other connections.
Good job though. An amazing amount of maker channels don't account for wood movement. And the worst thing that will happen to your table is it might get a little out of square and skewed with the legs, which is easily fixed and better than cracking and warping.
eeguy77 Was
I wasn't sure about the torch method Keith but it really worked well. I hope you enjoyed your vacation. California is beautiful this time of year especially during harvest.
Another easy to view vidio,certainly not over the top,and to use scaffold boards for a table is spot on,your video is well worth my 5 ☆ rating, take care and be happy
Love the rustic top.
Good quality paint. Also Montana gold is good.
That water based poly does have a quite a sheen to it, esp as the layers build up. Knocking back every coat with wire wool does help a lot. Neat little table and the paint job stopped the 'legs' from looking too techy against the nice rustic top. Good 'n'
beautiful project.
Great project Keith really like how it came out. The yellow legs are win win! Great design:)
I love the tabletop it is gorgeous and to be honest i didnt expect the legs to be nice thinking that yellow would be too much , but i like them a lot and they much nicely with the floor . Nice job !!!!!!!
Nice little build Keith really enjoyed it 👍😀
Turned out pretty well, mate👍
I love your work
Over the past year I have found enough enough abandoned scaffold board and sleeper logs to build 30ft + of counter-height heavy-duty work bench. It looks beautiful, as i have carefully chosen each price for it's appearance. None of it has been treated in any way, yet has been sanded from coarse to fine. I love how it looks. For me, plaining the wood below a millimetre and then sanding after has only aided the natural beauty of the timber. Yet it is bare and prone to stain. I do not recommend wax personally as putting a hot mug of tea on a scaffold board after it has been waxed has in the past resulted in a permanent mark. I bought five litres of Danish Oil, tested this on under sides and I am greatly unhappy with the results to use this as it seems (to me) to exaggerate the colours of the original wood. Some pieces look an awful unripe-banana green and others a beautiful sight. Without the oil the counters are a nice uniform tone, and having tested the undersides with a small dab are then distinct as different woods from different places. So I've decided I don't want to use oil. I was thinking a thin coat of varnish and after reading a lot, I decided shellac was generally recommended. I am no expert, yet my work, carefully measured and re-measured, planed and sanded, speaks for itself; it as all level and exactly as I designed it to be. I'd like to protect these benches yet keep them looking as they naturally do to as great an extent as I can. Can I get a clear shellac that will do the job without discolouration? Is shellac for me? Any suggestions would be massively appreciated as I have to soon move past this construction phase and use these counter-tops day in and day out for the next few years
Use an acrylic or water based varnish if you want to protect the wood without changing the colour
@@RagnBoneBrown Thanks for the direction and for your videos. That sounds affordable too!
@@RagnBoneBrown What do you reckon on the Ronseal Interior Varnish?
www.wickes.co.uk/Ronseal-Interior-Varnish---Matt-Clear-750ml/p/117953
It says it's non-yellowing and touch-dry in 20 minutes
Just the style I like. Lovely piece 👍
Cheers Ali
Very nice project.
Looks great, and the yellow really pops. Good to see you're a fellow Norfolk boy too
Great looking table Keith. And the splitting of the boards to remove the cup worked very well. Forgive me bragging, but I had to remove slight gaps in a bar top I finished recently. 4 boards, 3 joints.. 4.2m long. Now that was frustrating.
Interesting video and nice end result. I’ve been curious about scaffold plank builds as I have a few kicking around so in the highly unlikely event I get some free time I’ll knock something up 😉
Can’t wait to see it 😉
Great video, like seeing items made from recycled materials
Great way to bring new life into a piece of wood and a tin of chopped tomatoes 👍🤣
Looks great. Nice job. You got nice rustic look to board. Impressive!
Make more things! This channel is awesome!
Looks good mate
i love the output....
Great Job
Thanks for the video.
How on earth do you find all this great wood lying around?!?!? I never find anything useful! But still great job Keith 👍🏻
Really nice! Great job, as always.
Very nice!
Another awesome video 👍🇦🇺
Low cost product that works well.
These screws you are using for fixing tops to the legs are making me crazy :)
Haha why? #usewhatyouvegot
Great video.
I saw the other day, on the Sprowston road, the old factory office shop, thats being turned into houses a skip with a load of good looking wood, I remember thinking I wonder if you've seen it. Keep seeing loads of pallets, but I chicken out of asking if they are needed.
You should ask, the answer is usually yes - go for it! Nothing to lose
Nice tat.
Surely you should sight down with the face upwards?
good
NICE!
actualy it looks great with yelow its not my style but somebody more creative can certainly give it a good . use
super job! as always ^^
Great vids. I did attempt a table of slightly larger and found that I’m getting a lot of cupping. Even tho I allowed the wood to dry out before using. Any tips on how to stop this happening. Thanks
Always like and learn from your videos. Did you show how the bottom of the feet are finished e.g. did you make provision for adding "Ikea style" felt pads or similar so that it won't mark a wooden floor as the leg uprights look like they (slightly) overhang base? In this age of digital choice (and effects), could you offer it for sale on etsy.com showing different coloured legs e.g. also white and cream and see what actually sells (as opposed to generating interest)?
Dont like yellow but do like the project
Cheers Jason
Very Rico Daniels!!! Loved ‘the salvager’!!
Next thing you’ll be “givin it a little tickle wif me bewt Saaander ”!
Enjoyable upload. Cheers moy son!!
Rico is my inspiration to leaving the UK and setting up a new rural life...
You went back to your roots! Very informative video and a beautiful end result. Thanks for sharing.
Which burner do you use for aging/blackening the wood?
Last week I was looking for something similar but was disappointed. Burner costs 15€ but the gas bottle
(one time use/disposable/) costs 9€ for 250 grams or so (refillable a small 2 kg propane butane tank costs 7€
and iwould be much more ecological, if only I could find a safe way to connect one to the other)
I bought this one on Amazon. Still on the first gas canister they seem to last really well! Bond Hardware® Blow Torch Butane Gas Kit Cooking Catering Creme Brulee Culinary Tarts Pies Tool + 4 Refills www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0761Y3FV1/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_oOuWBbS6NHXZ6
A really good project with a modern finish, where did you get the legs from.
Were do you get your tapes with just millimetres on them. cant find them to easy in Ireland. Looks like a nice handy one
It’s made by Fisco
An interesting video, Keith. I work with scaffold boards (making furniture) in my current line of work. I like your method for 'flattening' the boards without planing them.
To some, a 'hollow' between to mating edges is desirable. Cabinet makers (as I was taught at college) will deliberately do this to allow for the expansion and contraction of each board... Which is something I've never understood as surely, a glued up panel expands and contracts as one component, right? :-) I find it make a glue up easier. More so than having gaps where the ends of boards meet.
We also use the same sander. Have you had any trouble with velcro backing pads wearing out and discs flying off?
All the best.
Thanks! I use a Mirka pad protector on mine, I’ve had no issues so far
Ah, yes, we seem to go through a few of those... But then, we're sanding quite vigorously at times and often with 40g. :-) It's a great sander, isn't it? Almost like an air-powered tool.
Trick Keith!!!
fantastic reuse. It would have been so easy to completely destroy the look of the wood.
Did you have to dry them out beforehand?
They had been in my garage for months and I put them in my house for a couple of weeks before I started
Very nice table Keith, never thought of old scaffold boards to make a table? where did you get those legs from?, they look too good to be found in a skip.
Barry (Wirral, ENG)
Thanks Barry! My workplace was throwing away a bunch of coffee tables because the melamine tops were badly worn so I salvaged the legs from them before they went in a skip!
Hello mate, great video. Thanks for sharing.
Do you have a link for the "elektra beckum hc260" please?
Or have I missed it?
Thanks for a great video.
No longer available to buy but the Metabo 260 is basically the same machine as I understand it
According to Etsy you are on holidays now. Enjoy it!
Thanks Hans. Yes I’m in California at the moment it’s beautiful
Excelentes
G’day Keith, I love every aspect of this build apart from the contrast the mustard coloured base, sorry mate 🙏🍻🍻👍👍👍
is using scaffold boards food safe?
It depends on what they've been used for, how well they're sanded, and how well they're finished
where'd you get the legs???
Salvaged from discarded furniture
Great table 🙂 How do you find the neighbours are with the noise from the tools?
I’ve not had any complaints but I try to only use the louder machines during the day
Nicely done! Where are the legs from?
Salvaged from a skip
Table is a shin breaker lol
Kobra is great, it's graffiti paint used by artists.
Instead of sighting down the board, why not just put a steel ruler on the edge? The gap would be very obvious that way, no?
Two different ways of doing the same thing, both of which work fine
Rag 'n' Bone Brown I apologize btw. Rereading that comment I came off way dickier than I meant to.
👍👍👍👍👍🏴🏴🏴...
Where do you buy the clear coat you use ? halfords ?
Amazon
rbb hi good video contents bob
Your voice is a little different when you are narrating. New Mic?
No, same mic... not sure why it sounds different
You should team up with the carpenters daughter for a vid
nice work with those boards, please tell me you had clothes on at 8-56
Yup!
Thats not a "Rustic Coffee Table" its a "Rustic Tea Table"...your English mate ...Tea all the way..;-p
Are you wearing lipstick? ;)
That was meant to be a harmless joke. Jealous of pinker than usual lips? Come on.