this is my next project it was kind of inspired because I had lots of short later Mary left which kind of really can't do that much with unless you want to go later shelves shopping malls so I'm going to try to do so a pretty challenging that I haven't well say I haven't seen haven't seen yet a dining table of this size done in solid herringbone I'm not quite sure how it's going to work this is going to be a bit of a challenge one of the biggest challenges is good I think I've kind of worked it out how to do it VSS trying to sort other protesters and see how it goes so I got edge grain to end grain here glue ups which aren't particularly strong and so I'm gonna have to use a few dominate in there so I'll be gluing these up like that so that'd be the first stage and I'll do quite a few of them on their own going back and then when they they're good it up I'll then place them all in here and then then pull them all together and glue them up together into one piece and then tack on to the ends see see how it goes the head-scratching moment of the minute is just trying to figure out the center line so obviously the center line will be between these two joints here so you don't really want the center line on one of the points because then it would be weighted to one side so we want the center line to run down the middle of these boards so that's what I'm trying to do is just work out what the lengths but these I'll I need to cut them too and then I can start approaching the glue up and take it from there a few of these pieces that have been chopped up on the ends will fill in the gaps where bits missing so I think I've got enough timber and I might have a little play around and swapping a few boards around try and get it a bit more balanced and it's a lot different approach to building a standard table where the board's all run parallel yeah Super Kick and looking forward see how it turns out okay so day two of the roundtable build start a little bit about you first off I put the key piece in which is this piece down here from this is going to be piece in which everything is - and goes downwards so I put a couple of dominoes in here registration and Christmas sir and great edge grain joint it gives it that straight there was a problem initially and the panels weren't lining up straight so I went back to the drop saw recheck my cuts and the other semi point four degree out which when I'm doing something like this is going to make a lot of difference so I've tweaked the saw and then we're getting going it's spot-on 90 degrees now great and there's a few little pieces I've got true and square off the edges on I've done one side just got to this side and then and then going to a glue up because this is going to be a solid herringbone table where you can see edge grain all the way around unlike some haricot tables which are made on a substrate like plywood or MDF and then what do is they put a beading of solid wood around the outside I'm going for a solid full solid table and it's going to be supporting our steel frame so that's strength isn't an issue it's good that's going to be pretty strong anyway but one of the things that bear in mind is the edges of this table are going to have to be docked and the last thing you want to be doing is cutting for a biscuit or a domino and so it's always good to just a just remember where you put them near your cut lines just go around them and and then you can just make your cut just below that and I'll do the same up the other end as well so the domino machine has three settings the width of the dominoes and we has a tight fit and a medium slightly loose fit and a very loose fit I find the medium a little bit too loose and for this the snug fit is to smoke so what I tend to do is I tend to do two passes to two cups with the Domino so I make marker pencil right on here I just do that to accentuate it so what I do is I did my first cut just slightly to the left of the pencil line and then my second cut slightly to the right of the pencil line this gives you like a millimeter or two millimeters a slack which is a lot less than with the medium setting as you can see all the old pieces of this table have a Domino's cut it's been test fit everything fits and looks good when you get a bit glue involved sometimes things don't fit so that's when panic happens but hopefully this won't happen this time and what I've done here is this piece is the kingpin which might call it that this is actually screwed to the bench reason being is that will almost be like arc I'll clamp in a way for one end of the table and so it would be a process like this will force on the one piece going on glued on there one piece on there like that and it'd just be a big puzzle and we just do it like that and we're going to get two stages like this what I do is I'll then then I'll then put a clamp in there is no way of like physically clamping this old table so a way you can do it is just get a piece of wood screw that to the bench top and then cut some little door stops of wood and then hammer them in and then that will squeeze it out there and we do the same there I'll leave that for a little while and then I'll put some more pieces in this back and do it again and work my way back down the table that way we're going to do this clue up with the west systems epoxy resin just for the main reason that it's got got a longer hold open time it doesn't bite as much as it would glue does so that gives me time to move the board fix the clamping system down squee to p board up yeah I'll be using this stuff as well it's a microfiber blend adhesive filler what it does is it thickens the epoxy and makes it stick to the wood it's got good gap bridging qualities as well make sure you're wearing a mask when you're using this in a ventilated place it's um it's pretty dodgy stuff so just take take your safety precautions wear your PPE yeah do shallow trays when working with epoxy and views quite a deep tray you get an exothermic reaction which makes the epoxy go off a lot quicker than it's supposed to so just getting ready for stage free to put up done to status now a few little things that I'm experiencing that I didn't kind of plan for on the way so that's why I put these blocks in here and to found that the boards were starting to slide out and so just putting those box in there to stop them sliding out and then I can press in here and I think I just keep doing that as I go really nicely now for these boxes good squeeze just makes me foxy up for the underside of the table I've already been round and filled some of the bigger holes up with some builders bog which has been tinted like with them some nook oxide so yeah I just killed the big holes up just because when I do flip it over and I don't want the epoxy seeping all the way through the table even though Vietnam because see I'm just going to try and finish some reason these SAP veins here and here and and here with some of this epoxy and then when them I come to flip it back over the other way if something is going to seep through this layer here should should stop that happening some quite big checks here so I'm going to try and get them filled up quite a lot this is see this lighter wood here as well this is this is all the SAP wedding on the marriage side the edge of the tree it's a lot softer and a more porous than the heartwood so I tend to give that a really good soaking and it's just just strengthens strengthens it up so like look at that I mean it's just going to this just going to absorb this stuff like a sponge you can just see it getting soaked in so clean most of the epoxy up is taken now as you can see still needs them a really good sand but before that happens what I do is either I'll get the table finally cut to size and then we send me away person for a really good sand and come back and do some epoxy touch-ups and then have enough sand off the epoxy and then finish and then it should be done so cheap see some progress move very quickly and after this station so I thought first coat Danish or on the table and as you can see I put quite heavy coat on what that does is that just allows the oil to penetrate deep into the words of the first coat I'll let it sit for a while and then I'll and I dry it off with some racks you