welcome to make something with me david patrido where every week i show you a new project or technique to make you a better woodworker and today i'm going to show you how to make this table base with aprons and added support and i'm going to show you how to make these big baby legs out of three quarter inch material check it to make this table really easy i have all the boards on here the exact same width so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to cut everything over here in the table saw so now that we have all of our boards ripped to width we're going to cross cut the boards that we're going to use for our legs i'm going to make them a little bit long so we can cut them down to size at a later step in my design here i have a really thick beefy leg we don't have boards that thick so i'm going to take four boards and make a wood tube like thing with miter corners [Applause] so now that we have all 16 pieces cut we're going to cut a 45 degree miter on the insides of all these pieces so we can make that wood tube to get a nice fat beefy leg we'll do that over at the table saw so now all of our miters are cut i have one leg here we're going to put glue in the miters and to make this easier i'm going to use pin nails to hold it together while the glue dries so we'll get one section up like this we'll throw a few pins in there we'll get the other section up like so and then we'll glue the two halves together do there's one leg we'll let that dry next thing we're going to do is we're going to round over all the corners here at the router table you don't need a router table you can just use a router if you want you can also use a hand plane and sandpaper one thing you might want to look out for if you use pin nails don't use your good bit so because we didn't use clamps when we glued these up you're going to have some tight joints and then you're going to have some with a crack in there i can throw this on the inside of the table where it's not seen you can also fill that up with glue and sawdust which is what i'm going to do let's take that sawdust and rub it in there and then taking a screwdriver and burnishing the two pieces together probably don't want to use a good screwdriver the next thing we're going to do at the miter saw is we're going to clean up this end and then we're going to chop it to length [Applause] over at the router tables we're going to put a little chamfer along the edge so when the table moves on the floor it doesn't catch and chip out all right so next we're going to cut the two long pieces and the two short pieces for the apron over here at the miter saw so we are going to attach everything with pocket holes all the apron pieces are going to be attached to the legs with pocket holes i've got the big craig k5 jig here but you can also use the little one if that's what you have so the first thing i'm going to do is clamp this up make sure you're putting the pocket holes on the side that you don't want facing [Applause] [Applause] it is now time to start assembling this table up i got my two legs and the apron here for the end and it's just going to attach like that with pocket hole screws and glue i don't want the apron on the face of the legs so i'm just going to lift it up i'm going to use some spacers here so it sits about a quarter of an inch back and we'll clamp that up really tight and then run some pocket hole screws in there get that nice and tight i want to make sure everything is flush up at the top and we can drive our pocket hole screws always get your screw started first rub a little glue on there for good luck next thing we're going to do is we're going to cut the corner pieces to have a little bit more support here so we'll have a board with 45 degree miters and run them on each one of the corners and and then we'll have a little middle support as well close enough we have our pieces cut we're going to drill pocket holes in here and i'm just using my pocket hole jig i will say that i did move the collar up on my bit just a little bit because these pieces are going to go in at an angle and i don't want the screw to blow out the other side so i'm drilling a shallower hole [Applause] we're just going to glue and screw these into the corner now the very first one that we made was a really short one but we found that i couldn't there was not any room to get the drill in there so we have to make them a little bit longer so keep in mind when you make those supports that you you want to have room to get your drill in there all right that is plenty sturdy these guys added a ton of strength it's super stable now and when we attach the top it'll have even more strength and to finish this off we're just going to put a few coats of wipe-on poly just like we did for the top all the wood for this table including the top came from my friends at kencraft you can visit them at kencraftcompany.com they're located here in toledo ohio and they do sell online please check them out i do hope you picked up a few tips on making this table base with pocket hole joinery and making those big beefy legs out of three quarter inch material i attached my top to the base with pocket hole joinery that is not a typical method and maybe not the method i suggest to you but my top is in two different sections the reason for that i explain in the tabletop video and so i need my apron to hold those two pieces together as you can see here there is a little bit of play in the pocket hole joinery that is going to allow for expansion and contraction the typical way to attach the top to the base is using these figure eight tabletop connectors this is the method i suggest for you especially if you have one solid top because there's going to be some expansion and contraction there is a separate video just for this table top i will have a card up here as well as a link at the end of the video in that video i took precautions to prevent splitting because we got some really weird glue ups with the different angles in the long grain and the end grain and reading the comments on that video some people said i overdid it and then some people said it's still not going to work and it's still going to split some people said it in a nice way some people said it in a mean way we shadow blocked the people that were mean about it but the people that were trying to give me good pointers and said it in a very nice way they could be right i don't think i'm going to have any issues but this is experimental we have end grain gluing up against long grain even though we got dominoes in there and then we did the the breadboard and gluing but some people still had concerns and so this got me thinking and i was talking this over with my wife kelly and she's like what are you gonna do if it does split and i was just like i'm gonna fix it and then she's like yeah problem solved so that's the great thing about woodworking and making stuff for ourselves we can experiment if something goes wrong we can fix it we can learn from that and so i really think this is going to hold up for many many many many years but if it doesn't i'm just going to fix it that's all there is that's all there is to it my favorite thing about being a woodworker is making custom pieces and i get to experiment and i get to play and it's a learning experience for me i hope it's a learning experience for you as well if you like this video you're gonna love this video and this video so as always be safe have fun stay passionate and make something you