Simple Side Table | Build It | Ask This Old House
Simple Side Table | Build It | Ask This Old House
This Old House general contractor Tom Silva shows how to construct a simple yet beautiful side table. (See below for a shopping list, tools, and steps.)
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Shopping List for a Simple Side Table:
– 2×2 fir balusters, to make the table legs
– 1×4 fir decking, for fabricating the table aprons
– 5/4-by-6-inch fir decking, to make the tabletop
РCarpenter’s glue, for gluing together wood parts
– Narrow stick, to spread glue
– Cloth, for wiping away excess glue
– _-inch plywood and toggle clamp, to make tapering jig
– 120-grit abrasive disks, for random-orbit sander
– 1_-inch pocket screws, to screw together wood parts
– _-inch-thick spacer blocks, for creating a reveal between the aprons and legs
– Double washers and 5/8-inch screws, for securing the tabletop
– Furniture glides, to fasten to the bottom of each leg
– Primer and paint, wood stain, or clear polyurethane varnish, to finish the table
Tools for a Simple Side Table:
– Miter saw, to crosscut lumber to size
– Table saw, for ripping lumber to size
– Bar clamps, for clamping together the tabletop
– Random-orbit sander, to sand smoother wood parts
– Router and 1/8-inch-radius rounding-over bit, to shape the edges of the table legs
– Pocket-hole jig, for making pocket-hole joints
– Cordless drill, to drill holes and drive screws
– _-inch spade bit, to drill recesses for double washers
– Hammer
To build this table, Tom used stock fir that is normally used for building decks, including:
½” x 6″ decking for the top
1″ x 4″ decking for the spreaders or rails to which the legs attach
2″ x 2″ balusters for the legs
To attach the rails to the legs, Tom used a pocket hole jig and pocket screws, all manufactured by Kreg Tool Company [https://www.kregtool.com/] and available at home centers and woodworking supply stores.
Expert assistance with this project was provided by Anderson & McQuaid Co, Inc. [https://www.andersonmcquaid.com/]
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I miss the new yankee workshawp
THIS guy loves his wood glue
Your advertiser is a woman who yells, could give someone a hart attack! Get rid of her!!!!!!!
haha you only see the finished product for a split second!
at 3mins he shows how to mark out the blank for a jig. He doesn’t then show you how he cuts this out. Annoyingly, he doesn’t even use this in his jig!!
I’m almost 38 yrs old and just found out about double washers! Thank you! I groaned as a kid having to watch these shows with my Mom but now enjoy them immensely.. I’ve built most of the furniture in my home and it feels so good to walk around and use what you’ve built with your own hands. I feel like these younger generations need to be forced to watch these shows as kids so building and fixing things that are broken doesn’t become extinct with them.
Do you flip after wiping away the glue and wipe the bottom?
Double washers if only i could find them here in the UK ,Nothing comes up with a search on google here in UK using the words Double washers .
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Can’t squeeze all the glue out. That’s a common myth in wood working. Wood absorbs it. Better to get it tight so no air bubbles…
OK. BFD. That Biesemeyer fence costs more than my entire shop set-up. How about some projects that target real people on a strict budget?
M, m, mmm! Nice!
I wish I worked for Tom,he is so good at teaching his expertise.
Once they got rid of Norm, Tommy has to do double duty – woodworker and carpenter.
Why build it "simple" when you can build it right. Mortise and tenon for the leg/rails would be much stronger, and a few strokes from a hand plane would have given you the taper without having to sand after. Nothing wrong with power tools but in many cases, they make things a lot more complicated.
You want simple? Give me a few 2x2s and a sheet of plywood
It’s too bad this segment didn’t present alternatives to the (power) tools used to make this table (e.g., using a small hand plane to chamfer the edges of the legs, instead of using a router). For those who watch a lot of woodworking tutorials, it wouldn’t matter so much, but for those who watch this and assume that there’s only one way to do things, it’s unfortunate.
Crums, I wish i could get nice timber like that in Australia. It seems like all we can get is warped and knotted rubbish from the large hardware outlets or anything that approaches reasonable is anything but when it comes to price.
Tommy needs to clip those nails 0:47
You really should show more of the finished product. That’s the payoff! You’re cutting away from the Superbowl to show Heidi.
5:54 cracked the wood on the leg
Sure would like to know how to make that taper jig. I like it
Thats the idear
tommy has a jig for everything
I wish they would give a shout out to Norm Abrams when they do furniture..I miss him on the show he created
I don’t pretend to be an expert, but some of the things he did really annoyed me as not right. His glue up method for the top was terrible; I have NEVER seen anyone attempt to get a true flat result by just laying the boards on a table and squeezing them without a "call" board or similar. Likewise, just wiping the squeeze out glue off with a damp cloth is generally considered poor unless you plan to plane off all the glue you have now put on the surface. Even his sanding technique for that table top was poor, as he has no idea of if he sanded it all, as most experts put pencil marks on the surface to track where they have or have not sanded. If someone was going to stain the resulting table, there is a good chance the glue would keep it from taking stain evenly.
He does the round-over without regard to grain direction, so if he gets tearout on the end grain he has already rounded over the edge grain so he no longer can automatically fix that tear out.
All in all, very disappointing techniques.
Mr Silva is a sweetie and my favorite 🙂
lol.. buy used for cheaper or just from Ikea for a few dollars. cool project if you have the wood already
Awesome.
They gave us like 7/16ths of a second to see the finished product 😂
hand made.. not made in china.. junk ..
Okay so, if I don’t have a table saw, how can a cut off the rounded over edges accurately?
I wonder if Kevin took off both sides of the end planks instead of leaving them eased over. Stay tuned… Yup. He did. And Tommy used a round-over bit that he still won’t tell us the size. The smallest I have is a 1/4" That looks much smaller. Cagey bastard.
That’s the idear.
Woodglut has very good and accurate plans.
There’s a reason Tommy chose 8 inches.
I started with Woodglut plans.
If you really want to do WOODWORKING, GET RID OF THE POCKET HOLES, do some real woodWORKING.
Awesome!! I love your channel man!!
Beautiful table!…..One question….what is the best suggestion you have to protect the wood if the table were to be outdoors?
Dam I wanted to see some kick back action
I wish you would do a video where you show how to make all the jigs and the theory behind designing them!
Is he going to show a tutorial how to make that jig thats probably 5 times harder to make then the whole table itself? I want to know how the hell this guy makes everything look so freaking easy. I’m having a hard enough to maaking perfectly straight cuts on the table saw.
I’m surprised that I have never seen Tommy use a Radi-plane.
That’s the idear!
Woodglut is full of amazing tips. It helped me a lot.
the only problem here is – if somebody owns a table saw, router and industrial sander.. chances are, they already know how to build a simple table…
5 quarter? Cmon..
2022 ….500.00 in materials
The man loves his jigs.