 Here is what we're after in building the feet We're going to have two pieces of just rectangular on the very bottom or the fifth layer then there's a Rectangular board that's 18 inches long That is lined up or these two are lined up on the edge of that. That's the fourth layer for the other three layers as You're going to see we put them together by assembling four pieces for each one and Those four pieces put in a pattern After they're cut the size is supposed to be create a nice mortise and then the Tenon of the feet is going to go into that mortise. So this is what the foot looks like it's five layers Just too little on it ends. We're going to we're going to concave these to give a little form here So we're just going to use a sander or some method of taking off this edge and concaving these and Then rectangular piece three more layers And that forms our foot We will finish it off when everything is assembled or before we do the final assembly by rounding over this edge and Rounding over this edge and sanding everything up nicely And we're going to polyurethane it when it's all been assembled and actually this will look pretty cool When it gets all polyurethane and that'll be a nice heavy steady Foot and we're going to have obviously four of those. So that's our foot build Okay The job in front of us at this point is to round off the ends of our feet just so that they look attractive I don't like nice blocky thing like this. I want to more round it off So there's two ways you can do it a couple ways you can well the many ways you could do it What I've done is I've set my saw stop saw and hopefully yours will Do this as well so that you can use your table saw for this function If it's the first time you set it at 45 degrees make sure you make see if it's clears your plate Because maybe if you're off alignment, and then you go 45 degrees something's actually Gonna catch so always check your blade by Rotating it making sure that there's no encumbers. Okay in marking up your pieces here We need a round over now you can decide and maybe it's a good idea to learn how to use a Compass if you don't remember it from seventh grade and get yourself a cheap compass off of Amazon or somewhere else And the beauty there is you can set it for any radius That you want and the way you would get a certain radius So let's say you bought a set of plans and they called for you to do a round over of a certain type First of all normally you can do round over or whatever Whatever radius you walk to or maybe not even worry about what the radius is or maybe you don't know what the radius is But anyway the way that you could do it with a compass is if you said hey I want to lay things out with a One and a half inch radius then set your compass to one and a half inches Go out and mark or you could just use a straight edge easier mark one and a half inches from from one end Then I'm going to show you how I don't even bother with this I just do a radius of my own choice put on my glasses and a half inches Then go down here this nice two-sided ruler mark myself one and a half inches Then I would put the compass on that one and a half inch point right on the edge With the point and make a little arc and then put it on the other one and a half and make a little arc and Where those two arcs meet? Then put your point on that arc and draw Your circle quarter of a circle and that's how you'd get a certain size round over Using the compass so again come out whatever the distance is go down Whatever the distance is then do an arc from there and an arc from there And then put the point on the arc and do your circle when you drag a compass kind of lean it and drag it All right, but that's a big hassle. You probably won't know where you put your compass. So here's another way It's called the polyurethane way So what I've done is taken a can of polyurethane now you notice my cans a little damaged Like everything in my shop I crowd too many things on my store shelf And then they eventually drop off when I'm reaching something else But anyway, I got a good circle for a quarter of this So I've kind of marked off up here at 12 o'clock and then over here at 9 o'clock so I got 90 degrees between here. That's gonna be a good part of my circle take my Workpiece where I want to round off here and get those two marks The night the 12 noon and the 90 degree where they're flush on the end of the board take your Pencil I love these click gear 1000s particularly the 9 millimeter that don't break on me and Although I can't use my millimeter from it use my ink remarking devices They'll take your pencil and do that round over That is called a polyurethane round over or whatever can This is a polyurethane. They're all the same size you probably 12 of them on your shelf You always know where they are All right, then what you want to do is Take your compass Forgot what it called doesn't matter. You know what it is And now we're gonna for once in your life. We're gonna use this 45 degree angle here So take that 45 degree angle figure out which way you'd have to go so you're going across the angle This is wrong obviously, so let me flip it over and there we go and then with that With that handle on the edge Slide it forward toward your circle until you just touch the tip of your circle Now you can draw a 45 degree is across your workpiece and that will show you What we're after here is we're after Rounding this off To make it easy on ourselves. I don't want to do all that sanding all the way down There I don't want to sand that much So I'm going to cut it off at 45 degrees and then I'll have very little round over to do to finish it off So that's what we're doing now. You might be tempted to go over here and draw a circle on this other end But but think about it if you If you do that That's the one I marked if I say I draw a circle over here on this side Then I come here, and I do my Using my miter slab and what I want to do is where I did the 45 degrees. I line that up With this right hand side of the slot Which is the right edge of the blade and I do my 45. Well, then if I tried to slide it down here The blades go in the wrong way so what I need to do is mark this side over here and Then flip it and over and No, don't flip it this way. That won't do it. It could work. We're already gonna have cut that side So mark it on this side flip it and over and and Mark it on this side So get my polyurethane To my high noon dot and my nine o'clock dot both lined up on the edge It doesn't matter what radius this is The only thing that matters is are your items consistent from item to item so that you got a nice symmetrical look So there's my polyurethane arc take my 90 degree or 45 degree Ruler set up here go across that line and then When I Do one cut Keep keep your table saw clear at least this side of the fence Lot of noise now here we go So here's a triangle that I cut off So that's perfect There's my cut You can see how I've Cut and got right to the tip or the apex of that curve And now all I got to do is sand down these little edges here to get down to my line So there we go I was gonna be off on here because I went to shut down the camera realized I've never turned this one camera on which is kind of critical for this sequence Anyway, I'm reshooting and I'm gonna bother to turn on the close-up camera so we cut off the 45 degree on the table saw and That gives us the ability to get mostly where we want to be in order to round off So you can now round off by sand hand by saying hand by hand Using probably 60 grit a little device here that instead of sandpaper uses a little wire mesh Roughness and that's 60 grit. So you can spend a lot of time doing that Hopefully if you have orbital sander that'll help you get through the process again using 60 grit or maybe you've got a Belt sander either a handheld or a bench top model like this. This is not very expensive I would certainly Recommend you add it to your workshop as soon as you can if you don't have one already It'll save a lot of labor now. It kicks out a lot of dust and so you do want to have your dust collection system on there and That's about all I say and we're just now trying to clean up our feet and get these rounded over Uniformly and you can just do that by kind of holding it on here and rotating it and rotating it I guess that belt no magic and It's gonna look really cool When you get done because all those layers of that Russian birch or that Baltic birch When you polyurethane that over and you got it nice and sanded Actually ends up looking really really attractive. So here we are with a plywood piece But we're gonna have some nice look to it All right for the dust collection on And I'll just do one since I forgot to capture it earlier. Let me move this over This is a big old rubber eraser You want to get that to clean the grit on your sandpaper and buy yourself some spare belts So you can put them on from time to time I see mine's getting a little thin here, but it still works awfully awfully. Well So and don't burn out your machine by pressing down too hard. Just a light path underneath your Workpiece is all this needed. So let's get her. Let's get her going Well, as you can see it didn't take much to get that rounded over doing that by hand would be laborious I'm gonna go back and figure out if I want to do more of it on there Or if I want to kind of finish it off by hand looking for any little left over rough spots So anyway, no magic to that just sand it round and You'll like the way it looks when it gets polyurethane. So this is kind of what we're after I'm ahead of myself here, but I'm gonna concave this out and I've figured out yet I'm gonna cut a triangle first maybe again on my table saw and then Concave it by using sanding and Get a little profile down here if you want to leave it square. You don't want it to go to the effort. This this looks okay We'll do one and compare it and see what looks better and to see this side how much effort you want to go to All right, so we'll see you on the next section because you've got five different layers that you're gluing together You're gonna end up with a ragged edge I mean probably your pieces are cut a little bit different sizes They may have slipped around during the glue up They might have gotten glued up and you get all sorts of ragged edges I know I did yours is probably better than mine was. So what are you gonna do about it? Well, I'm not gonna sand Till I'm crazy in the face. What I'm gonna do even though what this is too tall For my saw blade to get all the way through it can't reach that high. I got about a little over three inch height so just take your miter slag get up along the edge and you know cut it on one part and then just flip it over and Line it up as best you can and cut the other part and then if you need to flip it over and do it again Just go ahead and do it again. And when you're done, you should be able to get a pretty darn smooth Clean cut on the right-hand side. The total depth doesn't really matter You're not gonna take off that much and trying to achieve that and you might leave a little bit of rag ragged edge Even after that process in which case you're just going to take it and sand it off All right, so so that that's the way to get those edges level without Wearing out your arm sanding