 Welcome back to the channel. It's time to make our table for the fish cave. Let's get to work We're gonna take this nasty old reclaimed lumber. We're gonna sand it down Smooth it out make a nice smooth surface for our table. I'll also mention it's a hundred and seven out here I think my lungs are sweating. Hopefully there's no asbestos or anything crazy on this wood I'm about to dust up. I've already got enough problems with my face It was on that wood. I was scraping it. There's a bunch of stuff on there I'm praying to God. Please Jesus that it wasn't asbestos. I'm not sure what that stuff looks like. It could have been some Lead-based stuff back in the day that was used on some of this flooring. Maybe some, I know it's old So, you know, I see all those asbestos commercials on TV. It's like, hi, I'm Jim Adler Come get your mesothelioma. I hope I don't have a bunch of comments after this video saying that it is asbestos Because I don't think this mask Is really OSHA approved. Put a lot of love into this table. This is going into the bass cave Trying to put some pride into my work here. Make it extra special for you guys. Again, I am not an expert Uh, I did not go to school for this. I watched a few youtube videos and I got a few buddies I'm literally just uh, going to home depot getting some sanding equipment. If this thing turns out good Then you know for sure that you too can make a sweet Outdoorsman style old farmhouse style, whatever you want to call it old wood table out of reclaimed wood You can find it at on people's properties So if you got the time and the energy and you practice your abc's always be creating which I've been doing here lately Here at the treehouse is actually it's it's uh, always be creating always be crafting and always be fixing abs as well I can do it You can do it and it's time to move on to the next step The next step is to clean the bird doo doo and the cobwebs off of these other boards that I found So these are going to be the outline of our table top and they're going to show a lot So I want them to look good So I've already taken the time with the old pencil and I've sketched out everything and done some mathematics It's always my worst subject The longest part of our table is going to be five feet even for being old and being out in the sun Just drying out for over a hundred years. It is still heavy and thick That's a cool little character marks on it too. So this is going to sit stick out like this Take my brush and then put a stick on it. I've got more push At this point, is there anything else? Let me know in the comments that could do this quicker Like could you put a brush on a drill? Does that sort of thing exist? I feel like I'm really doing some serious manual labor on this thing. If I take a sander to it It's just like refining the dust even more into it. I still have to brush it So what is that next step after that? I'm not pretending like I know So I'm sitting here asking y'all. I mean, obviously by the time you're watching this I'm going to figure something out or I'm just going to keep pushing this brush That is a deadly looking spider that's just landed on me by the way The other thing you get was reclaimed wood nasty bugs some compressed air Right here and I'm going to blow a lot of the dirt out need to find a little bit better technique than the brush that I've been Used let me show you that. This is the brush that I've been using right here. It's a stiff A brass it looks like brass Bristle brush It's a little too rough. It takes away the character of the wood And if I hit it with some heavy grit sandpaper It's going to take the the characters off of it a little bit, but what it's also going to do It's not going to get down there into that dirt where it is. This will get down there into that dirt But it's just too aggressive That is some air right there That is some pressure On this side is not as grainy and you could really see the color the wood changing. It's beautiful Okay, so I lightly hit it With that 100 I'm going to have to do this on all these pieces, but it just brought out the color So I went ahead and I hit the corners a little bit more Because that's probably going to be where my arms are going to be resting On the table where I'm showing you guys different fishing stuff and talking about life So this is the part where I wanted to be kind of soft roll over so I hit the edges with that But just I don't want to take this away You know the old saw The old saw marks just that roughness That's going to be the the top edge of the table right there So I wanted to have that cool character So I'm going to have to complete that process on the rest of these I got four of those we're going to cut them and then we're going to break out something I've never done before it's supposedly really good for beginner woodworkers or just people that are Trying to get some projects done in a quick amount of time. That's called using a crack jig My buddy Lance showed it to me. It's great for joining corners. So that's the next step This is a multiple day project, but I'm taking my time with it. I want to make sure it's right And I think you guys are going to like the end result Hey, mr. Kitty Don't worry guys. He's dead caught him on a trot line I'm about to clean this catfish on this old piece of wood before I get to restoring it So I'm going to give it one last dirty job before it's all nice and pretty. Thank you Jesus for this overcast I think I actually felt a raindrop as well What a blessing from this texas. He it is right now guys. It's given me motivation So what I'm learning here the way to treat this really old wood if you guys are looking to just do some simple Home project and maybe use some reclaimed wood or you know, just spruce up your man cave a little bit This one came it was in rough condition And what I did is I went through a series of brushes. I finally learned that this 4 inch bristle brush is really good Put that on an electric drill You gotta be careful of that trigger that'll get kind of out of hand in a hurry It really helps rip out that deep dirt within the cracks of this wood and brings out its old natural color So I've got four of these really long pieces. I've definitely got enough to do the tabletop These are about 10 foot a piece. It's going to be five feet wide So this is going to be two of my pieces right here So I got to just clean this up a little bit more show you guys how I do that to restore all this natural beauty This is probably going to be the most important cut that I'm going to make This is the main piece of wood the longest one running down the table Measuring twice probably three or four times and then cutting once because I only have one piece that has this type of character It's almost exactly 10 feet. I can't screw up because the table is going to be five foot This is the main cut. That's what I'm trying to get at. I can't screw this up Wow Big split in the middle of this as well and I didn't want it to crack This thing cut through it nicely. Now I can have a beer Beautiful piece of wood Now I'm going to hit this with some 220 grit sandpaper Kind of a finishing sandpaper. I'm going to get these rough edges off of here pretty much how I want it I'm going to do a very fine 400 grit sandpaper when it comes time to put a little fish finish on it But for right now, I'm just going to smooth these corners out and then we'll move on So we got those old boards cut. They're looking absolutely fantastic I can't wait to finish them up and just put it in the man cave and smell it Best part about this is just knowing what we are taking And turning it into and I'm watching it transform excited for the before and after Super important part now as well is taking Our other two pieces of wood and I'm choosing this one because of all the character marks in it, you guys can probably see Some of that action is still a little bit of cleaning up to do all that The problem with dealing with some of this old wood is that it's not exactly accurate For example, this two by four, which is typically an inch and a half By thickness, you know, it's range from an inch and a 16th inch and an eighth Maybe a little bit over. I'm also grinding on it a little bit. It's been over a hundred years. I mean Things are happening and then I've got these cool little floorboards that I'm using for the top And those will lap in together. They'll fit in together But a lot of the the lapping portion is broken off So some is kind of warped and so you're going to get expansion What I'm going to go on is that these are Kind of going to be around an inch and a half Eight of the boards together is going to make 26 inches because they're an inch and a quarter wide add that up with a couple of these We're going to turn this way so inch and a half plus inch and a half three inches, which equals? Yes, 29 inches. We've got plenty of room to play with this one so we can make an error or two But we're not going to and I'm hoping that this wood fits together nicely and that's going to equal 26 inches right now It's at 26 and an eight so I got a little bit of room to play Shaved down as you can see it doesn't all fit together perfectly But we're going to make that way. It's just going to take some effort. Let's mix the cuts Clean out brushwork all these smaller pieces Look at the color change in that wood after cleaning up with that brush You look at that and go oh that sucks that thing's all dried out. You give it a little love and attention And it is a beaut It'll get even darker the more I brush it We're going to finish up with just a hair bit of sanding Of that 220 grit. I don't even know how many days this has been on this project guys that All I know is it's going to be worth it. It's going to look fantastic when I get done Something's going down in Texas. You don't have much time left here today We're going to smooth this baby out and then it's going to be time to fit it together Well fishing freaks wood crafters and everyone else that's here I wanted to close this video out just letting you know that there is a table and it has been Just about done. I've never done a big project like this and filmed it And what I found over the course of many many days is I ended up recording Everything that I could and I ended up with about 400 gigs of footage Now my typical fishing video normally runs about 30 to 60 gigs of footage And that's fishing a whole day with multiple cameras. So just to give you a comparison There's a lot to go through here getting the wood preparing it building it figure out. I don't know what I'm doing Stanky boards that look like this Researching asking for help and then just going through each step failing until I get it exactly right in the way I want it it's cut into my outdoor time And I haven't made as much fishing videos lately because of this table But I got to tell you guys working on this kind of stuff. I love it I'm into it so many wood projects to do at the treehouse It's a helpful skill to have to learn all this woodworking craft I want you to go ahead right now and let me know what you think about woodcraft in the comments Do you think it ties in with the outdoors? I certainly think it does We've got people already reaching out wanting to do woodcraft collaborators other people with Woods metals other things there's things happening here But let me know in the comments and don't forget to subscribe right here to the channel guys Go ahead and hit the ding dongs for all the notifications so you don't miss a single board being put together Hope you're having a blessed day wherever you are guys, and I will see you on the next one peace