 Hey everybody I'm Lance Goikey and today I'm going to show you one of my many weekend projects that took much longer than a weekend. Mabel had somebody else plane and joint the side so now we can glue them together. We are adding dowels now to get a little bit of structural integrity but also just to help keep the boards aligned so that we don't have to stand off too much of extra here. Got this cool doweling jig that'll take a half inch down and we're just we've been drilling through the wood. So all we've been doing is clamping the wood down in an opposing fashion we were finding it was tipping if we put both the clamps on the same side and then the doweling jig here we select our one half measurement and there's a little line here for the middle of the hole and we just try to line it up that seems about right there and then I've been trying to like brace and clamp down both of these silver sides will come in at the same time. We're near the limit of thickness that this jig will take but it seems to be working really well. After that we stuck our half inch dowels in our half inch holes. It aligned pretty well though the the dowels were kind of loose in there. We just put a bunch of type bond three glue in clamped everything together and left it overnight. It was very sturdy definitely but it wasn't quite level where the seams where the woods were coming together it wasn't even though they're the same thickness there was still some bowing you can see some cupping in this image here. So we filled our knot holes and then spent a lot of time doing some sanding. Okay here's an update where oh my god maybe a month and a half into the project it took a lot of sanding but it is baby's bottom smooth right now. Now we're gonna put these steel C channels in this thing and I needed to carve out a recess for it so it's C shape it's got to be deeper on the sides. All I did was I set up our clamp straight edge and then just pushed it through. Next step is to take out I think it's about a quarter inch we're gonna double check before we do it but all of this needs to come out. We modeled this table build off of a YouTube video from Walker's Woodworks and he recommended buying these C channels and rampa inserts from a company called Bidwell Wood Company. So we picked those up the C channels great it's super finished it doesn't make me feel like it's gonna rust you know and then the inserts what you do is you epoxy it into the wood and that way you can use an allen screw to screw the C channel into the wood. With the surface prepped we decided to start finishing which that's a long story that you'll hear more of soon. We picked the general finishes water-based polyurethane topcoat and in the satin finish I wanted something more matte but I didn't have that available to me at the store and so I went with the satin and ended up kind of liking it. All right so we got this beautiful desk it's still not done we're working on it for months. The problem is we've never done this before we've had to redo a lot of things namely the finish so the finish was drying too quickly we're using a water-based polyurethane and it was drying too quickly it started to bubble like it was literally boiling so what we have to do now is sand off what we've put on already and then we're gonna re-put on the right stuff but inside so we gotta move the table inside and we gotta sand between coats and Allison's not gonna let me sand in the kitchen so I gotta move it in move it out move it in move it out let's get sanding it's not done but I don't know if I can take it anymore it looks pretty good though I'm just worried that when I seal it that it's gonna be how do we say inconsistent like part will be nice and flat shiny and part will be pretty flat but scratchy but this is the underside of the table and we've been working on it for months so I just it might be good enough at this point we decided it was indeed good enough and moved the table back in to restart the finishing process there had been a lot of sanding to remove the the coats of that water-based polyurethane we had already put on it turned out to be really important to finish it inside because of temperature and humidity and it wasn't perfect but it was good enough and it was the underside of the table so after installing the c-channels we flipped it and continued all right so exciting developments we feel like the under surface is done there are so I put the finish on with a foam brush and there are some obvious like overlapping lines that I was under the impression would flatten out but what I think happened is since the table is so long it takes a really long time to go all the way down to apply it all I like I'm trying to do it quick but it starts to dry in minutes literally and I think we got some of it drying and then the next layer like layers on top of that and so that's why it doesn't look like one even coat so what I think we can do is get some sort of finish extender bring out the drying time a little bit we're so close to finishing that I don't want to experiment on a test piece of wood but I might be running to the store still trying to figure that out but next steps are we got to finish the top so we can still prepare the wood we have a couple holes here that need to be filled there is a little bit there pretty tiny a little bit there pretty tiny a little bit there pretty tiny and then this chip in the end is our biggest deal and I've got some feels like the glue is kind of like sticking out now so I do want to go over the whole thing one more time sanding since this is gonna be the top and I don't want it to be too not flat because that would be sad to fill the holes we are going to use some of the sawdust from the orbital sander we're gonna put it in a cup and we're gonna mix it with some of our glue this is just the wood glue type on three that we used to put the pieces together you can use epoxy there's a bunch of really good YouTube descriptions of like comparisons of what they all look like seem to work fine on the other side so we're just gonna go for it you can buy wood filler at the store if that's what you prefer but I I like the idea of putting the sawdust back in it seems really green to me I don't have a scientific process for mixing all of this I just kind of like put some sawdust in there put some glue in there and went until it felt like a good consistency that I could put into the table big goal here is trying to fill the cracks kind of pushing it into the cracks the glue does change the color a bit so make sure you practice on a test piece first I'm a little upset I don't have footage of me routing the sea channels from the under surface of the table but this was my first project using a router and this thing is a beast it's really scary really loud really fast so after doing all of that I was a little more comfortable with it here is me doing the trim with I believe it was a 16th of an inch round over bit after that we brought the table back inside to start doing some finishing it was definitely different not having the cutouts from the sea channel there kind of easier to apply but now I had to get the edges and that was that was difficult this first one actually didn't feel too bad because it would really soaked up the finish but after that I got a lot of dripping it felt like I was putting on too much I ran into a small issue sanding after the second coat because it wasn't quite dry so I was a little worried going into the third application but after the third one it actually looked really good and I was I was surprised but I was really happy to say you know what I think we can call this done now the last important decision is what kind of legs are you going to put it on Allison and I talked about this a lot and she really didn't want it to look like an office desk they didn't want it to feel like an office space but uplift offers a four leg adjustable sit to stand desk that you can put on casters I have one in my office and I just I really liked it so we compromised and that kind of looks a little bit like a kitchen table so I put it all together drilled my holes and attached the desk now it's not cheap it's gonna be at least about a thousand dollars I would say and it took me a long time to work up the courage to spend all of that because they did not sponsor me but I am really happy with it I'm glad we got it it's it does everything that we both wanted and now we have a nice 72 by 30 inch space where we can do work in the kitchen looking back it definitely took longer than maybe it should have but we wanted to go slow we hadn't done a woodworking project since high school and we wanted it to be good we wanted to be something that would last really long and we'd be happy with and I can safely say that we achieve that so I'm really happy with how this thing turned out it is the wood we knew when we bought it but the wood is beautiful I managed to not mess it up I learned how to fill cracks I learned how to glue boards together I learned the importance of everything being flat I learned how long sanding really takes I experimented even with finishing and how long it takes to sand off finish and sometimes that finish will come off into your sandpaper and pretty much nullify your sandpaper it gets really gummy and it doesn't work very well I'm super excited with how this table turned out I hope you guys liked it if you did like this video and you want to build maybe a table on your own leave a comment below tell me what kind of wood you're gonna pick what kind of legs are you gonna choose to that's like a big question for me it was a no-brainer I should overspend on the uplift for leg frame they did not sponsor this video I bought that all with my money but I have two other ones and I just really like them like they they work really well and they're the only ones that have four legs and will adjust height and ergonomics are important but also appearances are important right if you liked the video hit the like button subscribe hit the bell to be notified when I release new videos normally those are on fitness but I do like to dabble in other things so I had to release this one on this table and I'll see you all in the next one