Pocket Hole Sofa Table - 103

this week's project is a pine pocket hole sofa table I've got a solid Pine top two spacious drawers for storage is about 6 in of depth in both of these nice shelf on the bottom for storage and all four of these legs are tapered on two sides so stick around and we'll get started on this project by gluing up some 2x4s for the legs [Music] a [Music] I've milled my legs all down to 2 in x 2 in by 31 in tall and not only are these going to have a slight taper on two sides I also need from 6 in off the bottom I need a mortise in the inside corner of all four of these legs and that's going to accept this bottom panel [Music] [Music] with all the mortises cut on these legs I can start working on the taper and I need to taper two sides of this leg on the two sides that the mortise is located on what I have here is a piece of 3/4 in melamine shelving and I've drilled a series of holes on the bottom side for some te- nuts that way I could use some threaded rod to create some posts to work with now I've already clamped down these two pieces of wood uh combined with these two and this fence down here I've got a repeatable location so that I start my cut 10 in from the top of the leg and I'm removing a/2 in material down here at the bottom to hold it in place I've got a couple more of these little spacer blocks to add to it and uh just clamp it down w [Music] [Music] went ahead and cut my pieces for the face frame of this table now my outside pieces all the way around are inch and a half wide the center piece is 2 in wide and it's spaced so that once I put my drawer fronts on here I will have an even reveal all the way around and right in the middle but I've got all my pieces face down and I'm just going to go ahead and Mark on my pieces where I need to drill for the pocket holes [Music] [Applause] [Music] we're going to use some scrap 3/4 in plywood for the structural part of the sides and the [Music] back with all these structural components done it's a good time for me need to kind of make a mockup assembly to kind of get a feel of what this thing is going to look like see if I want to make any changes real quick um I don't I'm happy with it so now I can finish uh cutting all these pocket holes and putting the whole thing together what I have here is just a Lowe's project panel is what they call them uh this is basically uh I believe this is Spruce it's not Pine there's basically a bunch of small strips glued together and uh you can buy these pre-assembled ready to go uh this is going to save me a lot of time typically I would cut my own pieces glue them together PL them down and make my own panels out of them however I'm really pressed for time for this project so the extra few dollars that this cost totally makes sense to save me some time this is going to be the bottom shelf and the topmost surface on this sofa table I cut these mortises on the legs uh to accept this bottom shelf during assembly and just glue would be fine for this but I want to add a little bit more strength so what I'm going to do is on the bottom side of these shelves I'm going to use my little uh Craig mini I think is what it's called just a small little Craig jig to create a pocket hole on on a diagonal going from the center of the Shelf into the center of the leg I'm cutting a shallow Groove near the top of the inside of all my side pieces and this is to accept some hold down blocks that I'll use to secure the top surface I'm going to start my assembly with the short sides so I've got a couple of the these Quin spacer blocks cuz I want the I want the uh all four sides I want them to be ins set a/4 in from the legs I also have a 3/4 in spacer I'm going to add because I'm going to add 3/4 in molding uh once this is all put together and then I can add my side piece I'm just going to clamp this in place and screw it down next comes the bottom shelf and it gets glued and screwed in place [Music] [Music] I'm going to use this scrap piece of 3/4 in plywood to make all four sides of my drawers now the draw is going to have a false front so I can put this thing together with pocket hole screws uh the screws in the front will be hidden by the false front and the screws on the back of the drawer will be facing the back so you'll never see him unless you pull the drawer completely out [Music] [Applause] [Music] that series of passes on the table saw just created this nice little Groove down at the bottom of all my pieces on the inside of my drawers for the bottom panel to sit in place this is going to be a floating uh floating bottom panel that will just sit in place now the this is the front obviously that's the side now the back piece I'm going to cut off right at this groove right here that way I can assemble the drawer and then slide the bottom panel in and secure it to the bottom of the back piece [Music] got a couple scrap pieces of plywood that I'm going to use for the bottoms of these [Music] drawers to secure the bottom in place I'm going to use a crack screw right in the middle [Music] cut a couple pieces of 2x4 here this one's got an L shape on both sides and this is going to go right in the middle it's going to be secured with the pocket hole screws from below and what this is going to do is it's going to give me a resting surface for the drawer to go against on the bottom and also a vertical surface for the drawer to track perpendicular to the drawer front to make the drawer fronts I'm just cutting up this 1x1 Pine uh I've got a little bit more more material than what I actually need so I could be a little bit more selective as far as the actual piece that I use for each drawer front I'm going to attach these to the drawer boxes from the inside with a few screw on these tables typically I would use pocket hole screws to secure the top to the table itself but uh I chose to use an inch and 1/2 in 1 and 1/2 in width for my face frame which doesn't allow me enough room for the pocket holes you can see here I've drawn a little black line at the endmost point of this pocket hole location screwing in this direction well if I was screwing up into the tabletop itself you can see that my hole would be way down here I we can't do that because I don't have enough material here so instead what I've done is made this groove all the way around uh the entire table and you see this a lot in tables of this size and what that allows me to do is cut this little profile into another piece of wood uh this is a test piece so I still have to cut it down to size but I can slide this once I have these little blocks made I can slide it into this groove and as you can see this top surface is lower than this side surface which means I will not bottom out and with my little block here I can drill a hole in the middle put my tabletop on top of this and secure it from the bottom with the top piece cut to size both of my drawers finished and ready for a profile it's now time to work on the last final touches and because this drawer front is going to have a chamfer on all four sides this top piece is going to have a chamfer on three sides I want to dress up this side a little bit it looks kind of boring so I'm going to put some uh probably 1 in wide uh 3/4 in thick molding in there just the same way you do like a picture frame and have a little champer on the inside of that [Music] [Music] [Music] n [Music] [Music] well that wraps up this week's project uh this is proportionately for the size of a sofa table that's what I'm going to call it as a sofa table however this is going to go in someone's bathroom um this was requested to be unfinished and the person who bought it is going to finish it themselves so I have absolutely no clue what this is going to end up looking like hopefully I'll get a picture within a week or two and post it on my website so you guys can see if you like this project and you want to see more like it click that subscribe button over there if you want to see more videos like this 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