So, I Made a Thing... Turning Free Wood into a Beautiful Coffee Table

today we craft a beautiful coffee table from a single slab of olive wood enjoy [Music] this one has been a present by the wonderful people over on designholds.com link in the description this is where i get most of my hard work from and i decided to finally create something from it let's create a little coffee table with live edge and the like from it i think it's going to make for a very cool table so let's go ahead and get started [Music] let's at first prepare the lumber a bit my trusty draw knife makes quick work of removing the bark i got rid of it mainly because i'm afraid of it separating from the finished table once it has been placed in a climate at home [Music] next i got rid of some bark stuck in holes that will later fill with black epoxy using my chisel at first for the rough work i then took my dremel and removed all the remaining bark that could pose a problem for later epoxy adhesion on one side of the slab i had a bit of wood that seemed to have broken off so i quickly removed those two centimeters with my table saw [Music] now for the first epoxy preparations olive wood is red light in color so for the black epoxy to not stain the wood fibers around the cracks i decided to seal off the wood head first with some clear epoxy resin [Music] after the resin cured overnight i began to see the bottom and the sides of the slab with some strong duct tape and also a few old pieces of wood and a bit of hot glue just to make sure that nothing is going to trip out of me then it came the black resin pretty straight forward two to one mix of aprodex epoxy and a bit of black pigment paste [Music] and boom one day later we've got a fine stitched up table top that we can further work with some small cracks were still left to be filled though so i took my black c8 lure and some accelerator spray and dealt with these immediately after that i cut off the remaining ugly edge of the slab and sent both sides flat with an 80 grit next came the trickiest part the slab was slightly bowed when it got sent to me it was also only 1.5 centimeters thick that meant i was not able to flatten it any further since it was already hella thin so i had to get creative and instead of flattening the slab i decided to keep it square by force with some steel since it was so thin i was not able to install seat channels though so i went with some 0.5 centimeter flat steel after marking the positions of the steel and the legs i cut out some ply that will serve as a simple steel insert jig for my rounder [Music] fixing the ply in place with some double-sided tape i then adjusted my router's dev stop such that the steel bars will be flush with the bottom of the slab [Music] then it was off to routing with a template bit this part was pretty straightforward and it didn't take too long and to get a perfect fit i took my spicy corner and regular chisel isn't just mirrors that fit looking kinda thick marking the respective positions i then took my hand drill and screwdriver to place three threaded inserts per leg and once that was done i went over to my drill press and trapped my hands on my very first time of drilling through metal after lubricating with some machine oil it was really easy to drill through it only to a couple of seconds was easier than i expected it would be [Music] after all the small holes were done i also countersunk quite deeply with a bigger drill this is where my threaded inserts will slide into next i tempered the outside edges with a 45 degree router bit shape the live edge contours with my rotary hand sanded quite forwardly and removed some sharp corners with my file once that was done i added the threaded inserts for the steel bars those were one centimeter long so in order to make them fit into the thin table i had to let them stick out a bit that was also quite a tricky part took quite a while to figure out hence the countersunk holes in the steel i mentioned before and after screwing down the steel i checked the table with my level and lo and behold the bow in the wood was completely gone that worked out magically now the grand finale setting all the way up from an 80 grit to a 320 grit water popping and sanding again from 180 to 320. i was then ready to finish the bottom side and add the steel for good and now let's just quickly repeat the same intimate sanding on the top and the sides and then it was about time to add the final finish on the top of the coffee table that satar met hard wax oil by lignocolor by the way just in case you were wondering link down in the description holy look at that ridiculous crane it really pops once i buff the finish again with a soft wool pad olive wood is just something else ridiculous and here's the final reveal enjoy [Music] and if you did indeed enjoy what you've seen today why not make sure to like the video and also subscribe to the channel it would help out the channel massively also don't forget to watch some other videos here on this channel all relevant links down there in the description and up until the next video i wish you guys a flammable day see ya [Music] [Music] so i just now took pictures for the thumbnail of this video and i went over to our living room and it seems like our cat hannah really enjoys the new table it seems to be hers now yeah she's been crawling upon the table for the last 10 minutes or so and she just can't stop rubbing herself against the coffee table and joy um yeah glad to know that at least one person enjoys the table how it is is that right hannah are you cute one that looked weird