Reclaimed Wood Dinning Table

hey what's going on guys Alex here for mister build it so quick backstory last spring we got a current house and the deck and pergola was extremely out-of-date the last owners didn't really take care of it then reseal it didn't do anything so over the course about 15 years we got the most perfect Douglas fir barn wood to work with it's about a two by eights and all the materials and so let's see if we can create a really cool dining-room table so without wasting your time let's get into the video now their overall dimensions at the table are 39 inches wide 80 inches long and it's about thirty and a half inches tall the what we're using is a two by six and the thickness is as you typical two by six they'll be one and a half inch in thickness we're expecting to be a little bit smaller just because we're gonna run it through the surface planer in the jointer to get rid of some of the warping though we see alright so these are two by six boards one of the first things we want to do is kind of to size but then make sure we get somewhat of an even flat surface top area now the big secret here is gonna be to make sure that we don't take too much surface area off with our jointer and our planer that will we keep the cool weather looks on it so we're gonna be bare minimum runs on our jointer our planer and on our table saw so let's get started [Music] now one of the issues when it comes to working with a barn wood or a weathered wood of any kind is really the alignment during the glue up especially because you're not creating absolutely perfect flat boards you want to keep a lot of that cool distressed look to it so my go to all the time is gonna be the best ole Domino what it does it creates a false mortise in and then you buy these tenants to put in and then they're so tight but you can actually line them up without having the wood move too much so you kind of get what you pay for so that's really exciting [Music] so I love working in the garage with the kids it's cool we're making memories but man yeah it gets frustrating you know they're trying to get into things and you're trying to finish the project so we drop the kids off at the sitter's house and so we're gonna go back to the shop and get this table knock table all right so since our table top is being glued up right now we're gonna get started on the legs the legs are basically random pieces that were cut off from the wood that we have leftover I arranged them in about a fashion where it's about 26 inches across they're 29 inches deep plus the extra inch and a half to will roughly be about the 30 30 and a half inches in height [Music] [Applause] now when it comes to the ends of the table I don't want exposed wood especially you can see the grain it's yellow it's orange specifically because it's a red wood and so it's not really gonna flow with the look of this table so bread boards are gonna be my go-to now bread boards are essentially end caps for the table and there's a little bit of a technique when it comes to installing bread and pools as you saw in the video I've put a bunch of tenants that are going all the way through on each board now all the tenants are mostly loose tenants I means they can move a little bit inside of the slide but the center tenant is a tight tenant now the center tenant is what keeps the bread board on along with dowels on the ends this will prevent my boards from moving you can't pull it off and the same time it will it will give it and at the same time it will give room for the table to expand and contract as it gets hot cold humidity changes now for the finishing touches on our table we're going to lay down a couple of layers of clear coat water-based polyurethane I usually go with Minwax is the easiest easiest available for me on my local stores and I don't have to thin it out I can just put it right into my airless paint sprayer [Music] [Applause] well that's it for us this week I hope you guys enjoyed this video if you did hit me with a thumbs up I like me rack me some comments down below make sure you hit subscribe a video goes out every single Friday and I don't want you to miss anything signing off this week we'll see you next Friday see ya