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- this past summer i had agreat opportunity to appear as a guest on tommy mac'swoodworking show, rough cut. it's pbs show so noteverybody got to see it because it just dependson what city you live in and what your local station does. so i contacted them andasked if it'd be possible to run the show in the woodwhisperer feed, untouched, and this way everybody wouldhave a chance to see it, if you're so interested.
so that's what i'vegot for you here today, an opportunity to checkout the entire episode, when i flew out to boston and built a project with tommy mac. here it is. and i gotta get back to work. - hi, i'm tommy macdonald. everybody knows, i love mirrors. this week on rough cut we're building this hall tree and bench.
it's the perfect projectfor that space in your home where the gang just drops all their gear. we have the hooks on the top and this awesome flip-top bench. we have ton of work to getto today, so no road trip, but i will be joinedright here in the studio by internet woodworkingsensation marc spagnuolo who's gonna break down theframe-and-panel construction. it's all coming up next,right here on rough cut.
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work safer, work smarter. pony tools, quality builtfor every generation. steel city tool works. bywoodworkers, for woodworkers. - all right guys, sayhello to my friend marc. - tommy, how you doing? - [tommy] dude, good to see you.- [marc] good to see you. - back on the east coast? - absolutely, it's been a while. - i've known marc since 2005
and if there's anybody outthere that's web-savvy, you definitely recognize thatface as the wood whisperer. you've been doing woodworkingfor at least what, 10 years now on the web, right? - yeah. 10 on the web, 15 myself. - we have been trying to gettogether to build a project so finally this is theweek where him and i are gonna collaborate andbuild this project here. - a decade later.
- so what do you think, man? - absolutely gorgeous.great contrasting woods, great curves, compound curvelegs, right up my alley. - i know you love contrasting woods so we chose walnut and butternut and i think it reallyadds for a great detail. - yeah, and i think withcontrast you can go too far, and i think this is a nice complementary contrast, if you will.
- this project here is built in two parts. the top is just a big frame-and-panel, we can toss it off to the side, but if you look at thebottom down here, right marc, i know that you love these curves here, kind of asian-inspired, right?- [marc] yeah. - now what i love about this project is that i'm getting a little old, right? so i need to sit down onsomething when i put my shoes on.
but i know you have a two year old, right? - yeah. mateo, i call him my apprentice, and something like this is great storage. - mateo! what's up, buddy? how you doing? this is perfect for him becausehe can throw all his toys and his gear right inside here. - absolutely. toys all over the house when you have a two yearold so you need this stuff. - what do you say we gocheck out the material
and break down this box? - let's do it. - we have four legs, eight rails. the legs are made out of walnut and the rails are made out of butternut. this is where you can reallymake this project your own. - totally customizable. - this box is 18 inchestall, 18 inches wide, 42 inches long.
what i want to talk about are the legs. right down here at the bottomthis leg is three inches wide. now mark, it's really hard to get thick boards sometimes, right? - yeah, it is hard tofind and it's expensive. - we, as woodworkers,have a really neat trick and you're just gonna love this one. break it down for us. - if you mill these boards properly
you can put two boards together to get a much thicker board. it gives the illusion of a single board. so if you line up thegrain, on the end grain here you can see it continuesthrough these two pieces. and if it matches upthere, that's a good chance that on the face it'sgoing to match up as well and that glue line just disappears. - now make sure when youglue these boards together
that you hit it with a hand plane to make sure you have a reallynice, tight joint. right? - yep. - so wheel this out of the way and we can break down the parts. - over here on the benchyou can see that i have a piece of 8/4 walnut and we have a piece of 4/4 butternut. when it came time to milling this stock
i basically just cut it apart, marc, until i could get allmy pieces comfortably. you need to make surethat you mill it properly, which is joiner, thicknessplaner, stick it overnight, hit it with a hand planerand then glue them up and cut these blanks to the final size. now when it came time tothe rails, what did we do? - pretty much the same thing. side by side as long as the board
is wide enough toaccommodate more than one. move around bad grain,knots, things like that so you can get somegood stock side by side and it matches pretty wellbecause it's from the same board. - that's right, and it alwaysis helpful if you identify the two pieces for the front and the back, stuff that might be a littlebanged up for the back. - yeah, nicest stuff in the front. - what do you say we grabthe rails, i'll grab the legs
and we can do some joinery.- [marc] let's do it. - now for this project wedecided to use loose tenons. - yep. simple and strong. - what is a loose tenon? you can see right here on the leg blank i have these holes right here. and check it out, on the rail i have another correspondinghole like that. the beautiful thing is,
this little piece of wood is the tenon. a little dab will do you of glue. put it in one side, then put this side on, bam, just like that. - doesn't get easier. - now with this projectit's really important that you make sure you getthe grain orientation correct on the front of our project. so do yourself a favor,
take the time and draw a triangleon the top of your pieces once you decide where they're going to be. this way you'll alwaysmake sure you have nice, straight grain on thefront of the project. show us how we make these loose tenons. - this is a great little tool here. if you push out the cutterhead that's gonna rotate and move back and forth andcreate a nice, clean mortise. - it's basically a router bit, right?
- yeah, it's pretty much arouter bit, a router on its side. the good thing is youdon't necessarily need a fancy tool like this to do this. you can do it with a routerand a simple edge guide. - i suppose you couldeven do it by hand, right? - you could, you could. - take a while. (laughs) - it might take a while, yeah. takes a little practicebut it can be done.
let's secure this to the workbench. this is a handheld tool but things can still get away from you so you absolutely needto secure it in place, and some eye protection, ear protection, we should be ready to go. - it's a must around here. grab your gear, i'll grab my gear, we'llmake a couple of cuts. - for this tool, really it's all about
layout and center lines. you've got center linesalready built into the tool and we have our layoutlines here ready to go. you just line it up, pushit in and you're done. so let's make a cut. i'll go ahead and make asecond one while we're here. and just like that you've got two beautiful mortises ready to go. - okay, cool. now when itcomes time to doing the rail,
what's up? - rails are pretty much the same thing. we do have to changea setting on the tool, bringing the fence down. we'll secure this one inplace with a clamp again. we have our layout lines inplace on the workpiece itself. and once again line up thecenter lines and plunge. - that's really fast, huh? - just like that, man. so quick.
put in our tenon here. - sweet. now the next thing we need to do is talk about these grooves. i'm gonna go do the grooves and you do the rest of the mortises. - sounds good. - to make these grooveswe decided to do it right here at the shaper.
i have a quarter inch bitset a quarter of an inch high and my fence is set atthe appropriate distance. i took the time to mark where my bit is because what we're gonna be doing is a stop cut and a plunge cut. (chuckles) we're also gonna bedoing lefts and rights. this is really complicated if you don't keep your head above you so make sure you do yourself afavor and you set up a block.
what this block is gonna allow me to do is drop my piece of wood over a moving bit without it flying. then i can pass it right over the bit until it hits this one here. i'm gonna make the right-hand cuts first, which means that the foot of the block needs to be facing forward. now that i have all my rights done,
what i need to do is move myblock to the proper locations. move this one down here. now i'm gonna flip myblock around this way to make my four cuts. awesome, right? now thati have all four legs done, let's get setup for our rails. by the time i got donewith all those posts, marc had all my mortises done. now let's talk about thelayout for the groove.
it's a quarter of an inchby a quarter of an inch. since our little mortisesright here are off-center we really need to make surewe mark it out properly. what i do is i've made an x on my face and then i made a couple of lines where my grooves aregonna go, on all my pieces and then i lined them up the same way and i stacked them up, makingsure i didn't make a mistake. now to cut that groove i'm gonna
do it right here at the shaper. the quarter inch bit is still in there, it's a quarter of an inch high, i put the big fence onhere and i have it set just so this groove is gonnabe about center on my rail. i put my magnetic featherboard down to make sure it staysup tight to the fence. now again, make sure that you take the x side of your pieceup against the fence
with the groove lines on the edge, hold it down there, and makesome cuts, nice and safe. now it's time to talk aboutthe shaping on our legs. if you look at our projectyou can see that we have this really beautiful, graceful curve, not only on the front of this piece but on the side as well. the back posts only havea curve on the face of it and it's flat right to the back.
we want it flat to the back because want this piece to goright up tight to the wall. and we have this really hugerabbet right here in the back. so marc, how do we get allthat info on these blocks? - you start with that rabbet because we have that verticalpost that has to go in place. it's got a nice, smooth rabbetalong the back of the leg and of course we've thinned this down so they're a little bit morenarrow so again, like you said,
it sits nice and flat. but of course we've got curves to cut. you can't really just freehand a curve, you really should have a template. and this template materialis nice and flexible. it's cheap so if you mess up, no problem. i usually take a little french curve. i have a bunch of curves, just preset curves thati use for various things,
but whatever looks good. bottom line is the feet arejust a little bit bottom heavy and it gives a littlevisual weight to the piece. so once you have this template, it's really as easy as drawingit on to the workpiece. so i usually just lay my workpiece down, get this guy flush to theback, flush to the bottom. of course we'll be ableto cut this piece away and because this is flexible
we'll be able to use thisagain on the cut face to do the other curve. - that's right, becausewe're cutting this from the back corner so youjust cut your line off. - right, absolutely. - all right, man. whatdo you say i cut these and i'll be right back. (upbeat music) coming off the bandsaw, marc,i don't care how good you are
or how sharp that bandsaw is, that surface is definitelygonna need some cleanup. - yeah, always. you could even take alittle bit of chalk there or something to give you a visual guide but ultimately you'reknocking down those high spots and when it's nice and smoothit should be consistent. - and ultimately it's gonnalook just like this, right? - absolutely, that'swhat you're going for.
- this is probably gonna takeyou about 15 to 20 minutes, depending on how quick youare with these tools, right? - yeah. - so let's say you bang that one out then we can dry fit our box.- [marc] sounds good. - now it's time for assembly. marc, i gotta tell you, i lovethe way this goes together. - [marc] it's great, isn't it? - and these curves arereally, really sweet.
it didn't take too long, right? - no, and it's worth the effort. - the best way to glue this together is obviously the long side first. lay it on his back right. then we can take our short rails and put them right on the tenons. now is there anything to keep in mind? - just try and get everythingas square as possible.
we don't have clamps on here yet so we can almost movesthings around a little bit. but start off square andhopefully it'll end up square. - yeah, cool. now let's grab the front. we already have a clamp on it and hopefully it's gonnago together nice and easy. sweet. turn it upright. put a couple more clamps on it. if we had some glue we'd be done,
but what we need to do isthe layout for our panels. so check it out. i've already got our panels made. made out of butternut, and they are sweet. - beautiful stock. really nice. - the challenge withtrying to get panels inside something like this is howdo you lay it out accurately. what i like to do is grabmy combination square and i hold it right inside my groove.
this way i can come across the front, make a mark all the way around, then from there i measure accurately. and then i can cut these panels perfectly. it's also helpful if youcut a lot of the same board so the grain pattern looksperfect all the way around. these are half an inch. that groove is a quarterinch, marc, so we really need to buzz this down tofit inside that groove.
i'm gonna do that at the table saw. you can see that i have my dado blade set so i'm able to cut aquarter by quarter rabbet. real, real simple. i'm just gonna go around allfour sides on all four pieces then head back and see marc. moment of truth. time to glue up this box. - this is it. favoritepart of the project. - it definitely paysdividends to make sure
you are prepared, you have enough clamps and you have all the glueand everything you need here to have a nice, smooth glue up. - yeah, you don't wannabe running around the shop at a time like this. - what marc is doing, he's putting some finish on these panels.- [marc] a little bit of finish. we did a wiping varnishfinish, about one coat, and just some wax.
gives it a nice, satin smoothfeel and some protection. - what do you say webang this thing together? what good is a box if there'sno bottom in it, right marc? - yeah, things will kindof just fall through. - what we did is i justcut a 3/4 by 3/4 cleat and i glued and screwed itto the bottom of the frame. now what do you have for the bottom? bottom here, just twoboards glued together and of course we have to notch the corners
because it's gotta be able to fit, and we have to allow for wood movement. drop it in like so, carefully, and it goes right on top of those cleats. - perfect. now when it came tothe lid, really simple stuff. i just glued and screweda piece on the back, i chose a couple of pieces ithought looked really cool, and then basically justhinged it right to it, and it works just like this here.
now let's talk about myfavorite aspect of this design. it's this complicated-looking frame, huh? - it's great. lots of curves. your initial reaction whenyou look at it might be, "wow, this is gonna be reallytough to build," but it's not. - i know, it's really simple, right. you can see that we have acouple legs here in the back. we have these notcheshere that are flush to the back rabbet of the leg
and it goes together just like this making sure that the entirething is flush to the back. - real clever system backthere with the notches too. - now since it's screwed together it's really easy to screw apart so if you needed to move ityou can move it in two pieces. - can you imagine moving this and this thing just gets snapped off? that would be a bad day, so yeah,
absolutely, removing it is essential. - what do you say wego bang out the frame. it's really prettysimple. we have two posts, a top rail, a mid rail and a bottom rail. the top rail and the midrail are held together with these funky joints right here. they're called half-laps. the first thing i neededto do was make my post. this curve is just like the foot.
make a curve that's pleasingto you, cut it on the bandsaw and either clean it up on arouter or with hand tools. now with the bottom i have this long part, this is so i can screw it to the box. i just cut the shoulders on the table saw then removed all thematerial with my bandsaw. to glue this bottom rail to both posts, basically just like the frame. i put a couple of floating tenons in it
and glued it all together. the challenge is howdo we glue these pieces together on a curve. so marc, break it down for us. - let me introduce you to mylittle friend, the pattern bit. one of my absolutefavorite bits ever created. it's bearing-guided at the top here and the blade cutsright along that bearing so if we can referencethis from a straight edge
we're gonna have exactlywhat we need for this and yeah, this is curved, but if i have a straight reference surface it doesn't matter if it's curved. so what we've got here area couple of support boards, these are just cut from some plywood. if we could run these across parallel to that rail at the bottom that we have we know that the bearing is going to
ride along that and stay parallel so we should be able to get that lap joint right in the right location. - what we have here is apiece of half-inch doubled up. why do we like that? - gives it a little extrasurface for the bearing to ride and sometimes with the length of that bit you gotta have enough there.one inch gives us what we need. we just measured up theappropriate distance,
now we need to screw this down. - yep. screw that in place. - it's always a good idea to double check to make sure everything's cool, right? - measure twice, cut once. (tommy laughs) - perfect. what do we have to do next? - well that is the startingpoint of the routing process and it's a pretty wide half-lap,
it's the width of this rail. so if we don't have tomeasure, why should we bother? we can use the workpiece itself. wedge that in there. take our next piece, press it up against there nice and tight. pull that guy out of there. now we have the perfect reference point to use this pattern bitreferencing from this edge and then this edge, andit should be perfect.
- so what do you say wegrab some safety gear and make a couple cuts.- [marc] sounds good. - that is really pretty smooth, right? - it's almost too good to be true. - i noticed you did it in two passes. - i did, yeah. with a bit that size, when you're removing thatmuch wood, for safety reasons you really should takeit in a couple of bites. - when it comes to making the mid rail
i grab my piece of stock and i put it right insidethe channel that you made and you can see that they're still proud. so i took the time and iscribed the inside of it and i got my lines righthere. check it out. now all i need to do is cutthe other half of the joint over at the table saw. i'll be right back. we're gonna be using the ripfence and the miter gauge. i have a dado blade set hereat the appropriate height
and the fence is at theappropriate distance. i'm gonna do one little pass. triple check to make sure that it's nice and parallel with my line. remove all the material on one side. then i'm gonna flip the board, change the angle with the miter gauge and make the other half of the cut. nice! now i just need to dothe same thing to the top piece
and head back and see marc. let's see how this half-lap goes together. - [marc] if it fits perfectly,you get to buy me a pizza. - [tommy] (chuckles) all right. yeah, nice. pepperoni?- [marc] call it up, man. now what we need to do, basically, is the same thing to the top, marc, and glue it all together. and it looks just like this,man. it looks awesome, right?
- [marc] it's beautiful. - [tommy] and i really lovethe way that this curve on the sides connects to the top. - [marc] so nice. - the challenge is how do we get a rabbet for the backboards and the top. if you look over here at the finished one you can see that we havethis rabbet right here that houses our half inch backboards.
they can stay nice and flush to the back. now with the top it's two cuts. one is for the thickness of the glass and the other is for a piece of plywood. i suppose there's a lot ofdifferent ways you could do this. - you could certainly use a rabbeting bit. if you wanted to youwould follow the curve, but then you gotta get yourglass cut to the same curve. - you better be reallygood with a glass cutter.
- yeah, so it makes it awhole lot more difficult. so we've got another way to do it. we actually already did thatbefore with the pattern bit. - it's the same exact setup, right? - exactly. all right, tommy. check thisout, you're gonna love this. the same rails that we used before are now at a 90 degree angle and we're gonna use themfor the routing process
to create this rabbet here. - so it really doesn't matterthat these posts are curved? - no, not at all, because we'recreating a square reference and the router bit, thesame one we used before, can ride right along that reference line. now here's the key, becausewe do have a ship lat back going in here, we need some screw surface. so you want to be at least a half an inch at this skinniest point here.
- yeah, at the furthestpoint of the curve, right? - exactly, and where it goes from there doesn't quite matter because it's just gonnaget fatter at that point. - i suppose you're gonnado a two pass system here because it is a lot of material, right? - same thing as before.you take off too much you risk the router kindof running away from you which is no fun.
- now what about the top half? - pretty much the same thing.we'll just be moving these rails wherever we needthem to create a series of facets instead of a curve. - cool. what do you say we getcracking then we can bring it home. - when it came to the backboards all i do is i just milled down somebutternut to about a half an inch and they're about six inches wide and then i cut some rabbets on them
so they all interlocktogether, right marc? - [marc] right.- so how do they go together? - it's a classic ship lat so you've got the rabbet on both sides. of course we've got therabbet around the frame. these pieces just drop in. they hold each other in placebut they still allow for movement, there's spacebetween each board. - and you know what, it looks awesome
because if you can look at this panel now it looks really, really great and i think that it adds that old world design to a pretty contemporarydesign of these curves. when it came to the mirror,obviously this is the backside. hey, where'd you come from? - how's it going.(tommy laughs) hey, he looks just like me. now, what happened is ineeded to cut the angle
so i could get inside marc'srabbet around this curve. it's gonna go in just like this, man. you need to be really careful with glass because it will cut you, right marc? - i think already have a cut, so ... - it goes inside the rabbet just like so. now grab that piece of plywood. what do we have right there? - quarter inch plywood,it's a nice backer for it.
protects it, holds it in place. - it really feels secure, thatthis isn't gonna go anywhere. - especially with these screws in place. - what are they, number sixes or whatever? - eh, number six, about 3/4 inch. - just make sure thescrews aren't too long where they pop through the front, right? - that would be a disaster. last screw.
- oh-hoh! huh? - [marc] job well done.- [tommy] it is beautiful, right man? - [marc] oh yeah.- [tommy] give me some. - nicely done, man. looks good. - i really love the contrasting woods of the walnut and the butternut. - yeah, great blend,little bit of contrast but this is gonna age nicely. - and the curves, unbelievable, right?
the curves on the top andhow they tie into the bottom. - it's really thatclassic-meets-contemporary sort of thing. - yeah. now we just took the time to add a couple of our coat hooksbut i suppose you could just turn a couple ofdowels if you want to. - yeah, you could buy thehardware, you could turn it. do what you want to do; it's your piece. - now my favorite aspect,still, is the lid, marc, because i know i'm justgonna fill it up with shoes
and a bunch of junk buti'm sure that your son will probably just fillit with toys, right? - we need more storage, bottom line. yeah, too many toys inthe house, so, perfect. - now, talk about the finish. - well, we went with a wiping varnish, so you can apply asmany coats as you want. that's the great thing about it. so if you need more protection,
maybe this is going in a mud room, you could put more coats on there. - cool, but you knowwhat i gotta tell you, not only is this perfect for hiding stuff, but it's also perfect-- - for two old guys to relax. this is nice. - i always tell you guys.it's always more fun to bring a friend into your shopand collaborate together to build a beautifulwork of art, right, man?
- collaboration, youlearn, you can share ideas and you just really come upwith a really nice design. - i gotta tell you, i had a blast today. i hope you did too. this is marc spagnuolo,i'm tommy macdonald and we'll see you next time,right here on rough cut. table saws, bandsaw, routers, hand planes, chisels and much more. and employees who love woodworkingjust as much as you do.
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