A different way to attach table legs

Building a table for the kids to do their crafts on, and a different way of attaching the table legs, without an "apron" around it. Simpler and leaves more room under the table, but makes it less stiff. But the hardwood trim helps to stiffen up the table top.
More table builds:
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[@prozacgod]

I love how your channel is still around after ... forever... I don't even know anymore... but you still make projects we can all relate too and I love it. Life long loyal viewer! It makes me sad how many tuber's will get bigger and then just keep getting bigger and change entirely.

[@hmspain52]

The kids probably consider this "normal". At what point will they discover that Dad is a woodworking genius?

[@richdobbs6595]

More probably: At what point do the kids start rejecting anything built by Dad regardless of how good it is?

[@kellymoses8566]

He is an all-around genius.

[@SiTengoTiempo]

when the work’s good, it’s most unlikely it’ll be rejected. Look a Matthias himself. It’s pretty clear his dad was a hero to him.

[@jeanvillemaire1565]

Hope it takes a long long time, if ever.

[@richdobbs6595]

@@SiTengoTiempo Apparently, you are not a father of an American kid. Matthias wasn't an American kid of today, and AFAIK, Matthias's father wasn't an American father of today.

[@matt55346]

"strong enough for the Kids"... Never underestimate their demolition skills! 😂

[@reinholdu9909]

*Damn* _you build them faster than I could go shop for them_ 🤣

[@d.k.1394]

Lol

[@henkeH2]

I like these simple projects. You need something and build it and your thought process is very educational. To me it is more relatable than building a band saw from scratch, but I like watching that too 😊

[@phreapersoonlijk]

I've followed you almost since you started the channel, and I am SO HAPPY to see you now, with Rachel, your wife, AND two children. Sounds stupid, but for the longest time you were working hard and making things on YT on your own, and then Rachel happened, AND then you had kids !! I am very happy for you, matt !

[@troywaller77]

Loved in the first shots seeing all the toys on the floor in the living room, perfect small lego looking mine field that my foot would find everytime. Glad those days are behind me...

[@chrisr8996]

Doing rounded edges on a 6x3' table with a bandsaw was the most Matthias Wandel thing a Matthias Wandel could do 🤣 You're a true treasure! 😊

[@mattmorrisson9607]

I first found you years ago when you were posting about your marble machines, and homemade pipe organ. It's so cool to see you have one of the larger woodworking channels still, and be the anti-influencer here on KZbin! Another great video, Matthias!

[@SquareTheBagel]

I recently acquired a lever clamp. I find the amount of clamping force that they apply is far greater than even my best screw F clamp. I’d love to see a video of you comparing this style with actual measured data! Excellent video btw!

[@beefchicken]

The ones he’s using in the video are pretty terrible. They were selling the 12” version at my local dollar store for a while for $4 a piece.

[@HarrietThugman]

Mr. Wandel, you are truly the most intelligent wood worker I’ve seen on KZbin! I love your technicality, your precision, and ingenuity! Another woodworker that had some of your skills is foureyes furniture, but honestly you have that strong engineering mindset.

[@gsp0113]

Matthias, you have been an inspiration to me for well over a decade. Great content, as usual.

[@thomasmackey6760]

I love watching you build things. I watch many of your videos over and over. I love the tool bench and saw horse builds the best. Your "Milk Crate" boxes are amazing too!

[@BrianVoelker]

It still amazes me how resourceful you are with everything. Its awe inspiring!

[@SnappyWasHere]

I love the constant struggle of impatience and frugality that is always under the surface in his videos. 😂😂👍🏽👍🏽

[@christopherfriedberg6597]

Constantly Astounded at your ingenuity ! Excellent project ! Thank you for sharing !

[@nickb7795]

I like your project videos a lot, I like all your videos, but I really find it fascinating watching how diligent you work

[@skippylippy547]

🤣 Because ... "I'm so impatient". 😂 And here I was expecting hand cut Castle Joints for those table legs. LOL!

[@maitajack]

Fatastic to see you back in woodworking. Many thanks😊

[@skoomasteve6144]

those edge clamps are so cool

[@ifitsrusteditsmine]

I am a DIY guy, but this guy is in another whole level: he makes the tools to make his DIY projects. Mathias is the Renaissance DIY guy.

[@IIVQ]

I am doing a woodworking course and the cabinet scraper is one of my favourite tools, but I find getting a sharp edge on it difficult. This seems to be a kind of dark art, even our class material says "everyone does it differently". Could you one day do a test on the different methods of putting a burr on the edge and how they perform?

[@DrCassette]

He made a video about sharpening cabinet scrapers 10 years ago already, you can find it on his channel.

[@first_namelast_name4923]

The edge of scraper is burnished with a hard rod. Nowadays you can get a piece of 3mm diameter tungsten carbide rod, drill a hole into a board under a slight angle, insert the rod and burnish the edge of the scraper on that.

[@waterboy8999]

Check out Ramon Valdez.

[@geoffb108]

It's amazingly easy it you just forget all the high tech talk and confusion and go back to basic. I make my scraper blades by cutting squares of the required size from and old hand saw blade with an angle grinder. Square up edges. Grind or file a 45 degree angle untill you have a fairly sharp and straight edge. Touch up the sharp edge a bit with a stone or diamond plate or some fine wet or dry sand paper. Then just roll the sharp edge over by running a very hard steel rod like a large drill bit shaft or the rounded and polished handle of a large file across the length of the sharp edge. Do this couple of times to roll the sharpened edge over to form a tiny hook along the whole length of the blade. You can feel the hook with your finger. That hook does all the work and only takes a quick resharpen with a file and re hook when it stops cutting well. It only takes about a minute to do . And doesn't need any fancy tools

[@E1nsty]

Very nice table. I was worried for a bit with the chamfer on one of the corners but you then rounded them all off, so it was good.

[@daveshepherd7582]

Great little project, clean and simple!

[@sincerelyyours7538]

A couple of nice tips in this one. Nice leg design, and I like the scraper idea for smoothing out polyurethane. Just did the same on a table using wet sandpaper and it was messy.

[@brianm9962]

Thank you for the hot glue idea to attach those felt pads, the self adhesive does often fail and I will certainly try your method next time.

[@MCsCreations]

Fantastic work, Matthias! Great looking table! 😃 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@MMuraseofSandvich]

As a long time fan of shows like The New Yankee Workshop and of course this channel, this is fantastic. I chuckled when you took the big tabletop to the band saw instead of a jigsaw, but I figured you liked the quality of the cut there better.

[@sayethwe8683]

I appreciate Rachael and Harriet freezing for the opening monologue.

[@matthiaswandel]

I did tell them they had to not make noise for a minute!

[@JonnyDIY]

😂 I yell out "Quiet on set!" And am always met with "What? Huh?"

[@ColtonGraham]

so thankful you are back!

[@Nono-hk3is]

Still impressive, watching you work, after all these years

[@biekgiek]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and techniques.

[@dangdaeed-rh6je]

Love the slot mortiser and quick set tennoning jig.

[@WJCTechyman]

Nice as always. I almost completely forgot about Marius Hornberger until you mentioned him in your video.

[@dougptankerengr759]

I enjoy seeing how your brain works through a speedbump in a project

[@ChatBot1337]

Great vid. This is exactly how I do many brackets in the garage. I hung a couple of mountain bikes a few years ago. A horizontal 2x4 coming off the wall attached to a flat, vertical 2x4 to screw into a stud.

[@SjoerdJongerius]

I've made a craft table for my kids as well. Adjustable in height so they would be able stand or sit and big just like you said. And just like the small table you had my kids use the craft table as storage and still use the dinner table as a craft table.😃

[@matthiaswandel]

I'm thinking of building a shelf to go on top of it -- but one thing at a time.

[@SjoerdJongerius]

I made a cabinet underneath the table. Not only is the table full the cabinet is as well. No matter how many places you give my kids to store stuff … they hoard them to full capacity.

[@Jeff-vj1vt]

"Lemme just take a quick time out to do a handmade upgrade to this tool before I use it." Love this channel.

[@JDeWittDIY]

Homemade upgrade to a homemade tool at that!

[@alastairchestnutt6416]

Always a pleasure to watch.

[@TheFalconJetDriver]

You are a wonderful Dad!

[@waterboy8999]

My favorite part is the hot melt glue on the felt pads.

[@kbr1887]

I bought the full size chair plans a few years back. Any chance of you making the kids chair plan available at some point?

[@matthiaswandel]

email me and I can send you the cad file. It's a bit messy cause I only did it for myself.

[@gregcostanzo4724]

5:18 I've always enjoyed using something fun to trace a radius, then when I look back at projects I think to myself "that is a solo-cup radius, and that one is a CDROM radius". well... the CDROM was from some older projects...

[@JonnyDIY]

Apronless is the way to go. Nice job Matthias. The plastic won't stick to fresh varnish? 🤔

[@tracybowling1156]

I bet it smells good at your house. The smell of worked wood and varnish. Yum!

[@carlitobriganti9718]

Amazing range of skills . That quality is worth a fortune compared to the stuff out there !, Imagine if you were confined to a workshop with the best tools and machines and an endless supply of the finest tropical hardwoods etc , and we all got to watch the things you’d make 😮

[@burtlade1705]

Nice job as usual!

[@tomasjosefvela1]

Classic video, thanks for sharing!!

[@johnreedch6909]

Thanks for a basic woodworking video again. Still my favorite video type of yours. Do sales of your plans increase after showing how to use them in videos like these? Have you tracked that?

[@AppreciateYourEfforts]

Thanks you for another great video and advices. Experience sharing for all.

[@alskjflaksjdflakjdf]

Thank you for the tip about hot gluing on the felt pads. I keep losing the pads off my dining room chairs and scratching my nice floor.

[@JonnyDIY]

For dining chairs I've found the plastic sliders that have a nail in them work best, but for felt Ive just used a dab of gorilla glue before putting them on works well

[@user-gh6kr3jm3i]

I love your videos! Maybe time to make a video on how to make a riving knife and a overhead dust extractor for the tablesaw

[@user-qg6fy4yp8t]

The kids will enjoy it

[@JoshuaRes]

That hot glue felt pad trick is gold! For chairs I have used the felt pads that you hammer in (the have a sharp ring of steel that acts as a sort of nail) but hot glue would be cheaper.

[@zifnab6824]

that is a cute table and I like the connection point for the legs. might want to consider a way to hang plastic or build a tall rim for the table for water colors. I'd be interested in what you would come up with for a nice looking way to "hang / temp install" sheets of plastic to protect the wall right there.

[@MartinvanderRoest]

I love your honesty in these videos. In this video, you said during the glue up that with several joints it can be stressful. I thought I was the only one that would feel that way. Thanks

[@Steve-um5mm]

Matthias, just throwing this out there to see if you, or one of my fellow viewers can jog my memory on the name of a woodworking youtuber. Retired engineer (one of your countrymen as I recall), did several videos of mobile tool cabinets with a deceptively simple caster lift mechanism, and one of a bicycle utility trailer that steered with the bicycle. Can anyone help me out? Thanks, and keep that sawdust coming!

[@matthiaswandel]

don't know of him.

[@wscottgiglio]

That sounds like Carl Holmgren

[@Steve-um5mm]

Yes! Thank you both for taking the time to reply!

[@davidmcgrath6507]

Very nice!

[@marklundeberg7006]

Hot glue for the felt pads.... What a great idea!

[@txkflier]

Excellent job! Thanks..

[@billj5645]

Your modification of the machine for the clamp was obvious but I probably would have just stacked heavy stuff on the plywood to hold it in place. I built a slightly larger table to use as a desk. I made the rail in my leg assembly 1.5" thick and put screws through the rail up into the tabletop. This worked for my table because I had bracing for the bottoms of the legs. Your idea is a great way to achieve a strong connection under a table without overcomplicating the legs.

[@1pcfred]

You'd have to stack a lot of heavy stuff to equal the force of a clamp. At least a half a ton. That gets impractical when you have to reposition the work.

[@imqqmi]

A beautiful trim and table finish and... it gets covered with plastic 🤣 I like how the table doesn't have a thick base under it, If you want to sit at the table you keep bumping into those.

[@matthiaswandel]

yes, that apron rail can get in the way, especially for a low table

[@ashokmoghe8035]

As usual very educational. I love watching your videos. One question about router (at 7:53 mark) - I thought one should run the router in counter-clockwise direction when routing outer edge. Am I getting something wrong - learning hence asking. Thanks and keep inspiring us.

[@tomboland8480]

I am interested in your table saw cross-cut jig as well as the jigs you used to cut dados in the legs. Where would I find plans for these?

[@memyselfandeye1234]

pleasure as always Matthias peace

[@peacefulscrimp5183]

Beautiful 👍

[@JohnColgan.]

Nice build, like the leg mount idea. You didn't risk the full run & jump with half twist to check table stability/flex?

[@d.k.1394]

So lovely

[@johnlogan8218]

Great add for clamps, they make for a very expensive table

[@bt410382]

eline sağlık mat, çok güzel oldu.

[@PeanutsDadForever]

Thanks for another great video!🇦🇺👴🏻

[@robandsharonseddon-smith5216]

Great work as always. Your kids will love their new craft equipment storage shelf. Oh. You thought it was a table. And they would not use the kitchen. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@williamdawson3353]

Always interesting

[@weldabar]

I do admire that when you need furniture you just make it.

[@strokerace5468]

Well good work

[@Estwing22]

"I wish i could buy another one like that" Make one. Or a set of them. It would make a good video.

[@henryrossouw930]

Great way to attach legs.

[@justSHAPPY]

"To secure the plastic over it we drill some pilot holes")😂

[@Don.Challenger]

Hmm, Matthias, for the budding finearts painters, you may need a backsplash if they tend to Jackson Pollack style.

[@matthiaswandel]

so far they don't. Mostly grown out of that phase except for the 3.6 year old

[@sstevinn]

3.6 😂

[@bradleytuckwell4881]

I always get schooled from watching you so thanks

[@samrix5793]

Awesome!

[@FabricateUnclear]

Is there any way to get a better picture of that adjustable C clamp? That is the first time I've seen anything like that!

[@plunder1956]

Hi Matt I was wondering how you find so much disgurded wood & old or unwanted furnature. Also how do you get it all back home.

[@c0mputer]

You should design and make some spill proof cups for your kid’s paints.

[@ammagato]

Bravo!

[@jamesbaconreid]

wow so nice

[@user-sz9yt1wt7f]

Hallo Mathias, denke habe nahezu all deine Videos gesehen, zumindestens die mit den Holzarbeiten - SUPER! Ich finde es gut, dass du viel Altholz recycelt, mache ich auch. Mein Bruder hat eine Zimmerei und ich bekomme viel Holz aus Abbrüchen, Bretter, Latten, Kantholz.... Ich habe mir bei dir viel abschauen können..... Deine Videos sind immer spannend, unterhaltsam, inspirierend -TOLL, carry on! Hast du vielleicht gesehen, dass DER LETS BASTEL Typ eine eigene Bandsäge kreiert hat und diese gerade baut, vielleicht interessant für dich. Hab eine gute Zeit, Regloh Sedroc - Bremen

[@first_namelast_name4923]

I use steel wool for smoothing first layers of varnish and not sandpaper. Sandpaper gets gunked up extremely quickly, with steel wool you can shake the varnish dust off. When you use semi-matte varnish and finish the last layer with 000 grade steel wool - you have to wait until varnish is really hard - it gets silky smooth, instead of glossy.

[@larrykostopulos1332]

Great vid mate. Do you find good quality, no void plywood available at a reasonable price near where you live? I mean at least one A side. The cost in Australia is over $100 aud when you can find it.

[@ronthacker211]

Really surprised you're using woodworking machinery with those Long Floppy Sleeves !?!😯

[@JeffYantha]

Mathias, I notice you using the Topdon camera for heat imaging. how well does it work? I was thinking of getting one to look for cold spots in my house to try to fix some of the heat loss. Reviews seem to be mixed, with some people loving it and some saying its garbage.

[@rickculpepper709]

Like these type of videos

[@MrJohnnyboyrebel]

I’m a little surprised you didn’t create a vacuum clamp for the slot mortises table.

[@gizmobowen]

What is it with Canadian woodworkers and their footware? Brad at DIY Builds has his sock and sandals and Matthias has his comfy slippers on. Comfort above all else!

[@1pcfred]

Your shop your rules.

[@FishyBoi1337]

ayyy yt actually gave me a notif this time!

[@embwee]

Goes the long way around in order to not compromise the "no pocket holes" position. But adding thickness to those leg attachment blocks down the road would be less noticeable and perhaps stronger.

[@matthiaswandel]

yes, that is also an option, but if I used pocket holes, the pocket holes would become really visible. so to make that a better option, don’t use pocket holes.

[@embwee]

I was thinking with an apron, but...@@matthiaswandel

[@ColtonGraham]

@@matthiaswandel Why would another user reply to your comment with another username? Are you a dirty thief?

[@galhillel100]

Thanks!

[@jeffreybernath6627]

But Matthias, you wouldn't need those plywood parts on top of the legs if you just attached the legs to the tabletop with pocket holes! AHAHAHAHAHA I'M HILARIOUS!

[@matthiaswandel]

ha ha ha ha ha (and slow clap)

[@richdobbs6595]

When I built two similar tables for use as desks, I used an apron, built with pocket screws (the weak way of course) attached to the table top with pocket screws. Then attached the legs to the apron (I don't recall how). Those tables were definitely more rigid then this one and they lasted as long as they fit the kids (including adding leg extensions). It was a paint-grade project, so it was repainted as the decor went from pink to an aquarium motif. Nothing worth a KZbin video, OTOH, but it took me less time and used fewer tools. Pocket screws are great for knocking out low value projects fast, such as kid's furniture!

[@waterboy8999]

Not if you're allergic to them........

[@XxAILASxX]

When you extend the legs you should make it join with box joints just because its your specialty

[@ChrisSPCs]

Whatever happened to the video with the Fuz varnish guys?