Building a Walnut Table From Start to Finish!

[@GPT.GoldRush]

Awesome lesson on building a walnut table!

[@keithearnshaw2754]

I plan to build a dining table from black walnut and this video has given me some good inspiration. Looks awesome.

[@hartfordoutlaws6133]

Thank you for the video

[@simonsupersad1722]

nice video, keep up the good work

[@shaneham5327]

Awesome video! Thanks for the detailed walkthrough. What did the final dimensions end up being? Also, you kind of look like John Krasinski

[@johnwinn4213]

Very informative video but wondering why the white knuckles while sanding your machines and sand paper will work much better with really light pressure plus won't wear you out

[@tomsommer54]

Do you dry your wood in a kiln? I have a sawmill in Northwest Arkansas. We have a lot of black walnut here. Right now I have a lot of slabs and board but I just sell them.

[@briangurka8085]

Did you do anything after the few coats of Waterlox? Any type of satin poly?

[@briangurka8085]

I noticed in this video you only used Waterlox original finish. But in another video of a live edge cedar you used the original finish and then the satin finish on top of that. Any reason why? I have a piece of walnut that I am turning into a desktop and am not sure what I should do myself

[@ozulator1]

I just watched a festool commercial.

[@timxymo7967]

did you use c channel on the bottom? you also have end grain to long grain, isn't that gonna be a problem?

[@cjsawinski]

There is a few proper ways to do bread boards… both ways allow wood movement, if he used dominos and just glued the entire bread board that for sure could be a problem in a few years… The two best ways to do bread boards are a sliding dovetail and only a small glue spot on one of the ends of the table (this will allow the table with different grain direction to move without issues). Other way is a dado (floating, sliding, traditional), and then one walnut or maple dowel through the dado in the dead center of the breadboard (allows movement out from the center). You can hide the dowel by doing it from the underside and not doing a through dowel (stop a little short of the table top surface on your depth… The trick to the dowel method and getting it to work with one dowel in the center is you actually don’t want a perfectly jointed edge. You want about 1/16 concave (so have a 1/16 gap in the middle). Clamp the breadboard tight so that gap is tight, glue and through in your dowel and your done. Two proper ways to do the breadboard… I’m sure there are other ways, those are just two of the best ways, and since this vid just cut to the breadboards being on the table I have a feeling the are glued solid lol…

[@dwightfontenot9064]

How about finishing the backside? Where in the process does that happen?

[@zach3502]

Video sponsored by Festool lol

[@BenM81]

Watching this in 2022. That walnut would cost more than my condo.

[@de9231]

Just bought 5 pieces roughly 2x10.5x8…..550$

[@biggusbestus551]

What ? No Kapex miter saw ? I am a Festool guy and I do not have one either. I am also a black walnut fabricator since a tree died on my ranch and was milled up by a friend.

[@cjsawinski]

Didn’t even show us how you did the bread boards?! I sure hope they are floating hehehe…