How to edge joint boards (without a jointer) to make wide panels | LOCKDOWN Day 143

well, good morning, I hope you are having a wonderful week, it's Wednesday where I am in Australia, it's winter Wednesday, okay all the woodworking gurus, we are ready to start building Antonio's shoeshine box, Antonio, I hope you're ready let's get started, these are The two 1x6

boards

that I chose and I wanted to point out that they came out perfectly flat and that's pretty common, in fact these are the straightest ones I could find. This one kind of curves in that direction if you have a board that bends in that direction. direction is actually not as bad as if it were bending in this direction, but anyway I want to show you a couple of techniques with which we can glue them together even if the

boards

are a little warped and you don't have more sophisticated machinery like a carpenter or planer , what we are going to do here is

make

panels

and a panel is just a term for a

wide

board that is made up of smaller boards;

It's actually the only way you can use solid wood to get

wide

pieces if you wanted a simpler method you could use plywood, but for this project we're going to use solid wood. If you had a lot of clamps and a lot of patience, you could probably join these two long boards together to

make

a very long and wide board, but that's going to be really challenging, especially if your board has a little bit of camber and as I look at this board I look down. , it's actually the last foot that bends, so I'm going to make sure to cut it off, so really the best way to handle this is to cut them into smaller pieces and glue them on one panel at a time.

In this case, I think it would be better if we cut them into three separate

panels

. I'm going to make these cross cuts using my table saw. You can also use a miter saw. These will not be exact cuts. They're going to be oversized, so what I'm going to do is cut each of these boards into two 30-inch links and then a 20-inch length will be used for the two sides of the box, so I won't need rip guide. In fact, you don't really want it on your saw when you do this. making these cross cuts so all I did was make a line at 30 inches it's not exactly 30 inches it's somewhere close to the next one you have to remove the miter gauge and use the cutting fins so what what we're going to do is try to join these boards together, it's a matter of making sure that one side is perfectly flat, so that when you have an

edge

so that when you glue them together there are no gaps, there are many different ways to make those straight

edge

s on a board, but what?

What I like to do on short boards like this is just use the rip fence, so as long as I can move this, I'm just shaving not even a little bit off the thickness of the saw blade and since this is a cut to the thread You will need to use push sticks or a push block to keep your fingers out of the way of the blade. I never recommend doing that, it just puts your fingers too close to the blade, so in this case I'm going to use my clamp here and I just need to move this guide up and out of the way of the blade, make sure it doesn't hit and I want to keep the pressure on the board and pressed against the guide, so basically I have I have three directions of pressure, I'm pushing forward, I'm pushing sideways and I'm pushing down, all with this clamp, assuming you have your blade calibrated to be at a 90 degree angle to your table, you should have this nice and square. edge so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to mark it with an The seam is almost invisible and you can play with different arrangements, regardless of how the grain seems best to you.

In an ideal world, if you had a dedicated

joint

er and maybe a planer, you could make them and glue them together. Lift them up smooth, no fuss, but some of your boards may have a slightly warped mcwarp face here so you need to work with them a bit to get them to come together flat, this is also where you'll find out. The more clamps you have, the better when I join boards. I like to use pipe clamps, so what I could do is put them on my workbench like this and then I'll just put them here and see how.

Sort of like this, that will give us pressure along that seam or that joining edge, but we also want to make sure that the two boards are flush with each other so that one doesn't stick out a little bit and we have to deal with that later . What I like to do is make some scrap boards, these are called calls and I put some packing tape on them, just some plastic tape so the glue doesn't stick to them, so what we can do is glue those two edges together. We can also clamp these boards together to make sure they're flat and I'll do them on both sides, so I'll walk you through this whole process.

This is Titebond 2 Yellow Wood Glue. I use it for almost everything. An important part of gluing anything is making sure that the glue spreads over every part of that surface and on the edges I just use my finger to spread this and you don't have to have a very thick layer, you know, a thin one. The layer is fine and I just put glue on one of the boards so once I have it in place I can put it in there and what I'm going to do is I'm going to put these clamps together and I'm not going to tighten them all the way down.

Now I'm just going to give it until it starts to grip a little like that. You'll know you have a good glue

joint

when you see the glue start to ooze out a little. seam, so I can say here that it's not flush, so this needs to join together and that's why I need to use these calls. It's possible if your boards are pretty straight and pretty flat, you can join them this way without using the calls. pressing this together and then squeezing them, I can almost do that on this board, this panel here, but I want to use these callouts anyway, so again, I'm not squeezing them very much right now, I'm just getting close like this. use these clamps and the same thing here.

I don't want to tighten them all the way right now because I still want to apply more pressure in this direction, so it's really kind of a balancing act, you just want to start tightening things equally all the way. Well, they are now in place. Now I can start to tighten this a little more. You should start to see a small bead of glue coming out of that seam. If you find that the middle here is not flush, you can add another call. In fact, that's just what I'm going to do now. I can start adjusting them a little more.

I'm just working and using my fingers to see if it's flush and you know if it's a little bit off, that's okay because we're going to sand this anyway and smooth all that out, but you know you just want to reduce that amount of sanding as much as possible, you could probably stop here, but you know that if you have the clamps, it doesn't hurt to use them and it's also not a bad idea to put some clamps on the top, since these are on the bottom, pulling these are on the top , pulling them should level it out a little.

I have kind of a real hodgepodge of clamps that I've accumulated over the years, but actually the pipe clamps, the first ones I used, are probably the most useful in this situation. The most important thing when holding anything is that. you just do it until it stops and then you give it some more. What you don't want to do is just tighten them because that can cause problems like the wood could slide or it could cause the wood to split. Lean over a little bit until it's, I don't know, I guess with your fingers tight on your wrist, you could say it's a good idea to look down this edge here and make sure it's flat.

You can put a ruler on their level or something just to make sure, but they look pretty good, so there's the first panel. I'll let it dry for at least an hour before removing these clamps and moving on to the next one. Making a board edge joining system is simply one of the fundamental woodworking techniques that you really need to know if you are going to use solid wood for projects normally, if I were to glue a panel this width I probably wouldn't even buy boards this width, I would buy narrower boards and maybe glue three of them together instead of two, but I thought you know if this is your first project, it will probably be a little easier to glue two at a time instead of three, it will be basically the same. technique, but you just have to keep in mind that third board, make sure everything is flat.

Using these calls will help you tremendously even on boards that are slightly warped. I didn't intend for this segment to be this long, but I think it's really important. procedure to know how to make antonio. I'm looking forward to seeing how this works for you and seeing if you have any questions or difficulties you encounter when putting those boards together. I have also included it in the description. a preliminary set of plans that are not yet complete, but it will be useful to look at them and see where it is going. I'll label it version one and then as I make changes or if I find things I need to change, I'll be sure to include the updated versions.

I also know in my last video I mentioned that I was going to show you some of those summer woodworking entries, but this video was getting too long so I'm going to save it. For the next video, there were some really good projects, so I'll show you those over the next few weeks as well and I have some other things to show you in the next video while we wait for Antonio to start putting his boards together. I'm looking forward to seeing what his experience is like. That's all for now, I'll talk to you later.