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When you're making videos for youtube , it's all about doing something new .

So when we started designing , building and making plans for pieces .

A few months back , our focus was completely on doing just that making something new , new dresser , new rocking chair , new desk , new dining table , new dining chairs , new , new , new , and that's great .

That's the reason that I started making videos in the first place coming up with new things is literally my favorite aspect of everything that I do .

But sometimes it's nice to go back to something old couple that with the fact that we get a lot of requests for plans on pieces from our back catalog .

And this seemed like the perfect excuse to try something new , which is making something old anyway .

So that's what we're gonna do today .

Update and improve upon an old design and not just any old design , but literally the first thing that I ever designed and built .

And this was way back when I was taking a night class at a local community college way before I had any tools when basically I knew that I liked to draw furniture and I wanted to find out if I liked building it .

And if woodwork was for me , it was , anyhow , if you want to build this too , we're going to have links to the plans in the description along with all of our other pieces .

So check that out if you're interested .

OK .

So we've got all of our lumber rough cut into oversized chunks and now we're ready to start building .

And I guess if you're familiar with the old piece , one of the most common questions is probably gonna be in , what way is this piece any different ?

Or more importantly , better than the old one .

And there's a few that said , let's start putting this thing together and then we'll circle back to that .

I don't want to get too into the weeds this early .

All right .

So we're gonna start off by making our four legs .

And I always like to do this by cutting out a parallelogram that'll yield two legs .

So that means we need two parallelograms .

And you can see here that I'm using my Rockler cross cut sled , which I happen to think is perfect for this kind of cut that said it's not the only way to achieve this .

And you can certainly do it with any regular M gauge a mitr saw or just a piece of plywood and a few screws , which I'll demonstrate later in the video with our two parallelograms looking identical .

Next , we can mark out the finished shape of our legs and then we can cut those out .

And for this , you could use a tapering jig if you happen to have one .

But to circle back on what I just mentioned , here's how I can do it with a simple sled .

So basically , you'll get a piece of plywood , lock your fence in position and establish a cut edge .

Then we're gonna set up some temporary fences using plywood scraps on the sled so that we can repeat this cut as many times as we'd like .

And we'd like to do it four times .

At this point .

We have four tapered legs and four still rectangle shaped stretchers that we need to turn into leg subassemblies .

So the next step is gonna be cutting miters on all eight of these pieces .

And again , I'm gonna use a sled to get this done actually the same sled .

But this time , even though to make this cut , you could still use a Mitr gauge or a mita , I actually think that the sled is a superior method and we get deep into the reason and theory for this in chapter 4 , 14 of our plans , cutting the mitr joints .

And actually , since we get a lot of questions about what our plans include and how they're structured , we decided to upload this chapter as an example chapter and we talk a little bit more about it there .

So I'll throw a link to that in the description for anybody interested in finding out more .

All right , those pieces are looking good .

So now we can go ahead and assemble them and we can use dolls or dominos alone to do this and it'll be plenty strong .

But if you want to make them extra strong or if you like the look of it , we're also gonna cover how to make and install some splines using a simple table saw jig and we'll cover how to make the jig as well .

All right , I'm gonna let mine drive over night and then the next day I can trim and , or sand everything flush so that we can finish off the leg subassemblies by cutting the taper on the top edge .

And because I love them so much , I'm gonna use another Sledd to get this done .

So here I'm marking out the paper that I want to cut and getting my Sledd all set up .

Now , you might notice that when I actually go to cut them , you can see some domino mortises have already been cut in .

And that's because with just about any project , it's usually not best to completely finish off a piece and then move on to the next one and so on and so forth .

More typical would be to take something as far as you can and then set it aside and eventually come back to it at the proper time .

And that's because most pieces aren't sized .

Absolutely , but rather in relation to something else and to illustrate that point next , I'm gonna determine the thickness of my stretcher by referencing the taper that we just cut on the leg .

So if 100 people built this table , all of the stretchers would have unique thicknesses .

What ?

Oh , sorry , thick .

OK .

So we're jumping back in time here to before we cut our tapers and we're gonna cut the joinery for attaching our legs to the structure .

And for this joint , you could use Domino's dolls or pocket screws .

And if done properly , all should be serviceable .

And I know to some of you using a pocket hole might be sacrilegious .

But honestly , it's gonna be so inconspicuous within the project that I think it's a perfectly fine method .

All that said before we did anything .

Actually , before we even started this project , we made a test for this joint to make sure that it was going to be strong enough .

Should we test it ?

Mm .

I don't know .

I'll wait till tomorrow .

I let the glue here .

All right .

Fine .

I really want to stand on it though , man .

Yes .

Do you have or I don't know what he's worried about .

Yeah .

OK .

Back to reality .