Making A Plywood End Grain Table Top From Offcuts - Part 1 of 2 

excellent idea, sir! You've inspired me to tackle something similar. TY for your efforts, they are appreciated!

Very cool looking table top Keith. I would have never thought of doing that. Looking forward to part two.

WOW I never would have considered making a table top from end grain ply but hey it turned out absolutely great 👍 well done

The edge of the plywood really adds some very interesting texture to the table top. Thanks for sharing : )

Great build, again. Love your work.

Great idea for using plywood scraps. Thanks for sharing.

That is one gorgeous tabletop!

Great job and a good idea for a table from scraps, i watched because I needed some ideas for the molding on a table I am making, and think the router will be my best. Again thanks for posting

A work of art! Beautiful!

Love it. I will definitely be doing this cheers so much for your work

Very cool and super great the plywood scraps had a much more magnificent end than landfill!

I love the beautiful wood crafts of yours

beautiful work!

This is gorgeous! I've been contemplating how to make an end grain island counter from the meagre hardwood scraps in my basement ... but I've got much more scrap odds and sods of plywood and I really like the look of this (and the speed of building it!). Thanks for the brilliant idea for upcycling a novel kitchen :-)

One of my favourite channels....

Very well done! Great idea as well bro

Great nice table! And clever use of a spatula for spreading the glue...just what I've been looking for.

Looks amazing. Good job.👍🏼

Well done. Enjoyed watching that. Thank you.

Nice to see some projects from the UK for a change. You have a new subscriber.

Good use of scraps. Looks like a good project.

Good use of scraps. Nice.

Excellent video and process. I hate to throw anything in the shop that can be recycled. Great idea for side project. Thank you for sharing.

Cool idea mate, exposed plywood is a great look!

12:36 Me when I hear my mom's car in the driveway after she told me to clean the kitchen before she gets home.

That looks really nice

Brilliant job. I had an idea to design a coffee table using a similar method. Thanks for posting.

Great idea and execution, for that I've subscribed !. Cheers tony

Nice work man!

nice work Keith!

Superb work.. cheers

Great video really enjoyed it

You made plywood with plywood. Nice.

Beautiful!

Great idea your block plane sounds nice and sharp at 9.44 think im gonna have a tool maintenance session in the morning my plane hasn't sounded that crisp in a while

If you want to really juice that danish oil finish, wet sand 5 or 6 successive coats with 220-600 grit sand paper. Then paste wax or satin poly over it.

I've done tops this way and have put solid pieces of walnut or whatever I have also. The solid pieces randomly in it make a nice look in it also. I used colored resin in the voids.

Very cool concept and easy to replicate design!

very good work my friend

Beautiful 🥰

Thats a great looking table top. Here's a tip for you when using Briwax, apply it with 00 steel wool then buff it with a shoe polishing brush, it stops the wax from clumping up in certain areas and gives a smoother finish, especially if you give it a final buff with an old t shirt. I used to wax pine furniture for a living back in the early 90's and that was how I was taught from the old guys that I worked with.

Very nice. I was planning to build matching nightstands for my brother and sister in law and now I know what top I want for them.

Good job

You are amazing! I love it. Formica makes a laminate countertop that looks like that. You may already know this, but an old set of pantyhose/nylons is a really fast way to buff wax. It works better than regular cloth, in my experience.

The table top looks great. Well done!

That is very nice....

Bravo !

Your work is great! I wonder if the trims of table top are made out of plywood as well. Assuming the thickness of table top is 36mm, then we need two stripes of plywood 1.8mm glued together.

Nice Background Music, IYAZ..... Virgin Islands Massive.... Nice Project, I was actually saying this same thing while watching someone else's Video.

beautiful table Sir! If I may ask, after filling the gaps with epoxy, did you sand the epoxy lumps down or did you plane the tabletop down again? thank you!

I just love watching your video's this look superb. Can I ask does the Super Danish Oil have any hardener in it and whats the difference between Super and regular? Keep up the great content..... Inspirational stuff.

Great job. Thanks for sharing. What is the difference between the yellow (30 mm) and white (131,5 mm) showing?

nice !!!!

I like it

I used to make furniture for Costa Coffee shops. they always show ply endgrain, I think it looks good stained right.

Nice job, but i have worked end grain ply lots, so i would like to note that epoxy filling sure is nice to fill the gaps, but i would use peaces of off cuts to make plugs, hammer them in with wood glue and sand, cause epoxy wont take any stain and looks way different compared to wood next to it. If plan were to paint it from beginning sure, but that defeats the point, so use those wood plugs instead, to get better result. Ply end grain is ridiculously thirsty when comes to finish. I have used polyurethane lacker, thinned 4% 3 coats and then started to apply unthinned. This seeps deep into material and hardens it. One tip is to pour some thinner on the surface before starting to finish, so dry wood wont drink so much of finish and it stays in the surface, how ever this has negative effect of thinner taking long time to gas out from the wood, trough the finish and it will condense on any metal pasts in cabinets etc that does not look that good. Only good for projects to your self with huge ass surface area and be prepared to buff out those metal parts after two years when gassing stops. Also it being thinner, plastics in the drawers and cabinets might not like it so much. With past experience i would have used bit more money on lacker, rather than that much thinner, but back then going in 5th liter of lacker, in certain project, cost savings went top of the list, lacker being 16.50€/750ml Lacker was also used to harden the wood against any impacts and this difference can be clearly seen. This is why i try to avoid using wax or oil finishes.

I have the same problem and thought of the same solution. I want to make a coffee table for the living room. I think I'll fill the voids with colored epoxy and then clear epoxy the entire top.

Way cool! I actually have done a similar thing with left over wool to knit a sweater from sleeve to sleeve (divided the balls of scrap into two and just use half on each side-which if you had a certain amount of wood & wanted somewhat of an even wood distribution...use the same idea). One question...in other videos you made wood filler with wood glue and sawdust. Why did you use epoxy this time? Also, I love this look but was under the impression plywood has a lot of toxic adhesives or glues so one wouldn’t want to use this for a counter top where food is prepared. Is that true? Perhaps I’m working on outdated info? Thanks for sharing.

Love this table :) Quick question though...why use a mitre saw for the end clean up rather than your table saw?

I like .

What table saw is that?

many thanks for sharing! looks great. Did you make the riving knife yourself?

Just curious, over time did the danish oil release the PVA glue because using oils on laminated work pieces generally unbinds the glue over time.

I think I might copy this idea, but I'm thinking more along the lines of a shellac finish. What does everyone else think?

Great idea. Any tips on purchasing plywood in the UK (other than B&Q and the like)?

I wish you had your metric ruler in a dark place

what are these red blades' mark? is it Freud?

what was the reason of stopping at 120g paper on the top?

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great job, just don't glue long grain onto and grain, even if it is plywood.

This sounds like Eric Idle

A very sharp hand plane could've taken the paint off faster. Two/ three passes and it's off

Lol did you just say you came up with that idea?

Pound land epoxy 😅

Next time make your decision about sanding paint off BEFORE you cut them down. It's easier to sand that single piece of plywood, THEN cut it down. Your method ended up handling many fiddly smaller pieces. If the project dimension was 20x20 or 30x30 you'd have a terrible chore juggling and holding still smaller parts.

Turn you radıo down!!!!!

And then a drop of water falls on it and boom watch it blow up

*Good job*