Rough slabs become a tabletop on Woodworking Projects
An experienced carpenter and a younger assistant turn uneven timber into a glued, doweled and clamped panel.
Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
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- 0:54A temporarily nailed wooden guide directs the circular saw as the carpenter straightens a slab edge.
- 6:20The carpenter and assistant use a jointer to flatten and square the mating edges.
- 10:24Matching dowel holes are drilled into the thick planks before assembly.
- 13:36Glue and dowels join the prepared edges, followed by tightening with long pipe clamps.
- 18:28An electric hand planer levels the uneven surface of the assembled tabletop.
A temporary wooden fence, nailed directly to a timber slab, gives the carpenter's circular saw a straight path. It is a modest, practical beginning for an upload titled "This Old-Head Carpenter Is Cooking Pure Magic Live! You Won't Believe This!"
The actual work is less mysterious, and more interesting, than the billing: preparing rough slabs so they can meet cleanly as a single tabletop. A younger assistant helps handle the heavy wood and work at the jointer. The carpenter test-fits the boards, drills matching dowel holes, spreads glue and brings the assembly together with long pipe clamps. An electric hand planer then tackles the uneven surface.
That workshop process was the most watched of Woodworking Projects' fifteen uploads this week, reaching roughly 27,000 views, most of them in its first day. Other titles promise transformations of scrap wood, dead logs and a decayed stump, keeping the channel firmly in its familiar territory of unpromising timber becoming something useful.
The busiest videos right now are a different selection: a fresh dead-log upload, a red-log-and-bottles project, and "Restoring a Decayed Stump into a MASTERPIECE (Nobody Saw This Coming)!" The stump restoration is attracting substantially more daily viewing than the week's most-watched upload.
Subscribers held steady, while daily views are running a little below the channel's usual level. Among nearby DIY and home channels, The Pethericks has had a particularly strong week for subscriber growth. Here, the week's clearest attraction is a simpler one: watching separate, irregular slabs acquire straight edges and become one broad panel.
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- Channel
- Woodworking Projects
- Subscribers
- 786,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 372,891
- Videos published this week
- 15
- Video published
- November 2, 2026
- Video views so far
- 26,716
- Views on its first day
- 25,244
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Which tool does the carpenter use to level the assembled tabletop's surface?
After clamping the slabs together, the carpenter levels their uneven surface with an electric hand planer.

