Project Information
Finally, a real table!
I made a coffee table as practice for this, a real one. I used these plans from Ana White and modified them to make it look a bit more refined. I also modified the benches, so that they would slide all the way in.
I made this in a corner of my basement and hung plastic furniture covers from the rafters as a dust barrier. It kinda looks like something off of Dexter….lol. I pulled this off with minimal tools and no real shop. If you're on the fence about taking on bigger projects, just go for it! If a shleb like me can do it, so can you.
Made from:
-Sitka Spruce Studwood
-3 coats of "Poplar" shaded water based polyurethane ($1 per gallon at Habitat for Humanity Restore!)
-total cost $200CAD or so
Tools Used:
-homemade table saw (in pics)
-router
-skill saw
-power drill
-jigsaw
-dowel jig
-hand plane
-miter saw
What I learned:
- studwood grade lumber is MUCH better quality than standard and only costs pennies more.
-my furniture dust cover barrier rips far too easily. I need to have thicker plastic….gonna try plastic table cloths from the dollar store.
- I should have let the lumber dry out for a month or so, it shrunk A LOT. I had to re-do parts of the top.
I made a coffee table as practice for this, a real one. I used these plans from Ana White and modified them to make it look a bit more refined. I also modified the benches, so that they would slide all the way in.
I made this in a corner of my basement and hung plastic furniture covers from the rafters as a dust barrier. It kinda looks like something off of Dexter….lol. I pulled this off with minimal tools and no real shop. If you're on the fence about taking on bigger projects, just go for it! If a shleb like me can do it, so can you.
Made from:
-Sitka Spruce Studwood
-3 coats of "Poplar" shaded water based polyurethane ($1 per gallon at Habitat for Humanity Restore!)
-total cost $200CAD or so
Tools Used:
-homemade table saw (in pics)
-router
-skill saw
-power drill
-jigsaw
-dowel jig
-hand plane
-miter saw
What I learned:
- studwood grade lumber is MUCH better quality than standard and only costs pennies more.
-my furniture dust cover barrier rips far too easily. I need to have thicker plastic….gonna try plastic table cloths from the dollar store.
- I should have let the lumber dry out for a month or so, it shrunk A LOT. I had to re-do parts of the top.
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