| Blog series by Greg Wurst | updated 503 days ago | 5 parts | 6159 reads | 25 comments total |
Part 1: It starts with a plan...
I have a server in my basement hooked-up to the television, and a wireless keyboard and mouse I use on a coffee table when I need to access it directly. I get tired of looking at the PC bits sitting on the table and leaning-over to use them, so I’ve decided to build a lift coffee table to hide the parts and bring them closer to me when I need them. I took the following design from a book I have, but modified it for a different lifting mechanism and some general dimension changes (alon...
Part 2: Progress report
I’ve got most of the pieces cut and I’m starting to put the table together. In the first picture I’ve got the apron attached to the legs with pocket screws. I’ve put the table on the top to mark where the legs meet the top so I can notch the corners. You’ll notice the grain orientation on the aprons is less than ideal. These pieces are hidden, so I used some scrap with the grain running the wrong way. In this second picture I’m attaching the top ...
Part 3: Holding pattern
I’m basically waiting now for some 1/4” curly cherry panels to arrive, so I’m doing what I can at this point. The top is separate so I figured I’d go ahead and get it together and finished. Here you can see the edging glued to the plywood lid. I attached it with biscuits so as not to show any pocket hole screws underneath. Here is the completed and finished lid. I applied a dyed de-waxed shellac and then coated it with three coats of water-based polyuretha...
Part 4: Looking for finish suggestion
My curly cherry arrive today. Again, I can’t recommend the good people at http://www.kencraftcompany.com enough. I asked for a little extra to try some finish work on and they threw some in at no charge. Anyway, the initial though was to go with a dark finish on the inserts to contrast the lighter oak. The cherry is so pretty I’m not sure I don’t go with a lighter finish to highlight the figure. Having not worked with any figured wood before, I’m looking for sugge...
Part 5: Final Assembly
Lots of pictures for this final update, so here goes! I went ahead and finished the side panel frame and partially assembled them. I left one side off so I could slide the finished panels in and glue them together. For the cherry side panels I finished them with about 9 coats of Formby’s Tung Oil Finish which is essentially just a wiping varnish. In hindsight I was probably wiping them on too thin to begin with, since they dried very quickly between coats. I applied the fir...
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