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Guitar Pick Coffee Table

Project by Lloyd Davies posted 218 days ago 1077 views 1 time favorited 16 comments Add to Favorites Watch

I started getting into woodwork about 2 years ago as a hobby. This is the first significant project I have done that I designed and built 100% myself. It was commissioned by my wife who wanted a triangular coffee table. The shape has also been likened to a boomerang, guitar pick and a misshapened discus.

Top is 3/4” thick maple veneer, top edges are 7 layers of laminated walnut, top corners are pupleheart. Top and shelf is attached to the table with figure 8 metal table fasteners. Top was initially cut out with a jigsaw and then sanded with a rotary sander to get the edges nice and smooth.

Shelf is 1/2” thick maple veneer edged with purpleheart (only 1 thin layer).

Rails for top and shelf are walnut. Legs are claro walnut and are joined to the stiles/rails with Festool domino tenons. Triangle for the legs are 90 degrees, 32 degrees and 58 degrees.

Took many many hours to build; the laminated edges were 21 separate glue up sessions with a band clamp. Total glue up sessions were 28!!! Everything was completely finished 7/8 layers of water-based semi-gloss polyurethane, sanded with 400 grit between each layer before with the final glue up.

Update on Aug 17, 2009. I have since made a couple of matching side tables which are available for your viewing pleasure at http://lumberjocks.com/projects/19774

-- Northern California http://www.lloydus.com


16 comments so far

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miles125

1419 posts in 898 days


posted 218 days ago

Very nice table. Be cool to see a Fender logo inlaid into it.

-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""

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CharlieM1958

7604 posts in 1111 days


posted 218 days ago

Nice design and execution. I like miles’ idea, although I’m guessing your wife would never go for it. :-)

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

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matt garcia

716 posts in 564 days


posted 218 days ago

Very nice!!

-- Matt, Houston Texas

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SteveE

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posted 218 days ago

Nicely done. Great inspiration for the shape.

-- Measure twice, cut once, bang into place

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Junji

507 posts in 274 days


posted 218 days ago

very unique design, we call the shape of the pick “tear-drop”.
Well done!

-- Junji Sugita from Japan, http://tetra.blog12.fc2.com/

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Rustic

1247 posts in 489 days


posted 218 days ago

nicely done

-- There is no such thing as a mistake. Its called a design modification Rick Kruse, Grand Rapids, MI

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TheCaver

292 posts in 732 days


posted 218 days ago

VERY cool, the only thing that would have made it better would have been maybe some arched walnut endcaps to replace the straight cut purpleheart ones. But man that would have been a pain!

JC

-- Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -Carl Sagan

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a1Jim

16598 posts in 470 days


posted 218 days ago

Nice Design well built,looks good

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

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Tom Goodman

127 posts in 1024 days


posted 218 days ago

Great job on this. I really like it. Reminds me of a Ouija board planchette (you know, That part that you and your friends move around on a Ouija board with your finger tips) I don’t know why, I haven’t played that game for over 35 years.

-- - " If you want square work, You don't cut corners. " - -- Tom Goodman, Santa Maria, CA. woodworkertom@gmail.com

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steiner

134 posts in 243 days


posted 218 days ago

What a great looking table!

-- Scott - Katy, Texas

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Lloyd Davies

83 posts in 218 days


posted 216 days ago

Thanks all for your kind comments.

-- Northern California http://www.lloydus.com

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douglbe

191 posts in 853 days


posted 216 days ago

Awesome table, I like the guitar pick idea. Looks great!

-- Doug, Cass City, Michigan

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Lloyd Davies

83 posts in 218 days


posted 215 days ago

Actually the guitar pick idea was just a name, after the fact. The request was just for some kind of triangular table.

-- Northern California http://www.lloydus.com

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Dusty56

3458 posts in 581 days


posted 197 days ago

I think you’ve gone where no Triangle has gone before ! This is a beautiful table and the design is great : )

-- You know you're getting old when you know the difference between you're (you are) and your (belonging to you) AND how to use them in a sentence .

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janice

294 posts in 318 days


posted 178 days ago

I love the table. Too bad the guitar pick came after the idea, but it’s great anyway.

-- Janice

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Dick, & Barb Cain

7034 posts in 1192 days


posted 178 days ago

A unique, beautifully crafted table.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

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