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Just got finished with this Padauk & Ambrosia Maple coffee table and I actually remembered to take work pics this time! I made this for my own family's living room since we'll be getting reclining couches soon & won't have room for our former rectangular table… plus, well, I'll take any excuse to build a piece of furniture for my home! ;) I am currently obsessed with ambrosia & spalting in any species of wood, so right when I saw this maple at Advantage Lumber I knew it would be our coffee table's top! It was a fairly easy build… tapering legs with one of my tapered leg jigs, chiseling mortise and tenon joints, sawing grooves in apron, joining maple with glue & biscuits, adding padauk inlay with CA glue to the top, sand, shellac & semi-gloss spar urethane on Padauk, satin lacquer on the Ambrosia Maple top, and then glue up & screw on top with fasteners.

What's your favorite thing to build for your home?

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Sweet table, great wood selection, treatment and finish. Great natural edge on this project, nice work.
 

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This is beautiful. I love the style and "beefiness" (is that a word?) of the legs.
 

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Looks great. Love that wood.
 

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Beautifully done.
 

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That gives me some ideas. Good looking table.
 

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Thanks so much for the compliments y'all!! Now my family wants me to make a matching end table… guess it's back to the lumber yard I go! ;D
 

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That's good work. I love contrasting wood.
 
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