Look! I made something that wasn't cheap...wasn't too expensive, though

I’m really glad I could lend a hand. The table turned out very nice.

Let me know if you ever need anything else.

-- Hard work spotlights the character of people; some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all!

Beautiful table!

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

Very nice job. It sure is good to have mates in LJ’s.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Well done, very nice.

-- Ron, Twain Harte, Ca. Portable on site Sawmill Service http://westcoastlands.net/Sawmill.html http://westcoastlands.net/SawBucks2/phpBB3 http://www.portablesawmill.biz/concrete/

Nice table, SST!

-- Tom, Surfside Beach, SC - Romans 8:28

LJ teamwork, cool! Nice table too!

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

Very nice indeed! Great lines and proportion.

-- Carl Rast, Pelion, SC

Great looking table. He’ll be back and ask for a real drawer. You can bet on it.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Your table came out really nice. If I was your son I’d sqawk about my fake drawer :-)). If you make the other son one – don’t put a drawer in his either, that way neither can complain. Great job.

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

That’s a nice table. The bottom shelf doesn’t look at all like pallet material.

Nice table.

-- Jiri

Very nice table

-- Jim Hallada, Chesterfield, VA

I love this table! Tell us a little about the finish.

-- JP, Shelbyville, KY

Nice. That looks very handsome.

Fake drawer? I use the drawer in my sofa table all the time to keep my stuff. I bet you will be putting one in soon.

-- Stevethepeeve -- I'm no rocket surgeon

Very nice!!

I hope my children drop hints for me to build furniture for them someday!

-- Paul, Texas

In answer to the question on the finish, I drift back into my cheap mode, again, because I used some of the stuff I got for free from the “recycle” room at the local hazardous waste center. People can bring un-opened cans of paints, varnish, etc and you can take out what you might use. I found a gallon of Carver Tripp water based polyurethane and tested it on some scrap & found it was great, easy to use, and no fumes. It’s weird in that it looks like milk in the can, but dries fast & clear.
While I didn’t have time to play with spraying it for this project, it seems to me that it has great potential to spray in my basement shop, eliminating the fear of blowing up my house that I had with other solvent based finishes.
I probably would never have tried a water based finish, except that is was free, but I’m very glad I did.
And by the way, if I’d have known how much flack I was to get on the fake (maybe I should have called it “faux”) drawer, I would have taken the extra time to make a real one…ok, not really…I just wouldn’t have mentioned it.

-- Accuracy is not in your power tool, it's in you

Very handsome!

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That did come out very nice!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

Beautiful table!

-- jeanmarc manosque france

I missed this one. Merci Jeanmarc.

Nice table. I like the beaded legs.

-- The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them

I like the finishing colour. Great job.

-- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY.