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

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Look! I made something that wasn't cheap...wasn't too expensive, though Look! I made something that wasn't cheap...wasn't too expensive, though Look! I made something that wasn't cheap...wasn't too expensive, though Click the pictures to enlarge them

Well, last Christmas I made a sofa table for one of my sons (my first posted project, I believe) and after my other son saw it, his comment was “I know what I want next Christmas”.
So here we are 1 year later and I can post the next project, and my other son is a happy guy. This table was a bit more complicated, so my other son (the sofa table guy) gave that old “his table is cooler than my table” look, and I suppose there’ll be no shortage of projects (or challenges) in my future.
Like the first one, I browsed the web a bit looking at various styles, and drew my plans reflecting a combination of things that I saw. For me, I get a lot of satisfaction out of designing it so it’s a one of a kind piece. (at least when It’s first built)
I used maple throughout, but the inherent cheapskate in me demanded that I pinch a few pennies somewhere, so the bottom shelf is made from boards scrounged from some old pallets. {Here, however, I need to give credit and a special thanks to Lumberjock, Woodgizmo in Weston which on the big map looks like it’s in my back yard, but is actually a couple of miles east of me. He was kind enough to plane these boards to transform them from scraps into the lower table shelf}
I used the old Shopsmiths for the rest, in the form of: tablesaw, bandsaw, disc sander, shaper, and horizontal boring machine. The drawer is fake…I started this too late, and I justify it as “my son will never use the drawer, anyway”.
This whole woodworking thing is kind of fun…maybe I’ll make something for my wife, next. -SST

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


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woodgizmo

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posted 341 days ago

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!

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CharlieM1958

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posted 341 days ago

Beautiful table!

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

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Grumpy

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posted 341 days ago

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

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

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TreeBones

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posted 341 days ago

Well done, very nice.

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TomFran

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posted 341 days ago

Nice table, SST!

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

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RobS

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posted 341 days ago

LJ teamwork, cool! Nice table too!

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

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CedarFreakCarl

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posted 341 days ago

Very nice indeed! Great lines and proportion.

-- Carl Rast, Pelion, SC

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Karson

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posted 341 days ago

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

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

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cajunpen

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posted 340 days ago

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/

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rikkor

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posted 340 days ago

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

-- Maplewood, MN

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Jiri Parkman

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posted 340 days ago

Nice table.

-- Jiri

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Critterman

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posted 340 days ago

Very nice table

-- Jim Hallada, Chesterfield, VA

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jpw1995

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posted 340 days ago

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

-- JP, Shelbyville, KY

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SPalm

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posted 340 days ago

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

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Paul

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posted 340 days ago

Very nice!!

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

-- Paul, Texas

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Shopsmithtom

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posted 340 days ago

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

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Blake

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posted 338 days ago

Very handsome!

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mot

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posted 338 days ago

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)

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jeanmarc

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posted 117 days ago

Beautiful table!

-- jeanmarc manosque france

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Zuki

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posted 117 days ago

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

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woodworm

1149 posts in 128 days


posted 117 days ago

I like the finishing colour. Great job.

-- Regards, Woodworm

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