| Project by John | posted 867 days ago | 751 views | 2 times favorited | 5 comments |  |
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This is a sofa table I did for my wife. The legs and base were made from old fence posts. The lumber I used for the top was from from some wood I found in a vacant lot. I love the spalting and the worm (some kind of bug) holes in the wood. As I said before I try to use no metal but I did end up using figure eights to attach the top.
I had fun with this because I finished it using some antique hand tools to try to make it look old. I used teak oil on the top and mixed some clear stain with a little paint added to get the color I wanted for the base.
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workerinwood
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#1 posted 867 days ago
Very nice, looks great!
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Derek1980
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#2 posted 867 days ago
This is beautiful!! My wife, who isn’t a devoted lumberjock, took a strong liking to this table and requested that I make her one for her birthday. How did you plane the boards?
-- Derek
skippyland
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#3 posted 867 days ago
Really nice job, John. I wish I’d find some tossed wood like that! Skip
-- Skip from Batavia, purveyor of fine and exotic sawdust & chips.
Vasko
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#4 posted 867 days ago
That is very nice! I love the use of color on the base – is it paint or stain? Thank you for showing a pic of the breadboard ends (two words?). I’m just learning about woodworking, and I’ve seen the capped ends like this, but I didn’t know how or why they were done. Does this mean you don’t have to glue the table top boards together? I don’t suppose I could get you to post a pic of the figure eights, too? Pretty please? lol I’m trying to decide if figure eights would be appropiate for a future – ok, my first – project.
Thanks!
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Beginningwoodworker
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#5 posted 867 days ago
Nice looking table, John.
-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker
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