Coffee Table - Workbench

Wuddoc, Welcome Aboard.
That is a great coffee table!! It looks fanatastic and so functional.
I am sure some of those on here that are working in their apartments will be interested in this concept.

Thanks for the post, and thanks for spending your carreer promiting and teaching woodworking. Look forward to seeing more of your work.

CtL

-- Chris L. "Don't Dream it, Be it."

A man after my own heart, I too have the multi-tasking disease and love your your idea. Well executed!!!!!!

You are either single or have the most understanding wife in the world.

“Why honey, what makes you think that those are MYwoodchips all over the room?”

-- I can so I wood but why are my learning curves always circles

This is a really nice build. Very unique. I can honestly say I have never seen, nor dreamed of, a coffee table patterned after a workbench. Only a LumberJock would produce something like this.

Thanks for making my day. :)

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

Brilliant! I like the way your thinking with this one.

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

You have made a pretty massive coffee table cum work bench using your precious time while watching movie. The design is very good. What are the dimentions of the table?

Sharad

-- patanjali

That’s the coolest idea! Why put a little TV in the shop, when you can put a little shop in front of the BIG TV?!

Ohhhhh wuddoc, you really have the disease bad! You’re gonna fit in fine around here! Welcome aboard and I gotta say that is the best coffee table I think I’ve ever seen. You wouldn’t happen to use a router as a food processor would you??
We gotta see the rest of the house now…

-- --Chuck

My wife has been after me to build us a new coffee table. I would probably be sleeping in the shop if I waltzed in with this…

Excellent job. Novel idea.

Welcome to LumberJocks. Lots of positivity here.

-- http://dustynewt.googlepages.com

this is great! I was surprised to see the storage areas. Excellent

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

I’m Impressed. When I first saw the picture I thought it was a minature. Very nicely done. Thank you for posting.

God Bless
tom

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

Very nice…. Used with vacuum cleaner plugged in and ready to go, the minute the wife comes home?

That’s a great idea for a woodie’s household.

Regards
John

-- Semper Fidelis - I started with nothing; I still have most of it left.

Wuddoc I love this!!!! I just showed this to my wife and she said…..........uhhh NO! I think to hide the idea of woodworking in the living room though I might make the Lazyboy have a pop out carving bench, then I am sure she will agree to that!

-- Kevin -- (http://www.kevinswoodshop.blogspot.com)

FANTASTIC – you showed not only great craftsmanship but truly solid imagination in coming up with this unique piece!
Curious to the material used on the top?

-- Bill - - Ad-Marketing Guy, Ramsey NJ

I thought it looked like a miniature as well! either way, it is impressive.
I’m sure I’d get away with something like that in my house!

-- ~ www.darrylmasterson.com ~ www.woodworkingdungeon.blogspot.com ~

Pure genius. Brilliant, I wish I could pull that one off at my house…

-- A thing of beauty is a joy forever... - Keats

That is one of the coolest ideas I have seen on this site.
Great idea.
Christina

Nice! that would be perfect for us city dwellers.

What a fantastic idea! (I can’t see my wife going for it, though.) <grin>

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

Very neat and creative.

-- Sawmill Lodge - http://sawmill-lodge.com

Thanks everyone for the comments.

The top is native cherry solar kiln dried and Michigan Northern Hard Maple. There are several pieces of 1/4” all-thread running inside to help hold the top together. I covered the all thread ends with cherry plugs. The back side of the coffee table workbench is a 1/2” wider strip to stop items from rolling off the table. The end caps are designed to float as the top expands and contracts.

The dimensions are within furniture coffee table standards at 18” deep and 16” high. I selected the 2/3 standard based on the width of my love seat so the table is 30”.

The doors are raised panel and the drawers have wood slides that are designed for full extension. The vice consists of an acme threaded shaft with a Pipe “T” tapped for the thread. The small metal dog is just square 3/8” bar stock. The lock for the dog is a brass thumb screw that turns inside of a self tapping threaded insert.I used ball caster counter-bored into the legs to allow the table to move easily.

My idea book for fasteners, fittings, and items that may work for what I am attempting comes from the McMaster-Carr catalog.

-- Wuddoc

Very cool idea! And really well done too.

-- Dust collectors suck.

Ahhh wood chips, saw dust and a good movie. How can you top that!

Well done!

-- Betsy - There is no strength where there is no struggle

Now you just need to mount a small shop vac in the bottom to keep the dust and shavings to a minimum. What a great idea. YOU are definitely a Lumberjock. You should check out our “You know you are a lumberjock when…”link that has a gazillion answers to the when part. Welcome.

-- so much wood, so little time. Bradford.

Brilliant! As far as talking our wives into letting us have one – just wait until they complain we haven’t been around for enough quality/family time.

-- The opposite of war isn't peace. It's creation. -- Wood T's: http://www.printfection.com/snbcreative

great hobby table … it could work for anything, from woodworking to models, to stained glass. You got me thinking !

-- a legend in my own mind ...

Welcome to LJ, Nice bench.

-- Just another day in paradise.

I love it. A coffee table with it’s own built in nutcracker. This is so cool.

-- Use the fence Luke