Couple weeks ago I wrapped up all my projects and was getting the itch to find a new one. Since I had been thinking about exploring the world of building tables I decided to build a coffee table for the house!
I started off with a 14" wide, 14' long piece of Appalachian Red Oak,
I rough cut them to length and headed over to my buddy's who has the serious wood wood working equipment.
Forgot to take pictures of this part but we squared up the edges, ran the boards thru the planer to take a slight bow out of the boards and then once they were flat we cut them to the final width. Once I got back home I could not help it and had to glue up the table right away!!
Of course you know what comes next, I started using the belt sander and realized I needed some kind of dust management. Here I used duct tape to attach the shop vac where the dust bag would normally go.
I started with 80 grit, then to 120 with the belt sander. From there I used 150 grit with the orbital sander and finished with 220 grit by hand. I also rounded the corners using a 3/8 round over bit in my router.
I will spare yall the staining and finishing process, however again I failed to take pics as I was building the legs.
Here it is all finished up, there are a few flaws that were my doing but for my first big wood project I am happy with. Oh and it weighs about 70lbs!
I started off with a 14" wide, 14' long piece of Appalachian Red Oak,
I rough cut them to length and headed over to my buddy's who has the serious wood wood working equipment.
Forgot to take pictures of this part but we squared up the edges, ran the boards thru the planer to take a slight bow out of the boards and then once they were flat we cut them to the final width. Once I got back home I could not help it and had to glue up the table right away!!
Of course you know what comes next, I started using the belt sander and realized I needed some kind of dust management. Here I used duct tape to attach the shop vac where the dust bag would normally go.
I started with 80 grit, then to 120 with the belt sander. From there I used 150 grit with the orbital sander and finished with 220 grit by hand. I also rounded the corners using a 3/8 round over bit in my router.
I will spare yall the staining and finishing process, however again I failed to take pics as I was building the legs.
Here it is all finished up, there are a few flaws that were my doing but for my first big wood project I am happy with. Oh and it weighs about 70lbs!
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