Any woodworkers?

really turned out great. definitely hard to get the re-glues 100% perfect . . . i'll post if it ever happens to me.

 

Thank you!

Thank you!

 

I completed my first furniture project in several years last week.

It's a basic coffee table about 30"x20" and 18" high. I used dowel joinery and it's made from reclaimed/recycled/free wood, and used old stain and oil based polyurethane I had on hand. The only things I purchased for the project were a set of 5/16" dowel centers, a box of 5/16" dowels, and sandpaper. Took about 2.5 weeks working a few hours here and there on evenings and weekends

I didn't need a coffee table, but I had the itch to make a wood project and didn't want to invest too much into my first project after a long woodworking hiatus. My plan from the beginning was build the table and then list it on marketplace, but I have no idea how much to list it for because I spent way too much time on it for the mediocre result haha.





Progress pictures I took along the way:

Early rough mock-up



Dry assembly of frame



Upside-down dry assembly with shelf



Rightside-up dry assembly



Tabletop after sanding, before stain. Pegged breadboard ends.
These boards were pieces from a bed frame and had several existing holes that needed to be plugged as well.



Stained top



All pieces stained



Glued/assembled frame



Completed.
4 coats of oil based polyurethane. Final smoothing with 0000 steel wool. Hand buffed Johnson paste wax.

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I'm happy to have completed another project after several years off, but I could tell it's been too long and I was out of practice. Learned some lessons and I'm looking forward to the next project hopefully going smoother.

 

Nice!
I like the taper that you put on the legs.

 

Thanks! I like how the taper came out too. First time I've done a taper like that.

 

I see no flaws!