Sharing my first table from years ago… Looking at it now there’s a ton of issues with it, but about ten years later it’s still going strong.

I don’t have any fully finished pics of it, but it folds out one direction to form an 8’ table, or closes and opens in the other direction to form a lit display case for my sister’s artwork.

  • Scaldart@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Wow. This is a gorgeous piece! Color me impressed. I personally don’t do any woodworking, but my father dabbles. Would you mind sharing what tools you used?

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      1 year ago

      Sure thing – I didn’t have too many at the time, so it’s simple and uses a lot more screws than I would now.

      • A bench plane, clamps and glue to form the uprights from dimensional lumber

      • A circular saw and some jigs to get the long cuts

      • A krieg jig for some pocket screws (to which I added a ton of brackets out of general nervousness)

      From there it’s finished with brass fittings, etc. The feaux marquetry is actually very easy to do if you’re patient… Use a razor to cut across the wood fiber in the pattern that you want (which stops the stain from seeping past the line you cut), then mask off the pattern.

      Start with a gel stain in the darkest color, let it dry, mask off that section and move to a lighter stain, etc. Gives a really nice effect.