Two of our friends has been looking for a coffee table that would go nicely in their lounge, having not found anything under two hundred quid that they liked it was suggested that the blokey stay with us for a day or two and we have a go at making one.
So yesterday we got hold of some Sycamore from a wood supplier/carpenter that I like to go to in Bishops Castle and after a late start due to a disasterous water meets car incident we got cracking.
The brief (he alleges that he had design control but I think actually his girlfriend pulled the strings) was to create a rustic handmade coffee table with a bit of character that was tolerably straight - no problem with the rustic character bit anyway.
Late yesterday afternoon we therefore started milling the boards and laminated four legs (for chunkiness) and the bits that would eventually make up the top. Leaving them to glue up we grabbed some dinner, tea and a film (hard life).
Today we milled and cut the aprons, knocked some mortice/tenon joints together and did some sanding. While he's got a lillte more sanding to do and a finish to apply it is good to go (and it has).
A double waney edged rustic coffee table, boards to bodged in a day and a bit. Not bad for about fifty quid.
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