Cull Wood Table

[Jeff Mills]

One of my Son's and one of my Daughter's asked me to make them a set of living room tables. So I decided to use some QS RO cull wood from the last lumber run. I came up with a very basic design that I threw together without any plans. The end table also has a low BF count of 11.9

* 1) top qty 1 - 1x8-8 (7/8 x 21 x 25) edge glued
* 4) legs qty 2 - 1x3-8 (1 7/8 sq x 23) face glued
* 4) rails qty 1 - 1x4-8 which will make 2) short rails (7/8 x 3 x 16 3/4) and 2) long rails (7/8 x 3 x 20 3/4)
* 4) corner block 7/8 x 3 x 4 leftover from above
* 28 2 1/2 drywall screws (to fasten the rails to the top and legs to the corner blocks)
* 12 1 1/4 drywall screws (to fasten the corner blocks to the rails)
* 3/8 round over bit (round over the edge of the top and outside corner of the legs)

The rails set back 3/4" from the edge of the top and the legs ~ 1/4". I have not finished sanding and sealing but here's what it looks like so far, after about 4 hours. Minus over night glue dry time for the top and legs. I have 3 more end tables and 2 coffee table to make.



And yes that's white paint on the floor, I need to refinish the floor still as you can see someone stained it

[Jeff Mills]

Here's the coffee table finished sanded and sealed, it measures 21 x 39 x 17. The top is a edge joined 1 x 12 so only one glue joint down the center. How humid it was today, I hurried up and got the rails screwed in so the top wouldn't bow. Now it's on to a little touch up and bunch of spraying fun... weather permitting

Materials list 17.2BF

* 1) top qty 1 - 1x12-8 (7/8 x 21 x 39) edge glued
* 4) legs qty 2 - 1x3-8 (1 7/8 sq x 16) face glued
* 4) rails qty 2 - 1x4-8 which will make 2) short rails (7/8 x 3 x 16 3/4) and 2) long rails (7/8 x 3 x 35 3/4)
* 4) corner block 7/8 x 3 x 4 leftover from above
* 38 2 1/2 drywall screws (to fasten the rails to the top and legs to the corner blocks)
* 12 1 1/4 drywall screws (to fasten the corner blocks to the rails)
* 3/8 round over bit (round over the edge of the top and outside corner of the legs)

[FredP]

UR QUICK MAN!!!! U da one dat stole me elves eh?
nice work man. simple but elegant and all 3 pieces looks the same.

[Jeff Mills]

Done Finishing schedule 1 coat 3/4 clear oil based gloss poly 1/4 mineral spirits, let dry for 1 day. Then 3 coats clear gloss water based poly. Scrub in between each coat of water based with some 3M purple pad that I picked up at the BORG. The oil base brings out the grain and helps with grain raising brought on by the water based.






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[sapwood]

Eye popping grain, Jeff!
Easy to understand why you like building tables . . . great way to expose the beauty of wood and present it for viewing

Roger

[Steve W]

Looks awful nice for "cull" wood

[Jeff Mills]

Thanks guys... These tables are by far the easiest things I made in a long long time. No joints, no curved cuts, no carving, no drawers, all flat square cuts, except for the 45 degree corner blocks. The only glue used was to edge glue up the tops for width. Everything else is held together with screws. The most time consuming part was sanding, but sanding is the most disliked part of any woodworking project for me anyways...

I would highly recommend this project to any beginning woodworker, I think they would find it very enjoyable and it's easy enough to modify to your liking. I did get myself up on one of the end tables and jumped up and down to see if I could break it - nothing doing they are solid and therefore grand kid proof, which was one of my goals going in

Here's the underside - how they are held together...

[MrAudio815]

Dang Jeff,

Those tables are very nice. I especially like the this one with all that cull, Woooooo Weeeeee~!!!



YOU ROCK~!!!

[Jeff]

Those are really nice Jeff; the kids and grand young'uns should get a lifetime of use out of them. Resistant to crayons and Juicy-Juice too.

Was that some of wood that we cut at Jim's place in Berea?

[RandyJ]

Ummmmm, if you like, I'll take a load of that cull wood off your hands

Beautiful job, Jeff

[Jeff Mills]

Originally Posted by Jeff

Those are really nice Jeff; the kids and grand young'uns should get a lifetime of use out of them. Resistant to crayons and Juicy-Juice too.

Was that some of wood that we cut at Jim's place in Berea?

Yes Sir it is the same wood that the lumber run members didn't want from the last two lumber runs. My son leaves tomorrow, then I'll start on my daughter tables.

[Jeff Mills]

Here's another cull wood end table... I'm finding use for some of the QSRO cull The top is 7 edge glued 4/4 x ~ 3 1/2 for a final dimension of 7/8 x 24 x 28, it's the same as the others just 3" wider and longer. Still have another end table to make and a coffee table that's 24 x 42 x 17" high. My daughter wants them satin black .

The other ones shown previously in this thread are at my sons house in southern IL.

Finish sanded / not sealed



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[LeftyTom]

Looks spiffy, Jeff.

[Jeff Mills]

Here's the daughter's second one - Got the coffee table top gluing up.

[FredP]

I think I figured out why daveO has been slow lately.....
jeff stole his elves! Nice work Mr, Mills!

[Jeff Mills]

Fred, DaveO's elves need to learn to clean up after themselves, it's getting deep in there... Time for the shovel again

Here's the coffee table, finish sanded unsealed.



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