My youngest daughter was flipping through the pages of a Pottery Barn catalogue and spotted this table. Very plain and she asked if I could build her one on a little smaller scale.
I ended up building it out of a combination of flat sawn and quarter sawn red oak from Scott Smith.
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I am the tallest person in my family at 5' 11" so stools are a necessity :).
I started out with an arts and crafts-ish design in SketchUp:
But when I went and looked at my stack of lumber I threw out the plans and made something a little different:
It is made out of a single board from...
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First, let me say the biggest THANK YOU Scott!! permitted by the software!
Scott was the first ever Guest Speaker on our Thursday night chats.
Scott answered questions from logs, veneers, sealing, ponds and even how to build the Guinness Book of World Records most...
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bought some QSRO from Scott a couple of weeks
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ago to make a corner shelf unit my MIL asked me to make for her ..................... built it and when i was in upstate NY last week i installed it for her
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as stated the wood...
went down to New Hill this morning to get some QSRO boards from Scott
got a tour of his shop, some really nice wood at a great price and had a great visit with him as well :wsmile:
thanks for the tour, Scott , was good to meet you and the QSRO is going to make the corner display unit...
I cut a few 8' long 18/4 (4 1/2") thick chunks of good clear QS Red Oak out of some nice butt logs. I suggested they be entirely coated in ancorseal and be kept in the shade so they will air dry nice and slow. Was I right in suggesting this?