reclaimed wood end table

comments (11) April 28th, 2009 in Reader's Gallery

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A friend of mine got rid of an old hot tub. This table use to be the hot tub surround. Cedar. 23 x 18 x 17 Finish is 3 coats of oil then wax.


Design or Plan used: My own design
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gaika gaika writes: looks good and i also like the casters the way they are, makes the table look playful!
Posted: 3:29 pm on November 1st

Incredible Incredible writes: This is a cool piece. Thank you for sharing it.The casters are fine. This is your piece the way you made it. Express yourself! The cheap and tacky comment,well that is a bit cheap and tacky too.
Posted: 9:27 pm on January 7th

ianmilliss ianmilliss writes: Ignore all the comments above - amateur woodworkers sadly have a tendency to nostalgic tastes, at best, and very bad taste at worst. Just look at all the reproduction and pastiche stylesthat woodwork magazines are filled with. I think the castors look perfectly okay, they suit the minimal industrial style of the whole piece and it makes good use of the type of small offcuts we all have heaps of. I like it.
Posted: 7:35 am on June 3rd

seanfromsc seanfromsc writes: I like it just the way you created it.. Really cool piece..
Posted: 11:10 pm on April 29th

choppertoo choppertoo writes: Thanks for the comments.

As far as the polyurethane casters are concerned I purposely chose them to give the table a contemporary/modern look. I’ve been asked to make another one for someone who saw it in my office. They like the caster look as well but I will suggest to them that I make theirs to have a floating look as suggested by yosurijoe as I like the sound of that as well.
The top 4 layers and the bottom 4 layers are solid. For the middle layers the outside boards are full sized but the ends are only 4 inches long. Making it very solid but not overly heavy.

Posted: 1:16 pm on April 29th

marfue marfue writes: Looks great! is that solid?
Posted: 8:49 am on April 29th

yosurijoe yosurijoe writes: You could hide those casters by adding a skirt around the bottom edge of the table. Make it just wide enough so the table looks like it's floating. I've done that with a couple of large pieces that needed to be moved easily and it looks really nice. People won't know that there's casters on it until they push on it. Other then that, nice piece.
Posted: 8:47 am on April 29th

pwfiol pwfiol writes: suggestion,,, if you don't really need to move it a lot get rid of the casters and make some nice feet for it that match the rest of the box. If you do need to move it a lot, set the casters back in and again build some feet to hide them behind. Just make the feet shorter so they don't touch the floor but look like they do. It will then look like it is setting on the legs, but you can still move it.
Posted: 11:03 pm on April 28th

MBerger MBerger writes: If that's a solid lamination I presume you need the casters to move it around. Perhaps they could be recessed or replaced with something from a catalog? Then again, if you lived in a Brooklyn loft they'd fit right in!
Posted: 7:08 pm on April 28th

JayBeeH JayBeeH writes: I was going to comment on the casters but 1st comment covered it.
Posted: 6:07 pm on April 28th

pwfiol pwfiol writes: the box looks great. the casters look cheap & tacky.
Posted: 5:26 pm on April 28th

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