2x4 End Of Summer Challenge

deadblow_hammer Aug 29, 2015

Smallish coffee/end table built with nothing but 2x4s. Its for a friend in Tennessee who always wants me to visit and build him and his lady some furniture. Of course there are dowels and biscuits to help keep everything straight. A few ended up showing and that was a mistake on my part. I didnt have a stop collar for the drill bit. After many holes the tape marking the depth moves further and further. Dang!!!! The table was designed after seeing many Nakashima pieces and other professionals building similar pieces inspired by his.

The top doweled and glued douglas fir and wrapped twice with pine. Mitered corners gave the best results. The pine outlining the mid section is biscuited for added strength.

Basically all the pieces that are glued up were doweled. Took quite a bit of time but working with 2x4s can be a daunting task.

Each piece is then mortised in place. There are no screws or nails used at all. I need practice with joinery so i figured this table would help do just that. Unfortunately nothing is super precise but the table is functional.

Its nice to know almost all the contractors here. Plenty of free 2x4s. Hell yea

cut to rough length

squarin up some edges on ye olde jointer

drill me baby!!!!! dowel me baby!!!!!

not the best doweling jib but meh, it works

shoulda used long dowels and left it with this look

sorta sketched some prelim ideas after milling the stock i had at first

got some more free 2x4s

some slice action. should have changed the blade. using a 3tpi 1" blade was not the best. but hell, changing a 152.5" blade is a pain after working all day. plus i was lazy