I am about to venture into unknown waters as I intend to start on my first 'real project". (I have currently only made cutting boards, a work bench, etc).
I like thick "massive" looking peices of furniture for some reason and I want to try and make a coffee table similar to the one shown below. I have sketched out dimensions also shown below.
I will probably use pine only because I will probably screw things up and pine I can afford to scrap a lot (I seem to make everything twice, once to learn on and toss and once to keep )
Questions for those who have designed:
(1) Thoughts on the proportionality of the dimensions?
(2) Best joinery to make the table top (both parrallel and perpindicular peices)?
Tools I have availble:
All advice welcome.
- Plunge router
- Fill size Table saw
- Full size drill press
- Benchtop mortising tool
- Miter saw
- Biscuit saw
- Jointer (6")
- Planer (12")
- plus the normal other stuff (drills, jig saw, hand planes, etc)