Brief interlude from Covid content today
I recently decided work wasn't busy enough (lol) and set out to build a garden table from scratch. Easily one of the most rewarding things I've done.
Here's a step-by-step, starting with ~60m of wood arriving, too big to bring indoors 😅
So the race was on to cut the wood small enough to bring inside before any rain.
Lots of sawing, some with a circular saw until neighbours complained (not unreasonably), and then hand-saw for the rest.
Super useful tool here for calculating cuts: kurraglenindustries.com.au/linear-cutting…
With everything cut to size, next step was sanding down all edges to make sure nobody would sit on a splinter.
Unfortunately the electric sander also proved unpopular with neighbours, so I hand-sanded 40-odd planks 😅
Then it was a case of waiting for optimal painting weather.
The weather arrived, so next up was waterproofing all of the table-top slats.
The shorter, squatter pieces for table legs etc were a bit trickier: with time at a premium, how do you paint all six faces of a block of wood in one go?
Turns out there's a genius method: paint one face, then rest on the ends of a few screws, then paint the other 5. All done 🙌
So, everything painted, dried and ready to assemble 😀
Next up, power drill time, and everything starts to look a little less like a pile of wood and more like something that might become a table
Now with added legs:
And then table-topping time. Turns out a set of cutlery was perfect for spacing out the slats 😅
Table top secured:
Et voila. A pretty sick garden table and benches, if I say so myself. Here's to a summer of working, eating and drinking outdoors
Credits:
Table design, instructions and video: homemade-modern.com/ep101-diy-outd…
Circular saw: borrowed from @mikederismith
Physical and emotional support: @RossalynWarren
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