woodworking

I have spent a large portion of my time over the past few weeks in my garage working on my dining room table. There have been some moments of down time as glue needs to dry or I am a little overworked on a certain part. I want to take my time and do it right, so there is a bit of waiting involved...

Labor Day weekend came and went. With the three day holiday, most people spend it out and about with friends, barbecuing or camping. I chose to spend nearly all of my weekend in my garage as I have been very focused on getting the dining room table put together...

I started milling down the 4x4's this weekend to what has officially become the start of our harvest table! Thankfully I purchased more of these than I thought I was going to need for the build. The learning curve and the waste was a little higher than anticipated and I sacrificed 2 pieces in the learning process...

It was a scorcher yesterday here in Northern Colorado! How did I cool off? Easy, spend the entire afternoon in a garage that was topping 110 degrees for more than 4 hours building something because I was bored! What can I say, I like being in the garage...

Over my vacation, I decided it was time to stop putting off going to get the lumber for my harvest dining room table build. On Wednesday, I headed up to a lumber mill located near Red Feather Lakes to pick up some rough cut beetle kill pine...

I am finally on the home stretch of finishing up the table!

Last night was very productive thanks to a good quality sandpaper! I was able to get the tabletop and legs sanded down and ready for the first coat of stain. Check out the photos for more: With the setback I had on Wednesday night, I have come to terms that the table will not be done by my anticipated time frame of this weekend...