Other than some shelves that I made for my office. This is the first piece of furniture I’ve ever made. Lots and lots of mistakes and do-overs. Still, I think it turned out pretty good.
Coffee table. 2 36"x36" sheets of birch ply, with 1/8" Poplar hobby boards glued/nailed to it in the design. The ply was stained with homemade Iron Acetate stain. Then epoxy was poured onto the recessed parts and in all the cracks. Then the whole thing was sanded again and covered in many coats of Lacquer… lost count.
The table uses a mechanism ordered from AliExpress that folds out to a table. It pops up, and to the left, then the top of the coffee table is rotated over the other “legs” of the mechanism, and it becomes this table. Just high enough to comfortably game from the sofa. (The plywood surface was stained with Minwax Golden Oak and coated in about ten coats of lacquer.)
I’ve been eyeballing those folding table brackets on Ali. How does it seem so far for durability, stability, and pinch points/finger choppage?
Durability seems fine. It’s very stable when up and down. The transition is a bit dodgy, but I have a lot of weight on it. The table top has about a 4" overhang from the base so you’re fingers aren’t really anywhere near the contraption. I’ll try to get a video tomorrow.
Cool I’ll be sure to check it out. I’ve been wanting to make something with one of those brackets but I can’t even trust the adults in my family not to do dumb shit like get stuck in the recliner and somehow simultaneously collapsing the mechanism into itself, seizing it up and snapping off the lever.
http://tamarau.com/images/table_movement.mp4
That is much cooler than I expected. Looking sharp btw.