Well, I finally got around to starting this project. I've been wanting to build a table for the Egg since I brought it home back in April. I used the
The Naked Whiz's plans that he's created and are available as a download from his site. I had it all planned out really good as far as lumber and how much I'd need and all, then when I got to Home Depot I had to buy 8ft boards for my 1x4's instead of the 10ft boards I had done all my planning. Oh well, I guess we'll see how many trips to Home Depot I'll have to make to finish it...hehe.
Oh, did I mention that what I really needed to do was build a Mailbox for my house? Yeah, never got around to that I have priorities...hehe
Here's the first round of pics, I got the major part of the frame built today, I need to finish the top for the upper and lower shelves next. I hope I can work on this some this week, but we'll see.
Just arrived home with all the wood. Well at least I hope this is all I need, I had to guesstimate at the last moment, and I'm not good at math.
The thing in the white box is the mailbox I should be working on...hehe
Here's the wood all cut for the frame of the table. I used the measure twice and cut once method for sure! Of course, with my limited woodworking skilz I went ahead and measured more like 3 or 4 times. Did I mention that I'm bad at math?
Here's the Frame for the upper shelf. I screwed up when building this piece, I should have built the inner square to the right in the picture first and then installed it before putting the right side board on. I will know better for next time.
Here's the Frame for the Lower shelf. After my experience with the upper shelf I was much smarter building the inner framing first and then adding to the frame. I did have one little problem, I accidentally drilled my thumb at one part during the lower shelf construction...DOH!
Oh well, good thing I have lots of FSA money to go buy more bandaids...hehe.
Adding the four posts to the lower frame. There may be a better way of doing this, not sure, I never took shop class. I took accounting and business machines for my high school electives...ugh, I wish I had taken shop class so I would know what I'm doing...hehe
And here's the top frame added to the posts. All in all it went together pretty well.
I'm using all white pine for the majority of the construction. I really considered using red oak or cedar, but I wasn't confident enough in my wood working skilz to risk the more expensive wood. I figure I can always build another table down the road if I really want something else, I'm sure I can find someone who needs an egg table, what? am I crazy?
That's pretty much it for tonight, it got dark way earlier than I was expecting. I guess I'll have to wait until Friday to install my mailbox...hehe
Smokin!
The Alfster
Just cut the pieces for the top. I did the last cutting for the top and bottom last Friday, and the rest of the stuff today.
The top and bottom pieces have been cut, test fitting the 18"X18" tile into place.
Just finished attaching the top and botton pieces to the frame. I ran out of screws during this step and had to run to Home Depot for another box of screws.
Attached the wheels and tires to the frame. I'm really hoping these work out, I found these at Harbor Freight for about 6 bucks each.
And here's the table's current state. After Sanding the top and bottom shelves, I pretreated then stained. I had already stained the frame, the bottom and top shelves, and in between the slats for the shelves. I have to wait at least 24 hours before finishing with the the Helmsman Spar treatment, so I probably won't get to do anymore until after Thanksgiving. I'm also thinking about giving it one more coat of stain before the final protector coat with the Helmsman Spar stuff.
