Badass_panda

Nice work! Love sharing the plans, gonna do that for my next project

Thanks!

Thank you! The feet are level, the polyurethane was still drying when I took the pictures, so you're seeing my high tech anti-drip paper towels™

Remember the Rent is Too Damn High guy? I think this is his year.

This is beautiful work

This is gorgeous -- what'd you use to make the cuts?

This came out beautifully, very understated and lets the wood do the talking

No it's held up very well. I wouldn't use that same hinge design again (if someone opens the leaf without extending the supports it puts a lot of strain on the hinge, I had to replace it after a few years) but the finish has held up great

Sure thing -- I didn't have too many at the time, so it's simple and uses a lot more screws than I would now.

• A bench plane, clamps and glue to form the uprights from dimensional lumber

• A circular saw and some jigs to get the long cuts

• A krieg jig for some pocket screws (to which I added a ton of brackets out of general nervousness)

From there it's finished with brass fittings, etc. The feaux marquetry is actually very easy to do if you're patient... Use a razor to cut across the wood fiber in the pattern that you want (which stops the stain from seeping past the line you cut), then mask off the pattern.

Start with a gel stain in the darkest color, let it dry, mask off that section and move to a lighter stain, etc. Gives a really nice effect.

It's cherry I had left over from another project, but to u/uradingus2's credit, it's stained a red oak color to match the rest of the bar, which is red oak.

I'd stay on Reddit as long as there was content on Reddit ... But I would keep posting and commenting on Lemmy. I'd rather see the fediverse grow.

I thought coins and awards were dumb. I think durable comment logs and karma are good things, though.