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Hello everyone, I'm finishing up a piece of live edge wood and I've used a router to recess the legs underneath. However I didn't take into account how thin this table was to start (1 inch) so I'm struggling with how to attach these legs without poking through the top. I initially planned to...

Evening woodworking geniuses! I’m looking for some ideas on a poplar desk I’m building for the boss (wife) and have a wood movement dilemma. I built an l shaped desk top with 2 stacked 1” boards and my wife wants a mitered border around it like this: I plan on creating a 2” mitered border on...

Hi All, Started this project ages ago, but finally managed to wrap it up last spring. Was worried about issues with wood movement but had some great feedback from the forums. ( Question on wood movement on a round table ). The tabletop is made from cherry and birds eye maple. There are...

Hi Again, I just wanted to follow up on my last post https://www.woodworkingtalk.com/f9/question-wood-movement-round-table-215279/ My original question was whether this assembly would split. Opinion was pretty divided, and after thinking about it some more I’m pretty sure splitting is...

Edit: Project's (finally) finished Radial butcher block table, thanks for the help everyone! Hi All, I'm planning to build a round 'butcher block' style dining room table. It will be 5 feet in diameter, and just to make life interesting I plan to join the staves radially instead of the...

I'm doing a built-in for a closet. The closet is over the stairs so its front is sloped. I created an L shaped front and shelf from solid maple. The bottom foot or so is up against the wall that I can screw into. The top surface is hovering, supported by the miter (in the photo there is...

I'm making some tables out of regular 2x's of Doug Fir. I am very aware of wood movement and having the proper joints to allow for the wood to move etc. What I'm wondering is, if I were to polyurethane all faces of the table top (top, bottom, sides, ends) will that reduce or eliminate any...

I'm trying to attach a table top to a trestle style base and I'm trying to figure out the best way to attach it. The table is made from Kiln Dried Doug Fir, so the top is 1.5" thick and the base is made up of 4x4's. Here's what it looks like...

Hello I am a begineer attempting my first dining room table. My plan for the top is to use 5/4 solid oak edge glued (after squaring on a router table) and using a glass inlay. I was planning on having about a 3/8 thick 8 inch wide glass piece inlayed down the middle of the table (about 3/4 of...