Coffee Table; Part Two

The Making Of My Coffee Table.

 Here I am gluing strips of plywood together to create the table top.

 The strips were made three at a time using a template to mark the cut.

 like this.

 Here they are being clamped glued and tied together on a former to ensure a square leg.

 the layers were pinned down using scrap timber and folding wedges.

 some of the looser sections were tied together with spacers in to avoid warping.

 This is what it ended up looking like.

 in this photo you can see that i started to fill in the other end of the table with hundreds of tiny bits of plywood.

Until I managed to use bigger bits.

 The Other leg was made with the plywood running the same way as the previous image

 Then It was sanded.

 This was a test assembly, with a lot of sanding in between.

 Then I used Varnish and six coats of beeswax to build up the finish.

Next, Coffee Table; Part Three, the photo shoot