Overview

With the offcut from the standing desk, the plan is to make a coffee table.

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This turned out pretty well. I will omit a fair amount of detail, refer to the standing_desk project for required tools and so on.

Stuff used

I used these corner brackets, which massively sucked, as the holes in them were not square. But, it was ~$4 for 20. YMMV. alt text

Trying something funky

I tried a rather spur of the moment design change, to mount the legs at a 45 degree angle with respect to the corners. This turned out to be awful for stability, which tends to be a valuable thing in a coffee table. It looked moderately cool for a bit though.

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I then changed to trusty 90 degree corners, which, unsurprisingly, yielded much more stable results.

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Making something useful

I frankly hated the way the table looked after my first two sets of experiments. It was finally time to make it look decent. I got coffee table legs from Bunnings that look beautiful with the Acacia.

  • Re-sanded the table with a fine 800 grit.
  • Re-varnished with the same polyurethane varnish.
  • Installed the new legs.

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