Poplar coffee table with pine base
Looks good. Poplars green tint is a pita to deal with. Usually it’s painted. Nice to see a clean stain and grain.
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Wife wanted a plant shelf on Amazon for $60. I said, pshh, I can build that myself. So I did. It only cost $90 and took all weekend.
If he had bought a sheet and ripped his own slats on a table saw it’d have been cheaper. But then he’d have to have a table saw. Fabrication is mostly front loaded. If you aren’t equipped for it then economies of scale is working against you.
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