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Turned out awesome! Great peice for my large 2 story foyer. Took longer than expected. The angles for the X proved a little tricky. Everyone loves it and thinks it's a $800 peice! ;)

I've been wanting to build a "plank" style farmhouse table for a long time. I used metal corner brackets to allow for easy removal of legs of the table. However, I found the corner brackets quite hard to work with. I think they're probably sturdier than just pocket holes, so I guess that's good.

I used 100-year old barn wood and it looked so beautiful. BUT...I have a two year old and I'm expecting another child soon, so I wanted to plug up some of the gaps in the wood (like old nail holes that went the entire way through the boards) and put something down to preserve the quality of the wood.

After researching a lot of ways to fill in the gaps in wood tables, I tried a few things.

First I tried clear silicone. I think this would have been a great option if the holes were just a little bit smaller. It ended up just looking like plastic in the spaces, though. So I scooped that out and then tried wood filler. The wood filler looked terrible under polyurethane, though, and no matter how much I tried to get them to match, it just looked like a different color. Finally, I ended up using painter's tape on the bottom of the table under slats and holes and filling them slowly with polyurethane (I used an eyedropper for this task!). It worked really well. I should also say that I sanded the already planed boards as much as possible to reduce the gaps between boards.

I'm really pleased with my new table!

I used only poly on the top. The wood is its natural color.

Thanks for the idea, Ana!

This is not only my first Table, but my first finished project with stain and all. I had a blast with it, but I'll want feedback on what to do different.

The Home Depot here on Hawai'i does not have 2x8's and 2x6's in those places made the table way to short, so I decided to make 3 sections of the 2x4 top. After completing it I thought that it might be to week in the middle so I mounted two 2x4's on the bottom to run along the planter boxes.

Look over it and tell me what you think!

Made this for my son's new basementsuite.

I made some of the cute little cedar boxes to use as planters. I love the size and they were super simple to make.

This was my first project ever and I absolutely love these shelves! I was looking everywhere for a simple shelf system that was wide enough to stand alone in the middle of the floor. I didn't use the kreg jig at all as I was too intimidated and impatient for my first project. I also didn't add the 2X2 floating bottom. Also, I decided I wanted the whole thing trimmed and went ahead and got some extra 1X2 to trim the middle shelves.

Needed a two seat bench for an existing table.  Used biscuits instead of pocket screws to manufacture the seating surface.  Cut 1/4" from each edge of the 2x4  (original 1.5" x 3.5" => now 1.5" x 3.0") so the premilled humps would not be evident on the seating surface.  The surface now has 6 layers of boards for 6x3=18" width instead of the plans 5x3.5 = 17.5"  Great plans, easy to modify!

Fun project to do! I still have to make the other one, but thought I'd post the one that I did complete so far. The drawer doesn't fit in as perfectly as I wanted it to, but it's still ok and not completely noticeable. I was really torn on whether to do the paint/stain look but ended up staining the whole thing and like how it turned out. I had to split this project up into several days because of work, but hopefully the next one won't take as long since it'll be the second one. Overall not too hard!

I loved the style of this desk, but elected to give it a whirl without pocket holes. I tweaked the plans to used half lap joinery and it turned out great!

We made this table and two benches from the plans! We used 3” self tapping deck screws because we couldn’t find any in the 2-3/4” mentioned in the plan. Love the result! We used danish oil in medium walnut.

I wanted to attempt making a dining room table. This is my very first woodworking project. I did use store bought legs from one of the big box stores. Your site completely inspired me to just go for it. It's not quite finished. I've got to do all the sanding and staining. I plan to use a mahogany tone stain to coordinate with my brown/black parsons chairs and hutch in my dining room. Finally finished and I think it looks great! It took a lot of sanding to get all the wood pieces even, but so worth the effort. I love the rustic country look.

Our youngest daughter just loves her new big girl bed! Her older sister does too, now she wants a new bed because hers is too boring!

King bed made out of CVG hemlock with doug fir posts. Headboard chevrons are mix of oak, cherry, maple, hemlock.

Pug approved.