Ghost Baker: Door/Table: A World of Awesome

Today my wood-working friend and I finally got the opportunity to get together and build a frame for my door/table project.

We went to Home Depot and bought three 9 foot pieces of lumber and an extra set of legs (just to make sure the legs matched the wood for the frame).

Again I forgot my nice camera, so it's camera phone time. But at least I didn't get sawdust all over my Nikon.

Just to remind you what we're working with..

We eyeballed the lumber with the legs to see what kind of fit we wanted to make.

My buddy unloaded a boatload of tools and exciting (and very dangerous!) saws. I made him do all the table saw work; I only touched the miter saw.

We used some scrap wood to make a demo of how we wanted to hold it all together, just to test the sturdiness (and the sturdiness was awesome).

Notice the three diagonal looking holes? We had a very awesome jig set that let us clamp and measure diagonal holes to attractively hold together the legs with the frame. It was just what we needed.

More measuring

One short side down!

Attempting to hold the long pieces straight while taking a picture.. not a good idea.

The frame is almost done!

We decided to add some triangular pieces to make it even sturdier, and also to hide screws on the underside.. in case anyone is ever sitting underneath the table...