Channel: honeysada

Category: Howto & Style

Tags: cats helpingwoodworkingtable makingdining tablemakita tools

Description: We built a dining table from very large sugar pine slab. Sugar pine got its name from the sweet resin that Native Americans used as a sweetener. The wood has pleasant odour while it gets worked on, it reminds me of sweet candy. The wood had been laying outside for a long time so it had several spots damaged from bugs and rot. We had to fabricate a special attachment for our Makita hand planer in order to remove those spots and to evenly plane this large piece of slab. We used sawmill rails as a flat surface, but flat concrete floor would have worked fine too. As always Nanny is an excellent helper and loves to participate in every project. Music: Wood by Dan Henig, Barely Small by Freedom Trail Studio, Moultrie's Madness by The 126ers, Daisy Dukes by Silent Partner.