Yesterday, I wanted to build a stool. I run out of time before I run out of something else to do. Last night I sort of sketched a design of a small table. I have a large stool for the table that where I eat. I have small stool at my desk top computer. This morning I began to build it. I am calling it a table because it is square. I build it out of out of old weathered 2 x 4s and some other weather one inch pickets from someone's fence.
I cut four legs, four trestles, and four skirts out of 2 x 4s. the 2 x 4s are 1 1/2 inches thick. I cut all of them in so they are square except the skirts. There is a pile of mistakes that I made which caused me to take some apart. The skirts were cut to short. They were to be put under the seat and screwed to the legs. I had to cut them shorter and place them between the legs. The trestle were put together in and "H" shape. I wanted to have the weathered wood showing, I ended up trimming the weathered trimmed off both sides. I had to make a new one.
I made the top out of four 2 x 4 x 11 inches long. they should have 13 or 14 inches long. I trimmed weathered sides off the centered board and one side off the two edge boards. I glued the boards together and clamped them. I moved them two separate times before the glue had set and the came apart at the middle. I then put more glue on, and clamped them, and will wait till tomorrow to finish the table.
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