2025 - Tables Reborn!

Glenn Thompson

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2025 - Tables Reborn!
Finished main table

In 2020, I built a side table to house a few LPs and Laserdiscs that I still have. You can go back and see the post on that table. The table tied into the design elements that I used for our entertaiment center and media library - Oak base, stained black with a natural Cherry top. The table was meant to blend with existing tables in our Family Room.

In the present, I decided that I could take those tables, remove the top, stain the base and put on new natural Cherry tops and have a more cohesive room. That is what this project was about.

Here is one of the original tables before I started
Here is the table without the top and a first coat of stain. I did 2 coats along with 2 coats of a poly to finish the base off
Flattening a top after glue up
Tapering the undersides of the top using hand tools.
Here is one of the tops after a glue up and with 2 coats of Linseed oil
Here is one of the tops with some amazing figure to it
Here is the finished side table (1 of 2). The top picture of this post is our main table.