Advice on making a table

[mbg (Max G)]

1. could also do a rough flattening on the cnc table. If less than 30cm wide, it’ll fit on the planer though

2. square the boards up before joining them, then trim the ends flush on the crosscut sled on the table saw. If your question is about getting a square edge on the unattached boards before joining them, jointer if it’s close enough, track saw first if you need to. To get a seamless panel glue up, joint the facing edges, flip the orient the facing edges over the jointer so whatever error you have in the fence is matched, touch up one of them with the hand plane to match the other perfectly. Use either the domino or biscuit joiner to help with alignment.

If it helps, take a look at my recent table project:

Coffee table

We’d gone too long without a proper coffee table, and it was getting annoying when the cardboard box kept sliding off of the wine box. Before: [image] After: [IMG_6706] Design As is often the case with these projects, I spent much more time fretting over, deliberating and redrawing the design rather than the actual build. The first sketch was on Sketchup, as that’s what I was used to. The thought with this one was to continue with some of the themes on earlier projects like my bookshelf o…

Or this one might get closer to directly answering the question, the boards are squared but of different lengths, they just get trimmed up:

Beech desktop for standing desk frame

Might have seen this one taking up space in the space a couple of weeks ago! I’ve moved flats recently and wanted to upgrade to a nice standing desk. With access to the Space and a desire to get into woodworking, I decided to get a frame and make a tabletop for it. Here’s a few photos of the process, and some of the lessons learned: Decided on using beech as it was the cheapest hardwood I could find (sourced from SL Hardwoods in Croydon, they were very professional), and purchased it PAR. I was…