I love her. Walnut everything. Six coats of wipe on poly (ArmRSeal oil based). The legs are the way they are for reasons that I promise are too long and boring to explain, but I like the look of them.
Friend needed a coffee table and wanted something similar to the final picture. I still consider myself very much a beginner, and this one about killed me with all the non 90 degree angles.
Finish is Rubio pure. Everything is red oak. (if I had it to do again, I would use plywood.) Bottom panel is screwed in with walnut plugs (and glued). Top panel just glued. Cut some thin strips to cover up the end grain (and various gaps). Royally screwed up the front legs so I had to make a jig to rout a flat place for them to sit. The last picture is the pic I found online that I was working off of.
It’s surprisingly sturdy, even though the legs have a little give. When the legs are sitting at the correct angle, I can sit on the well supported side. And it doesn’t rack (even though it seems to me like it should?)
Overall I’m happy with how it came out. I’m a bit worried about wood movement. We will see in a year or two whether that ends up being a problem. And I managed to glue one of the front legs wrong, but I’m going to add swivel feet that should fix that.
A while ago I got a notion that all of my gardening problems are caused by things that are outdoors, and tried to think of ways I could grow things like tomatoes and herbs inside. But I wanted something that would look pretty. This eventually led to the Tomabinet (which unfortunately probably isn’t tall enough to grow tomatoes).
I had never built a framed cabinet before, and it turns out to be much harder than it looks. Also, I got off on the wrong foot, failing to get my shelves all the way into their dados on the back end, and accidentally creating a slight trapezoid. This made the drawer on the bottom and the doors very frustrating.
It’s got grow lights, ventilation, little fans, and a water basin in the bottom drawer, with a little submersible pump feeding water up through to drip irrigation. Little video here: https://youtube.com/shorts/bUMzSnXkjHM?si=1eDhl0cZA9vga\_gH
Still very happy with how it came out. Excited to try to grow things! Oh and I still need drawer pulls and door handles.