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Dang, your comment literally made my morning — thanks for the kind words!
Thanks for the kind words! You can actually see a bit of the green poking through in the grain band to the left of the scorpion. At first I wanted to cover it up completely, but I grew to like it more and more as the spooky month was going on.
Poplar coffee table with pine base
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Got a new sofa and our old coffee table was too large to fit the space. Wife asked for a new one and I took it as an excuse to try out cutting circles with a router.
I couldn’t find poplar thick enough for a sturdy-looking table, so took a pine panel and glued it underneath my poplar panel before routing out the final shape with a router (straight bit).
Finished the top with a few coats of shellac and then polished with wax and steel wool for a smooth finish.
There’s plenty with this build that I’m not proud of, but I was surprised at how easy it was to route out the circular blank. If I did it over again, I’d have used oil-based stain so the final color isn’t so harsh across the various poplar boards. I also would’ve liked to route out some kind of design in the tabletop, but I’m still only just learning how to use the router.
Link to gallery: https://postimg.cc/gallery/hSzKjGF
Just recently listened to the audiobook and loved it. While I personally struggle with accepting my own neuro-divergence, the tip on thinking about “cleaning” as just “resetting” really really helps me get over the hump of dread and start working towards resetting.
I have a routine of just pulling out my lunch when I get the milk for my coffee
I think someone once told me that this is called “habit stacking”. It’s when you take a habit that you already do every day (like brushing your teeth) and mix it with something else you need/want to do (like listening to an audiobook)
My home lemmy instance went down while I was checking out this post and I appreciated the info so much that I created a new account on a new instance just to tell you thanks.
Thanks for bringing this into my life.