Much respect for making the effort to build your own table to your own taste. BUT! A couple small adjustments and you could have made it so much better (in my subjective opinion) First off, you should have painted the plywood underneath, "yea but its the bottom of the table no one is going to see it", sure, but because you made some interesting and unusual legs for it, people are naturally going to want to look under to have a better look at what they are. It doesnt need to be a good paint job, just a black spray coat to make it stand out less as an ugly piece of plywood. Second, for all the time and effort put in, and the obvious cost you must have payed to get the beefy hardware you used for the legs, to then cheap out on the paint job with both cost and effort, was disappointing. That paint is going to rub and flake off within weeks. If you didnt want to go to the cost and effort to prep the zinc coating properly for a paint job, you should have at least stripped the zinc off first, then your paint would have held up a lot better that just straight over the zinc. At 14:12 you can see it rub straight off with a light tap of a soft mallet. If you soaked the threaded rods and nuts in vinegar for a day or two, it would take the zinc coating off without you putting in any effort, and painting on bare metal will hold up significantly better with a good primer or a straight to metal paint. I dont say this as a dig at your work, on the contrary, i feel like you made a great project but you did 90% and dropped the ball on the last little bit that would have made it amazing. But that is just me, and i apologize if you dont take it that way and i just ended up offending you. Either way, great work man.
Thanks for watching! I thought about the bottom, and didn’t even know what to really do, but just straight up black is a great idea. Still easy enough to do. I didn’t even think about removing the zinc, I kinda figured when putting the nuts on some paint would wear off. The vinegar trick is another great idea. Definitely will keep that in mind for future builds. Thanks again for the constructive thoughts!
Wow that's a Really nices coffee table I like the design and the legs u build to
Thanks!
looks like a door
Much respect for making the effort to build your own table to your own taste.
BUT!
A couple small adjustments and you could have made it so much better (in my subjective opinion)
First off, you should have painted the plywood underneath, "yea but its the bottom of the table no one is going to see it", sure, but because you made some interesting and unusual legs for it, people are naturally going to want to look under to have a better look at what they are. It doesnt need to be a good paint job, just a black spray coat to make it stand out less as an ugly piece of plywood.
Second, for all the time and effort put in, and the obvious cost you must have payed to get the beefy hardware you used for the legs, to then cheap out on the paint job with both cost and effort, was disappointing. That paint is going to rub and flake off within weeks. If you didnt want to go to the cost and effort to prep the zinc coating properly for a paint job, you should have at least stripped the zinc off first, then your paint would have held up a lot better that just straight over the zinc.
At 14:12 you can see it rub straight off with a light tap of a soft mallet. If you soaked the threaded rods and nuts in vinegar for a day or two, it would take the zinc coating off without you putting in any effort, and painting on bare metal will hold up significantly better with a good primer or a straight to metal paint.
I dont say this as a dig at your work, on the contrary, i feel like you made a great project but you did 90% and dropped the ball on the last little bit that would have made it amazing.
But that is just me, and i apologize if you dont take it that way and i just ended up offending you.
Either way, great work man.
Thanks for watching! I thought about the bottom, and didn’t even know what to really do, but just straight up black is a great idea. Still easy enough to do.
I didn’t even think about removing the zinc, I kinda figured when putting the nuts on some paint would wear off. The vinegar trick is another great idea. Definitely will keep that in mind for future builds. Thanks again for the constructive thoughts!
As a professional woodworker and furniture maker, I am in agreement with your perspective.