This table arrived well packaged and on time. ru-vid.comUgkxn94T8Mu1iMnsLCMNOI9srXSsLkI4JXKW Like another reviewer advised, I pulled everything out and made sure everything was included (everything was!). I built it alone and it took me about an hour. The color is great and for the price the lift part works well. As others have mentioned, it’s not the smoothest opening/closing, but it works. The screws do show, but I plan to order white sticker covers if that bothers us too much. Really happy with this table! UPDATE: it’s been over a year since we got this coffee table and we still love it! It gets HEAVY use as our dining table, foot rest, and school desk. Over time, the opening and closing mechanism has gotten smoother. I added a new photo with the white screw cover stickers. They blend in perfectly and make it look a little cleaner. 100% recommend!!!
I LOVED the little sketch animations :D Those were really precious, I kept rewinding to watch again :D I hope you do more like that! Once again you've bought a beautiful visual style to all aspects of your work :)
@@frankmakes I mean, seriously… you’re artistry with design and wood is not up for discussion as far as I’m concerned. The editing effort you put in to tell a story is equally unmatched on YT, if not further ahead of the best of them. Hats off, I wouldn’t know where to even start. 👏 👏 👏
Way to raise the bar again. This was another example of pure art meeting engineering hanging out with nature. What a timeless video (feature). Thanks for putting so much into all of your videos. It is not lost on your audience. We all love it and learn so much.
@@frankmakes It helped me understand your thought process beter. Its great way highlight important parts of the project. I love all the details you put in sound, animation and humor.
You're an inspiration @@frankmakes . It warms my heart knowing that you have struggled with stuttering and now you are the voice that so many feel so connected to and comforted by. Love seeing you talk on camera!
Frank, thanks for all your great content! I really appreciate your integration of the CNC with standard and hand woodworking. It’s great to see your tilting table really shine 👍🏼 🍻
I would love to see this same concept, but with a live edge and each leg being different size and shape and the top being random thickness, like you found a tree and just peeled most the bark off and finished it. Loved this, as always, thanks for sharing
You are very creative, especially that you always record (and it goes up) when you fold up the table on the CNC machine. Thank you for always taking us with you.
Frank, I would love to see something very similar to this but plan the top so that above each leg is a knot. Then carve out the top so the legs become almost like a funnel. Since the legs are placed over the location of a knot (branch when it was a tree) the wood grain would be circular there and follow the concave carving from the top. It would then give the legs the appearance of the branches that used to be there when it was a tree still.
I actually felt scared on your behalf because of the ambitious nature of this project. I knew you'd have a plan, and would have spent weeks making it in your head before you started making chips and sawdust, but there would have been the inevitable unforeseen issues during the build. I suspect there would have been un-filmed pauses while you thought about the next step. The finished table is sensational. If you ever have visitors with engineering backgrounds, I feel sure they'd be mesmerised by the shape and angles of the leg joints, and try to work out how they could have been made. I know that I would.
Yes, I've been thinking about this one for a while. I think I was under the attitude that I would glue everything together and then carve something out of it. Whatever it was. I'm thrilled that it came out as well as it did.
2/12/23; Wow, round Dental or 🏰 Castle joints on legs to underside of flat top coffee table! Incredible high end wood craft! ...but...how do gusts look, see, appreciate fantastic artistry? They can't! So...somehow these joinery...radial 'thru dovetails?..no..'thru/exposed box joints' become easily visible?...lengthen, upward these short 'stubby' legs from their mid point?..cut off lower ends, drill, insert large OD (1 1/2") dowells into new longer leg lengths? This kinda transforms 'coffee table' into arm-elbow height...ya know, like a (hotel) bar top height. Then we can clearly see the craftsmanship of your joinery! Ah yes, this means another coffee ☕ table for the 'boss', but after all this effort, you are ready for an 'ez' project, aye?👍👍👍👏😊🍷
What interesting table legs and the attaching joinery. Really appreciate you giving us your thought process on designing them. The table itself is lovely; it looks very organic, but the legs were extremely technical.
You do beautiful work and do and excellent job of editing you video’s. Glad I wan’t there when you made all those drawers in the back ground, whew, that was a job in its self. Great video, loved the table, the leg joints are the table. Thank you. From Missouri
When clamping the legs vertically to the router table, could have just rotated 90 along the axis of the leg, so the entire flat side was clamped to the fence. clamp a stop block at the bottom too so its supported.
Thank you for sharing your creativity with us! Personal question: Have you found making videos and narrating them has helped with your speaking issues? Just wondering because your presentation in front of the camera is flawless.
always enjoy your videos Frank. I love the way the joints are visible. An idea perhaps is to make the same joints halfway up the legs also to have 2 views of the cool joints
Another amazing video. If you were to do something like this again, perhaps having the joint of one of the legs poke through to the top might look really cool. Or doing an inlay to give some more life to the top to mirror the bottom?
I like it a lot! I think your wife was correct that the legs needed to be thinner. Looks much better. The only thing I would have done differently if I were going to put in all that effort would have been to find a fancier board for the table top, like figured walnut or curly maple.
That turned out great. These types of joints would work well for a plant stand. A joint at the top and another at the base using contrasting species of wood would really stand out. Or, just use one species of wood and stain only the top and base before glue up.
Frank, I had seen your mallets, so I kindof understood how the legs attached and even guessed the cutting of angle on the legs. BUT I could not figure out how you were going to meld the smooth cone shape from leg to the table. When you said carve, I thought you would be there all year with chisels..haha. I forgot you had the drill cutting and shaping tool. I gotta get me one of those. Thanks for a great design, build teqnique and another great video!. Oh yea, the tree fall was good too!
Hey Frank, I was just thinking... you should probably create some Howarth brand merchandise. The black full sleeved shop shirt would be your best seller :)
If you'd like to do more sanding with your angle grinder, you should give metalworking flap-wheels a try. The abrasives on those are MUCH more durable, and the lower grits will vaporize wood.
You are amazing!. I have been watching your videos all Easter Long and just can't get enough. The thought process, execution and finishing are top class. Where do you put all these works? Do you have a gallery of a sort?
Nice desidgn and execution Frank. Perhaps rounding the corners of the top would be a thought to avoid whacking your shins and more matching the rounded legs?
Like your other table, before this was carved it this looked like it was made of LEGO pieces that weren't intended to go together. It's definitely better after the carving but could be an interesting design if it was re-designed to look like LEGO.
Loved this table Frank. Is there any chance that you have plans to attend the Oregon Woodturning Symposium? I'd enjoy meeting you in person. I've been a watching your videos for many years.
