Moving the Table

It’s finally time. Here’s the old dining table:

I’ve owned that for almost 20 years at this point, even before I met my wife! It was a good, solid table, but it’s time for it to find a new home (we gave it away on Craig’s List). We’re going to keep the chairs for now, but I’m thinking about building some to match the table. Chairmaking is a whole other branch of woodworking that I’ve never got into, but it looks like it’s time.

As I thought about moving the new table into the house I figured it should be as light as possible, since it’s already pretty massive as is (84” long by 54” wide). I removed all of the modules and ended up with a huge pile of bolts:

This worked out okay because I also wanted to apply another coat of Feed ‘n’ Wax as it had been a couple of months since the original coat for some of the pieces.

Then I unscrewed the legs and my brother-in-law and I lifted it off the legs and carried it into the house through the front door. We propped it up on the dining chairs until I could get the legs back on, then set it down, officially in the dining room! After a coat of wax I put in the drawers:

Next up, the play surface!