What do you do to thank people who have been a 'second family' to you for a decade?  Why, replace their broken old Barbeque table with a new one of course!  So that's what I did.

When I began to design the table, I tried to recall what I learned all those years ago in Tech Drawing class at school - stuff about angles, scales and perspectives.  As hard as I tried, my initial designs all looked like the table got sat on by a bulldozer!  I needed an expert, so I borrowed a CAD designer from the Peterson office, and between the two of us, my vision was drawn.

I had the plan, now I needed the wood.  Well, I couldn't possibly go out and purchase any pre-cut, I work with sawmills all day long!  So I tracked down Brownies brother Rob, who drives an 8"24hp WPF and has been milling for ages, and we set about cutting the log to my table specs.

Once the timber was cut and had dried for six months then got h3 treated, I was ready to assemble following the drawings.  After much muttering and a little frustration, my buddy and I figured out that the best way to go about the assembly, was to make the pieces match the pictures.  So from there, things started to come together.  Five hours, and a couple of bourbons later, we had ourselves a table, and not long after that I even got to enjoy my 25th birthday party on the comfort of the greatest table ever made... by me.