When we moved to our new apartment, I wanted to get a live edge table but most of the ones I could find were (understandably) quite expensive. One day, we went to a thrift store called The Big Reuse at the recommendation of Climate Town to look for furniture and kitchen items. We discovered that not only did they have a section of the store dedicated to live edge wood slabs, but they had cuts of beautiful spalted sycamore wood that were the perfect size for our apartment!
We picked out the perfect piece and carried it home on the subway. Now I just needed to turn this slab of wood into a table.
I bought some hairpin table legs online and an electric sander and drill off facebook marketplace. I pre-drilled holes to screw the legs onto the base, then sanded, and sanded, and sanded the top of the table until it was perfectly smooth.
I cleaned all the sawdust out of our apartment bathroom and finally, it was time to apply the finish (luckily I still had plenty of finish left over from my lathe projects). I’m pretty happy with the final result:
