Make it a Family Affair
Build this unique outdoor dining table made with saw horse brackets and a pair of benches with hinged legs designed to fold down for cold weather storage.
Build this unique outdoor dining table made with saw horse brackets and a pair of benches with hinged legs designed to fold down for cold weather storage. Lower rope supports add a nautical detail and keep the legs from splaying apart.
Celebrate your roots by stencilling your family heritage on the tabletop for a personal and decorative detail.
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Coast Guards!
Craft coasters from a cedar post embellished with a maple leaf and wrapped with sisal rope for a nautical look. View video.
Shopping List
- 4" x 4" x 8' cedar post
- sanding sponge fine/med 1061-066
- manilla rope 5461-715 (allow 20" per coaster)
- hot glue gun 2047-144 and glue 2047-653
- maple leaf stencil cut from acetate (leaf pattern provided)
- Beauti-Tone flat black paint 1835-447
- stencil brush 1610-344
- hobby knife 1033-401
- Minwax dark paste wax 1874-760
- Cut coasters from cedar 1' to 1 1/2" thick. Sand smooth.
- Trace the maple leaf pattern on the acetate with a fine black permanent marker.
- Cut stencil with a hobby knife.
- Place the stencil in the centre of the coaster and secure in place.
- Stencil the leaf with the black paint using a dry brush technique. Let dry.
- Coat the entire coaster in dark paste wax, and buff. Apply a second coat to enhance the cedar wood and offer water resistance.
- Cut and hot glue the rope around edges. NOTE: glue only one side at a time and hold in place to set.
- Note: glue only one side at a time and hold in place to set.
