Cardboard Coffee Table

Step 3 Making the table top

I was really lucky with my raw materials. As well as big table sized bits of cardboard, I got some wood that was used as reinforcing inside it. So I started off with a rectangle of wood that fit inside, and cut down the other bits to make a framework that would fit over the pyramid. Rather than being all accurate and measuring, I just cut mortice and tenon joints as I went along, using each piece as guide to mark out on it's neighbour where it should be cut. I then chamfered the inside of the centre rectangle to fit over the pyramid. Again, this took a lot of trigonometry and thinking, but it worked quite well. You can see in picture 3 I had to chamfer and then check it for fit and then chip a bit more away. Picture 4 shows it with the top fitted over the wooden framework.

Comments

[SushiFish]

So the table is not 100% cardboard? CHEATER. Just kidding I gonna try to make this. You explained everything perfectly. GREAT UPLOAD!