Iconic with castors... of course.

The ABC beer crate is iconic in NZ especially when it come to Lion Red and DB. I came into possession of the crates - must keep the source under wraps - and have been making all manner of things from them. This coffee table is the latest crack at something useful... with castors.

Kauri Coffee Table - on Castors

The colour is so warm and the nail just makes it I recon

Many years back I was living in the Waikato... finishing my Psych degree. I answered an advert in the local rag selling a stack of old wood. A carpenter had recently passed away and had left the basement full of; his widows wife explained, "bloody stacks of the stuff and I don't know what to do with it!"

Amongst many finds I picked up a stack of Kauri. At 145 x 50mm it was the perfect sized timber to make something solid and lasting. I immediately imagined a table - coffee table of course.

The timber was rough sawn and needed a great deal of time on the belt sander. After it was put together I threw on tons of beeswax and linseed oil with steel wood. Steel wool makes the surface so soft.

The castors was an obvious choice. I like Castors.

Pallet Coffee Table

On Casters no less.

Obviously this is a pallet that has been upscaled to a coffee table. This is not a new idea by any means... just throw pallet coffee table into google and there they are... thousands of them. Regardless, I love the idea and once again it is turning the proverbial 'firewood' into something useful.

This one is pine and has had a light sand on the top. I added fillets of timber to fill the gaps on the lid and a block to each corner to lift the table up for the casters.

Obviously it could be painted, stenciled or what-have-you. It has been sold :-)