{"id":525,"date":"2009-09-23T13:28:50","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T17:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/?p=525"},"modified":"2019-12-12T07:45:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T14:45:52","slug":"a-170-pound-purple-heart-red-oak-table-by-doug-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/woodworking-projects\/a-170-pound-purple-heart-red-oak-table-by-doug-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"A 170-Pound Purple Heart & Red Oak Table by Doug Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Red oak and purple heart table by Doug Johnson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

This thing’s a beauty!<\/p>\n

To help display red oak and purple heart (two featured woods this month) in a finished project, Doug Johnson built a table using both woods together.  Doug is the store manager of the Woodworkers Source Tempe location, and you can come by the store to get a look at the table if you want.<\/p>\n

When you see it up close, you’ll realize it’s more than a table, it’s more like a 170-pound workbench . . .  one that you’d probably consider too nice<\/em> for a exposing to the rigors of a woodworking shop.<\/p>\n

He made the top butcher block style: uniform 2-1\/8″ wide strips of lumber turned on edge and glued together to make the full width means it’s super strong and super stable.  He also laminated the legs to form 3-inch squares, and included a vented bottom shelf.  The overall dimensions came to 36″ tall, 36″ wide, and 72″ long.<\/p>\n

You might be thinking that the story of this table should be called, “How Doug used 3 gallons of glue on one project,” but he’s also the pocket hole king.  He employed the Kreg K3 Jig for making a number of pocket holes on this table, too.<\/p>\n\n\t\t