My First Egg (XL) and Table complete...

iyacyas

Here is my XL Egg table after completion.  Made of Cedar with granite egg base and granite insert for food and hot items.  I went with granite because I got a deal at a local building supply who had a piece break, so I got a good discount.  Not to hard to cut, shape and finish with an angle grinder.

The only thing not complete are the pulls for the drawer and cabinet doors. I have been using this table now for a year and I can say that I am still happy with my design.  The granite (or other type material) is an absolute must below the Egg and on top the table.  The one below the egg allows me to set hot items out of the way, such as my "GrillGrates".  The granite on top allows for food prep in/out of the egg with easy clean up,  and most importantly I can set extremely hot items on the granite up top such as my elec lump igniter, Hot foods, hot dasiy wheel egg top, hot half moon raised grill etc.

DMW

Welcome, and nice table.

JohnInCarolina

Love the finish - looks great!

theyolksonyou

Beautiful table.

ekuapa

Nice finish... i need to treat my cedar as well...

JRWhitee

Very nice

islanderegger

Very nice job !

wellsy37

VERY NICE!!!!!

lilwooty

Oh my!  Now that is slick.  Excellent work.

lousubcap

Welcome aboard and enjoy the journey.  Very perceptive with your "my first egg" in the title.  Great job with the table.  Most eggcellent!

Jeepster47

I really, really do like your table.  The lines are very simple and compliment the egg rather than detracting from it.

NPHuskerFL

Excellent!!! =D> Beautiful finish on it.

Grillin_beers

Looks good from here man! Great job.

Cookinbob

Nice =D>

iyacyas

Thanks you for all the warm compliments.  Lots of work goes into grilling some hotdogs, lol...

texaswig

Welcome. That's a good looking table.

dldawes1

Welcome to the eggdiction. Just make yourself at home and jump right in...looks like you are off to an awesome start !!!

RAC

Very nice! Welcome

matt121966

great looking table

StillSmoken

Very Nice! You have skills! Welcome Aboard.

10_42bbq

Very nice looking table!

GATABITES

Beautiful!!! Welcome aboard. 

Botch

iyacyas said:

The only thing not complete are the pulls for the drawer and cabinet doors. I have been using this table now for a year and....

Aw, c'mon!  Pulls are the easiest, and most satisfying, part of finishing a project!!!  Do it!   

Beautiful table, and Welcome!  

iyacyas

But, but, but I'd have to drill holes in those dooooors. :-SS Oh yeah me and the misses can't agree on which pulls to use. Any ideas?

Jeepster47

iyacyas said:

But, but, but I'd have to drill holes in those dooooors. :-SS Oh yeah me and the misses can't agree on which pulls to use. Any ideas?

Many of the inexpensive stereo cabinets don't have knobs.  They have internal catches that hole the door with one push and pop it open with a second push.  Those would be great for the doors.  Maybe they would work on the drawer with a spring behind the drawer and some modifications.

iyacyas

Jeepster47 said:

iyacyas said:

But, but, but I'd have to drill holes in those dooooors. :-SS Oh yeah me and the misses can't agree on which pulls to use. Any ideas?

Internal catches that hole the door with one push and pop it open with a second push. 

Now I like this idea..!

logchief

Hey Welcome.  That's truly a professional job.  Did you come up with your own plans, are you willing to share?

iyacyas

logchief said:

Did you come up with your own plans, are you willing to share?

Yes I designed and built the table myself...  Sharing...  Eeeemmm...  I don't see why not it's just a bunch of sticks?  I originally did the design using sketchup,  but as I built and saw design flaws or ways to improve I just implemented them and have failed to update the sketchup model. 

I am not ready to just give the model out due to the design flaws I mentioned. Some of the measurements are off and I do not want someone to attempt building a similar table with bad measurements and run into trouble, cause lots of wasted time, money and materials.  It's Christmas time so I will not get a chance to update for a while.

Are you looking at building a table?

H12mike

Great table! What type of joints did you use on the table top before they were glued? Did you plane each board on the top or just sand them? I am in the design stages of my table but your table has given me a lot of inspiration. I plan on also using western red cedar.

iyacyas

For the top I used a table top planner to assure same thickness of boards before gluing together with biscuits. Then of course once the top was glued together I had to use a scrapper for the glue then a hand planner and finally sanding down to the finish.

I used pocket holes and glue for the entire frame.

AstoriaEggHead

Very nice table, getting my first egg delivered Monday. Already planning the table, I might steal a few ideas.