got an old cardboard tube, like the ones you get when you get a poster or a print?! make it a cute lil side table!
what you will need (what I used)
- MDF board
- cardboard tube
(mine was about 1 cm thick and the whole tube was about 10 cm wide they shoudn't be too small in terms of their radius, other wise you'll have trouble keeping them standing up)
- Yarn and a pencil maybe some paper if you want to make yourself a template and notes
- a long ruler
- jigsaw
- finishing nails & hammer
- paint of your choice
first I took a nail and hammered it in the middle of my board.
next I tied a string around it and tied the pencil on the other end - you get somewhat of a circle making tool this way.
I made my circle 60 cm wide - you shouldn't make it much bigger, since it tends to not stand up too well when having super skinny legs. if you want to make a bigger table top I would recommend using 3 or 4 legs.
I drew my circle shape and divided this in 16 pieces
then I started to draw the curved edge, once I had a curve I liked I took a piece of paper and made a template.
I made one "bump" per every line I drew before, so 16 bumps in total
that's how my table top looked
you will need two small pieces of wood for the legs later on, that's why I left some space at two sides
I began sawing the table top with the jigsaw
I went outside to spray paint the top since this needs some drying time
I used chalk paint wich dries super matte
then I measured the width of the inside of my cardboard tube - basically you want two pieces of wood that fit just inside the opening as snug as possible
so I took the width divided it in half to get the radius and drew two circles on the remaining wood
I cut these out as well
next I halved my cardboard tube to get two legs
you can use a jigsaw for this as well I used this Japanese hand saw because all my batteries were dead
once my paint was dry I took it inside again and tried a couple different positionings for the legs.
make sure they are pretty much centered but far enough away from each other to be able to hold the whole table.
I turned mine a few times around to really see how it would stand
then I marked where the legs would go
(I made another one of these tables before and put sand in zip lock bags into the legs and put lids at the bottoms - this way you get extra stability since the heaviest point of the table is at the bottom this way)
I screwed the wooden circles on at the positions where I marked the legs go
then I popped the legs over the wooden circles - they are completely hidden, that's why I didn't paint them
next step: you take your finishing nails and hammer them through the cardboard into the wood - this way the legs stay in place at all times
I spray painted a last coat after hammering all the nails in because you sometimes hit the cardboard wich can leave marks
and doooohoone
thanks to cosmo Lack for providing me with their paint